General Gaming Megathread: What are you playing?

[maximaz]

Done with Limbo. A decent little game and wroth a couple of bucks.

About to embark on Starcraft II, finally. Am I the only one who only wanted this for the Campaign?

 

[The Vault Dweller]

About to embark on Starcraft II, finally. Am I the only one who only wanted this for the Campaign?

I remember reading somewhere in regards to most RTS that for every ten buyers half will only play the single player campaign and never touch multiplayer and those who do play multiplayer will almost all only play a few games out of curiosity.

You'll love the campaign. In fact since I already know you're going to try it I won't tell you why it's great so it'll all be a surprise.

Sincerely,
The Vault Dweller

 

[Ilosar]

Starcraft II's campaign is indeed very good, gameplay-wise. One of the very best to be sure, and lenghty to boot. It is extremely cliche-laden at times, however.

Still going on in my D2 playthrough with a summoning/elemental druid. Andariel was a breeze, Duriel was tough, Mephisto was manageable, but Diablo was a real bitch, killed my summons almost instantly and I had to run circles around him stopping to cast Tornados every chance I got. Didn't even have the common courtesy of dropping decent loot, even. Now it's off to Act 5. best in the game if I remember right.

Also, a bit of The Force Unleashed on the side (I love Steam sales). Story is bare-bones and Starkiller seems far too powerful (only in cutscenes, of course), but it's enjyable nonetheless. Boss fights are a bit of a pain, however, the second one in perticular seemed to easily counter anything I threw at him easily.[/quote]

 

[Alphadrop]

About to embark on Starcraft II, finally. Am I the only one who only wanted this for the Campaign?

Nope, I brought it (the LE of it to boot) for the campaign, think my accounts been hacked so can't play multiplayer anyway though that could be my ancient WoW account getting hacked again.

The campaign is pretty cool. More cliche and less space opera than Starcraft 1 but still pretty good and with a level of characterisation you still don't see often.

 

[The Dutch Ghost]

About to embark on Starcraft II, finally. Am I the only one who only wanted this for the Campaign?

I also bought it for the campaign as in general I dislike multiplayer.

As the rest said, it has its clichés but it also has its good points, more varied missions and setting that correspond to these.
I also like the unique research stuff that can be done during the campaign.

Only disappointment was how quickly things were over, the game just seemed to start storywise when I was already at the last mission and it gave me the feeling the ending was rushed.

 

[Sub-Human]

Got to Counter-Strike 1.6 now! I always come back to CS, one day or another. I contracted the disease long ago and I still have it... Far better than Call of Duty or Battlefield, and excuse me if I sound biased, but it's true.

 

[Sduibek]

The easiest way to run an old game is to set up Windows XP on a seperate hard drive and boot up in XP; no useless compatibility mode.

Or have Pro and above on W7 and just run XP Mode

 

[Hassknecht]

The easiest way to run an old game is to set up Windows XP on a seperate hard drive and boot up in XP; no useless compatibility mode.

Depends on the age of the game. I have quite a few games that don't run on XP either. They need 95 or 98.
I'm thinking about installing Windows 95 in Dosbox

 

[Serge 13]

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed had bad controls, like REALLY bad!
So I gave up playing it.

Playing <s>Fag to the Coocher</s> Back to the Future now. It's pretty cool.

 

[brandonhart61]

At the moment, GTA III for the Xbox on my 360, brilliant game but it can get a lot of slowdown in traffic which is annoying.

 

[Guiltyofbeingtrite]

At the moment, GTA III for the Xbox on my 360, brilliant game but it can get a lot of slowdown in traffic which is annoying.

I'm playing it on iPad1, it crashes a bunch and I hear it's really only good for iPhone4 and iPad2

 

[brandonhart61]

At the moment, GTA III for the Xbox on my 360, brilliant game but it can get a lot of slowdown in traffic which is annoying.

I'm playing it on iPad1, it crashes a bunch and I hear it's really only good for iPhone4 and iPad2

Oh right, is that the anniversary edition of the game that was recently released?

 

[TorontoReign]

I have been trying to get into Witcher 2, but something stops me every time I start playing. I suffered through the Prologue, and finally made it to Chapter one, only to delete my save on accident and be forced to play through the jail again. I liked Witcher 1 a lot, but Witcher 2 has many quirks that throw me off. I love the story and non-linear style, but the combat is tedious, and almost a step back from part 1. I didn't care too much for the Prologue, so maybe that turned me off a bit.

