Video Games - a general discussion thread — Page 281

I've been playing through Halo 4: Spartan Ops on Legendary [really hard] setting. With the 3rd episode out the missions are beginning to open up and become a little more varied which is good.

The cutscenes are also getting pretty interesting. The Halo Waypoint team have been posting them on youtube - http://www.youtube.com/user/HaloWaypoint?feature=watch - There are mild spoilers since it's set 6 months after the main campaign but otherwise it's pretty safe.

Haven't really played much else lately, just various Halo 4 modes.

Just got a whole bunch of Dreamcast games.Was disappointed to find that Quake 3 Arena was unplayable because of the controls. Might be a good reason to invest in the keyboard and mouse.

Has anyone heard of Zombie Revenge? It's fantastic! I had never heard of it before and took a gamble but it turned out to be far better than expected. It looks and plays like Dynamite Cop and Die Hard Arcade, except you beat up zombies and mutants instead of thugs and terrorists. It's apparently a House of the Dead spin-off and uses the same character models and designs. Really fun late 1990s arcade beat-em-up. Not the biggest replay value but very fun, and it's long for an arcade title. I want to play this with 2 players now.

Also got Gigawing 2. Probably one of the best bullet-hell titles I've played in a long while. It's short but sweet, and has great graphics and even better music. Too bad this was never released in the west.

Also been playing a lot of 18 Wheeler. It's fun but really, unnecessarily difficult. I've had it for three days and I can't get past the second race!

Anyone played the new Skyrim DLC yet? 

^ There are plenty if you just want to shoot people, but they don't let you trade animal metaphors or put shoe polish on the telescope.

Enjoying Dishonored quite a bit, though it seems like a mash-up of virtually every game I've played in the last few years. At various times it reminds me of Thief, Hitman, Oblivion, Fallout, BioShock, Arkham Asylum and Assassin's Creed, but still manages to have its own identity. Solid, fun gameplay whether you use stealth or force. I haven't had this much fun reloading saves since Hitman 2.

I finished Dishonored in a few days, that never happens! It was so much fun I couldn't stop playing. Oh noe! The video game threat!

I kept the body count as low as possible for the majority of the game and then cut loose in the last few missions. It took me a while to realize that you can get the "ghost" checkbox simply by remaining undetected, no matter the number of kills or dead/unconscious bodies that are found.

I didn't start using shadow kills (bodies turn to ash) until late in the game and it felt like a bit of a cheat really, but you can choose not to activate this power if you wish.

I had great fun doing drop kills on the tallboys from three or four stories. And add Half-Life to that list of games above too.

Oh man, I feel like I really need to play Dishonored.

I really recommend it :) The complaints that I do have are very few, the biggest problem is that it is a little on the short side. I'm playing it again on a harder difficulty (something I rarely do) and getting more out of a slower, more thorough approach. I'm also yet to attempt a lethal play-through, it apparently creates a "darker" city and storyline. More dead people = more swarms of plague rats.

zombie84 said:

Just got a whole bunch of Dreamcast games.Was disappointed to find that Quake 3 Arena was unplayable because of the controls. Might be a good reason to invest in the keyboard and mouse.

Has anyone heard of Zombie Revenge? It's fantastic! I had never heard of it before and took a gamble but it turned out to be far better than expected. It looks and plays like Dynamite Cop and Die Hard Arcade, except you beat up zombies and mutants instead of thugs and terrorists. It's apparently a House of the Dead spin-off and uses the same character models and designs. Really fun late 1990s arcade beat-em-up. Not the biggest replay value but very fun, and it's long for an arcade title. I want to play this with 2 players now.

Also got Gigawing 2. Probably one of the best bullet-hell titles I've played in a long while. It's short but sweet, and has great graphics and even better music. Too bad this was never released in the west.

Also been playing a lot of 18 Wheeler. It's fun but really, unnecessarily difficult. I've had it for three days and I can't get past the second race!

I recently got Blue Stinger for the Dreamcast and it is hilariously unintentionally gay.

For a survival horror piece it's also unconventionally bright and colourful.

The dialogue is almost at original Resident Evil level cheese levels.

I'll mention it in Frink's so bad it's good thread when I get the chance.

I've been playing Dark Souls lately, not a very hard game, but plenty of challenging.

I lost interest before the end. still haven't finished it.

I have Revolver and Gun but I've not had a chance to play either yet.

Still trying to get Willow out of the Sunnydale Mall in one piece on Chaos Bleeds (I've promised myself I will finish every game I have started before beginning anything new and it's the nearest to finished).

Has anyone been playing Farcry 3 as much as I have?

I admit I haven't played the previous two. And I'm not huge on modern FPS games. But man...this game is done well. I'm having a lot of fun with it.

I've been playing FC3 but I'v e been mostly focused on clearing enemy bases and radio towers than following the actual story so far. Once i hit a wall with that stuff I started getting stuck into the main missions.

zombie84 said:

Has anyone been playing Farcry 3 as much as I have?

I admit I haven't played the previous two. And I'm not huge on modern FPS games. But man...this game is done well. I'm having a lot of fun with it.

I have the first two but I haven't played them yet for the reasons I describe above.

Look amazing though.

Bright and colourful aren't usually words associated with that sort of game but tropical islands are all that I guess.