Fire Emblem: I love looking at a map and knowing exactly what strategy and maneuvers I intend to use.
Can't wait to see how those will fail me when I try them tomorrow.
Can't wait to see how those will fail me when I try them tomorrow.
I think everyone got into the stress test. I got into the stress test, and I don't remember even trying to be in the beta.
Keep in mind that it's a stress test, so prepare for the servers to go down a lot. If the load doesn't break them, they'll probably force a fail just to see how it reacts.
Keep in mind that it's a stress test, so prepare for the servers to go down a lot. If the load doesn't break them, they'll probably force a fail just to see how it reacts.
*playing Theatrhythm Final Fantasy, get to Aeris's theme*
Wife: Can you stop? You're gonna make me cry.
*puts on headphones*
*cries alone*
Wife: Can you stop? You're gonna make me cry.
*puts on headphones*
*cries alone*
*playing Theatrhythm Final Fantasy, get to Aeris's theme*
Wife: Can you stop? You're gonna make me cry.
*puts on headphones*
I know that feel,bro.*playing Theatrhythm Final Fantasy, get to Aeris's theme*
Wife: Can you stop? You're gonna make me cry.
*puts on headphones*
Gamefly sent us the Telltale game Back to the Future.
I've played through a good chunk of Episode 1 ... it's okay. I like the first movie, but it was never a big thing for me, so that might be part of why I feel underwhelmed. I kind of wish I'd played this before The Walking Dead though; solving puzzles in this environment, the stakes feel pretty low.
But I am interested in seeing what's going on now that I've time traveled and I'm sure it gets more interesting.
I've played through a good chunk of Episode 1 ... it's okay. I like the first movie, but it was never a big thing for me, so that might be part of why I feel underwhelmed. I kind of wish I'd played this before The Walking Dead though; solving puzzles in this environment, the stakes feel pretty low.
But I am interested in seeing what's going on now that I've time traveled and I'm sure it gets more interesting.
figmentPez
Staff member
The puzzles don't. Telltale's BttF was really terrible when it came to puzzles. The plot picks up, and I enjoyed some bits quite a lot, but overall it was rather disappointing. I love Telltale, but they are not perfect.
Well damn.
I'll keep with it through tomorrow, but if neither my wife nor I feel invested by the end of the weekend, I'm not going to force us through it. I just remember with Walking Dead, I had to force myself to put it down so we didn't finish it all in two days. Couldn't wait to see what happened next, right from the beginning. This ... I'm just not a big fan of Back to the Future.
TellTale's BttF is very much a love letter to the movies, and in this it shines. As a point an adventure game, it's only mediocre, but if you're a fan of the movies you'll see so many references and funny moments that make it worth it.
tl;dr If you didn't like the movies, you won't like this.
tl;dr If you didn't like the movies, you won't like this.
I concur with the others: if you don't love the movies, you're not going to care about the game. If you do, it's basically a 4th movie.
I really should've done some research before throwing it on my queue then.
Okay, back in the mailbox and let's hope next weekend brings something I'll enjoy. They keep snagging the bottom of my wishlist. Maybe I should put Watch Dogs there and I'll somehow magically get it by mistake
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Okay, back in the mailbox and let's hope next weekend brings something I'll enjoy. They keep snagging the bottom of my wishlist. Maybe I should put Watch Dogs there and I'll somehow magically get it by mistake
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I am so far behind the times. I finally got a PS3 a month or two ago, and since then I've been replaying Red Dead Redemption and Katamari Forever. But in the last two weeks, my roommate has busted out the 2011 Mortal Kombat, and I haven't been able to stop playing. First fighting game I've actually enjoyed since Mortal Kombat II for the Sega Genesis. Part of my enjoyment is no doubt nostalgia since it is a reboot and I know the characters and the stages already, but it is definitely a very solid game.
If you want to play, let me know. I'd be more than happy to go a few rounds. I think Poe has the game as well.
My Playstation login is SHNAUZBERRIES, feel free to add me. Right now, I am pre-occupied with defeating Shao Khan once and for all.
I'm sure I will get absolutely destroyed should we play online, but my roommate and I are trying to train for the inevitable day when we face our one friend who is ridiculously good at every game.
In the same vein as that just got my Volgarr the Viking Kickstarter backed game. It was one of the first games I backed and it comes out tomorrow on Steam. It's good stuff. Very Ghouls and Ghosts. It's hard and deliberate. The jumps, enemies and everything are very unforgiving. I'm enjoying it so far. Here's a trailer for it if you don't know what I'm talking about.
Finished Fire Emblem Awakening tonight.
Beautiful finale, especially the music of the final part. And then the rundown of your exploits, who were the heroes of each mission, what became of your characters and who died--I don't think a single couple in my game survived besides Chrom and wife.
It was heartwarming and sad at the same time. What a fantastic game; I'm all set to have another go-through.
Beautiful finale, especially the music of the final part. And then the rundown of your exploits, who were the heroes of each mission, what became of your characters and who died--I don't think a single couple in my game survived besides Chrom and wife.
