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DQ9 continues to be a once-in-a-while thing (game's good, didn't answer before when someone asked).
Ys Seven, Starcraft 2 and Another Century's Episode R are my current main plays, although Metroid Other M and Valkyria Chronicles 2 both come out today...
Onimusha 3. I played Dead Rising: Case Zero most of the day to get the achievements/see the new weapons/level up.
I have been playing Dragon Age: Origins a lot, and basking in the awesomeness that is Alistair. :love:
PaganRO. A private Ragnarok Online server. Someone...please come play with me. I'm so freaking bored on that server.
I'm starting over on Shining Force II when I was 80-90% done on a no death playthrough on the hardest difficulty b/c my wiimote died, and when I turned it back on I accidentally hit over on the controller too w/o realizing it and hit delete instead of continue >.> Pretty mad atm
Picked up a pre owned copy of Prototype during the week not bad at all. Story makes little or no sense but the gameplay is pure mindless fun :bigsmile:
i second this. the violence is just amazing, but as you said the story is pretty weak.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shattered Dreamer
Final Fantasy V
Final Fantasy XIV Open Beta. It's actually really fun, despite the various little problems here and there - the biggest being the UI lag. But Danielle and I have enjoyed ourselves a lot so far, which is nice to say when it's still three weeks 'til launch.
I'm nearing the end of the game & I have to say it's in the top 5 most intense gaming experiences I've ever had :bigsmile:Quote:
Originally Posted by Proxyi second this. the violence is just amazing, but as you said the story is pretty weak.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shattered Dreamer
Final Fantasy XIII, sort of.
World of Warcraft
/shame
I've been tearing through Chrono Cross lately.
Demon's Souls and FFIII DS.
I'm still playing FFXII.
Ashe wields Excalibur!
FFIX. I'm appreciating it a lot more in this second playthrough. :D
Here soon I'm going to be starting on Penny Arcade: The Rainslick Precipice of Darkness Episode 2.
FFXIII, attempting to max out crystariums.
FFXIII
BlazBlue: Continuum Shift
Super Street Fighter IV
REACH.
Birth by Sleep.
Birth by Sleep for me too! Before that I was on a huge Zelda binge, and I'll probably return to that once I've finished this new one.
F1 2010
Best Formula One game ever.
Left 4 Dead 2 and Team Fortress 2!
Final Fantasy XIV and loving it. :D
Also, finally finished Final Fantasy XII on Tuesday night. Yay me.
I've just been playing the demo of Arkham Asylum over and over. I wish I had some net so I could play SSF4, U2, or even TF2. I'm getting sick of the demo now.
me and my girlfriend are celebrating getting back together by picking up where we left off... IN OUR DIABLO II CAMPAIGN!!!
I'm playing Ninja Gaiden Sigma now and it's like, ripping-my-hair-out difficult.
Bump!
I just finished playing Final Fantasy V and have got a bunch of new games to pick from now. I watched Danielle try Batman: Arkham Asylum last night and messed about for a minute or two while she was checking the oven, however haven't yet played any of them properly. The choices are pretty vast... I borrowed Batman from my mate, while Halo: Reach, Bayonetta and Splinter Cell: Conviction were all obtained via GAME. Meanwhile I'm just waiting on a memory card so I can start playing on my PSP - I have Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core, Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters and Killzone: Liberation (Danielle got all three along with the PSP for me for Christmas :love:) and I'll also have FFVII & FFIX (and probably eventually FFVIII) via PSN. We also still have Lost Planet 2 (borrowed) and Resident Evil 5 (purchased) which we've yet to get far into, and I have a Far Cry 2 save which I'm a little tired of after every mission ended up pretty much the same but still might jump back on just to finish off the storyline.
So much to play! This should easily get me through to March when my next batch of must-buy games come out. :) I think we'll start with Halo: Reach and Batman: Arkham Asylum, though.
Oh, and I've also purchased and played a lot of Hamster Ball with Danielle, which is absolutely mental but brilliantly fun. The only downside is that you have to finish one level in a certain amount of time to unlock the next one, and the Neon level is a nightmare. I can barely finish it on time trial within three minutes, and I have to do it in less than that? Urgh, no thanks! :( Maybe I'll start again someday and have another go from the start to see if I can get more time available to me, but it's unlikely. That game just got too hard, too fast!
