No thread title can be as weird as Duke Nukem Forever coming out! (video games)

[Killdozersnakeboy]

I got Bit.Trip Beat and Bit.Trip Runner off Steam today. I've had a quick bash on each. Both seem super addictive and in later stages super hard. Looking forward to getting stuck in.

[davy]

Mini Ninjas!



I downloaded the demo this morning. FUN!

[milly balgeary]

PS3 dicks! Too cool for skool.

Man, alistarr, I fought flamelurker to about half his life....then he fucked me. GODS!

oh man, that's hard. flamelurker is a monster. the bit after him is well worth it, though. go in there after you beat him (maybe go spend your souls first, just in case!). -i think you will find it highly worth it.

There are bits in the corners where flamelurker can't really get at you, or you can stay at a distance and use soul arrow/poison cloud, etc. i like using my winged spear and a big shield, though - just get in there and roll out of the way of his attacks and jab from behind the shield. he don't like it up 'im, no sirree. i actually play keepaway with a bunch of the bosses but some of them i think just call for a proper fight, you know?

i would offer to come help but we are on different servers :-(

I have a winged spear plus 3 maybe I'll try that. I hardly ever use the spear, but he's making me fuckin mad. Four times he killed me, once I almost had his ass, and then I almost threw the game in the garbage. I'm usually into throwing flame balls at shit, but that don't work with ... flamelurker. He's a DICK. I am going to have to get my spear and my purple flame shield, go to town on him tomorrow. Man, I also fought that thing in the Queen's tower ..of latria?... the fool's god or whatever. I got all the way down there, shut the arrow machine off, and it was incredibly frightening, and wonderful. I walk into this large room. Her followers are running around, and I throw a couple flames at her and run up and ... she fucks me six ways from Sunday.

[milly balgeary]

Demon Souls reminds me of what I thought of making as a videogame when I was a child. If you never get to play it, it'll be sad.

[alistarr*]

he is pretty full on, as bosses go. you know that one of the two paths to him is way shorter than the other, right? just so you're not wasting loads of time getting back to him every time. i think it's the one you get to if you turn right, and then you just have to jump down a load of broken platforms.

the winged spear is cool because you can combo three light attacks in a row while still hiding behind your shield just in case he counter attacks. but you probably want to play safer than that and keep some stamina in reserve. and sometimes he does a big area attack that you need to get away from. if you're really struggling then i would recommend dancing with him around one of the bits of root or bone or whatever they are in the far corners and just using soul arrow to kill him to death slowly.

that woman after the arrow machine is intense! there is a secret to that one as well which i should probably tell you in case you don't already know it - don't read the next paragraph if you want to enjoy your frustration a little longer:

there is a passageway up a tower to the right of the stairs to her area, and if you follow it all the way along you will eventually come to a dude sitting quietly on a chair or something up above the boss area. if you don't kill him before yuo start the boss fight, then each time you get near to killing the boss he will revive her. forever, i think. neato!

she is an awesome boss though. i love that whole level. my favourites are the regular things that look like the dalek/human hybrids from newish doctor who. i love how you get too close and they just grab you and impale you and bang, you're on the floor with 10% health and they're just standing there waiting to finish you off. beastly.

[milly balgeary]

That guy! I remember that guy! I let his ass LIVE. I'm gonna fuck that guy UP...shows what happens when you are merciful. Girl or Chris or Whisky -- bought a PS3 to get her Demonsouls and Killzone 3 on. You got that shit?

Man..I will get that spear and go to town on that bastard. I tried soul arrow and running around pillars but I found it too mucky because of the lock on system. I'm gonna get him tonight.

[alistarr*]

i didn't get killzone because i've hardly played any black ops or halo and i feel like a chump for constantly buying gun games and not playing them (okay, i've played a bunch of halo, but not nearly enough)!

only three weeks now until 3DS day. i'm highly excited. not so much about the 3D thing but, y'know, portable street fighter 4. i am a chump.

flamelurker: purple flame shield, spear, soul arrow. roll backwards to evade his attacks. if you're in range, poke him. if you find yourself further away use soul arrow and it will do beastly damage. fireball will do nothing to him. he laughs in the face of fireballs. you can also enchant your spear with "sticky white stuff" if you want and it is awesome. get in there and take him to pieces!

make sure you back off if you run out of stamina. you regain stamina faster if your shield is down.

[milly balgeary]

I killed him, and Dragon God. Amazing! I turned it black tendency and killed the primeval demon. Then, accidentally, whilst looking for spiderstone, I used Rage of God on the filthy man merchant and so he got all aggro and I could not buy sharpstone or hardstone. I would have had to farm that shit, which is not a committment I am willing to make, so I restarted.

