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Cool. Wonder how many of us are on PS3. Cowboy_Poet already brought up the idea of playing co-op. Would be cool if we could get a whole squad together. I think the co-op is 4-players? Interested, Strangelove?

Diablo 2: Lord of Destruction expansion. Like, 5 minutes ago. Took me a while to get to it because I had a mid-term to prepare for last week and a bunch of homework to turn in this week. But I finally managed to sink 4 hours into it last night and reached Baal. Then I proceeded to bring him down to a little under a third of his health and like a fucking idiot managed to somehow mistakenly save and quit when I was trying to use a Town Portal scroll to stock up on potions and repair my sword. I reloaded the game but the damage was done. All the enemies between me and Baal had respawned and the fight itself has you go against 4 waves of rather difficult enemies before fighting Baal himself and fuck doing that all over again after having played for that long. Never in my life did I ever wish to physically damage a video game so damn much. If it hadn't been a digital copy, I think I would've smashed the disc with a fucking hammer. Had to start the whole process again today, but now it's finally done. Between this and reading the Book of Cain (about halfway through it), needless to say I'm absolutely stoked for Diablo III!

I agree, the hovertank platforming was kind of annoying. That being said, I still liked those missions better than all the boring ones in the Mako in ME1. I didn't really have a problem with the Mako itself. But all the side-missions were pretty fucking boring, so after a while just driving around in it felt like a chore because of it. Also, I first played ME2 at launch on PC and the Firewalker DLC wasn't yet out, so those missions and the other DLC I hadn't played made replaying the game on PS3 a bit more fun. Anyway, back on topic Took me a while to get around to buying it considering I was really looking forward to it last summer. But I was broke at the time and since I had been waiting for a few months already I figured I might as well wait for a price drop. And then the game stayed at 60$ for the longest fucking time. It's been down to 40$ for a few weeks on Amazon.ca and I was thinking of getting it. Then today Amazon.com had it for 30$ and I figured even with the import fee and the non-free shipping it's still 10 bucks less than if I ordered from Amazon.ca, so I went for it. Probably gonna take a few weeks to get here but I'm not in a hurry. Besides, there's Alan Wake PC coming out in 2 days

I really need to play Arrival. I bought it right after I finished my PS3 run of ME2 a few months ago and just never touched it... I guess it's cool that I get to play it for the first time so close to the release of ME3 Also, I'm sure I've mentioned it before in some other thread, but Overlord is definitely worth playing, imo. Not as mind-blowingly amazing as Shadow Broker, but it starts out like an average mission and gets really, really good in the last half hour or so. It also has a very decent length (maybe a bit under 2 hours). I'd say it's worth buying on its own if you don't get the PS3 version. Probably cheaper to just get the PS3 version, though. It's like 20 bucks new now.

You need to knock him in the fire on the sides of the stage. I just stood as close to it as I could, dodged when he charged me and quickly counter-attacked to push him in the flames. The most efficient way I found was to jump and use the small blades. It does a kind of diving attack and landing a couple of those in a row was usually enough to push him in the fire. He really was one of the most annoying boss fight in the game, though. :/

Funny. I had no problem figuring out how to skip cutscenes on my gamepad Think it was start, then X. As for the health pick ups, I felt it was the complete opposite and sometimes I'd have trouble picking them up when I wanted them. I enjoyed the game when I played it a few days ago and I certainly never encountered anything that made me feel like the game was bugged or broken, though.

Sounds good.

In a moment of weakness, I've gone and pre-ordered I'd initially told myself I would wait and pay as little as possible for it because EA have been dicks about the PC release. But now that Diablo III is guaranteed to not be coming out any time soon, ME3 is pretty much the only big release I have any interest in right now so I didn't really have another game I could throw my 60 bucks at :/ Also, I actually saw the whole thing coming and bought the PS3 version of ME2 and made a new save for transfer back in october, so at least I'm prepared for the platform jump.

Never got around to buying it cause I thought it was a bit overpriced. And I missed it when it was on sale. Shank. Pretty solid brawler with really fun combat and a great art style. The story is pretty decent, too. Not so much the plot itself (it's basically Kill Bill), but rather the presentation and the way it's told. It's quite short, though. Like, 3 hours long. It can easily be completed in a single sitting.

