Currently playing

[koten]

Resident Evil 4.

Haven't played it in about 2 years, but the news that it's coming to the Wii made me really want to give it another go.

Got to the part when you rescue Ashley for the first time.

[curryking1]

Resident Evil 4.

Haven't played it in about 2 years, but the news that it's coming to the Wii made me really want to give it another go.

Got to the part when you rescue Ashley for the first time.

Isn't it kind of hilarious how many times you end up losing Ashley and having to save her again? lol, I send my love to RE4:cloud9:

[Carlos]

God of War 2

[Cofey]

Chrono Trigger --> Mac; got the emulator version (and I own the SNES cart so I dunno if that makes it legal or not ??) which rocks when sitting through international politics at school.
I just got the SNES cart the other day (FINALLY!)....GameStop finally reinstated the company wide inventory lookup that EB used to have. There were only three stores in the entire company with Chrono Trigger. I called all three, and the last guy actually mailed the game to my store.

Got it for $1.63 after all discounts and promotions. Sweet deal.

[Applefiend]

Well for the first time in about 2 or 3 years I bought a PC game. Think I remember why I stopped buying PC games. It's been installing for about the last hour I think. No fun. No fun. No fun.

But I will play Command and Conquer 3!

No doubt after it installs it'll want to spend another 30 minutes installing a patch.

Playing Supa Rub a Dub while waiting for it to install, so that'll probably be all day. :) Wife thought it was really cute until the shark starting ripping ducks to pieces.

Finally got it running, it's quite like a 3D Starcraft when you first play it...

[koten]

Isn't it kind of hilarious how many times you end up losing Ashley and having to save her again? lol, I send my love to RE4:cloud9:Every time you lose her is exciting. Because then you don't have to fucking deal with her for a while.

[TheGreenElf]

^Try looking up her skirt as she climbs a ladder. She yells at you...

[koten]

I already did that.

[sikkinixx]

I just got the SNES cart the other day (FINALLY!)....GameStop finally reinstated the company wide inventory lookup that EB used to have. There were only three stores in the entire company with Chrono Trigger. I called all three, and the last guy actually mailed the game to my store.

Got it for $1.63 after all discounts and promotions. Sweet deal.

wow less than 2 bucks? Nice one. At used stores around here, I found one for $90!!! I got mine about 6 years ago. I traded it to this dude in my physics class for Super Mario World since I had two copies....damn that was an awesome deal for me...

[HPK]

I've been alternating between games. I've been doing a little Guitar Hero II and a bit more Gears of War. I figure I got 4 more achievements to get in Gears. I can at least try getting 3 of them. (I'm not going to bother with 10,000 MP kills).
I've also been doing a little Hexic HD. A co-worker and I are in a small competition of sorts when it comes to achievements in that game. He has a higher overall score, but I got more achievements. Woo. The achievements for that game are seriously difficult. Complete 100 games? I haven't even beaten 1.
I think since I got the time today, I'm going to bust out with some Oblivion. I might as well finish off the Fighter's Guild stuff while I can.

[the poe collector]

SSX Blur

I'm still getting used to the controls but it's fun so far.

[rpgamer_2k5]

Almost cleared New SMB. Just need to get some metals that I missed out in the earlier worlds.

Decided to play Shenmue again. Honestly this game never fails to amaze me, it was well beyond its time - it was actually intended to be on the Saturn. In terms of role-playing - Shenmue runs around the FF series. This game is just that good.

Real-time mechanics, high level of immersion, and an organic environment, it has it all. Set in Yokohama, Japan - 1986. The minute you enter the city, it gives you the feeling that they got the 'art' behind the urban landscape right. Sure the next-gen consoles sport superior visuals et al but this game got that urban 'feeling' right. No, it just doesn't have NPCs walking in preset directions. In addition you have a diverse population, cyclists on the road, people trying to sell products such as flowers, kids running about, gangs chilling on the side walk, mechanics repairing bikes; and in night - bars, clubs open while bikers, sailors enter, so do intoxicated business man. Drunkards too! I am telling you this game is big. :)

This game sets a standard in the RPG genre that many have yet to reach. In fact I've tried out Blue Dragon and quickly noticed that this is just a title that has appeared a multitude of times on the 32-bit platform. Yes by various developers of various quality but this title doesn't add to anything that those in the past introduced. This well executed title is has yet to be out-done, lets see Square-Enix, Mistwalker, and other RPG developers approach and exceed this standard. They should, seeing the computational power they have available to them.

I highly recommend Shenmue to all. Pick up a DC, buy the software. The price is not prohibitive. If its an obstacle, go find an iso which is fine since Sega no longer manufacturers this title. Just play the title, it cannot be ignored!

[woundingchaney]

Playing Stalker and still playing some online Gears and a little bit of MS,DOA4, and Res.

[Applefiend]

Bunch of poo turned up at my house, probably the last until September/October. Got lots of games to play, don't need any more. In October I'll get a bit box full of Blue Dragon, Heavenly Sword, Lair, Halo 3, GTAIV, many wonderous things.

Here's some quick impressions.

Oblivion PS3
They've taken about half the stuff I hated about Oblivion and fixed it! No more stuttering loading while you walk around, sharp, crisp graphics, higher frame rate,no foiliage popping up right in front of you. Loverly. I think I'll have a crack at finishing this.

Sega Genesis Collection - PS2
It's 28 Genesis games for only $19.99 (hurrah!)
In prog scan (hurrah)
Very good selection, the Phantasy Star games alone are worth the cash.

A lot of these games are on Wii VC, including stinkers like Gain Ground, imagine some poor sod payin $8 for that...

Untold Legends: DK - PS3
Not too bad actually, it's not the game Marvel UA was but better optimised for PS3. Your standard Balders Gate DA romp, only with a different camera. Good launch effort.

Enchanted Arms - PS3
It's a 7/10 PS2 RPG only in high res. Japanese student types with spikey hair and myserious powers a plenty. Ahh hell I'll play it, White Knight, FF13 and Blue Dragon can't get here soon enough though...

It's the Advance Wars/ Fire Emblem kinda jRPG. Haven't played too may of them so I'm looking forward to it.

The usual Ubisoft jRPG production values. Slighty stilted voice overs, that kinda thing, but it's the first real next gen jRPG in english, so you know...

Playing Grandia III atm and wouldn't want to quit it to play this.

Armored Core - PS3
Haven't gotten round to this one yet. Seems rather involved.

[speed stick]

Damn your a busy man Applefiend.

Still Shivering Isles 360. In the little free time I get for gaming its spent playing Oblivion.

[Applefiend]

Busy sitting on me arse doing nothing. :)

Get back to work next week.

[the poe collector]

Titan Mode on God of War 2 is BULLSHIT!

Carry on.

[Derrick Barra]

God of War 2 has some bullshit no matter what difficulty you play it on... Oh look, a medusa froze you in midair while you were in the middle of a combo, INSTANTLY FUCKING DEAD. Go back 10 minutes of gameplay, do not pass go, do not collect $599 USD. Game design ftw!

Basically I'm at the end where you have to fight waves of every type of enemy in the game, I stopped after my 10th death, I'll let one of my friends beat it when I'm "showing" them how "cool" the game is.

[koten]

^ I never had any of those probelms while playing the game. You just love to complain don't you? You never talk about games in a happy way. And what happened to your sig? Where is Phoenix Wright yelling "penis." You dissapoint me in so many ways.

Put RE4 aside for a bit, going to go through Super Paper Mario first.

[Bsack]

Tiger '07 and Luxor 2 (360).

[Applefiend]

Picked up Crackdown very cheap, difficult to take any game seriously that has a bad buy called "Wang".

"I'm hunting Wang"
"I see Wang, going to shoot him in the head"
"Finally beaten the game and licked Wang".

Make up your own jokes. The game is OK, on my "must get into sometime" pile. Quite looking forward to the Halo 3 beta though.

Trying to finish some games, Grandia III is taking forever as I keep getting killed and lose an hour. God of War 2 is taking forever as it's too good to rush.

[BigfootGus]

Guitar Hero 2 for the 360, and the extra quests on Oblivion

thats about it right now

[HPK]

Picked up Crackdown very cheap, difficult to take any game seriously that has a bad buy called "Wang".

"I'm hunting Wang"
"I see Wang, going to shoot him in the head"
"Finally beaten the game and licked Wang".

Make up your own jokes. The game is OK, on my "must get into sometime" pile. Quite looking forward to the Halo 3 beta though.


Don't forget about Wang's Tower. The best line was from the intro movie, though. "The enigmatic Wang." :laugh:

I've mostly been playing Oblivion now-a-days. I completed the Fighters and Thieves Guilds. I'm currently running amuck in the Dark Brotherhood. Fun stuff.

