The Video Game Thread: What are you playing?

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After fanatically finishing "Xenoblade", I took a game break for a while and now I'm playing "Super Metroid" for SNES. Surprisingly it's good. I still hate NES Metroid, but Super is good. Maybe even as good as they say.
 

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Finished Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep around last week. It's a nice game and all, but they keep adding crap to the story that makes so grandiose and convoluted to me.

Rented Lollipop Chainsaw and beat it yesterday. So glad I did, it's such a short game! Way weird and fun though and omg much more juvenile lewdness than SotD. Game has good replay factor too.
 

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Sumire_hitsugi wrote:
Finished Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep around last week. It's a nice game and all, but they keep adding crap to the story that makes so grandiose and convoluted to me.

Rented Lollipop Chainsaw and beat it yesterday. So glad I did, it's such a short game! Way weird and fun though and omg much more juvenile lewdness than SotD. Game has good replay factor too.

I liked Birth By Sleep a lot, though I haven't actually finished Aqua's story yet... I really disliked Terra's ending though, his story was pretty depressing... I'm a huge fan of the Kingdom Hearts games, and I'm really hoping for a stellar KH3! Up to now, my favorite is 358/2 Days. I really liked the character interaction, the story, and, well, just about everything about it~ I wish it had been on the PSP or the PS2, but it was still really cool~

Lollipop Chainsaw on the otherhand... How was the music? The game just looks over the top and exceptionally silly, but I LOVE SotD, so I'm really tempted to give it a try...

I really need to get a copy of The Darkness II, that also looks like an amazingly fun game! I really liked the first one!
 

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My sister is a much more bigger KH fan than me and I play them whenever she finishes them. I liked the first two games the best, but I also liked 358/2 Days. Uuuuu, Terra, I really liked him!

Lollipop has some pretty good music, though some tracks don't really get my attention. Each stage boss represents a musical genre, so you get stage bgms of the same nature. You get punk, metal, psych, funk, and rock in there. You can also unlock songs from artists like Joan Jett, DOA, Skrillex, Dragonforce, Arch Enemy, etc. Can also customize a music list from all the game bgms when you're playing the game too~
You should give it a try! I found it really amusing for the past week and Sparkle Hunting is kinda addicting lol.
 

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flowersofnight wrote:
now I'm playing "Super Metroid" for SNES. Surprisingly it's good. I still hate NES Metroid, but Super is good. Maybe even as good as they say.
DONE - but I soured on it more and more as it went on.

... That would make a good epitaph ::meev::
 

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Been playing Diablo III on and off... I've only played it for about 5 hours (bought it in the end of June) but I'm never home to play games o_O I need to get back on the PSP and finally finish Silent Hill: Shattered Memories, having not touched it in over 2 years... >_<
 

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You hadn't played FF9 before? I like it more than 7, but 8 is clearly the best.
 

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You hadn't played FF9 before? I like it more than 7, but 8 is clearly the best.
Nope, I never had any Playstations before. I did play FF7 on PC but got bored with it really early on (first disc) and never looked back.
I knew someone who was into FF8 but it looked boring too. I was like "All right, how many times do I have to watch the doom train?" *zzzzzzzz*
 

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Please, don't start the "which FF is best" here also, it gets on my nerves XD Can people enjoy just each one for its uniqueness? >_<
Btw, I'll start playing Guild Wars 2 on Saturday, feels so awesome so far ::k::
 

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I was playing Soul Calibur IV. History mode character by character, lol. But recently I stalled it because I fixed my computer, so I started to play Minecraft. It's really addicting.
 

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Wandering_Fox wrote:
LOVED FFVIII, but the GFs were a tad on the long side... Be glad you didn't have to sit through Alexander... Whoa nelly that was a long one!
I read "GFs" as "girlfriends" XD

I donno, I hear all the cool people with PS2s play Romance of the Three Kingdoms VIII.
and Grand Theft Auto
 

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Been recommended to play Fatal Frame 2, wondering if I'll be able to play more than 5 minutes before suffering a heart attack XD
 

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PureElegance wrote:
Wandering_Fox wrote:
LOVED FFVIII, but the GFs were a tad on the long side... Be glad you didn't have to sit through Alexander... Whoa nelly that was a long one!
I read "GFs" as "girlfriends

I'm actually not sure what it means. Based on context, I assume it's something to do with cutscenes (?) but I can't figure out what "GF" stands for.

