Video Game Reviews: What Are You Playing?

[Hollyw00d]

I liked the card game.

my favorite was the hill battle game. It was like a prequel to final fantasy tactics, perhaps my favorite game evrr

[DW711]

sephiroth 

[DW711]

[Brandon]

I liked the card game.

my favorite was the hill battle game. It was like a prequel to final fantasy tactics, perhaps my favorite game evrr

Tactics was sweet.

[Hollyw00d]

It was.

 

possibly also the darkest FF of the series

[DW711]

This one might be in his top ten.

 

Watch it!

 

[Brandon]

Anyone else play Dragon Age?

Since the FF talk I want to get an rpg, but am not sure. I've done a bunch of research, but I'm not sure if it's for me.

I like the rpg element of building something from nothing and want a Game of Thrones setting...this seems to be that. But I haven't played a rpg since maybe Xenogears way back in the day. For someone that doesn't play rpgs much is it something I can pick up and play easily or will I sit through hours of tutorials and have to spend a bunch of time learning little nuances?

I still have Evil Within and Watch Dogs in the wrapper from Thanksgiving and am seriously leaning towards exchanging one for this. I just want to see if it's good for someone to jump back into an rpg game and not have the hassle of relearning everything plus the games individual mechanics. I didn't play the older games, so, mulwins extensive posts on the game don't ring a bell as he compared them.

Good beginner rpg?

[mulwin444]

Brandon, I've played through Dragon Age Inquisition twice and,in my opinion, it's accessible and pretty elastic in terms of what you are looking for in an RPG. You can play on regular difficulty and not be overwhelmed. As you level up, your powers are hot-keyed automatically and if you didn't touch the other characters stats, it wouldn't impact your experience. There are elements along the way that you can use to build weapons using schematics you find but you'll loot weapons that are powerful. You can play this game without playing the other two and you wouldn't feel in the dark. Honestly it can be as simple or complex as you want to make it. You can choose to be warrior, Mage, or rogue with a choice of 4 different races (human, dwarf, elf or Qunari) each with their quirks. There is a main story that you can follow whose narrative threads will unlock as you gain power stats. Overall, the main story could take about 40 hours but, if you want to complete maps, fight all dragons, search all dungeons, etc it could easily stretch over 100 hours. In my opinion, its one of the best RPGS I've played with next generation graphics, excellent writing, characters and voice acting and incredible depth of lore. Highly recommended.

Edited December 30, 2014 by mulwin444

[Thomas]

Mario Kart 8 and Super Smash Bros Wii U with the kids. Serious fun.

[Blarg]

Did that Christmas night for too many hours. The brand new PS4 sat in its box while we raced all night.

My son plays "don't drink and drive" with his friends on Mario cart. You race and have to finish a beer during the race but can't drive while drinking. After several races they are running off the course right and left.

[DW711]

[Brandon]

It's forthcoming. I think in want to platinum gta 5 on ps4 then hop in. I'm hesitant to the learning curve.

Especially since I have last of us, watch dogs, and evil within sitting here

[DW711]

Just went through some of the free/steam sale games.

 

To the Moon: Haven't played it enough

 

Geometry Dash: 9. I still haven't beat the first level (off practice mode). It is HARD. Creating your own level might be fun.

 

Battleblock Theater: 9. Simple yet effective. Very good co-op game.

 

Chaos Online. N/A. I played it for appx 3 minutes. Looks like a clone of Dota or League of Legends.

Edited January 9, 2015 by DW711

[Make Angels Great Again]

Playing Destiny on PS4. 

 

It's a pretty good game, some people seem to hate on it a lot but i'd give it a solid 8 or 8.5, the gameplay is great but the story just hasn't grabbed my attention. I just finished the strike on the Moon, haven't done a raid or anything like that yet.

 

The one thing that bugs me about this game is that they absolutely SUCK at explaining how just about anything works. Most of the time they just simply don't even try.

[Blarg]

That was my first impression as well. I went on the first quest and the travel function wasn't intuitive, then when I got there and did the usual battle with various enemies one drops an item that I picked up. Was supposed to be some melee weapon that I had no idea how it worked and must have did a weapon swap or it timed out because it disappears and I get horde attacked. Evidently you are supposed to use it on the horde but I couldn't find a way to access it again and ended up using most of my ammo to survive.

 

I had to bail out of the game before completing the mission so I have no idea if it autosaved my progress since I wasn't sure exiting the game did it. I guess I will find out tonight, rough week at work and I feel I need to work out some frustration on some aliens.

Edited January 9, 2015 by notti

[TobiasFunke]

I watched it being played online and got bored with the story/gameplay. It seemed really repetitive.

[DW711]

Ok, so I've been playing this and I have to say it's this decades Conker Bad Fur Day (as in it's the best game hardly anyone knows about)! Sometimes it's on sale for 3-4 bucks, too.

 

[TobiasFunke]

No one knows about Conkers Bad Fur Day? That's insane

[DW711]

Not enough people do!

[TobiasFunke]

It's been years since I've played a Mortal Kombat and even longer since I've bought one, but this new MKX that's coming out looks like the best MK that's ever been made. Incredible!

[RallyMo]

I just started Destiny last night. I'm terrible at this crap but so far I am liking it. The gameplay is very Haloish, which I guess is to be expected from Bungie.

[Blarg]

I just like punching out my opponents. Toss a light grenade to blind them and run through and play knockout.

[TobiasFunke]

I just reorganized my video game/computer/music room and have it to where all my systems are now accessible and ready to play so I've been playing a bunch of my old games. Let me just say that out of all of them, my Gamecube games have not held up. And after 20+ years, I still get stoked when I kick Sagat and M.Bison's ass in Street Fighter.

[mulwin444]

The two games that still hold up pretty well on the PS1 after all these years are the original "Silent Hill" and "Metal Gear: Solid".  I've played the Silent Hill franchise all the way up until "The Room" and the first was still my favorite in terms of overall story, creepiness and the ability to unlock alternate endings.

[DW711]

I got double dragon 1, 2 and 3 off steam...I think they'd be fine on the old nes or a rom...but its not really as good on steam.

 

Silent Hill was fantastic.