[Dhulfiqar]

Command and Conquer 3 was kicking my ass, so I started to play Homeworld 2.

It's even harder.

D:

[Shadow19]

I've been playing Guitar Hero II (PS2). I got it last week, awesome game.

[BecomeAnHero]

GH2 is indeed awesome.

workin on 100%-ing everything on expert...

[Shadow19]

GH2 is indeed awesome.

workin on 100%-ing everything on expert...

lol I can't beat anything on Hard or Expert. I'm good at Medium & Easy (Obviously)

[the poe collector]

God of War 2 on Titan mode is on hold while I play through Guitar Hero 2 for the 360.

[Lheurch]

Playing challenge of the Titans on God of War II, I beat the regular game again last night

[the poe collector]

What challenge are you on?

[HPK]

I've been playing Crackdown all night. Thanks to 311, I'm trying to get all the achievements. I'm damn close to getting them too. Thanks to him, I got the "Beat 21 Bosses in Co-op" Achievement. After getting a few stunt rings, he had to go. In the meantime, I managed to get a few more stunt rings on my own (only need 6 more) and the rest of the hidden orbs.
After getting all the achievements, it's back to Oblivion for me. (I got my girlfriend into that game, which is kind of funny. She hates the 360).

[Applefiend]

Bought some cheap crap off ebay, first of it has arrived, namely..

Fear Effect 2
Survival horror, but with the horror taken out and replaced with lesbians. Crime solving lesbians. They don't make games like this anymore.
Cutscenes remind me of Perfect Dark Zero, in a bad way.
Good cheesy fun, may play that through.

And today I be mostly playin'

Untold Legends : Dark Kingdom

Quite good fun, if dull as dishwater. But sometimes you want dull.
Very nice soundtrack.

[rpgamer_2k5]

Still playing Suikoden - aiming to level up all 108 characters to at least lv. 60. And yes, this game is that good. Just don't play with your wife or girl friend, you may end up ignoring her for hours. This title was clearly made by the devil (grounds up) to lure people to the dark side. ;)

[masteratt]

Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars

I still hate how "subtly" Tiberium = oil but whatever.

The game is a basic game that is still fun to play, basically whoever builds the fastest wins (reminds me of console wars lol) but sometimes there are some tactics like where to put your defensive weapons and weather to attack with planes or tanks :thumpsup: :rolleyes:

Seriously gets boring after a while this one especially after I've played Company Of Heroes.

Still gets a 5/10.
It's somehow addictive especially when I'm 'half-tired'.

[rpgamer_2k5]

^ I got a copy of C&C right in front of me and its been there ever since I purchased the game. But yeah, I too would only consider it passable (only because its part of the C&C franchise).

Damn I totally forgot about Company of Heroes. I'll be playing this one when I have time. :)

[HPK]

Still playing Suikoden - aiming to level up all 108 characters to at least lv. 60. And yes, this game is that good. Just don't play with your wife or girl friend, you may end up ignoring her for hours. This title was clearly made by the devil (grounds up) to lure people to the dark side. ;)

I guess I would be the exception to that statement. My girlfriend loves the Suikoden games (especially 2), so if I were playing them, she'd question why and then steal the game to play it on her own. Vicious, I tell you. Vicious!

[curryking1]

Should I download Company of Heroes? I d/led C&C TW and I thought it was pretty good, I also enjoyed Supreme Commander.

And recommendations or impressions of CoH?

[masteratt]

Company Of Heroes is the best strategy game you'll ever play.

I can't elaborate why for some reasons (don't want to spoil some nice "oh...cool!" gameplay elements) but if you like strategy game there is no way in hell Company Of Heroes will disappoint.

It does feel new and not only that, it feels 100x better than any other strategy game (and I've played a lot of them).

The only annoying thing about it is that the World War setting gets extremely tiring.

[curryking1]

^The setting is what puts me off the game mostly lol, it's the main reason I have been so hesitant to d/l it.

I think I'll go d/l it anyways lol, I have lots of drive space lol, seems like it's worth the time anyways.

Also, anyone know about STALKER? I just got that as well, I can't play it yet because my graphics card is not with me (RMA lol).

P.S. I just realised I'm downloading like 10 games right now lol :P

[Matt]

Just got Virtua Fighter V, so I'm sucking major balls at that atm.

[rpgamer_2k5]

^ The plus side is the game really emulates a full-blown war compaign. Yes, the war mongering side of me wants to see high realism. I want to take my artillery units and demolish infrastructure, while LMGs to take down soldiers, and tanks run over everything. Heck the Volksgrenadier concept is even down right. Extreme close-range combat.

This game (CoH) is so good. Now all I need an RTS where I have to send troops into an 'organic' city, town or village. Damn I feel terrible but that ain't much cleaner than this title. ;)

[Applefiend]

I don't hear too many good things about Stalker, good idea/poor execution/demands too big a PC for mediocre payback.

Company of Heroes on the other hand, nothing but good things.

[curryking1]

I think I'm gonna try both then, CoH sounds really good, but I can't put out this WWII theme pissing me off out of my head lol. I'll have to try to see what it's actually like.

A game I can't wait to see how it pans out is World in Conflict, how sick does that game look! Holy crap!

Someone has GOT to make a Red Alert 1 mod for that game btw.... that would be buttsecks.

EDIT - Playing RE4 PC right now, with the shading fix.... took a retarded amount of effort to get it to work.... (had to do crazy stuff like converting the Asian version to EU with some patch in a foreign language).

Can't wait for my gfx card to return! I'll be playing RE4 in high def, 6xAA, and 16xAF! XD

(very sadly... the cutscenes are just the GC recordings like the PS2 version... kind of annoying lol)

[the poe collector]

I finally started playing God of War 2 again today. I was right at Euryale when I quit playing a week ago and just didn't feel like another drawn out boss battle. Thankfully I got past her and another boss before I quit playing.

I'm almost done playing through Guitar Hero 2 on Medium and after that it's on to Hard mode.

[Applefiend]

We got a US PS3, we can play PS1 games full price and full screen, cheaper than PAL PS1 games. Lets buy lots!!!

Man you can really attack those PS1 games with a brillo pad and they still work.

Crash 2 - PS1
Excellent fun, banging through it really quick, should be done in a couple of days. 4.99USD

Re-Loaded - PS1
Errm... not really any good anymore. There's games like this on XBLA and Dreamcast that are much better.
$4.99USD

Grand Theft Auto 2 - PS1
May play this to the end. It's like GTA without the money.
1.99USD

Wild 9 - PS1
Take an awesome 2D SNES side on platformer then crap out the graphics with nasty early 3D. It would work so much better in 2D with hand drawn graphics. Eugh...
I think a small sigh came out my PS3 when I popped the disk in.
But, better than 9 out 10 downloadable games.
By Shiny. Who used to be really good.
$1.49USD

Battle Arena Toshinden - PS1
Sucks
4.99USD - I was robbed

Tomb Raider III - PS1
Possibly the start of the decline of Ms Croft, but good all the same
1.99USD

Tomb Raider - Last Revelation
The last revelation is a church or something falls on her.
$1.99USD

Wipeout - PS1
Fab
$4.99

Also picked up Munch's Odyssey on XBox again now it's 360 compatible. Half the fricking sound is missing making it pretty unplayable. 360 is really pissing me off right now. The drive door keeps sticking, bulld quality on these things sucks.

[Lucent Beam]

Been playing so much Taiko no Tatsujin that it runs by in my head when I'm not playing. And I bought one more console version and one more portable version to continue the addiction. I know if I weren't on such a Taiko high, I'd be all over Pokemon right now instead.. but I can't resist the drumming..!!

[HolyPaladin]

http://media.ign.com/games/image/object/707/707323/Pokemon-Diamond_DSBOX_US_FINALboxart_160w.jpg

[³¹¹]

Rainbow 6 Vegas
Crackdown
Dead Rising

[Sever Citrin]

Pokemon Diamond/Ruby/Crystal (DS/GBA/GBC)
Godfather: Blackhand Edition (Wii)
Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Wii)
Madden '07 (Wii)
Final Fantasy Tactics (PSX) (Working on logging my 2,000th hour into that game. :3)
Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance (GCN)
Resident Evil 4 (GCN) (For like, the 982374982374th time)

[HPK]

Oblivion (360) and Pokemon Diamond (DS)

I'm upset with Oblivion. Actually, I'm upset with what my girlfriend did while playing Oblivion. She likes the game, but she wasn't paying attention to where she was saving. I was busy playing Diamond, then I noticed she was saving over one of my characters. I put about 17 hours into that guy...but it was my first character and he wasn't that great. She saved over another one of my character earlier, apparently, which I was still using for the Dark Brotherhood quests (21 hours put into him).
It isn't like it doesn't say what the contents of each save file are. Gah, why doesn't she pay attention to things?
I'm probably just going to delete her character saves and make her a XBL Silver account. That way she can start over and not be anywhere near my save files ever again. She almost cried because she felt bad.

