What are you playing right now?

[Loony BoB]

Have pretty much decided on the three games I'll play, and have already completed the campaign of Halo: Reach with smittenkitten at my side. It was really fun, I have to say, although I'm unsure if I prefer it to Halo 3. There were bits of both games I would have liked to see in the other. Great fun regardless.

Batman: Arkham Asylum is also great fun. I'm really enjoying myself and looking forward to times when I can game on my own. But over the past couple of days, most of my time has been spent on...

Final Fantasy VII on the PSP, as I want to replay it before I play FFVII: Crisis Core. Danielle is also playing the game on the PS3, so yay for mutual nostalgia.

[Madame Adequate]

Probably because it feels like nothing but a medieval fantasy theme mod for either games

If it felt like a mod, it'd be great :p

[G13]

Probably because it feels like nothing but a medieval fantasy theme mod for either games

It's mostly the characters. None of them, so far, are remotely interesting. After one conversation with each I used up all the options. Nothing new presents itself. And I absolutely hate Allistair! No, hatred isn't enough. I megahate this smurfer. Everything about him offends me.

The other reasons as to why this game is :bou::bou::bou::bou: are a mystery to me.

[Brunettepudding]

FEAR. For some reason, I never played it. Very good so far.
Final Fantasy VII, as well.
Ohh, and Dragon Age: Origins.

[Project G]

Fallout 3 (Still)
Fable 3 (Still)

[Elskidor]

War of the Lions

[Loony BoB]

Finished the story & riddler stuff for Batman: Arkham Asylum, hoping to work on the challenges at some point this week. Otherwise still slowly but surely moving along with Final Fantasy VII on the PSP and considering what co-op game I'm more likely to play next with Danielle - Splinter Cell: Conviction or continue with Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light. Probably will depend on our mood at the time.

[Project G]

Knights of the Crystals on facebook.........

[DMKA]

I'm replaying Uncharted: Drake's Fortune. Last time I played it was before it had trophy support. :p

[escobert]

My buddy brought over his moded xbox so we've been playing lots of mario and The Legend of Zelda!

[Wolf Kanno]

Final Fantasy XII and loving every minute of it. :D

[verjesh1]

Now I am playing my favorite game "Need for speed" such a great entertainment game there are many levels and every levels is more enjoyable then first levels. Every day I play that with my friends.

[Project G]

Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow

[Pete for President]

Giving MAG a try before going back to playing through MGS 1 till 4. Currently working on MGS3, only MGS4 to go.

[G13]

Shadowgate 64. :monster:

[Levian]

Alternating between Donkey Kong Returns, Epic Mickey, Eternal Darkness, Black Mirror and Goldeneye.

Not sure if I have the passion to finish any of them though. :D Struggling to find a game I really enjoy playing without having to resort to re-playing. :p

[Project G]

Songbird lol

[Elite Lord Sigma]

I'm playing through Mass Effect for the third time with Kaidan and Garrus; I'm about to go to Virmire. My next playthrough with Wrex and Tali is going to be on Insanity difficulty and will be the one I transfer to the second game. Then I just need to quickly play through as an Engineer to wrap up the last few achievements for the game.

After that, I'm starting Silent Hill: Homecoming.

[Shattered Dreamer]

Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion :bigsmile:

[kotora]

FFT War of the lions on PSP and it's pretty damn addictive

[The Summoner of Leviathan]

PSP: Persona 3 Portable
DS: Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light
PC: Mass Effect 2

[Pete for President]

Killzone 2. I'm surprised, it's the first game I ever played that makes fun use of the sixaxis controller. Good times.

[Roogle]

I am currently playing through Lufia & The Fortress of Doom (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lufia_%26_the_Fortress_of_Doom). I love this game a lot and I occasionally come back to play it every few years.

[Shattered Dreamer]

I am currently playing through Lufia & The Fortress of Doom (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lufia_%26_the_Fortress_of_Doom). I love this game a lot and I occasionally come back to play it every few years.

I'm gonna have to look this game up sounds pretty awesome!

[Roogle]

I'm gonna have to look this game up sounds pretty awesome!

You may know the game for its sequel, Lufia II: The Rise of the Sinistrals which details the events that happen in the prologue of Lufia & The Fortress of Doom. The two games are in reverse chronological order: Lufia & The Fortress of Doom takes place 99 years after the events of the second game despite being released years earlier. Its unpolished nature tends to make it less liked than its sequel which is considered one of the better Super Nintendo games.

[DMKA]

God of War II on god mode.

This is so frustrating to me at times I can't even imagine playing on titan mode.

[NorthernChaosGod]

God of War II on god mode.

This is so frustrating to me at times I can't even imagine playing on titan mode.

I had to step in and help my brother in God of War III against Hades and it was on Hard. I don't want to think about higher. :(

[Depression Moon]

God of War II on god mode.

This is so frustrating to me at times I can't even imagine playing on titan mode.

Yeah I told you (I think I had posted a thread about my review on GoWII) about my first playthrough with the game on hard. You really feel tempted to put the game on easy don't you? But at the same time its insulting. Is god mode hard mode or higher?


Me? I'm playing K Superstar.

[Wolf Kanno]

Taking a break from my PS3 and Wii as well as my PSP...

SNES: Chrono Trigger - Coming to the revelation this may in fact be my favorite JRPG of all time. I'm already at Zeal. :cool:

PS1: Chrono Cross - Wow this hasn't aged well... not in terms of tech but lord I use to think this game was better than this. I kinda forgot how often every character including NPCs will out of nowhere talk about man's impact on the planet of whether we are truly accountable for the actions that we may have taken from the infinite possibilities that existence has given us and how we are both inferior and superior beings for drifting on the river of time and the quantum theory... I don't remember this game being so... pretentious. :confused:

GBA: Golden Sun 1 - Trying to finish it and lo and behold only in the 11th hour does the game finally remember it has a plot. It finally picked up in Colosso and now I'm staring at the final dungeon... joy. I will never fathom how this series got it's following. Maybe the Lost Ages will correct all the problems.

[escobert]

A buddy got me Battlefield Bad Company 2 so I've been playing that. It's nice to play Battlefield games again :D

[Flying Arrow]

Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion :bigsmile:

I resumed my character for a bit, too: a Bosmer stealth/archer/mage/vampire.

But more often I've been popping in Just Cause 2. Perhaps the guiltiest pleasure around, but my goodness is it fun.

[Loony BoB]

Minecraft.

Just.... aaaaaaaaaaarrrrrgh.

Minecraft.

[Jessweeee♪]

I'm playing through FFVII so I can finally mess around with the debug rooms! It's so much fun. I think I might try out FFVIII's next.

[Bolivar]

PS3 - White Knight Chronicles, Gran Turismo 5, Call of Duty Black Ops, it's an incredible back-n-forth between these.

PSP - Valkyria Chronicles 2, Gran Turismo - another great RPG/racing combo

bout to hop back in the Killzone 3 open MP beta, soooo much fun

[edczxcvbnm]

Dead Space 2 - This game sucks as a survival HORROR game
Fallout New Vegas - All achievements have been obtained...I am now murdering everyone in the Mojave. There shall be no survivors.
Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga - Slowly making my way through this two part series.

[Casey]

Currently playing: Borderlands: Game of the Year Edition.


I like how it's FPS with RPG elements.

[Madonna]

I bought Dead Rising 2 to kill zombies. The nail bat is my current best friend ever.

I play Black Ops to kill zombies in as well. The First Strike map pack has been worth it.

If you like to kill zombies, hit me up when you see me. We can kill zombies together.

[kotora]

We can kill zombies together if you get L4D

[Jessweeee♪]

Phantasy Star Portable. It's exactly like the other two Phantasy Star Universe games, complete with the inability to pause. I do like how PP on melee weapons charge when you hit something, and PP on guns and wands charge much more quickly than before. It makes being a Force or Ranger actually fun. New weapon classes are kind of a mixed bag. It adds more variety, but also more restrictions. Okay, I guess!

Things I wish they would change in Story Mode:
I WANT TO BE ABLE TO PAUSE THE GAME
More Type variety in my allies. There is one Force character. Everyone else is a Hunter. No Rangers. Being a Ranger yourself is pointless because your party members stick with you, therefore the enemy charges right up to your face. You can't keep a good distance. It's best to just be a Hunter or Force with a gun handy for flying enemies.

[Depression Moon]

I'm going to start on Super Mario Bros. 1 today and might continue my first playthrough on Diablo II tomorrow.

[Rase]

I picked up Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War II + Chaos Rising in a THQ sale over the weekend. I am so very pleased.

[NeoCracker]

Playing through Agarest War now, getting some of the different generation endings I missed, and eventually I'm going to run a game to get the True end path. :p

[Nifleheim7]

Gran Turismo 5 and Broken Sword Shadow of the Templars DS.
GT5 is a great game but not really up to Polyphony's standards.:/

[Skyblade]

Several games right now, actually.

Primarily, I'd say Persona 3 Portable, but I'm also playing some Dissidia, Pokemon HeartGold, and Mass Effect 2.

[DMKA]

God of War III on Titan mode. Honestly it wasn't that hard until the last hour or so and now it feels masochistic.

