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Picked up Red dead redemption again after not playing for well over two years, and dear lord! How this game stayed unplayed for so long, I have missed the look and feel of the game world so much. That and a main characther that is actual somewhat likebal and not a useless goat as often is the case these days

 Trondheim wrote:
Picked up Red dead redemption again after not playing for well over two years, and dear lord! How this game stayed unplayed for so long, I have missed the look and feel of the game world so much. That and a main characther that is actual somewhat likebal and not a useless goat as often is the case these days

I couldn't agree more. By far one of my favorite games. I remember getting the bandana solely to be the donkey I wanted to be, and not get into trouble for it. (Best criminal: practically worshipped everywhere and also robs people at gunpoint and drags them into a pack of wolves, or underneath a moving train.)

After seeing the preview for the "Ratchet & Clank" movie, I've decided it was time to break out a PS2 and play some Jak and Daxter.


Errr...Ratchet & Clank.

 Happyjew wrote:
After seeing the preview for the "Ratchet & Clank" movie, I've decided it was time to break out a PS2 and play some Jak and Daxter.


Errr...Ratchet & Clank.

The Ratchet & Clank games are a lot of fun. I've only played a couple of them (Going Commando and Tools of Destruction), but I want to go back and play them all eventually. Looking forward to the movie!

 2BlackJack1 wrote:

 Trondheim wrote:
Picked up Red dead redemption again after not playing for well over two years, and dear lord! How this game stayed unplayed for so long, I have missed the look and feel of the game world so much. That and a main characther that is actual somewhat likebal and not a useless goat as often is the case these days

I couldn't agree more. By far one of my favorite games. I remember getting the bandana solely to be the donkey I wanted to be, and not get into trouble for it. (Best criminal: practically worshipped everywhere and also robs people at gunpoint and drags them into a pack of wolves, or underneath a moving train.)

Good to hear I am not the only one, just finished the hunting challenges and DAMN the gun you get as an reward is insane! But em Bears & mountain lions still be crazy scary when they bumrush you while you are hunting deer

Playing skyrim with the mod that lets you be a skeleton.

I wish more games existed where you are a skeleton. Just straight up skeletoning around.

 toasteroven wrote:
Playing skyrim with the mod that lets you be a skeleton.

I wish more games existed where you are a skeleton. Just straight up skeletoning around.

spooky

 TheDraconicLord wrote:
Welp, I have finally finished Valkyria Chronicles. What a heart warming end for such an epic tale. Amazing game.

Now, I'm on NG+, grinding away the remaining achievements. I like this game enough to at least try to unlock all achievs! Besides that, it's fun to be so absurdly OP at the very start, I just mow down EVERYTHING.

While the game had it's flaws, and felt a bit rushed in the last parts the ending was one of the parts I liked a lot. It's like what happens to the characters at the endo

Go back to ordinary civilian life, start a small business, turn out some kids. Everything pretty much turns out OK.

You don't get that much, it was a nice change of pace.

Currently playing Xenoblade Chronicles, or the 3DS port rather. It's a solid game but the port is super shaky in some places due to the hardware limitations. Still I can't complain too much since it's game I'd never get to play on account of never having owned a wii.

 toasteroven wrote:
Playing skyrim with the mod that lets you be a skeleton.

I wish more games existed where you are a skeleton. Just straight up skeletoning around.

Tried the latest Metal Gear today.... and who in the nine circles of the abyss decided that this game was ready for shipping? Poor camera, bland missions and a A.I with the inteligence of toast. At least the music was decent

Welp, this is what happens when I really like a game. It consumes my free time. All the damn Valkyria Chronicle's achievements done; the rarest achievement currently in my collection is from VC, 0.5% of the players have it. I had to A rank EVERYTHING.



What a fantastic game, besides the final grind I had to do for the A ranks, never got bored or fed up with the game, everything was AWESOME.

Now: FALLOUT 4 HYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYPE!!!

 Chongara wrote:

 toasteroven wrote:
Playing skyrim with the mod that lets you be a skeleton.

I wish more games existed where you are a skeleton. Just straight up skeletoning around.

Man I loved that game. I think that was the first game I ever played on a playstation. It seemed so fancy at the time.

Skeleton time for everyone.

Just started the Witcher again... for the 4th or 5th time. Here's hoping I get past that first town this time.

The other times I've played I just couldn't continue... this time around I changed the voice settings to Polish as suggested by a friend. I can honestly say that I think I'm going to make it past the first town this time... something about it being in Polish just feels so right.