[curryking1]

Holy crap! The PS1 titles only cost like 5 dollars!!! WHATTT!!!! That's awesome!!!! And it's 5 dollars or less right for these ones! Holy moly! (I'd imagine they could charge 10 or 15 for something like FF VII lol!)

I played Donkey Kong Country 3 today lol :P

[The Dude]

Im playing..

Super Paper Mario
Kameo Elements of Power (actually a pretty decent game)
Hotel Dusk

[woundingchaney]

Oblivion - downloading Shivering Isles now

[Applefiend]

Yup, anything which everybody bought and nobody is buying you can probably get for 1.99 now.

Stuff that everyone bought and people still want (FF7) can still be expensive.

[Applefiend]

Watching all the F.E.A.R. PS3/360 comparison videos and reviews got a craving for F.E.A.R. on a console so went out and bought a 2nd hand copy of....

F.E.A.R.... For 360 naturally, I may love my PS3 but I ain't stupid. :)

First up it becomes apparent how Sierra have cocked up the PS3 version big time. The game seems to have a quarter of the detail of Resistance, faces are very low detail and the lighting isn't *that* clever. Often the shadows are comically bad in a game all about darkness and shadows.

About a quarter through the game and it is starting to age a bit. There's all this groovy physics but it's all just decoration unlike Half Life 2. You can knock about stuff but there's no physics puzzles. The physics are also a bit buggy, you can drive a bottle insane bouncing off the wall in water for no reason, stuff like that.

The AI is rather excellent though, but once you do kill the enemies they often end up hanging half way through a wall with one hand poking out, or on one leg. Or slowly spinning round as the physics is slightly buggered.

And it gets so repetitive too.

Ummm.... I think F.E.A.R. is ever so slightly crap to be honest, I prefer their other game Comdemned much more. A Gears or a Graw or a COD really blows this away. I think the only 360 shooter I liked less was Prey. Really hated that.

But... I'll finish it. It's Max Payne in first person with AI and bugs basically.

[speed stick]

I totally agree. I played F.E.A.R. at my friends place for a while and thought it sucked bad. But I absolutly loved Condemned!

I am back into GoW now that these new maps are up as of today!

[HPK]

Marvel: Ultimate Alliance (360)

This new DLC is pretty sweet. The new characters are nice---well, most of them. The Hulk pretty much made everything worth it, though. The dude is insanely powerful in this game, as well as Dr. Doom.

Right now, I'm raking up in-game money to upgrade particular characters. I'm trying to get more achievments, particularly for Silve Surfer, all costumes, gold on all sim dics, and the rest of the DLC ones (character interactions).

[Applefiend]

A ton of new XBLA games

Alien Hominid HD - Contra in HD, nice and fast. Probably better off playing Contra on a SNES though, much better. And finishing Contra on SNES would be so much more satisfying, rather than "Look at me I finished a flash game a bunch of students made in their bedroom".

Nice though. Kinda a militia thing going on with slaughtering FBI agents by the thousand, hope Agent Scully is OK....

Catan - All these card and board games on consoles are beyond me... I'm waiting for a perfect simulation online of playing dominoes down the local British Legion with a bunch of old soldiers.

Centipede - Enhanced version crap.

Heavy Weapon - Total Crap

Pinball FX - Play Metroid Pinball on DS instead. Seriously.

Guess you can't have Castlevania SOTN every week.

Noticed I've finished 10 PS games in a row so I've decided to fire up the 360 for a while. Started by playing Conker Reloaded to the end. So used to the PS3 every time the controller rumbles I go "What the **** was that?". Wonder if it's a New Zealand earthquake...

I like Conker, and Rare's single player games in general. Very underated game Kameo you know.

Finish off 3 or 4 360 games then go right back to my nice comfortable PS3 rutt. Ahhhh.... :)

[Fiend]

Dead Rising. Woohoo! It's alright so far, gets me a little ticked sometimes, but it passes the time.

Rainbow Six: Vegas is a pretty sick ass game. I can't believe I waited this long to get it.

[the poe collector]

I beat Guitar Hero 2 on Hard mode today and I'm still trying to save that girly man translator in God of War 2.

[TheGreenElf]

I'm focusing on a few games right now trying to beat them...
Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow - (GBA)
Super Castlevania IV - (SNES/Wii VC)
God of War - (PS2) [Yep, started this one back up again after a long hiatus]
Killer 7 - (GC)

[Generosity of God]

Final Fantasy III (DS)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Wii VC)
Resident Evil 2 (GC)

[koten]

Hotel Dusk: Room 215

Now this is an awesome game. I heard it ran along similar lines to Phoenix Wright in that it's a very text heavy game, but who the hell really cares? The game is top notch, superb story so far, realistic characters with their own goals and secrets and an erie mystery that hangs over the whole game. Deffinatly worth the purchase. I'm going back and gunna try Trace Memory once I'm done.

[curryking1]

STALKER - If you're gonna play one PC game this year, this is the one you want to pick. It's just cool, art is stylish, lighting is awesome, mood is great, and the gameplay of shooting is simple yet there are a lot of RPG elements and subtle equipment and realtime things to think about as well.

Again, if you're gonna play one PC game this year, play STALKER.

[Applefiend]

Started playing Gears of War for the second run through on hardcore, God of War 1 second time through, not much fun for me, Gears of War second time round, lots of fun. It's quite hard to put it down and go to bed actually.

Picked to PGR3 again for very little money (About $10) and damn does it look like hell these days, suprised by how bad it looks now. Probably shouldn't play it after Gears.

And GTA3:San Andreas. I played it on XBox and got stuck at the Train Mission years ago, on the PS2 version breezed right through it first time. Either the PS2 mission is easier, the sixaxis control is better for me, or... It's an outside chance, my game playing has gotten better!

[jaxmkii]

Im playing my latest EA multiwhore game.
http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r246/jaxmkii/xtreme_dtot1.jpg

[the poe collector]

LOL NICE ONE! :thumsup:

I started playing Gears again today and was halfway decent. I'm also trying to find my copy of Majora's Mask...

[Bsack]

For my 360 I'm currently playing Gears of War and GRAW2. I'm switching between Super Paper Mario and Twilight Princess on Wii and a friend of mine just bought Killzone: Liberation for the PSP, so me and him are doing the coop campaign together seeing as I've completed the single player campaign already. The game is good fun with a friend to play with and much easier to run through the game on coop rather than playing it by myself. =)

[the poe collector]

Castlevania 4
Legend of Zelda
Guitar Hero 1 and 2

Castlevania is evil incarnate and hammer-ons are nearly impossible in GH 1.

[Applefiend]

Pirates of the Caribbean - At the World's End - PS3
It's Xtreme Diarrhea 2: the Disney years. Really sh*t*. But I like to play bad games because nitpicking is great fun, I could send Eurocom a neatly typed 6 page letter on why their game sucks and is no fun. At all.
A rental, didn't buy it.

Croc - PS1(On PS3)
Better than Pirates, that's for sure.

I have a good Pirate based game on my shelf unplayed, Sid Meyers Pirates, I should play that instead.

God of War 2
Slowly, slowly, too good a game to rush.

[curryking1]

Valkyrie Profile, RE1, RE2, MML2, NFS3, GT2, Legend of Dragoon. But each very little.. not fair... barely have time.....

And the PS1 is not dead! It will never die to me! Bwahhahahaha!!!

[rpgamer_2k5]

^ I continue to play the PSX, hell even Saturn, Sega Genesis and SNES. The console I'm mainly on continues to be the Dreamcast. ^_^

Currently playing:
Dragon Force (Saturn)
Guilty Gear X (Dreamcast)
Saga Frontier (PSX)
SMT Digital Devil Saga

[Added Later]
Technically I'm playing FFVI on GBA too. I'm pretty much done, and am going to clear the game right about now.

[koten]

Super Paper Mario.

Put it down for a long while to clear out some other games I've had sitting around for a while, but now I'm back in the swing of things and will finish it up shortly.

[Applefiend]

Finished... 7 PS1/GBA games in a row, trying to play some more recent games.

Got F.E.A.R. for PS3 very cheap, playing that, then finally finish God of War 2, I keep deleting my save game so I can replay it. :) Then I'm going to switch to 360 for a while, play though some Ubisoft shooters.