[Loony BoB]

I've finished Final Fantasy VII now. Have done a bit of Final Fantasy XIV (maybe a few hours) and Splinter Cell: Conviction, but most of my current time is spent on Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core. Really enjoying it so far! :)

[Jiro]

I usually avoid these threads because I never focus on a single game, but lately I've been playing a lot of Fallout: New Vegas. My girlfriend has been playing Red Dead Redemption so I've been helping there too. Once she's done, we'll both move onto Undead Nightmare. Looking forward to some zombie action!

[Vyk]

Just ended my rental period on Mass Effect 2. Loving that game a lot. Need to buy it now that its less than $20. Conversation wheel has critically failed me at least twice though. I really really hope they get better at that with Dragon Age 2 and Mass Effect 3. I hate not being able to trust the options at hand and they turn out to be completely different from how they sound

[Wolf Kanno]

MGS4, finally getting a replay of this and regretting I didn't start it on a higher difficulty cause I've been breezing through this game. I only started a few days ago and I'm already at Shadow Moses.

Went back to some Fallout 3 but I'm quickly learning I prefer playing this game casually. Its not often I play a game for several hours and feel like I've accomplished very little. With the exception of DeathClaws there is pretty much nothing in this game that can pose as a challenge for me which has made a majority of the game feel like silly fetch quests at this point.

I'm hoping to finally start playing some MGS: Peace Walker and P3P soon, I've been putting both these games off for some time now. I also picked up GoW Collection and hope that age and not playing DMC for a few years will make these games feel more appealing.

[Jessweeee♪]

Finished Phantasy Star Portable and now I'm on to Phantasy Star Portable 2! And finally there is some change. I mean, not a lot. But compared to every other entry in the Phantasy Star Universe collection...


However, I still can't pause the game.

[thomaspaul]

I am playing PC game. My favorite game is Call Of Duty MW 4. It is shooter game. I am fan of this game.

[Jiro]

I polished off most of Fallout: New Vegas so I'm moving onto Assassin's Creed II. I had only two feathers left to find to basically max it out, but that's a bitch to do so now I'm going through from scratch.

[Vyk]

Well I finally bought Dead Space after renting it a couple weeks ago, extremely late. And totally fell in love with it, and bought it online for $20. Also go Alan Wake on a hunch that I'd enjoy and it'd totally be worth $20 itself. Only had like 3 hours left in Dead Space, but its one of those games I just want in my collection. And it was totally worth it. I'll be pimping that game out to friends a time or two. And Alan Wake did not disappoint me. I know a lot of other people weren't impressed with it, but I loved it. I'm extremely behind on gaming xD Gotta order Mass Effect 2 next, since its $20 as well now ... >_>

[Jiro]

Figured out you can see where you were missing the feathers from, a welcome addition, so I'm all done with Assassin's Creed II. To further my binge I've hired out AC:Brotherhood, but I've also been playing Star Ocean: The Last Hope.

[Bunny]

The Legend of Dragoon and Minecraft.

[Iceglow]

With the recent death of my 360 and my temporary status of not having a major console to bitch out some noobs on and with the completion (finally) of the SC2 campaign. I'm playing Final Fantasy XII again trying this time not to lose my patience and thus to finally complete it :)

[DMKA]

Enslaved: Odyssey to the West

I'm loving it so far. It's based on the same Chinese novel as Dragon Ball and it's neat to see some of the similarities between the two as the game progresses.

[Jentleness]

I really need to finish FFXII...

[JKTrix]

I'm on break this week, so I'm binging on some new and old games!

New: Tactics Ogre! Dragon Quest 6! Marvel vs Capcom 3 (though I will probably send my rental back pretty soon)! Tomorrow or the day after I should have Radiant Historia!

Old: Starcraft 2! Golden Sun! and a little bit of Typing of the Dead!

[Dreddz]

As of right now I am playing Codename Tenka. Which will then be followed by Loaded.

You would think going back to these old PS1 games would be a chore but I am having a lot of fun. So much fun in fact that its made me put off fixing my PS3 for the time being. I really need to get around to that. Killzone 3 being the biggest reason.

[Shoeberto]

MGS4, finally getting a replay of this and regretting I didn't start it on a higher difficulty cause I've been breezing through this game. I only started a few days ago and I'm already at Shadow Moses.
Yeah, MGS4 is an interesting beast in that regard. If you play it as a run-and-gun you can get through it pretty fast. But in doing that, you end up ignoring all the other fun toys they give you that encourage stealth.

I'm playing Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, which is fabulous, though the shoot-outs get kind of annoying. Too many guys that just pop out of nowhere and take a bajillion shots to take out. I'm also playing Red Faction Guerrilla, which is quite fun, but can get frustrating with how enemies just spawn infinitely right on top of you whenever you get an alert. Still, blowing stuff up is a blast.

[Jiro]

I'm playing Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, which is fabulous, though the shoot-outs get kind of annoying. Too many guys that just pop out of nowhere and take a bajillion shots to take out. I'm also playing Red Faction Guerrilla, which is quite fun, but can get frustrating with how enemies just spawn infinitely right on top of you whenever you get an alert. Still, blowing stuff up is a blast.

I agree with these sentiments completely.

[Wolf Kanno]

MGS4, finally getting a replay of this and regretting I didn't start it on a higher difficulty cause I've been breezing through this game. I only started a few days ago and I'm already at Shadow Moses.
Yeah, MGS4 is an interesting beast in that regard. If you play it as a run-and-gun you can get through it pretty fast. But in doing that, you end up ignoring all the other fun toys they give you that encourage stealth.

I have for the most part been pretty stealthy outside of a few points where getting directly involved with the natives was more to my advantage. Honestly, I feel the combat mechanics weaken the stealth aspect cause it forgets the fundamental driving force that makes stealth work, which has always been immediate consequences. Being docked a higher rank and losing out on a few novelty items is not much of an incentive to care about getting caught when you can easily dispatch a battalion of soldiers with little effort.

I still hold to some of my original thoughts on gameplay for MGS4. In it's efforts to make combat more accessible and not as clumsy, the game has accidentally undermined the greatest part of the series which was the stealth. Not only is it too easy in some parts, but I really don't care about getting caught anymore cause it doesn't mean imminent death like it did in the past titles. There are no real consequences anymore, and so I feel the game lost something valuable for me at least.

I started P3P and am having a blast with the girls' scenario. The game re-uses a lot of things from P4 but has at least fixed most of the elements that made the dungeon crawling part of gameplay lackluster in P4.

[Rostum]

I am playing Crisis Core (haven't played since it was released, even then I rushed through it). Then I'll play FF7 which I haven't touched since at least 2002 or so. Then I'll watch Advent Children Complete, and maybe consider Dirge of Cerberus though I'm very hesitant.

I guess what triggered this is I saw FF7 on PSN and decided I really wanted to play it again on my PS3. :)

[Roogle]

I am currently playing through Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together for the PSP. The graphics remain mostly unchanged, but the gameplay has changed drastically, and the new localization makes me feel like I am playing a completely revised game. This is how I think remakes of video games should be!

[ScottyRedXIII]

since hearing that Dragon age 2 was to be i decided to play through number one again...... forgot how good it actually is

[Chris]

Currently making my way through the Longest Journey for the first time in many years, and I'm savouring each and every single moment of it. Taking my time to listen to all of the conversations. I forgot just how indescribably good this game was.

I'm currently wasting time on Pokémon Silver Soul, until the English versions of Black and White are released next Friday.

[Iceglow]

My time to play games is limited due to work. Therefore I'm still sitting in Barheim Passage on FF12 (first visit there, just a couple of screens to the mimic queen)

I have however begun playing Guild Wars again. Considering I tend to get very bloody bored after an hour or two or decide I don't like the character look/feel anymore I keep restarting characters. I've chosen to do a warrior on this current attempt. The thing what annoys me most in a way is the dual job classes...god sakes give me 1 job class and stick with it, fuck having secondary jobs let me just focus on being a warrior or being a necromancer whatever. Or take a different approach I'm really getting sick of "Job class" rpg's atm. I really want to find something similar to the game I used to work on. Might have to dig out some old contacts see what they play now.

[Pete for President]

LBP2 and still working on finishing FFIX.

[Vyk]

Giving Fallout: New Vegas a try. And damn it Obsidian, stop taking notes from Bethesda right now. This is way too much like Fallout 3. Its so spacious and boring. I feel more like I'm just killing time viewing a pretty waseland than I am playing a game. Fallout 3 and Oblivion made me feel the same way. Just wandering around, taking in the sights, talking to locals. Occasionally sometimes having to murder something/someone

[Casey]

Mass Effect 2, really good game.

[Depression Moon]

I want to get FFXIII but I'm unsure about spending money on something I might not like. Is it possible that i can buy it from Gamestop and return for a full refund if I don't like it. It usually takes me a month to beat a Final Fantasy.

[Jiro]

I'm playing Final Fantasy XIII also, after Star Ocean: The Last Hope threw me a screwball and I got my ass handed to me. Screw grinding, I'll play something else. I'm in Chapter 11 of FF13 and just cruised into Oerba for the first time. It was a challenge getting the hang of the mechanics again, but at least now I can enjoy my corridors again.

You probably could polish it off in a month Depression Moon, so it'd be worth a shot if you could get your money back.

