What Video Games Are You Playing Right Now?

[Deep Blue]

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i was answering kosakifag

[solidbatman]

What'd you think of it, batman?  I thought it was one of the best GTA clones I've ever played, what with the interesting location (reversed roads really threw me) and the emphasis on hand-to-hand over guns.  The story also blew me away; the realism, up until the boss fight, was pretty refreshing.

I really had fun with it. Wasn;t anything amazing, but I would love to see more. It is a shame they are making Triad Wars a MMO instead of making another true story focus game set in Hong Kong. Obviously, Wei Shen's story is over, but it'd be fun to play as someone like Jackie maybe, someone who is genuinely joining the Triad gangs and work your way up through the gang in a story focused manner. 

 

Excellent. I'm even happier at the idea of New Game+ (I didn't know it existed) than at the idea of continuing on after the battle. Though now I have to wonder what the last day is on which I can finish the fight without getting a bad ending... ahh, well, it will all be revealed soon enough.

Typically, its either April Year 3 or April Year 6 I think. Sometimes, the main quest doesn't appear until after Year 3 ie. Totori. 

[Turnip Sensei]

I started playing Dark Souls 2: Scholar of First Sin expansion/enhanced version/whatever. I never played the DLC anyway, so it was a good time do another play trough. 

The new enemy placement really threw me off guard and they also added more enemies, which makes certain areas very bothersome. More so, since I challenged myself to do no-shield run.

[SanadaShadow]

I really had fun with it. Wasn;t anything amazing, but I would love to see more. It is a shame they are making Triad Wars a MMO instead of making another true story focus game set in Hong Kong. Obviously, Wei Shen's story is over, but it'd be fun to play as someone like Jackie maybe, someone who is genuinely joining the Triad gangs and work your way up through the gang in a story focused manner. 

 

So then, how is it compared to Saint's Row? I wanna get a scope of things before I start playing...

[Kurisu-Chan]

So then, how is it compared to Saint's Row? I wanna get a scope of things before I start playing...

What saints row? SR 2 or SR 3/4?

[solidbatman]

So then, how is it compared to Saint's Row? I wanna get a scope of things before I start playing...

Completely different. Way less over the top. Way more story focused. Much less gun play. More hand to hand combat. M

[SanadaShadow]

What saints row? SR 2 or SR 3/4?

 

Uhhh, the best one, SR2.

 

Completely different. Way less over the top. Way more story focused. Much less gun play. More hand to hand combat. M

 

M? Masochistic?

 

Joking aside, would you consider it a GTA gameplay + Assassin's Creed seriousness kinda thing? That's what my friend says (but I've known for a long while not to trust him with things like that, he gets excited too easily).

[Kurisu-Chan]

Uhhh, the best one, SR2.

 

 

M? Masochistic?

 

Joking aside, would you consider it a GTA gameplay + Assassin's Creed seriousness kinda thing? That's what my friend says (but I've known for a long while not to trust him with things like that, he gets excited too easily).

It's not really Assassin's creed, you don't have that much verticality, but yeh, it's a little similar, but trust me, Sleeping dogs is harder than AC(well it's easy to be harder than AC lol )

[Nyanko]

My atelier senses are tingling. Go forth my child and bask in the glory of Rorona.

Could your senses tell me if its a good series to start my journey through the atelier games?

[solidbatman]

Could your senses tell me if its a good series to start my journey through the atelier games?

You have a few choices actually in terms of localized titles. Could start with Atelier Iris: Eternal Mana which is more of a traditional jrpg. Or you could go with Atelier Rorona Plus (make sure you play the Plus version) which is a time based jrpg. Or you could go with Atelier Ayesha. All three of these are the start of a different trilogy. Lets not also forget Mana Khemia which is in fact an Atelier series too. Its the start of the time based mechanics (for English titles. Series was time based before Iris). 

[solidbatman]

Wow, I had no idea they were making a sequel, much less an MMO.  I think it's lame that they're going for an MMO, since they usually flop and aren't that well made.  Ah, well...

 

But yeah, I loved the characters and the story.  Kinda wish there'd been a system similar to Splinter Cell: Double Agent's in it, where you had to make sure that neither the cops or the triads got too suspicious of you, but that would've been just over the top amazing.

 

The first Assassin's Creed was hard as hell, then they dumbed it down in the sequel, and then they apparently decided that it was too hard even then, and continued to dumb it down even further until a drunk toddler could play it.

You bet your ass I will be testing this theory out.

As for Triad wars, it looks like it may be like GTA Online in terms of how it works, except you run gangs and stuff. I feel like it will be pay to win

[Kenshin_sama]

Please don't give alcohol to toddlers.

 

 

Rather, give it to a cranky old lady who has never held a game controller. You'll get similar results, and it won't be nearly as mean.

 

I've only ever played AC2, but I never considered it all that challenging and pretty much beat it in 2 days (would've been 1 if it weren't for time constraints). Might give the first one a shot if it's that much more difficult though.

[Kenshin_sama]

Heh, I can very easily chain counters in the 2nd game. Well, I will definitely look forward to this. I've always had a lot of confidence in my reaction time (which has been greatly refined from playing insanes on Osu), so I'll probably be able to hit it off. :> And good, the guards were too big of a joke for me.

