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Post by Onix Solo on Jun 17, 2012 10:28:47 GMT -5
Been playing several things lately. First off, I was introduced to a mod for Arma II by one of the podcasts I listen to, and some gameplay footage on their youtube channel and a few others. I had to buy Arma II and give it a shot. The mod is DayZ, if you've heard of it. Basically it simulates the Zombie apocalypse in a fictional part of Russia. The map is huge, and servers range from 25 players to as high as 76, and supports up to around 1500 zombies at one time. You start off on a beach with a pistol, a few magazines, some medical supplies, a couple cans of food, and a canteen. The goal is to survive, plain and simple. You have several parameters you have to keep up with, like your hunger and thirst, your blood levels (health), and your temperature. The big kicker is once you die, you start all over from scratch. Right now the average life is 33 minutes, but it is slowly climbing, probably thanks to those like me and my brother that after our first few failed attempts at surviving, we have no successfully survived for upwards of 14 hours. Lots of fun, even if most of your time is spent traveling through forests and fields where zombies aren't present. The scariest thing in the game is actually other players, as you don't know if their motives are good, or if they are opportunistic bandits. Also been playing a bit of Borderlands on Steam. I had never made it to the DLC for the game so me and my brother finished a play-through of the base game and have started some of the DLC sections, all in anticipation for Borderlands 2 later this year. Then, the other day I saw a game get released on Steam I had to buy, Rune Classic. Most people around my age reminisce of their childhood games of Mario, Zelda, Spyro, Sonic and other games like that, but my childhood was filled with Twisted Metal, Tekken, Unreal Tournament, and Rune. I had fond memories of this game, but it had seemed this game had disappeared off the face of the planet. It runs on the original Unreal Engine, and it was a third person hack and slash game set in Viking culture and mythology. My fondest memory of playing it was when my dad cut off my brothers arm and beat him to death with it, lol. When I saw it on steam, and for 7.99, I had to buy it. Plus, it seems they are using this to raise money for a sequel. Color me excited. Last, been playing Champions Online. I'm not a big MMO player, but this one isn't bad. I would be fine though with just creating superheroes and more superheroes. It is fun, and I like coming up with a back story. I have 2 characters (that all you get to make without buying more character slots), one is an eel that was spliced with human DNA and transformed into a huge behemoth with human level intelligence and bestial ferocity named Anguillian (derived from eels order, Anguilliforms), and a soldier turned super-soldier after he was shot in the side by a tank, loosing his left arm, lower torso and legs and then brought back by a mad field surgeon as a cyborg after being dead for 2 and a half weeks named Major Daemon. As you can see, I have fun with the back stories  |
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Post by X-BOT on Jul 3, 2012 18:02:02 GMT -5
Duke you ever need tips on Oblivion hit me up! Been playing Skyrim....only have Thieves Guild and find the rest of the Shrines. Mass Effect 3!Love it! Dont forget to download.....damn the name of the game escapes me.But you play the demo and you get free Armor and a weapon in Mass Effect3 Kingdom of Amular. SoldierX :Xbox live Soldier-X :playstation3 SoldierX :game center |
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Post by Onix Solo on Jul 18, 2012 18:23:40 GMT -5
Beat Human Revolution. Good game.
Started playing LA Niore, not very good at it but it is interesting.
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Post by Onix Solo on Sept 9, 2012 18:23:55 GMT -5
Been playing Fall of Cybertron of course. Leveled up my Infiltrator and Destroyer to 25, and Scientist and Titan to 11 and 13 respectively.
Also been playing Total War: Shogun 2. Game can be addicting.
Still working through L.A. Noire. As much as the concept is interesting, it is kind of a one trick pony. The open world GTA style isn't very fun when you have to follow laws.
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Post by Bomblast on Sept 21, 2012 13:54:53 GMT -5
Got myself an Xbox a few months back, since then I have been playing Halo: Reach, Assassin's Creed 2, Forza 3, Lego Indiana Jones and Lego Star Wars.
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Post by Jazzman Crothers on Nov 5, 2012 10:40:25 GMT -5
I rarely buy the newest games, the only exceptions I make are for TF and Bond related games. I bough the first Assassin Creed only a few months ago! So I'm now going to buy Resistance 2. Came out in 2008 but now the price is $15 at EB games. I'm craving a sci-fi shooter. And I tried the new Resident Evil 6 demo. Loved it. I never liked the RE games because I could never run around or defend myself well. In this one you can and they give you different characters that do different things. I'll get that in like 4 to 5 years I guess.  |
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Post by Onix Solo on Nov 5, 2012 11:30:53 GMT -5
Been playing several games. First off, Assassin's Creed Brotherhood and Revelation went on sale on Steam a few weeks back, and I bought them for $20 total. Been playing through Brotherhood, and it is about what you expect from an Assassin's Creed game. Better than AC2 in many ways, but still has some of the same problems as well.