[Roogle]

I want to get FFXIII but I'm unsure about spending money on something I might not like. Is it possible that i can buy it from Gamestop and return for a full refund if I don't like it. It usually takes me a month to beat a Final Fantasy.

You can read about the Return Policy for Gamestop.com and its stores here: Gamestop.com Return Policy (http://www.gamestop.com/gs/help/returns.aspx). Look at the bottom of the page to find the return policy for the actual stores.

[Unbreakable Will]

I'm playing through Nier again but this time I'm going to pay closer attention to the storyline and music :) I absolutely fell in love with the soundtrack and listen to it online quite frequently.

[Wolf Kanno]

I've given up on Fallout 3, for now. This game is looking to be something a toy with when I'm really bored. Finished MGS4 as well, beautiful game.

Went back to Mirror's Edge for a little while and probably going to give Valkyrie Chronicles another shot soon. For the Wii, I've mostly decided to get back to FFIV the After Years (almost finished with Rydia's chapter and going to start Yang's soon) and get in a little Capcom vs. Tatsunoko as well.

Taking a break from the DS for the moment but will shortly be returning for some MegaTen love. For the PSP, P3Portable is my main game though I might try to finish P1 as well. Once P3P is over, it's on to MGS Peace Walker unless Dissidia Duodecim has been released by then. I also hope to eventually get a new Memory stick for some Xenogears/Front Mission 3 portable play.

For the PS2, I've gone back to regular DDR marathons sessions. I've currently discovered DDR Extreme 2 which surprisingly features several former arcade exclusive tracks like Butterfly, Cartoon Heroes Speedy Mix, and one I can't even pronounce but love. It also features several old school tracks that have been missing since the games jumped to PS2 like Dynamite Rave. I'm having a nostalgic orgasm. :love:

Beyond DDR, I'm finishing up another playthrough of SMTIII:Nocturne before I start Digital Devil Saga. I'm also looking towards finishing FFII (FFOrigins) though I'm near the point where I'm just maxing out spells... and starting and finishing a playthrough of Front Mission 4. I also have been itching for a marathon through Wild ARMS 1 & 2 lately but my plate is a bit fool at the moment.

[Vyk]

I want to get FFXIII but I'm unsure about spending money on something I might not like. Is it possible that i can buy it from Gamestop and return for a full refund if I don't like it. It usually takes me a month to beat a Final Fantasy.

You can read about the Return Policy for Gamestop.com and its stores here: Gamestop.com Return Policy (http://www.gamestop.com/gs/help/returns.aspx). Look at the bottom of the page to find the return policy for the actual stores.

I've heard many-a-tale of woe from people trying to legitimately return something, and only being offered store credit for the game's price, not a full refund. I rarely say this, considering I hate the place with a seething fiery passion. But for this one instance, you may want to consider Walmart. They're pretty well known for refunding anything. Even if you lose the receipt you may get a refund, or at least store credit

[Skyblade]

Currently still working P3P, but I am hoping to finish soon and pick up Radiant Historia. Stupid Atlus and their 300 hour games. After both of those, Dissidia Duodecim will definitely be out, and following that, Pokemon B/W. So I've got a fairly full schedule of games.

[CloudNyne]

Currently I'm restarting FF 13 and try to 100% it with all the ultima weapons and stuff. I'm mainly wasting time for FF 13-2, Elder scrolls V and taking a short break from MLG.So anyways what games are you playing at the moment?

[Skyblade]

Back to Persona 3 Portable. Nearing the end, but my perfectionism is getting annoying as I fuse and re-fuse Personae over and over to get ones with great skill setups.

[Dreddz]

Being without a PS3 has made me catch up on the PSP games I missed. I recently bought FFIV: The Complete Collection, Dissidia 012 and Valkyria Chronicles 2. Played a few hours of FFIV but I decided to focus on Dissidia 012 instead which has consumed most of my time. Once I'm done with that Ill go back to FFIV and then to Valkyria Chronicles 2 which I haven't played yet.

Feel bad for neglecting my PSP. Its a pretty sweet system.

[Jiro]

Merged these threads up for you guys.

I'm currently playing Just Cause 2 when I get a free chance, as well as Lord of the Rings Online with Guardian XIII and sometimes Agent Proto!

[Loony BoB]

Slowly chipping away at Final Fantasy XIV, working towards getting every crafting class to rank 20. Only weaver (19) and chef (13) to go!

Also have recently started Bayonetta, which I've found really good fun.

Oh, and I'm also playing Final Fantasy II on the PSP. It's... not that great. =| But I'm gonna finish it, dammit.

[Shattered Dreamer]

I'm on my second playthrough of Dragon Age Origins playing as a female elf rogue from the Denerim Alienage. I'm in the Fade again doing that annoying Circle Of Magi quest!

[Flying Arrow]

Lately, the same game I've been consistently playing since a year ago: Super Street Fighter IV. Though yesterday I started up a new character in Oblivion to go through the Shivering Isles expansion. I've never done it before and have heard great things (although I have watched my girlfriend do most of it).

Been considering for a while now playing through FFIX. Might get the started tonight, actually. I haven't played it since I joined this site, and since this place has more FFIX fans in one place than I've ever seen, I kind of want to re-check it out.

[Crop]

I've been replaying through FFVII, going for a perfect save and I've just got Emerald and Ruby to beat so I've been leveling up some materia. Kinda got bored of it for now I'll go back to it in a week.
I also reinstalled Shogun: Total War and started a campaign on that. I played a 2 hour battle for a provence with thousands of troops on each side and ended up losing by the skin of my teeth....what a waste of time.

[escobert]

Started a new game on Oblivion a few weeks ago. but, I've run into a bug and can't seem to fix it through the console. And it's with a mage guild quest so I can't advance in there anymore and thats making me very mad :mad2: Considering I have just finished the Crusader quests, Dark Brotherhood and the Fighter Guild, Have purchased all of the things I need for all of my houses and hideouts. I REALLY don't want to start over or go back to a earlier save :(

[Polnareff]

Legend of Kage 2. This is my first time playing it though I played the hell out of the original.

[NeoCracker]

Played quite a bit of Brink online today, it's actually very entertaining.

Engineer is probably my favorite class so far.

Quite a bit of Dark Cloud 2 as well.

[Wolf Kanno]

FFIV: The After Years, finally on the last set of chapters. Was also playing some Tatsunoko vs Capcom there for awhile as well and Demon's Souls. Kind of burnt out on FF right now so I may need to look for something else.

[Scotty_ffgamer]

I have currently started Final Fantasy VI for the first time. I decided I wanted to try to beat all of the Final Fantasies I have yet to beat, which includes all of the NES/SNES era games and XII.

I have also been playing Little King's Story with one of my good friends.

[NorthernChaosGod]

Super Smash Bros. Brawl and Melee. I decided to dust them off and I'm trying to pick my skills back up.

[Polnareff]

Now that I got a fourth PS2 memory card I'm finally gonna start playing Bujingai. :jess:

If I had FFVIII right now I'd be playing it instead.

[Rostum]

Mainly just Starcraft 2. I want to get ME1 and 2 for PC as well, I should grab them off Steam some time.

[VexNet]

on xbox360: Halo: REACH, DragonballZ: Burst Limit & Rock-Band3
on PS2: Final Fantasy VIII


side:] those are the game's I've actually played recently,
I've still got some DA1, ME2 and FFXIII saves to get through. then Enslaved & Dead-Space after that..

[movwills]

I like to play games online and console both.
Right now i am playing Street fighter, Crysis 2 and Call of duty...:D

[Loony BoB]

Final Fantasy II (still) for the most part but Danielle and I got Splinter Cell: Conviction out for a few hours on the weekend and went through the first multiplayer mission. Good fun.

[KentaRawr!]

Final Fantasy III. During the battle segments, I exercise. :3

[Shattered Dreamer]

LA Noire :bigsmile:

[Polnareff]

I'm about to either put in Halo 2 or Resident Evil 4.

Y'know, IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII.....think RE4 is the better choice for today. :V

[-JJ-]

Final Fantasy XII

Nothing the matter with Vaan, give the Orphan a break ^.^

[Shadowdust]

Other than my typical LOTRO routine, I've been playing The Witcher: Assassin of Kings. Quite an awesome game with a very mature storyline. It's nice to play "grown-up" games. :p

[NeoCracker]

Jumping back and forth from Might and Magic Heroes V (WHich I bought the day it came out, and just now do I have a computer that can play it), and Dark Cloud 2.

[Pheesh]

I just got my copy of Resonance of Fate, so I've been playing that. Been a while since I touched a non western RPG, and the learning curve on this game isn't helping.

Aside from that I absolutely play the crap out of my copy of MLB The Show 10, and also a lot of Battlefield Bad Company 2 online.

[Jiro]

ee, make sure you level all the weapon types for everyone. The game is ridiculously brutal for a long time. The amount of times I've died is embarrassing.

[Skyblade]

Playing League of Legends right now. Co-op only, of course. Quite fun, though I do wish you could earn points on unbalanced games. 4 players versus 5 bots should still get you IP. Harder than 5 on 5, and way more fun.

