Game: What game are you currently playing??

**samsonlonghair** · Sat, 08-08-2009, 01:07 AM

I'm currently playing Dynamite Headdy. Treasure makes some damn good games.

**Xelbair** · Sun, 08-09-2009, 12:25 PM

There is PS2 emulator, PCSX2, with epic-pc with most up to date parts, and setting to highest frameskip you might get 20 FPS..might, but it depends on game(In SocT it is possible)

**itadakimasu** · Tue, 08-11-2009, 10:54 PM

Now playing Final Fantasy 4 : The after years !

sequal / continuation to my all time favorite final fantasy game. so far it's pretty good, but a little glitcy here and there.

**Ryllharu** · Thu, 08-20-2009, 06:49 PM

I finally got the True End of BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger in story mode.

Holy shit! I need more! Cliffhangers in a fighting game!?!

I might get some flak for this around here, but I would say that TYPE-MOON might have a real rival in Arc System Works. At least in the fighting games with a story segment, if not their major products.

Before BlazBlue, there really hasn't been anyone that compares to the level of writing, presentation, and background that Arc System Works put into this game. MeltyBlood owes a great deal of their backstory to Tsukihime. While the story is there, it really assumes you already know who most of the TYPE-MOON characters are. MeltyBlood (and Fate/Unlimited Codes) has about the same level of stand-alone story in their Arcade Mode that BlazBlue does. Three fights, a dialogue and a harder fight, three more, and then another dialogue and the finale.

BlazBlue goes so much farther with their story mode. Fun endings aside, there is an overarching continuity where each character has a role that would continue on in the story, rather than all the throwaway endings of Street Fighter, Tekken, Soul Calibur, etc, where they are quickly forgotten because some single character ultimately has to win the fighting tournament or claim the sword.

Twists abound, there is only the smallest amount of foreshadowing until you get to the locked story modes where suddenly the realization of the truth smacks you in the face. You piece parts together from each character's viewpoint, each iteration adds more to your full understanding of exactly is going on. By the end, you understand every character's role in the rather expansive play, and hints at where it will be going. The world and backstory is even explained in unlockable Teach Me! Litchi-Sensei gaidens (where are very funny too).

The game establishes more lore in one game than Arc System Works did with three Guilty Gear games. The characters are more fleshed out and developed than in 4 Soul Caliburs, or even all the Street Fighter games.

I'm completely blown away by the story in a fighting game.

If you're even the slightest fan of fighting games, you should probably check it out. Coming from the 360, I think the 2D models look a little smoother on the PS3. I will say though, that the game is amazingly well calibrated and optomized towards playing with the analog sticks. That, and it probably has the best multiplayer netcode ever written for a fighting game. I have never experienced a single moment of lag during the actual match after the game synchronizes.

**Penner** · Thu, 08-20-2009, 06:53 PM

Wolfenstein :P

**Psyke** · Thu, 08-20-2009, 08:11 PM

KOF XII doesn't have a story but it's gameplay is pretty solid. It's those type of games I can spend hours just practising a single combo.....

**Xelbair** · Fri, 08-21-2009, 06:12 AM

I was playing shadow of the colossus on my friends ps2 but i had to give it back just before 12th colossi...

**TheBladeChild** · Fri, 08-21-2009, 06:28 AM

Lol, that sux Xelbair. My copy of Shadow of Colossus is just collecting dust right now :P
Now that I think about, I might want to play it just to beat it again

As for the current games Im playing: I guess its more or less Soul Calibur 3 and 4. I personally dont own a playstation 3 but I go to my friend's place frequently enough to play on his be just as profiecient in 4 as I am in 3. Characters I use most are Cassandra, Sophitia, some Xianghua and Taki, but as of right now Talim is getting most of my play time since she is the character im trying to learn right now.

**itadakimasu** · Sat, 08-22-2009, 02:01 PM

i'm jumping between final fantasy 4 : the after years, team fortress 2, and I just went and bought the starcraft battlechest which is installing right now.

I have bought starcraft at least 3 time in the past so I think this has got to be my 4th copy. maybe I will keep a copy of my cd key somewhere where I can find it just in case... $11.99 is a bargain though for starcraft + broodwars even if the game is around 10 years old.

I started freaking out because the installation asked me to insert starcraft cd2.... what it meant was to enter the broodwar cd.

**animus** · Sun, 08-23-2009, 11:59 AM

http://pc.ign.com/dor/objects/816935...c1_082109.html

Part 1 of 4 videos of a developer walkthrough for Star Wars the Old Republic. But man to be a fully voiced MMO, that must mean it must take up some beastly hard drive space then huh. They boast some interesting features. Who's looking forward to the game?

