What Game Are You Playing Right Now?

Wpnfire · 11-23-2014, 12:14 PM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

I love GBA Yu-Gi-Oh games. Addictive. And since plot is secondary at best, I don't have to deal with too much painful Yu-Gi-Oh dialogue.

The following are exact quotes from a different Yu-Gi-Oh game. I've kept it bookmarked for hilarity. The last one is the best:

Namu: "My name in Namu."
Ishizu: "This make me happy."
Joey: "Woah. You've getting better and better."
Roland: "Congratulations on clearness."
Roland: "Information on various Duerist is input to the Duel Base by the technology of KaibaCorp."
Roland: "Moreover, come at any time when coming want to challenge."
Seto Kaiba: "Next, when meeting, I win."
Tea: "Atmosphere badness is embarrassed somehow, but Bakura's been acting weird."
Yami Yugi: "He seemed to be obviously painful."
Yami Yugi: "The victory ceremony starts slowly. Let’s return!"
You: "I will not go out because slowness today."
Yami Yugi: "Was it safe...you...? You were dueling in a Shadow Game with Marik. He can knock it down only by the Egyptian God Card. Moreover, take care when meeting Marik. Egyptian God Card is put in your deck. Then."

Chrysalis · 11-23-2014, 07:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Black Francis

Holy ****, this game is incredibly underrated IMO.

Definitely not for everyone, and it's not one of my favorite PS2 games by any means, but I personally think that it's aged surprisingly well.

Sequoioideae · 11-23-2014, 09:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Chrysalis

Holy ****, this game is incredibly underrated IMO.

Definitely not for everyone, and it's not one of my favorite PS2 games by any means, but I personally think that it's aged surprisingly well.

I love your avatar, I wanted to tell you that since forever.

Shinryaku! Ika Musume was probably one of the last shows I finished watching while it was ongoing. I stopped watching animu around 2012/2013 maybe?

LoathsomePete · 11-25-2014, 01:29 PM

This War of Mine

Press F to Pay Respects this is not.

While many games in recent years have at least started to point out the horrors of war, it almost always seems to be disingenuous when the same characters have to commit the horrible acts. That's kind of the weird paradox gaming is in right now, people want to have games say something about the increasing levels of violence, but they also want to have their wiz-bang shooty fun. This War of Mine decides to shift the focus from soldiers, mercenaries, or otherwise war prepped individuals to regular people just trying to survive. That's already an interesting hook, but the gameplay and morality is really where the game shines, because the game constantly presents you with scenarios that you have no idea how to react to. For example in my first playthrough I came across a solider about to rape a woman, I decided to kill the soldier, both out of anger for his actions but I also wanted a gun to help defend my shelter from looters. For killing him, I became a sort of hero around the community, but because of my fame, the military raided it and killed three of my survivors, while my last was out scavenging for supplies, he later committed suicide out of grief.

It's not a fun game, but it is the most compelling thing I've played all year.

~~Cuthbert~~ · 11-25-2014, 01:40 PM

I bought The Last Of Us. I was going to wait until the price went down a bit as I'm not a massive gamer but there's too much hype for this game.

Anyone who's played it, how good is it?

LoathsomePete · 11-25-2014, 01:49 PM

I bought a PS3 in January for the sole purpose of playing that game, but I had a bitch of a time dealing with the frame rate so I think I'm going to buy a PS4 sometime next year and pick up the remastered version instead. It's definitely a very compelling game, but between sub 30 FPS and weirdly unresponsive controls I found the game to be hard to get far into.

~~Cuthbert~~ · 11-25-2014, 01:58 PM

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Originally Posted by LoathsomePete

I bought a PS3 in January for the sole purpose of playing that game, but I had a bitch of a time dealing with the frame rate so I think I'm going to buy a PS4 sometime next year and pick up the remastered version instead. It's definitely a very compelling game, but between sub 30 FPS and weirdly unresponsive controls I found the game to be hard to get far into.

Cheers mate. I see, well I'm not sure if sub 30 FPS will bother me too much, depends how unresponsive the controls are. Have ridiculously high hopes for it. Best game I've played on Ps3 so far is MGS4 or the HD collection so if this is anywhere near as good then I'll be

<- like that.

**Yac** · 11-26-2014, 04:38 AM

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Originally Posted by LoathsomePete

This War of Mine

Press F to Pay Respects this is not.

While many games in recent years have at least started to point out the horrors of war, it almost always seems to be disingenuous when the same characters have to commit the horrible acts. That's kind of the weird paradox gaming is in right now, people want to have games say something about the increasing levels of violence, but they also want to have their wiz-bang shooty fun. This War of Mine decides to shift the focus from soldiers, mercenaries, or otherwise war prepped individuals to regular people just trying to survive. That's already an interesting hook, but the gameplay and morality is really where the game shines, because the game constantly presents you with scenarios that you have no idea how to react to. For example in my first playthrough I came across a solider about to rape a woman, I decided to kill the soldier, both out of anger for his actions but I also wanted a gun to help defend my shelter from looters. For killing him, I became a sort of hero around the community, but because of my fame, the military raided it and killed three of my survivors, while my last was out scavenging for supplies, he later committed suicide out of grief.

It's not a fun game, but it is the most compelling thing I've played all year.