F.E.A.R. at the moment reminds me of Killzone on PS2, they seem to have the same frame rate and loading times. :)

Think I can find enough next gen content to keep my find em, finish em, flog em, forget em style of gaming going until March next year. Should limp into the August/September fun fest quite nicely.

Looks like I'll have hardly switched on the Wii all year... Hmmm... :(

[masonite]

V8 supercars 2. got halfway through it a while ago then deleted the save file to make space for god of war and black, now getting back to it...

[HPK]

I've been playing a little bit of everything lately. GH2, Gears, Marvel: Ultimate Alliance, Oblivion, and Crackdown.

What's been taking up most of my gaming time, though? Phantasy Star Online Episode I & II. I've been playing the game on and off for 4 years. It's a really fun game, despite how simplistic and repetitive it gets. One of the best multiplayer games around.

[The Dude]

Forza 2
Pokemon Pearl

[masteratt]

Mark Of Kri (PS2; Sony Computer Entertainment Europe)- Awesome forgotten PS2 game.

Red Orchestra (PC; Tripwire Interactive)- The best multiplayer shooter I have ever played, yes it beats Counter Strike.

[woundingchaney]

Shadowrun

Marvel Ult. Alliance

[Applefiend]

Finished F.E.A.R. Unkind to portly hackers, clearly.

Finishing up God of War 2. Spoken about this in the PS2 forum, if God of War 2 turns out to be my game of the year I'm going to be hacked off, really. It'll be three christmasses next gen has been out and PS2 games are still number 1. That's annoying.

But looking at the likely delays to big hitters on PS3 and 360 I think it may well end up my game of the year.

But no way a PS2 game will end up my game of 2008, surely??!!???

Next up, finally get round to finishing Graw on 360.

[curryking1]

Played Legend of Legaia today.

I have to get some fertilizer, so I can put it on a plant, so it will grow and become a bridge, across a low shallow river. Because clearly, I can't just jump over the river (even though my character clearly displayed his amazing capacity to jump in a mountainous area) and fertilizer instantly makes plants grow, and if they are beside rivers, they will obviously become bridges to allow me to pass unheeded.

What a wicked, classic game :)

[the poe collector]

My ps2 copy of Guitar Hero 2 went batshit and everything was erased so I'm playing through that again.

[curryking1]

Wow! Poe has an awesome theme to his posts lol.

[the boney king of nowhere.]

i started playing gran turismo 4 a couple of weeks ago, since then it took over my life and now it's annoying me because it's too hard.

since then i forgot how to play ffxii which sucks because i'm stuck on a boss.

[jaxmkii]

Sid myers pirates for the PSP. its actualy has a few improvements over the PC version.

[Applefiend]

Sprained my sodding wrist playing God of War 2 all night, owww!

Sucks to be an old fart. :(

Playing Prince of Persia Classic on XBLA, possibly my favourite 360 game of the year so far, I'm weird. But it's totally fab...

[the poe collector]

finished playing GH 2 on hard mode, I'll move on to expert soon enough. I also rented Super Paper Mario and started playing that.

[Applefiend]

Recipe for gaming heaven. Pretend I'm Nigella Lawson.

Take these ingredients
1x Playstation 3
1x PS2 to PS3 USB converter
1x Sony Bravia HD TV
1x HDMI cable
1x Dual Shock 2
1x Copy of Shadow of the Colossus
1x FW 1.81

Mix them up together and enjoy. Because if you're 100 foot high damn straight you should rumble.

Playing a bit of GRAW, never got round to finishing it when it came out. Good game if you're too tired, just get your troop to do everything. "You guys go shoot those terrorists, I can't be arsed. One of my guys got shot? You med him up, I didn't get much sleep last night man, we done the level yet." :) Next gen started with GRAW I think.

Couple of nice demos, DIRT on 360 which does everything you could want in a Rally game, ShadowRun which is a great new take on an online shooter. Neither are genres I'm into but very fine, clearly. 360 is the boss for online shooters.

Got a pile of cheap 360 games, been playing a bit of Viva Pinata. It's like Pokemon, in so much as you're trying to catch em all, keep em all, but you don't have to train them, or battle them. And there's sex. Rather good really, really terrific kids game.

Ahh what else, got Need for Speed Carbon PS3 cheap. Good if you like your racing game served with a huge hunk of cheese. So so cheesy, ripe for taking the mickey out of. Tries really hard to be good, succeeds in some ways. The best NFS yet, give it that much.

And a bunch of 3 dollar PS1 games, Spryo 3, Nuclear/Soviet Strike, Croc 2.

[curryking1]

Take these ingredients
1x Playstation 3
1x PS2 to PS3 USB converter
1x Sony Bravia HD TV
1x HDMI cable
1x Dual Shock 2
1x Copy of Shadow of the Colossus
1x FW 1.81

Oh you mother ****er... lol j/k

[Ihsiin]

Hello, everyone!

I'm currently playing The Secret of Monkey Island. Again.
I assure it's much better than any of your more recreant games.

Goodbye, everyone!

[Sbrother]

Earthbound for SNES, although I beat the game last night.

[yoshaw]

Tomb Raider Anniversary. Good game!! Actually better than TR:Legend. Blimey.

[HPK]

I've been playing some PSU. Online and offline. I've been wanting to play an RPG (I get like that over the summer) and it isn't exactly helping out much. Too action-oriented. I'll probably bust out with a Final Fantasy game tomorrow. If I had Chrono Cross, I'd definitely be playing that.
I tried playing Phantasy Star Online: Blue Burst earlier. I don't really like how it transitioned on to the PC. The controls are clunky, everything runs pretty slowly (probably because of my computer), and I don't like the minor changes that were made.

I might try playing Shadowrun again. I bought it a week ago and played it once. Eek.

[the poe collector]

still playing both GH games... I downloaded ActRaiser a few weeks ago and started playing it today. So far I love it. The music is great and the difficulty is a welcome change from the pure evil that is Castlevania 4.

[BigfootGus]

just got Overlord, The Darkness, NBA Homecourt, and downloaded Shivering Isles for Oblivion

ive gotta a lot to do

[nemesis121]

Guildwars.

[the poe collector]

I finished playing ActRaiser today. I probably could've beaten the game in a day if I wasn't so lazy and the magic attacks made most of the boss fights way too easy, but I still enjoyed it. The music is awesome and rebuilding each continent is really addicting. Well worth the 800 (I think) points.

Now to find something else...

[Passive]

Im currently play MGS2, Guild Wars and Oblivion

[HPK]

I've pretty much stopped playing the PSU Demo. I think everyone who was playing it stopped.

I've been playing Shadowrun lately.

[Applefiend]

What we playing....

Got a weird obsession with Frogger on XBLA. It seems weirdly broken and nobody else I know has been playing it, but I continue.

Done with Super Stardust HD for now, really fab.

Not much doing really, got a box full of hot *** coming on monday with Tomb Raider Ani, Kingdom Hearts, Mega Man Collection, Odin Sphere, Ninja Gaiden Sigma, Grim Grimore and the Darkness. Whoohooo! 2 2D games.

Try and finish Resident Evil 4, bit bored with shooting people in the leg to be honest, it's slightly over rated. But only slightly.

[Applefiend]

Playing da good sheet at the moment

Ninja Gaiden Sigma - PS3
Such an old fart I can only play for an hour a day before I go "Bloody hell me hand hurts", but slicing dudes heads off never gets old. Really nice looking game all throughout but you can tell the PS3 is hardly ticking over.

Just great, every enemy is a real battle, every boss and location new. Fun as hell to play.

I'll get it finished one day. :) About a quarter of the way through.

Resident Evil 4 - PS2
On PS3 with upscaling/filtering/widescreen does look better than the Gamecube version. No kidding, I have both versions. I don't think it's really the best game made last gen as some people think, but probably in the top ten if not ten 5.

Let down by the classic Resident Evil "rotate on the spot" control scheme, which is still there despite the new camera angle. But awesome, definitely.

Nearly finished.

Daxter - PSP
I've never finished a PSP game ever so I'm giving this a go. For a handheld it's just awesome, but I do wish it was just a PS2 game.

And finally

Sonic the Hedgehog - XBLA
No, not the crappy 3D one, 2D goodness. Only 400 points, at least 3 days fun. I hope they do more of these Genesis games as old Sonic looks great in 720p/filtering.

[masonite]

super mario brothers 3 - PC (emu).

reliving the old primary school days at my friends house.....

*sigh*

[Hisham]

Dead or Alive 4.
Dunno, playing online is pretty addicting in this game.