Tried The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth, got locked in a room with a secret boss horrendously difficult.

His health pool is so large it took me 10 minutes of constant bullet hell to beat it, without any item helping me dodge/block projectiles.

Hush now, it'll be alright.

Anvildude wrote:
Hush now, it'll be alright.

Been playing Civ 5 as Gandhi. I'm at least 1-2 eras ahead of everyone. This may or may not have led to me ignoring complaints from the minor foreign populations and instead did whatever I wanted regardless of consequences. (Even renaming congress to Council of Gandhi Does Whatever He Wants and also making my religion Narcissism). I also fought a war against 4 different civs at a time. Japan was the first to give up, now I'm going on the offensive to destroy Babylon and just hold out against Brazil (who betrayed me after being my friend the entire game) and Egypt.

Planetside 2.

I seem to veer from explosive rage as I get spawn camped again and again and again; to ecstatic joy as I finally manage to reach the perfect vantage point on a cliff to set up my Engineer AT turret to rain missiles down onto enemy armoured columns and infantry; and back to rage again as my factions battle lines crumble and my position gets swarmed with infantry. I think my K/D ratio over a 3 hour period was something like 70/50.

Indar is a joy to play on when your team has its gak together, with multiple fall back positions/sunderes and you hold the high ground. Theres just something about sniping tanks and infantry (especially if you can directly hit them) over a kilometer away across a wide open barren desert with laser guided missiles that makes me giggle with joy.

Dark Souls 2
I still haven't beaten the game but I got it on PC when it came out and played it for a while but it was really hard (my first souls game) then I left it alone for a long time till a few weeks ago and watched a few walkthroughs and read some stuff on how the game works and now I am a little over half way through and it is much easier now.

Play a bit of Skyrim here and there still that's really the only game I consistently go back to its awesome...mods help a bit but mostly play with only a few mods

Wargame red dragon, kicking crap outa Korea, ready to push on pyong yang, this game needs more campaigns

Playing xenonauts all was well till I pushed on the enemy command room in a carrier ship. Only lost about one of 10 guys up till then and they had 6 holed up in there. It's always an annoying maze to get to them and they always have something annoying like explosives to tackle you. It's just obnoxious to get bunched up because you can't help it and then exploded. Wouldn't have happened but I needed an alien leader captured and he had a grenade launcher and he kept bunching up around his guys. I basically lost all my guys and he only had his leader and some other lower officer left. It was total BS that I spent a long time carefully planning that **** out too. What a load. Absolute crap. Ugh. I basically killed 25 out of 27 enemies. It's annoying that even still it ended it a loss. Losing sucks but when you take a long time of carefully planning and playing a game only to lose hours or more into it sucks infinitely more.

Considering I faced a crap ton of chrysallids (reapers) I managed to handle the mission out ok. I basically annihilated the recon forces outside the ships and all but 2 guys in the ship are now dead. I find it hard to imagine they could get the ship back up again with a 2 man crew but I dunno.

I'm playing Batman: A Matter of Family, now that it's finally available for PC. It's pretty good so far, actually has the feeling of a genuine 'Arkham Episode' unlike the rubbish that was the Harley / Red Hood mission.

I'm apparently 45% of the way through it, if it was about 50% longer, I think they would really be onto something as a regular thing.

After reloading the save a couple times I managed to beat that carrier ufo mission on the 3rd try. Yeah, yeah I save scummed. So far it's the only time I did and I felt it was justified. The 2nd go at it ended in a bunch of reapers (chrysallids) sneaking up on a couple of my guys and auto-killing them. It sucks that this game let's them have an instant kill on infantry regardless of what it is. Anyway on 3rd try I managed to lose 6 of my 10 guys and I killed the alien leader which was good and bad. Things are going fairly well now. My ships are fairly good though they're starting to get outpaced by the enemy ships again. Hopefully I can capture an alien leader soon. I already faced and destroyed my first battleship so more should be on their way fairly soon.

 flamingkillamajig wrote:
It sucks that this game let's them have an instant kill on infantry regardless of what it is.

This is pretty much what the original UFO Defense chrysalids did. They'd appear halfway across the map, charge one of your guys, and insta-zombie him or her.

That, coupled with what happened when the zombie died, is the reason why they're one of the most feared things ever to turn up in a strategy game.

 Shadow Captain Edithae wrote:
Planetside 2.

I seem to veer from explosive rage as I get spawn camped again and again and again; to ecstatic joy as I finally manage to reach the perfect vantage point on a cliff to set up my Engineer AT turret to rain missiles down onto enemy armoured columns and infantry; and back to rage again as my factions battle lines crumble and my position gets swarmed with infantry. I think my K/D ratio over a 3 hour period was something like 70/50.