It's on my "to do" list ever since I saw the trailer

I'm glad they delivered what they promised they would, they didn't compromise for a broad audience. Last game that delivered similar emotions (I think, as I haven't played this war of mine yet) was Spec Ops: the line. And I loved the game, even though I sort of hated myself after completing it, for what happened and what I've done.
Powerful stuff.

LoathsomePete · 11-26-2014, 01:37 PM

If you liked Spec Ops: the Line then you'll definitely like this, and Steam just started their Fall sale which has the game marked down with a 10% discount so it's definitely worth picking up. Even at the full $20, it's well worth the money. In some ways I find it superior to Spec Ops because it's actively forcing you to make decisions which you know aren't right, but you need to to survive, whereas Spec Ops was more of a commentary on the state of modern war in gaming, and using the players unquestioning commitment to the formula as proof to the weirdly psychological abnormalities that come up when gaming.

duga · 11-26-2014, 01:58 PM

Been playing the hell out of GTAV...I kinda stopped playing GTA after GTAIII out of lack of interest. I played Red Dead Redemption a while back and loved the hell out of it so I thought I might give GTA another shot sometime. Well, I finally got around to it. I figured if the game was popular enough to inspire people to buy it twice for a FPS mode, it must have something going for it. Yeah, it's an addictive game.

Anyone play Dark Souls II? I bought it because I heard it was hard as **** and I really enjoy a challenging game. However, this hasn't been fun challenging. This has just been dumb challenging. Your character can't move very quickly and almost everything can kill you in 1 or 2 hits. Now, if the moves were there and the game was challenging because it requires super hand eye coordination, that's one thing. But it seems winning a boss battle in this game is based on sheer luck and patience. That's just dumb. Am I missing something?

11-25-2014, 01:29 PM	#6944 (permalink)
LoathsomePete Cardboard Box Realtor Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Hobb's End Posts: 7,648	This War of Mine Press F to Pay Respects this is not. While many games in recent years have at least started to point out the horrors of war, it almost always seems to be disingenuous when the same characters have to commit the horrible acts. That's kind of the weird paradox gaming is in right now, people want to have games say something about the increasing levels of violence, but they also want to have their wiz-bang shooty fun. This War of Mine decides to shift the focus from soldiers, mercenaries, or otherwise war prepped individuals to regular people just trying to survive. That's already an interesting hook, but the gameplay and morality is really where the game shines, because the game constantly presents you with scenarios that you have no idea how to react to. For example in my first playthrough I came across a solider about to rape a woman, I decided to kill the soldier, both out of anger for his actions but I also wanted a gun to help defend my shelter from looters. For killing him, I became a sort of hero around the community, but because of my fame, the military raided it and killed three of my survivors, while my last was out scavenging for supplies, he later committed suicide out of grief. It's not a fun game, but it is the most compelling thing I've played all year. __________________ Last.FM 101 Albums That May Not Change Your Life, But I Really Like And You Might Too

11-25-2014, 01:49 PM	#6946 (permalink)
LoathsomePete Cardboard Box Realtor Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Hobb's End Posts: 7,648	I bought a PS3 in January for the sole purpose of playing that game, but I had a bitch of a time dealing with the frame rate so I think I'm going to buy a PS4 sometime next year and pick up the remastered version instead. It's definitely a very compelling game, but between sub 30 FPS and weirdly unresponsive controls I found the game to be hard to get far into. __________________ Last.FM 101 Albums That May Not Change Your Life, But I Really Like And You Might Too

11-26-2014, 01:37 PM	#6949 (permalink)
LoathsomePete Cardboard Box Realtor Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Hobb's End Posts: 7,648	If you liked Spec Ops: the Line then you'll definitely like this, and Steam just started their Fall sale which has the game marked down with a 10% discount so it's definitely worth picking up. Even at the full $20, it's well worth the money. In some ways I find it superior to Spec Ops because it's actively forcing you to make decisions which you know aren't right, but you need to to survive, whereas Spec Ops was more of a commentary on the state of modern war in gaming, and using the players unquestioning commitment to the formula as proof to the weirdly psychological abnormalities that come up when gaming. __________________ Last.FM 101 Albums That May Not Change Your Life, But I Really Like And You Might Too

11-26-2014, 01:58 PM	#6950 (permalink)
duga MB quadrant's JM Vincent Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Washington, DC Posts: 3,762	Been playing the hell out of GTAV...I kinda stopped playing GTA after GTAIII out of lack of interest. I played Red Dead Redemption a while back and loved the hell out of it so I thought I might give GTA another shot sometime. Well, I finally got around to it. I figured if the game was popular enough to inspire people to buy it twice for a FPS mode, it must have something going for it. Yeah, it's an addictive game. Anyone play Dark Souls II? I bought it because I heard it was hard as **** and I really enjoy a challenging game. However, this hasn't been fun challenging. This has just been dumb challenging. Your character can't move very quickly and almost everything can kill you in 1 or 2 hits. Now, if the moves were there and the game was challenging because it requires super hand eye coordination, that's one thing. But it seems winning a boss battle in this game is based on sheer luck and patience. That's just dumb. Am I missing something? __________________ Confusion will be my epitaph...

11-25-2014, 01:40 PM	#6945 (permalink)
~~Cuthbert~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: The Black Country Posts: 8,827	I bought The Last Of Us. I was going to wait until the price went down a bit as I'm not a massive gamer but there's too much hype for this game. Anyone who's played it, how good is it?