It was heartwarming and sad at the same time. What a fantastic game; I'm all set to have another go-through.
GasBandit
Staff member
Yeah, you kinda won't until the last bit of the game. It is fun though.
I'll try and sum it up in a non-spoiler fashion:
Alex Mercer was a researcher working for GenTek on a biological agent called "Blacklight," which was based on an earlier (highly immoral) bioweapon research project called "Redlight." Being a naturally paranoid person, he enlists the aid of his sister to help him investigate GenTek even while he works for them on the virus. Upon learning that researchers on the project were being murdered one after another, he mailed his laptop to his sister and attempted to escape with some of his work, including a concentrated vial of the Blacklight virus. Cornered at Penn station by PMO mercs from the "Blackwatch" company, he smashes the vial on the ground, causing an outbreak that slowly begins to infect all of manhattan. The mercs gun him down, he falls directly onto the biomatter from the smashed vial, getting a super-concentrated dose of the virus, and he awakens in the morgue with most of his memory gone, but superhuman strength, agility, regenerative capabilities, and the ability to learn memories, knowledge and skills from other beings he consumes. So he sets out to learn who is responsible for what has happened and punish them.
After reconnecting with his sister, he learns from the data on his laptop of another important person of interest in the project - an infected specimen named Elizabeth Greene. He sets out to try to free her and possibly get answers, but it turns out to be a horrendous mistake - Greene is the sole survivor of the Redlight project from the 60s and is basically the "queen mother" so to speak of the virus and those it infects. Freeing her accelerates the spread of the virus throughout the quarantined island and makes just about everything worse.
The story is very disjointed because much of it is told out of sequence, and sometimes even the writers confuse Redlight/Blacklight and interchange them.
That's about as far as I can go without spoilers.
The story's just your excuse and motivation to murder a bunch of dudes. Don't put too much thought into it. That's not to say it's bad, but it's kind of a confusing mess if you try putting too much thought into it.
Finished Bioshock Infinte. It deserves every ounce of praise and accolades for Game of the Year.
Playing Final Fantasy XIV. Solid MMO. Enjoying the storyline even though there's a little bit of grind. Can't judge an MMO pre-max level though so for now, it's enjoyable.
Logging into World of Warcraft long enough to run my LFRs once a week. Still waiting for Siege of Ogrimmar to go LFR next week.
Considering playing through the Mass Effect series as I've only played through 1 once. I own all 3 and all the DLC though.... it's either that or Arkham City.
Playing Final Fantasy XIV. Solid MMO. Enjoying the storyline even though there's a little bit of grind. Can't judge an MMO pre-max level though so for now, it's enjoyable.
Logging into World of Warcraft long enough to run my LFRs once a week. Still waiting for Siege of Ogrimmar to go LFR next week.
Considering playing through the Mass Effect series as I've only played through 1 once. I own all 3 and all the DLC though.... it's either that or Arkham City.
OM NOM those civillians.
If time's a consideration, Arkham City's less of a time sink than the Mass Effect series. Both are brilliantly fun choices though.
Go through Arkham City first because it's pretty short compared to Mass Effect series. AC is maybe 12 hours to go through the story (unless you're a Riddler fanatic). Mass Effect is easily near 30 hours a game with the DLC for each, so it'd be a while before you got around to AC.
Gamefly finally sent something I'll play through, El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron. The demo did not win me over, but my wife really loved the aesthetics and wanted to see the whole game. Unfortunately, platforming is her destroyer and she's really not great at action games unless they involve racing or sniping, so I'm playing it for her. The combat's better than the demo led on, and I can't deny the sound and music are pretty. The story is ... followable, I guess, but its mythology feels as messy as that of Darksiders.
Yeah, I'd have to say that so far, Lego LOTR is one of the weaker in the series.
I can't wait for Lego Marvel Heroes to come out.
Speaking of Marvel Heroes, that's what I've been playing when I have the time. It's basically Diablo with marvel characters. When it first started, unless you wanted to pay for a hero you had to rely on random drops from mobs to unlock heroes. They have since instituted a currency that randomly drops off of any character that can be accumulated to unlock any hero you want. Since that change, and the institution of Heroic and Super-Heroic difficulty levels, it has gotten much better.
I can't wait for Lego Marvel Heroes to come out.
Speaking of Marvel Heroes, that's what I've been playing when I have the time. It's basically Diablo with marvel characters. When it first started, unless you wanted to pay for a hero you had to rely on random drops from mobs to unlock heroes. They have since instituted a currency that randomly drops off of any character that can be accumulated to unlock any hero you want. Since that change, and the institution of Heroic and Super-Heroic difficulty levels, it has gotten much better.
What would you say are the bad sides of this game?
Which one?
Because I'm going to have to go get ready for school soon, I'll just assume you're asking about Marvel Heroes.