[Pheesh]

@dak: it's not so much that the game has been super hard yet, it's just that deciphering that tutorial is like learning to read Arabic. It took me like 20 retries before I realise that hero actions lower your Bezels, and it still doesn't say how to raise your overall bezels (I'm assuming that it's just a general levelling thing) and I still don't understand why bonus shots only seem to trigger sometimes.

[Skyblade]

Sorry, had to post an update. Hit my best ever killstreak in League of Legends. Two party members left, leaving it a 3 on 5 match. And I racked up 35 kills. More than every other player combined.
Click the picture to expand if you are at all interested in scores.
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[Casey]

Red Dead Redemption.

[Pike]

Currently bouncing between:

Civilization IV Beyond the Sword (still)
Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri
SimCity 4
Hearts of Iron 2

and a little Europa Universalis 3 and X-Com thrown in for flavor.

[Nifleheim7]

White Knight Chronicles.
Pros:open beautiful environments,exploration,combat system,georama

Cons:ugly and generic character design,unskippable cutscenes,easy battles,awfully cliche story and some bad design choices like naming a sword that belongs in the category of short swords,a "longsword.":roll2

[black orb]

>>> Crisis Core (PSP), I thought it was going to be a good game like "Dirge of Cerberus" but the game is for die hard/crazed FF7 fans only..
Playing it is a torture but I paid for the thing so I have to beat it no matter what..:luca:

[Jiro]

Thanks to eternal essence I'm back to playing Resonance of Fate. I love you Leanne, please become real and marry me~~~ :heart:

[Depression Moon]

Half-Life 2.

[Iceglow]

I'm playing Advance Wars Dark Conflict on the DS. Civ 5 on the PC and Call of Duty Black Ops and Portal 2 on 360.

[TrollHunter]

Playing:
Metroid Prime: Never actually got around to beating it as a kid so I'm getting my sorry little ass kicked on the last level
Pokemon XD gale of darkness: Don't give me that look, this game is awesome!
Yeah I'm loving all over my gamecube for now.

[Skyblade]

Playing:
Metroid Prime: Never actually got around to beating it as a kid so I'm getting my sorry little ass kicked on the last level
Pokemon XD gale of darkness: Don't give me that look, this game is awesome!
Yeah I'm loving all over my gamecube for now.

Pokemon XD IS awesome. Easily the best entry in the series. An actual plot, a large number of interesting gameplay changes... Wonderful game.

Metroid Prime can be a pain, but you will figure it out before you know it. Although I'm not sure I'd recommend moving on to Echoes. The sequel does not do as well as the original (though Corruption was pretty good).

[Remon]

FF3 DS - I'm loving it!

FFTA2 - This one looks like the same old FFTA. Those clan trials are difficult! I haven't played much but will probably finish it by june.

Touhou 7-12. (Beat 6 and 8 on normal phew)

Pokemon White - This game is awesome. Really. I just beat the 7th gym with a very cool party : Samurott, Golurk, Simisear, Reuniclus, Lilligant, and Beartic. I've been lazy and haven't played it recently.

FFIX - I'm downloading it so I'll probably play it soon :D.

[TrollHunter]

Playing:
Metroid Prime: Never actually got around to beating it as a kid so I'm getting my sorry little ass kicked on the last level
Pokemon XD gale of darkness: Don't give me that look, this game is awesome!
Yeah I'm loving all over my gamecube for now.

Pokemon XD IS awesome. Easily the best entry in the series. An actual plot, a large number of interesting gameplay changes... Wonderful game.

Metroid Prime can be a pain, but you will figure it out before you know it. Although I'm not sure I'd recommend moving on to Echoes. The sequel does not do as well as the original (though Corruption was pretty good).

Oh I mean I started a new game, I'm loving it. Good solid amount of challenge, interesting backstory when you take the time to scan everything, interesting enemies, good UI, puzzles, weapons/visors. I love it, but that doesn't mean the last dungeon isn't kicking me in the tush.
Also I agree on every point you made on XD, though I do prefer the plot and characters of Colosseum, it's so much darker and more badass~

[CimminyCricket]

Playing Killzone 3. It's hard getting back into the control scheme after playing the Call of Duty games for so long in between this and 2. I like the story and now that I have internet and a want, I'm probably going to try and play it online.

[Pike]

I'm playing Planetfall, which is a mod that turns Civ IV into SMAC. It's kind of pointless since you could really just play SMAC but something about it is delightfully fun and awesome.

[Kyros]

pokemon white and pokemon tower defense

[Wolf Kanno]

Finally on the final chapters of FFIV:TAY but I am taking a break cause I don't feel like grinding everyone to not suck, cause The Man in Black is the only decent character coming out of the previous chapters.

Currently I'm playing:

Wii:
Ogre Battle - Good game, just wish upgrading classes wasn't so complicated with me having to keep track of enemy levels and reputation...

Skies of Arcadia Legends - Friend keeps raving about this game so I'm giving it a go. Despite being horribly goody good (but not preachy thank god) for my taste (I mean seriously, One Piece is more violent and demoralizing) I have really loved the game so far. Really feels like something from the 16-bit /32-bit era. :D

PSP:

Vagrant Story - God I forgot how good this game is. Just about everything is near perfect in this game. I was only going to watch the intro and found myself beating the Golem boss by 2am.

PS3:

Assassin's Creed - Still haven't gotten far, its annoying I'm already sick of the whole "go to the location, go to the bureau, interrogate one guy, pickpocket another guy, eavesdrop on another, unlock target, find target, botch the stealth kill, murder everyone cause parry/counter is broken, listen to a 10 minute monologue about how I'm working for the bad guys (like it wasn't obvious) rinse and repeat. Occasionally breaking it up with the modern segments. I've gone GTA at this point, mostly screwing around by climbing everything, collecting flags, and murdering Crusaders and just about anyone who annoys me...

[Iceglow]

FFTA2 - This one looks like the same old FFTA. Those clan trials are difficult! I haven't played much but will probably finish it by june.


I'm going to call you wrong here, not because it's a huge difference from FFTA but in regards to how the laws work on this one and how certain other game play factors some of which are more of a throwback to the FFT original game than to the FFTA entry. I will call you wrong here in that it's not similar to FFTA at all, though it does have some recurring characters, namely at the end of the game you meet Mewt from FFTA as a grown up and instead of taking place in a dream Ivalice the Ivalice of FFTA2 is the same Ivalice as in FF12 so yeah, kinda different I see where you're coming from with the early game FFTA stuff but yeah pretty different to be honest when you get in to it.

[Kossage]

I've been playing The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings, and so far I've enjoyed it. The story is full of intrigue and has interesting twists, and I like how your choices change the storyline (which is nice for replay value). The mere prologue is one of the most impressive prologues I've seen in games in a long while, and it teaches you the game's basics in a clever, interesting and funny way while also affecting the plot at large. I like the grey morality where you can find pros and cons on either side of the argument, which doesn't make some choices between factions easy. The quests offer a great variety, and the boss battles are suitably epic when they occur.

The graphics are downright pretty, and the environments are detailed and full of life. The day and night cycle as well as different weathers (sunny, rain, misty etc.) help bring the world to life, and the cities and towns are full of life with carefully detailed characters. VAs do their job properly, and the music sounds nice (although I wish there were more tracks).

The difficulty curve in normal setting is challenging but not frustrating; I like how the game punishes you if you rush into a mob without thinking of a strategy. You need to be clever and play dirty, knowing when to attack and when to retreat. The different development paths for your character (you can focus on alchemy, magic or swordsmanship or be a jack of all trades) allow for some interesting builds where you can mix different abilities while also keeping in mind that you'll only get a limited number of talent points so you have to decide carefully which paths to take.

Although I guess it's too early to say whether this game is going to be exceptional or not (I'm only at the end of chapter 1 right now), so far it's been a thrilling ride which offers great replay value, an intriguing story and some great game mechanics with a nice difficulty curve. I can't remember the last time I've had so much fun with a game. :)

[Pike]

Welp, SMAC has devoured my soul. I'm sure it's all I'll be playing for the next few weeks, at least.

[Depression Moon]

Uncharted 2
Super Mario Bros. 2

[CimminyCricket]

I returned Killzone 3. The story was good, but it was really short and the online sucked.

[Kyros]

Pokemon White
I feel like I live on route 3 b/c of all the breeding I do >.<

[Polnareff]

Breath of Fire for GBA. This is probably my 7th or so playthrough of it on GBA (played through it countless times on SNES). I just got Karn so I still have a lot of time before beating the game.

[Loony BoB]

Danielle and I are having a go at LittleBigPlanet at the moment as part of the Sony PS3 welcome back thing.

[Pheesh]

Okay, so, *deep breath*, I still have Resonance of Fate to play which I'm not even sure if I'm halfway through (going by the trophy list for chapters), that got interrupted when PSN came back on and I bought InFamous. I'm up to the last island on inFamous and I then got kinda bored and started playing MLB 10, and have been interspersing that with Outland (which was another AWESOME PSN purchase, highly recommend it to anyone who feels like playing an old school side scroller). However, I also purchased FF 6, 7, and 9, all of which I've never played; so god knows how many hours that will take me. Plus, for some stupid reason I bought Demon's Souls and Heavy Rain (mostly cause they were cheap) and they'll be arriving in the next few days.

