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Re: What are you currently playing?

Postby ShadowMan on Tue May 08, 2012 7:53 am

Ketsui for the Xbox 360. I'm not to bad on the first couple of stages, with a bomb or two I can clear them without dying but once the third stage rolls round things get tougher, by stage 5 I have problems :lol: X Mode seems much more managable for me, I can get further with one credit on that and generally do better on the later levels as well. Its really addictive as well, grinding kills to get a few of the achievements and I do see myself getting better at the game... slowly.

I'm also still working through Fist of the North Star. Completed Kenshiro's story mode which was fun and moved onto Toki's which sucks. Fair enough he isn't as powerful as Ken but to make his standard attacks this week and to have the first boss kill him in two hits :shock: Not fun at all. I do like the dream mode though, feels much more like a traditional Dynasty Warriors game and the game is more fun because of that.
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Re: What are you currently playing?

Postby gmintyfresh on Tue May 08, 2012 9:44 am

ShadowMan wrote:Ketsui for the Xbox 360. I'm not to bad on the first couple of stages, with a bomb or two I can clear them without dying but once the third stage rolls round things get tougher, by stage 5 I have problems :lol: X Mode seems much more managable for me, I can get further with one credit on that and generally do better on the later levels as well. Its really addictive as well, grinding kills to get a few of the achievements and I do see myself getting better at the game... slowly.

I'm also still working through Fist of the North Star. Completed Kenshiro's story mode which was fun and moved onto Toki's which sucks. Fair enough he isn't as powerful as Ken but to make his standard attacks this week and to have the first boss kill him in two hits :shock: Not fun at all. I do like the dream mode though, feels much more like a traditional Dynasty Warriors game and the game is more fun because of that.


I still find Kesui brutal because it forces you to get close to the enemies to score high, ace port though glad you're enjoying it.

Honestly mate Toki's later powers are devistating - just a shame it takes a load of grinding to unlock them :(
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Re: What are you currently playing?

Postby ShadowMan on Tue May 08, 2012 9:55 am

gmintyfresh wrote:I still find Kesui brutal because it forces you to get close to the enemies to score high, ace port though glad you're enjoying it.

Honestly mate Toki's later powers are devistating - just a shame it takes a load of grinding to unlock them :(


I can't see me going for high scores on Ketsui yet, I've enough problems just surviving let alone getting closer to enemies!

I can see Toki being really good when maxed out, his X,X,X,Y attack is already stupidly powerful and can take out a horde of enemies in one go and his counter/parry move is very handy. Its just his normal attack power (esp. against Raoh) that lets him down at the mo.
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Re: What are you currently playing?

Postby gmintyfresh on Tue May 08, 2012 10:22 am

ShadowMan wrote:
gmintyfresh wrote:I still find Kesui brutal because it forces you to get close to the enemies to score high, ace port though glad you're enjoying it.

Honestly mate Toki's later powers are devistating - just a shame it takes a load of grinding to unlock them :(


I can't see me going for high scores on Ketsui yet, I've enough problems just surviving let alone getting closer to enemies!

I can see Toki being really good when maxed out, his X,X,X,Y attack is already stupidly powerful and can take out a horde of enemies in one go and his counter/parry move is very handy. Its just his normal attack power (esp. against Raoh) that lets him down at the mo.


There's one move with Toki that Roah just can't cope with and interrupts some of his attacks - sorry really can't remember which one it is (there is one attack you can unlock that allows Toki to regenerate energy, it costs a lot to get it and is not worth bothering with - steer clear). Mate you won't confront anything else as hard as this battle in the entire rest of the game.
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Re: What are you currently playing?

Postby Morkin on Tue May 08, 2012 10:35 am

I've recently started Need for Speed Hot Pursuit after buying it ages ago for a tenner or so. Looks very pretty & controls quite nicely too.
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Re: What are you currently playing?