[mbl]

So much is happening this month. My attention has been split between Bloodborne, Dark Souls 2: Scholar of the First Sin, and Axiom Verge. Bloodborne is bloodborne. DS2 is DS2.

 

Axiom Verge is ok, gameplay is like metroid(which is what it's entire advertising campaign was centered around). I don't like how he designed bossfights. Regular enemies require quick dodging and attacking, while bosses barely hurt you but have huge amounts of health and spam the same series of attacks over and over. The bosses are designed to take forever, and slowly wear down your health, rather than have have a reasonable amount of health and doing an unforgiving amount of damage.

[Kenshin_sama]

Wooo, finally got this.

 

 

Now I can finally start making some progress on hard mode. Hopefully... Actually, probably not. I still need a better dps class.

[Fred the Barber]

Typically, its either April Year 3 or April Year 6 I think. Sometimes, the main quest doesn't appear until after Year 3 ie. Totori. 

 

Yep, April 1st year 3, the game just... ended. It actually let me continue to that point. Kinda weird, but a great game. I'll probably play New Game+ for a while, trying to unlock all the panels and find/make badass stuff, now that I actually understand how the crafting system all works. After I get bored of that (realistically, I'm not going to finish it), I dunno... either Escha and Logy Plus, or Rorona Plus, I guess. I'm worried if I do Escha and Logy next, I'll finish it and be annoyed at there not being a Vita version of Shallie.

 

I'll post more detailed thoughts on the game (and especially the weird way of doing the ending...) over in the Atelier thread.

[Kosakyun]

Wooo, finally got this.

 

<cute girl pic>

 

Now I can finally start making some progress on hard mode. Hopefully... Actually, probably not. I still need a better dps class.

 

Oookay, you got me.

What's this game called?

[Decay]

Try countering with the Hidden Blade in the original Assassin's Creed, I dare you.  The window of time in which to counterattack with it is so friggin' small I never was even able to do it.  Really, the others are child's play compared to the original.  Combat in general was more difficult, and the guards were better at detecting and spotting you, so you actually had to plan before you went in.  It's pretty sad, Ubi dumbed it down so it'd appeal to a wider audience...

 

Just bought This War of Mine on Steam.  I'm ready for dem feels.

Eh, this is an exaggeration, after about 10 or so minutes of practice I was able to do the hidden blade counter about 75% of the time in AC1. It really wasn't that hard. In AC2 combat was pretty easy, though, and in Brotherhood and beyond, it was downright trivial. Once they added the feature where you could chain instant-kills just by continuing to attack without getting hit, any difficulty in combat was completely gone.

[Kenshin_sama]

Oookay, you got me.

What's this game called?

[FruitsPunchSamurai]

Just got Bloodborne. Hope this doesn't disappoint like Dark souls ll did.

[sub-zer0]

just bought the S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Bundle from steam, I'm looking forward to it, but I do have something in mind,should I mod it immediately? The S.T.A.L.K.E.R complete mod for shadow of Chernobyl, it improves everything and fixes bugs, some people on the internet said you should play it vanilla first, and then mod it, though I'm definitely going to get rid of the head bobbing problem ad that nasty movement speed that makes me feel sick 

[solidbatman]

just bought the S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Bundle from steam, I'm looking forward to it, but I do have something in mind,should I mod it immediately? The S.T.A.L.K.E.R complete mod for shadow of Chernobyl, it improves everything and fixes bugs, some people on the internet said you should play it vanilla first, and then mod it, though I'm definitely going to get rid of the head bobbing problem ad that nasty movement speed that makes me feel sick 

The Complete mods don't change anything story related as far as I know. I'm doing my first SoC playthrough with the Complete mod and thats it. 

[Turnip Sensei]

just bought the S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Bundle from steam, I'm looking forward to it, but I do have something in mind,should I mod it immediately? The S.T.A.L.K.E.R complete mod for shadow of Chernobyl, it improves everything and fixes bugs, some people on the internet said you should play it vanilla first, and then mod it, though I'm definitely going to get rid of the head bobbing problem ad that nasty movement speed that makes me feel sick 

 

Playing complete mod first is fine, the reason people say you should play vanilla first is because complete makes the game too easy. (it's still hard)

But it makes the game look pretty and fixes most of the problems, so it's good place to start. 

[sub-zer0]

I'v been playing with the complete mod, and I'm so glad the shaking is gone...I would have never gotten used to that, but so far the game is somewhat difficult( veteran difficulty), died a number of times, but have been progressing slowly and steadily,the weight system is dragging me down though... When given the option to hoard everything, it is really hard to let it go,lol,but I'm improving now, by only taking the ammunition instead of every single gun. 

[Kenshin_sama]

Made it to master tier at the very last minute in Crusaders Quest. I honestly didn't think I was gonna get it before the Colosseum reset, but holy crap I'm stoked that I did. I remember getting like 12 jewels for making it to gold tier last week, I wonder how much I'll get this time.

 

Edit: Um, I got 15. ._. It's still something, lol.