What are you currently playing?

[beedle]

so I just finished Far cry blood dragon. Game of the year. so good. The credit music is... well, if you've ever seen Miami Connection, you will go wild.

[Kenny]

Infamous 2 came in so i'm playing that.

[Thief]

I just beat Actraiser for the first time, pretty amazing game. I'm really excited for Actraiser 2 despite seemingly everyone hating on it. It looks like a really hard version of the Actraiser platforming levels with fantastic sprite-work and even better music.


Anyway, only have a super nintendo right now because of certain living arrangements so I'll either play through Secret of Evermore or Yoshi's Island next. Not sure which, but it'll be one of those two since I'm borrowing them from my brother and I don't want to keep them for too long.

If you have yet to play Actraiser (or Soul Blazer) please please play it. It's for your own good. :)

[OL]

If you have yet to play Actraiser (or Soul Blazer) please please play it. It's for your own good.

Damn straight. Surprisingly great ending for an SNES sidescroller, too.

And the sequel isn't bad. Actually, it's an incredibly well-made little platformer/action game. It's just really effing hard. And because the "sim" parts from the first game are missing, people act like the game is lacking something essential. It's still an amazingly high-quality game all-around.

[OL]

Just finished the first two chapters in Remember Me. From what I hear, the game was pretty much panned by critics, right?
That makes no sense to me.
I'm really enjoying the hell out of it. Granted, the game really is very linear, which was the big complaint I'd heard about it before, but it's honestly not that big of a deal. The game is telling a very focused story, it seems, and a bit of linearity isn't exactly what I'd call harmful to that intention. The climbing/platforming is incredibly simple, and the animations aren't exactly the smoothest in the world, but again, it's nothing harmful to the experience so far. And the combat is a bit like the Arkham games, just without the big-budget gloss that they have. It works really well as a beat-em-up, and I see nothing particularly damning about it.
The memory remixing sequences seem to be pretty cool, essentially acting as rewindable videos where you can manipulate designated details in the scene in an attempt to change how a person remembers the event. It's a really cool idea. I've only played one of them so far, but it was fun and original, and added a lot to the experience.
But of course the best things about the game are its aesthetic components. The art direction is phenomenal (definitely going to be buying the art book for this one). And the music, in some places, is amazingly inspired, unique, and beautiful. The soundtrack only exists as a digital download on iTunes or whatever, and normally I wouldn't bother with something like that, but I'm very tempted to support that as well. It's shaping up to be one of the coolest soundtracks I've heard this gen.

It's not an "amazing" game necessarily, but I'm loving it all the same. Can't wait to play more of it later. I'm sort of feeling about this the same way I was feeling about, say, Mirror's Edge back when I first played that. As long as the rest of the game is as good as the first two chapters, I think this might end up being a pretty special game in my mind.

[Yama]

Going to buy Remember Me eventually simply for it's excellent graphic design. Plus it reminds me of PN03 in ways.

[Bluecast]

Rain on PS3. So far this is no Ico clone or anything like that. It's closer to Lost in Shadow but not quite that either as while initial concept is very similar. Rain has some distinct differences. Liking it so far.

[Kenny]

The disc for Infamous 2 was busted so I had to send it back. Damn shame, I liked what little I played.

Gonna play Bayonetta since I got that in the mail.

[OL]

Tried the demo for the Flashback remake. It's not bad, but it's still pretty much the way I expected; the magic of the original is missing because, well, it's not a 16-bit game anymore. The 1993 version had a certain grace, a certain simplicity, a certain sense of satisfaction to progressing through it... mucking that up with modern redesigns, analogue shooting controls, and a level-up system just sucks the appeal of the original right out of it.
Again, it doesn't seem too bad. It's plenty playable, Conrad seems likable enough, and there was a tiny bit of an "ooh, neat" factor to seeing the original game's intro in a modern graphics engine. But if I want to play Flashback again, I'll just dig out the Genesis. If they weren't going to actually do something new (like maybe turning the original game into something third-person, which would change the dynamic entirely), I don't really understand why it had to be remade.
I wouldn't mind playing the full game, I just don't think I'll ever go out of my way for it.

[Henry Spencer]

This game reminds me why I love survival horror/adventure games in the first place. It also reminds me how much I like the Clock Tower series. I haven't played one since the PSX days (a long time ago) and it brings back those memories of those times when I would play so many horror games that Capcom would just release annually and do so very well. This game features no combat (unless you include using some extremely limited defence manoeuvres) and you are chased through a large areas. The hiding places are surprisingly limited and if you get hit/caught, you die really quickly. It's like survival horror difficulty turned up to "very hard" but I am loving the challenge. It's pretty much got that old school Capcom horror game style to it; search the environments, read the files to get to know the storyline/characters more, limited ways to defend yourself.

There's no real storyline, it's very light on that front, but it does a really good job of presenting an aura of mystery all the same. The presentation on the whole is very nice; good voice acting, nice music, art style that captures the time of when it was set, very well. The game is just dripping in atmosphere. Was surprised to see that the game was Directed by film director Kinji Fukasaku, a director whose work I like quite a lot.

The game surprises me every so often very well. After being chased out of a shop, I thought I was having a moment of respite from the crazy serial killer, so I headed to the save area, filled up the holy water which you use to fend off your attacker and was about to save the game when all of a sudden: "ALYSSA!" and he suddenly came around the corner right at me... I nearly shat myself, haha.

So yeah, this is a refreshing change from all of the RPGs I've been playing a lot of nowadays. May just get me back into horror gaming again.

[Rakim]

Now I'm gonna have to pop that in for a least a quick look around today.

[OL]

Hope you get to play Haunting Ground sometime soon, Henry. If you like Clock Tower 3, I think you'll like that one just as much. Definitely has that amazing old-style Capcom loveliness to it that we all like so much.

[Henry Spencer]

^I was saving that one for Halloween. Capcom games during that generation were just perfect, not a foot wrong. I'll just say the same about Clock Tower 3 to you, you should check it out since you liked Haunting Ground so much. It's really weird how two very similar games were developed by Capcom at around the same time, even having the same writer on both projects.

There's even recycled sound effects from REmake & RE4 in Clock Tower 3, lol.

Uhhh, wow, this game is dark.

First serial killer bashes a 12 year old girl's head in with a sledgehammer, second serial killer blinds an elderly woman then proceeds to throw both her and her adult son into a drum of acid...alive.

[Bluecast]

Finished Rain. It has elements from games it's been compared to but it really isn't like this game or that game even to at first it does. Plus small moments. It's not wholly original but not a clone of Game A or B. It really came into it's own. The unknown stalking you through the game can be unnerving in a good way. The puzzles to get around or away from creatures were simple but sometimes may die as it's a little trial and error. No Combat. I thought at first they might be using the stalking unknown too much but as I go along the fear of that thing never goes away..maybe like Mr X. Never know when he will show up and best not be seen or else it's over.Short game but really enjoyable and a simple but nice ending. Does not explain very much and kinda wish they did on a couple things. Overall loved it.

[NorthStarHazuki]

Soul Blade(PSX)
Virtua Fighter Showdown(PSN)
Planning to play Beyond two souls demo