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Re: What are you currently playing?

Postby Shinobi on Sun Apr 15, 2012 6:03 pm

PSP Space Hulk only cost £1.98 but a supurb turned based game which reminds me of Laser Squad
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Re: What are you currently playing?

Postby Megamixer on Sun Apr 15, 2012 6:07 pm

Shinobi wrote:PSP Space Hulk only cost £1.98 but a supurb turned based game which reminds me of Laser Squad


Is that any relation of the old 3DO/Playstation/Saturn game? I didn't know there was a PSP Space Hulk game...
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Re: What are you currently playing?

Postby DPrinny on Mon Apr 16, 2012 3:04 pm

Berzerk on my Vectrex with the volume up all the way.
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Re: What are you currently playing?

Postby gmintyfresh on Mon Apr 16, 2012 3:54 pm

Loads more Mass Effect 3 multiplayer, Gears of War Raam's Shadow DLC - which was actually really good fun, and a bit of Ninja Gaiden 3 - which just got tough!
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Re: What are you currently playing?

Postby ShadowMan on Mon Apr 16, 2012 3:56 pm

gmintyfresh wrote:and a bit of Ninja Gaiden 3 - which just got tough!


Which bit are you up too?
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Re: What are you currently playing?

Postby gmintyfresh on Mon Apr 16, 2012 4:01 pm

ShadowMan wrote:
gmintyfresh wrote:and a bit of Ninja Gaiden 3 - which just got tough!


Which bit are you up too?


First time you meet to main bad guy, was capturing some footage and playing it in SD - had trouble seeing those button presses in time!
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Re: What are you currently playing?

Postby samhain81 on Mon Apr 16, 2012 4:03 pm

Im sure Shadowman will hate me for this in more ways than one, but I as a gamer who never originally owned or played a megaman until early 2000's, I am working my way through them all starting with 1...obviously...lol

Each game will be a brand new experience for me, cant wait.
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Re: What are you currently playing?

Postby ShadowMan on Mon Apr 16, 2012 4:29 pm

gmintyfresh wrote:
ShadowMan wrote:
gmintyfresh wrote:and a bit of Ninja Gaiden 3 - which just got tough!


Which bit are you up too?


First time you meet to main bad guy, was capturing some footage and playing it in SD - had trouble seeing those button presses in time!


His grab move is a complete pain in the ass, gets worse the harder the diffciulty as it does more damage (goes for all the grab attacks). That boss is easily my favourite character in the game, tough yet beatable when you know how :D

samhain81 wrote:Im sure Shadowman will hate me for this in more ways than one, but I as a gamer who never originally owned or played a megaman until early 2000's, I am working my way through them all starting with 1...obviously...lol

Each game will be a brand new experience for me, cant wait.


Excellent choice :wink: The original is a pretty rough starting point in a few regards, it has a few problems/unfair moments that are thankfully smoothed out over the subsequent sequels but is never the less still a fun game to this day in my opinion. I still think the early NES ones and MMX1-3 on the Snes are the high points for the series, once they moved hardware and tried shoehorning in certain features and 3D they lost their way in some regards.
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Re: What are you currently playing?

Postby samhain81 on Mon Apr 16, 2012 5:24 pm

I remember renting MMX2 off a friend in 2000 odd and loved it!
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Re: What are you currently playing?

Postby giss on Mon Apr 16, 2012 5:33 pm

Journey (PSN)
Nice little indie gem for the PSN platform. Overall I think PSN gems are too rare nowadays, but this one I like a lot. Very atmospheric.

Team Fortress 2 (PC)
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Re: What are you currently playing?

Postby pratty on Mon Apr 16, 2012 5:52 pm

My 15th Season with Deportivo on WE6 FE on the Cube.

Playing it on "Extreme" and still winning the league every year but I keep failing my goal of an undefeated season. Got tot the 29th game of 30 and lost my first and only game this season, to Leeds! Aaagghhh!!! :x
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Re: What are you currently playing?

Postby sscott on Mon Apr 16, 2012 6:31 pm

Space Marine, not sure if I like it yet. The landscape's are a little uninspiring and don't really care about the characters but there is always lots going on - relentless at times.
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Re: What are you currently playing?

Postby RichL on Mon Apr 16, 2012 6:37 pm

Just found my Amiga 1200 version of Theme Park. Will be having a blast on that in a bit.
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Re: What are you currently playing?

Postby Freestyler on Tue Apr 17, 2012 7:13 am

Started Mass Effect. The original.

Not really happy with the shooting mechanics so far (they seem awfully stiff) but the meat & potatoes gameplay is superb. Just spent about 5 hours mopping up all that starting Citadel crap up. So much Codex info! NERDGASM!
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Re: What are you currently playing?

Postby the_hawk on Tue Apr 17, 2012 9:02 am

samhain81 wrote:Why do people allow themselves to think this way, and have these already preconceived opinions about a game they have yet to play. Im not talking about you the_hawk, just saying alot of people probably didnt play Dantes Inferno because of this 'god of war ripoff' preconceptions, and ruined what could have been a great trilogy.

Dantes Inferno is a a great game, another hack n slash game, but a great one at that. Does not need to be compared to God of War at all. A separate, intriguing story, a great character with great development, and great level design and bosses, all of which had thought and imagination put into.

IMO, Dantes Inferno is better than God of War in many ways.


Got a good bit further into it last night, the above is fair comment, the more I'm playing of it, the more I'm really really enjoying it. It IS very like God of War in terms of both gameplay and atmosphere but that's no bad thing & I'm gutted that it hasn't got the recognition and therefore sequels it deserved as there are some incredible touches in it.

I did learn one thing though, I'd do a terrible job of being God, I find it REALLY difficult to send people to damnation, I end up absolving all the poor souls I find down there!
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