Video Games...Discuss Them

[Acapelli]

It would be awesome if they got actual James Ellroy to write their James Ellroy game.

this

and while the facial animations look great, etm is right about the way the bodies move. it looks totally unnatural and kind of distracting

[Acapelli]

bakshi's lotr as reinterpreted by poorly preserved corpse heads sewn onto life-sized marionettes

i loled

[D_Davis]

Just Cause 2 may be the most fun game I've ever played.

[Winston*]

Now I'm a bit into it I realise Darksiders is more like a Zelda in God of War skin than a God of War clone. Fun game.

[EyesWideOpen]

Now I'm a bit into it I realise Darksiders is more like a Zelda in God of War skin than a God of War clone. Fun game.

Yeah it's basically Ocarina of Time. Boomerang, hookshots, bombs, it even has the same noise when you unlock a door.

[EyesWideOpen]

One annoying thing about Fallout: New Vegas is the level cap. I've not even made it to the strip yet and I've already hit the level cap. I could see in a multiplayer game having a level cap to keep people on equal footing but it makes no sense here.

I played through all of Fallout 3: GOTY Edition and beat every quest and side quest in the game and didn't hit the level cap until the last few quests in the last DLC.

[megladon8]

EWO, I had that problem with "Fallout 3", though it was just the standard edition. I believe one of the features of the GOTY was that it raised the level cap.

I played the game for a total of something like 87 or 88 hours, and it took me about half of that to reach level 20 (the cap at the time).

[Morris Schæffer]

Just Cause 2 may be the most fun game I've ever played.

Got this one, but haven't started it though I must say I'm itching to. Soon!

[Dukefrukem]

Now I'm a bit into it I realise Darksiders is more like a Zelda in God of War skin than a God of War clone. Fun game.

Zelda, God of War, and like... 20 other games.

[Dukefrukem]

Beat Metro 2033 over the weekend. It was a great experience even though it ripped STALKER off down to the tooth.

[Scar]

Ended up picking up Vanquish since I found out it was discontinued. So, it could still be $40 a few months from now, could be $20, or it could be expensive on the used market.

[Dukefrukem]

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[Dukefrukem]

huge steam sale going on now.

Examples:

Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light $7.49

Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands for $5

[shaun]

huge steam sale going on now.

Examples:

Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light $7.49

Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands for $5

Welp. Gonna end up spending more money.

Bought the FEAR complete pack for $10.

[Sycophant]

Nier is so good.

[Morris Schæffer]

[Dukefrukem]

Yeh that's a day 1 buy for me.

[Kurosawa Fan]

With Batman holding that door (as a shield?), it gives me hope that they've fixed one of the most annoying flaws of the game: the fact that you can't pick up a weapon that one of the thugs was using after kicking his ass, to help you handle the rest of the group. I don't want to grab a gun and start plugging away, obviously, but when they're using metal pipes, there's no reason Batman shouldn't be able to grab it off the ground and club a few baddies into unconsciousness.

[number8]

That's what I'd like to see, too. Batman is proficient at weapons as well as hand-to-hand combat, so why not show that? Have him pick up a street sign and use it as a bo staff.

[Morris Schæffer]

Aaaaagh!! Bayonetta is chaos...at least in the beginning, with that falling clock tower, myriads of colors, bad camera angles. The story appears crap, the cut scenes will probably leave me utterly cold, but it does have very cool visuals and attacks. I just barely started so I've yet to grasp whether the combo system is deeply satisfying, intuitive after a while or just mashing buttons to beat enemies into submission. I doubt I'll ever see the brilliance that Syco evidently has.

[Dukefrukem]

Aaaaagh!! Bayonetta is chaos...at least in the beginning, with that falling clock tower, myriads of colors, bad camera angles. The story appears crap, the cut scenes will probably leave me utterly cold, but it does have very cool visuals and attacks. I just barely started so I've yet to grasp whether the combo system is deeply satisfying, intuitive after a while or just mashing buttons to beat enemies into submission. I doubt I'll ever see the brilliance that Syco evidently has.

I'm half way through the game and I still don't know what the fuck is going on.

[shaun]

http://store.steampowered.com/app/24010/

http://www.giantbomb.com/quick-look-railworks/17-2557/

Railworks 2 is on sale for 85% off. It's sort of a punchline on Steam because it has over $1000 worth of DLC available but I have to admit, I kind of want to drive some trains. Sold. That, and Sid Meier's Pirates because that game is awesome.

[Sycophant]

Did you even start the prologue/first chapter, Morris? The clock tower pre-prologue is pretty brilliant, I think, because it throws your right into all the insane action of the game and lets you no-lose button mash trying to figure it out instead of just giving it to you as a cutscene. You don't know what you're doing and that's okay for right now. Eventually, this will actually all make sense, once the game has taught you how to play it and how to read its visual language.

One of my favorite things is that you can use the loading screens to practice your combos and learn new stuff. You can press SELECT to extend the amount of time to practice it gives you.

The story's purposely, gloriously retarded. It's a celebration of the schlocky, dirty, twisty storytelling of countless games and genre products. It doesn't really matter--you can kind of follow it, or you can just pay enough attention to catch the gratuitous and ridiculous gags.

[megladon8]

Yeah, so far I've found the game (and Bayonetta herself) to be hilarious spoofs of the overly convoluted, creepily sexualized anime-style games that have come out of Japan over the years and often gained quite a following in the USA.

I don't take any of it seriously, and it's fun as hell.

[Morris Schæffer]

Did you even start the prologue/first chapter, Morris?

Yeah, I did. I'm now at the point where I've gained the possibility to walk on walls and ceilings and such. I still don't quite understand the combo system. I mean, I'm hitting my foes, trying to chain things together, but not sure whether this game is all about combos. Not feeling the combo stuff like I did in Batman: AA for instance. There's lots of numbers in the top right of the screen, and shit seems to be tallied up (I think), but I'm suriving rather easily so far so I must be doing something right.

I guess Devil May Cry really springs to mind a few times, another game where being cool while offing baddies was more important than simply winning. And at this point, I'm not sure I'm cool enough in Bayonetta though I certainly get the job done.