Indar is a joy to play on when your team has its gak together, with multiple fall back positions/sunderes and you hold the high ground. Theres just something about sniping tanks and infantry (especially if you can directly hit them) over a kilometer away across a wide open barren desert with laser guided missiles that makes me giggle with joy.

I am absolutely terrible at that game. Can barely keep a 1/10 K/D ratio. BUT. It LOVE how much it makes you feel like a guy in a war! There are so many other's around you and the battlefield is so massive it makes you feel like you've actually gone dirtside into the battlefield. The enormus firefights over choke points are what I live for.

I remember my favorite battle was 2 hours I spent fighting over a bridge in the jungle. Blue's VS Red's with complete and total warfare over this one bridge. Must have been over 1000 deaths all around that day. (Not me. But actual deaths of friendly and enemy troops.)

Thought I'd continue plowing through GTA San Andreas. I'm actually enjoying it, since there's quite a bit of content or the 3-4$ I paid for it (and the story's pretty good which I wasn't expecting). I got GTA 4 on a steam sale, and I heard that one was even better, so I'll get that one started when I'm finished with San Andreas.

 2BlackJack1 wrote:
Been playing Civ 5 as Gandhi. I'm at least 1-2 eras ahead of everyone. This may or may not have led to me ignoring complaints from the minor foreign populations and instead did whatever I wanted regardless of consequences. (Even renaming congress to Council of Gandhi Does Whatever He Wants and also making my religion Narcissism). I also fought a war against 4 different civs at a time. Japan was the first to give up, now I'm going on the offensive to destroy Babylon and just hold out against Brazil (who betrayed me after being my friend the entire game) and Egypt.

^Thas is amazing. THAT is how you play Ghandi.

Yup, sounds like the Civ version of Ghandi to me

Eumerin wrote:

 flamingkillamajig wrote:
It sucks that this game let's them have an instant kill on infantry regardless of what it is.

This is pretty much what the original UFO Defense chrysalids did. They'd appear halfway across the map, charge one of your guys, and insta-zombie him or her.

That, coupled with what happened when the zombie died, is the reason why they're one of the most feared things ever to turn up in a strategy game.

I just hate facing those jerks in night missions (lower human player vision radius) and on terror missions where there are lots of civilians and similar around. It forces you to go out and find the chrysallids (reapers) but if you go too fast you leave yourself open to getting shot by the other aliens. Corner up and shoot enemies and then you'll have so many chrysallids (reapers) on you that you'll get overrun.

Had a Clan War today in Clash of Clans. Got both my attacks in already. 1st attack was a 2 star which is more than I was expecting. Did a gowipe but just didn't have enough punch to my army. 2nd attack was supposed to be a 'clean up'... i was supposed to get the third star from a previously attacked base. Only managed to get 2 stars so of course no gain. I ran out of time... just needed maybe 20 more seconds and I would have had that 3rd star.

Tried out Space Wolf on the iPad. It is way more fun than I expected. The gameplay remind me of the Metal Gear Ac!d games on the Sony PSP. I loved those games. I can see myself putting more time into Space Wolf. I'm hoping eventually there is a PC port that will be made available on Steam.

 djphranq wrote:
Had a Clan War today in Clash of Clans. Got both my attacks in already. 1st attack was a 2 star which is more than I was expecting. Did a gowipe but just didn't have enough punch to my army. 2nd attack was supposed to be a 'clean up'... i was supposed to get the third star from a previously attacked base. Only managed to get 2 stars so of course no gain. I ran out of time... just needed maybe 20 more seconds and I would have had that 3rd star.

I've been there before, and it's never been a pretty sight. I've witnessed the infamous 99% one star because dragon's AI made them sweep an entire base and ignore the Town Hall. My current war is pretty easy. Both bases I have to face are rushed town hall 8's, and I'm nearing max town hall 8. Gowipe both of them, and I'm in the clear.

I also finished that Civ 5 game as Gandhi. I ended up doing a science victory, but made sure to let every country know who led the world in wars before I finished. That meant wiping out Babylon, and destroying every other civ's navy (thea was mostly ocean, so that removed their entire armies as soon as they were out of production). I also bullied some civs into giving me cities when theu called for peace treaties. (Thanks for half your country, Egypt. )

I've been playing Dragon Age: Inquisition. Never beaten the game, just keep restarting for some reason, but I just love all the choice you get.