[Haris]

DBZ Tenkaichi 2 on Wii

looking for something else fun on wii, i just beat this game..

any suggestions?

[the poe collector]

Super Paper Mario is alright.

Right now I'm not playing much... waiting for GH Rocks the 80s to come out.

[FoeHammer]

Chrome Hounds
Guitar Hero 2
The Darkness
Shivering Isles
just beat Homecourt the other day.

[Segitz]

I finally started playing Neverwinter Nights 2^^ I won it at a Eurogamer sweepstake last year (post came in November^^).

I LOVE THIS GAME!

And I play MGS2 occasionally on my PS3.

[HPK]

I'm playing through some Oblivion, after like a 3 month hiatus. I'm just playing through the main story line. I'm making characters for the Dark Brotherhood and the Mages Guild afterwards.

[Applefiend]

Bought some more cheap crap games. :) Today I'm wasting a $500 video game system playing....

The Getaway Black Monday
Big but fun failure. Attempt to make a f*ck*ng cockey gangster movie into a f*ck*ng game where they say f*ck every 5 f*k*ng seconds init?

It's bad in a good way, the game starts and you're a london copper raiding a tower block full of druggies init? The game says "They may be taking hostages", and the bad guys take a hostage so you can't shoot em, so you just shoot the hostages and the game doesn't mind. :)

In some boxing club shooting anything that moves, no idea what I'm doing. Just like a real british armed copper!

Might play it through for yucks. Actually made me go "wow" when it started up, amazing facial graphics for an old game. I got 360 games with worse face modeling.

Kinda like Hot Fuzz the video game so far. :) They say "Police stop" after you shoot a suspect. I'm shooting unarmed suspects by the dozen. :)

On man, this game is cracking me up, but imagine how good this game would be if they hadn't buggered it up.

[Dakota Grabowski]

The Darkness for me. Plus, Catan, Carcassone, and hopefully Overlord if the game comes from FedEx today.

[VideoGame mania]

Virtua Tennis 3 + Silent Hill 2,4

[the poe collector]

Guitar Hero Rocks the 80s



That's all I need.

[the poe collector]

Nobody saw anything...

I started playing Metroid Prime today. I hadn't played it in a while so it was weird at first but I quickly got used to the game again. I should be able to get through both games before BioShock and Prime 3 come out.

[Rorange T-rex]

Viewtiful Joe
The Legend of Zelda:The Twilight Princess

[The Dude]

Paper Mario: TTYD. I have had it for 3 years and STILL haven't beat it, I cannot tolerate having unbeaten games for that long, so its my duty to finish it before I go back to school.

It is the weakest link in the Paper Mario games, but its still pretty good

[the poe collector]

I'm stuck at the last boss in TTYD. If I could buy some fucking items without backtracking for 10 years it would be no problem.

Still playing Metroid, fuck yeah!

[Alias]

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas (Ps3)

[HPK]

Shadowrun, along with some other games...but mostly Shadowrun.

[Cream Filling]

Gears of War and I started playing Halo 2 again
need to get my skill back up for Halo triple.

[the poe collector]

I finished Metroid Prime earlier today. I'd forgotten how annoying those Fission metroids are. I got 97% of the items just from memory, I think I only missed two missile expansions. I'd say that's pretty good.

I'll start on Echoes later today or tomorrow.

[TomTom456]

Haha, I just started Prime today. These missle expansions are easier to find than I remember...

[the boney king of nowhere.]

and i've got FFXII when i'm home at some weekends. (i really should bring my ps2 to uni.)



i'm still playing ffxii

[the poe collector]

BioShock

The regular version. I don't need some limited fucking edition to feel more secure about myself!

I actually couldn't find it. that's what I get for not pre-ordering.

[dork]

Bioshock. The Limited Edition. I needed the limited fucking edition because i am super freakin' special!

I PRE-ORDERED WEEKS AGO MWUAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAPOESUCKS!!!!!!!!!

[HPK]

Phantasy Star Universe Demo. I got to level 20 a lot faster this time around. It's a shame I never seem to be able to play with the usual group. Sometime soon, though, I'm going to start playing Halo and Halo 2. I gotta show off the storyline to my girlfriend, so she knows what's going on in Halo 3.

[TrueVCU]

Star Wars Battlefront II

[Hisham]

BioShock on the 360 and Children of Mana on the DS.

Freakin' awesome games.

[the poe collector]

I picked up Metroid Prime 3 today... or yesterday, whatever it is. I was trying to finish the first two games before it came out but BioShock kind of put that on hold. I'll get to replaying Echoes eventually.

Maybe

[Fats]

Ridge Racer 7.

The excitement seems to have faded somewhat because I seem to have been playing this for the past 10 years of my life and it's quite repetitive. A solid title nevertheless, just not as mind blowing as it has been in the past.

[woundingchaney]

Warhawk
Bioshock

[Passive]

Warhawk
GRAW2

[BigfootGus]

i started Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance again

and of course Bioshock

and im always playing Guitar Hero on and off

[koten]

Metroid Prime 3: Corruption.

*drools*

[nemesis121]

Right now Hitman 2 pc(just felt like playing it) but in 2 days Guild Wars Eye of the North.

[curryking1]

Trying to start some Oblivion, but I'm playing around with mods right now lol.

[HPK]

I've been playing a few games as of late.

-Phantasy Star Universe Demo.
Although the rest of the E-mpire members who played kind of abandoned me, I still play the demo with some other friends. My girlfriend likes playing the game online with me too, despite how she hates all the cool items I got.

-Geometry Wars Evolved
I'm trying to get 2 achievements, and I was pretty close to getting both of them. But, I failed. And it was rather upsetting. I tried getting to 250,000 points without dying, and I died with only 9,000 points to go (GAH!). I almost broke 500,000...alas, I ran out of lives around 440,000.
I'm going to get those achievements. (I'm terribly envious of Bsack's skills at that game).

-Guitar Hero II
After managing to beat Expert mode (barely) and Jordan (again, barely), I'm just trying to run through the game and get 5 stars on every song on Hard. That shit is hard. It might help if I print out the cut off point for getting 5 stars on every so. I can't play too often, though. My wrist starts killing me.

[masteratt]

Yakuza.

11 hours logged in because it's fun to just mess around town.
Great game, still not finished.

I also just had sex (well, a pink screen) with one of the girls after spending like 20 million yen on her.
Very realistic game.

fighting is good, keeps it varied because of level ups and it has a very great story although i must say the delivery is far from perfect...or even good.

I'm not looking forward to finishing this game (although i was when i had to take Haruka around town, damn she was annoying..."heyyy, wait for me!" annoying whore).

[BigfootGus]

My brother got the Call of Duty 4 BETA

so ill probably be playing that a bit now

[dork]

still playing bioshock. i needed a break so i played some lady pacman earlier.

[Hisham]

Tekken 5: DR online on the PS3.

So much more awesome than Dead or Alive 4.

[the boney king of nowhere.]

i bought silent hill 4 but it's too hard on hard. i'm going to start again on easy or normal because i suck and am gay.

i'm still playing ffxii btw.

[Cream Filling]

Bioshock, gears of war, and some halo double.

[HPK]

I've been playing the hell out of some Streets of Rage 2 (XBLA). The game makes me laugh, but it's awesome. Nostalgia FTW. I'm just trying to get a score of 800,000+ on the Hardcore difficulty setting. It isn't going as planned.

[curryking1]

GRAW2 and VF5. VF5 is surprisingly fun for me, I normally don't like fighting games, it's so fun 2 player.

[section]

Jak II, also catching up a bit with FEAR on PC, after a few years of break.

Trying to play Bioshock demo on the same PC, would need another 1GB of memory to run more smoothly, otherwise it's mostly gold.

[Passive]

Warhawk and GRAW2

maybe we can join up sometime curryking :)

[section]

Oh I'm playing Warhawk too but I'm at the tutorial phase so to say, learning maps and overall mechanisms; HD screen would help obviously because my SDTV isn't showing the whole image aka leaves a lot of text and stuff outside the screen from both sides.

Hence I don't consider it playing yet because I can't kill anybody + I plain suck at it at the moment :D

[Passive]

lol im the same (not the tv bit i have a 1080P set :P) but im still really noob at the game haha i can take down a warhawk or two before i get myself shot :P

[curryking1]

Warhawk and GRAW2

maybe we can join up sometime curryking :)

I wish I could, but I can't play online, sry man :(

[XboxEvolved]

bioshock and Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08...soon to be playing Stranglehold, skate and ultimately Halo 3..for a very very long time.

