Has anyone played Assassin's Creed 3: Liberation? I have been thinking of giving it a try since I saw it is out on the PC. But I'd like to hear a little about how it plays first. Namely if you can save at any time and place you want, like most PC games. Since it is a port from a Vita I am afraid it has the usual console save system, of only being able to save and load the game in certain areas, which drives me nuts.

Nevermind, I just found out that it does indeed prevent you from saving any time and place you want. Instead it does an autosave at certain points. And of course only loads from those points. I won't be wasting my money on this game.

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Mar 12 2015, 02:36 AM

Yeah I got it for free on Xbox LIVE and still feel like I payed too much for it. You can really tell that it's a handheld port, and feels like a step back for the franchise. Waste of a promising female protagonist.

Tonight I´ve played some

Oblivion
Super Mario Bros
Dr Mario
Probotector (Contra)

I actually got further in Probotector than I ever have; up to the boss on level 6: Energy Zone. The level itself was quite easy but I had wasted a few lives on level 5 so even though I had the best boss weapon (laser), one hit from the boss and I was gone Could have continued but I didn´t bother.


Overall, quite a fun game night

About to start Assassin's Creed II again...

Why?...

Because my brain...*Shrug*...

I spent so long playing that game, collecting all those feathers and whatnot. The day I got 100% completion was one of the best days of my gaming life.

Fair dues...*Applauds Hazmick*... ...

I've never chased 100% ever...I don't do the races on ACII, as I suck Alpaca Testes at free-running...Which, considering the amount of time I've spent on Assassin's Creed is absolutely ridiculous...But - as Terry Pratchett observed in the last bit I've read - as with everything else in the universe, it just goes to show...


The closest to 100% of an AC game I've gotten, is 93% for ACIII this last time I did it...My main downfall, certainly on Brotherhood on, is the optional objectives...

Game: "Complete this section but make sure you do so by only using harsh language and spit!"...

Me: "?! "...

I've yet to finish Unity...I tried so hard with that game, I really did...Oy...*Fac-e-palm*...

Still playing Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate.

It's the only game I've ever played multiplayer online.

That's how much fun I'm having with it.

This post has been edited by Callidus Thorn: Mar 21 2015, 10:36 PM

Today I finally played through Probotector on the NES!!

It´s also known as Contra and considered to be one of the best games on said system. I did cheat though and pulled off the famous Konami code to get 30 lives, and boy did I need those! The game isn´t actually that hard but when all was said and done and the game restarted on its own after the credits I had 17 left. Most were taken by bosses and a few by simple mistakes I otherwise never do, plus I didn´t always make too much of an effort to stay out of harms way


Edit: One interesting thing when you start over after beating it, enemies come from behind you at the first level which they don´t do first time through

This post has been edited by mirocu: Mar 25 2015, 12:34 PM

With the release of Pillars of Eternity, I have been in the mood for some old school rpging. So I fired up Neverwinter Nights 1, and started the Shadows of Undrentide campaign. I rolled a new toon to beat the game with - an archery focused Ranger, with the plan of eventually going Arcane Archer. So far, so good.

Finally unlocked the Tiger on World of Tanks, after about a year of trying to unlock it. Turns out it's not as good as I expected. Such is life. Still, the grind continues. There's always a bigger tank to unlock.

Also downloaded Borderlands 1 and Gears of War Judgement. Played through GoWJ before and really enjoyed it, never played Borderlands but enjoying it so far.

It's been a long time since I last played, but I've just dusted off my 360 controller(literally, which shows how long it's been) and fired up Oblivion.

Edit: Argh! The character name box is one character short!

This post has been edited by Callidus Thorn: Apr 8 2015, 03:39 PM

Tried out a little Goonies II on the NES. Played it as a kid but never got far into it. It´s not linear and I can have some problem with those kind of games. Nice graphics and music though, and the gameplay is solid

Xbox's free game of the month is a 2-D game called Terraria. It was recommended by a friend who said it was like a 2-D Minecraft. I've never played Minecraft, but this is so much fun!

You make a character and can create several randomized worlds, each containing different types of landscapes, like jungles, or snow, and stuff. You build houses for various NPCs who each have specific jobs, like a nurse, or a demolitions person. I saw a steampunk person but I'm not sure what they do. Your character always keeps whatever is in their inventory, no matter what world they go to so it is possible to have one world solely for mining and gathering materials and another for your town.

