It's difficulty is it's main selling points, but it's supposed to be one of those games where it isn't too difficult once you pay attention to patterns and stuff like that. My main concern with the game is more of a matter of the mind; many of the Dark Souls players I've 'met' on the internet are incredibly smug and immensely up themselves about the fact that they play Dark Souls, and seem to view themselves as some kind of gaming ubermensch, so while I'm interested in trying it (I had a good amount of fun on its predecessor, Demon's Souls, which had some absolutely stellar combat) I don't want to turn into a twat.

Slap me if I do, OK?

I´ll leave that to Liz. Somehow I think she´d enjoy some random slapping..

This is what I have discovered. You can save any time, but it does not save your current situation, rather it saves your last checkpoint location. Which makes saves almost useless.

Anyone played SH: Shattered Memories? There´s this LP I watch from time to time and the atmosphere is awesome!

Meh. Silent Hill 2 is the best. Shattered Memories kind of missed the point.

Speaking of Old Skool shooters, have either of you ever played Painkiller? That's easily one of the best (if not the best) classic-style shooters around.

I´ve heard of Painkiller but as it hasn´t attracted my attention I haven´t looked into it.

Shattered Memories may not be your typical Silent Hill game, just like some people say Oblivion isn´t your typical TES game. Guess I like those non-typical games then...

Look into Painkiller. That game has a gun which fire shurikens and lightning.

And it's not so much that Shattered Memories isn't a typical Silent Hill game that was my issue with it. It was that it wasn't a typical good game that was the problem (zing!).

I guess you disliked the lack of combat? I actually found that refreshing as opposed to other games where you wander around like a tank with hundreds of weapons

More the lack of good writing, convincing characters, the missing the point of Silent Hill 2 and the lack of isolation that is the essential component of horror. When it's following on from SIlent Hill 2, a game which is an absolute master piece of atmosphere and psychology driven horror, and which had so much depth that it's got strange fish with big teeth and glowy bits at its bottom, then it's a hard act to follow, and probably one of the reasons why I didn't like it very much.

Well, I liked the mystery about everything in SM. Like, where was his daughter? And why did people keep appearing and disappearing and what´s with all the snowing and constant freezing?

It´s a strange game but that´s what I liked about it. No real monsters or zombies except from in the nightmare areas, plus except from a few people here and there it´s all empty and you feel alone.. I really like that

Good thing there´s a game for everyone

I've already lost count of the number of times I've been brutally murdered in Dark Souls. It's pretty fun.

Use the camp fires wisely

I'm doing my best to. Bloody hard work, but even beating your basic group of mooks feels very rewarding.

Also just played a game of Dungeons and Dragons with thirteen players in it. Waiting between 25 minutes and half an hour between turns is, I assure, incredibly boring. I think I might see if the smaller group at the club who were playing Star Wars D20 have a free slot...

Started New Vegas' Old World Blues DLC...Damn it's funny!!... ...

I've only just started and I've acquired about seven thousand quests... ...

I think I have given up on Tomb Raider Anniversary. The save system is just too damned frustrating.

Thanks to Gog.com, I have gone back to playing the the original Tomb Raider. Even after nearly twenty years, this game is still fun!

OWB is fun though I had a lot of fun only on my 1st playthrough, next ones were not so interesting, maybe because I knew what to expect.




I've given up on that one as well. I came close to the end but I gave up on a first level of Atlantis where you have to jump somewhere high and you have a time limit otherwise some plates move out and you fall to your death. I played original TR when it came out and Atlantis was my least favorite there as well so I didn't miss much by skipping it in TR:A.

This post has been edited by Lopov: Apr 30 2013, 06:36 PM

This actually make sense to me although it shouldn´t A game can be oh so good but if a simple thing as saving is screwed up, then that game is being put back on the shelf. I mean, I just want to be able to save anytime I want and how many times I want. If I can´t do that...

Luckily it hasn´t happened alot to me

This post has been edited by mirocu: May 1 2013, 09:07 AM

OK, so if there's one thing I learned from yesterday, it's that playing Dark Souls whilst zonked out on the codiene from some cough syrup is not a good way to make progress, and only helps you to flush 3000 or so precious souls right into nowhere. Guh.

Currently I am wasting my life away with Path of Exile, a fun, cheerful Diablo-like "MMO" in which you get to play one of six colorful convicts on a vacation island - slash - penal colony built on remnants of an old civilisation which may or may not be responsible for odd things on the island, like corpses getting up and ripping stuff into bite-sized chunks. Fun game, and it even expands one's vocabulary.