yeah the stuff in the AH is too tempting. now i wipe through enemies even faster D:

Has anyone played any of the Atelier games on the PS3? I sort of want to get Totori and Meruru when it comes out, but first I'd want to play Rorona (Play them in order), but I can't find it ANYWHERE without it being insanely overpriced or importing it, and I really don't like importing games, not sure why, it's just a thing, lol. If I can't get the first I won't bother with the series...

As for what games I'm playing, well I was invited to the Counter Strike: Global Offensive beta yesterday, installed it and played it for a bit today, and to be honest, I'm really disappointed, it's EXACTLY the same as Source or whatever, just with slightly better graphics and a radial buy menu that's just awful! Not to mention the lag was horrendous anyway...

I am not getting Diablo III due the always-online DRM, so instead I'm playing in the Torchlight 2 Beta. What can I say? I'm having oodles of fun and can't wait to see what mods people come up with. The steampunk aesthetic is pretty cool too.

This. And it's so sad, because I'm a huge fan of Diablo II: LoD and I liked D3 beta.

Now I'm playing Street Fighter X Tekken (at least some decent fighting game for PC) and replaying Stalker: Call of Pripyat (R.I.P Stalker 2 :( ).

GODDAMMIT BLIZZARD'S DIABLO SERVERS ARE DOWN AGAIN


fuuuuuu

we beat it last night

it is so easy

omg

so easy

Yep, so did me and my friend, and you're right, even the last boss was a joke.
It really doesn't feel like I've accomplished anything because of the lack of difficulty.
We're replaying it on Nightmare now though, and the enemies are a lot tougher!
We're in the beginning of Act I and have actually died a couple of times already! :o

how are you guys so far x:
im still in act I

Currently playing Disgaea 4... I've been playing for 5 hours and apparently I've already finished the game once, dafuq is this lol. Turns out it's one of the alternate endings if you lose against Emizel... started again on my second cycle though, and I'm gonna' get a few levels and buy new equipment for everyone, since I was only focusing on Valvatorez and Fenrich.

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Right, so I levelled up a little, bought new equipment for people, and killed Emizel, it was really easy afterwards lol, and my stats were almost doubled (Well, my HP and Attack anyway) on both Valvatorez and Fenrich, along with a Male Fighter.

I'm a few fights into Chapter 2 now, and I'm really enjoying it (Even though I'm not too far), partly due to Valvatorez being a pretty cool character, much better than Mao from Disgaea 3, for a start his voice isn't annoying (Mao's voice got annoying after the first few hours of hearing it, lol), and aside from his obsession with sardines, he isn't as crazy or over the top as Mao was (Even though that might be a bad thing for some people, since Disgaea is pretty much over the top with just about everything it does... but when it comes to characters and dialogue, there's a limit)

Also, I'm loving the new sprites for everyone, and it's great that they've given you the option to back to the classic style (There's actually a trophy to have 5 fights in a row with the classic sprite style), along with giving the character illustrations more life in the cutscenes, they actually move a whole lot more now, which is really cool too.

So I just checked my bank and was like "Dafuq?! £35 has just... vanished!" but then I realised it was from Zavvi... I forgot that Dragon's Dogma comes out on Friday here and I've had it preordered for a few weeks now, lol... I got an email from them too saying they've sent it off now, so I'll have it either tomorrow or the day after, I hope it's tomorrow since it's another day off for me, and I'm working all day on Wednesday D:

After I finish Disgaea 4 (I'll just finish the story, I'll come back to the post game later on, although I've still been grinding inbetween fights anyway) I'll jump into it methinks

Still playing Diablo III, and.... WoW, for the first time since Cata came out :l
It's kind of confusing but I'm starting to get into it again, I might just keep playing.

So just as I came downstairs today... shirtless, someone knocked at the door, it was the post woman (I say woman... she's actually new.. and young, she's like 18 (Still in college so yeah I assume that age)), and she gave me four packages...

