have been playing a bunch of saints row III lately. was not a massive fan of SR2, and found i got bored of Just Cause 2 pretty quickly. when it comes to sandbox games, i’m still firmly in the GTA camp, and loved 4 and the DLC—i prefer the stories to the lunacy of SR2. SR3 is pretty fun, though; initially, the vibe and the aesthetic drowned out the gameplay: the whole design scheme and narrative voice is crass and junky and attuned to a 15 year old’s TV-damaged sensibility, but once you get used to shooting swathes of stockings-sporting villainesses, its okay. the story is still pretty stupid and none of the characters particularly likeable, and at first it was the enjoyable sidemissions which kept me playing—never get bored of insurance fraud.
a lot of the missions were pretty frustrating and uninspired, and mostly involved shooting the shit out of endless waves of bad guys, with all the tension and jeapoardly of a schwarzenegger action movie. moreover, it was boring, so i switched the skill level to ‘casual’ and am now just playing through to see how weird it gets. there are some impressive and imaginative missions in there—yesterday i played through one set inside a computer mainframe which reminded me of rez meets psychonauts, and tbh such digressions (of which they are several) make me love this game a little, which i didn’t expect.
its still pretty tacky and not massively polished though—like, a bunch of missions find you surrounded by endless bad dudes after completing the objective (fucking with a computer or whatever), and the mission just ends, you get your points, and you find yourself returned to wherever the mission began. not that i would’ve wanted to kill the rest of the bad dudes, but i always find myself thinking, “okay, he stopped the timebomb, but now how did he escape the bad dudes’ lair?”, and am a bit stunned that they just don’t bother with the aftermath, and it fucks with the suspended disbelief a little.
am i being crazy here? anyone else playing this and bothered by it?
i tried it, and found it a bit too flakey. ie didn’t enjoy the vehicle controls (much like SR2), lots of baddies on screen resulted in a complete mess. and vehicles themselves were daft looking.
i did like the boat i found with the rocket launcher, where i decided to just park up to the beach and endlessly destroy some gangs cars on the roads.
if they’d toned down on the purple too...
so i just got a PS3 and some games as a christmas bonus!
congrats! get WipeoutHD ASAP
Woohoo! Nice bonus.
hmmm
bastion
why wont this dude shut the fuck up
it’s been an epic sleep deprived few days. i picked up Red Dead Redemption and MW3 to go along with the new Uncharted which came with the console. waiting to start Uncharted until my holidays begin because once i pop that game in, i’m not touching the others!
what’s Wipeout like? (i honestly don’t know alot about gaming) that game’s been around for a while, no?
yeah, it’s a futuristic hover racer with weapons and speed boosts and awesome music you can sub out for your own soundtrack and like 5 different play modes including one where the goal isn’t to win the race but to blow up as many of your opponents as possible before time runs out
seriously this narrator thing in bastion is like having a randy newman simulator “hey the kid is hitting some stuff, hey now he walked off the edge of the world, that guy sure is shooting lots of arrows today” *smashes mute button*
The narrator in the demo turned me off so much that I never even considered buying that game.
yeah i only bought it because it was on sale and people seem to love it so much, but unfortunately i think most of the charm involved is this low rent morgan freeman dude babbling all the time, so the jury is still out. i do really really like the way it looks though.
the soundtrack is pretty too. and the mechanics are fun.
i didn’t mind the narrator at all (didn’t love it as much as some of the reviewers). i imagine if you hate it tho, it’ll be really hard to enjoy the game
http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-22/?action=preview&uid=7793
it’s like, um, silent skiFree hill
would love to play this. mac tho :(
cozen do you have a psp? & if so have you played trails in the sky?
never owned psp ;_;
trails in the sky you say?
vita + memory card + game = £300+
yeh, not gonna bother for at least a year
btw, after getting TREMENDOUSLY burned by the 3ds i do not plan to early adopt any system again for at least another several years
hahahah so otm
Psp is still a great emulator rig, worth your time.
shoutout to antexit for giving me his broken and easily fixed psp btw
it still gets love around the house
trails in the sky you say?
im sayin
it’s like, um, silent skiFree hill
would love to play this. mac tho :(
i threw it inside a wineskin wrapper so you can just download this and play: http://www.mediafire.com/?h29mlcwwi8ht23q
sorry. i just really like this song + video
i love u, ok.
it needs music
thx xx
skifree is silent skihill already, no extra horror needed
you can buy 6 crappy sherlock holmes games for $8 on steam today woo!
no-one else playing pushmo/pullblox?
yup, about 120 in, starting to get challenging. lots of good user generated ones out there too.
Arkham City half-off today, which I would jump on, but I’m going to wait for the last-day sale.
Introversion Pack Sale (Darwinia, DEFCON, Multiwinia, Uplink) for ~$5. Should I get it?
Yesterday’s UMvC3 patch removes Phoenix Wright’s invincible assists, which were the only thing he had going for him before. WHY? Also makes Hulk a little worse. Wesker and Zero unchanged.
Darwinia’s worth $5, sure.
Also, Kairosoft has at least 1 new game out for iOS/Android. Venture Town is a lot like Oh Edo Town, but with far more jobs.
