The "What are you playing?" topic.

[Hooahguy]

Bought Brothers in Arms: Earned in Blood.
Its a good game, but for me, unplayable because of one thing: the aiming.

No aiming is as bad and as shaky as in BiA:EiB. I mean yes they are going for realism, but I have fired weapons before and while in the first few seconds the aiming is shaky, after those first few seconds you stabilize and you can fire more accurately. There should be little/no sway after around 10-15 seconds. But no, in this game, there is considerable sway no matter how long you stand still.

After a few hours spent on the first few missions (which I got past with dumb luck and being able to get up close with the enemy, not being able to accurately aim even decently well is awful for a game in which most engagements are at medium/long range.

Yes, there are aiming mods but they dont help much.

So Im putting this game away until I either I can find a mod that eliminates gun sway after a few seconds or I am really bored one day and feel like getting frustrated with a game.

[Prussian to the Iron]

Intermittent Bad Company 2 (which, I recently discovered, has freakin Attack Helicopters I can own everybody with), Fallout: New Vegas, and S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat.

Loving all 3 of them. One thing I really enjoy about Bad Company 2 is that there is no single gun that pretty much beats all others. For example, in Black Ops, pretty much 90% of the people you meet will agree that the AK74U (noobiest, most overpowered gun ever) is probably the best gun. And 99% of the time, thats unfortunately true, and 99% of the people online use it all the time.

But in BC2, you can use just about any gun for anything, to a realistic limit. And by that I mean that you will never find a game where everybody is using the AN94 or the M416, though they are common weapons. You will always have people who use wide varieties of guns. And none of them are really overpowered.

Plus vehicular warfare, especially helicopters, is always a win. I just love helicopters, in fact prior to this I wanted to be a Marine Corp Pilot, so being able to pilot helicopters like this was just right up my alley. But what does make me really angry is when some noob takes the helicopter, thinking he's a good pilot, and then proceeding to:
A) Instantly crash it
B) Crash it in a minute or so
C) Fly into the heaviest storm of anti-air fire and get shot down easily
D) Stay aloft for a long time, but also get no kills and just be generally useless to the team while I get angrier due to my not-in-a-helicopter-ness.

But when I do get the helicopter and a good gunner, oh baby they better watch out. Hopefully I can do half as good when I try it for real.

[Sjakihata]

Howdie Sjak how you've been

Spoiled and generally very well, thank you! Been lurking in here on monthly basis - but im coming back for stw2 :)

You?

[TosaInu]

Hello Sjakihata.

[Sjakihata]

Hello Sjakihata.

Hi mate, still enjoying admining the place? Is Tera around still?

[Fragony]

Spoiled and generally very well, thank you! Been lurking in here on monthly basis - but im coming back for stw2 :)

You?

All fine Chez Frag's

[Sigurd]

R.U.S.E
Empire: Total War

Looked through some boxes on the loft and found Soldiers: Heroes of World War II. Can't remember ever playing it. So far it is actually quite fun.
Codemasters sure know how to make enjoyable games.

Any R.U.S.E players in here? I know Husar has been trying to goad me into playing online.

[Husar]

Any R.U.S.E players in here? I know Husar has been trying to goad me into playing online.

I haven't played it online since the beta, only played some skirmishes lately.

Rest of the time has been spent with World of Tanks and Dragon Age.

[Prussian to the Iron]

Just beat Call of Pripyat.

The last mission was pretty underwhelming TBH. Despite the supposedly extremely heavy fire from Monolith forces, no cover was required nor used by the A.I., which meant I couldn't bunker down for an epic last defense while the helicopters landed, as it shoulda been.

I mean the ending was just very underwhelming, I had over 700 rounds for my G36, 11 40mm grenades for the AN94's grenade launcher along with over 400 rounds for the gun itself, over 60 rounds for my Dragunov, over 70 batteries for my Gauss rifle, everything totally tricked out so I could have a chance on max difficulty against the hordes of Monolith attacking me.....and I ended up with a few less batteries, about 60 less 5.56 rounds, and I think 4 less sniper rounds. I mean, the start of it has zombies attacking, ok, that makes sense start off with weakest guys. I spent barely any ammo on them. then a couple snorks attack you, still used barely any ammo. then suddenly you see the helicopters, your guys run straight to it, and there is no tactical maneuvering.

