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Someone got me Injustice: Gods Amongst Us and I've been enjoying beating the crap out of Sinestro as just about everyone.

 GrimDork wrote:
I tended to prefer female characters in WoW after awhile. I mean I kept going back to my lanky male troll. I think I had a shaman, hunter, maybe something else all trolls. But for melee fighters, the females had more interesting/annoying fighting animations, which kept things interesting Like how the female undead tended to flip around a lot, goblins too. Plus the femdead could have sick bride-of-Frankenstein hair.

Almost nostalgic enough to play wow but I'd probably balk at the monthly fee now for how little I'd play it. And needing to buy an expansion too.

Only race who I tend to play as a male in WoW is Forsaken.

Because damn, Forsaken are cool no matter their gender!

Man, reading this makes me really want to replay Warcraft 3, but I can't face using Blizzard's stupid client to get my hands on it.

Still playing LOTRO, was faffing around in the red maid's forests in the northeastern Lone Lands and then bounced to the North Downs just to look around, before popping back to Evendim to continue my grind against all these damn men who have taken over the glassblower's village.

 Melissia wrote:
Someone got me Injustice: Gods Amongst Us and I've been enjoying beating the crap out of Sinestro as just about everyone.

That is a cracking game, it never really gets boring. Sinestro I usually find pretty tough because of all the range attacks, but Superman's eye beams and then an arial dash can get in close and then the fun starts. There's nothing quite like punching someone through the Atmosphere, then flying up to punch them back down!

 Paradigm wrote:

 Melissia wrote:
Someone got me Injustice: Gods Amongst Us and I've been enjoying beating the crap out of Sinestro as just about everyone.

That is a cracking game, it never really gets boring. Sinestro I usually find pretty tough because of all the range attacks, but Superman's eye beams and then an arial dash can get in close and then the fun starts. There's nothing quite like punching someone through the Atmosphere, then flying up to punch them back down!

I picked it up as a "party" game when I have some friends over, and it's always been fun. Even if you're bad at fighting games, it's still really fun to watch. Personally, I loooooove Hawkgirl. Few things better than donkin' people with a mace!

I dunno, I thought they could have made the different heroes and villains play a bit more differently than they did. They all seemed pretty similar when I played it.

I liked the plot, cheesy as it is though. And apparently the comics based on it are really good.

I liked the plot and comics quite a lot. I found the game ok but there are much better fighting games out there.

Downloaded the Mektek mekpak for MW4. Having some good fun with it!

In case anyone was wondering, the keyboard controls in Gauntlet (the remake that was released today on steam) are hard-coded and cannot be changed. :(
Autohotkey works reasonably well to switch keys around. I am not sure yet whether it is worth the hassle though.

Edit: It's actually quite fun so far.

 Paradigm wrote:

 Melissia wrote:
Someone got me Injustice: Gods Amongst Us and I've been enjoying beating the crap out of Sinestro as just about everyone.

That is a cracking game, it never really gets boring. Sinestro I usually find pretty tough because of all the range attacks, but Superman's eye beams and then an arial dash can get in close and then the fun starts. There's nothing quite like punching someone through the Atmosphere, then flying up to punch them back down!

If you want someone with brutal combos, play Flash.

I prefer Batgirl myself (she's so punchy!), but well, I can't deny that playing Flash ONLY using super moves is a perfectly legit strategy, because his supermoves are so varied and so damn useful and fast.

I'd love to see some proper gameplay of Flash where the enemy can't ever react due to how fast he's moving. Any suggestions for vids?

I don't really watch vids heh.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfZY-Jk539w

That's the best one on a first try to find one though.

Tempted to blow open Some call me Tim compound doors to let the zombies in to his little fortress he has going....-----insert evil laughter version 3.0 here<-----

What game are you planning on doing that in? Too many zombie games to keep track atm.

 mega_bassist wrote:

I picked it up as a "party" game when I have some friends over, and it's always been fun. Even if you're bad at fighting games, it's still really fun to watch. Personally, I loooooove Hawkgirl. Few things better than donkin' people with a mace!

Still cant compare to Super Smash Brothers as the greatest party fighting game ever

Found an Apocalypse mod for DoW: Soulstorm, it's pretty amazing. Had a game against Hard Tyranids with Guard, wasn't going well initially until I started full production of Russes.

Definitely recommend checking out the Apoc mod for those who enjoy DoW1.

I used to be a fairly active member of the relicnews forum, so I've played most of the DoW1 mods to death; I had so many files from various mods that my DoW: DC and SS folders rivalled my Oblivion folder size for disc space taken - well into the tens of GB.

I haven't checked back recently to see how they'd progressed, since most of my favourites had been abandoned or 'finished' content-wise, and the others received updates every once in a blue moon or so.

I miss mixing the Tyranid mod with some of the mods like Apocalypse, picking a map like Jungle Walls or Into the Breach with the Huge Armies, Heroes, Fortifications, and similar game options, and having the Tyranids come pouring through the bottleneck and crashing like waves upon a cliff of turrets and fully-upgraded squads, with artillery pounding them from a distance.

Always played with permanent bodies on High, too, so you'd get a minute or so of calm to inspect the body-strewn terrain before more enemies came running into the meat-grinder.

