Video Games What video games are you currently playing?

[Guest bitroast]

The Saint's Row games are like if Grand Theft Auto and Just Cause had children... that rode the short bus to school.

 

now you got me interested

 

 

 

 

 

Started dead rising 2 last night. fucking loading screen every few seconds it feels like and whilst i accept that my short attention span is to blame i feel like other games don't have this disruption. its not even cutscenes (which usually piss me off no end) but just when running from one room to the next. otherwise i think it could be a fun zombie massacre

 

I have no idea how that game gets so much praise.

[Guest Benedict Cumberbatch]

The Saint's Row games are like if Grand Theft Auto and Just Cause had children... that rode the short bus to school.

 

now you got me interested

 

GiantBomb quicklook

 

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quicklook at 47 mins?

 

doesn't look much fun

[hardcode]

daed rising 2 is good if you played the first

[Guest Benedict Cumberbatch]

i did not

 

 

 

i usually assume you don't need to and that if its old it'll suck b anyway

[Ego]

I tried Dead Rising 2 but it fell so slow and clunky. I got sick of running around like an old man. A few hours in I had to do a shitty escort quest, somehow "lost" the game and never touched it again.

 

I'm going to try out Saints Row 3. Never played a Saints Row game and the PC port looks decent this time. I love GTA/Just Cause/Mafia type games but their sense of humour seems a bit over the top.

[Bubba69]

just started playing uplink from the humble introversion bundle, it is a hacking simulator and it is a lot of fun.

[Bubba69]

also dungeons of dredmor, holy shit is it fun, highly recommended, even if you don't play roguelikes it is pretty entertaining.

[Guest viscosity]

on the 2nd to last level in super meat boy. right after getting the key there is this jump but a buzz saw right at the corner. fairly certain I need to wall jump but its a difficult maneuver. doesn't help that it's at the very end.. I could probably play through most of it blind with how many times I've ran it

[Guest Iain C]

just started playing uplink from the humble introversion bundle, it is a hacking simulator and it is a lot of fun.

 

Uplink's really cool, hard though - I always ended up getting traced and not knowing why.

 

also dungeons of dredmor, holy shit is it fun, highly recommended, even if you don't play roguelikes it is pretty entertaining.

 

Also, Dredmor's OK, but I only really got one afternoon of fun out of it. It's a great training-wheels roguelike for people who aren't familiar with the genre, but it lacks depth - you can't even attack or move diagonally, which seems nuts to me. What's more, the art/animation style rubbed me up the wrong way. I think I'd just prefer ASCII graphics.

[Bubba69]

At first I thought it looked overly cluttered and simplified, but I actually think it is kind of cool. I've had an ascii roguelike overload lately and have been enjoying games that boil that formula down to the basics while still being fun.

[jhonny]

MW3. Same old game but addictive as crack.

[dr lopez]

I just bought a PS3 and GTAIV and couldn't get past the first mission.... what do I do now? Hang myself?

[Guest Enter a new display name]

Just purchase PSOne Classics, Nate. This is what the PS3 was made for!

[SR4]

GTAIV was surprisingly boring for me.

[Guest Ricky Downtown]

gtaIV is mad boring. try Red Dead Redemption and LA Noire instead.

[Squee]

What? GTAIV was amazing. So was Red Dead Redemption. LA Noire got boring though.

[MAXIMUS MISCHIEF]

ricky downtown has a point though

 

ok so heres the plan i am gonna buy rage limbo skyrim and civilatzation 5 ON STEAM right now for 109 dollars is that a good deal?? idk if i REALLY want rage i think nows a good time to buy it tho cuz i do want to play it so

 

thatsbasically the price of rage and skyrim together if there wasnt sales on for this stuff which is pretty awesome i think

 

or i could get tribes vengeance

 

i mean ascend

[Jur]

GTAIV was surprisingly boring for me.

Try Saints Row the Third.

[Squee]

ok so heres the plan i am gonna buy rage

 

There's a demo of Rage on XBL. I tried it earlier today and I couldn't get into it. It looks wonderful and the framerate is great but finding my way around the small town you start out in was a pain in the ass because there's no map (at least I couldn't find one). I didn't even get to the action part before I quit the demo.

[MAXIMUS MISCHIEF]

therse no map in an open world game what theeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

 

 

well i decided not to buy it anyways because im gona get tribes ascend beta

[Squee]

therse no map in an open world game what theeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

 

 

well i decided not to buy it anyways because im gona get tribes ascend beta

 

I'm not 100% sure if there is one when you're in the Wasteland but as far as I remember the lack of a map was one of the the big complaints in Giant Bomb's review.

[Rubin Farr]

new Zelda is great, but fuck I spent like 3 hrs talking to NPCs before the real quest started.

[MAXIMUS MISCHIEF]

therse no map in an open world game what theeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

 

 

well i decided not to buy it anyways because im gona get tribes ascend beta

 

I'm not 100% sure if there is one when you're in the Wasteland but as far as I remember the lack of a map was one of the the big complaints in Giant Bomb's review.

 

well when bradley shoemaker was talkin about it he said it wasnt THAT big a deal but he was probly just tryin to downplay it cuz hes an id super fan

[Guest Benedict Cumberbatch]

What? GTAIV was amazing. So was Red Dead Redemption. LA Noire got boring though.

 

QFT

[dr lopez]

Update: I got past the first mission and I untied the noose. Having fun playing resistance 3 with the play station move though.