Postby theantmeister on Tue May 08, 2012 11:31 am

JazzFunk wrote:Plays nicely, just a pity it's sh!t in nearly every other respect - F.R.'s Timesplitters 2 on Xbox1 looked better than this, how frustrating! Anyway, I shall persist with it, 'tis not a baaaaad game. ;)

Are you mental? :wink:

I remember playing the infamous Haze demo they released. Oh man, it was terrible. Especially after that games show on Bravo (Playr?) previewed Haze for 6 months before that. All that hype and at the end we got...Haze. The graphics are sub-par yes, but it was the voice acting that got to me. It was diabolical. I know you and your team are hocked-up on drugs, but do these same drugs make them into assholes? The actual demo itself was nothing to write home about either. A very generic FPS with terrible graphics and terrible voice acting.
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Re: What are you currently playing?

Postby Rayne on Tue May 08, 2012 11:41 am

theantmeister wrote:
JazzFunk wrote:Plays nicely, just a pity it's sh!t in nearly every other respect - F.R.'s Timesplitters 2 on Xbox1 looked better than this, how frustrating! Anyway, I shall persist with it, 'tis not a baaaaad game. ;)

Are you mental? :wink:

I remember playing the infamous Haze demo they released. Oh man, it was terrible. Especially after that games show on Bravo (Playr?) previewed Haze for 6 months before that. All that hype and at the end we got...Haze. The graphics are sub-par yes, but it was the voice acting that got to me. It was diabolical. I know you and your team are hocked-up on drugs, but do these same drugs make them into assholes? The actual demo itself was nothing to write home about either. A very generic FPS with terrible graphics and terrible voice acting.


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Re: What are you currently playing?

Postby greenberet79 on Tue May 08, 2012 11:46 am

I was playing about with my PSP MegaDrive emulator over the weekend, and found a ROM for Commandos (the old PC Eidos game, late 90s). Very very strange - I think it was Russian.

Has anyone came across this before? The graphics weren't actually that bad!
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Re: What are you currently playing?

Postby ShadowNeku on Tue May 08, 2012 1:49 pm

Kinda given up on Breath of Fire 3 for the time being. At the moment everything is going very slowly and the enemies are frustrating. It just isnt gripping me in the same way as other RPG's.

Just made a start on Guardians Crusade for PS1, a little known RPG with super colourful cutsey graphics. Enjoyable so far, battle system seems very simple but i prefer it that way.
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Re: What are you currently playing?

Postby Freestyler on Tue May 08, 2012 4:42 pm

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Re: What are you currently playing?

Postby Space_turnip on Tue May 08, 2012 5:54 pm

Buggy Heat on the Dreamcast. Not as bad as everyone says it is, once you get used to the rubbish handling.

I was utterly distracted by the fact that the announcer appears to be Ron Burgundy.
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Re: What are you currently playing?

Postby Liamh1982 on Tue May 08, 2012 7:59 pm

greenberet79 wrote:I was playing about with my PSP MegaDrive emulator over the weekend, and found a ROM for Commandos (the old PC Eidos game, late 90s). Very very strange - I think it was Russian.

Has anyone came across this before? The graphics weren't actually that bad!

It is indeed Russian - a few weeks back I actually found a whole batch of Ruskie MD bootleg ROMs, usually they're just existing games with a crude new title screen attempting to tie it into a current franchise, occasionally though something coded afresh will emerge.
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Re: What are you currently playing?

Postby commanderkaiser on Tue May 08, 2012 8:21 pm

Dug out my DS so I'm just going through a few games, at the moment I'm alternating between

Advance Wars Drak Conflict
Ace Attorney Apollo Justice
Hotel Dusk I've also got the second one but won't be playing that till this is beat
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Re: What are you currently playing?

Postby dste on Tue May 08, 2012 8:54 pm

commanderkaiser wrote:Hotel Dusk I've also got the second one but won't be playing that till this is beat


I completed both of them recently, good games.
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Re: What are you currently playing?

Postby shiftytigger on Tue May 08, 2012 9:00 pm

True Pinball - sent to me by Antiriad2097 - quite enjoyed it on 3d but then found you can switch to top down and enjoyed it tenfold.

Also Namco Museum battle thingy for PSP. Not a bad mix , played a few Ive never played before but really I was in it for the Pacman.
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