Video & PC Game Discussion

The Gaping Dragon in the Depths was pretty easy, but the entire Blighttown, from the club-wielding trolls that can knock you to your death in one blow in all the precarious-platform areas, or the damned firebreathing bugs and wolves or the berserk creatures that swarm you and bite your skull off and the toxin dart snipers and the poison spewing fireflies...christ.

No, I never did kill that red dragon. No, I didn't kill the boss from Darkroot Basin (whatever it is - it shoots several giant soul arrows at once). Once my copy arrives in the mail, I think I may take a short break (more of a psychological reprieve) from the game to play Batman: Arkham City. But at this point I also have a copy of Dead Space 2 I haven't so much as removed from the packaging, and I've yet to finish even half of Alan Wake. In the past month I purchased 10 games and have only really played a couple because of this gorgeous monstrosity.

So far, out of all the RPG's I've played in the past decade, from 2001 to 2011, Dark Souls is my second favorite. Skyrim ain't no 1st, I'll say that much. There's something about DS that attracts me much more powerfully than, say, Devil May Cry, God of War, or old Nintendo games like Contra. 

From all the things I've heard about Assassin's Creed III, I'm very excited over it. It is supposed to be set during the American Revolution and feature a more 'Metal Gear Solid' style of gameplay. I wish they'd port MGS4 over to the Xbox 360. I'm not paying 250+ dollars just to play three or four games games (MGS4, God of War III, maybe Demon Souls, maybe Resistance). I thought about buying a Wii, but that, too, seems ludicrous. I'd get the Zelda games, the Metroid Trilogy, and a few other titles, but that's it. I can't commit over 100 dollars to just play a couple games. My computer is running awfully sluggishly, too, so there's no point in hopping to PC because, if I want to play the newest games without difficulty, I'm looking at sinking even more than the cost of a PS3 into that. I can't handle that.

Alitare wrote: From all the things I've heard about Assassin's Creed III, I'm very excited over it. It is supposed to be set during the American Revolution and feature a more 'Metal Gear Solid' style of gameplay. I wish they'd port MGS4 over to the Xbox 360. I'm not paying 250+ dollars just to play three or four games games (MGS4, God of War III, maybe Demon Souls, maybe Resistance). I thought about buying a Wii, but that, too, seems ludicrous. I'd get the Zelda games, the Metroid Trilogy, and a few other titles, but that's it. I can't commit over 100 dollars to just play a couple games. My computer is running awfully sluggishly, too, so there's no point in hopping to PC because, if I want to play the newest games without difficulty, I'm looking at sinking even more than the cost of a PS3 into that. I can't handle that.

Resistance is PS3-exclusive, not 360. But other than that, yeah, I hear you. Exclusives suck. Everything should just be a PC game.

Alitare wrote: And, perhaps I misread you, but I thought all four of the games I mentioned, MGS4, God of War 3, Demon Souls, and Resistance, were PS3 exclusives. Those are really the only games I'd get if I had one. Yeah, if I had a PC that could run ALL games PERFECTLY, then I wouldn't care if that's all I used.

Haha, sorry, I got caught in a passing cloud of stupid and couldn't read briefly.

I played through Resistance and Resistance 2, but not Resistance 3. The first two are decent, though not great. Sort of standard regenerating-health shooter. Better than those crappy CoD games, though. Haven't touched the third in the series.

 

I'm finally playing Fallout 3 now as I picked it up for cheap and wow this is much better than I expected and it is swallowing my life up. It just keeps opening up and it's fascinating. The more I play the further away I seem to get from finishing it. The other thing is that as an old man of gaming who played the original two Fallouts, this is true to their spirit while still being welcoming to new gamers.

 

Dear Mr Shakespeare

 

I was most aggrieved upon the conclusion of the premiere performance of Othello to find that that poor nice black chap strangled his own wife and then killed himself. How horrid. The vast majority of the audience were quite upset about it as nobody had wanted to see that happen. Please revise the ending so that Othello discovers the plot and murders Iago on stage, and then speaks to Desdemona and has a long speech about what he has learnt from being so misguided by his jealousy and rage. We would learn the same things as in your ending, but there wouldn’t be any permanent consequences to make us take the point seriously. Also more songs please.

 

Johnny Lunchbox

Oh and now gay sex. So yeah, breaking worthwhile ground here, guys.

Also, sequels guys. I think we need more sequels. 3 of everything you do isn't enough.

As a huge Valve fan I can honestly say that yeah, HL2 did kinda suck, but the subsequent Episodes made it all better.