Alice: Madness Returns is also coming out soon over here, which will be another purchase. I also got Ratchet and Clank from the PSN package, but I haven't installed that yet, and I have the Prince of Persia trilogy to play through still, and I haven't even passed the first one.

[Jiro]

Looks like ee will be busy for a while.

Played through and finished Heavy Rain. Loved it, going back through to get all the trophies as well.

Resident Evil 5 as well, played through the main campaign once so I could get Mercenaries unlocked. The game is less fun on your own, so hopefully I can get online with a few people and kill some bitches :D

Valkyria Chronicles is good fun too, some of the levels have :bou::bou::bou::bou:ted me off, but I'm getting there slowly. I love how gay Jann is, it's fabulous.

Last but not least Civilization V has been sucking many hours of my life away. I'm currently conquering everyone as Egypt, I'm a good two ages ahead of everyone else somehow.

[Pike]

I'm still playing SMAC. Also I've recently started playing the expansion, Alien Crossfire (aka SMAX. Love the nicknames for these games.)

[Loony BoB]

Kicking in heads on Duke Nukem Forever, burning out in Burnout: Paradise (thanks, Sony), co-opping it up with Danielle in LittleBigPlanet and zapping away on Infamous. Have also played a chunk of Dead Nation with Danielle until we got to a point that we just kept dying and decided to call it in for a while. Oh, and have played through a bit of Ratchet & Clank: Quest For Booty, too.

Have enjoyed all of the above, really, although LittleBigPlanet is the 'low point' of them and it's hard to pick between Infamous and Burnout for the 'high point'.

[Jiro]

I'm still playing SMAC. Also I've recently started playing the expansion, Alien Crossfire (aka SMAX. Love the nicknames for these games.)

Do you tell all your friends you're addicted to SMAC? I know I would. You keep making me want to play all these games that I suck at but am incredibly interested in!

[Pike]

I'm still playing SMAC. Also I've recently started playing the expansion, Alien Crossfire (aka SMAX. Love the nicknames for these games.)

Do you tell all your friends you're addicted to SMAC? I know I would. You keep making me want to play all these games that I suck at but am incredibly interested in!

Oh man, everybody knows. Especially Twitter but then again I spend an obscene amount of time on Twitter. At least they "get it", though, meanwhile everyone on Facebook is slowly backing away and wondering what sort of drug this "SMAC" is and where I acquired it.

TO KEEP THIS ON TOPIC :shifty: I'm restarting the original Final Fantasy. I 'unno how far I'll get or how long it will keep my interest, though.

[black orb]

>>> FF4 The after years.. I have been playing it for more than a month..:eep: The game just doesnt want to END!..:luca:

[TrollHunter]

LoZ minish cap, and the original legend of zelda. I'm getting my ass kicked on the original... but I'm pushing through, 11hearts Lv.4

[Loony BoB]

Have been playing Final Fantasy II and am at the final boss, but not ready (going by my first attempt) to fight him yet. Will need to grind away. At home, playing Infamous as a bad guy on hard difficulty in an attempt to get another platinum trophy. Definitely an enjoyable game, that one, but I've already posted in Infamous and FFII threads recently so those can cover my overall thoughts.

Finally, Danielle has been playing Viva Pinata: Trouble in Paradise a lot lately and every now and then she throws the controller at me while she's going out of the room or is making dinner or whatever. It's a surprisingly fun game but at the same time there seems to be a point where I just go from having fun to being bored in the space of about a minute. Generally when a high level is reached and everything is controlled, it's just... boring for me to keep going. No challenge, I guess. Also a very frustrating game with how often it restricts you.

[NeoCracker]

Just about finished with Ocarina 3DS, and while I must say a lot of the 3D is pretty, albeit unnescessary, I find myself turning it off since it looks awkward if you aren't still enough, and I move quite a bit when getting into a game.

Also playing a little bit of Agarest 0, though I'm going through it fairly slowly due to speeding through the first game in order to beat it before playing the prequal.

In addition, I"m starting up Breath of Fire III soon so I can finally beat it. Don't know why I haven't, love the hell out of that game.

[Pike]

I've actually slowed down on SMAC enough to be able to play some other stuff. Mostly Europa Universalis 3, Civ 4 (usually multiplayer with MILF), and a handful of oldschool games (Sonic the Hedgehog, Final Fantasy 1 aka "GRINDAN" as like I to call it.) Also a dash of SimCity 4 here and there.

[Loony BoB]

Oh man, playing multiplayer Civ IV with your gf/bf. Do you play on the same side? Permanent alliances, or...? Danielle and I have probably had a good 100 games together so far, in a "co-op" kind of way. Avoids arguments (for the most part - we still have to decide who can have what area for their next town...)! Haha.

[Pike]

Usually we play some sort of free-for-all where it's us and several AI, but more often than not we end up teaming up by the end of the game. Sometimes it's with a permanent alliance, other times we just give each other all of our tech and have an "unofficial" truce.*

Lately, though, we've been playing head-to-head, which is fun and results in some delightfully close games! Sure, there's some trolling and disagreements involved, but it's all in good fun! :jess:

* Until MILF gets nukes, at which point it doesn't matter what team you're on, you're getting nuked.

[Del Murder]

Currently playing Batman: Arkham Asylum for PS3. I love the story and all the Batman tie ins. It creates an Arkham that is fit for Gotham City. The combat can be repetitive, especially the boss fights. With the variety of Bat-villains I expected some MGS level variety in the boss battles but so far I'm not getting it.

Also just started Final Fantasy: Four Heroes of Light for NDS. So far it's enjoyable though a bit cheesy.

I have also been playing Dissidia 012 for PSP. I found the 012 storyline to be pretty decent and I really enjoyed playing the new characters. The 013 storyline puts me to sleep though, and I'm finding playing the original Dissidia characters is not as fun (or maybe I'm getting sick of the repetition).

[Slothy]

* Until MILF gets nukes, at which point it doesn't matter what team you're on, you're getting nuked.

That sounds like reasonable foreign policy to me.

I just finished Assassin's Creed 2 last night. I think I may do a blog post on it specifically at a later point but I have to say I was thoroughly impressed. Given how much of a bore the original was most of the time (I finally sat down and just ploughed through it to get to the second one) the jump in quality is nothing short of astounding. And I don't say this about any game ever really, but I'll probably buy the DLC soon.

If I have one quibble with the game it would be that characters just seem to drop off the map after awhile and then everybody just shows up towards the end with no warning. I would have liked to see more of all of the characters throughout the game, but at the same time I think that could have thrown the pacing off a bit. Overall a great game that's worthy of the praise it got. Hopefully in the next few months I can grab Brotherhood, and then the new one in November.

[Madame Adequate]

I would just like to point out that she was not exaggerating. When I run out of other people to nuke, I nuke my own cities just to increase the kill count.

Let's see. Lately I've been playing the Human Revolution leak, Civ IV (Getting my butt kicked by Pike in the current game :(), EU3, Darkest Hour, SimCity 4, GalCiv 2, New Vegas, San Andreas, and a little Minecraft.

[Loony BoB]

We never really get to the nuke stage, we (or more specifically, Danielle) tend to get bored and stop playing before then.

[Wolf Kanno]

In addition, I"m starting up Breath of Fire III soon so I can finally beat it. Don't know why I haven't, love the hell out of that game.

You have just invalidated any opinion about BoF you had for me, you can't say anything bad about Dragon Quarter cause you never finished BoF3 which is often considered the best game in the franchise. :p




I just finished Assassin's Creed 2 last night. I think I may do a blog post on it specifically at a later point but I have to say I was thoroughly impressed. Given how much of a bore the original was most of the time (I finally sat down and just ploughed through it to get to the second one) the jump in quality is nothing short of astounding. And I don't say this about any game ever really, but I'll probably buy the DLC soon.

If I have one quibble with the game it would be that characters just seem to drop off the map after awhile and then everybody just shows up towards the end with no warning. I would have liked to see more of all of the characters throughout the game, but at the same time I think that could have thrown the pacing off a bit. Overall a great game that's worthy of the praise it got. Hopefully in the next few months I can grab Brotherhood, and then the new one in November.

I can vouch for this, I'm in the second half of AC2 but taking some time off to finish some other titles. I was pretty confounded how much better AC2 was compared to the original and its practically in every facet of the game as well. I'm looking forward to the blog but place a warning about spoilers cause I'm still trying to finish it.

[DMKA]

Alice: Madness Returns

Probably the first game I've played this gen and said "Wow, this is long. when is it going to end?"

[Shattered Dreamer]

Final Fantasy X of all things. I've just beaten those 2 Ronso with Kimarhi. I don't remember this game being quite so easy though :/

[TrollHunter]

Final Fantasy X of all things. I've just beaten those 2 Ronso with Kimarhi. I don't remember this game being quite so easy though :/

I always gave kimarhi the shaft so that battle always took forever. It's easy, just long repetitive and boring. I always overgrinded on ffx so the storyline was a joke for me.

[Slothy]

I can vouch for this, I'm in the second half of AC2 but taking some time off to finish some other titles. I was pretty confounded how much better AC2 was compared to the original and its practically in every facet of the game as well. I'm looking forward to the blog but place a warning about spoilers cause I'm still trying to finish it.

