What Video Games Are You Playing?

InformationGeek · January 10, 2011, 03:14:05 PM

Resident Evil 4: Beaten Seperate Ways and now I'm going for another run through on the game. As such, I'll be saving up for the Chicago Typewriter, an unlimited ammo tommy gun! Feel my wrath parastic heads!

Doggett · January 11, 2011, 12:46:09 PM

An oldie but a goodie.

Hang on, I'm getting somethuing on the motion tracker...

12 metres...

8 metres...

4 metres...

Newt · January 11, 2011, 01:34:41 PM

(OK that's freaky: that's the second post in two days mentioning a game my youngest son has been looking for!)

Jack · January 11, 2011, 02:40:12 PM

Here's what I'm driving in Gran Turismo 5 these days:

I've only had it up to 295 mph, but I'm trying for 300

theedinburghbteam · January 13, 2011, 05:39:15 PM

I got my xbox working again, and am playing through Fallout: New Vegas.

Which is freaking awesome. Wandering into raider camps with some badass weapons and just shooting everyone is always fun. And I love a scavenge.

Couchtr26 · January 13, 2011, 08:17:03 PM

Quote from: theedinburghbteam on January 13, 2011, 05:39:15 PM
I got my xbox working again, and am playing through Fallout: New Vegas.

Which is freaking awesome. Wandering into raider camps with some badass weapons and just shooting everyone is always fun. And I love a scavenge.

I have to agree. Between playing some old NES (Astyanax and Megaman 2) as well as Genesis (Death Duel and The Immortal) been playing Bayonetta. For some reason, I keep hoping that I can get all the remaining achievements on going through it again. Which is sadly proving to be untrue.

Mofo Rising · January 14, 2011, 02:10:25 AM

It only took three years, but I finally polished off Eternal Sonata. Beautiful game, hampered by a bit of broken mechanics. The combat system could be really good, and they certainly made an effort to make it so. Unfortunately, they forgot to supply enemies that couldn't be killed by the same tactic (spring from behind, attack, polish off with special move) before they even have a chance to attack. The game could have been measurably better by supplying fewer enemies who were harder to kill.

Still, beautiful game. Longest damn ending I've ever sat through. Literally, I demolished the last boss (not difficult either) and then watched the ending unfold for 45 minutes.

I also played through Assassin's Creed II, which also could have been great if they didn't through in a ridiculous amount of tchotchke collecting. I don't enjoy searching for and collecting gewgaws, but I'm forced to do it because I'm obsessive. Great game, though, and the only other 360 game outside of the original Bioshock where I actually got all the achievements.

Next up on the docket is Bioshock 2 and Dead Space.

Used Meathook · January 16, 2011, 01:53:32 PM

Looking forward to Dead Space 2, although I never got around to playing the first one.

I have a huge backlog of games that need finishing...or starting for that matter:

- Assassin's Creed 2 (Haven't even started playing it yet)
- Borderlands (About 4 hours into it)
- Fallout: New Vegas (About 6 hours into it)
- Call of Duty: Black Ops (Haven't even tried the single player portion yet)
- Splinter Cell: Conviction (Haven't even started playing it yet)
- Lost Odyssey (Haven't even started playing it yet)

Umaril The Unfeathered · January 18, 2011, 01:08:11 PM

Right now I'm engaging in some good old backward-compatible goodness on the Xbox-360. I'm playing the first Fatal Frame and a wild-western vampire shooter called Darkwatch.

Darkwatch is great: "Death fears those who wear the badge"....

Jack · January 18, 2011, 01:50:36 PM

Been playing Enslaved Odyssey to the West for the last couple of evenings. It's pretty fun. The characters are quite good. The combat so far is basic button mashing, but I'm in the mood for a good button masher. There's a lot of platforming, and a big part of the challenge is figuring out which climbing path you need to take to get where you need to go. And you can have the other character distract the enemy while you scurry from one safe spot to the next, which puts some strategy in the mix.

I didn't realize Dead Space 2 was coming out in just 1 week. I've got it pre-ordered, so I better blast through Enslaved ASAP

I'm pretty much done with Gran Turismo 5. They've got a new series of 5 races they add each week, so I'll probably check in for those, but other than that I've done just about everything I want to do, and done it many many times. Well, I might drive around the Nurburgring once or twice a day lol.

Couchtr26 · January 21, 2011, 04:03:26 AM

Quote from: Umaril The Unfeathered on January 18, 2011, 01:08:11 PM
Right now I'm engaging in some good old backward-compatible goodness on the Xbox-360. I'm playing the first Fatal Frame and a wild-western vampire shooter called Darkwatch.

Darkwatch is great: "Death fears those who wear the badge"....

I remember Darkwatch. I didn't like it for the beginning. I'm not a fan of the opening levels and gave up early on it. I have seen some more advanced into the game play and it looks like it gets better. Isn't this the one that also had some controversy at the time?

Umaril The Unfeathered · January 21, 2011, 07:49:01 PM

Quote from: Umaril The Unfeathered on January 18, 2011, 01:08:11 PM
Right now I'm engaging in some good old backward-compatible goodness on the Xbox-360. I'm playing the first Fatal Frame and a wild-western vampire shooter called Darkwatch.

Darkwatch is great: "Death fears those who wear the badge"....

Quote from: Couchtr26 on January 21, 2011, 04:03:26 AM
I remember Darkwatch. I didn't like it for the beginning. I'm not a fan of the opening levels and gave up early on it. I have seen some more advanced into the game play and it looks like it gets better. Isn't this the one that also had some controversy at the time?

I'm not exactly sure of what controversy that might be, unless it's the cut scene where our hero, Jerciho Cross, is visited in the nude by the spirit of a dead Darkwatch agent that informs him that he can't drink water because it'll kill him.

You see everything on this girl too, nipples included. Maybe that might be it?

Anyhow I'm inclined to agree..the game is nothing spectacular, but the storyline and the extra powers you get as a vampire (both good and evil powers) are pretty cool. Some neat weapons too. And you get "bloodvision" which allows you to see the undead too, which was a nice little touch!

Not a bad game, but for 5 bucks (and 2 free original XBox games thrown in) I decided to join the Darkwatch

retrorussell · January 21, 2011, 10:15:14 PM

Rygar-NES

Couchtr26 · January 21, 2011, 10:54:00 PM

Quote from: Umaril The Unfeathered on January 21, 2011, 07:49:01 PM
Quote from: Umaril The Unfeathered on January 18, 2011, 01:08:11 PM
Right now I'm engaging in some good old backward-compatible goodness on the Xbox-360. I'm playing the first Fatal Frame and a wild-western vampire shooter called Darkwatch.

Darkwatch is great: "Death fears those who wear the badge"....

Quote from: Couchtr26 on January 21, 2011, 04:03:26 AM
I remember Darkwatch. I didn't like it for the beginning. I'm not a fan of the opening levels and gave up early on it. I have seen some more advanced into the game play and it looks like it gets better. Isn't this the one that also had some controversy at the time?

I'm not exactly sure of what controversy that might be, unless it's the cut scene where our hero, Jerciho Cross, is visited in the nude by the spirit of a dead Darkwatch agent that informs him that he can't drink water because it'll kill him.

You see everything on this girl too, nipples included. Maybe that might be it?

Anyhow I'm inclined to agree..the game is nothing spectacular, but the storyline and the extra powers you get as a vampire (both good and evil powers) are pretty cool. Some neat weapons too. And you get "bloodvision" which allows you to see the undead too, which was a nice little touch!

Not a bad game, but for 5 bucks (and 2 free original XBox games thrown in) I decided to join the Darkwatch

Yeah the nude agent was the thing that aroused a little ire. I think it was not top priority but it was billed big at the time. I think although inaccurately they billed as the first sex scene in a major video game. Which, I think was over the top but it did get a few fuming people. I remember one for the Genesis called Deathwatch. A little violent but people hated it at the time though tame now in comparison of things.

Mofo Rising · January 22, 2011, 02:05:19 AM

Quote from: retrorussell on January 21, 2011, 10:15:14 PM
Rygar-NES

I remember this game being around when I was a kid. Incomprehensible until I actually spent some time with it, when it then became one of the best games I'd played.

Reminds me of Metal Gear. The game was a big un-understandable joke. Then I actually made it past it past the first hour and it was the deepest game I'd ever played. Deep for the NES era that is.