lord of the rings war in the north is pretty fun

Sniper Elite V2.

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night.

It's ridiculously addictive. I haven't left my PC in three days.

You haven't played it before? I remember that game being my main focus in life at age 14-15 or so.


Anyway in response of DawnGuard coming out soon, I picked up Skyrim again (modded to shit). Playing as an Orc Barbarian on Master. It is SO HARD for me to avoid stealthing and sniping. And I'll admit, it's an assload harder in general! It was SO EASY to snipe through the game as a pure assassin build.

I also d/l'd a mod that SIGNIFICANTLY increases the difficulty of dragons. Basically they have 2x the HP, and regenerate really quickly, and their AI is improved so they land less often ... Good god it takes me like 30+ minutes straight & 20 potions+ to kill these fuckers D:
And I'm only level 7
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But it's definitely a challenge!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm sick of Xbox's bullshit so more Spelunkly.



Dat score.

I've never played Spelunky before... D:

my brother is so addicted to that game, it's not even funny.
I swear he's collected and unlocked just about everything but he's still trawling through them caves searching for who knows what.

Littlebigplanet vita

How is it? I've heard it's apparently really great, and I love what I saw at E3 where you can use the Vita version with LittleBigPlanet 2 to make new levels where it utilises both screens and can be used to make new sections of a level (They used an example, on the PS3 version, you use the Vita to control it all, which is cool, but you jump down a pipe all Mario style, and you drop down onto the Vita screen where you can have an underground level, then like a springboard that will shoot you back up to the PS3 screen... it looked really fucking cool!)

I've been playing inFamous 2 since yesterday, it's great but something about it seems off, and it's not Cole's new voice or anything, I prefer it like this actually, it's something with the gameplay... it just feels so... different to the first game, it's still really fun to play, but feels different *shrugs*

I chose to go the good route for my first playthrough like I usually do, and these ice powers are a little meh... I mean, I love the ice jump thing, since it makes traversing a lot easier, and the teather is pretty cool since it makes me feel like a slightly shittier spiderman, but the tether doesn't have as much freedom as I'd like... and I don't really use any other ice powers, just the jump spike thing, and the shield... I wonder what the fire equivalent of these skills are... oh well, still enjoying the game regardless, I'm on chapter 33 and I've been told there's 40... so yeah not long to go now.

Also, this "beast" is the faggiest thing ever, it's not a beast, it's just a really tall human (Sort of reminds me of one of the titans from God of War III, but nowhere near as big)... dafuq?!

Im liking it so far. But haven't played much and about infamous 2 the main thing they changed is that your lightning bolt uses energry now... Its kinda annoying

Yeah that gets VERY annoying sometimes, although for the most part I don't mind... something else I don't like about the lightning bolt now is the animation, it's actually more liek a lightning ball than a bolt... doesn't matter though lol, I prefer the magnum bolt anyway, even though you can't spam it as quick, it's REALLY strong!

Pondering if I should finish up my second playthrough of Chrono Trigger. At the beginning of Death Peak or so.

Just finished inFamous 2 good ending... I shed a tear D: This was actually brilliant... and very touching

Just watched the evil ending on YouTube... I didn't really like it, it upset me :(

I really doubt that they'll be making an inFamous 3 unless they only follow the story one from one of the endings, or make two completely different games... meh.

It's most definitely worth a try, seeing how it's free on PC (and probably a dollar or two on XBLA). I'm hopelessly addicted to it.

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Are you going with two handed or dual wielding? I've tried both and p much hated the latter. Even on my sneaky builds I preferred to run one dagger so I kept blocking potential. Or I ran with a spell in one hand.

jbrist i think if they make a 3rd it might be a multiplayer one where you get to make your own superheroe and pick your powers... would work if they go with the evil ending and also sucker punch is looking for people to make a action multiplayer game for ps3 so i hope

I just created the most crowded and least sustainable settlement on Stronghold ever.



Literally had to buy and sell resources every thirty seconds or so for my spoiled peasants didn't hate me >=|

was still fun.

Two-handed swords. Or possibly use the daedric artifact two-handed hammer, when I get it (just b/c im not hugely a fan of the daedric 2-handed sword--I don't want to kill my bros for it D:).

I don't like duel-wielding either. I like the DYNAMIC of it, but I can't seem to conceptualize the r-click as anything other than to block. When I have something different in either hand, I have to keep reminding myself that I can r-click too ;x

After starting up my ps3 again (thing has been collecting dust the past couple of months) I started with Enslaved (game prices seem to have dropped drastically in my gameshop).

Currently somewhere near the end of chapter 2 (I think it's near the end at least). And holy fuck except for the ultra shitty "can't fail" platforming this game is kinda cool. Love how you "kinda" play like a team.