Anyway, to build stuff you need the materials, which come mainly from the environment. There's a lot of mining for ore and bricks and you can make as many houses as you want. You also make yourself weapons and armor, as well as little things like cups or vases to hold flowers.

There are also lots of enemies and they really come out at night. Every so often there's a Bloodmoon, which is when the zombies can open doors and get inside and kill the NPCs so you have to fortify and defend the house(s).

I've spent at least 20 hours on it so far, though a lot of it was spent trying to learn how to build houses. The tutorial mode kept getting stuck on one task, even after I finished it.

I have never played those game either. Most people do love the Minecraft thing and all the spin-off ideas. I must have a go one day myself.

At the moment I am playing Oblivion (8th level Dunmer with about 50 hours), Dishonored and F1 2011.

I should be doing practice for the Malaysian GP but end up playing nothing but Oblivion all week!

Started playing Guild Wars 2 today. So far so good, pretty standard MMORPG as far as I can tell. Combat is good, quests are good, world is good. Plenty of lore. Doesn't keep pushing you into joining guilds or forming parties so I can solo around to my hearts content at the moment.

I'd probably have an easier time if I wasn't playing it on my laptop, but hey ho I enjoy the challenge

I was just gonna play a little Legend of Zelda on the NES before continuing with Oblivion, but I ended up finding several great items and cleared two dungeons, giving me two more pieces of the Triforce

Never did play this game much either when I was a kid, I never liked it for some reason. Compared to Link´s Awakening it´s very simple and maybe that´s it. Still, it has lots of things to find and it´s always fun when you find something new.

I was feeling a bit burnt out on Oblivion last night, so I switched to my second favorite open world (or more accurately, open universe) game - Freelancer.

The basic gist, for anyone who hasn't played it - you play a freelance star pilot named Edison Trent who gets swept up in an enormous and sprawling bit of political intrigue. You start out having just been rescued from a station that was mysteriously attacked and destroyed and you have no money, no ship, no nothing. You're hired by a terrific character named Jun'ko Zane (aka Junie), who gives you a bare bones ship and a bit of spending money, and you just go from there. Junie becomes your ally in the course of the main plot and she's the contact for the new missions that move things along, but you don't get a new mission until you've reached a set level, so you spend a lot of time just out and about in the universe, exploring and doing mercenary work or trading or salvaging or mining or pirating or... whatever earns you money and experience. Then every once in a while, Junie will contact you and hire you for another mission, which will advance the main plot some more, then you're back on your own until the next one.

The environment is surprisingly nice for a 12 year old game. I'm always impressed by how effective the graphics are. Yeah - if you look at the models, they're extremely low poly (at least by modern standards), but they're so effectively textured and mapped that they really do the job well. The star systems are very convincing and interesting and it's just a pleasure to fly around and see what's out there. And the combat, when it happens, is quite engaging, with intuitive controls and a nice but not overwhelming range of ships and weaponry.

It's just a great game - so well done that I even rank it ahead of my other other favorite open world game, GTA San Andreas.

Now I'm back to Oblivion though, or more accurately, to fiddling with Blender, trying to sort out how in the hell hair meshes work...

This post has been edited by gpstr: Apr 20 2015, 01:57 AM

gpstr, Freelancer sounds an awful lot like one of my favorite starship games - Ambrosia's Escape Velocity:Nova. What I loved about it are the storylines - there are no MQ as we recognize it, but rather six different pathways you can choose if you wanted to - Colonials, Aurorans, Vell-Os, Polarians, Rebels, and Pirates. Not all of them are mutually exclusive, but the choices you make each step of the way can open or shut doors for you. For example, if you start down one of the other paths, and decide to go Pirate, you lose the opportunity to continue down the previous path. If you chose to go with the Aurorans, you can still pursue the Polaris story line, but the Colonials are closed to you. The intricacies of the storylines really make for a fascinating playthrough, and thinking back, I suppose it was the very first taste of roleplaying I had, because in this game I found myself telling stories about my player character.

Mmm... that does sound very similar - particularly the web of disparate cultures and factions. I might have to check that out when I can spare the bandwidth to download it. Thanks.

I've been sucked back into Oblivion, but I finished Bioshock infinite and replayed dishonored