The Video Game thread

[jfrey]

Mars Matrix

[Achtane]

ILF, I need some more shoot-em-ups. Bullet hell games in particular...

Mother. Fucking. IKARUGA.



How's them for bullets?

Oh yeah! I forgot about Ikaruga. Shit rocks, although I'm still stuck on level 4.

Mars Matrix

Looks awesome, thanks dood.

[htsamurai]

OOH OOH JAMESTOWN ON STEAM IS GREAT
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH5U92K0JgM[/youtube]


ooh ooh and Gundemonium, also on steam (though I guess if we wanna be technical it's a shootem right, instead of shootem up)
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LKgqMJZZ50[/youtube]

[Exclaimed]

Fez is the greatest game I've ever played. Easy.

[Grrface]

Fez is the greatest game I've ever played. Easy.

Have you watched Indie Game: The Movie yet? It's on Netflix, and it actually follows some of the development process on Fez. I'd really like to see it on PC/Mac or iPad already.

[Twangasaurus]

Been playing the crap out of Sonic and Sega All Stars Racing Transformed lately. It's easily one of the best cart racing games I have ever played, right up there next to Mario Cart: Double Dash.

[Andrew]

Ive only played about 1-2 hours of Crysis 2 and so far I can tell that It's basically a very flashy Half Life 2. It's pretty decent and I can't really complain, I don't play FPS games that often and im another generic anti COD/BF sort of gamer so yeah.

As much as I like graphics, it's kind of funny how Crytek hits them over your head like jangling keys for a baby's amusement.

[Twangasaurus]

Ive only played about 1-2 hours of Crysis 2 and so far I can tell that It's basically a very flashy Half Life 2. It's pretty decent and I can't really complain, I don't play FPS games that often and im another generic anti COD/BF sort of gamer so yeah.

As much as I like graphics, it's kind of funny how Crytek hits them over your head like jangling keys for a baby's amusement.

Crysis 2 actually has worse graphics than 1 because it was a console release. To be honest they all look pretty boring although apparently 3's storyline is a little more interesting.

[foomanfat]

Finished Bioshock...

[behndy]

urf. i got to the Protect The Airship part and got frustrated with the mechanics. i like the story and want to keep playin but the fighting.... is just..... kinda boring.

i'll get back to it soon i hope.

[foomanfat]

I played it the day it came out for a few hours and fell off, as I do.
I just went back and played it on easy, so I could see the story. I do not regret doing so.

[behndy]

lol. yeah. it's not that it's hard. i'm playing at medium. it's just so repetitious.

make you do the Jazz Hands Dance with shock jockey, blast your face head off with the shotty. REPEAT.

[foomanfat]

Well, yeah, but most games turn into that.

It's definitely worth finishing.

[Achtane]

lel.
Sounds like the first Bioshock but replace "shotty" with "wrench".
Also, I HIGHLY recommend getting a now-ancient vidja card with an S-video out and plugging that sucker into a giant CRT TV. Shit rocks for playing older games. I think there's some new super expensive card now with an S-video out, but fuck that.
You gotta play old games on old TVs, although emulators do a pretty good job of...emulating...the scanlines and stuff.

[Achtane]

ALSO IF GTA5 LAUNCHES WITHOUT BEING ON PC IM GONNA BE SO DURN MAD.