I started as a barbarian this time. Oh man, I was out of my depth. I was HURTING man. The barbarian is WEAK. So I started again as a royal. I ran through 1/1 like nobody's business, then I  went to the Storm Shrine and killed the skeleton with the longbow and came back and killed the red dragon with it, then I killed the giant knight. Back to the storm shrine, and I got invaded by a black phantom chick. We stared at each other, and she put down a skeleton, and then ... she BOWED. Then she gave me shit. She gave me 5 rings, and a blessed mace +5, then left. With this my weak royal ass can kill those black katana skeletons, which are nasty as FUCK. That fat bastard with the bird on his head got me with his tongue, when I made a mistake, but I'll get his ass next time.

This game continues to be practically the best game ever created.

[alistarr*]

ha, that's awesome. your weak royal ass owes that lady big time!

i am going in on flamelurker tonight - i haven't even started that world this time around so i'm not looking forward to the laughing guys again, but whatever. they need to be taught a pointy sheilded lesson.

[milly balgeary]

Yeah man, I just offed the armored spider and fat adjundicator bastard. I am rolling through worlds, like Quantum Leap's Scott Bakula on some kind of Martian roid. I got invaded by some dude, and we had a long, complex fight. But my trusty mace worked a charm and I gave him the usher-out, to the nexus. I gotta take on Flamelurker after some mexican food with some friends. Each margarita will be like a potion of flamelurker murder. I should be able to do it this time, without too many issues. He's a shitbag. My new Royal is a mass murderer! I am fucking demon chicks, and eating grass, and wearin rings, and shit. It's good. Thanks to my demon lady invader.

[alistarr*]

man, it took me ages to get through armour spider level. that fat guy right at the start killed me, then i went in on him again and as i was getting him a black phantom appeared and pushed me off the ledge, then the third time i just cast poison cloud on him and had a nap - no way i was dying three times in a row to the first enemy in the level!

then i made it through without too much incident (there were more dogs than i remembered though) and took that spider down and it was bedtime.

that talk of eating grass makes me want to play RE4 again. it is too scary for me though.

[milly balgeary]

I got the talisman of beasts, it allows me to cast both miracles and magic! i'm just kind of wandering around, with my morning star that is blessed + 5 and my viscous composite longbow + 4. that GAME is like a JOB.

[milly balgeary]

Man, I been playin Infinity Blade on my phone. Shit's addictive! I also downloaded Final Fantasy 2 for my iphone, not sure where I'm gonna find the time to sit around playing that shit on my phone, but I was hungry for some shit like that.

I have Dragon Age 2 here, but I haven't played any of it yet. It's intimidating. The first one was OK, and had some good parts, but I never went crazy for it, not really. I'm battling a serious hangover, so I can't muster the courage to play it.

[alistarr*]

i'm sitting tight waiting for my 3DS to arrive. next week. going to be a boring week i guess!

but i've also been playing hl2ep2 which is really cool. and vanquish which i really enjoyed but which didn't grab me with its high score hooks the same way bayonetta did. B+ for that game.

[milly balgeary]

I'm considering gettin a 3ds. I'm just NOT sure. the 3D though... I'm a fool for gimmickry.

[davy]

As a result of catching baseball fever last week, I bought my first new XBox game in a year or so: MLB 2k11. I've been a couch potato ever since. Anybody else have this, or planning to get it?  Some 1-on-1 would probably be fun.

[Aglaya]

My room mate, playing Lego Indiana Jones, just announced "I just built a bridge.  Bitches looove bridges."  I told him it was true, we totally do.  Then I think he died.

[jebreject]

Man, I finally started Fallout: New Vegas recently, and now it's all I wanna do

This game is what FO3 should have been. I mean, don't get me wrong, FO3 was great, but this game has the personality that FO3 lacked; it's smarter, it's funnier, and all around a better game. It's a lot closer in spirit to the original two, and I'm glad they incorporated a number of elements from Van Buren (codename for the original, cancelled FO3). The way reputation works is great, and there are a number of seemingly minor improvements to game mechanics that really makes game play feel a lot smoother. That said, it's still the same buggy game engine, and the less-bleak setting actually works against the game at points, in that the graphics don't seem quite as impressive--though I wager that has more to do with the bugginess than anything else, 'cause it really is a lot more pleasant to look at, and adding a little color to the expansive post-apocalyptic wasteland goes a long, long way.

I'm trying to play through the game according to my real life anarchist principles, which is pretty fun, but difficult at times, and I feel like a total shit for helping the NCR (not necessarily Big Bad Quasi-Fascists like the Enclave, but a pretty perfect analog to U.S.-style representative democracy, and definitely not as squeaky clean as the NCR was in FO2) take out the Powder Gangers, a group of escaped prisoners who occasionally shake down towns and rob caravans but overall seem pretty harmless, at least compared to some of the factions fighting for control of the Mojave Wasteland. The Legion, holy shit, fuck those guys. Anyway, I know y'all have played through this and beat it already--maybe several times--but I'm on my first playthrough and having such a great time with it.