I think the jump in quality made more sense when I found out the development team had 450 people on it at one point. I've never even heard of a development team being that large so I assume Ubisoft's solution was to throw people at the game until it didn't suck like the first one. Certainly explains the massive jump in content and the very different feel of each city in the game.

[Araciel]

magic 2012, new vegas and tiger woods road to the masters 2012

[aquatius]

Replaying FFTA2 on Hard Mode which isn't really that hard, it turns out.

[Pike]

Minecraft :sweat:

[Loony BoB]

Finished Final Fantasy II, got Platinum on inFAMOUS and got my Burnout Licence on Burnout: Paradise. Currently playing FFVI and not sure what I'll playon the PS3/360 just yet...

[Dreddz]

Currently playing Killzone 3. Seems like an improvement over Killzone 2 in every way. And seeing as I loved Killzone 2, Killzone 3 gets a thumbs up from me.

[Psychotic]

Gears of War 2. Horde mode with certain posters on these here forums. Honestly it's amazing how it can still invoke massed shouts of profanity. "OH tit THAT smurfING BLOODMOUNT IS HERE BLOODMOUNT smurf smurf smurf" and that it somehow always manages to feel like an epic siege.
L.A. Noire. Got the new DLC case. Was pretty decent I guess, although I was never a huge fan of the arson cases as it's inevitably a bitch to find any in tact evidence at the crime scenes.
Mass Effect 2. My ridiculous Must. Do. EVERYTHING! mantra when it comes to Western RPGs does not mean I will complete this game anytime soon.
Dynasty Warriors 7. Benevowhat?
Resident Evil 5. I wish to get myself a niiiiiiiiiiiice bonus.

[Rostum]

Assassin's Creed 2 on PS3.

[Pike]

Minecraft, Terraria, Civ IV, X-Com, Kerbal Space Program. That last one there I just started playing today, but I imagine I'll be spending some quality time with it. Terraria is another one I started playing recently and is surprisingly addictive. The other three games are a part of my usual rotation, it would appear.

[TrollHunter]

Ratchet&Clank
Pokemon Fire Red
Legend of Zelda Spirit Tracks
Final Fantasy VI
XenoSaga (I probably won't get around to continuing this because so far I'm not enjoying it at ALL)

[Mercen-X]

I'm on sabbatical from gaming. I think it's been a month... or perhaps time is being distorted by game-addled nerves...

[Loony BoB]

Final Fantasy XIV - The new patch has made the game much more enjoyable and party invites are becoming regular things which is always a good sign. Fingers crossed the ongoing improvements keep us playing. Now, if only I could keep up with Danielle when it comes to leveling...!

Dwarf Fortress - Just a little bit longer...

Final Fantasy VI - Well, not this past week, but now that I'm heading back to work I'm sure I'll be playing it on the bus again.

[Iceglow]

When I'm not masterminding the expansion of the Dwarf Fortress Spoonproblems I am often found shooting the shit out of the Horde in Gears 2 or else shooting the shit out of the heads of people on Black Ops online. I need to restart FFXIII (I know I know, it's 20 hours tutorial blah blah blah but fuck you I want to do it properly) Finish AC1 so I can move on to 2, play the games I have never even put in my console tray, blast some more zombies on DR2 with Paul and maybe if there's time left over, I'll spend it playing more DF.

[Scotty_ffgamer]

I just beat Final Fantasy X-2 a couple days ago. I was going for 100% completion but eventually realized that I had messed something up early on in the game and stopped caring. The perfect ending really isn't worth it anyways. Otherwise, I did everything except for finishing Via Infinito (level 80 and on kicked my butt). So, I'm done with that but am thinking of going back and trying to get to the end of Via Infinito when I have time.

Otherwise, I was going to start FF V only to run into the saving problem on the ps3. So, I'm probably going to invest in the Gameboy Advance version eventually. I will probably play through IV on the DS until then though. Either that or I will go back and try to finish Jeanne D'Arc as I kept being busy with other things every time I sat down to play it.

Once I move back into the dorms for school, I'll probably spend a lot of time playing Star Fox, Pokemon Snap, Tony Hawk Pro Skater 1, and Zelda with my friends at school.

I guess in the end, I'm really playing nothing right now.

[Del Murder]

Almost done with inFAMOUS, which I discussed in another thread. After that I will probably play God of War 2. After that I am out of new games! I got Little Big Planet as part of the freebie program but I'm pretty spoiled by Nintendo when it comes to 2D platformers. LBP really has nothing on DKC, Kirby, or Super Mario.

I have a question. Would I like Red Dead Redemption? I'm not a big fan of 'open world' games but I hear this is one of the best games out there. What I like is a centralized story that progresses linearly. inFAMOUS had many open world elements but it more or less followed a set storyline. Certain areas were blocked out until the story progressed into those areas and the side missions were easily separated from the main missions and could be ignored without impacting things much. I liked that. I don't like a blank canvas where I could literally do anything because in those cases I just run around aimlessly. I need focus.

I also want to get Mass Effect 2 and God of War 3. That plus RDR would keep me busy for quite a while. It would be nice if Gamestop did another 'Buy 2 get 1 free' promotion of used games so I could get all three of them.

[Iceglow]

I reckon you might enjoy RDR Murder, the reasons being thus:

Initially areas are sealed off from the player, the player must progress the main story to unlock them.

Mission lines all tie in to key missions, a player can only do so many missions for one person until that person becomes unavailable to them until the other missions are done.

Free-hunting, basically instead of roaming around a place like Liberty City randomly shooting NPC's in the face with an assault rifle because "y'know it's fun" in RDR you're given an option where you don't need to break the law but can go hunting for an indefinite amount of time in the wilderness of the wild west. So long as you've ammo in the gun it's good. Whats more, skinning/plucking/picking the flowers on your hunt means you can sell them on to generate game wealth.

Stranger missions are random storylines which have no completion dead line (usually) but can often be completed in under 30 mins or so allowing you to find a random mini-story in the game.

Help missions crop up as you ride around these are quite repetitive but range from save the hanging man, defeat the bandit tricksters, help the person survive whatever animals/persons are hunting him, help the local law enforcement and assist shopkeeps by chasing down thieves.

Gambling, the gambling mini-games are amongst the most balanced I've ever played.

So yeah a few reasons to like RDR aside from it's awesome multiplayer.

[rubah]

dominion

like every waking second

[Pete for President]

Slowly but surely I'm making my way through Vagrant Story. Also borrowed a DSi with Pokémon Platinum from a friend.

[Rase]

Currently running through a Nuzlocke Challenge (http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Nuzlocke_Challenge) for Pokemon Gold on my original GBC. The two standard rules plus the following: "set" battle style, no Master Ball, no dupe Pokemon clause, no legendaries. Other than that scads of TF2 and LoL.

[TrollHunter]

Currently getting back into FF1, got back to where I was in my old game and twice as far in a day. (Finished 2 crystals advanced jobs derp)
When I finish 1 ima get back into FF5, beat it then get back into FF6 (lost my savestate due to stupid crap)
After FF6 I want to get my hands on FF7/9 and beat both of those.
I will also get around to beating ratchet and clank and earthbound in due time.
I'll also beat metroid zero mission and LoZ spirit tracks eventually...
The sad thing is, I'm playing through them all at the same time. I am terrible at sticking to one game.

[Værn]

I got Mount & Blade Warband and Mount & Blade: Fire & Sword a few days ago at a LAN party. Mostly played Fire & Sword because we couldn't get Warband working on the network, but I've been messing around with Warband's singleplayer mode since I got back.

Fire & Sword involves old-school muskets and pistols that have terrible accuracy, hold one shot at a time, and take forever to reload. After dying a few times I remembered a show I saw once about pirates, and how it mentioned that they'd carry several pistols with one shot each when they raided other ships. It ended better than I was expecting it to. Although slicing people's faces in half with a pole axe after I got tired of shooting them was where all the real fun was...

[Mercen-X]

I was playing ffXII about a month back. I'm busy writing.

[Wolf Kanno]

Finished Shin Megami Tensei III, and AC2, as well as Devil Survivor. Went back to an old save of P3:FES so I can finally finish the few things I've never done (Acquire Orpheus Telos, and challenge Elizabeth to name a few) but this is mostly my "work off steam" game, along with an FFVIAdvance file I'm toying with; while I finish off the excellent Catherine, and finally start playing Digital Devil Saga, which both require a little more love and commitment.

Afterwords, I plan on starting AC: Brotherhood and by then, Persona 2: Innocent Sin will be released. :D

[Rostum]

Finally playing through Batman: AA.

[Shaibana]

Infamous 2 :D
at the first place it didnt really agree on Cole's new look, but after a while im starting to really like it.
i also love the fact that they put those monsters in the game, becaus i dont like it if all the enemy's only shoot at you.
Cole's new powers are awesome, though they make it a little to easy sometimes.

This game was sure worth buying!!

[leader of mortals]

I've actually been playing through Arc the Lad: Twilight of the Spirits again, because I've yet to complete it. The first time I got through to the end of it I was so ridiculously under-leveled that I couldn't even train on the normal monsters for the final boss. This time, thankfully, I am, instead, horribly over-leveled.

[Scotty_ffgamer]

I just beat Final Fantasy IV for the DS. I am thinking about continuing my play through of Infamous or getting out Final Fantasy Dawn of Souls to play. I'm in a kick to try to beat every non-MMO Final Fantasy, and currently have yet to play I, II, III, V, and XII. I have a lot of games I need to beat, haha.