I just wish the final battle was a little more epic. even on max difficulty it was a cakewalk.

Heres how it shoulda been:

You and your squad go between those 2 buildings, and immediately come under heavy fire. You are pinned down so much that the Colonel sends you out with Strelok to flank the guys on the left, and you must take all of them out. After you dispose of them, you must fight your way halfway across the courtyard, at which point you have to hold out until the helicopters arrive to land (of course in this scenario they haven't yet landed, and are being kept at bay by Monolith fire). Once they land, you then make a mad dash for the helicopters.

That would be a truly epic ending. It really is a shame how bad the ending was, considering how good the rest of the game was.

[Hooahguy]

Started playing Crysis again.
Just as fun as I remembered.
This time Im going for a silent game type as much as I can.

[Husar]

Metro 2033, now that's a game you can call scary, Fragony.

Not all of it is but at some points you're really afraid of your virtual life.

I just ran out of ammo for my assault rifle in a dark vault so have to rely on shotgun and pistol.

Only problem is the knife and the bayonet on the shotgun don't seem to have any real combat use, all the monsters I engaged with them killed me.
Then again that makes it scarier...

[Greyblades]

Have you gone up against those librarian things yet? It took me most of my ammo to take one down and it turned out it was supposed to die a scripted death if I ran away.

[Husar]

Haha, yes, I have, they all needed a lot of ammo, don't think I ever really ran away.

In the next level (way to D6) though I managed to waste more than 400 bullets for the assault rifle on the monsters that inhabit it, they don't look exactly like librarians but seem to be just as strong.

[Cute Wolf]

Dead Space 2

I CAN'T SLEEP!!! DAMMIT!!!

[Prussian to the Iron]

Dead Space 2

I CAN'T SLEEP!!! DAMMIT!!!

I reeeeally need to beat the 1st one so I can play the second. it soudns freakin awesome.

[Fragony]

Dead Space 2

I CAN'T SLEEP!!! DAMMIT!!!

Gave up on the first at the astroids shooting part, was great fun until there. Survival horror as it should, was constantly desperate for ammo and healthpacks, and the DISGUSTING enemies are fast and deadly. Might pick the sequel in a few, new releases go on budget in notime.

BUT without any splash they released Killzone 3. Killzone 2 is one of the most brutal and realistic (despithe the scifi-settings) hardcore as military shooters I have ever played, a relentlessly hard seemingly neverending series of memorable battles against a frightingly intelligent enemy. Call of Duty is a shooting gallery no tactics required. These guys will actually go all SWAT on you (paying attention Hooah and Pruissian) and will adopt to your tactics every time. It really feels like being in a hellish warzone

[Prussian to the Iron]

Call of Duty is a shooting gallery no tactics required. These guys will actually go all SWAT on you (paying attention Hooah and Pruissian) and will adopt to your tactics every time. It really feels like being in a hellish warzone

I agree, CoD is totally unrealistic in basically every way. tactics? pffft. just rush, drop shot, and repeat like a total noob.

I might pick up Killzone some day, but at the present I'm happy flying Apache's in Bad Company 2.

[Hooahguy]

BUT without any splash they released Killzone 3. Killzone 2 is one of the most brutal and realistic (despithe the scifi-settings) hardcore as military shooters I have ever played, a relentlessly hard seemingly neverending series of memorable battles against a frightingly intelligent enemy. Call of Duty is a shooting gallery no tactics required. These guys will actually go all SWAT on you (paying attention Hooah and Pruissian) and will adopt to your tactics every time. It really feels like being in a hellish warzone

I desperately want to play Killzone 2 (and 3, for that matter) but I dont own a PS3.

[Cute Wolf]

Survival horror as it should, was constantly desperate for ammo and healthpacks, and the DISGUSTING enemies are fast and deadly.

not until you mastered the art of melee in deadspace actually, if you pay enough attention (or if you are rather melee maniac), just let the necromorph came up close dodge their attacks (you need to play 3 or 4 days to master this, actually) and just rip their limbs with anything you have in hands. of course meleeing explosive enemies is certain suicide.

