Whatcha play'n?

[Adol The Red]

If you ever get the perfectly normal and in no way strange or crazy urge to stab many people in creative ways that make you look pretty awesome, then get yourself some Far Cry 3. I'm stab'n everyone, and it's a blast. Especially when I pull the pin off of one of an enemy's grenades and kick him into another group of enemies. A blast.

[Soeroah]

VLR, but I keep falling asleep due to starting it at 1am. It's a sequel to a freaking awesome visual novel and I wanna be able to pay attention, so I'm making slow progress.

[Kerreth]

Yay.

[Adol The Red]

Beat Far Cry 3. Last 5 missions took an hour on normal, and the credits took another half an hour, because Ubisoft. I give them credit for giving credit to their employees, but maybe let me hold the button to speed it up or something.

...and now I'm playing Skyrim again instead of one of the many other games I have on my docket right now. Of course, i view Skyrim like a view minecraft - a thing to work on every once in a while until the mood goes away again. In the middle of that I downloaded and beat the Omega DLC for ME3 finally. Was fun. Fairly straightforward, but more Mass Effect is really all I wanted anyway. At some point I'll have to get back to my playthroughs of Saints Row 3, the Unfinished Swan, Heavy Rain ...these are just the current ones. Yay Videya games!

[Bear]

Pie and I have been all over the board recently with the vacation...oh man...sweet sweet vacation time! Got a ton of gaming and relaxing in...did I mention it was so sweet? XD

Other than lots of Dragon Nest, we picked up the latest humble indie bundle and got some time in with Snapshot, Closure and Offspring Fling. I was kinda interested in Legend of Grimrock a bit from the video, and we played that for a while and had a lot of fun with it; it sorta makes me want to go back and play the old Elvira games from Accolade since they were the only other games I got into that had the corridor/maze western RPG style of play that Grimrock features.

Other than that, Roll and Farore were nice enough to lend us Enslaved: Odyssey to the West and Heavy Rain. We beat Enslaved and are currently heavily engrossed in Heavy Rain, which will be the subject for this weeks comic. Man...Heavy Rain...it's sooo good so far and now I'm really interested in checking out one of the other games Roll and Farore highly recommended by Quantic Dream, Indigo Prophecy. Would love to score the UK version or directors cut though, known as Farenheight, because of edits made to keep the game from getting an AO rating in the States. Apparently the edits removed sex scenes, and I really would like to play it raw.

[ThePaul]

From the sex scenes I've seen in Heavy Rain and the one they sorta left in Indego Prophecy, I'd use the word Akward, not Raw, for whatever sex scenes were in the original cut.

[Adol The Red]

I'm playing everything, apparently. I can't seem to stick to a game, though right now most of my focus is on Fallout: New Vegas. Was trying to play 3, but every time I do it just makes me want to go back to New Vegas. Not that 3 is bad. I think maybe I just like the slightly more linear structure of New Vegas, and that I can take over. I'm taking over, by the way.

I've also been playing the first Grandia again. Never finished it the first time, and I used a game shark to get all the mana eggs you could ever need, so I'm going through legit this time and trying to actually beat it. Its as fun as I remember, and that opening song fills me with such nostalgia. Also remembering why I liked Feena so much. She acts like a well adjusted human being, instead of some kind of psychopath like anime has decided everyone must now act like. Also, to anyone who has played it, am I the only one who hears Justin's "What a cinch!" battle victory quote and hears a different word instead of cinch? Perhaps one starting with a B. That also reminds me, good god the voice acting. Wow. Bad wow. Mostly. Feena is again a saving grace, though later cut scenes may change that.

[RollCasket]

Yeah I'm having a similar problem with not being able to stick to anything lately. Grandia was fun, 2 is still the best one by far, but the first comes in right after. But yeah, the voice acting gets worse, unfortunately, sorry to be the bearer of bad news =X

I'm playing a bit of Playstation Plus games since I just jumped on that with the 3 free months deal. Wipeout 2048, Uncharted Golden Abyss, and Ninja Gaiden Sigma Plus though the little I played of it just makes me want to go back to playing 3 on the Wii U. Then there are multiple other games I've played a bit of here and there and will prolly crack out on Fire Emblem Awakening once that comes in a few more days.