Also, I'm playing through Pokemon Emerald in my spare time.

[Wolf Kanno]

I'm quitting DDS for now. Its a great game with a cool plot, but Nocturne really burned me out and I feel like playing something either old school or more "cookie cutter RPG". I kind of want to take a shot at Shadow Hearts but with school around the corner, I don't want to get heavily invested in something new while I have more pressing real life issues to deal with. Besides, P2:IS is a month away... :shifty:

Part of me is thinking of doing a playthrough of either Wild ARMS, Breath of Fire, or Suikoden.

[Pike]

Civ IV Fall from Heaven mod.

Currently, I'm rewarding myself with ten turns of it for every paragraph that I write in a book I'm working on.

It is the best writing motivator I have ever used.

[TrollHunter]

I'm pretty much throwing my other games into the void temporarily and focusing on FFV and playing pokemon leaf green when I get bored. I have to say, I met Gilgamesh yesterday and he's freaking awesome. (Not to mention Battle On the Big Bridge further solidified itself as one of my favorite FF tracks)
I'm enjoying FFV immensely, there are just so many useful combinations. I'm currently running
Butz! (yes I put an "!" after his name) : Dual Wielding Dragoon (Only my favorite ff job of all time)
Lenna: Ninja with x-fight (Overpowered much?)
Galuf: Summoner / White mage
Faris: Red mage / black mage (working on doublecast)

[Rostum]

Okay I just finished Batman AA and I can't be bothered doing all the trophies and challenges. It was a nice game, I enjoyed it. It wasn't really challenging at all though, and the last two fights were far too easy.

Hmm, now to pick something else in my Steam library to play... Or I had considered playing a Final Fantasy game, not sure.

[Brennan]

Currently replaying Grand Theft Auto IV for the hell of it.
I'm about 20 or so missions shy of completing the storyline.
Dear Roman,
I'm getting money to pay off debts you made, I don't wanna go friggin bowling or drinking.

[Del Murder]

Just beat God of War II and it was smurfing awesome. Can't wait until I play God of War III, which I just bought. But first, I will give Mass Effect 2 a try since that game gets so much crazy hype I'd be a fool to not even try it.

Ome: You found Poison Ivy easy? I thought she was the hardest boss in the game!

[Rabbits on the Run]

I'm getting ready to finally start Shin Megami Tensei Persona for the PSP because I'm trying to play them all.

I've already beat 3 FES and 4 multiple times. Now I've just got 1, both parts of the second one, and and P3P and I will have beat them all.

[Nifleheim7]

Gran Turismo 5
Final Fantasy IV DS
The Undergarden

and replaying
Uncharted Drake's Fortune

Hope i'll finish FFIV before Xenoblade comes.

[Rostum]

Playing Mass Effect. I've only really played 2-3 hours worth, and I think I am just too restless to sit down with an RPG at this time. But I might try and persevere.

[Shaibana]

since ive got plenty of time i decided to start playing Assassins creed 2 (and after that brotherhood) again

[Jessweeee♪]

I recently discovered my boyfriend's laptop can play Portal 2. So I'm playing Portal 2!

My spoilery progress:

Wheatley has just taken over the facility and GLaDOS is a potato. At first I was like "omg why did you kill Wheatley he was going to be my best friend forever" and then he wasn't dead but then it turned out he wasn't my friend forever anyway. After he turned GLaDOS into a potato he punched me way into the ground and I fell forever and then I wound up in some place and a bird took off with GLaDOS so I wandered around until I came upon the old Aperture Science facility and a guy on the intercom was talking about tests and repulsion gel so I was like "oh okay, still some testing to do, I guess I can go to bed now since I'm not about to beat it like I thought I was." And now I'm a work and I want to go home and play it some more.

Maybe, just maybe, someday I can play Assassin's Creed Brotherhood. Someday.

[Del Murder]

I don't know what class to choose on ME2. Somebody tell me which one is the best. :( I picked Soldier at first but it seems boring (though I only played for an hour).

[TrollHunter]

I don't know what class to choose on ME2. Somebody tell me which one is the best. :( I picked Soldier at first but it seems boring (though I only played for an hour).

My personal favorites are Sentinel and Vanguard. All of them are awesome though.

[Jiro]

Playing a combination of Mass Effect 2 and Valkyria Chronicle at the moment. I've got a save on the original Metal Gear Solid at a mate's house that I've been working through slowly (and badly), and I also have been playing random flash games etc that Pike shows me.

[Rostum]

Ome: You found Poison Ivy easy? I thought she was the hardest boss in the game!

I was more talking about the two Joker fights, however... I died once on Poison Ivy, though she was the most challenging. Was just a matter of running left and right (rather than diving) and timing the batarang which changes throughout the battle.

[Jessweeee♪]

I don't know what class to choose on ME2. Somebody tell me which one is the best. :( I picked Soldier at first but it seems boring (though I only played for an hour).

Yeah, do soldier first or never, because it is SO boring once you've done the other classes. I recommend Adept or Vanguard, because biotics in ME2 are so fun. Vanguard has the Charge ability, which is the coolest one in the game.

The main advantage to soldier is more weapon damage and health, which won't matter when you pwn everyone with biotics, and the ability to carry all weapons at once, which won't matter because in other classes the abilities easily make up for it and later on you can pick an additional weapon of your choice anyway.

What's really fun is using Pull to make someone float toward you, because when they're floaty they're more vulnerable to Throw, which will make them fly off the map in that state xD

[Del Murder]

I went with Sentinel because in FF games I always liked the Paladin role. Except for Sentinel in FFXIII which was boring as hell to play. It also sounds like a well-rounded role. Adept sounded cool but I read that you can't manipulate enemies with shields meaning it's pretty useless on tougher fights until the shields get broken. Dunno if that's true but it scared me off it. Vanguard was a top choice as well but I'm pretty sucky at close combat in shooting games.

[Jessweeee♪]

Yeah, I don't think there are any biotic abilities that do shields, but one of the weapons Adept starts with (sub machine gun, I think) tears right through them, and of course you have your squad members to cover all of your bases too. I tend to bring Garrus along when I play a squishy class anyway, and he has Overload. And most enemies will have amor or a biotic barrier instead of shields. So it doesn't really have to be an issue. I still haven't tried Sentinel though. Maybe I'll do that next time.

[Slothy]

I've mostly been playing Starcraft 2 and Team Fortress 2 lately. I need to finish up the last night in Catherine though, and I've also started replaying Warcraft 3. I have to say though, I'm having a hard time playing through it after playing so much SC2. It's just so slow by comparison, and I'm realizing that there are a lot of systems working to make it a much slower paced game than SC2, at least in single player. I'll admit it's been so long since I played the game a lot that I know nothing of playing the game at even a moderately high level anymore, but between slow build times and upkeep, it really seems like Blizzard just wanted you to sit there building your base and stockpiling gold for the first 5-10 minutes before you actually did anything substantial to progress. The only levels that aren't really like this are the ones where you just complete an objective with the units you start with and whatever you find along the way, and while those go faster, they're also my least favourite level type in every Blizzard RTS ever I think.

And I also have to say that the pathing AI is atrocious in WC3. It was so much better than Starcraft was back in 2002 that I never noticed, but shit your units are stupid. I've seen them get stuck on each other for the better part of 30 seconds while they try to figure out who goes in front.

[Casey]

Currently playing Arcanum.... I remember when it first came out 10 years ago, time flies. Playing as a Mage Elf and my alignment is -100 Evil.

[NeoCracker]

No More Heroes: Heroes Paradise.

Looks a lot smoother then the one on the Wii, and the additional boss fights you do in your dreams when you pass out on the toilet is pretty rad.

A really good port of the original game.

[Pike]

I was playing Darkest Hour (the Hearts of Iron version, not the other one) for a bit yesterday. I imagine I'll be back to Civ and Minecraft very shortly, though.

I have also felt like playing Starcraft again but I can't seem to get it to work.

[Pete for President]

Finished Vagrant Story, but dove right back in for a replay.

[TrollHunter]

Playing pokemon emerald Nuzlocke challenge.
http://151chan.org/dex/src/127039475766.png
I'm only doing the basic first two because I'm not frickin' insane.
I've shed a few manly tears during this run so far, and I'm only half-way done.

[Slayer1514]

Played Batman Arkham Asylum earlier this morning and I'm playing FF8 right now, started a new game an hour or two ago.

[Pike]

Rise from Erebus mod for Civ IV! It's like Fall from Heaven, but with a steampunk civ. It makes me happy.

(I play a loooot of Civ IV.)

[Levian]

9 hours, 9 persons, 9 doors. <3

[TrollHunter]

9 hours, 9 persons, 9 doors. <3

2 maidens, 1 chalice.

[Pike]

9 hours, 9 persons, 9 doors. <3

2 maidens, 1 chalice.

I see what you did there.

Also I played Minecraft today.

[NeoCracker]

Playing Deus Ex: Human Revolutions.

This games pretty rad, definitely one of the better games out this year.

[Slayer1514]

Age of empires Online

[Loony BoB]

Deus Ex: Human Revolution is possibly going to take up all my free time until 9th September, when Resistance 3 is out.