Assassin's Creed Brotherhood and played Resident Evil 5 with my cousin a few days ago. I'm surgical with the shotgun.
I'm trying Lost Odyssey, we'll see how it goes. Seems very JRPGish and seeing as how well FF yah I might like it!
Black Ops on PC, enough said!
Currently going through the entire MGS series on consoles. Just finished MGS2, and started on MGS3 for the first time since 2006 my save file says. Fun times.
Halo: Reach (constantly)
Banjo-Kazooie
Chrono Cross
Depends on my mood.
Also, I've been playing a little Cities XL now and again. But mainly just black ops. I'm a beast on Villa with the AK47!
I just bought Red Faction Guerilla off the PSN by accident so I guess Ill be playing that soon. Also bought Dead Nation which is thoroughly average.....and surprisingly difficult. Still find myself going back to Need For Speed Hot Pursuit alot. What a cool game.
Mario at the moment.
World of Warcraft. Started playing again about a week before Christmas, am now level 76.
Civilization 4: Rise of Mankind: A New Dawn.
Civilization 4: Fall from Heaven 2.
Aurora.
Finished up Plants vs. Zombies except for a couple of irritating levels and growing all the zen garden.
Donkey Kong Country Returns - beautiful game. Just goes to show you can still have entertaining, innovative, 2D platforming fun in this era. It's a complete throwback to the old DKC games which were some of the best for SNES. And the difficulty is ramped up a bit so that it's not just a breeze like DK64 was. I've spent 20+ lives on a single level, but fortunately lives (and bananas) are easy to come by.
There are some crazy levels, like the standard mine cart hopping, but also new things like levels with tidal waves wiping everything off the screen every 5 seconds. The interaction with the background is superb. My favorite level is the one where you can only see your shadowy silhouette against a beautiful sunset. It's gorgeous.
My friend gifted me Mafia 2 because it was on sale for like, 5 bucks on Steam. I clocked it already, but it was pretty fun, even if the story got kinda weak and the voice acting was dull in a few places. I wouldn't say it would be worth spending full price on the game, but it might be worth renting if you're bored or something.
Anyway, back to TF2
Right now playing Assassins Creed: Brotherhood. It's basically AC2 with some minor improvements, but nothing really exciting. It's still interesting enough to play though.
Also playing a bit of GT5 but that game kinda pisses me off in some ways.
On Steam I occasionally play The Misadventures of PB Winterbottom because it was only like 50 cent (lol) in the christmas sales. It kinda reminds me of Braid.
I agree with this so much!Quote:
Originally Posted by Del Murder
Right down to the music, this game recaptured the magic of the old Donkey Kong games while still being new and like you said really,really hard.
Especially towards the end, me and my brother lost like 30 lives including the ones we picked up on the way on just one level XD.
Trying to play it again to get everything.
I just beat the first Uncharted (not bad, the direction Tomb Raider should have gone), and killzone 2.
I'm currently sucking ass at Super Street Fighter 4, and started playing Gran Turismo 5. I love Cammy, but I suck with her nowadays. I hate how you have to go through your license test every new gran turismo. Boring.
Quite a few games actually...
PSP:
Dissidia - Mostly farming for end game equipment
FFVII - Picked it up on PSN and just having fun playing the old game on the go.
DS:
FFVI Advanced - Two files, one I'm grinding everyone to lv.99 cause I've never done it before. The other is a more legitimate file, but its unique cause I'm trying to rush through the story so my party is a bit underleveled (or is it the right level? ) so I'm having a blast playing a semi-difficult version of the game.
PS2:
FFXII - Finally started that second playthrough I've been talking about for four years now. :roll2 Been having a blast and rediscovering crap I had completely forgotten about. Screw the naysayers, this game is gold.
PS3:
I've been neglecting the system for a while now. My Wii is on hold until I get a few of these games under my belt.
Mirror's Edge - I'm very surprised how much I like this game, though I have to agree with Tycho Brahe from Penny Arcade that combat is the game's biggest weakness, it just doesn't mesh well with everything else in the title and I feel running is more fun than being forced to take out X amount of guards to proceed. Hopefully they will fix this in a sequel.
