The "Currently Playing..." Topic

Toozin

2010-05-02 02:35:50 pm

Not impossible

just highly unlikely

Finally playing No More Heroes 2. Rank 25. Loving it.

ryu

2010-05-02 04:14:39 pm

I'm almost done with Wild Arms Alter Code F. I left the final dungeon just some rooms before the point of no return so I can do some of the optional stuff.
Which requires me to do lots of leveling .. ._.

Mista_Smegheneghan

2010-05-03 02:50:54 am

Ready to internet!

Like Ragu Ragula?

I've been trying out some freeware metroidvania games.

ryu

2010-05-03 02:23:26 pm

Quote from Mista_Smegheneghan:

Like Ragu Ragula?

I'm not quite there yet ...

Spent the whole day on doing some minor sidequests, getting Zack's final Quck Draw and all optional characters. So I still got lots of leveling, bosses and dungeons to do.
I'm still just at around lv50, which was apparently enough to easily annihilate all of the final bosses.

Da Dood

2010-05-03 03:12:44 pm

Dood Trigger™

Counting the hours to play more Arkham Asylum... I wonder if I'm close to the end.

While I can't play, I'm listening to the Mega Man 10 arranged soundtrack, which includes this gem.

TheGreenManalishi

2010-05-03 03:19:39 pm

I played some Arkham yesterday, too. I'm at Killer Croc. I love how Batman never flinches, unless you blow something up in front of his face.

tomatobob

2010-05-03 03:38:20 pm

One shall stand, one shall ball.

Croc is probably the weakest part of the game, it's a pretty neat section at first but it does drag on a bit longer than it really needs to. That said, it still has its moments.

TheGreenManalishi

2010-05-03 03:43:54 pm

You can put in spoiler tags for the sake of others, but is there a proper Croc boss fight?

tomatobob

2010-05-03 04:29:43 pm

One shall stand, one shall ball.

No. Not sure how one would make a fun fight out of that guy anyway, he'd just eat you.

TheGreenManalishi

2010-05-03 04:39:23 pm

In MGS all the bosses seem unkillable until you, y'know, kill them. Arkham doesn't suffer from this.

Da Dood

2010-05-03 06:54:12 pm

Dood Trigger™

Finished Arkham. Excellent.

The game is much smaller and shorter than I had anticipated, which is probably a good thing. It was funny when I opened the map a few minutes ago and kept looking for "the other map" for some reason.

For me, the best part about this game still is that you are the goddamn Batman. I was always more excited about sneaking and gliding to my destination than what would be waiting for me, though there isn't really anything wrong with the game as a whole, it's just that the Dark Knight factor is THAT good.

Final battle was dumb. It wasn't awful, just... random. It's like they got it from a game design manual. "Must make villain inexplicably huge." And you pretty much don't fight him...

I will definitely replay this, loved it. Don't care about Platinum because the tasks are usually tedious, but the Riddler challenges sound like fun. I got about 50% of 'em.

tomatobob

2010-05-03 07:54:39 pm

One shall stand, one shall ball.

Just to be sure, you can go back and solve all of the riddles after beating the game. You have free reign of the island. No dudes to punch though. Sad

Make sure to replay it at least once for Hard mode. Hard mode is the real game. And I usually don't bother with higher difficulties in games because most games are stupid about it.

The important thing about Arkham Asylum is that it's not an action or adventure type of game, it's a being goddamned awesome all the time game. The combat isn't terribly difficult or complex because it's not about just fighting dudes it's about beating the everloving shit out of dudes. some times ten or more at a time. It's about all those guys patrolling a room getting more and more terrified of the simple idea of you being there as they find more and more of their buddies hanging from gargoyles. It's the Batman-est thing.

Quote from Da Dood:

Final battle was dumb. It wasn't awful, just... random. It's like they got it from a game design manual. "Must make villain inexplicably huge." And you pretty much don't fight him...

