The Whatever The Heck You're Playing At The Moment Thread

[FortNinety]

OMG, I can't believe Kotaku (and it's readers) like the new Turtles In Time for XBLA. Jesus fucking Christ...

http://kotaku.com/5336181/tmnt-turtles-in-time-re+shelled-micro-review-were-really-hip

[ryan]

Eh... it's them. A really fun thing that Tom Chick does at Quarter to Three is he will randomly research a Kotaku article. He's only done it two or three times, to my knowledge, but it always leads back to some random forum post or blog entry that's been quoted and cited over and over until it hits there, where it's posted as some sort of official or newsworthy item.

[FortNinety]

Haven't finished Shadow Complex yet, and might not anytime soon, now that I'm playing Trials HD. Which is hella fun.

[dmauro]

Lol Kotaku. No one even wants to play as Raphael.

[ryan]

bit.trip core has destroyed my thumb. And what's the deal with no online scoreboards? I'm not too big into online features for games - well, they normally aren't deal breakers at least - but it seems strange to not have one in a game you can only download.

[dhex]

prototype is really fun thus far.

[dhex]

and now i have reached that point where my skills are insufficient to deal with the difficulty curve. yeeeeesh i suck at games.

[dmauro]

I checked out the demo of Shadow Complex. Set it to the insane difficulty and I'm really looking forward to the MS Live Points card I bought on Amazon to qualify for free shipping so that I can play it. And I tried out Trials HD. I think it's the first Trials game rather than Trials 2 because I don't recognize the levels.

[loopback]

I borrowed an EX2 fightstick from a coworker and have been playing SF2HD Remix (or whatever the hell the XBLA one is called).

I suck, is the short version. But I'm somewhat enjoying playing vs. Mr. Computer, and it's proving vaguely useful to learn how to defeat some of the characters that have always (and currently still do ...) whipped my ass, like T.Hawk.

[FortNinety]

It's not you, the game itself has issues, many of which we went over in the last iteration of the forum. Once again, I never did get a straight answer as to why they didn't bother to add frames of animation in-between the new art... which was originally because they didn't want to change anything... and then they added a bunch of new moves.

[isfet]

so after having his CD now for about a year, i finally installed Mike's copy of Fallout onto my PC.

i'm liking it a lot so far!  i'm actually sort of mad that i didn't know about this game when it came out because i could definitely see my younger self really getting into this kind of game.

but considering i just spent about 2.5 hours playing it, i guess i'm getting into it all right.

the amount of freedom is definitely a plus; at first i was going to play the game as a "good guy" but as soon as i entered the first town in search of rope, this quickly ended.  i didn't really care about the scorpions attacking their herd and "oh hey look this guy has rope let me steal it."  so i headed down into vault 15 in search of the water chip, but found that the third level is covered in rubble.  i decided maybe i should try setting dynamite, but didn't know what i was doing and blew myself up.

anyway, it's already much more fun than Fallout 3.  the only thing FO3 has over this one thus far is the character customization (in terms of appearances)  but the setting is much bleaker and a lot more intriguing and nothing has made me groan yet (as opposed to FO3 which only took about 10-15 minutes).


another thing i've been wondering about is "what if i don't bring the chip back in time."  with the amount of freedom i appear to have, would it even matter?  would the game just go on?  or would it actually be game over?


technical question for Mike:  i did the biggest install possible; do i need the CD for anything else?  i made an image file of the CD just in case, but if i don't need it, i'd rather delete it.

[dhex]

another thing i've been wondering about is "what if i don't bring the chip back in time."  with the amount of freedom i appear to have, would it even matter?  would the game just go on?  or would it actually be game over?


technical question for Mike:  i did the biggest install possible; do i need the CD for anything else?  i made an image file of the CD just in case, but if i don't need it, i'd rather delete it.

point a: well, stuff happens but you do have to get the chip back in time. but like i said depending on your actions stuff happens.

point b: i don't think so? but honestly i'm not 100% sure.

[isfet]

thus far it doesn't seem like i need the CD.  the music (ambient as it is) still plays as does all the FMV stuff, so i guess the full install does it all.  ahh, back in the days when developers were more naive about piracy.

anyway, i'm still playing Fallout and liking it even a bit more than before.  for the first day i was basically playing it like i play GTA games: go around killing shit and wreaking havoc.  this, in some ways, makes the game significantly more difficult even though it means more free shit.  but yea, people start hating you

so

i started a new game.  what surprises me so much about this is that the "sidequests" are pretty entertaining to carry out.  and they're also relatively straightforward, in a good way.  each town is sort of its own "world" with different tasks to accomplish.  and while there is some degree of "go here and do something," most of it is immediate.  like, for example, two rivals want each other dead, so you choose which one you're going to kill.  or not at all!  this, to me, is a lot more enjoyable than what i played of FO3.

FO3 immediately turned me off when it sent me on a fetch quest to a village to deliver a letter, then turned it into another fetch quest to go somewhere else entirely.  honestly, things like that in games really irk me. 

also, some of the humor is actually kind of funny in this game!

[dhex]

traditional snob response: you can almost taste the future that was killed by apathy and console tards.

i'm only half-joking when i despair while considering the wreckage caused by the animu. compare fallout with final fantasy 7. the gods themselves weep.

[isfet]

at the risk of sounding on the fence, I never saw a reason why there couldn't have been room for both types of games.  but I'm guessing economics took care of that one?

I guess it just speaks to the state of games in general. I don't want every game I play to be the same.  I assume I'm in the minority there (judging by other gamers on comment sections)?