What Are You Playing? - August 2008

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Originally Posted by Frogacuda

I'm playing Flame Zapper Kotsujin, which I think is my new favorite doujin shooter.

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I was playing this a few days ago, too. It's one of my favourite PC-98 games, and very TG16-ish.

The bullet patterns kind of remind me of Batsugun and Feveron.

I'm almost done with Braid. Like Portal, it's going to be very short, but it is extremely enjoyable and well done.

Remove Stranglehold and add The Club

Add Soul Calibur 4 to my list.

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Originally Posted by MarsKitten

Phantasy Star 4

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Shadowdancer: The secret of the shinobi

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How have you not died of an Awesome overdose?

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WoW

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Ah.

Mario Kart Wii - My gf and I have been playing this since she moved. And she loses a lot.

Soul Calibur 4 - Still playing Tower of Souls, tried a bit of online.

CoD4 - Just grinding my ranks.

FFIV DS - Fuck Golbez!

Overlord - Best cheap game I bought, and the new expansion has been fun.

Burnout Paradise - <3 the Cagney update.

Final Fantasy 3 DS

Macross 2036 PCE (just cleared last night)

I just started playing Viking: Battle for Asgard, and I'm really liking it. The whole "hack shit and level up" gameplay is really cool, and the game is darn purdy.

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Originally Posted by MarsKitten

I've been wanting to play that for ages but have always decided against it for one reason or another. Is it hard b/c of the control or other bullshit reason or hard because it was designed well and its genuinely tough?

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It took a few missions to come to grips with the controls, but once you're used to it, it's ok. This game is a poster child for a dual stick PSP, though.

It's hard in that it's very unforgiving. Like, you're 30 minutes into a 50 minute time limited mission, you're running out of food, low on HP and you need to go through a zone full of horrible, horrible Velociraptors to retrieve some big ass egg.

Instead of running head long into the fight, you decide to farm some herbs and harvest some meat. By the time you're done, you've got 5 minutes to get that egg and leg it back to town. It's just a lot more stressful than I'm used to, I think.

I do really like how differently each weapon plays. I went from Great Sword to Spear and basically had to learn everything all over again.