Yeah, Enslaved is such a great fucking game, it's a shame a lot of people didn't notice that since it flopped quite hard... more people should have bought it! D: It's one of my favourite games of this gen, and I don't even regret buying it full price £40 for it to drop down to half price a week later (A week after release, I got it day one, lol), you're in for a real treat when it comes to visuals later on... there's some epic as fuck scenery and some pretty nice set pieces

Anyways, I'm playing Metal Gear Solid 2 HD on the HD Collection, the controls are so awkward, I can't believe I never noticed this when I played it the first few times on PS2... probably because I didn't even care back then, but god damn the controls guys...

Dungeon Defenders, a fair amount. That game is such a skinner box but what can you do.

Dead Pixels. Amazing little game that shortly after I start playing I begin to arguing with myself about just how much sleep I can afford to miss, so I can play more.

Also like other have said. Spelunky is the shit². Derek Yu seems like really nice and smart guy. great interview done by design3 with him here

Playing Wild Arms 3 on PS2 emu, looks like fun, I don't know why I got pwned too much in the desert, when I'm suppose to find something there to avoid being killed by tough enemies, in Gallow's chapter.

I'm on a persona / angel beats / anything jap highschool related kick. Someone recommend me animes and games please :3

Gave Cities XL 2012 a try, since it's only $10 this weekend.

It's interesting; definitely a solid city-building engine, and there are a lot of good ideas here, but it really suffers from a few key points ...

1.) The interface is laughable. The fonts at use (in the Steam version, anyway) are obviously not what the designers intended ... Cut-offs and strange placements of text are all over the place. It's mostly legible, but only mostly ... Which is not a good thing.

2.) No "story" or "campaign" mode ... Everything is Free-Build/Sandbox. Which is good for some people, especially those who are fond of the older SimCity games. But I'm only interested if there's some extra "guiding" thing that gives me a sense of progression. Things happening that I don't expect, or completing mission requirements ... I crave that sort of thing in a city-sim, and this game doesn't have it.

3.) EXTREME micro-management, without advisors. Even though there's a simple tutorial, the learning curve is steep. It takes a while to figure out why things aren't going well for some businesses or houses, or why people are frustrated or not moving to your city. The potential is huge once you figure it out, but sometimes you THINK you know what you're doing and then it ends up bankrupting you (why are a few, simple bus lines more expensive than what ALL of my industry, manufacturing, offices, and farms earn, combined??)

4.) No undo button. Oops, I accidentally zoned an expensive hospital that drained 1/2 my early bank account. Let me demolish it. --What? It costs money to demolish it, before it's even fully built, AND I don't get my money back?? Holy shit D:

5.) Takes a -LONG- time to get your treasury going. You start with $200,000-500,000 on each map. Sounds massive. But everything is expensive, so before you know it, you're down to $90,000. Then people start flipping out that they want Executive housing. So you add it, but the Executives want Leisure buildings. Boom, down to $30,000.
But no worries -- You'll make your money back with all these happy folks, right?
Oh, wait, you're only making $7k every ~3minutes. Which is barely enough to build a medium-length avenue. Which means you'll have to sit there and wait for over an hour before you can make any further large expansions D:


I mean it's a cute game, probably worth $10, but it's a real shame they didn't put more effort into balance and UI after making such a nice engine.

I've read that this iteration of Cities XL came with modding tools, so maybe the company is expecting fan modders to fix all that for you.

That outcome is sadly becoming more common with games these days.

Well the modders have actually done some interesting things with it, but nothing involving fixes for the things I mentioned. Like they can add building types and modify economy things ... Oh well. Atleast I didn't sink much money into it.

Just finished Metal Gear Solid 2 on the HD Collection, it's my third time finishing it now, gonna' move on to Metal Gear Solid 3 tomorrow I think and spend my days off playing through it.

Right now though I've flicked over to my 3DS and I'm playing Tales of the Abyss finally... I'm actually disappointed, this game is boring so far, only 3 hours in though, but damn it's so boring, when does it get better?!

Think I might just jump onto my Vita and play Gravity Rush instead...

Have you grown up yet, Jay-Jay? It sucks hard at the beginning, but gets better when the characters age like 7 years. ^^;

Or are you talking about Tales of the Abyss (since ToG isn't on 3DS)?

Yes, yes I am, fuck knows how I got the name mixed up, gonna' edit that

There we go, Tales of the Abyss lol... although I wish I had Tales of Graces F since I'm getting the day one limited edition by preordering it :D

But yeah, this game sucks big black balls and man wang at the same time right now... it's SOOOOO boring D: