What Video Games Are You Playing?

[retrorussell]

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (Playstation).  I'm hooked on getting as much castle percentage as possible: I've opened all rooms in both castles (regular and upside-down), and now am using a glitch to get outside the castle walls to exceed my percentage over 200%.  I now stand at over 266%.

[zeronx]

Ive been playing a little Borderlands 2 in the last few days. If you want to play on xbox live add me : Extwin. Awesom on the SOTN castle %. Amazing game :)

[HappyGilmore]

Golden Axe 3

[Couchtr26]

Borderlands 2 and enjoying it, love how Pandora has opened up and has more variety. 

[Jack]

Playing Skyrim and I joined the Imperial army, and I notice that my commander is voiced by Claudia Christian, who played Lt. Cmdr. Susan Ivanova in Babylon 5.  She's not one to mess with - I just say "Yes maam" and get the heck out of there     She voices about 15 different characters in the game I guess, but that's the first one where I've noticed her.

[lester1/2jr]

http://atari.com/arcade#!/arcade/centipede/play

[God the Worms]

Fallout: New Vegas
Tekken Tag Tournament 2
SkullMonkeys

[Trevor]

Plants vs Zombies: great game. I make a cameo appearance in this as the slightly disheveled newspaper zombie who freaks out when his paper is destroyed. 

[retrorussell]

Been trying to make a Youtube video of VIDEO PINBALL (1979, Atari).  The overlay screws up the video so it's not going to work.  I used to love this game back in the day.  Since there's been so many video pinball games since, though, it's kind of dated.

[Jack]

Got the platinum for Skyrim



That's twenty plat's now, what a nerd 

Great game, it had 6 main storylines that were all quite interesting, and a gazillion sidequests.  Pretty immersive experience overall.

Started on Uncharted 3 last night and that seems really fun so far.  Loved the first two games so I'm sure I'll enjoy this one too.

[Mofo Rising]

The Binding of Isaac

This Rogue/Zelda clone is one of the most mean-spirited games I have played in years, but it is fantastic.

The back story is that a religious fanatic mother heard voices to kill her own child, and that child, which is you as the player, must escape from her homicidal range by escaping into a dungeon crawl. The main game is you making you way through various procedurally-generated rooms, gathering power-ups and fighting enemies. You must fight mini-bosses, gaining power-ups until you can eventually kill your own mother.

I'm not going to lie, it is purposefully messed up. You might find a wire hanger which ups your damage, or even make a deal with The Devil to increase your chances of surviving. I can't even explain all the ways that this game is offensive to, well, everybody.

However, the game play is top-notch. The Binding of Isaac is one of the best dungeon-crawlers in years. It's amazingly balanced. The more you play the more the game opens up. Should I mention that you start out as a simple baby, but every power-up or enhancement changes the appearance of your own icon. You start out as an innocent, but by the time you get powerful enough to face the game on its own terms, your characters has become a completely debauched, almost horrific figure.

I should mention that not everything is available to you at the start. The more you play, the more the game opens up. This is one of the best games I've played in years, and I'm completely obsessed with it.

It is also completely demented. If you're familiar with Christian doctrine, like I am, this game is beyond offensive. Mean-spirited. But the game play is incredible.

This is the best game I've played in years.

[Jack]

Played the first third of Uncharted 3.  I dunno, it's identical to the previous games, just in a different setting.  I know precisely what's going to happen ten minutes before it happens.  Very disappointing.  There's nothing wrong with the game per se - if you've never played an Uncharted game before this would be really fun.  But since I've played this exact same game twice before, it's getting really old at this point.  Maybe it'll get better later on, if I decide to play it any more.

Motorstorm Apocalypse - arcade racer that takes place in an earthquake ravaged city.  Another very ordinary game.  I loved the previous game, Motorstorm Pacific Rift, which took place out in the forests, mountains and even volcanic valleys.  Those tracks were so fun to blast around at 100 mph.  I just don't enjoy these urban tracks at all.  They're not a good match for the arcadey driving physics that the game employs.  And there's so much crap flying at you at high speed that I'll quite often run into stuff that I couldn't even see until it was 10 feet in front of me.  The way the career mode is laid out is extremely restrictive as well, forcing you do complete race A, then B, then C, and you can't even choose what type of vehicle you want to use.  It's fun, you know, for a few days.  Nothing like the months worth of addictive gameplay that Pacific Rift had though.

Also playing a bit of Gran Turismo 5.  They add 3-5 new races every couple of weeks, and since I haven't played it in a few months I've got quite a few of them that have accumulated.  So that's fun.

I dunno, I've got quite a backlog of games, I need to go through them and find something that catches my fancy. 

[Leah]

This:

for $10.00, it's a bargain !

[Jack]

I'm about 8 hours into a 24 hour endurance race around the Nurburgring in Gran Turismo 5.  It's night, it's been raining cats and dogs for 7 straight hours, so I've got no traction and can barely see where I'm going.  Oddly enough it's quite addictive.   

[The Gravekeeper]

Finished Assassin's Creed 3 recently. I really liked it, thought it started off great, and I love that it kept all sides in the conflict morally grey (then again, you're playing a guy raised in an isolated Native village during the American Revolution. It wasn't gonna end well for him no matter who won.) Too bad bits of it just didn't gel and the very end of the game kind of sucks; it's still going to go into my regular rotation of games that I just pick up and play over and over, though.