[Fragony]

Letting these things close to me you kidding me they are horrible. These games get to me. I'm have been determined to play 'Siren: Blood Curse' for 3 years now. I simply can't do it's WAY too scary. It keeps eying me from the shelve PLAY ME. Maybe I'll give it another try. For the #$%$#th time. Gawd

[CountArach]

I got a PS3 a couple of weeks ago so I've been playing a whole raft of games:

I finished Heavy Rain within 30 hours of getting the console, and absolutely loved it. The storytelling was amazing and the game itself was highly innovative. LA Noire should be interesting, being along the same sort of lines.
Read Dead Redemption I think is a bit overrated. I'm impressed by the game's world and the characterisation but the gameplay itself just seems a bit thin (autoaim for instance is incredibly irritating and makes the game very easy, though being Rockstar I shouldn't have expected fully manual aiming).
Resistance: Fall of Man is a bit of an old-school original Medal of Honour style game that is showing its age a bit. I've been playing through the Co-Op campaign with my girlfriend and I have to say it has been a lot of fun, given that there are so few Co-Op FPS games on the PS3. If someone could direct me towards more, then I'll certainly check them out.
Bayonetta is really interesting. In many ways it is a spoof of the entire genre and as such the humour within the game really can come to the fore. An utterly strange game though immensely enjoyable.
God of War 1 (remastered) is of course the defining series in the genre and even the first one in the series is still great fun. I just wish they had redone the various cut-scenes throughout the game in HD, rather than just the game textures.
I played Dante's Inferno for just over an hour last night and there was no point at which I didn't think that God of War had already done the EXACT same thing. Even the button layout was spot on the same (including in quick time events, where they wouldn't need to go to that much trouble to differentiate themselves). Still, I have been enjoying the game and I think it is a bit less *PUN ALERT* forgiving than God of War.
I really enjoyed Killzone 2, but I wish it had been a bit longer. Only about 7 hours of plotline, and I didn't feel like I was truly being challenged until right near the end. I have already pre-ordered Killzone 3, which should be awesome.

I've put in pre-orders for Dragon Age II, Killzone 3, Crysis 2 and Homefront (one of the games I've been most curious about since I heard about it - it should be interesting to just see how emotionally engaging the game gets).

[Motep]

Been playing Resistance 2 online. Very mind numbing...rush, rush, rush, rush, rush, stupid button..., rush, rush, rush, contoller? what? NO!, grab other controller, rush, rush, rush, hide in corner, use the pot, rush, rush, rush, where did all the cheetos go?, rush, rush, rush, rush, oh...homework...yeah..., rush, rush, rush, rush, rush, rush, rush, rush, my eyes hurt, I should stop, rush, rush, done.

[Husar]

Read Dead Redemption I think is a bit overrated. I'm impressed by the game's world and the characterisation but the gameplay itself just seems a bit thin (autoaim for instance is incredibly irritating and makes the game very easy, though being Rockstar I shouldn't have expected fully manual aiming).

You can turn auto aim off in the options.

[Fragony]

What difficulty did you play Killzone 2 on CA, endgame is tough even on normal, but on hard the whole game is a relentless 10 hours or so constantly fighting the clever bastards back and cautiously advancing. Maybe I suck and shouldn't have waxed my chest.

[Xiahou]

I got a PS3 a couple of weeks ago so I've been playing a whole raft of games:

Get Valkyria Chronicles.

Read Dead Redemption I think is a bit overrated.

I agree. I finished the storyline(I thought it was disappointing), messed around in MP- til I learned how repetitive it was, and then got rid of the game.

[Fragony]

Get Valkyria Chronicles.

Yes. That is a great game. Still think everybody who has a ps3 and hasn't played Uncharted 2 should be shot though

[Arthur, king of the Britons]

EB EB EB EB...

Oh and I'm playing Fallout New Vegas, going for the Yes Man ending this time (already beat the game 3 times).

[Prussian to the Iron]

Yes. That is a great game. Still think everybody who has a ps3 and hasn't played Uncharted 2 should be shot though

Ouch baby, very ouch.

[Fragony]

Ouch baby, very ouch.

AND Metal Gear Solid 4 and Demon's Souls.

geez

[Prussian to the Iron]

MGS is an over-stylized Japanese crap fest. Demons Souls I can say I've played though, loved it.