The Last Game You Beat and What are You Currently Playing

[Tom R VanSlambrouck]

Started Tearaway for the Vita what a charming little game that's full of interesting ideas and an interesting artstyle. If you have the system then I suggest picking it up or at least giving it a rental.

[Shin_Edda_Robo!!!!!]

I spent all of yesterday playing Super Robot Wars Z3 and I don't give a "OH GODZILLA! WHAT TERRIBLE LANGUAGE!" (._. )

Several things of note; Banagher sucks and the Unicorn does all the work for him. I assume this is story related.

Camille is starts in a ReZel. This is awesome.

I put Amuro in the Delta Plus, because Ridde Marcenas is a weenie.

Setsuna is missing ._.

Zeon, Federation, Marimeya, Britannia; Quake in fear at the might of Black Getter, Shin Mazinger Z, Godmars and Dancougar.

Trider G7 has a cool support unit now

DO NOT GET HIT BY SUPER ROBOT ENEMIES UNLESS YOU'RE MAZINGER Z OR GODMARS.

And finally; from now on I am calling Hilde, Mini Noin.

[XvGojira]

Just finished Uncharted the other night. I was stuck at one point and stopped playing for a bit. Picked it back up and ran through it. Good fun. Just started the second one.

[Tom R VanSlambrouck]

It only gets better from here.

I finished The Amazing Spider Man 2 game. It started off as meh but then picked up pace a lot of nice twist and turns.

Now I'm playing Pokemon Y which is shaping up to be pretty good.

[MekaGojira3k]

I've been playing Pokemon X nonstop. 50+ hours. 1 badge.
I really dig this.

I think the next 3DS game I get will be Bravely Default.

[Dr Kain]

I spent the day playing Watch_Dogs. The first two hours were sluggish as I am not a fan of the lack of a jump button and it feels like driving on ice because the car slides all over the place, but for the most part, I have been having fun. Actually, in the 8 hours I played, I only did four story missions. I spent the rest of the time doing side missions like Gang Hideouts, Convoy Chases, dying, Crimes, and getting the collectible stuff. In fact, I've already maxed out all of my upgrades at this point and have 11 points waiting for the next batch to open up. I've collected more than $140,000 as well. That has been far more fun that doing the story missions. I absolutely love the Gang Hideouts as I've been having a blat just using all of the machines and stuff to take out the guards before I stealth my way through the rest of the goons. Graphically, it is good, but pales in comparison to what Ubisoft showed us at E3. It looks just as good as GTAV on the PS3, which is kind of sad considering this is the PS4.

I do have a question though, do I have to do the online hack stuff to get 100% completion? If so, that is going to cause a problem.

[XvGojira]

[Dr Kain]

Nope, I do have to do online games in order to 100% the single player mode. That is utter bull****!!!!

[XvGojira]

[Dr Kain]

I spent the day playing playing more of Watch_Dogs and I've come to realize something, this game is pretty much just Assassin's Creed in the the modern era. Unfortunately, I am having way more fun doing the side missions (although, some of the Fixer missions are getting really repetitive and I still need to do 22 more of them) than I am with the story. I have only finished Act I, so I'm sure things will change, but I really do not like Aiden one bit. He is a one dimensional character and I just don't care about his motivations. He is boring. One other thing that annoys me is not with the game directly itself, but when the ****ing controller battery dies, the game does NOT pause. I was in the middle of a shoot out when the battery died and ended up dying thanks to this assnine decision. Very freaking annoying.

[Tom R VanSlambrouck]

Been playing a ton of Pokemon Y the game is a blast. I haven't had this much fun with a Pokemon game since Pearl.

[XvGojira]

Beat Uncharted 2 the other night. A great improvement from the first, still had a few questionable camera angles that caused my death.

Haven't started 3 yet, but I'm sure I will after Wednesday.

[Dr Kain]

Uncharted 2 is easily one of the best video games of the last generation. Not to mention one of the best PS3 exclusives.

[Dr Kain]

All right, so I finished Watch_Dogs today and this review may contain some spoilers, so be wary. I'm going to avoid as much as possible though.

Positives:

+The stealth aspects of the game are fantastic. It is simply so much fun to take out as many bad guys in an area as you can via watching them through the camera more than just going into the area and shooting things up. This is the game's strongest aspect.

+Jordi is hands down the best character in the game. He is funny, has great stories, and is all around a badass. He is the character Aiden should have been as he is the only one that is actually likable.

+There are some really great missions throughout the game. The missions where you have to guide people through an area without getting caught was really fun and thought provoking. It definitely took away from doing the same type of missions over and it was used sparingly so that it wasn't tiresome.

+A lot of the side missions are great, especially the Convoy and Hideout ones. The hideout at the bridge in Pawnee is by far my favorite of them all.

+There are a lot of weapons to choose from (although, too many at times) and a good selection of cars.

+The story is pretty good as a whole.

+The city and its people are alive. It is funny watching two women talk to each other for getting into a car accident.

+Hacking.

+Spider-Tank, nuff said.

Negatives:

-Aiden is one of the most uninteresting and boring protagonists in gaming history. He makes Connor in ACIII look good.

-Driving feels like the cars are on ice to the point that it is pretty much like driving in the PS2 GTA games.