Next up, I had gotten into a beta for a game call Primal Carnage, which is a class-based online shooter of sorts, but instead of humans vs aliens, or humans vs humans, it is humans vs dinosaurs. It's a lot of fun. Humans are you tradition FPS style game play, with 5 classes, each with a specific ability to counter the dinos. Dinosaurs play in third person, and have 5 classes with ranging abilities. It's a lot of stress free, straight up fun to play unlike many shooters these days. Pre-ordered it after my first day with the beta, which the full games has now been released on Steam.
Other than that, been playing some Minecraft after the 1.4.2 update, played some Team Fortress 2 and Killing Floor over the last few weeks during their Halloween events, and that's basically it.
Also, gave up on L.A. Niore. The game just drags on, and the mechanics get repetitive fast. Couldn't play it for more than an hours at a time. Guess it's just not my sort of game, even if the whole detective things seemed like it would have been fun.
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Post by Jazzman Crothers on Nov 5, 2012 12:05:31 GMT -5
First off, Assassin's Creed Brotherhood and Revelation went on sale on Steam a few weeks back, and I bought them for $20 total. Been playing through Brotherhood, and it is about what you expect from an Assassin's Creed game. Better than AC2 in many ways, but still has some of the same problems as well. While I really liked AC, I didn't like the melee fighting. Besides that I could go into details, but I don't think there was much that really sticks out in my memory. What problems do the other AC games suffer? Also, gave up on L.A. Niore. The game just drags on, and the mechanics get repetitive fast. Couldn't play it for more than an hours at a time. Guess it's just not my sort of game, even if the whole detective things seemed like it would have been fun. I was told by a friend that L.A.Niore was all cut scenes, so I didn't bother. I thought much the same thing that a detective game would of be great. |
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Post by Onix Solo on Nov 5, 2012 14:49:33 GMT -5
First off, Assassin's Creed Brotherhood and Revelation went on sale on Steam a few weeks back, and I bought them for $20 total. Been playing through Brotherhood, and it is about what you expect from an Assassin's Creed game. Better than AC2 in many ways, but still has some of the same problems as well. While I really liked AC, I didn't like the melee fighting. Besides that I could go into details, but I don't think there was much that really sticks out in my memory. What problems do the other AC games suffer? AC1 wasn't the best game, I usually tell people to skip it unless they really had to have the entire story. AC2 was pretty good and brotherhood even better so far. Mostly the issues I refer to are some frustration with the lock-on features especially when you end up assassinating a civilian instead of an enemy, and some precision issues with platforming. It gets better with each game, but still is an issue. However, the new features and weapons added to brotherhood make up form some frustrations. Basically, interactive cut scenes. My biggest problem with it is that it is repetitive, and then your AI partner is supposed to point you in the right direction if you are stuck, but sometimes they are no help, and then you accidentally make a decision that starts an irreversible chain of events. Not that I want it to hand hold me, but the interface is far from perfect. |
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Post by Onix Solo on Nov 12, 2012 21:41:27 GMT -5
So, I beat Assassin's Creed Brotherhood on Friday. It was decent, but in all, felt much more like an expansion than a stand alone game. It added some new functions to the base formula that you'd know from ACII, but the storyline was mostly filler, and progressed the plot very little.
Once I beat that, I installed Assassin's Creed Revelation. Man, this is without a doubt the best title in the Ezio trilogy. This feels like a real step forward in the series, and definitely feels like it's own game. They added in a new piece of gear that added some more, much needed, precision for platforming. What they really did to make it special, though, was take everything that Brotherhood added, but didn't necessarily mean anything, and expand upon it. Training your assassin's, reclaiming other parts of the world outside of the story city, and actually interacting with your recruits in missions. The story was fantastic, and neatly wraps up many threads in both Ezio, and Altair's stories, and gives deeper insight into Desmond as a character. Installed this on Friday, finished it today, was that good.
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Post by Onix Solo on Dec 31, 2012 10:48:35 GMT -5
So, a lot of gaming going on on my end of things right now. Got some games for Christmas, got some from a Humble Bundle, and bought a lot more in the Steam sale. Games I've gained in December:
Halo 4
Assassin's Creed III
Far Cry 3
Borderlands 2
The Witcher 2
Darksiders
Darksiders 2
The Walking Dead
Half-Life 2 Episode 1
Half-Life 2 Episode 2
Half-Life Source Deathmatch
Half-Life 2 Deathmatch
Natural Selection 2
Dungeon Defenders
Napoleon Total War
Saints Row The Third
Red Faction Armageddon
Titan Quest
Company of Heroes
Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts
Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor
Warhammer 40000: Dawn of War
The Binding of Isaac
Blocks that Matter
Gish
And the Steam sale continues so I might add one or two more games if they are cheap (only have $17 bucks left that I saved for the sale).
I've played through Halo 4, The Walking Dead, Red Faction Armageddon, and technically HL2 episodes 1 and 2 because I played them a long while back on the Xbox 360. Starts playing through Assassin's Creed III, Darksiders, Far Cry 3, Saints Row The Third, Borderlands 2, as well as played several matches of both Natural Selection 2 and Dungeon Defenders as they are multiplayer games.