While it has improved since launch, it is by no means the best game out there and some of their paid content is a little. dubious. For example, if you wanted to go ahead and unlock every character, the pack that they sell for that is 199.99. And NO, I did not misplace the decimal. That's two hundred smackers to unlock all the heroes and even then, the 2 heroes that have been released since the game came out (Human Torch and Emma Frost) are not included in that bundle. So, that's just balls out crazy and when the only way to get new heroes was through random drops, it was, IMO, borderline extortion. But, it is pretty easy to grind out the shards needed to unlock new heroes. They drop pretty regularly and the price (in game currency) for new heros range from 200 shards to 600 shards. The shards are the new currency they added. It can now also be used to buy crafting materials that were previously also only available in the pay store, or through random drops from cards that you would get for running daily missions. It was terrible, but with the in game currency up and running, it works well.
As far as their currently most dubious issue is the fact that you have to pay real money if you want to expand your bank. This isn't too much of an issue unless you horde stuff. I tend to sell all my old armor and such so that's not really an issue for me. You get a general hold all bank slot and one bank slot specifically for crafting materials. When the game first launched, the crafting materials didn't even stack, so that was an issue that has since been resolved, and even if you are low on space for crafting materials, it works on a system where you combine lesser elements to make greater elemnts, so all you really need to do is combine elements to their highest form to free up space and break them down if you need them for another toon.
Finally, it unfortunately decided to go the D3 route and is always online. It can be disconcerting to see about 10 Wolverines or Hawkeyes running around, but I never had a problem with that.
All that being said, I've played through the main campaign multiple times on normal and heroic and I've really enjoyed it. They also added a "patrol" mission where you can go out into the streets on a medium sized map and mobs will randomly spawn with boss encounters with supervillains showing up every once in a while. They usually show up in their Marvel teams. So, there will be a Masters of Evil spawn or a Brotherhood of Evil Mutants spawn with a random assortment of villains from those teams.
I have to also say that all these big changes have occurred in less than a few months, so the developers seem on top of things and they have already added 2 new heroes with Luke Cage coming in the next update.[DOUBLEPOST=1379329249,1379329077][/DOUBLEPOST]Also, be sure you pick the starter hero you want, because that's the one you'll be playing with until you save up shards to unlock more. On the plus side, the first time you do the story mission, you end up with 200 shards so that you can purchase an other of the low teir heroes, or you can save those shards to start working on an additional higher teir hero.
While it has improved since launch, it is by no means the best game out there and some of their paid content is a little. dubious. For example, if you wanted to go ahead and unlock every character, the pack that they sell for that is 199.99. And NO, I did not misplace the decimal. That's two hundred smackers to unlock all the heroes and even then, the 2 heroes that have been released since the game came out (Human Torch and Emma Frost) are not included in that bundle. So, that's just balls out crazy and when the only way to get new heroes was through random drops, it was, IMO, borderline extortion. But, it is pretty easy to grind out the shards needed to unlock new heroes. They drop pretty regularly and the price (in game currency) for new heros range from 200 shards to 600 shards. The shards are the new currency they added. It can now also be used to buy crafting materials that were previously also only available in the pay store, or through random drops from cards that you would get for running daily missions. It was terrible, but with the in game currency up and running, it works well.
As far as their currently most dubious issue is the fact that you have to pay real money if you want to expand your bank. This isn't too much of an issue unless you horde stuff. I tend to sell all my old armor and such so that's not really an issue for me. You get a general hold all bank slot and one bank slot specifically for crafting materials. When the game first launched, the crafting materials didn't even stack, so that was an issue that has since been resolved, and even if you are low on space for crafting materials, it works on a system where you combine lesser elements to make greater elemnts, so all you really need to do is combine elements to their highest form to free up space and break them down if you need them for another toon.
Finally, it unfortunately decided to go the D3 route and is always online. It can be disconcerting to see about 10 Wolverines or Hawkeyes running around, but I never had a problem with that.
All that being said, I've played through the main campaign multiple times on normal and heroic and I've really enjoyed it. They also added a "patrol" mission where you can go out into the streets on a medium sized map and mobs will randomly spawn with boss encounters with supervillains showing up every once in a while. They usually show up in their Marvel teams. So, there will be a Masters of Evil spawn or a Brotherhood of Evil Mutants spawn with a random assortment of villains from those teams.
I have to also say that all these big changes have occurred in less than a few months, so the developers seem on top of things and they have already added 2 new heroes with Luke Cage coming in the next update.[DOUBLEPOST=1379329249,1379329077][/DOUBLEPOST]Also, be sure you pick the starter hero you want, because that's the one you'll be playing with until you save up shards to unlock more. On the plus side, the first time you do the story mission, you end up with 200 shards so that you can purchase an other of the low teir heroes, or you can save those shards to start working on an additional higher teir hero.
So I guess here's my question:
I enjoyed playing D3 only for a single playthrough of the storyline. Do I have to pay any real cash to fully play through this game? Is there any purpose to play through the storyline more than once other than gear/another hero that doesn't change anything storyline wise?
I enjoyed playing D3 only for a single playthrough of the storyline. Do I have to pay any real cash to fully play through this game? Is there any purpose to play through the storyline more than once other than gear/another hero that doesn't change anything storyline wise?
Why couldn't they ever just make a solid sequel after the second one? I loved that series so much.