What are you currently playing?

[Freestyler]

As its my day off i decided to start something new today. sat and stared at my games for a while and decided on Kingdoms of Amalur in the end. Ended up playing it for 5hours straight! Great game so far. looking at the map it looks bloody huge! Loads of side quests have distracted me from the main quest already

I wanna grab the guide book. I'm a bit of a sucker for all those lovely looking hardbacks now. I dont even use them until after I've done bits in game. Not so much a guide then, more of a 'what did i miss book'

I've had my eye on this one for a while now. I played the demo and enjoyed it immensely. It seems like it's another 100hr+ game, so it's on my list for sure.
(On a side note the armour it unlocked for Mass Effect 3 was a bit on the crap side. It was melee-oriented in a shooting game! )

[Negative Creep]

Mortal Kombat (360) online. Trying the ranks matches but who it pairs you with seems pretty arbitrary. Sometimes I get a decent, even match, but other times I'll be put up against someone who utterly destroys me

[Black Ridge]

As its my day off i decided to start something new today. sat and stared at my games for a while and decided on Kingdoms of Amalur in the end. Ended up playing it for 5hours straight! Great game so far. looking at the map it looks bloody huge! Loads of side quests have distracted me from the main quest already

I wanna grab the guide book. I'm a bit of a sucker for all those lovely looking hardbacks now. I dont even use them until after I've done bits in game. Not so much a guide then, more of a 'what did i miss book'

I've had my eye on this one for a while now. I played the demo and enjoyed it immensely. It seems like it's another 100hr+ game, so it's on my list for sure.
(On a side note the armour it unlocked for Mass Effect 3 was a bit on the crap side. It was melee-oriented in a shooting game! )

Yeh i have armour in KOA based on Shepherds armour although i cant use it as im going down the Sorcery skill tree and you have to be stronger to equip it.

Id give KOA a go. definately one of the better rpgs ive played recently. The combat is great especially when you start unlocking more moves/spells.

[DPrinny]

Descent 2.
The first kinda hurts my eyes because how its aged, the second looks less aged

[gmintyfresh]

Part 4: Nirvana Asuras Wrath coming to the end of the DLC, great additional chapter and quite sad too.

[The Beans]

Id give KOA a go. definately one of the better rpgs ive played recently. The combat is great especially when you start unlocking more moves/spells.

Seconded. Easily one of the best games of this gen. It's massive too. The two expansions also add a lot. Best played on Hard difficulty from the start IMO. You're way overpowered by the end if you've done a lot of sidequests and exploring.

[Megamixer]

Lots of Resident Evil 5 and also more Lollipop Chainsaw last night which is just batsh!t crazy in a most excellent way. According to the game map, I only have the 'Cathedral' stage left but I'm hoping there's more to come as the game will be a very short one otherwise. Even if it doesn't have a lot of lifespan, I plan to revisit older stages for better scores and to unlock everything though so it's not too much of an issue.

[ShadowMan]

Lots of Resident Evil 5 and also more Lollipop Chainsaw last night which is just batsh!t crazy in a most excellent way. According to the game map, I only have the 'Cathedral' stage left but I'm hoping there's more to come as the game will be a very short one otherwise. Even if it doesn't have a lot of lifespan, I plan to revisit older stages for better scores and to unlock everything though so it's not too much of an issue.

The Cathedral isn't the end but it is a very short game. I'm currently now on my second playthrough (Hard mode) to get more of the achievements as certain enemies/special zombies etc. only show up in Hard mode.

[Evermore]

I played a good bit more of Mario Tennis Open this evening and I have to say it is far better than I thought it would be, having read a fair few reviews - (games tm - 6/10, WTF??). I don't know where people have taken so much issue with this title. A lot of people have complained that the game has a dodgy single player structure, which is fair enough; the Game Boy versions had extensive RPG modes, but Open has some RPG elements and a whopping great online mode for itself! And it looks amazing

Whilst the previous handheld games had big single players, I don't think the lack of one of those in Open is that big a deal - many games aren't about big long campiagns otherwise no one would buy shmups, puzzlers, fighters or racing games like Mario Kart. For more "arcadey" games like your Mario Tennises of this world it all comes down to the gameplay - is the game fun, accessible and addictive? Is it fun over the long term to play? Is the multiplayer enjoyable? For me, on initial inspection at least, Mario Tennis Open would appear to be most, possibly all of the above, though of course I haven't played it in the long term yet. However, I have been playing the wonderous N64 iteration for a decade, and Open is as good as that in terms of gameplay by the looks of things.

