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Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow
Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance

Aria of Sorrow is incredible. Are the GBA Metroids this good?

Harmony is cool too, if only because the lead character is dressed like anime Santa Claus.

I remember the GBA Metroid I played being awesome

this is gonna make me sound like a crazy person but i've gotten into watching lets-plays of EU4 and i don't even own a PC. they're weirdly soothing?

any you'd recommend? esp for newbs?

there's a youtuber by the name of shenryyr2 who i gather is some kind of god at it. he doesn't really do tutorials but a lot of the rhythm of it comes out via osmosis.

my general sense is it's just not a 'for newbs' game, you just kind of have to keep jumping in at the deep end until it clicks

jeez, just had a click around that guy's YT, he is nutso. if i had infinite hours i would watch the lot. but yeah, as a learning experience you probably already need a foundation to get anything from someone like this.

Aria of Sorrow is incredible. Are the GBA Metroids this good?

yeah he's also endearingly/annoyingly ignorant of actual history & geography

i just wanted some cool flowing graphics of a map shifting slowly over time while i did other shit.

xp

*checks england ca. 1650* "a republic? england went republic? wtf, that makes no sense"

was that cromwell? idk I'm too lazy to wiki at the minute

metro: last light
had no idea the wolfenstein remake is more then just "lol nostalgia", preview trailer got me intersted

xp yeah

just finished back to the future telltale game, it was pretty fun, but if it hadn't been for walking dead s1 i dunno if i would've had the patience. now i am trying to play sam & max penal zone and it is next-level inscrutable adv game :(

Did any of you happen to see this week's Steven Universe where Steven gets obssessed with this epic Pokemon/Final Fantasy-style Mini Golf RPG? Man, I would love for that to actually exist.

no but that sounds great. i also love the SU where garnet becomes transfixed with the meat beat mania arcade game

hah, that was great too!

ftl

Played a little "Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia" yesterday and holy crap am I addicted to these Castlevania games...

I got stuck on the second DS game and never moved onto that one

Fuckin' boulder, I hate you

been playing the tomb raider game from last year and goddamn, this is the metal gear solid game i wanted instead of guns of the patriots

solo castle crashers insane mode, the endless air comboing has a meditative appeal despite zero margin for error

Risk of Rain

In what I'm sure is news to no one, Portal 2 is an absolute delight. We'll see if my GF agrees if I manage to convince her to try out co-op mode.

yeah the second act of portal 2 where you're climbing your way out of the old laboratory is one of the best gaming experiences ever imo

Warning: the co-op puzzles are a little harder (and generally, way better) than the single player story puzzles. Also lacks most of the charm that story has, but that's an easily forgivable sin.

Ya know what, I forgot about the robot hi-fives. Maybe not.

That is, it's still pretty damn charming.

played co-op with my gf at the time and i was so bad at it that i cried tears of frustration and embarrassment and she was really horrible to me in front of her friends lmao

Well, at least there's no chance of that, thankfully. The scant time she's spent on anything FPS-ish has been mostly about trying to figure out why she can only see the ceiling as she's running into walls.

I just got to the deep, deep underground part of the game last night and was a little wary about whether it was going to still hold my interest now that I'm no longer in the testing chambers. I'm glad to hear it stays awesome.

Oh, and I was wondering if it was a stupid decision to buy it from the PS store (seeing as how I'm rapidly running out of space on my PS3) but I seem to be avoiding the ridiculous load times that I've heard people complain about, which I'm sure only enhances my joy.

Peggle 2 (360) is more of the same with slightly better presentation, but... that's pretty much what I wanted.

ftl

FTL is a semi-permanent rotation for me - gets fired up every week or so for a few quick games.

Anyone got Watch Dogs yet? Picked it up last night, but I'm trying to force myself to finish the last few levels of COD: Ghosts before I move onto it (though, based on the rest of the game, the last few missions should take ~10 minutes).

In other 'whatchu playing' news I'm 4 dungeons into A Link Between Worlds, a few hours into Dragonfall, and barely touched Child of Light (which is very pretty, but mostly boring so far).

i am playing the banner saga, ty ilx

Played the new Wolfenstein the other day on PS3, and it was really really great! Old school shooting fun w minimal (and really well-done) QTE cutscene storyline stuff sprinkled in.

I watched about an hour or two of someone playing Watch Dogs last night, and it also looked cool. A lot like Assassin's Creed 4 minus all the piratey stuff (well I guess you are still a pirate but you use a phone instead of a pirate ship).

I just bought watch dogs on a whim because I needed a new ps + 12 month card and target was giving you $25 off if you bought both.

i am enjoying wash dogs so far. not as good at sleepy dogs but better than gta5. the fake dark souls multiplayer is really fun.

i mean it's fucking broken and stupid like every other ubisoft game and the writing is garbage and the driving is bad, but it's fun.

ha thats what i suspected. bought it but haven't gotten to it yet, hoping it'll get at least 1 patch beforehand.

Get used to seeing a lot of "please wait while we connect you to the ubisoft servers" in a row

ftl

there's a youtuber by the name of shenryyr2 who i gather is some kind of god at it. he doesn't really do tutorials but a lot of the rhythm of it comes out via osmosis.

my general sense is it's just not a 'for newbs' game, you just kind of have to keep jumping in at the deep end until it clicks

― goole, Friday, May 16, 2014 6:46 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

dude will post 90 part videos that god knows only who watches the entirety of.

Ive sunk like 600 hours into eu4/ck2 and sometimes the best way to learn is to fail. They also just released a new patch with new mechanics so some of the lets plays are outdated..

that being said quill18 has some decent lets plays and he does a good job explaining stuff.

I was playing Assassin's Creed 4: You're a Pirate Now which was ok but not great in the same way Assassin's Creed 2: European Vacation was, I don't really know why I bought it when I wasn't in love with AC2, guess I just want to be a pirate. Then my sister got me The Last of Us for my bday so I've been playing that for a couple of weeks but am still not very far in bc of real life.

Speaking of quill18, have any of you guys played Banished? I've been checking it out a bit. Very cool. Apparently it was made by one person, which is insane.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gAXcREfjbQ&index=2&list=PLs3acGYgI1-vZpczu2p5qMXfUWFtg29py

just tried dead island epidemic, not for me but it looks nice

battleheart legacy
really really good

Dragonball Z Budokai HD Collection. I don't know wh-KAMEKAMEHAAAAAAAAA

Super Time Force. Anyone else?