What Are You Playing (Summer 2012)

[Finch]

Then don't play Legend of Heroes because XSeed will never bring the rest of the story out.

[Finch]

I don't know why i'm being so antagonistic tonight.

I will play Trails in the Sky soon. I really like Xenoblade though. THAT'S WHAT I'M PLAYING.

[Joust Williams]

yah it's time
that's what time

[Thief Silver]

I want a Reynoceros.

[Joust Williams]

I turned the difficult down on Blood from 3/5 to 2/5. The difference is too big. There were 33% fewer enemies ;(

I would have liked to take less damage but keep the enemy count the same. 3/5 was about the equivalent of playing the Dooms on Ultraviolence with a pistol and limited shotgun ammo (UV with the full level of ammo is pretty tame). At least initially. I can't remember how plentiful the ammo gets later.

[MechDeus]

Magicka - What a wonderful idea for a game. What a horrible game it is to actually play.

I'm on stage 11, forcing myself to finish it just because. I hate it so much and just want it to be over with. It started off so nice and charming, but it turned out that the developers never really thought about what to do once they got past the concept of combining spells. The levels are all complete garbage and there's no reason to fight most of time, so it makes each one feel like 10 times as long as it actually is. Some kind of equipment or RPG leveling or something would go a long way towards making it worth killing stuff, but the joy of wacky slaughter just for its own sake was pretty much over around the same time the first level ended.

The one-note jokes stretched out for way too long and boss glitches forcing reboots of the game certainly don't help the case, although being able to glitch my way through levels by abusing the game's utter confusion when it comes to co-op resurrecting does sometimes bring an interesting angle. I hope someone else comes along soon, takes this idea, and makes something that's actually fun to play out of it.

[Advocate]

Battlefield: Bad Company.

Its okay so far.

[MechDeus]

Installed Borderlands again yesterday, cleared out the first area's quests, entered the second area, and am up to level 21. Lots of balancing issues due to the leveling and random weapons but it's pretty good.

[No One]

Magicka - What a wonderful idea for a game. What a horrible game it is to actually play.

I dunno, I thought it was a lot of fun when I was playing with a group. Once I launched one of my friends halfway across the map with an accidental mine deployment, it became amazing. I can't remember the last game I played where I laughed as hard as I do playing Magicka with a few buddies. I do agree that the levels aren't anything special, and I wish they'd implemented some kind of co-op spell system to mess around with in multiplayer.

I've been playing Crysis for the first time. I'm pretty picky about FPS games, but I've really been enjoying it. I'll probably nab the sequel when I'm done, despite hearing mixed things about it.

[MechDeus]

I dunno, I thought it was a lot of fun when I was playing with a group. Once I launched one of my friends halfway across the map with an accidental mine deployment, it became amazing.

I agree. The problem is that entire experience took place in the first level, and then the game reveals there's nothing else to it after like 10-20 minutes. I think the closest that anywhere else in the game came to recreating the beginning was discovering thunderstorm and that the random targets included other players, so anytime someone started laying it out the rest of us would be scrambling to get up lightning shields.