[shamrock232]

an older PC game called 1503 AD the new World

[HPK]

I bought Halo: Combat Evolved and Dynasty Warriors: Gundam yesterday. I haven't even taken Halo out of the packaging yet, but I've been kicking some ass in DW:G. Mindless hack and slashing with stats? Right up my alley.

[the poe collector]

Keep this thread alive you fork fucks!

I finished playing Metroid Prime 3 today. I kind of rushed through BioShock so that I could take my time with this game. Prime 1 is still my favorite game in the series, but this is so much better than Echoes.

Next I'm going to play through both Halo games before the 3rd one comes out.

[Lucent Beam]

I just got Eternal Sonata, and I've played that like 3 hours today.
Also downloaded Sonic 2 off XBLA because I'm a loser.

Yesterday, I played mostly Castlevania Circle of the Moon for GBA, Beatmania for PS2, and Geometry Wars on XBLA.

[TomTom456]

I've been playing Metroid Prime Corruption (until I beat it today), Paper Mario and the Thousand Year Door, and Fire Emblem Path of Radiance.

[OG_Monkey]

I just got The Godfather today, pretty cool

[emiwee]

Playing Wind Waker (my first Zelda game actually and I heart it) and Picross DS. Picross has to be the funnest puzzle game I've ever played and I recommend it to all - it is more than worth its cheap $20 price tag.

[the poe collector]

I finished playing the first Halo today. I had forgotten how fucking annoying the Flood can be. It was also kind of weird playing with those FPS controls after playing Metroid Prime 3.

[PSXBatou]

My current playing list

PS3
http://batou.org/PSXBatou/images/ps3now.jpg

I'm also playing WarHawk, Poker and other assorted PSN games that don't have physical media.

Wii
http://batou.org/PSXBatou/images/wiinow.jpg

I'm waiting for SMB3 on VC :(

Even Monkeys enjoy a little gaming time

http://batou.org/PSXBatou/images/ps3saru.jpg

[FoeHammer]

i don't have a picture, but:

nfs carbon(trying to get achievements before the new one comes out)
just beat bioshock today
rented skate
some gears online
gh2, gh80's

[Gummy]

Been playing Skate on Xbox360.
I really like it.

[curryking1]

Resistance coop! So fun!

[Hisham]

Street Fighter 3rd Strike on my PS3.

:(

[BigfootGus]

I rented Skate today, but I just couldnt get used to the controls

Ive played every Tony Hawk game ever, so this just felt weird

It was like trying to learn a different language

[Ivory_Soul]

I just finished playing Skate...after playing every Tony Hawk game it's like a new child. It's better than TH but the trick system is too sensitive. Gamefly sent Halo 3 today so I should get it on Wednesday. Going through BioShock and The Darkness a second time...playing Coded Arms: Contagion on the PSP (a bit of an upgrade from the last...worth a rental). I'm also playing Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy on the PC.

[the poe collector]

Halo tres

Finally got done playing through the first two games and went right into this.

I played some campaign but mostly just messed around on Forge mode.

[BigfootGus]

halo 3 halo 3 halo 3 halo 3 halo 3 its awesome

:)

[GTAce]

Played through Heavenly Sword yesterday (awesome game) and i try to make my GTHD Concept times better.

[the poe collector]

I know you're all out there playing games, so post.

I tried the Conan demo for the 360 yesterday. It was pretty lame, you mostly just killed some regular enemies and pulled a few levers. The different attacks you can do while your enemy is blocking are kind of cool.

I'll rent it when it comes out.

[masteratt]

Oh yeah, well you should bump it more often.....Which just reminded me of my "game of the month" thread which I'll bump later maybe.

Currently playing: Killzone

The enemy and friendly AI is really really really REALLY annoying but other than that it's a very enjoyable game.

But just a few hours ago I turned the game off because the friendly AI pissed me off.
They are just standing miles away from the fight keep saying stupid shit like "stay out of sight" every 2 seconds and every time I get a headshot I have to hear some dumbass going "ohhhhh, not in the face!" and I'm like "how the fuck do you even know, you are no-where near!"

And when they DO join the battle, they are always in the fucking way.
I aim for an enemy (who is looking anywhere but in my direction) and just as I'm about to kill him the friendly AI gets in the way "watch your fire!"

Then I walk away, find myself a new cover and then comes the stupid line "stay out of sight" and I'm like "how?! we are in a fucking corridor!" and then the enemy sees me suddenly (when they were looking away from me) and then I start shooting them but they don't die for ages, then I keep hearing her going "stay out of sight" while I'm trying to kill 15 enemies.
Then I look back and see my friendly AI just spinning in one place instead of helping me kill these 15 enemies.
I go over to them and go back to where the enemy is but they don't follow...

and so on......Really frustrating AI.

[dork]

i've been having some good laughs with halo 3 multiplayer.

[Delirious]

lol, my last post in this thread was well over a year ago. Im glad they dont enforce topic splitting here.

Ive mainly been playing Wii Sports lately, that game never gets old as long as you have friends with money to take from them.

Other than that, I also recently got THPG and have been steadily playing through it.

And on a historical note, I also recently got back into playing Killer Instinct for the SNES.

[HPK]

I've mostly been playing Halo 3, particularly Forge mode and custom games. I don't really bother with Matchmaking unless I'm in a decent party of people.

Now all these other awesome games are coming out and I don't have money. Curses....

[the poe collector]

NCAA Football 06. Why?

I don't have the newer versions...

Once I get GH 3 I'll be playing that for a while.

[OG_Monkey]

The Darkness

[the boney king of nowhere.]

i'm stuck on ffxii. there's like 8 of these little fuck-heads that i really can't kill.

and i started again with mgs3. i haven't played it in ages.

[curryking1]

Are you talking about the tomato heads? There's only five of those lol. They are hard if you don't level though.

[the boney king of nowhere.]

ok, i just went on gamefaqs.

Recommended Level: Level 38 or higher recommended, but done at lower levels.

i'm like level 28... looks like i've got some work to do. i thought i was underpowered cause i seem to get raped everywhere i go.

[TomTom456]

right now, I'm playing Majora's Mask and FE9. good games.

[Alias]

I should play through FF12 again.. That game was fun. But right now I'm playing Rock Band.

[Shadow19]

The only game I've been playing lately is Fire Pro Wrestling Returns (PS2).

http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/bigboxshots/5/927675_94790_front.jpg


The game is great. 4 vs 4 Deathmatches are awesome. Also the game has MMA Fights, you can create 500 Edits, the game has 327 wrestlers/ some MMA fighters, create a Referee, Ring, Belt, Logo. Matchmaker mode, smart A.I. CPU Logic,etc. The game is only $15 in most stores, $20 at Gamestop. I ordered my online & only payed $7.39. My favorite wrestling game of all time, passing No Mercy (N64).

[minorpartofit]

God of War
now...

[Cream Filling]

geetar hiro 3
it's my favorite out of all the games
but I just don't have as much fun playing them as i used to.

[OmniCloud]

Uncharted...

I think it's the game of the year...

well best single player experience;)

[the poe collector]

Mass Effect

I tried to make my character look like Mal from Firefly, but that didn't work out so well so I just used the default. I think I played it around 5 hours straight, which I haven't done for any game in a while. I like the dialogue system a lot better than the ones in KOTOR and Jade Empire. It moves quicker and you don't always know what your character is going to say. The load times in some areas are annoying and the game just drops you in there and makes you learn shit on your own, but I'd rather do that then play through a bunch of tutorials.

:o

[FoeHammer]

GH3
bam! put them sweetass stickers on that bih

Mass Effect
played 14 hours in two days

COD4
rented it, but getting it for christmas
and will be playing the crap out of that for a while

[HPK]

I haven't exactly been playing much of anything. Hopefully after school is done for the semester I can buy at least one game, which'll be Mass Effect.

If one of my friends was serious about buying me Rock Band, I'll probably be playing that as well.

[err_ok]

Tie Fighter

The best Star Wars game in the world.... ever...

[OG_Monkey]

Whats better to get? Rock Band or Guitar Hero 3....keep in mind ill be getting the game only. No drums, mic, guitars, none of that

[HPK]

Why would you get either game without the equipment to go with it? That kind of ruins the whole point.

[OG_Monkey]

because I'm cheap

[HPK]

Save your money then. It isn't called "Controller Hero III" and you can't exactly do much with the standard controller for Rock Band.:)

[OG_Monkey]

how much is a stand alone guitar? I want GH3 more I think

[BigfootGus]

guitar hero 3
i have all expert songs 5-starred except Raining Blood (not counting boss battles or bonus songs)

mass effect
already played through once with 36+ hours put in, on my second playthrough with just under 5 hours

[HPK]

how much is a stand alone guitar? I want GH3 more I think

Depends on what guitar you get. I imagine the X-plorer model (GHII) will be cheaper than the Les Paul (GHIII) considering the X-plorer one isn't wireless.I'd guess somewhere between $30-$40. Maybe. It would ultimately be cheaper to just get GHIII with the guitar, I believe.
Also, because of this, I managed to hop back on Guitar Hero II. I managed to get 400k on a song and get a 1000 note streak (FINALLY!). Right now, I'm trying to work on 5-starring all songs on Hard. Only about 10 or so to go, I believe.

