next »

[SirNiko]

Back in the day Mario Picross was the shit.

These days I get more than my fill of picross on Conceptispuzzles.com, though, so it's hard to justify another purchase.

Nikoli Pencil puzzles on the 3DS piqued my interest too, but not enough to justify a purchase. I wish Nikoli puzzle books were sold stateside in English.

[Tanner]

Picross 3D isn't much like normal picross. It's more like a sculpting puzzle than anything.

[forwardresent]

MORE TERRARIA.

Pretty much done everything now, just waiting for this Reborn mod to drop to add new things since dev has ceased, which is such a shame, it could have went so far.

[farmer]

Shadow of the Colossus!

[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. Sinner]

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. Sinner]

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.

[peanutbuttershoes]

i am playing ur mom.

[SirNiko]

i am playing ur mom.

Need screenshots.

[C.A. Sinner]

i am playing ur mom.

while ur dad plays u

pnwed 

[C.A. Sinner]

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.