Of course, most matches like that ended in stalemates, since the enemy AI reached the point of Without Number units and the ability to instantly rebuild base buildings they'd lose to suicide runs by krak missile Tornados or whatnot, but sometimes you reached the point where you could push them back or exploit their rushing an allied AI in order to push your own frontline further down the jungle wall.

I can tell you, some of those games were great stress relievers; there's something satisfying about having a game lag so much because of the sheer amount of units on the screen and animations happening at once, as well as the bodies still rendered. A match could take hours, lag so much that the game timer would be an hour or so behind the actual time, so much stuff could die, and you could still have achieved nothing more than not letting the Tyranids through. It was awesome.

Playing lots of skyrim. Adopted a girl in the game in whiterun some time ago. Only about level 25 and already have a home in whiterun with full furnishings as well as about enough to buy a home in markarth if i so choose (had enough but i got bored and spent money leveling up stats since grinding everything is for chumps ;P).

I wish i could play a game of Wargame: Red Dragon again. I'm finding myself liking artillery more. They don't do much damage but they definitely stun the enemy. Not to mention you can shoot smoke at targets like enemy AA just before a bombing run from your aircraft. It's basically a big middle finger to the superior soviet AA on the ground (well with the exception of patriot missiles for USA). Alternatively rocket pod aircraft (for use against ground targets) seems to be fairly effective at killing or destroying enemy AA before it can react. This is all considering if you're facing low tech AA like the north korean AA and not advanced soviet union AA that uses radar. If i faced advanced AA i might use some seed aircraft though i'm finding smoke artillery would be more effective and less dangerous. Perhaps there is a use for both as seed aircraft might be good vs long range anti-air. We'll just have to see.

Tried playing Dayz, damn thing now desyncs me so quickly I can't play properly. I'm actually contemplating asking for a refund because the connection methods are so iffy.

Then picked up a physical copy of Saints row 4 (Presidents edition), Epic fun.

Still playing Dragon Age.

I do not have a sign on me that says "Talk bad philosophy at me", Morrigan. So why do you keep doing it. Why.

 toasteroven wrote:
Still playing Dragon Age.

I do not have a sign on me that says "Talk bad philosophy at me", Morrigan. So why do you keep doing it. Why.

For someone who prides herself on 'simply talk', she sure does that a lot.

 Melissia wrote:

 Paradigm wrote:

 Melissia wrote:
Someone got me Injustice: Gods Amongst Us and I've been enjoying beating the crap out of Sinestro as just about everyone.

That is a cracking game, it never really gets boring. Sinestro I usually find pretty tough because of all the range attacks, but Superman's eye beams and then an arial dash can get in close and then the fun starts. There's nothing quite like punching someone through the Atmosphere, then flying up to punch them back down!

If you want someone with brutal combos, play Flash.

I prefer Batgirl myself (she's so punchy!), but well, I can't deny that playing Flash ONLY using super moves is a perfectly legit strategy, because his supermoves are so varied and so damn useful and fast.

Oh yeah, I do like Flash. 'Oh, you can punch through walls? Let's see you do that when you're floored before you can even swing'

I don't have Batgirl on the Xbox version, must be DLC or PC exclusive.

^Is this a fighting game or more action/adventure? I can't really tolerate the first kind but the other could be neat.

It's a fighting game.

It's a fighting game, but simple/fun enough that people who have never even looked at a fighting game before, like me, can still enjoy it. You don't need insane skills or whatever it, just takes a while to get used to the controls if you're unfamiliar with it.

 GrimDork wrote:
^Is this a fighting game or more action/adventure? I can't really tolerate the first kind but the other could be neat.

Its the kind you cant tolerate. Its Mortal Kombat with less gore and supeheroes.

Boo. I figured. Oh well Still plenty of FFT to churn through!

Then I need to track down another game that seemed similar. Vandal hearts or saga or something, maybe not quite right there... it was vaguely similar with dudes moving around the same way and so on. I remember the name was similar to an action/rpg by squaresoft so I'm probably messing it up.

Vandal hearts is very similar.

Disgaea is probably something you would like too.

Similar but different is Valkeria Chronicles on ps3 is fantastic.

Yeah I watched a buddy play the crap out of Disgaea, even more anime/manga style than FFT, vaguely similar system, I even own it for the PS2, but it won't emulate on my phone I'm not so worried about using save states to cheat, as it is just so SO much easier to play here and there on the handheld device, bust out some gaming while the daughter is making me watch TV with her and so on...

So it is Vandal Hearts. All I can remember is a vaguely grid-based game with fighting and crazy bloodgysers when you kill dudes, I can't imagine liking it as much but I may have to check it out anyway.


And concerning that DC fighting game, Injustice or whatever... Is it your typical side-view back and forth, or is it more of the actually-has-three-dimensions-and-a-dynamic-camera like those DBZ fighting games? 'Cause I could maybe get into that. Theoretically.

From what I've seen, it's back and forth, but done properly. It's not the "half 3d" that the more recent MK games tend to be, but the way it's set up it's not so much that the characters are stuck on a line, and more like they're just fighting in the one strip of open area that's around- there's a ton of environmental interaction to the sides and in the background- and I think that a lot of levels have 'corners' that you go around when you're fighting hard enough to the edge.