I'll probably hop on Gears to get the Annex achievement.

[nemesis121]

Was playing COD4 but the game got Boring...........so i went back to Guildwars:Eye of the North.

[dork]

i've been messing around with super metroid but i really gotta go back and finish the fight.

[curryking1]

Street Fighter III! And Super Mario World 2 - Yoshi's Island!

I was able to play for a truly amazing 1 hour yesterday...

^There is something on your face...

[Fillibuster]

I'm playing COD4 online. But I borrowed my roomates NCAA2008 and I'm playing through a season on that now. Messing around with beating COD4 on Vet (first playthrough was on Hard) and then I think I'm going to go back to Uncharted and try to find all the treasures. TGI winter break!

[err_ok]

Pirates of the burning sea..... aaamazing

[the poe collector]

I played through about 10 sidequests in a row for Mass Effect and just when I was about to go back to the main story another one pops up.

fuckigndoslflwefcdshits

[koten]

Devil May Cry. Giving the PS2 some of the love it was deprived during it's younger days.

[woundingchaney]

Witcher, Timeshift

Dont bother with Timeshift.

[the poe collector]

I finished playing Mass Effect today. I'll probably play through it again and make different choices to see what changes in the story.

There's minor stuff to bitch about like textures loading late or the exploration getting repetitive towards the end of the game, but I love most everything.

Playing this makes me want a new KOTOR and Jade Empire even moreso than I did before.

[err_ok]

I finished playing Mass Effect today. I'll probably play through it again and make different choices to see what changes in the story.

There's minor stuff to bitch about like textures loading late or the exploration getting repetitive towards the end of the game, but I love most everything.

Playing this makes me want a new KOTOR and Jade Empire even moreso than I did before.

^ i Love bioware.. not so much since NWN II but still they're a cool company.

I'm playing;
Command & Conquer III (PC)
Pirates of the Burning Sea (PC - beta)
Tie Fighter (DOS)
Two Worlds (PC)

[HolyPaladin]

I haven't been by here in a while, I don't think.

I'm presently still piddling around in Sega Rally Revo (360), and a while back played through Super Mario Galaxy (Wii, of course), and before that played Two Worlds (360). I'm getting several games for Christmas, so of course I'll be moving on in a week and a half, but until then it looks like more rally racing for me.

[curryking1]

Recent games I have played....

Uncharted - Drake's Fortune
Call of Duty 4
Crysis
Burnout Paradise Demo

[masteratt]

Zombie Master MOD 3.1.1 (http://www.zombiemaster.org/)

It's the best damn zombie game until Left4Dead comes out.

I love Steam and it's ease of use and finding mods and everything so easy and FREE.

And they are doing everything Microsoft Live is doing to fight Microsoft's monopolistic ways!
GO STEAM! Choo-chooooooo

[HPK]

I finally gave into my urge and bought Mass Effect. I figured I was going to buy it at some point. Why not now? I already postponed that buy a month anyway.

But yeah, I've been playing Mass Effect. A lot of it. I'm not as far as I should be (considering I've restarted the game countless amounts of times for one friggin' achievement), but I'm really enjoying this game. Here's to multiple play-throughs.:thumbl:

[woundingchaney]

Gears - pc

Assassin's Creed - 360 (really enjoying it)

[Shadow Voa]

Super Mario Galaxy (9.8/10)
Assassins Creed (9.4/10)
Fire Emblem: Goddess of Dawn (9.5/10)
Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles (9.0/10)

These Holiday games are the best Ive had!!!

[the poe collector]

A friend of mine let me borrow NCAA Football 08 and I've been playing that a bit. I thought I was hot shit beating the computer by around 40 points every game, but once I played online I was quickly humbled.

I'm making progress.

[err_ok]

Mario Galaxy

Me loves it

[TrueVCU]

Phoenix Wright: Trials and Tribulations (DS)
Assassin's Creed (PS3)

Tis a good xmas ^_^

[koten]

Devil May Cry 3.

Easily the best of the franchise so far.

[HolyPaladin]

I was going to jump into Mass Effect, but I decided to get The Simpsons Game out of the way first, so that's what I'm into at this time. I figured I'd get the short game out of the way first before sinking a lot of time into Mass Effect.

[speed stick]

Have been playing Mass Effect for the past week. Finally borrowed it from the roommate. I have to say its definitely an awesome game. Much better then I imagined. Just kinda a piss off when you forget to save and the autosave doesn't happen for some reason.

[Shadow19]

Guitar Hero III (Wii) I love this game. Playing online is fun. I'm trying to get better on Hard.
Super Mario Galaxy (Wii) This game is really FUN. Another great Mario game.
Zach & Wiki (Wii) I just started this game yesterday, So far it's good.

[the poe collector]

Rock Band

I also got Super Mario Galaxy for Christmas, but I've just been playing this for the past few days.

[Fats]

Drakes Fortune, just finished it actually. Good stuff. Going to go though it on hard now. Started to play Sega Rally Revo as well.

[D3adcell]

Ace Combat 6 - Just got it, really a lot of fun. My first ace combat game and its really enjoyable, I hope they release the flight sticks separate from the bundle.

Final Fantasy 3 DS - Great game, they should remake more of the FF games. I know they are redoing 4 but I already have it on SNES and GBA, don't know if i will be buying that.

Call of Duty 4 - Best multiplayer game released this year, or on next gen systems in general.

Super Mario Galaxy - A lot of fun, everything you would expect from a mario game, but more.

Rock Band - This game is just fun, better then guitar hero becuase of all the instruments. Been playing it off and on.

The Orange Box - Some fun games, but so far not as great as I thought it would be.

Then in between all of that, contra 4 and zelda phantom hourglass.

[TomTom456]

I just bought Zelda: Phantom Hourglass yesterday, and I really like it so far.

[HPK]

Mass Effect. I almost got the game conquered. I'm still at the beginning of my playthrough on Insanity, but it shouldn't prove to be too difficult.

Rock Band. I gave in and bought the whole set. The problem: It would seem that most of friends rather not play it now and I can't find anyone else who wants to start up a band. Sheesh.

[HolyPaladin]

I'm about to start Mass Effect this afternoon.

[Zer0-Sum]

Crysis, Uncharted, Ratchet & Clank:Tools of Destruction, Castlevania: Symphony of The Night, Wild Arms, and Oblivion.

[HPK]

Rock Band, for the multiplayer.

Call of Duty 4, which surprised me. Multiplayer is awesome.

Metal Slug 3. Hell yeah!

[TrueVCU]

Warhawk, best online multiplayer experience this side of TF2 \o/

[the poe collector]

I'm not very far into Super Mario Galaxy, but from what I've played it's really fun.

[dork]

i just started silent hill origins. scary stuff.

[koten]

I'm playing Shinobi for PS2. This game isn't hard. It's downright cruel. The bosses are unforgiving, there is a constant threat of falling to your death, the enemies are savage and it's just down right infuriating. I have a fourth of the game left and I dread what's left in store.

[speed stick]

Beat Mass Effect.

Now onto Switchball. An Xbox live arcade game. Decent so far, preferred MarbleBlast ultra honestly.

[masteratt]

Heavenly Sword

Best game on the PS3 I've played and yes I've played Uncharted.
Uncharted to me was Gears Of War with better story/ characters and settings.

Heavenly Sword is unique.
Has great combat and combo system, very well presented story (which is written better than Uncharted I think, better characters and more 'adult' dialogue that match the mood and make it amusing), much better game design and bosses and also as a plus it makes great use of the Sixaxis.

when I saw video reviews of this game and heard you controlled cannons/ arrows with Sixaxis I thought "oh here we go, they tacked it on in another game" Well luckily I was wrong and it's not tacked on, it works perfectly.
The only flaw is the sections are a bit too long and my wrists get tired. :p

So this game is amazing so far and is by far my favourite PS3 game.

9/10.
I'll end by saying: Almost God Of War like epicness.

[Gummy]

Bomberman for xbox, lol its fun.

[Zeep]

been playing Team Fortress 2 a lot lately. also RE: umbrella chronicles and Guitar Hero 3 on and off.