If people go in expecting a big massive campaign then they will be disappointed - go in expecting a fun Mario sports game that is superb fun in both short and long burst and you may be pleasantly surprised.

Two things though - the online multiplayer is quite laggy right now. Nintendo need to patch this perhaps. Second, 3DS games are overpriced. I'll no doubt get my moneys' worth from this, but the asking price on this game is very high for regular gamers I think. Nintendo need to take this into account lest they get butt-hurt by Apple in the future.

[Megamixer]

Lots of Resident Evil 5 and also more Lollipop Chainsaw last night which is just batsh!t crazy in a most excellent way. According to the game map, I only have the 'Cathedral' stage left but I'm hoping there's more to come as the game will be a very short one otherwise. Even if it doesn't have a lot of lifespan, I plan to revisit older stages for better scores and to unlock everything though so it's not too much of an issue.

The Cathedral isn't the end but it is a very short game. I'm currently now on my second playthrough (Hard mode) to get more of the achievements as certain enemies/special zombies etc. only show up in Hard mode.

I finished it last night then tried the prologue stage again. Amazing how easy it is to rack up loads of platinum medals with the addition of all the moves purchased throughout the game. I'll need them too as some of the more 'interesting' costumes cost insane amounts of platinum medals to purchase

The last boss was just amazing in the most crazy has-to-be-seen-to-be-believed way

I really hope that Grasshopper and Suda51 do a sequel but No More Heroes aside, I know that Suda51 doesn't really 'do' sequels. Ah well, I have plenty of replaying to get on with anyway.

[Black Ridge]

Me & Neku had a bit of a Fighter Session Today

Tobal No.1 (PS1) - Really fluid animation and nice character design (Akira Toriyama I believe). Low health though so bouts end pretty quickly

Toshinden 4 (PS1) - Pretty average and strange level design. Especially when parts of the arena fall apart to allow easy Ring Outs

JoJos Bizarre Adventure (PS1) - INSANE. Very cool and fun to play. one of the best Capcom fighters on the PS1 alongside Street Fighter Alpha 3 & Rival Schools IMO.

Blazblue Conituum Shift EXTEND (360) - we are both pretty terrible at this. So hardcore. Lots of unusual physics and every character plays SO differently. Was fun having a bash though. i also played this last night online and found there to be very few people on. Those that were had played countless games and destroyed me. 14 losses 1 win FML

[nakamura]

Castlevania: Curse of Darkness on PS2

So far its absolutely fantastic! Anybody that claims there arent any good 3D Castlevania games hasnt played this.

You like your birthday present then

you know its probably downhill from there though if you go and play any of the others. The N64 ones do look pretty heinous

I told you it was good, epic combat engine! Lament of Innocence is even better too.

Tobal No.1 (PS1) - Really fluid animation and nice character design (Akira Toriyama I believe). Low health though so bouts end pretty quickly

I have the second Tobal game and it is utterly fantastic. The combat engine is really deep and I love the quest modes. It amazes we the way the limbs interact with each other.

[Megamixer]

Castlevania: Curse of Darkness on PS2

So far its absolutely fantastic! Anybody that claims there arent any good 3D Castlevania games hasnt played this.

You like your birthday present then

you know its probably downhill from there though if you go and play any of the others. The N64 ones do look pretty heinous

I told you it was good, epic combat engine! Lament of Innocence is even better too.

Lament is the first PS2 game simply called Castlevania over here isn't it? I had that and didn't like it. There was a lot to enjoy from the design point of view but I just found the general gameplay a bit dull and repetetive.

Having said that, I still own the large Japanese special edition of the game just for it's artwork and awesome appearance

[DPrinny]

JoJos Bizarre Adventure (PS1) - INSANE. Very cool and fun to play. one of the best Capcom fighters on the PS1 alongside Street Fighter Alpha 3 & Rival Schools IMO.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbArvIqZzkI
ZA WARDO!!!

[dste]

Started Super Mario Galaxy 2 last night, goodbye life.

Took a couple of stars to click but now loving it already.