What Are You Playing? (Winter 2010-2011)

[Some Stupid Japanese Name]

Played a bit of Bulletstorm. Beng unable to play fps for the vast majority of my life means I'm dying left and right while the rest of you say this game is way easy. I'm such a noob when it comes to something as theoretically easy as moving with one stick whilst looking with another. I am having fun with it, though I wish I could co op throughout with my kid. He's a lot better at these than I am.

[bVork]

Why were you unable to play FPS for the vast majority of your life?

Anyway, I have been playing:

Bulletstorm: Awesome. I just love the campaign. It rewards you so well for doing creative kills, but you never feel bad if you screw up and only get ten points, because another group of enemies will be heading your way in short order. Probably the best use of UE3 yet, as well. The vistas in this game are amazing. While nowhere near the technical achievement of Crysis, the art design makes them vastly more interesting to look at.

Lost Odyssey: I got this free from Club Bing with the assistance of an American friend who let me use his address. I rented it briefly when it came out but now I'm putting more serious time into it. It's about as good as traditional JRPGs get, though the loading times are pretty painful. I'd install it, but I'm still limping along on a 20gb HDD. Can games be installed to USB sticks?

[Some Stupid Japanese Name]

I used to get severe motion sickness. A few months ago I got talked into playing Halo 1. Played through the whole thing with no adverse effects. When that game first came out I tried it. Less than five minutes of playing and I was ready to throw up. Now all of a sudden, they don't affect me like that anymore. It's weird.

[Dyne]

Can games be installed to USB sticks?

No.

[Opaque]

I used to get severe motion sickness

HAHAHAAHAHA
I was once like you. Then I grew a brain, a dick and a heart.

[MechDeus]

Lost Odyssey: I got this free from Club Bing with the assistance of an American friend who let me use his address. I rented it briefly when it came out but now I'm putting more serious time into it. It's about as good as traditional JRPGs get, though the loading times are pretty painful.

I started playing through this again recently as well (back when it came out I got to disc 3 and stopped, so I started over).

The main characters are pretty good, and I even like how Jansen's humor is generally unfunny because I think that adds to the personality cover he uses of being a buffoon. The dreams are by far the best part of the game, I love those so much and they add way more to the atmosphere and Kaim than anything else that happens. The distinction in skills between immortals and mortals is nice, and I like the auto-resurrect of immortals in combat.

However, having random battles in a modern day RPG is just retarded, though the encounter rate is at least pretty low (unlike DDS, which I'll never beat because fuck their battles every two steps). A lot of the character designs are also pretty bad; I loathe the two kids and the queen's outfit is just ridiculous. The bad guy would make for a great double-crossing villain if they didn't feel the need to randomly insert scenes of him maniacally laughing for no reason and have his voice actor really stress how he's lying to people. At least everyone else's voices are pretty good.

[Yoshi]

ProTip based on current personal experience: Don't try to play three RPGs and three Cave shooters at the same time. You'll make little progress on any of them.

Yes, I know this is common sense, but that didn't stop me! Thankfully Bulletstorm is still getting love.

[Diff-chan]

When I got my 360 Elite a couple years ago I got Lego Indy and Kung Fu Panda with it. A couple nights ago I popped in Lego Indy. It's easy as shit but a nice change of pace. I don't know how many secrets I will try to find but it's a nice little game. I kind of wish it was Lego Batman though, since all these are the same and it seems that Batman would be a better fit for the style.

I don't know if I ever will play Kung Fu Panda though I heard that was decent too.

[MechDeus]

They're all the same, essentially, but I don't think they're all made as good. I liked what I played of Star Wars, Indy, and even Harry Potter, but the demo of the Batman one was really bad. They never hold my attention long enough to actually beat them, but I will never buy the Batman one.

[Diff-chan]

Too bad. With all the characters, differing skills, lack of fixed storyline, and cool locations, it seems like Batman would be a natural for this series.

I'll beat Lego Indy for sure. I got through Raiders in like 2-3 hours. So we are talking 6-10 hours for all 3 total. It was pretty fun platforming/puzzling.