1) A new case for my Vita, since I desperately needed one
2) Tales of the Abyss
3) Dragon's Dogma
4) Max Payne... WITH A FREE TSHIRT!

So I put the tshirt on right there and tadaa, I don't have to go digging through the ironing pile for a tshirt that I'd have to iron before I could put on.

its like a Christmas miracle

I stopped playing diablo III and played some anno 2070 because it was on sale for 50% off and i had to buy it~

Its a really fun game. I love how the premise of city building is so simple with the interface and how everything works. At first I didnt think i was going to like it because it seemed too easy but the game is surprisingly deep and there is a bunch to do. I played a continuous game and I got some 4th level ecos all on one of my islands and now im working on my techs on another island.

I almost got hit by a tornado too. It went through both of the computer players town center and it literally was on both of my islands shore (I had to expand because the main island didn't grow wheat and i already used my fertility for vegetables x:)

So far its a really cool game and i think i might like it better than sim city 4 (which is tough as balls) and Tropico (which i could never really get into for some reason).

Anno is a pretty cool game, but for some reason I can't seem to get into 2070.
I keep going back to 1404, I guess it's because I like the timeframe better.

I bought Anno 2070 as well, but the CONSTANT bleeping reminders drive me INSANE. Also, IDK, I feel less like I'm in control over crap that happens. Like I do a thing b/c they recommend I do it, and then a bunch of things happen that I can't really explain the why's for, and then the task is complete. Very strange.

Being able to dive underwater is pretty boss, but it never feels like there's enough to do under there. Like it's just a really pretty, but pointless, gimmick.

Also in case anyone is like "wow im looking for a city simulation game to play but hrm dunno what to pick blah blah", seriously buy tropico 4

it is

so fun ;o;

i just bought the expansion (Modern Times) and the little DLCs for it too
sofun :O

also, you will NEVER be able to get the music out of your head
NEVER

Yeah, when I check on Steam that's all you've been playing lately, lol... I liked Tropico 3, so I might pick up Tropico 4 sometime...

It's enough like Tropico 3 that they may have been able to just get away with making it a very very large expansion. But they seriously improved on all of 3's shortcomings. The HUD is better, the interactions and story are more clever/lighthearted/silly, and the US and USSR are WAY less of gigantic assdicks. They also have alleviated the pressure to have an extremely large army ... In 3, if you didn't have a decent army, you were pretty much fucked, but in this one, if you're a diplomacy magnate or you shower your people with happytimes, there is MUCH less, if any, rebellion.
You can also "level up" your El Presidente's traits.

I make all my little people sing my name from the rooftops with glee, so rebellion is seldom any worry for me.
But if you like to be a real tyrant dicknose, and rule with fear, there's plenty of opportunity, in many nasty ways. You can even convert old temples and landmarks and turn them into torture dungeons :x.
And you can set it so that even if your people live in misery & squalor, they can't ever leave, and so long as you have a devoted army, you can keep all those pendejos in check.

im playing D3 atm... its alright but not as good as D4

Ya know what, I'm playing Pokemon. Beat that!!!

http://gematsu.com/2012/05/yakuza-5-detailed-in-famitsu

Woo a new Yakuza game! I like the fact that Yakuza 4 had 4 playable characters, and Yakuza 5 is having 5 playable characters... and takes place in 5 cities...

Those Pokemon games are so challenging. I always yield to the temptation to give EACH AND EVERY ONE one of the little bastards an obscene nickname, and after about midgame or so, it gets hard to keep coming up with novel ones.

if you think pokemon games are challenging you must just plain suck! lol

OMFG cant you hardcore bitches just leave us poor noobs alone! lol

Just got Crimson Gem Saga (psp) in the mail. It was going for $50 new on Amazon.com, Lowest used price was $20 disk only. So I payed $30 to make sure it had a case and in good shape. Surprisingly it shipped from Florida to Kansas in just 3 days and didn't spend the weekend at the post office like it normally does.
But they spelled my name wrong and left the gamestop pricetag of $15 on the case. FFFFUUUU

I'm playing Civilizations V, since it's a free to play weekend on Steam.
I'm kind of enjoying it but I'm not sure whether I should buy it or not. (It's on sale for € 7,50 atm.)
Any thoughts?

