Video & PC Game Discussion

I bought a PSP and the damn thing has two little black dots (dead pixels). I have all these wonderful games I want to play for it, but some sort of cruel disgust creeps into my chest at the very prospect of picking the thing up. 

Tried the Torchlight 2 demo. I don't know why I was expecting a challenge from something as rudimentary as Torchlight, but it was pretty impressively simplistic. Played a Berserker on Elite (highest difficulty available). Didn't need HP potions. Didn't need two hands. One button attacks a dozen opponents at once and heals you for 22.5% of your max HP -- and has a 1-second cooldown timer. I ended up with 8 unused skill points because I only put 2 other points into things -- the default point which I never removed and another skill that recovers 5% of my HP on crit. I'm not sure how you're supposed to die when that's the highest difficulty and I put 0 points into Vitality.

Then I tried an Outlander and immediately quit out of frustration for the attack button being the same as the move button.


Edited by Gamemako - September 27 2012 at 10:10

Triceratopsoil wrote: somehow I haven't made much progress on the storyline

I did the 21 assassinations you get prior to actually doing any of the storyline. Some old hag being a prudish church-goer? Lure her out with yer bare arse and give her a good beating with The Penetrator. Then there was the guy who was running around in Spandex thinking himself a superhero, so I lured him out by robbing a business I owned, instantly dropping the cops by walking back into the store, and then repeatedly smashed his nuts with a shotgun. Not to mention the 2-mile run I had going down the wrong side of the road, the gang operation I ended by throwing a flaming car at it (thanks, coppers), the Murder Time Fun Time--

Also, there's Opeth, Between the Buried and Me, Dillinger Escape Plan, and The Dear Hunter on the radio stations.

OhMAHGOD Borderlands 2.

Saints Row: The Third free weekend.

This game.

Is bonkers.

You can run around streaking and beating people to death with a giant purple dildo called The Penetrator. That's all you need to know about Saint's Row: The Third.

I think I'm pretty near done my first playthrough of Torchlight 1

I've been playing two games lately; Borderlands 2 and Torchlight 2.  TL2 has been getting more play though, because Borderlands has been having some issues for me (post-release glitchiness and such, relatively annoying).  Both are a ton of fun, in my opinion.  Torchlight 2 is possibly more enjoyable than Diablo 3, Borderlands 2 is already more funny and fun than Borderlands 1.  

Gamemako wrote: smartpatrol wrote: Hi, I'm Andrew, and I have a Battlefield 1942 addiction I think I still have the BF1942 disc around here somewhere. Gods, that game is 10 years old now.  I don't think I've touched it since 2005 or so.

qft

great game for its time though

smartpatrol wrote: Hi, I'm Andrew, and I have a Battlefield 1942 addiction

I think I still have the BF1942 disc around here somewhere. Gods, that game is 10 years old now.  I don't think I've touched it since 2005 or so. I pretty much gave up competitive games some time back.

Ys: Origin now has a demo on Steam. Try it. I put it on Hard and finished the demo in 10 minutes, but it will probably take you 30 minutes at least.

A few things to know:

1) You really, really want a gamepad for this. You can do it with keyboard only, but it feels a bit odd.
2) You can charge up your skills to have greater effects
3) A few less-obvious notes about skills:
Yunica: Green keeps you in the air, yellow makes you invulnerable for the duration of the attack, red replaces your axe with a slower, longer-range greatsword
Hugo: Green keeps you in the air and protects you from 1 (uncharged) or 2 (charged) hits, charged yellow bombs detonate when you hit the skill button again