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[Saker]

Installed Nesoid and Snesoid on my phone recently and have been playing all kind of NES goodness...

Last night I tried playing Kirby's Adventure while stoned 

[saibot216]

Played some S.T.A.L.K.E.R. today. Fun stuff.

[C.A. Silbereisen]

Played some S.T.A.L.K.E.R. today. Fun stuff.

same here.

[PaleFox]

I've been playing The Guild 2 Renaissance, since it's been on sale. It's... indescribable. Sort of like... The Sims, if it was about mercantilism and assassination in the Hanseatic League? In any case, I was running a vaguely successful weaving mill until all my workers got mad and quit... I immediately went bankrupt, since I had just spent all my money bribing officials to be elected head executioner.


My application was denied, and the whole family was left destitute.

[C.A. Silbereisen]

the guild is really popular over here in the german speaking world. i preferred the first game though because of a) nostalgia b) i felt the second tried too hard to be an "rpg" (or the sims i guess). having direct control over your characters is cool in theory but often just makes things you could do from a menu in the guild 1 take longer.

[:)]

i am playing ur mom.

[SirNiko]

i am playing ur mom.

Need screenshots.

[C.A. Silbereisen]

i am playing ur mom.

while ur dad plays u

pnwed 

[C.A. Silbereisen]

finally picked up crusader kings 2 today.

i think paradox is my one of fave game developers atm and certainly my fave strategy game dev.

[SirNiko]

I'm playing through Sonic Heroes for the PS2, and finally have hit my stride. I hated it the first time I played it, but now that I'm comfortable with the controls it's a ton of fun.

The core of the game is a Sonic Adventure styled 3-d title, but instead of several characters who each navigate a unique stage, you play one stage and switch characters on the fly. Each of the 14 stages has eight variations, four different three-character teams who each complete two different missions (only the first is mandatory to get the credit roll). Plus seven bosses and a grand finale battle.

The obvious negative right when you start is that the controls feel really sloppy. Characters have a tendency to lose control suddenly when the camera pans at the end of a loop-the-loop, jumping between rails sometimes sends you flying in an unexpected direction, and Knuckles has a really bad habit of careening off a cliff when he throws a punch. This is exacerbated by levels that consist entirely of ledges suspended across a bottomless void.

The pinball machines in the third world and the Sonic 2 inspired bonus stages have especially bad controls, the latter of which makes the finale battle exceptionally difficult (and really tedious) to unlock.

The positive is that the characters are really well varied, and the missions are tightly designed and fun. The first three teams each correspond to a different level of difficulty (easy, normal, hard) accomplished through longer and shorter stages, more challenging arrangement of foes and platforms, and more and less forgiving character mechanics. For example, Team Rose's power character can perform simple long-range attacks from the ground, while Team Dark's power character gets only a short-range attack, and only while aerial. Each character's missions encompass a different specialty, including speed runs, ring-collecting and killing monsters efficiently. If you're like me and you enjoy a game that will challenge you to master every nuance of the level and mechanics, collecting a full suite of A-ranks is really fun and just the right level of challenge, between the easy S-ranks in Sonic Generations and the obnoxiously arbitrary A-ranks in Sonic Adventure 2.

The unfortunate downside is that the game offers a lot of repetition in the basic level themes. Each team navigates roughly the same level, and the basic missions for Teams Sonic, Dark and Rose are extremely similar in terms of layout and challenges. If you're looking to play through once to get to a credit roll and move on, you'll find yourself playing through the same stages effectively four times each (including four very slight variations of the seven bosses) and then you'll play them repeatedly trying to get all the emeralds.

I'm glad I picked this one up, and I'll be playing this through until I score all A-ranks for certain.

[forwardresent]

Played the demo of Lone Survivor earlier, just getting some work done before I sit down with the full game.

Also, late to the Human Revolution party, but I quite liked it... until the boss fight when I had specialized in Stealth and never set off an alarm or killed anyone, then I started to hate the game a little. It was fine once it was over, it's just something I'd rather skip.

[C.A. Silbereisen]

yeah the boss fights were pretty bad. the game is decent otherwise tho

[PaleFox]

a tip for Human Revolution: if you hate the boss fights because you specced stealth, just put a point or two into Typhoon. You won't need most ammo, especially if you go nonlethal, so just make sure you have two shots of typhoon ammo and every boss will go down instantly.

its basically the "fuck bosses" ability. i always take it.




personally, i've started playing Drakensang: The River of Time on fartron's recommendation. i was pleasantly surprised to discover a modern rpg in the vein of good old neverwinter nights and games like that -- you should check it out if you get the chance and like that era of crpgs. voice acting is middling but the game is good and doesn't look half bad



as a plus, you can be a magic rogue called a charlatan who gets a skill that summons magic butterflies to distract enemies while you fence them to death. it's very... distinctive.


if you're used to western rpgs based on DnD archetypes (i.e. most of them) you will be confused at first because it is based instead on the dark eye and uses some different skills and ideas, but you will figure it out. no worries!

[The Monster King]

[C.A. Silbereisen]

if you're used to western rpgs based on DnD archetypes (i.e. most of them) you will be confused at first because it is based instead on the dark eye and uses some different skills and ideas, but you will figure it out. no worries!

das schwarze auge (the dark eye) is so much so much better than d&d imo. no wonder d&d is kind of unpopular here in the german speaking world.

[stevesan]

Yoshi's Island for SNES. It's so damn creative.

[saibot216]

Started playing Azrael’s Tear (finally), and it’s one of those adventure games like Johnny Mnemonic or Phantasmagoria A Puzzle Of Flesh that sort of expects you to know what to do and gives you vague clues to other puzzles. There's this puzzle I'm currently on and I saw a plaque in another room that correlated to this machine, however the pipes just don’t seem to go into the holes they do on the plaque, so this will be interesting.
Azrael's Tear is a very early 3D game, so every time you go into a new room it has to load, but the load times aren’t bad, the rooms are rather small though, for the most part. Had a couple combat situations and you have to go into combat mode, which may sound annoying, but it’s pretty well integrated. Shot an explorer and a dinosaur, good stuff. Just need to figure out that darn puzzle. So far it’s a good game, just complex.
Did get some screenshots of it while I was playing:



(Puzzle referred to)

[baconman]

La Mulana, but this time for SERIOUS. See corresponding TIGS Game Club thread.

[JigxorAndy]

I've been playing Age of Empires: Online. It's got the great core RTS game in there, where you can play with friends and matchmaking, and then it's got a social meta-game on top, if you're into that kind of thing. Either way, it's free to play, but I ended up buying into premium content.

[Derek]

if you're used to western rpgs based on DnD archetypes (i.e. most of them) you will be confused at first because it is based instead on the dark eye and uses some different skills and ideas, but you will figure it out. no worries!

das schwarze auge (the dark eye) is so much so much better than d&d imo. no wonder d&d is kind of unpopular here in the german speaking world.

Why's it better?