So what're you playing nowadays?

Currently playing Cross Edge and going for the platinum. Finally have a grasp of the battle and combo system this time, just doing a mass synthesis-fest and then i'll be there. This game is the pain in my ass in all honesty, but strangely enjoyable.

Silent Hill HD Collection (Xbox 360)

I'm playing through Silent Hill 2.  The only Silent Hill game I ever played was the original when it first came out.  It was awesome.  So....

I'm not far at all into Silent Hill 2.  So far I beat down a guy trapped in a burlap sack in an alley.  Got a radio.  The radio lets me know there are more homeless armless people trapped in burlap sacks near by.  I beat down about sixteen of these guys while running around the streets.  I find a key on a dead guy in a dead end alley.  It's to some apartment building.  I go there.  More guys trapped in potatoe sacks trying to kill me....nice.  I beat them down, find a flashlight, found ammo for a gun, a riddle on a clock.....I leave.  I go to Good Burger, I can't go inside.  I find a mobile home, a save point, and a note.  The note says go to the bar.....GOOD!! BECAUSE I NEED A BEER RIGHT ABOUT NOW, ESP. AFTER WHAT I JUST HAD TO GO THROUGH! 

I saved the game in the trailer.  I'll go back to it later.



I don't like this game so far.  It's boring me to tears!!!!  I'm going to go eat some turkey and take a nap!

PerfectZer0 wrote:

I'm playing through Silent Hill 2.  The only Silent Hill game I ever played was the original when it first came out.  It was awesome.  So....

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I don't like this game so far.  It's boring me to tears!!!!  I'm going to go eat some turkey and take a nap!

Agreed. The first one is excellent, but I found SH2 to be really boring after my initial playthroughs (when there were some truly terrifying moments). It's worth seeing through, especially when you get to some of the more elaborate and creepy interior locations, but overall not as solid, or replayable, as the first.


I'm currently playing through FF3 on the SNES again, but this time I am going the backroads way and have been abusing the shit out of Mog's Dances and Gau's Rages. After reading an excellent Rage FAQ on GameFAQs I decided to try learning some of these tactics and going through the game in a way that I never have before. (I always just get Gau and then sideline him for the entire game.) Man, I made some HUGE mistakes before. Gau is a machine with some of the Rages he can learn quite early. I was casting Fire 2/Ice 2/Bolt 2 before I even made it back to Narshe (which is a couple of hours before you even get your first Esper, which is a couple of hours before you have all three of those spells available to be learned), not to mention some of the insane !special attacks he has. I have kept him in my party ever since I picked him up during Sabin's scenario and refuse to not include him. I am terrified of starting the World of Ruin without him in my party.

It's crazy how I've played this game at least a half dozen times, probably more, but there are still other ways to play it without resorting to LLC games to find new challenges and excitement. After rolling off of two successive FF7 playthroughs I have to say that FF3/6 is definitely a more customizable and fast-paced game. I forgot how interchangeable FF7's characters are. Aside from Cloud, the other ones seem different only in minor stats and weapon/Limit Breaks.

Also, Setzer is a useless piece of shit.

Last edited by Zane (Apr 02, 2012)

Zane wrote:

Also, Setzer is a useless piece of shit.

Setzer is best char speedrunning wise, but yeah on regular plays he doesn't provide much. Except to give us the bloody airship.

I wonder how many ways FF VI is actually broken in the end, alongside Gau's rages and Mdef and blind bugs.

TerraEpon wrote:

Eh, with the Fixed Dice he's really a pretty good character.

+ Offering relic

i logged,, get this,, a whole 1:15 on a chrono trigger DS quest that i started while on jury duty in sept 2009.
just going to 65,000,000 BC for the first time...

LiquidAcid wrote:

I also got MGS1 (PS1), MGS2: Substance and MGS3: Snake Eater (both PS2) in the mail. I might play the series in parallel to Ar tonelico.

A few months ago I beat Metal Gear Solid 3 Snake Eater (it was the HD Collection).  Just like the Silent Hill series I only played the first of the Metal Gear Solid games back when it first came out. 

I forced myself to beat Snake Eater.  The whole sneaking around....hell I only did it when I had to (later on).  Right from the get go of this game it's pointless to sneak, I ran past or punched the crap out guards that have radios and ran to the next screen.  Like with Silent Hill 2, this game is hell boring.  The only redeemable thing about this game is that young Ocelot was pretty cool. 

There was this one part where I had to climbed a ladder for hell it seemed like 10 minutes straight up.  There were a couple times I had to stop and look down and then up to see if I was getting anywhere.  It was like I was in purgatory with that horrid Snake Eater theme song playing.  *Augh*

And healing in this game.....complete waste of time.  Boss fights were boring and pretty much uneventful.  Take The Pain, I literally stood in one place and used my AssKrackin-47 on him, he posioned me a few times but his movements were so easy to see....lame.  That old sniper dude (I forget his name) but shotgun to face will cure his old age everytime you find where he's hiding.  Then there was that retard The Fury....what a joke.

I'm sorry, I know people love this game, but I freakin hated it.  But atleast I got some achievments out of it.

I do not recommend playing through this game LiquidAcid unless you are one of the many that have played and do like it.

Last edited by PerfectZer0 (Apr 06, 2012)

LiquidAcid wrote:

PerfectZer0 wrote:

Like with Silent Hill 2, this game is hell boring.

I couldn't disagree more. SH2 is my favorite game of the Silent Hill series.

For me: SH2 > SH3 > SH1 > SH4
I haven't played the other parts (Homecoming, Zero, etc.)

Indeed.

My ranking would be
SH2 > SH3 > SH1 > Zero > Shattered Memories > SH4 > Homecoming

still playing KoF XIII.

also FF IV After Years on PSP while watching TV. it's hard to stomach after you've played IV previously. just got Darksiders from PSN because it was dirt cheap, like 7EUR. i'll be playing this for the next few days.

Both. Some new tracks, but not too many.

My main problem with it is the encounter rate is absolutely horrid, so I gave up.

Still playing Tales of Graces f. It's more fun when you tune the story and characters out (but most JRPGs these days are that way). Certainly no Xenoblade.

the PSP treatment is fantastic. i think AY story is actually quite nice, maybe the best part about the whole game. IMO AY needed new gameplay elements to keep things fresh.