 

[aenemic]

I have been trying to get into Witcher 2, but something stops me every time I start playing. I suffered through the Prologue, and finally made it to Chapter one, only to delete my save on accident and be forced to play through the jail again. I liked Witcher 1 a lot, but Witcher 2 has many quirks that throw me off. I love the story and non-linear style, but the combat is tedious, and almost a step back from part 1. I didn't care too much for the Prologue, so maybe that turned me off a bit.

I know what you mean, I just can't get into the game either. and I absolutely loved the first one, even got the Collector's Edition. but there's something about the sequel that just irks me. I can't seem to enjoy it, but I can't put my finger on why. clunky controls is definitely a big contributor, though. also, the inventory system is one of the worst I've seen.

 

[maximaz]

At the moment, GTA III for the Xbox on my 360, brilliant game but it can get a lot of slowdown in traffic which is annoying.

I'm playing it on iPad1, it crashes a bunch and I hear it's really only good for iPhone4 and iPad2

Hehe, and I'm playing it on the iPhone. Surprisingly stable, although I do always wish I could control the camera easier.

 

[TorontoReign]

I have been trying to get into Witcher 2, but something stops me every time I start playing. I suffered through the Prologue, and finally made it to Chapter one, only to delete my save on accident and be forced to play through the jail again. I liked Witcher 1 a lot, but Witcher 2 has many quirks that throw me off. I love the story and non-linear style, but the combat is tedious, and almost a step back from part 1. I didn't care too much for the Prologue, so maybe that turned me off a bit.

I know what you mean, I just can't get into the game either. and I absolutely loved the first one, even got the Collector's Edition. but there's something about the sequel that just irks me. I can't seem to enjoy it, but I can't put my finger on why. clunky controls is definitely a big contributor, though. also, the inventory system is one of the worst I've seen.

I am to the Kayran boss right now, and it's not too bad. I like it better than Skyrim at least, but you are right about the inventory. I like how people piss and do other things like that. The world actually feels alive unlike Skyrim. The controls take a bit getting used to, but once I put it on Easy, it became a lot more tolerable.

 

[Ausdoerrt]

^ If you ever played Risen, the controls are sort of like that, except the game is more forgiving. Once you get a hang of how it works, it actually becomes pretty fluid, it's just that the learning curve is pretty steep. My second playthrough was a cakewalk compared to the first.

If you're playing a swordsman, don't forget to pick up the special moves (riposte etc.), they make the game a lot easier.

And don't overlook bombs and traps, they're very useful, especially dealing with monsters.

 

[PainlessDocM]

I'm playing it on iPad1, it crashes a bunch and I hear it's really only good for iPhone4 and iPad2

Hehe, and I'm playing it on the iPhone. Surprisingly stable, although I do always wish I could control the camera easier.

Does controlling your character/ vehicles feel fluid with a touchpad?
I remember it took me quite some time to get used to the kb/ mouse controls of the pc version after having played the ps2 version over a year.

I don't own a device with a touchpad so I am fairly clueless as to how (3d) games are controlled on iPads and such.

<- goes back to playing GTA IV with a controller (vehicles) and kb/mouse (on foot)

I have been trying to get into Witcher 2, but something stops me every time I start playing.

I stopped playing several times because of the game's atrocious interface. Using the inventory or trading is such a major pain in the Witcher 2. Overall I didn't think it was a bad game but I will probably never replay it unless someone creates a mod that improves this aspect of the game (make it more like the Witcher 1...)

 

[Joelzania]

I recently bought devil May Cry 4 for xbox 360, as a friend recommended it to me. It's my first game in the genre, and suffice to say that I don't really like it. As I played it with him, I just joked about things in the game, whilst he played it. Oh well.

 

[Walpknut]

While lookign for gameplay demos of Asura's Wrath to see if the defender fanboys were right about the demo being missrepresentative (wich woudl be stupid no matter what, a Demo should show what the game will turn out to be) and failing to see how the final gameplay si any different than the lackluster gameplay of the piece of.... demo, I found this article

http://www.destructoid.com/sdcc-asura-s-wrath-dev-defend-qte-criticisms-206708.phtml

Of Note:

"There are QTE events in the game but they're not just QTEs, meaning that we're not putting them into the game just to have them," he explained to Destructoid. "We're putting them in the game to get the player to connect more with Asura, to really become him. You're really mimicking Asura's actions with the controller."

So is the IMMURSHUNZ excuse all over again, but even dumber.
Does CyberConnect2 know anything about game desing at all?