Demon's Souls - Stopped playing due to minor frustration and other crap irl coming up, so I picked it up again with the intent of finally beating it. I'm having a blast and I must commend the creator's cause they are right when they say the grueling difficulty creates a bigger sense of accomplishment than anything else.
Street Fighter IV - Couldn't find a cheap used copy of SSFIV so I settled with the original just to get the feel of the series. I could never get into BlazeBlue so SFIV is giving me a good taste of 2D fighting love. Even if the game feels archaic and incredibly slow. I've been spoiled in the last fifteen years since SFII so going "back to basics" is kinda a lesson of unlearning everything SFA, SFIII, and GGX has taught me. Online play has been fun, even if I am still a noob.
White Knight Chronicles - I was really skeptical about this game up until I discovered the combo system... It may be limited but good god is it fun to use. I've barely started the story cause I spending more of my time doing quests just so I can play with the combo system and power level. The character creation system is okay but I was more annoyed with them being relegated to nobody silent support character. If I had known this, I would have named my character Gogo or Kimarhi... The plot is very reminiscent of Vision of Escaflowne.
Little Big Planet - Yeah, I know the sequel is almost here but I've been having fun playing the original. Not very far into it yet. It's adorable though...
Been playing the new Goldeneye 007 for the Wii. The story and gameplay is quite different from the original, as expected, but I am enjoying it so far! Haven't had the chance to try out the multiplayer though, but once my brothers come over to play, I'll get to that. Somehow I like playing FPS on the Wii as it feels more natural than playing on a standard controller.
Mass Effect 2
Dear god I haven't been this hooked on a game in a long time.
Finished Red Dead Redemption 2 weeks ago. Awesome
Now I'll be finishing Bayonnetta real soon
Finished Enslaved last week, that was really enjoyable.
Started played a lot of Dragon Ball: Raging Blast again, having fun with that customizing and collecting the few remaining items and attacks.
Will get back to Uncharted soon.
Dragon Age: Origins and I hate it. I don't really know why either, I loved KotOR and Mass Effect. :-/
Probably because it feels like nothing but a medieval fantasy theme mod for either games
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.
If it felt like a mod, it'd be great :pQuote:
Originally Posted by kotora
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by kotora
The other reasons as to why this game is :bou::bou::bou::bou: are a mystery to me.
FEAR. For some reason, I never played it. Very good so far.
Final Fantasy VII, as well.
Ohh, and Dragon Age: Origins.
Fallout 3 (Still)
Fable 3 (Still)
War of the Lions
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.
Knights of the Crystals on facebook.........
I'm replaying Uncharted: Drake's Fortune. Last time I played it was before it had trophy support. :p
My buddy brought over his moded xbox so we've been playing lots of mario and The Legend of Zelda!
Final Fantasy XII and loving every minute of it. :D
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.
Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow
Giving MAG a try before going back to playing through MGS 1 till 4. Currently working on MGS3, only MGS4 to go.
Shadowgate 64. :monster:
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
Songbird lol
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.
Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion :bigsmile:
FFT War of the lions on PSP and it's pretty damn addictive
PSP: Persona 3 Portable
DS: Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light
PC: Mass Effect 2
Killzone 2. I'm surprised, it's the first game I ever played that makes fun use of the sixaxis controller. Good times.
I am currently playing through Lufia & 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!Quote:
Originally Posted by Roogle
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shattered Dreamer
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. :(Quote:
Originally Posted by DMKA
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?Quote:
Originally Posted by DMKA
Me? I'm playing K Superstar.
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.
A buddy got me Battlefield Bad Company 2 so I've been playing that. It's nice to play Battlefield games again :D
I resumed my character for a bit, too: a Bosmer stealth/archer/mage/vampire.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shattered Dreamer
But more often I've been popping in Just Cause 2. Perhaps the guiltiest pleasure around, but my goodness is it fun.
Minecraft.
Just.... aaaaaaaaaaarrrrrgh.
Minecraft.
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.
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
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.
Currently playing: Borderlands: Game of the Year Edition.