I kinda agree and kinda don't here. Yeah, the bosses as a whole were not stellar and that fight isn't really bad in that context, but with the way the combat worked and how they established Batman here you can't really make a "real" boss fight. They went with the untouchable super bad ass Batman in a straight up fight he doesn't lose and the combat just isn't geared for a one on one type of fight, so they stuck to using gadgets and took the fighting part out of the bosses. I'm sure in the sequel they'll have some tweaks to make it more of an option though

Did you fight all the dudes in party hats outside the final boss area? It's the biggest fight in the game, I think, and it's fantastic.

I will also add that I don't care for Achievements but I did go for all of them in this game because they were actually good/things I'd have done anyway.

Just to be sure, you can go back and solve all of the riddles after beating the game. You have free reign of the island. No dudes to punch though. :sad:

Make sure to replay it at least once for Hard mode. Hard mode is the real game. And I usually don't bother with higher difficulties in games because most games are stupid about it.

The important thing about Arkham Asylum is that it's not an action or adventure type of game, it's a being goddamned awesome all the time game. The combat isn't terribly difficult or complex because it's not about just fighting dudes it's about [i]beating the everloving shit[/i] out of dudes. some times ten or more at a time. It's about all those guys patrolling a room getting more and more terrified of the simple idea of you being there as they find more and more of their buddies hanging from gargoyles. It's the Batman-est thing.

[quote="Da Dood"][spoiler]Final battle was dumb. It wasn't awful, just... random. It's like they got it from a game design manual. "Must make villain inexplicably huge." And you pretty much don't fight him...[/spoiler][/quote]
[spoiler]I kinda agree and kinda don't here. Yeah, the bosses as a whole were not stellar and that fight isn't really bad in that context, but with the way the combat worked and how they established Batman here you can't really make a "real" boss fight. They went with the untouchable super bad ass Batman in a straight up fight he doesn't lose and the combat just isn't geared for a one on one type of fight, so they stuck to using gadgets and took the fighting part out of the bosses. I'm sure in the sequel they'll have some tweaks to make it more of an option though[/spoiler]

Did you fight all the dudes in party hats outside the final boss area? It's the biggest fight in the game, I think, and it's fantastic.

I will also add that I don't care for Achievements but I did go for all of them in this game because they were actually good/things I'd have done anyway.

Da Dood

2010-05-03 08:10:44 pm

Dood Trigger™

I guess you're right about the combat. Still, there's gotta be a solution.

The party fight was awesome.

I'm now trying to solve as many Riddler challenges as I can. Arkham West is clear, only one ? left in Arkham North.

I hear some of the freeform challenges are quite difficult, how difficult are they?

TailsLover

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TailsLover: 2010-05-03 09:30:34 pm

2010-05-03 09:27:39 pm

Merry Christmas

I was bored, so I made this video

Poision Envy

2010-05-03 11:11:13 pm

Club 27 Goals

I've been playing Beat Hazard a lot more since the weekend.

Beat Hazard is pretty much Audio surf + Asteroids 2.0 + LSD.

So far my record score is 3,8xx,xxx and my record survival time is 9:10.

tomatobob

2010-05-03 11:42:01 pm

One shall stand, one shall ball.

Quote from Da Dood:

I guess you're right about the combat. Still, there's gotta be a solution

I'm sure there is, really hoping the sequel finds something.

Quote from Da Dood:

I hear some of the freeform challenges are quite difficult, how difficult are they?

Some of the stealth based ones have tricky goals and you have to complete all three of the level's goals in one run to get credit for them. There are some videos on Youtube that can help if you need them.

The straight combat ones aren't too tough. As long as you have a good grasp of the combat reaching the point goals isn't too much trouble, you just have to remember that you're going for points rather than just clearing the room. A lot of people seemed to have trouble with one room: Shock & Awe (Extreme) for whatever reason, it's not that hard you just have a pretty tight time limit. You can get close to the highest point goal just by finishing the level so as long as you're competent a high score shouldn't be a problem. I definitely had more trouble with the stealth ones.