Also, you can finally sell research points.
aw, my sister got me arkham city for xmas. good sis.
playing blur and man this game (much like split/second) was totally slept on, people into arcady burnout type racers really need to play both of them
I see this is cheap on Steam for uh the next hour ($5? guessing at US price from UK one)
wondering whether to get Limbo on its own or get the “Super Indie bundle” (LIMBO, Fractal: Make Blooms Not War, Hacker Evolution, Gemini Rue, Revenge of the Titans, Solar 2, Dungeons of Dredmor, Bunch of Heroes, Lightfish, Cave Story+)
haven’t heard of anything in the other indie bundle. also kind of sitting on my hands trying not to buy e.g. the Telltale bundle as this christmas has been way too expensive
i’ve been playing Cave Story+ and it’s fun, tho not great (and kinda furry, too). Limbo is amazing tho, and should be gotten one way or another. I’ve heard good things about Fractal, and haven’t heard of any of the other games on that list
the whole telltale package is too expensive, but can any of you recommend the best games from it? maybe i’d be a few...
I mainly just want to catch up on the Sam & Max series, as I loved the original game way back when but have managed not to play any of the past 6 years’ worth. So, no idea if they’re any good.
(also I enjoyed the first Puzzle Agent and the first Hector game but they’re both probably kind of an acquired taste, I think? I mean if you miss 90s point+click graphical adventures but always wished they were ruder and more British then Hector is yr game, but...)
sam & max season 2 is my fave. the sam & max pack is a better deal though. i have not played jurassic park, w&g, and i only played one bone episode.
puzzle agent is a short and easy layton clone but the first one has a great moment in it. hector is a bad knockoff of the ben & dan games.
wondering whether to get Limbo on its own or get the “Super Indie bundle” (LIMBO, Fractal: Make Blooms Not War, Hacker Evolution, Gemini Rue, Revenge of the Titans, Solar 2, Dungeons of Dredmor, Bunch of Heroes, Lightfish, Cave Story+)
I quite like Dungeons of Dredmor—if you like roguelike games it’s pretty decent.
dredmor’s visual design really puts me off. also it being called ‘dredmor’.
the indie bundle at http://www.humblebundle.com/ has cave story + as well. also super meat boy and gratuitous space battles. and some other things.
i am tempted by frozen synapse on 75% on steam rn BUT having just wasted two hours on the demo without managing to complete a mission i am less certain that is a good idea
anyone else play ticket to ride ipad?
Ticket To Ride on iPad is the bestest
saints row third $20 off on amazon. just ordered my copy.
merry christmas to me!
beat Jamestown tnite. STG w/ a sci-fi colonial America theme. lots of fun!
yeah i really dig Jamestown but my only gripe is that i’m used to the super fast ship control of all those bullet hell games
Rocksmith pwning right now, as the blisters/calluses on my fingers attest. (Then again, I could say the same thing when I first got my guitar, so we’ll see about the long-term commitment.) Was stuck on “In Bloom” yesterday and today, but I guess my Xmas present was getting past Nirvana.
anyone have experience w/ beat hazard?
Can’t get into Jamestown—a nice concept, but the wide screen and sparse distribution of bullets makes it less than tight enough. Especially when I recently got Mushihime-sama on the ios and it’s more or less the perfect schmup: Simple and to the point, filled with an amazing amount of bullets in Ultra difficulty mode.
bullet hell shmups are basically too hardcore for me. i’ve liked the genre ever since i played 1943 as a kid on the arcade in my dentist’s office, and Jamestown works bc it’s not too hard (the settings basically let you ramp up until you hit your skill ceiling), but i’ve seen ppl — esp i used to see this in my college library all the time — play these STG’s where the whole screen is brightly colored bullets and it seems like less of a game and more of memorizing exactly where the one non-dangerous space is going to move on the screen.
started skyward sword today, loving it
I got a lot of other stuff going on in my life that sort of shapes my video game time (i.e. new dad, busy year ahead that requires lots of focused work right now) but I just couldn’t really get that into Red Dead Redemption once I finally got around to it—which was weird to me because I loved Revolver (and Gun for that matter, I’ll play anything western-themed) but Redemption just felt...boring? idk maybe I didn’t stick with it long enuf
been playing dark souls over the holidays
I died
(it’s sick btw.)
idk maybe I didn’t stick with it long enuf
Maybe but I think with these sandbox games you pretty quickly get a sense of whether or not it’s gonna be a place where you wanna hang out and spend some time. And maybe just hanging out and spending time might not be what you want out of a game right now.
There is no good reason for this considering I have a million games right now, but I think I might pick up saints row 3 and dead island after work tonight.
Brink is garbage right?
It’s garbage.
starting to feel like i should borrow my mom’s wii and buy skyward sword + play thru.
^ statements that wouldn’t have made any sense in 1992
i have been playing frozen synapse. i still don’t know if i like it.
I don’t play Frozen Synapse myself, but my brother plays quite a lot and often complains about the lack of ppl to play with. looks like a fun game tho, might try and give it a second spin sometime
i played frozen synapse multiplayer for a few days with a friend who was in the army for several years. i found it to be no fun at all why because i got my ass kicked constantly
lol
if you feel at all like giving me a game i am thomp85 in the game but plain thomp on steam
dark souls is goty
dark souls BULLETSTORM is goty
also best buy was out of both games i was going to buy so decision was made for me
lol i read BULLETSTORM as BONESTORM
@Mordy the pleasure of bullet hell games is in the learning curve! A good shmup will have an easy mode do not be ashamed. I’m still casually playing Radiant Silverfun once a week on easy mode and getting further and further.
Today I played Pirates on my bf’s iPad for five hours. I aligned with Holland, attacked and converted every Port in the game to the Dutch cause. Felt bad for the Spanish at first, but then they put a 130,000 price on my head.
I watched my brother play Skyward Sword, it looked garish.
I watched two hours of Dark Souls a month ago and it looked unnecessarily difficult and unrewarding, but I’m a rogue-like purist
That is: I like fast keystrokes, strategy, and decisive outcomes. I dont like watching an undead 3D model in an evening gown run awkwardly down hallways for hours at a time for a fleeting external environment money shot