[FreddyKnuckles]

I liked fo3 better. But I get why you all prefer nv, I really do. I did one squeaky clean guy then I came back and played against as a bloodthirsty murderer. You didn't miss much with the powder gangers. They give you like one mission, and they still attack you all the time.  I'm not going to spoil but be sure to report back how you handle the main quest. Should be interesting with your anarchist.

Are you an evil or nice anarchist or something in between.

[Dick]

I still haven't played this.  I am feeling the pressure to get it out of the way because that new Deus Ex is coming out, as well as the new Elder Scrolls game, so my gaming schedule is theoretically booked pretty solid later this year.

[milly balgeary]

I haven't played this shit neither, and it's still in its slipcase. Just can't bring myself to do it. I guess...maybe I'm just not into Vegas.

[alistarr*]

i said i was going to wait until a version came out bundled with all the inevitable dlc but i'm not ready for it yet - my second fallout 3 playthrough (with all the dlc) left my pretty much exhausted! maybe next year.

my 3DS is out for delivery, but i'm going to be at work until long after the end of the delivering day. i can almost see the delivery depot from my office window - it's so frustrating there's no way to have a say in when/how you get your stuff until they've already failed to deliver once.

anyhow, i've been playing kuru kuru kururin while i wait. it's really awesome. it takes me back, in much the same way as negotiating thin wooden walkways in N64 zelda dungeons does (how long do you take to get the camera lined up properly and your dude facing in the right direction?), to times when the manual control method played a part in setting the difficulty of a challenge. sneaking through these slim paths in an awkwardly shaped vehicle becomes so much harder when all you've got is a slightly stiff GBA d-pad to help you along your way. i like it, anyway, though it's been a reminder that i'll miss my street fighter stick when i'm street fighting on the bus.

[elpollodiablo]

Man, I finally started Fallout: New Vegas recently, and now it's all I wanna do

This game is what FO3 should have been. I mean, don't get me wrong, FO3 was great, but this game has the personality that FO3 lacked; it's smarter, it's funnier, and all around a better game. It's a lot closer in spirit to the original two, and I'm glad they incorporated a number of elements from Van Buren (codename for the original, cancelled FO3). The way reputation works is great, and there are a number of seemingly minor improvements to game mechanics that really makes game play feel a lot smoother. That said, it's still the same buggy game engine, and the less-bleak setting actually works against the game at points, in that the graphics don't seem quite as impressive--though I wager that has more to do with the bugginess than anything else, 'cause it really is a lot more pleasant to look at, and adding a little color to the expansive post-apocalyptic wasteland goes a long, long way.

I'm trying to play through the game according to my real life anarchist principles, which is pretty fun, but difficult at times, and I feel like a total shit for helping the NCR (not necessarily Big Bad Quasi-Fascists like the Enclave, but a pretty perfect analog to U.S.-style representative democracy, and definitely not as squeaky clean as the NCR was in FO2) take out the Powder Gangers, a group of escaped prisoners who occasionally shake down towns and rob caravans but overall seem pretty harmless, at least compared to some of the factions fighting for control of the Mojave Wasteland. The Legion, holy shit, fuck those guys. Anyway, I know y'all have played through this and beat it already--maybe several times--but I'm on my first playthrough and having such a great time with it.

I agree with all of this, but I still kind of lost interest after about 50 hours of gameplay. I haven't turned my Xbox on in maybe 3 months.

[FreddyKnuckles]

See, I lost interest too. Perhaps its having played fo3 first?  Also having played it a bajillion hours? Also the political aspect eventually got a little tedious?

That said 50hrs of gameplay is still mighty respectable for a modern game. I bet you could have fun squeezing out another character.

[Thermofusion]

I've been sinking myself into the multiplayer in Assassin's Creed Brotherhood. They did a great job making something playable and fun out of the basic mechanics of the base game. The opportunities for bluffing and mind games make it unlike anything else I've played recently, and the cat-and-mouse aspect gives me the same feeling that I used to get playing the board game Scotland Yard when I was a kid. Case in point: I'm fleeing my pursuer through serpentine streets. I round a corner, and quickly blend into a crowd of NPCs standing around a bustling marketplace. My pursuer runs right past me and disappears. Then, noticing I've fortuitously ended up close to the player who I've been assigned to kill, I wander over to a bench, donning a disguise, and quietly sit down between a couple of scruffy Italian dudes. I sit there and wait patiently for my target to wander closer. As he walks by, I silently reach out from the bench and stab him in the back with a dagger. I leap up and flee into the night. So good.

Also, I rented out Homefront and Crysis 2. With the former, I lasted only three enemies into the campaign. Three enemies.Ugly, clunky, offensive. Crysis, though, seems pretty awesome.