I might end up playing it when it comes out.

**Xelbair** · Mon, 08-24-2009, 05:22 AM

Hehe , i'm playing soul calibur 4 and guilty gear XX #reload lately. 2 year break from GGXX#R and now i can't make overdrives every time i want. But in SC4 my friend still gets owned when i play Siegfried, no matter if he plays Taki or Yoshimitsu.
Also i borrowed from my friend "Ratchet and Clank: Tools of Destruction" - pretty funny and good game.

**UChessmaster** · Tue, 08-25-2009, 07:04 PM

Playing Batman: Arkham Asylum, a game that can only be described as "Totally fucking awsome."

**fireheart** · Thu, 08-27-2009, 05:55 AM

Ryllharu: Did you hear that the European version apparently boosts more characters? Sigh... means I have to buy the game again when it comes out here, since even if it becomes a dl character for the U.S version I still can't get that character.

Anyway started playing Xenogears again or rather resumed playing it after not playing it for years. Why? Simply because I couldn't play it so now there's a bunch of stuff I don't remember and I guess I'm somewhat far in the game and really don't feel like starting the game from start... such a drag also need to finish playing Chrono Cross since I can finally play that again.

In other news...

DS: Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor
DS: Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box

PSP: Dissidia: Final Fantasy
PSP: Valkyrie Profile: Lenneth
PSP: Dynasty Warriors: Strikeforce

360: Tales of Vesperia

PS3: Prince of Persia
PS3: Blazblue
PS3: Fat Princess
PS3: Valkyria Chronicles

PS2: Shin Megami Tensei: Lucifers call/Nocturne

Too much too play... no real energy to finish them so should just concentrate on one.

**Marik** · Thu, 08-27-2009, 06:18 AM

I read about the new characters for BlazBlue and I'm hoping that other regions will get them soon after the European release, which won't be until Q1 2010.

Also, BlazBlue will be getting it's own manga with Yun Kouga (Loveless) doing some of the drawings. http://blazblue.jp/topics.html#topics31

And check out these "goods". http://blazblue.jp/goods.html

***Buffalobiian*** · Thu, 08-27-2009, 07:19 AM

Originally Posted by Marik

I read about the new characters for BlazBlue and I'm hoping that other regions will get them soon after the European release, which won't be until Q1 2010.

Awesome, so we will get a European release after all. I was getting really hyped after reading Ryll's review/ thoughts.

**Marik** · Thu, 08-27-2009, 07:57 AM

Originally Posted by Buffalobiian

Awesome, so we will get a European release after all.

European fighter fans who haven't already imported Arc System Works' BlazBlue will be rewarded for their patience early next year, with exclusive characters and moves only available in the European release.

The release comes as a result of publisher PQube and Zen United, a consortium of Japanese and Asian developers targeting the European market. The title will be fully localized, with support for German, Italian, French, English, and Spanish, so just about everyone can be confused by the twisted storyline of this lovely little fighting game.

"The long running 2D fighting genre has seen a welcome boost in 2009 with updated versions of several franchises brought to Next Gen PS3 and 360 consoles" and Tomo Ohno, Head of Zen United, reported "BlazBlue reached number 1 in the Japanese arcades and already sales of the Japanese and US console versions have beaten forecasts".

The European PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 release will feature bonus content, including a strategy guide and the game's soundtrack, and the announcement makes mention of "new gameplay content not available anywhere, like new characters and moves."

No word on what exclusive characters Europe will be getting, but it's definitely nice to see folks on that side of the pond getting rewarded for their patience. And for those of you who already bought it, there is no shame in rebuying.

**darkshadow** · Thu, 08-27-2009, 09:23 AM

Glad I held off importing the PS3 version, now I can get the superior version + 360 achievements

**Xelbair** · Thu, 08-27-2009, 09:33 AM

Like ps3 dosen't have its trophy system...
I'm glad for not importing it too.

***Buffalobiian*** · Thu, 08-27-2009, 09:45 AM

LOL @ marketing scheme.

Before: We're not releasing EU versions. EU people can import it.

After: EU version will be better. The rest of the world can import it.

**darkshadow** · Thu, 08-27-2009, 01:04 PM

Originally Posted by Xelbair

Like ps3 dosen't have its trophy system...
I'm glad for not importing it too.

I thought my post made it pretty clear what my dominant system is? I couldn't care less for Throphies, I've got like 10 bronze ones from killzone 2.
Compare that to my 21.2k score on xblive..... Yeah trophies are irrelevant to me.

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