Halo 4, to me as a huge Halo fan having read all the books save the most recent 2 (which I've started just not completed) as well as played all the games several time through, was a major disappointment. The story was shallow, and required more outside knowledge from the novels than any other game, which is odd because a lot of critics complained about the Bungie games saying that you had to read the books to follow the story, which I found absurd, and then said Halo 4 had a richer story than any Bungie game, but I felt that had you not read most of the last 4 books, you'd have been lost, because I have read the majority of the last 4 books, and I was lost. It felt like bad fan fiction, stopping just before the points where Master Chief and Cortana started making love, to be honest.
The Walking Dead, another critically acclaimed game for its story, was good but also a slight disappointment. Mainly, critics built it up as a game where choices matter and great change the games and peoples interactions with you, and the games was getting many a GOTY nominations on this premise. That's not really what I experienced though. Choices you make are cosmetic at best, as every episode, and the entire story ends on the same note, no matter your decisions. Still good, just not as advertised.
Red Faction Armageddon was an alright third person shooter game, and not the disaster that everyone claimed it to be. A lot of people wanted another Red faction Guerrilla, which in my opinion, was a very shallow and empty open world game that had you destroying the few buildings that were scattered around the terrain to make the games even emptier. RFA was more story driven, though the story was a bit shallow and predictable. Playing with the magnet gun was a whole lot of fun though.
Darksiders I've just about beat, and it was a lot more fun than I expected. Never been much for the action adventure type game.
Assassin's Creed III has been pretty good, and I enjoy the setting. Conor is a great character, maybe even better than Ezio, and his interaction with his Master is entertaining.
Borderlands 2 has been a blast, as expected. Been playing through it with my brother and it is much more story driven this time. Loot is harder to come by, and I'm not a fan of Shift Keys, but a fun experience.
Far cry 3 I just got yesterday, but it is already a blast, and fits my play stile quite well. I'm one that often sees something in the distance and gets side tracked by it, and last night as I headed to an enemy camp to liberate it, I got distracted by some huts with loot-able grates, then found some animals I was looking for to hunt, which lead me to some more animals and then I remembered what I was headed to the area for 30 minutes ago and got back to the mission, lol.
My little bit with Saints Row The Third was okay, but I'm not sure the amount of time I will give it. Gameplay is fun, but I'm a story man, and the story is just about getting your gang back to the top again by doing crazy, ridiculous stuff. Not really my bread and butter but I own it, and might spend time with it later when I've got less to play.
Natural Selection 2 and Dungeon Defenders are both fun multiplayer games, which me and my friends have been enjoying. NS2 is a hybrid of a class based first person shooter and a real time strategy game. Dungeon Defenders is a co-op, rpg mixed with tower defense game that has been a lot of fun. What really keeps you playing is the loot. My lord all the loot!
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Post by Hoist on Jan 6, 2013 4:48:10 GMT -5
Glad to see your doing the humble bundle thing as well. I haven't actually bought any games there yet, but if something comes up I will - it's a good cause.
I've only just started buying in the STEAM sale so so far I've only got Deus Ex - which I've been wanting for a long while, and am have just bought the two Batman games - Arkham Asylum and Arkham City. I've played the first one on my PS3 but didn't complete it, so I know I like it, given how impressed I was with it I have high hopes for it's sequel.
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Post by Onix Solo on Jan 6, 2013 10:49:05 GMT -5
Glad to see your doing the humble bundle thing as well. I haven't actually bought any games there yet, but if something comes up I will - it's a good cause. I've only just started buying in the STEAM sale so so far I've only got Deus Ex - which I've been wanting for a long while, and am have just bought the two Batman games - Arkham Asylum and Arkham City. I've played the first one on my PS3 but didn't complete it, so I know I like it, given how impressed I was with it I have high hopes for it's sequel. All 3 are very good games. Asylum in my opinion was better than City, but more because I felt the interior sections in City were too small in favor of the open world. I finished off the Steam sale with the Warhammer 40000 collection. It was 7 games, and a whole ton of DLC that normally costs around $104 bucks, on sale for a meager $9.99. THQ has been selling their game ridiculously cheap since their foreclosure and bankruptcy. I've owned the first Warhammer 40k for 3 weeks or so but haven't played it, so I'm not even sure if I will like the series, but I figured if I do like it, and end up wanting the sequels, I'll probably never get them 90% off again. Plus, I want to give some support to THQ, because I was really looking forward to Metro Last Light, and I want to see it released. |
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Post by Onix Solo on Jan 22, 2013 23:08:26 GMT -5
Got a PS3, PSN ID is lBloodstorml
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Post by Jazzman Crothers on Jan 23, 2013 1:36:35 GMT -5
Got a PS3, PSN ID is lBloodstorml Oh snap! *dusts off FoC* |
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