I like how it's FPS with RPG elements.
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.
We can kill zombies together if you get L4D
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.
I'm going to start on Super Mario Bros. 1 today and might continue my first playthrough on Diablo II tomorrow.
I picked up Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War II + Chaos Rising in a THQ sale over the weekend. I am so very pleased.
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
Gran Turismo 5 and Broken Sword Shadow of the Templars DS.
GT5 is a great game but not really up to Polyphony's standards.:/
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.
God of War III on Titan mode. Honestly it wasn't that hard until the last hour or so and now it feels masochistic.
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! :)
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!
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
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.
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.
I am playing PC game. My favorite game is Call Of Duty MW 4. It is shooter game. I am fan of this game.
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.
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 ... >_>
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.
The Legend of Dragoon and Minecraft.
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 :)
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.
I really need to finish FFXII...
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!
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.
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wolf Kanno
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shoeberto
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by ShoebertoYeah, 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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wolf Kanno
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.
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. :)
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!
since hearing that Dragon age 2 was to be i decided to play through number one again...... forgot how good it actually is
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.
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, smurf 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.
LBP2 and still working on finishing FFIX.
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
Mass Effect 2, really good game.
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.
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.
You can read about the Return Policy for Gamestop.com and its stores here: Gamestop.com Return Policy. Look at the bottom of the page to find the return policy for the actual stores.Quote:
Originally Posted by Depression Moon
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.
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.
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 creditQuote:
Originally Posted by RoogleYou can read about the Return Policy for Gamestop.com and its stores here: Gamestop.com Return Policy. Look at the bottom of the page to find the return policy for the actual stores.Quote:
Originally Posted by Depression Moon
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.
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?
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.
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.
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!
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.
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!
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.
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.
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 :(
Legend of Kage 2. This is my first time playing it though I played the hell out of the original.
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.
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.
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.
Super Smash Bros. Brawl and Melee. I decided to dust them off and I'm trying to pick my skills back up.
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.
Mainly just Starcraft 2. I want to get ME1 and 2 for PC as well, I should grab them off Steam some time.
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..
I like to play games online and console both.
Right now i am playing Street fighter, Crysis 2 and Call of duty...:D
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.
Final Fantasy III. During the battle segments, I exercise. :3
LA Noire :bigsmile:
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
Final Fantasy XII
Nothing the matter with Vaan, give the Orphan a break ^.^
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
@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.
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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Red Dead Redemption.
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.
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
>>> 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:
Thanks to eternal essence I'm back to playing Resonance of Fate. I love you Leanne, please become real and marry me~~~ :heart:
Half-Life 2.
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.
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by TrollHunter
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).
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.
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by SkybladePokemon XD IS awesome. Easily the best entry in the series. An actual plot, a large number of interesting gameplay changes... Wonderful game.Quote:
Originally Posted by TrollHunter
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).
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~
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.
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.
pokemon white and pokemon tower defense
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...
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 (SPOILER)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.Quote:
Originally Posted by xXMagicalPalomXx
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. :)
Welp, SMAC has devoured my soul. I'm sure it's all I'll be playing for the next few weeks, at least.
Uncharted 2
Super Mario Bros. 2
I returned Killzone 3. The story was good, but it was really short and the online sucked.
Pokemon White
I feel like I live on route 3 b/c of all the breeding I do >.<
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.
Danielle and I are having a go at LittleBigPlanet at the moment as part of the Sony PS3 welcome back thing.
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.
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.
I'm still playing SMAC. Also I've recently started playing the expansion, Alien Crossfire (aka SMAX. Love the nicknames for these games.)
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'.
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!Quote:
Originally Posted by Pike
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by JiroDo 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!Quote:
Originally Posted by Pike
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.
>>> FF4 The after years.. I have been playing it for more than a month..:eep: The game just doesnt want to END!..:luca:
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
That sounds like reasonable foreign policy to me.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pike
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 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.
We never really get to the nuke stage, we (or more specifically, Danielle) tend to get bored and stop playing before then.
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. :pQuote:
Originally Posted by NeoCracker
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Vivi22
Alice: Madness Returns
Probably the first game I've played this gen and said "Wow, this is long. when is it going to end?"