If so, yes, FF in general has obnoxiously long cutscenes. It's gotten to the point where, about halfway through the last few games, I just started skipping them altogether.

As I've said many times, I don't really care that much about the plotlines in most games. Atmosphere, setting and the general concept of the game is obviously very important and the general feel of a game can make the difference between a good game and a great one, but long cutscenes annoy me because they just keep me from, you know, actually playing the game. It's particularly bad with FF (actually, this applies to most JRPGs) because most of the storylines are pretty convoluted, non-sensical and often downright dumb and it's hard for me to get emotionally invested in the one-dimensional anime-like characters. (The people who say they cried when whats-her-face died in FFVII are the worst. I have to assume they've never read a book that isn't manga or seen a movie that isn't animated. And/or they're twelve.)

For me, the most effective cutscenes are those that are short and to the point and that serve to further the gameplay by telling you what to do and why you're doing it. With FF and other JRPGs, it often feels like the gameplay is there to service the story and not the other way around. It feels like they first come up with some stupid storyline that they're really proud of for some reason and then work some gameplay in around it. This might be okay if the story was really amazing on its own but it's usually not anywhere near as interesting as the storylines in any of the non-video game media I enjoy.

I'm playing Fallout:New Vegas a second time through (as an evil character this time) and it handles its presentation of the story perfectly. Somehow it manages to convey what's going on in a non-boring way that doesn't involve sitting with the controller untouched in your lap for 10 minutes at a time after every hour of gameplay.

Don't get me wrong, I love JRPGs, but I really wish they would take a page from Western RPGs with regards to story-telling.
 

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GF = Guardian Force, which are FF8's summons/eidolons/espers, if you've played other FFs. Luckily you can switch those animations off in FF8, although I never bothered using GFs for anything other than their junction abilities.
 

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Iskanderia wrote:
If so, yes, FF in general has obnoxiously long cutscenes. It's gotten to the point where, about halfway through the last few games, I just started skipping them altogether.
The cutscenes and non-interactive play scenes in FF9 haven't been too long so far, I guess due to the limitations at the time.
It also helps that you can turn up the text speed to "Nuclear" so there's no waiting XD

(actually, this applies to most JRPGs) because most of the storylines are pretty convoluted, non-sensical and often downright dumb
Oh yeah, absolutely XD It's practically a requirement of the genre to have a grandiose and nonsensical plot ::meev::

(The people who say they cried when whats-her-face died in FFVII are the worst. I have to assume they've never read a book that isn't manga or seen a movie that isn't animated. And/or they're twelve.)
Pretty sure they were twelve and playing their first remotely-realistic looking game - I guess it makes an impression. Sort of like how the first time someone made a silent movie of a train coming "at the screen" in the 1900s, people freaked out and ran out of the theatre XD

The only Western RPGs I've played are "Wizardry" ::ash:: I don't think I could even name any that aren't old hobbit-elfy dungeon games XD
EDIT: oh wait that's not true, I did play "Planescape Torment" which was certainly a Western RPG. So there's one.
 

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It's amazing to me when games have single cutscenes that last over an hour... with no Skip feature... If you have enough time to prepare dinner and eat said dinner during a cutscene, it's too long. Especially if it's just a bunch of people talking. There's a reason we decided to play a game instead of watching 12 Angry Men o_O
 

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Wandering_Fox wrote:
It's amazing to me when games have single cutscenes that last over an hour...
What game is that? XD ::erm::

There's a reason we decided to play a game instead of watching 12 Angry Men o_O
Hey, "12 Angry Men" the game was pretty good. It was an expansion pack for "Phoenix Wright" on Wiiware.
"Inherit the Wind" has apparently been delayed though.
 
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