-Invisible walls spread throughout the city, making it impossible to get to some rooftops to just enjoy the view of the landscape the developers have finely crafted.

-There is simply nothing to do with your money. Yes, there are guns, ammo, cars, and clothing to buy, but at the end of the game, I had $973,000.

-Too much repetition. There is no reason for there to be 40 required Fixer Missions when there are only four types of Fixer missions. This game could have really used some assassination type missions or something that didn't require blowing people up while in a car.

-Online requirements to 100% the game. I refuse to 100% the game because of this. There is simply inexcusable to force people to play online just to entirely complete the single player experience.

-Minigames are more annoying than fun. If you want to know what annoying and boredom feel like, play the drinking game. After one round you will be annoyed that you have to go through that 29 more times.

-There are no rewards for your choice. Not killing anyone has no barring on the story for killing someone.

-The game has one of the worst, most laziest boss battles in the history of gaming. If you thought the boss battles in Deus Ex Human Revolution were bad, you haven't seen anything until you play this one. Not to mention the boss is a freaking sponge and he doesn't even have any armor on.

-The lack of being able to customize weapons and cars.

-Graphics look barely better than GTAV on the PS3. There are no shadows when standing in front of the headlights on cars, no ripples in the water when you shoot it.

-No helicopters or anything to fly in and look at the city from the sky.

-No missions that have you sneaking onto a boat or even missions that have some type of boat chase.

Overall, for a brand new IP, Watch_Dogs is not bad. It has some really great moments in it, excellent stealth mechanics, but it is very repetitive and most of the cast is unlikable, especially the main character. Hacking is fun, the gun play mechanics are standard, but the driving mechanics need to go. It is just not fun to drive and the driving is one of the reasons why the Fixer missions are annoying. It's a game that will hopefully improve a lot in its sequel provided Ubisoft actually takes their time with it and does not rush it out in a year. The story as a whole was good, there were some incredible missions, but the experienced was soured by dumb mechanics (like the online requirements) that could have been avoided all together. I give Watch_Dogs a 7/10, and while it is a good game, it is probably not one I will find myself ever replaying again.

[Destroysall]

Been loving Forza 3 so much!

[XvGojira]

Spent an entire night playing and beating Uncharted 3. And while it hooked me, I feel that the story and pacing of 2 was much better. Although I like the villain in this one a bit more. I just wish they explained somethings, like how did the guy with the hallucinogenic darts survive getting shot in that castle? What was in the big jar? They showed what the macguffin was in all the other games, why shy away in this one? The hand to hand combat was the best though. I rarely duked it out with the enemies in the previous games, but I was all fists of fury for the first act or so.

So yeah, playing these and The Last of Us means that I have to get a PS4 at some point. It also makes me want to go back and play Naught Dogs other games as well.

And I'd totally play an .

[Dr Kain]

Yeah, I loved Uncharted 3, but it was a bit of a let down compared to 2. Of course, trains are awesome, and 3 had a serious lack of trains.

My other problem 3 though is the

[XvGojira]

[Tom R VanSlambrouck]

Just beat the main Pokemon Y story. Going to do the post game stuff later.

I'll also probably beat MGSV: GZ for PS4 later today too, my brother in law let me borrow that.

[Dr Kain]

I downloaded Strider since it is free to PS+ members. It is pretty cool.

[Tom R VanSlambrouck]

I should download that.

Any way also today I beat MGSV: GZ yeah what a complete waste it took me a whopping 58 minutes to beat, they should have just released it as a demo. It did look great though. I guess if you do side stuff though you can stretch the game out to five hours

[Dr Kain]

I started playing the PS4 version of THe Last of Us today. I'm nearly done with Pittsburg, but I have to say I have had some weird glitches occur that were not present on the PS3 version. For starters, at the beginning of the game when Joel and Tommy run into the building as they are running away from the infected the room took about 5 seconds to show up as they were standing in a pink box at first. Secondly, when I'm in the hotel and climb through a window, Ellie just floats through the wall. It is weird. The game is still phenomenal though. The upgraded graphics look great most of the time, but there are moments where it looks no different than how it did on the PS3. Nevertheless, it was well worth it because I love the PS4 controller and it has the DLC on it (which I'll play after I beat the main game).

[XvGojira]

I bought Divinity Original Sin a few weeks back, in between work and my CPC exam prep class, I've messed around in this game a bit.

What I've played I've liked. I have some issues with camera control (you can't rotate 360 degrees so you're viewing from a skewed angle most of the time and if I just touch the edge of the screen with the cursor it seems to fly the view point away faster than just using WASD). For a old school Baulder's Gate kind of game it's great.

[Tom R VanSlambrouck]

Just beat inFamous Second Son the other day. It was fun kind of on the short side for being a sandbox game.

Working on Wolfenstein so far decent game. After that I'll take a break from games for awhile.

[Dr Kain]

I played through Left Behind today. It was pretty good and adds a bit to Ellie's character. I managed to get all of the artifacts but not all of the conversations. Oh, and the water gun mini game was terrible as the controls felt off on this thing. I swear that I hit Riley several times but then it says I got hit instead. UGH!! I did feel the ending portion of the game got a little too action packed, but aside from that, it was a nice little expansion to the game. I do wish they had just stitched it into the main game though, but whatever.