[bobo_ess]

front mission

[dementia]

skate., Dead Rising and Metal Slug 3 XBLA

[speed stick]

Got Project Gotham Racing 4 in the mail yesterday. Started playing it today. Loving every moment of it.

[OG_Monkey]

I'm playing Shinobi for PS2. This game isn't hard. It's downright cruel. The bosses are unforgiving, there is a constant threat of falling to your death, the enemies are savage and it's just down right infuriating. I have a fourth of the game left and I dread what's left in store.

Oh my god thank you! I thought it was just me! That game is the game that goes on the "Makes me cry" list. Its ridiculously hard

The checkpoints are a bitch, the stupid sword eating your health is a bitch so you gotta be quick, the PLATFORMING IS INSANE and when you fall i wanna kill the developers, especially the water level. I dunno if you there yet but MAN.

But its still an awesome game no doubt, i love it. Id love it more if it hasnt been 5 years since i got it and still have not been able to beat it. EVEN WITH ACTION REPLAY MAX! The problem isnt dying, not fighting, its the stupid platforming!

lol, "games that make me cry". Yep, this is one of them.

[masteratt]

Warhawk

Finished Heavenly Sword and Uncharted and they don't really how much replay value unfortunately so I got stuck into Warhawk.

This for me has to be one of the best multiplayer games to grace online gaming in any format.
I still can't believe it was a £20 PSN game, I would pay full price for this, the value you get out of it is ridiculously good.

Tank/ on foot/ jeep/ Warhawk/ sentry weapons...All the places you battle in, they made it perfect and amazingly balanced in every way.
You can't catch a cheating break.

Even in a masterful online game like CS: S, there are one or two places in a map where you can be with a specific weapon to take great advantage, but not in Warhawk.
It's a "give all and take all" kind of battle game and it's absolutely thrilling.

I thought that putting mines on top of a warhawk spawn point so that everytime someone takes off, they blow up was one of those tactics until I discovered you can just shoot and blow up the mines lol and other than that, nothing caught my attention in a negative way.

The community has been very kind so far as well.

I really should give it a 10.......hm...yeah I guess I should, it really doesn't have any flaws, even each map is crafter to perfection.

The only flaw obviously is if you don't enjoy these kind of games but Warhawk has so many aspects and so many different ways to approach a battle I would suggest picking it up for it's cheap price.

10/10!! (my first!)

[koten]

Oh my god thank you! I thought it was just me! That game is the game that goes on the "Makes me cry" list. Its ridiculously hard

The checkpoints are a bitch, the stupid sword eating your health is a bitch so you gotta be quick, the PLATFORMING IS INSANE and when you fall i wanna kill the developers, especially the water level. I dunno if you there yet but MAN.

But its still an awesome game no doubt, i love it. Id love it more if it hasnt been 5 years since i got it and still have not been able to beat it. EVEN WITH ACTION REPLAY MAX! The problem isnt dying, not fighting, its the stupid platforming!

lol, "games that make me cry". Yep, this is one of them.I've been playing this game in a manner that is very unique for me. It involves playing the same level again and again until I memorize the exact placement of enemies and the layout of everything around me. I have one level and one boss left to fight, and I must say... I'm legitimatly scared of trying it. I have set aside 3, yes, 3 hours to play (and get upset over) this game.

[the poe collector]

excuse my ignorance, but is Shinobi tougher than Ninja Gaiden?

[FoeHammer]

Call of Duty 4
Rockband
gonna start a new Mass Effect file soon

[koten]

excuse my ignorance, but is Shinobi tougher than Ninja Gaiden?I've never played Ninja Gaiden, but Shinobi is maddeningly difficult. I will end up playing Ninja gaiden Sigma sometime this year, so I'll give you more input on that later.

I did manage to beat this game though. The last level took me 5 minutes. The boss took me an hour and a half.

[the poe collector]

Hmm... I might just go ahead and buy it soon. I haven't played a really tough game in a while.

Thank you for your time.

[HPK]

Hahaha, I remember playing Shinobi for the PS2. I thought it was going to be another simple game about a ninja kicking some ass. Instead, I was met with an absurd amount of frustration. I mean, holy shit---the game is vicious as hell. As for it being more challenging than Ninja Gaiden....well, I had trouble with both games. They're both challengining for different reasons. Shinobi has that lovely "let's take away your health" system, which really blows if you're stuck on a platoforming part. It also has some pretty mean boss fights (but the Giant Tiger Spider was awesome). Ninja Gaiden seemed more unforgiving to me. The boss fights were also hard, but I always had to keep track of my items. I think I restarted the game three times because I kept running out of items at the wrong time. When I'm halfway through the game and when had to restart because I had 50% health, no healing items, and had to fight two worms with no long-range weapons....yeah, it sucked.

Anyway, here's what I've been playing lately:

Call of Duty 4. I'm trying to get through various levels on Veteran, and it's pissing me off. I'm hating how the game seems almost too damn scripted. I can't exactly pick off enemies from a distance since they'll keep respawning. If I get closer, a bunch will appear from no where and rape me. It's upsetting. The multiplayer is still pretty cool, though. I'm at level 34.

Rock Band. This game is a bitch to play online considering XBL has been acting stupid. In the meantime, I've been trying to go through the solo careers. I managed to beat vocals on Medium (barely, mind you) and I'm almost done with guitar on Expert. Of course, like in the Guitar Hero games, when playing on Expert I can get through most of the songs except for the very last one. Then I'm stuck for a long time. So, I'm absolutely hating "Green Grass & High Tides." I got 80% through the song before the constant hammer-ons and pull-offs got me. Stupid fucking repetitive guitar parts...

Mass Effect: I haven't played on my own file in a long time. I've mostly been helping and playing through for my girlfriend. She's liking the game a lot, but she doesn't like doing various things (like driving, or attacking freakishly large enemies).

[Hisham]

I just got Rock Band for the 360 so I guess I'll be playing that for awhile.

[koten]

Nightshade. The sequal to Shinobi. Slightly less impossible than it's predicessor, but still vicious.

[OG_Monkey]

excuse my ignorance, but is Shinobi tougher than Ninja Gaiden?

It isnt exactly TOUGHER. The difficulty goes to Ninja Gaiden. Its not that Shinobi is tough, its just insanely impossible to get the platforming down and your health goes down constantly and its just fuckin annoying to the point of frustration.

Hahaha, I remember playing Shinobi for the PS2. I thought it was going to be another simple game about a ninja kicking some ass. Instead, I was met with an absurd amount of frustration. I mean, holy shit---the game is vicious as hell. As for it being more challenging than Ninja Gaiden....well, I had trouble with both games. They're both challengining for different reasons. Shinobi has that lovely "let's take away your health" system, which really blows if you're stuck on a platoforming part. It also has some pretty mean boss fights (but the Giant Tiger Spider was awesome). Ninja Gaiden seemed more unforgiving to me. The boss fights were also hard, but I always had to keep track of my items. I think I restarted the game three times because I kept running out of items at the wrong time. When I'm halfway through the game and when had to restart because I had 50% health, no healing items, and had to fight two worms with no long-range weapons....yeah, it sucked.



haha yea, spider boss was awesome, all the boss battles were awesome...at tleast the ones could finish >_>

Nightshade. The sequal to Shinobi. Slightly less impossible than it's predicessor, but still vicious.

I always wanted to pick that up....

[koten]

If you liked Shinobi, it is absolutly worth it. That and the fact that you can find it for $10 on ebay (shipping included) you might as well.

I've worked my way to Marvel Ultimate Alliance. It's essentially X-men Legends with a different coat of paint, but that's basically what I expected.

[HPK]

^Yeah, M:UA is just another X-Men Legends game, but for some reason, I liked M:UA so much more.

As for what I've been playing:

Call of Duty 4. Still going through the game on Veteran, but this time with moderate success! I was trying to do some free-for-all multiplayer last night, but my internet connection kept crapping out of me. It's only bad because I was winning.

Rock Band. I finally beat Green Grass & High Tides on Expert guitar! WOO! I also picked up the drums for a bit...and realized singing on Expert is harder than expected :(

UNO. This game is fucking awesome with 4 people. It's intense.

DOOM. 4 player co-op is cool, but the lag wasn't.

Gears of War. Played this for a few hours last night. Kept me up until farkin' 6:30 this morning. I've also learned that I pretty much suck with all power weapons now. Minus the Hammer of Dawn.

Mass Effect. Playing through on my file on the Insanity difficulty. I'm trying to get the remaining achievements, but the game is proving to be too evil (I don't like my party). I'll probably just restart on Insanity with a better party (and me being a Vanguard again) and save the other achievements for a different file (on Casual).