[quote="Da Dood"]I guess you're right about the combat. Still, there's gotta be a solution[/quote]
I'm sure there is, really hoping the sequel finds something.

[quote="Da Dood"]I hear some of the freeform challenges are quite difficult, how difficult are they?[/quote]
Some of the stealth based ones have tricky goals and you have to complete all three of the level's goals in one run to get credit for them. There are some videos on Youtube that can help if you need them.

The straight combat ones aren't too tough. As long as you have a good grasp of the combat reaching the point goals isn't too much trouble, you just have to remember that you're going for points rather than just clearing the room. A lot of people seemed to have trouble with one room: Shock & Awe (Extreme) for whatever reason, it's not that hard you just have a pretty tight time limit. You can get close to the highest point goal just by finishing the level so as long as you're competent a high score shouldn't be a problem. I definitely had more trouble with the stealth ones.

arkarian

2010-05-04 01:05:08 am

red chamber dream

finished sly 3. not sure if i like it more than the second game or not ... some aspects of it are definitely a lot better (much less travel time between missions), but the camera and some of the controls seemed way worse than in sly 2. why is the camera always zoomed in so far? often your character model takes up 1/3 of the screen, and it makes seeing anything pretty difficult.

Toozin

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Toozin: 2010-05-04 03:32:43 am

2010-05-04 03:32:21 am

Not impossible

just highly unlikely

Wrapped up NMH2 much sooner than I would have liked. Not that it's too short, just that I had a shitload of free time and it occupied pretty much all of it. Great game, some things about the first that I miss and overall the story wasn't quite trippy enough, but still awesome and I'll be tearing through Bitter difficulty sometime soon.

For now though, I've got Brutal Legend in my 360. Pretty nice so far, but I think one's enjoyment of the game is directly tied to how much they like Jack Black and his brand of humor. Being a big Tenacious D fan, I'm pretty much right at home here, but I understand how he can grate on a lot of people. The art and animation are all fantastic, but gameplay is a little mixed. It's part action epic, part open-word driving, and part real-time strategy. The parts don't always mesh so well, but it's definitely got charm.

arkarian

2010-05-04 03:37:37 am

red chamber dream

started cursed mountain tonight ... it looks and plays like a ps2 game, but i guess i wasn't expecting anything better. the slow run speed is going to get annoying though i think.

Toozin

2010-05-04 04:10:25 am

Not impossible

just highly unlikely

At least it looks like a GOOD ps2 game, which can't be said of like half the Wii library.

tomatobob

2010-05-04 06:18:40 am

One shall stand, one shall ball.

One funny thing about playing Metroid Prime after toying with Corruption and Prime 2 Wii is how badly I miss the spring ball. Original NTSC Prime with spring ball perfectest game.

arkarian

2010-05-04 09:08:23 am

red chamber dream

if it had the spring ball it wouldn't feel like prime to me. i guess i associate a lot of things with that game, and when it suddenly changes, like when i played the trilogy version, it doesn't feel like i'm playing the same game anymore.

nate

2010-05-04 12:47:53 pm

real players move the morph ball with their mind.

TheGreenManalishi

2010-05-04 12:53:12 pm

real players move the morph ball with their dick

ryu

2010-05-04 03:00:21 pm

Gave Endless Attack 10 another sot today and got to room 50-something. I think it's kinda harder than EA9 in regards to the damaga eyou can potentially take. Avoiding damage is a lot easer in EA9.

Spent some hours on Wild Arms again, but it's still quite a long way to go for me. My main party is at about lv77, which is pretty neat considering I made about 22 levels in just a few hours.
I even managed to accidentally encounter one of the main superbosses. It was lv90, while my party was just ata round Lv68 - great fight. That beast took me almost 2 hours and nearly managed to wipe my party near the end of battle ...