ATTENTION, FORUMITES!

I have found a good game in Action 52! Its name; Streemerz

Well, as good as it can get I guess. But the controls were good, there were no bugs, no glitches and even though it only had four levels and upon reaching the end it cycled back to level 1, it was very much playable. It even had good music, nice colours and parts where you had to think a little in order to progress

This post has been edited by mirocu: Apr 10 2014, 07:59 AM

Played another game last night that turned out to be good playable

The game is called Crybaby...

Like Streemerz it had good music and controls and when it came to level four or five it looped, though it wasn´t as fun.

This post has been edited by mirocu: Apr 10 2014, 09:00 AM

Something funny happened last night with Action 52. As I tried to start the game up it didn´t go through the usual intro sequence and later to the menus. Instead it started up one of the games, Billy Bob, directly! Never had that happened before

51 games down! Only Cheetahmen left and I shall try it out tomorrow!

And now I´ve played Cheetahmen!!

It was fun to finally try it out for myself and I basically got as far as AVGN did in his video. I also found the 1UP in the hole and thanks to him I knew how to beat Rhinoman or Rocksteady or whatever..



"Dude, think about it. A giant cheetah jumping over Saddam Hussein... Whooa..!"



And this concludes my Action 52 playthrough

C-C-C-Combobreaker!

Couldn't resist

I'm still playing Bravely Default, having a blast.

And of course Oblivion is firmly wedged into my 360.

I'm thinking about firing up Etrian Odyssey 4 and Pokemon Y again.

But mostly I'm posting so that somebody besides 'Rocu will have posted on this page of the thread

Curses! I was trying to get this whole page to myself!

I started up Neverwinter Nights again and went back to the game I had been playing a few months ago. It is a lot easier to do that in linear games like this than open world ones like Bethesda's. So far it is has been fun.

Deus Ex!

Played some Action 52 today while having Fallout 3 going on my puter so I could listen to Three-dog

I've kicked Bravely Default to the kerb for a while. It's getting kind of annoying.

Running up against a lot of trash mobs, 3 or 4 enemies at once, and I can take them down in one turn if I want to. But then I end up running low on magic, compromising my party's ability to deal damage. On the other hand if I take them out slower the enemies are able to deal out disproportionately large quantities of damage.

So I can either burnout my offensive mage killing everything quick, or my defensive mage/cleric killing everything slow. Either way I'm likely to end up in piss-poor shape for the boss.


So I've decided to fire up Fire Emblem: Awakening instead. Because SRPG>JRPG.

Currently NOT playing, but am paying attention to: Guild Wars 2.

reason: the recent update has caused widespread chaos throughout the entire game and there is now an uproar in the forums of people who are badly affected by recent changes. Most of this comes from ArenaNet's decision to try their hand at their own Megaserver to directly compete with ESO. Didn't matter that their game was not at all designed with a megaserver in mind, or that when announced the players were extremely skeptical about it, they did it anyway.

And now we have this. Sure the maps are always full now, but that was only one issue that needed addressing. Other issues are not only not touched by the megaserver, but exacerbated by it, namely grouping up with non-random people is nigh-impossible now because you have no say in which map instance the algorithms decide to put you.

While it's just annoying here in North America, in Europe it's an outright disaster due to the number of different languages that are spoken. Apparently ArenaNet did not consider spoken language to be a major concern for grouping up with other people.

At this point I am in orbit, waiting for the mess to die down before I make the final "sink or swim" decision. This update is either going to revive the game or outright kill it (yep, it was that big) depending on how ArenaNet handles the fallout.

My personal opinion: ArenaNet opened Pandora's Box in their game with their megaserver and it is now causing severe damage to the communities as their ties are fast becoming blurred into nothingness (in an MMO, community matters big time). What they need to do right now while the damage is still fresh and easy to remove is two things:

1. Give an official statement on what is going on and what their plans are to fix the problems.

2. Pull the megaserver out of the game until they can get the glaring issues sorted and then SLOWLY reintroduce it, first as an opt-in only test release, and then once they are SURE it is in a good position, perform a game-wide release while giving the players the ability to opt out of the megaserver (in which case they are moved to a home map that is used only by people on the same server as them).

This post has been edited by Thomas Kaira: Apr 17 2014, 09:36 PM

Taking a break from Oblivion for a wee while to finish off the playthrough of Assassin's Creed II that I'd started not that long ago...'Cause I want to... ...

Kiara - That´s always sad to hear when gaming companies do such things to their games, but it serves a good point as to why I´ve never jumped aboard the MMO/constant online game bandwagon. It´s just too bad that it still affects so many players who enjoy those games

McB - Have fun being away from Oblivion! We will await your return and in five days, at dawn, we´ll look to the east...!

Played through Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes. At first I was really impressed. The first mission was a huge map with lots of possible outcomes and pathways through it. The controls were solid and it played like Splinter Cell on steroids. I was impressed. Then I completed the mission. I was waiting for the next level to load after the cutscene and that's when I became annoyed. Credits rolled.

There is only ONE MISSION AREA. You can replay it with different objectives and minor differences but in the end, it was about two hours to beat an entire game's story that takes place on one map. There are TWO cutscenes. The optional side missions just reload the same map with a different objective.

This is total crap and it's amazing that anyone thought that customers would be happy with a full game that is like an average demo. Rent for sure, it was entertaining and the gameplay was very good for a stealth/shooter but definitely don't waste your money buying it.

I have a demo of Quake 2 that is longer than that!! And that was a full game, not an expansion??

Krikey...

I was looking at buying Ground Zeroes, right up until I saw it was just a prologue to the next MGS gme.

IT's an unbelievably crappy move on their part to release it if you ask me. Charging for what is essentially a demo

Full game. Apparently I'm not the only one who was unpleasantly surprised. A google search starting with "wtf met" will recommend "wtf metal gear solid 5" as the top result.

Right, as CT said, demo length but sold as a full game.

I´m sensing another game crash...