What Are You Playing (Summer 2013)?

[MechDeus]

It is, surprisingly so.

[Shin Kazama]

Gah, I keep putting off buying the Rebirth LE...

I have every other Vita LE release >_>

It's not a bad LE, but not as good as Ragnarok or Persona 4 imo. I'd say wait for a price drop but considering so few places received even the standard edition of the game, well, it might get rare and pricey before long.

[Prince Planet]

It is, surprisingly so.

Good to know. Sandbox-ish games generally appeal to me.

[Tyler_Durden]

HKR2L - good presentation, tough gameplay, brilliant physics system wherein grenades implode within gravity
BNJKW - I don't know why I bought this - probably because it's by rare meaning the company that made goldeneye
HL2 - best game of all time
LoZ:OoT - going through this one yet again to soak in the apoplectic agony of the water temple, the soaring mythical grandeur of fields hyrulian, and generally just know that im playing the best game of all time, every time, all the time, forever and in eternity a soaring piece of mythical grandeur, you can kill chickens, there are skulltula's to collect, who thought this up o ya God did aka Miyamoto-san, God bless, amen
HBDIOD - Too mainstream for my tastes, a little redundant, but passable as a 2D run and gun developed by former measures of the treasure squadron
SotN - I hate to say this but I feel like this is Metroidvania, a little bit of this, a little bit of that, all put together in a well-developed frame that begs for replayablity - do u know the castle flips? If not, you're a dunce.

[Mzo]

It's not a bad LE, but not as good as Ragnarok or Persona 4 imo. I'd say wait for a price drop but considering so few places received even the standard edition of the game, well, it might get rare and pricey before long.

Right, that's the gamble. I knew I wouldn't have to preorder within the first hour like P4G or Technika Tune; it's just not that popular/rare. I'm assuming it'll stick around for a price drop but I'm getting nervous.

[Diff-chan]

I missed out on essentially all of last year. So, on something of a whim, I picked up Sleeping Dogs on the cheap, which I will start tonight. I assume it's at least decent.

Popped this in last night. It's pretty cool. Like Shenmue 2 + GTA + Batman Arkham - Lucky Hit.

[Shin Kazama]

SotN - I hate to say this but I feel like this is Metroidvania, a little bit of this, a little bit of that, all put together in a well-developed frame that begs for replayablity - do u know the castle flips? If not, you're a dunce.

SotN is, quite possibly, my most-played game ever. It's either than or the original Metal Gear Solid on PSX. I can proudly say that I can fully complete Symphony (all secrets/map coverage) straight off of memory now. About the only thing I haven't done with that game yet is beat it as Richter. I'll get around to doing that someday.

[Mzo]

Richter is OP as fuck. It's pretty easy and fun to run through the game as him; I'd recommend it.

I'm playing Quest mode in World Court Tennis lolol

[gameoverDude]

Blazing Star (NG) Windina- 15059700 Boss4

Got 2 yumechans this time. Rank is good in this one. The 2nd one was taken during the stage 1 boss (this is risky, because spawning a lot of P's will cause flicker and may make a bullet invisible). 10M of the score came from stage 3 alone with most of that from leeching the boss. It went on for a few seconds after the boss timer ran out- you don't always "fail it" right when the boss time is up. I couldn't care less if this boss times out, especially after loading up on 81560 point gems. Its first form is good for that with all the red homing discs it spams at high rank, and then x128 bonuses from taking clumps of them out with charge shot since they're easy to herd.

Ninja Spirit (arcade)
A good game with a crucial flaw. Once you get to stage 7, the free-fall scene is extremely annoying. When you're 2/3 down the screen and have zero time to react, that's cheap- taking Irem's signature memorization too far. Thankfully this tedious bit is broken in the TG-16 version thanks to a safe spot on the far left.

[A Robot Bit Me]

I spent an hour tooling around with the Project X Zone demo(s). It's the worst goddamn game I've ever played.

Then I took the pleasure bus to pleasure town by way of putting Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance into my Nintendo Gamecube.