I could never get into GTA. I tried with Vice City and IV, but never got more than a couple hours out of each before getting bored.
That's why the 3DS one has random battles for grinding.
I quit Shadow Dragon because I got so frustrated with the limitations. Awakening is easily the best of the series.
You crazyI am definitely playing Fire Emblem: Sacred Stones, Path of Radiance, and Awakening at the same time. Maybe I should throw in Shadow Dragon too.
.I didn't think it was that great. I ended up quitting two battles from the end because there was a fight where you pretty much had to sacrifice a character and I thought that was bullshit.
I didn't mind.
Mostly because I got a pirated version.
I usually do that for GFWL bullshit games.
figmentPez
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I finished playing Fez. I liked it, and it had some good puzzles, but this game is way too meta for my tastes. Seriously, puzzles that the community brute forced a solution to, and I'm not sure anyone, save the designers, knows how the solution was supposed to have been reached? That's some serious bullshit there. Also, one of my pet peeves is games that have a completion percentage over 100%. Nope, just no. Don't make players guess.
What I liked:
- The fully in-game puzzles figuring out perspective and rotation and stuff were cool.
- The art style was used to nice effect.
- The platforming was mostly forgiving, and felt more figuring out how to do something, than actually being difficult to accomplish. For a puzzle game I think this is the right choice.
What I didn't like, aside from what I mentioned above:
- The language, counting and other decoding puzzles. Squinting at my screen, turning my head sideways and having to write down long codes is not how I want to spend my time. I looked up a lot of the answers and feel no worse for it.
- The QR codes were even more bullshit, since it's a pain in the ass to get them to work, even with a phone. The purple on purple isn't enough contrast for my phone to recognize them.
- Some of the audio, especially the warping sounds, are loud and harsh, I found myself reaching up to mute the sound when taking a warp gate.
- The map was difficult to use, especially when rooms overlapped each other.
This is a good game, but it's not deserving of the critical acclaim it got.
What I liked:
- The fully in-game puzzles figuring out perspective and rotation and stuff were cool.
- The art style was used to nice effect.
- The platforming was mostly forgiving, and felt more figuring out how to do something, than actually being difficult to accomplish. For a puzzle game I think this is the right choice.
What I didn't like, aside from what I mentioned above:
- The language, counting and other decoding puzzles. Squinting at my screen, turning my head sideways and having to write down long codes is not how I want to spend my time. I looked up a lot of the answers and feel no worse for it.
- The QR codes were even more bullshit, since it's a pain in the ass to get them to work, even with a phone. The purple on purple isn't enough contrast for my phone to recognize them.
- Some of the audio, especially the warping sounds, are loud and harsh, I found myself reaching up to mute the sound when taking a warp gate.
- The map was difficult to use, especially when rooms overlapped each other.
This is a good game, but it's not deserving of the critical acclaim it got.
El Shaddai is trying way too hard. Surprise--motorcycle stage! Then suddenly, play without weapons! I get the developers felt the need to change things up, but I thought that was the point of mixing 3D fighting with 2D platforming. I also don't care for the story. It's told in an obtuse way where they seem to expect you to have read about it already, and I don't care for the characters' motivations. If the fallen angels have sequestered their world in some pocket dimension, and then hidden themselves within seven worlds of their own in a tower, essentially leaving everyone alone who doesn't want to follow them, then why can't God just close off the pocket dimension and let them do what they want without risking harm to the rest of the world?
I'm really just trying to finish this thing ASAP and mercifully it's not a long game. Hope to be done by Sunday night so I can mail it back soon.
The things I do for her.
I'm really just trying to finish this thing ASAP and mercifully it's not a long game. Hope to be done by Sunday night so I can mail it back soon.
The things I do for her.
FTL: THIIIIS GAAAAME.
Also, I forgot how nice it is to play a game using a mouse.
Also, I forgot how nice it is to play a game using a mouse.
Man, I am spamming it here.
Double Duel in Fire Emblem Awakening was a huge disappointment. I hadn't been able to play it before and hadn't researched it, but since my wife and I have been playing, we thought we'd try it. My assumption was that it worked like the multiplayer Final Fantasy Tactics games, where we'd each choose a few of our units to be each other's allies on a map against NPC enemies.
Instead, it's just we each choose a person to pair with the other and see if their attack can kill an enemy. That's it. No map. No strategy. Just attack. It's a decent way to get some quality items, but the renown gains are slow and it's fucking boring.
Guess we'll have to break out FFT: War of the Lions again if we want to do tactics together.
Double Duel in Fire Emblem Awakening was a huge disappointment. I hadn't been able to play it before and hadn't researched it, but since my wife and I have been playing, we thought we'd try it. My assumption was that it worked like the multiplayer Final Fantasy Tactics games, where we'd each choose a few of our units to be each other's allies on a map against NPC enemies.
Instead, it's just we each choose a person to pair with the other and see if their attack can kill an enemy. That's it. No map. No strategy. Just attack. It's a decent way to get some quality items, but the renown gains are slow and it's fucking boring.
Guess we'll have to break out FFT: War of the Lions again if we want to do tactics together.
Pretty much just FF14 for me. I really hope they have a long maintenance soon so I can tear myself away to finish Tales of Xillia.
Tell me about it. Between Awesomenauts (MOBA) and FFXIV (MMO) I'm getting nothing accomplished in the single player side of gaming.
Payday 2 is eating up most of my time, while I wait and prepare for Pokemon X/Y. Game is crazy hard now.
Wind Waker HD. SO. DAMN. PRETTY!!!!!
It really speaks to the visual style of the original game when something that came out 2 consoles ago still looks damn gorgeous with little more than uprezzed textures, some anti-aliasing and lighting effects.
So far, I've done the first two dungeons and look forward to getting the fast sail soon.
What I can't believe is that when it first came out, I totally bypassed it because I didn't get a gamecube until just before the Wii came out. Even then, I got to the Trifoce quests and quit the game because I was a dumbass and didn't make a point to fill in my sea charts even though the very first fish tells you explicitly that if you don't it will make the end game harder. After going back about a year later, I started from scratch making sure to get all the sea charts and the game became awesome.
It really speaks to the visual style of the original game when something that came out 2 consoles ago still looks damn gorgeous with little more than uprezzed textures, some anti-aliasing and lighting effects.
So far, I've done the first two dungeons and look forward to getting the fast sail soon.
What I can't believe is that when it first came out, I totally bypassed it because I didn't get a gamecube until just before the Wii came out. Even then, I got to the Trifoce quests and quit the game because I was a dumbass and didn't make a point to fill in my sea charts even though the very first fish tells you explicitly that if you don't it will make the end game harder. After going back about a year later, I started from scratch making sure to get all the sea charts and the game became awesome.
My wife and I butted heads alot with my gaming marathons when we first got together. It took alot of compromise and figuring out a way to make everyone happy that worked it out. Keep the faith!
Yeah this is good advice, my wife might not be a big gamer but getting her into some addictive casual games really opened her eyes to the draw of the idea.
My solution to this problem was to marry a gamer.
Not only that, but I had to frame gaming as an important hobby from the start. I learned rather hard from past relationships that if I pretended I didn't really game, or gamed as little as possible around them, it would always come back to bite me in the ass. With Jun, I let her know that it was simply how I relaxed after a long day, that I didn't consider it a waste of time and that I'd be more than happy to teach her how to play too. Never had any problems with it. This is good, because deep down, I doubt I'll ever entirely stop gaming, and I'd like to be with someone who accepts my hobbies.
So these days, she practices yoga on the mat next to me, and I blow heads off in Borderlands. Pure bliss.
