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Re: What are you currently playing?

Postby MiTT3NZ » Fri Feb 21, 2014 12:09 am

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Re: What are you currently playing?

Postby OL » Fri Feb 21, 2014 4:15 am

Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 demo. Fun stuff. Almost makes me want to get the first game.

Also the demo for the new Strider. It works well enough, but something about it just lacks pizazz. Maybe it's the design work. Just can't hold a candle to Strider 2 on PS1.
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Re: What are you currently playing?

Postby Who Really Cares? » Fri Feb 21, 2014 6:54 am

Zoo Tycoon. I'm enjoying it but I hate it when these games give you a large map but limit how many things you can have in it at one time.

Also Fable Anniversary. Trying to collect the hero dolls and that Bowerstone South game is a pain in the arse.
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Re: What are you currently playing?

Postby myshtuff » Fri Feb 21, 2014 10:08 am

OL wrote: Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 demo. Fun stuff. Almost makes me want to get the first game.

Also the demo for the new Strider. It works well enough, but something about it just lacks pizazz. Maybe it's the design work. Just can't hold a candle to Strider 2 on PS1.


I beat the first Castlevania LoS and it was good. Kind of long in certain points, but good. The demo for 2 was great though.
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Re: What are you currently playing?

Postby Segata Sanshiro Jr. » Fri Feb 21, 2014 2:37 pm

So the only thing left to do is go in and slap Meio around like my read headed step bitch, but I'm obsessed with finding all the collectables. Theres like 1 per area I can't seem to find and its driving me nuts.
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Re: What are you currently playing?

Postby OL » Fri Feb 21, 2014 4:32 pm

So just about everything in Xillia feels like a big step up for the Tales series, but I do have one complaint: something about having a free-moving camera makes the world seem a lot... smaller, I guess, than earlier games.
While wandering around the worlds in Vesperia, Abyss, or any of the others, it would take you to a world map where you could see the huge expanses of land you were crossing. And when you entered cities, the games utilized fixed camera angles to show off the size, splendor, and population of them. Xillia, on the other hand, allows a completely controllable camera and has no explorable world map; rather, it has connecting areas with enemies in them that never feel all that large or grand.
I'm sure the game will eventually feel a lot bigger, as Tales games always hit a certain mid-point where earth-shattering shit starts happening. But it's only a little disappointing that a freely-controllable camera -- something that should have improved the atmosphere tenfold -- in making it all feel a bit smaller.
It's especially strange, since a game like Final Fantasy XII, for example, uses the same kind of camera, but still feels a lot bigger and more epic. Of course, the cities in XII were appropriately large and expansive with tons of people wandering around, while the ones in Xillia consist of maybe two or three areas that can each be crossed in 20 seconds...
I dunno, it's just not improving the atmosphere like I had hoped.

Not to take anything away from the game of course; I'm having a blast either way, as I always do with Tales. I keep imagining what another remake of Phantasia would be like with this battle system and these graphics. Would be incredible.
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Re: What are you currently playing?

Postby Perfect_Chaos » Fri Feb 21, 2014 4:42 pm

killzone: Shadowfall (PS4)
MY GOD i remember now why i hate first person shooters so much. i only bought this for an excuse to use my PS4. you just run around with a gun and shoot shit. thats it. no brain power or imagination required. point and shoot. teh gwaphics are gwood tho......

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Re: What are you currently playing?

Postby Segata Sanshiro Jr. » Fri Feb 21, 2014 6:18 pm

I'm glad I didn't crack and buy it.
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Re: What are you currently playing?

Postby Rakim » Fri Feb 21, 2014 7:36 pm

Perfect_Chaos wrote: killzone: Shadowfall (PS4)
you just run around with a gun and shoot shit.


Your summary makes it sound pretty awesome TBH. You cerebral types must have no fun.

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Re: What are you currently playing?

Postby OL » Fri Feb 21, 2014 11:51 pm

I'm glad I enjoy games of all kinds. Having to think, analyze, and figure things out is great, but sometimes it's fun to just shoot stuff or mash a few buttons. I'll never really understand why people become averse to entire genres. I like variety.

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Re: What are you currently playing?

Postby Thief » Sat Feb 22, 2014 2:36 am

OL wrote:I'm glad I enjoy games of all kinds.


I wish I could say the same... there are some games I've tried so hard to like because the theming is so cool... but I just hate the gameplay (the style of gameplay rather than the quality). I've given up on first person shooters, real time and turned based strategy (although I've given this a pretty fair chance and have beaten a number of them), and I'm still working' on the hack n' slash genre -- my plan is to play through Devil May Cry 1, 2, and 3... and if that doesn't do it I'm out.

There's too many games I actually enjoy playing to worry too much about it.
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Re: What are you currently playing?

Postby Henry Spencer » Mon Feb 24, 2014 4:23 pm

I went nuts last weekend playing all sorts, just to try them out or clear my backlog a bit: Bullet Witch (360), Lost Odyssey (360), Galerians: Ash (PS2), Growlanser 2 (PS2: via PCSX2), Suikoden 3 (PS2: via PCSX2) & Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner 2: Raidou Kuzunoha vs King Abaddon (PS2: via PCSX2). Mainly deciding over which one I want to play on my weeks off from work.

I've decided upon Raidou 2 & Galerians: Ash will be first.

As well as those I'm nearing the end of both Dangan Ronpa (Vita) & RE Zero (GC).

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Re: What are you currently playing?

Postby Crimson Ryan » Tue Feb 25, 2014 8:43 am

Perfect_Chaos wrote: killzone: Shadowfall (PS4)
MY GOD i remember now why i hate first person shooters so much. i only bought this for an excuse to use my PS4. you just run around with a gun and shoot shit. thats it. no brain power or imagination required. point and shoot.

Who would of thought..
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Re: What are you currently playing?

Postby *Kenshin Himura* » Tue Feb 25, 2014 11:10 am

Co-op mode in Biohazard 6 with my fiancee.
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Re: What are you currently playing?

Postby Who Really Cares? » Tue Feb 25, 2014 12:31 pm

Rayman Legends on Xbox One.
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