Aside from that...I'm getting a Spiral Knights itch again. I know a good number of the people here have played it here and there, but I found they're going to be adding these pet things called and the adorableness is overwhelming. As far as right now, the newest update added an event that you can get stuff to craft these awesome kat-hood things and so now I must go get some =P

[Kerreth]

Now it's been a tossup between Borderlands 2, The Walking Dead, and Mortal Kombat 9.

Just finally finished Story Mode for MK9. Much better than how P4A did its Story Mode, but JESUS CHRIST whoever made Shao Kahn in this game, and whoever deemed it necessary to make you use Liu Kang and Raiden to fight him in the Story Mode (HATE THOSE TWO) needs a swift kick up the ass.

Finished Episode 3 of The Walking Dead, and JESUS CHRIST, that is a fucked up episode. I won't go into detail because of spoilers and choice differences, but I was a mess through most of it. So much feels.

As for Borderlands 2... JESUS CHRIST, Bloodwing. Yeah.

[Alexx]

I'm playing...



A Nintendo! FINALLY got one of these NES 2 systems; I've wanted one for so long. Saw one at a shop way back at the beginning of college for 80, but I didn't have the cash for it and it was long gone by the time I got back to that shop (and now that shop is long gone, but that's beside the point). I had done an idle search for "NES model 101" on amazon, but not much came up and I kinda gave up 'cause I figured the prices would have gone way up since when I original found it anyway. Well, I changed my search recently to just "NES 2" and came up with a bunch of sellers! Guess I was being too formal with the name. Anyway, I found this little guy for 82, so i'm happy I didn't have to go much over what I original saw it for.

And when I say little guy, I mean it. Lookitthelittlething! LOOKITIT!



There it is sitting on it's giant dinosaur of a predecessor. I had complained about how stupid the original box design was and why the heck anyone would change a simple top loader into a sideways-push-in-then-push-down loader. I mean, you take NO mechanism (just push the game in) to a complex mechanism for more possibilities of breakages. Any time a machine gets more complicated there are more opportunites for things to break, so why would you make something more complicated when you didn't need to?

WELL...I looked that up and found a very good answer. At the time the NES came out, the US was in the middle of the big 'ol Video Game Crash you may have heard about. Bascially the Atari was going out of style, and it took everyone with it. Well the NES did fine in Japan, but bringing it over to the dead gaming waters of America provided a challenge: How do they make this thing NOT look like another game system that was going out of style?

The answer: Make it look like the high-end electronics of the time and sell it as a Family Entertainment System! The whole reason they messed with the simple top-loader design of the Japanese system was to make it look more like the accepted VCR everyone was sporting. You could set it right next to or on top of your VCR for a clean 80's-gray/silver look of high-end electronics and it most certainly was NOT one of those game systems that you bought your kid awhile ago (and they're not touching) - NO SIR, this is a Family Entertainment System! 'Course you older folks are familiar with the advertisements of the whole family sitting around the Nintendo 'n all that.

So that ugly, unwieldy design finally makes sense! It was a different look for a different time, to appeal to a nation that was sick of game systems (and still piling dirt on unsold E.T. game carts). Funny thing is that you honestly didn't see many advertisements after the NES that sold game systems as family entertainment. Think of all the Sega and SNES commercials with all the EXTREME and cool and radical 'n all that jazz to catch the attention of a kid. When's the next time you saw a family enjoying the system?

...the Wii. Kinda seems like Nintendo went back to basics!

BUT, to keep this somewhat relevant to the thread: I've been enjoying my NES games again without having to fight with them first. Pop it in the top and play! If not that, then a press of the reset button usually gets it to work. Heck, some of the games I thought were broken are working again! I love this thing!