[Martyr]

Street Fighter 3rd Strike.
Just downloaded it on Xbox.
It's a slightly different feel from the Playstation (and let's face it, I was never really very good), and so it's a little bit of relearning, but now I can play against other players via Xbox Live! And that's just awesome!

[Pike]

I am currently playing Sid smurfing Meier's Alpha smurfing Centauri

Greatest game

and it will always be the greatest game

especially when I am doped up on cold meds

[Remon]

I'm playing Tales of Legendia now. Not exactly the best tales game but still it's worth a playthrough.
Also playing Apollo Justice. Ace Attorney games never get old.

[Pete for President]

Running through my new game+ in Vagrant Story and in doubt whether I want to start a new game or new game+ in Valkyria Chronicles.

[qwertysaur]

Touhoumon blue :p

[Slayer1514]

playing Back to the Future: The Game episode 1, since it is free on psn now

[Jiro]

Final Fantasy I for my LP in its forum, Zombie Lane on G+ as a bit of mindless fun (it's actually not bad!) and still grinding my way through Mass Effect 2.

[TrollHunter]

Nearing the end of my Nuzlocke run. Training up for victory road.
Gotta say, this is now my new favorite way to play pokemon. It brought back all the fun I used to have and then some.

[Del Murder]

About 40 hours into ME2 (PS3 version) and I just realized I got screwed on two fronts. One, I didn't know you could download an interactive comic to catch up on ME1 and make some of the important decisions from that game that influence ME2. Two, I always buy my games used, because I generally don't get to them until months or even years after they first come out. So I didn't realize that the Cerberus Network is only free for new copies of the game and now it's gonna cost me an extra 15 bucks. :(

[TrollHunter]

Playing fftactics
This game is kicking my ass, I'm not used to my opposition in tactics games using actual strategy.
I've lost 2 of my comrades so far. This should be interesting...

[Shaibana]

started touhoumon blue too :D

[Pike]

Playing fftactics
This game is kicking my ass, I'm not used to my opposition in tactics games using actual strategy.
I've lost 2 of my comrades so far. This should be interesting...

I dare you to play X-Com.

[Wolf Kanno]

Playing through FFI on WiiWare, since I've always felt a little sad I never finished the actual NES version cause my cartridge is old and buggy. Also, got back into Dissidia Duodecim and downloaded some music and costume packs which has added a little more variety. Currently tackling Chapter 000 in the game while trying to get my new characters to Lv. 100.

[NeoCracker]

Probably finishing off Devil Summoner today, tomorrow start the eternal grind that is Disgaea 4.

[GhandiOwnsYou]

Ocarina of Time. It's a shameful blot on my gamer resume, but I never owned an N64, therefore never really played the game before now. Playing the gamecube release, courtesy of a friends wii and backward compatibility.

[TrollHunter]

Playing fftactics
This game is kicking my ass, I'm not used to my opposition in tactics games using actual strategy.
I've lost 2 of my comrades so far. This should be interesting...

I dare you to play X-Com.

Looks fun, I may check it out eventually.

[Jiro]

Playing fftactics
This game is kicking my ass, I'm not used to my opposition in tactics games using actual strategy.
I've lost 2 of my comrades so far. This should be interesting...

I dare you to play X-Com.

The enemies in X-Com do not use strategy. They just destroy you utterly and completely. It is a complete fucking.

[Pike]

Playing fftactics
This game is kicking my ass, I'm not used to my opposition in tactics games using actual strategy.
I've lost 2 of my comrades so far. This should be interesting...

I dare you to play X-Com.

The enemies in X-Com do not use strategy. They just destroy you utterly and completely. It is a complete smurfing.

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a109/Pikestaff/BannedGeneral/1315236255287.jpg

[Madonna]

Nothing beats the joy of having your squad barely out the door and see an Alien Grenade/Sonic Pulser lobbed into the midst of them on the enemy's first turn.

I am almost done with 3D Dot Heroes but I have to do another playthrough; I ran into what appeared to be a dead-end in a cave I was exploring and I wondered what went wrong, so I checked online and apparently I missed the small window of opportunity to get a properly cool ending. So now I have to repeat everything I have done, but better. Agh.

Maybe I will switch back to Demon's Souls and grind enough to be a threat to something someday.

[NeoCracker]

Maybe I will switch back to Demon's Souls and grind enough to be a threat to something someday.

A threat to something in demon souls? You sir are a comedian.

[Jessweeee♪]

About 40 hours into ME2 (PS3 version) and I just realized I got screwed on two fronts. One, I didn't know you could download an interactive comic to catch up on ME1 and make some of the important decisions from that game that influence ME2. Two, I always buy my games used, because I generally don't get to them until months or even years after they first come out. So I didn't realize that the Cerberus Network is only free for new copies of the game and now it's gonna cost me an extra 15 bucks. :(

I played my boyfriend's 360 version when I got tired of waiting for the day when I could afford to go and buy the first one, so I didn't get to experience ME1's influence in the game until very recently myself. I'm so excited to see what I can do to influence Mass Effect 3!

[TrollHunter]

Playing fftactics
This game is kicking my ass, I'm not used to my opposition in tactics games using actual strategy.
I've lost 2 of my comrades so far. This should be interesting...

I dare you to play X-Com.

The enemies in X-Com do not use strategy. They just destroy you utterly and completely. It is a complete smurfing.

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a109/Pikestaff/BannedGeneral/1315236255287.jpg

I have a bad feeling about this.

[Jiro]

You should have a really really fucking bad feeling about this. You are going to be raped.

I finished Mass Effect 2 so I'm not sure what I should move onto next. I'm thinking Borderlands.

[Kokichi]

Borderlands DLC is legit. Main story is eh.

I have been on SNK vs. Capcom: Card Fighters DS a majority of the day.

[Casey]

Been playing Space War on my Android 2.2 phone. This game is so simple yet I can't stop playing it. :p

[Pike]

Been playing Space War on my Android 2.2 phone. This game is so simple yet I can't stop playing it. :p

Is that, like... a remake of the original Spacewar? From the 60s? :o If so I am impressed.

[Casey]

Been playing Space War on my Android 2.2 phone. This game is so simple yet I can't stop playing it. :p

Is that, like... a remake of the original Spacewar? From the 60s? :o If so I am impressed.


Nope but they do share the same title. It's this. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wM1KIkTGdsc)

[m4tt]

Slowly working on my first platinum trophy with Dynasty Warriors 7.

[Kokichi]

Disgaea 4.

I've never played a Disgaea game, but I've played a lot of crappy recent j.RPG's on PS3, so I know the characters.

I'm not used to this good story/gameplay from a PS3 game though.

[Rostum]

Nothing... I have all these Steam / PS3 / Wii / DS games and no motivation to play anything. ,_, How I get motivation?

[TrollHunter]

Disgaea 4.

I've never played a Disgaea game, but I've played a lot of crappy recent j.RPG's on PS3, so I know the characters.

I'm not used to this good story/gameplay from a PS3 game though.

Ratchet and clank future series? (implying that you meant ps3 games in general)
Yeah disgaea comes off at first like it's just another weird jrpg but then it shows you that it's fantastic.

Decided to break out one of my old ps2 games and give it a twist to make it interesting. Playing ratchet&clank 3 for I think.. the 10th time? I'm dead serious about that, it could be more. Since I know the game inside and out I decided to make it harder by never buying damage reducing armor. Endgame armor reduces damage taken by about 70%, I have 0% damage reduction. Just beat the last level (where I get insta-killed from anything if I'm hit) actually and am working on killing the final boss.
Forgot how short the game is... blew through it in 1 day.
Gonna go back to nuzlocke when I beat it and finish off the elite four.

[Loony BoB]

I've been playing Oblivion lately (OOO/Beautiful People/Natural Environments) due to Skyrim anticipation, and as Danielle has been playing Sims 3, that means that when she steps away from her PC to do dishes or something, she tells me to play Sims 3 for her. I've also had my copy of Resistance 3 delivered so I expect to play that sometime this month, co-op with Danielle.

[Pike]

I'm playing so much Civ IV that it isn't even funny

Also, Huxley has challenged me to play three full Civ V games. Civ V. :mymelbert:

So I'm going to be doing that inbetween packing/moving/being busy.

[Pete for President]

Finishing Resistance 3. As well as the occasional game of Flower. Which is the best thing on PS3 so far.

[escobert]

Been playing L.A. Noire :D

[Jiro]

Updated my 360 the other day. Didn't realise that it updates my achievement lists as well. Long story short, I now have to get the DLCs for Mass Effect 1 and 2 to add them to my completed list again. Should be fresh and fun though. At least I don't have to do it on insanity mode :monster:

[Loony BoB]

Still playing Oblivion but now also back to playing Final Fantasy VI on my way home from work again - just at the point where you first see Gau, so yay for that. Looking forward to finally having Espers... it must be soon by now! Finally, Danielle and I began playing Resistance 3 last night. It's good so far!

[NeoCracker]

I'm jumping back and forth between Disgaea 4 post Game and White Knight Chronicles 1 in preparation for 2. I forgot how much I loved Belcentine. :love:

[Kokichi]

Borderlandssss.

Lilith always OP, all the time.