I prefer Civ 4, but that's a flame war for another site.

If you enjoy it and it's on sale, then sure, why not buy it? Something else to consider is that Civ 5 has a lot of mods, which could increase its playtime for you exponentially.

Yeah the sale is tempting, but I'm still not sure. :p
I think I need to learn the basics first, since I don't really know what I'm doing atm.
I've got most of my workers running around in "Automated mode" and I haven't got a clue why they are building all that crap.

And may I ask why you prefer Civ 4?
I've seen a few other people claiming that it's better than 5, if that's really the case I might pick that one up instead!

You may certainly ask. Don't get me wrong, Civ 5 is playable and (again) I don't want to start a fight with those who like it. But I preferred Civ 4 because almost everything that changed in Civ 5 was (IMO) for the worse. Just off the top of my head...

Religions. You actually had religions in Civ 4. Sure, the designers bent over backwards to avoid offending anyone (every religion had the same effect game-wise), but I liked how you could use/abuse them. You could spread them to your neighbors to build alliances, you could use them as tools to boost your culture, and you could make a fuckton of money off religions you controlled. Of course, the sword cuts the other way, too, and civs of OTHER religions would hate you more, but that just made life more interesting. ALL of that is gone in Civ 5. Wait, there was a piety social policy, but whatever. Speaking of which...

Civics. In Civ 4, you could switch civic options if you didn't like yours anymore. In Civ 5, you have to buy "social policies" with culture points, and there's no going back. This is somewhat counterbalanced by Civ 5's policies having no downsides (if I remember right), but I liked the Civ 4 way more.

Barbarians. In Civ 4, they were more than camping nuisances you could wail on for some pocket change. Barbarian cities would pop up if the map remained untamed long enough, but that was something else that could work in your favor, as you could conquer them and add them to your empire. (Or just raze their savage asses and leave the ruin tile on the map as a monument to your badassness.) So that's gone, too. I guess that's what Civ 5's new city-states are for...

Leaders. Civ 5 only has one leader per civilization (in Civ 4, most had at least two), so nowhere near as many choices starting out. And while we're on the subject of leaders/civs, I hate Civ 5's DLC civs. It feels like they're just trying to squeeze more money out of something that should have been included in the game to begin with, rather than making an honest expansion pack.

Diplomacy. Civ 5 diplomacy is definitely worse. Granted, in Civ 4 if you refuse to help someone, they'll still hold it against you 3000 years later. But in Civ 5 you get denounced by civs for no apparent reason, even if they liked you last turn. Oh, and instead of trading techs, you have to get a research treaty and wait 20 turns. Ugh. I can actually see why that was put into the game - it's nice that less powerful civs can help you technologically, even if (in Civ 4) they'd have no techs to offer. But I miss tech trading.

Mods. Civ 4 inspired a lot of awesome mods in its time, including Fall From Heaven, Planetfall, Dune Wars, and only about a zillion mods that overhaul the main game (Rhye's And Fall of Civilization, Rise of Mankind, Realism Invictus, etc). Rhye's and Fall From Heaven, in particular, were sufficiently great that Firaxis actually included stuff for them on Civ 4's last expansion pack. Civ 5 also has a lot of mods, but fewer projects as ambitious as those. (To be fair, that will probably change as Civ 5 gets older.)

Other Things. Civ 5 requires Steam... too bad for people like me who hate it. The ranged combat also annoys me. It makes sense for things like artillery, but I will never understand why archers are ranged while modern gunmen aren't.