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

[dmauro]

Scavenge mode in L4D2 is awesome. Short and sweet competitive game. It's basically survival mode for people that prefer vs to campaign.

[FortNinety]

Not sure if most of you will care, but I just got through the Sgt. Pepper DLC for Beatles Rock Band. I kid you not, some of the best visuals thus far for the game. Simply mind blowing.

Though not surprisingly, at least to those familiar with the music, there's many parts in which you're not playing guitar, even though you're holding a guitar-shaped controller. Which has always been the case to varying extents, but it's very true here, and I'm sure folks are gonna point and laugh or just bitch.

[FortNinety]

So Dave, I finally got an external hard drive yesterday and spent all last night backing my shit up. And RIGHT before I inserted the Windows 7 install DVD, my brand new and still shiny drive went dead. lol. So it's gonna be a tad bit more time before I can get Steam up and running.

[dmauro]

Your backup drive died? You bought it new so it's under warranty right?

[FortNinety]

Yeah, I can totally return it to J&R, but since I'm the paranoid type, I prefer taking the long and safe route when it comes to erasing any drive.

Though I'm somewhat at a loss since the next one I was going to go for, which I've heard generally good things about, apparently sucks according to a friend who recently got his. It just seems like, no matter what, external HDs totally blow.

[dmauro]

Yeah, unless you're putting the external in a fireproof safe (that's how I roll), it's best to backup on a separate internal drive (which I also do, yes I'm paranoid about my data). But since you've got a mac....

Try newegg.com. Usually the stuff the users are pretty savvy and good about reviewing stuff so you can get a good sense of the quality of an item, and they have good deals.

[FortNinety]

I've had my external 500 GB Lacie for a short while now, and have had zero issues. But it's pretty much tapped out, so I backed most of my most important stuff (sans music... had to sacrifice something, but most of it is replaceable), and plan on disconnecting it and pulling it only when needed.

The new drive would act as my primary back up drive, via Time Machine.

My next drive is only going to be 640 gigs big. Which is more than enough... for now. But you can never have enough storage, but at the same time, I've noticed that drives around the 1TB range are more prone to breaking down for whatever reason. A part of me thinks I should get 5 or so of those durable travel ones, just because.

[FortNinety]

Well I finally got Windows 7 installed on my Mac. And... still won't be able to play Left 4 Dead 2 I'm afraid.

I think it's best I explain in the Win7 thread, since that's what it's there for. So moving on...

Last night was even more 4 player (actually 3 player) New Super Mario Bros Wii action, this time at Stephen Totilo's (yes, of Kotaku fame, I'm friends with the dude) housewarming party. And like the night before at Dave's, half the fun and most of the frustration comes when you play with a bunch of people of disparaging skill level.

[dmauro]

Yeah I don't even know if I'll ever get Youri to play again. The 4 player stuff just drove her crazy. I was being pretty mean sometimes though. The best part was when four starmen popped out of a block and I grabbed them all in one fell swoop.

[isfet]

haven't had a chance to play NMSB more than 2 players.  it can get a little frustrating in the latter and vertical levels, especially.  i think it's one of those things that needs to be played competitively, otherwise a lot of accidental deaths occur.

[FortNinety]

Downloaded Bit.Trip Void late last night, and it's maybe my favorite one yet. Dave, you TOTALLY need to get this one, since as you might already know, its draws much from bullet hells.

[FortNinety]

Recently downloaded Ballad of Gay Tony for a variety of reason (mostly for potential material for an upcoming article), and guess what? I really dig it. Controls still suck, plus people looks weirder than I remembered, but the story is nice thus far, and most importantly, you start out in Manhattan.

[drozdal]

I started playing japanese copy of Sin and Punishment: Successor of the Earth over the weekend. Put in about 4-5 hours and  I have to say the game is great. Seems like Treasure tired to put everything in it, so you have platforming elements, hori shooting sequences, vert shooting sequences, bullet hell / bullet dodging sequences and on top of that occasional hand to hand with enemy or the boss, and believe it or not it all works rather well together.

I'm not very fond of new, at will flying, I dug jumping from the original more - but those are details that do not really matter. What matters is that controls are responsive enough - especially for aiming (I have no clue if game supports motion plus, I do not have one - default controller does a decent job), graphics are good (or great for the Wii game), considering the fact that there is almost non stop action happening on the screen - I haven't noticed any slowdowns and everything runs smoothly.

Will be picking up US version too, I can't read japanese (not like you need to, to play and enjoy the game) and I kinda want to know what is going on story wise.

EDIT: I'm also playing Mushihimesama Futari on 360, but I won't talk about it until all of you get your copies.

[FortNinety]

Which at this point, is looking like sometime in 2010 at this rate.

[dmauro]

Oh damn, I didn't even know that S&P2 was out yet. I'm downloading it now to give it a spin. Hopefully Futari will be here in a week, two max.