What Are You Playing (Summer 2013)?

[MechDeus]

iOS because that first taste was free. Though I should probably hit up my local shop to see if there's some used DS copies so I can push on in glorious 33% resolution before I buy the trilogy on my phone.

[Mzo]

Finished the second case of Phoenix Wright and it is so good. I barely even understand why since the writing is painfully stupid and the characters are all god-awful without a hint of logic to be found anywhere in the script, but the character expressions when finding a lie and slamming down proof is just THE BEST. Seeing Edgeworth all prim and smug and then he's just like WHAAAAAAAAT WHERE DID YOU GET THAT makes me smile so hard I cannot help but love it.

Welcome to forever ago, you prick.

[GohanX]

One of us, one of us.

[Finch]

no what. the characters are the best, PAL.

[Compass]

More than you can afford, PAL.

[MechDeus]

Welcome to forever ago, you prick.

It didn't look like something I would like! Then 999 came out and was horrific trash and someone (maybe you) compared everything I hated about that game to PW and it further killed my desire to ever play it.

Except where 999 has a group of shitty characters ruining a good concept with horrible anime writing, PW takes a real thing and never pretends to have any clue what it's talking about and tries as hard as it can to make it dumber, while spearheading it with awesome characters.

[Compass]

999 is close to the greatest thing ever.

[Mzo]

999 was pretty good! Mech is a bad person.

I'm glad you like Ace Attorney, though. Now you have like 6 new games to play through!

[MechDeus]

Defiance - So it's a third-person online-only Borderlands with a more realistic graphical style and, uh, actually that's about it. It's all loot hunting for weapons, there's no wearable gear to upgrade but cosmetic items to unlock, there's the same list of challenges for badass ranks, there's weapon vending machines with timed special guns, I think the inventory is the exact same number of slots, you spec into special abilities that are pretty much the exact same ones from BL2 with a similar list of passives, etc. They do have the Rift/GW2 kind of special events that crop up for a limited time, but the one I took part in was more expansive than what I've seen in the previous two listed and led up to a huge world boss that was actually pretty awesome. It's a much better game than I was expecting, but I also had pretty low expectations.

I also think it's funny that they treat vehicles the same way other MMOs do, with the character whistling and a four-wheeler just appearing out of thin air.

Skyrim - Aside from using the wrong D3D dll for ENB which prevented me from starting the game at first, I've been amazed at how well it runs when I just vomited like 20 mods onto it without caring much about compatibility. It looks absolutely amazing and having realistic lighting set up so that at night I often can't see more than ten feet in front of me even with a lantern strapped to my belt really helps sell the mood. I actually jumped a little when I was stumbling my way through the dark and a saber cat just appeared out of nowhere while I was running through some bushes and killed me. I'm also using a mod that improves the dragon AI a lot and gives them new abilities, and apparently also turns them into assholes as the very first story one you fight picked me up with my his mouth, killed me, and then lit my corpse on fire. What a dick.

[NGEFreek]

Really? I thought they worked identically using a Total Control 3 converter. I'll have to look into it more. I'm not going to get one unless it works on both systems, otherwise I'll just stick to the Xbox 360 port of VO:OT.

IIRC, the only real problem is that the start button doesn't do what its supposed to in VO:OT, instead of activating your special, it does nothing. Not a huge deal, but still bothersome when you want to go no-armor Raiden, hyper Fei-Yen, start your 13 second countdown with Specineff, shoot off your atomic bomb as Grys-Vok, and one or two other things I'm forgetting at the moment.