What Are You Playing? (Winter 2010-2011)

[tehmaster]

PC: Call of Duty (yes I know old school)
360: Reach

[Joust Williams]

I WAS playing Sonic All Stars racing but it is garbage. Playing Blur by yourself (at least at the start) also sucks.

I finished Dead Space 2 already.

I think I might play Test Drive Unlimited 2 until Bulletstorm comes out

[kedawa]

I just started Majora's Mask the other day. I never bothered with it when it was new.

[Spike]

I think I might play Test Drive Unlimited 2 until Bulletstorm comes out

Apparently, there are a ton of problems with TDU2.

http://www.joystiq.com/2011/02/11/te...g-launch-bugs/

[YellerDog]

Giving Bionic Commando: Rearmed a go. It's better than I originally thought! My main pet peeve with it is negated by the iron boots powerup.

The challenge levels are fun, and I wish they were part of a portable game.

[wip3outguy7]

Guardian Legend (NES) - I won a Famiclone through a contest. I was in the local mom n' pop game shop and saw this on the shelf. I plugged it in and was talking to my friends about it (who had never heard of it before). Nostalgia took over and I ended up going home with it. Legend of Zelda what? I'm a shmup AND a top down adventure game... with a cute tech girl in a bikini that transforms into a fighter ship.

Unreal Tournament 3 (PS3) - The Killzone 3 beta made me long for FPSs the way they once were. I hadn't touched UT3 in almost a month. Something unexpected happened when I tried it out again. Some of the updates over the last month must have improved mouse input. The PS3 version suffers from a noticeable mouse movement delay. Hey, at least it has mouse support (go fuck yourself MS and your 360 mouse restrictions). Anyway, movement is much closer to 1 to 1 now. Maybe it's a buy product of "Move" updates, but I was able to aim with much more confidence than a month ago when I last played. I hopped online and it was a riot. Controller players were terrified. Screaming and yelling at other teammates to regroup and get away from me. Running people down with the Flak Cannon, popping them in midair with alt fire. Lots of hopscotch with the jump boots and the rocket launcher (try that with dual sticks). I think I'm going to be playing this more often. Full look speed with my mouse set at 800 dpi was religion.

[Nash]

Galaga Legions (Xbox Live Arcade)

This game is the shit. The presentation is great, the controls are excellent, and I love how you can move around the entire screen. Some of the enemy patterns can get totally crazy. It's just too bad I completely suck at it, though.

[Tain]

Finally got DDP DFK Black Label. Off to a good start with it. There's a lot of Yagawa this month.

I've been chipping away at Shinobi, which is harder than I expected for being a Sega arcade game. I'm getting to stage 4. Maybe I just suck at Rolling Thunder stuff, I don't know.

Played some MvC3 with GF/friends, but we're all pretty much stopping. Not feeling it very much.

Pecking away at SotN for the game club. I knew it was a pretty looking and sounding game, but I forgot how much so. The action is a little less exciting than in the past, sadly, but it's still a pretty good time.

Finally, I'm about halfway through Kagero: Deception II, where I've been having a hard time getting sick of throwing people around and crushing them with iron balls.

edit: I'm also playing a handful of games of Tribes 2 each week on the only currently active server. This game is way better when you're old enough to know what's going on.

[Opaque]

Burnout Paradise: I seem to only play it as a suppliment to listening to music. I'm pretty much done with offline racing games I think, but this is good enough that I'll see it through on principle.

Legend of Zelda: Yeah, that's right, the original. I started messing with Nestopia for the first time and 4x HD rendering makes me all sorts of excited, I had no idea that the newer emulators were capable of what they are. It's pretty mind blowing.

Prince of Persia Forgotten Sands: Runs like crap on hardware that is way beyond what it needs, but that's what happens when you port games from console to PC I guess, just, this is ridiculous. Why do I have more FPS on Crysis with everyting on supr high quality than I do in this low texture emtpy environement game? Well, it's fun to run around on shit I guess.

Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days: Still poking at this when I have to pick up my sister or wait before class. This weekend I'm going to the desert for four days and I figure I'll put some more tim into it there, maybe even finish it up if I'm lucky.

Aban Hawkins & the 1000 Spikes: Maybe one day I'll be able to finish this.

Super Meat Boy: That someday could be right around the corner, but this game gets exponentially more demanding and time consuming as you progress. I did the entire first world in the time it takes me to do some of the levels world 5 and 6, but they're so rewarding when you get them done.

[NeoZeedeater]

Prince of Persia Forgotten Sands:[/B] Runs like crap on hardware that is way beyond what it needs, but that's what happens when you port games from console to PC I guess, just, this is ridiculous. Why do I have more FPS on Crysis with everyting on supr high quality than I do in this low texture emtpy environement game? Well, it's fun to run around on shit I guess.

That's strange, I don't have the greatest PC but it runs smoothly for me. Games ported from console usually have lower system requirements nowadays than ones built for PC.

I have been playing it, too. I like it but it seems a little too by-the-numbers for a Prince of Persia. It doesn't have a lot of personality of its own and is making me want to play Sands of Time again. The gameplay's better than the botched PoP '08 but artistically it's so dull in comparison. I hear the Wii Forgotten Sands is actually the best one so I'm curious to try it.