Bought the Mega Man Anniversary Collection for PS2 a few years ago and at the time this one was seriously overpriced everywhere I looked. I don't know if there was a reissue or something but a video I watched on youtube the other night made me want to play the games and I remembered I was still missing the X Collection so I looked it up on Amazon.ca and found a marketplace seller that had it for like 15$ brand new. Instant buy. edit: So I did my first run of the Diablo III beta today and... ... it was fucking awesome!

Diablo II. The base game only, not the expansion. Although, I can't imagine it's going to take me long to beat that as well. Such an awesome game. I can't believe it's taken me this long to give it a shot. I'll probably be playing the first one soon (as well as Torchlight). Kinda sucks that Blizzard aren't selling it on their website, though. I would buy it in a heartbeat. That and WarCraft 2. It was actually kind of refreshing to play semi retro games like this and StarCraft. I think I'll try to make it a point this year to revisit some classics and actually play some of those I've never even tried like Baldur's Gate and Planescape Torment. Call it a late new year's resolution.

Oh, I wasn't commenting on Alan Wake when I said that. I meant in general. I know Alan Wake was originally open-world. I've been following the game for a LONG time so I was actually quite pissed when the PC version first got canned. Besides, I haven't played it yet so I'm in no position to judge. But yeah, we could debate regular levels vs open-world all damn day. Some of the things that made Mirror's Edge what it was would've been counter-productive if it had been open-world. Not so much scripted events, but rather cinematic moments. More often than not, an open-world comes at the cost of making individual missions much less unique. You have to make their level design fit into the bigger world and so devs tend to put much more effort into designing the world itself rather than the individual missions/levels. I loved the hell out of GTA4, and the missions were definitely some of the best I've seen in an open-world game but they were still pretty ordinary as far as level design goes. None of them were particularly memorable. Another good example is Burnout Paradise. Great game, but man, making it open-world was such an insanely misguided design decision it's not even funny. It was kind of a chore driving around the city to get to the next event. And the events themselves felt really repetitive rather quickly because you were racing down the same damn streets all the time. Obviously, it's a more extreme example but it can at least show where I'm coming from. I have nothing against open-world games, but I don't subscribe to the notion that all (or even most) games would benefit from having one. Like I said, an open-world version of Mirror's Edge could be really cool. But it would ultimately be a very different game, and I'm not convinced it would necessarily be a better one. Wow, we're really derailing this thread, aren't we And yeah, I'm also really looking forward to Prey 2.

Normally, I'm not a fan of shoehorning open-worlds into games just for the sake of it. I'm especially not a fan of first-person open-world games because I feel like the travelling always gets tedious. This is one of the main reason why to this day I still haven't managed to get more than 5 or 6 hours into the first S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Of course, it can easily be fixed by adding fast travel like in Bethesda games, but that would kill the atmosphere of a game like S.T.A.L.K.E.R. So yeah, when I first read your comment about Mirror's Edge in an open-world, my initial reaction was something along the lines of "What the hell is he talking about?". But then I thought about it for a second and realized that.. shit, for Mirror's Edge it would actually make sense. It would significantly increase the amount of work required to make the game, though, since you would have to design the entire map/city around the idea of having good parkour routes. But running around an open-world as a parkour courier sounds like a pretty cool idea. The only problem I still have is that true open-world design sometimes require sacrifices to storytelling. And while Mirror's Edge didn't have an amazing story, I still felt like the mystery of it was essential to the game's momentum. You need to give the character a reason to run other than just "go to point A, grab package, run to point B, drop package", and the plot of the first game did that just fine. That being said, I'll take a sequel in any way, shape or form DICE will give it to me. At this point I just want to play another one. Actually, I've been thinking of replaying the original lately. Think I'll do that soon-ish.

Yeah, renting is something I'll likely try at some point. No real problem with that. Only found out it was even an option about two weeks ago... Subscription is mostly for packs, though, right? I don't know about that. Knowing myself, I'd probably just pay for it, try everything once and never touch the games again...

While that's a crazy good price, I'm really not sold on OnLive :/ I installed it and created an account for the whole "try any game for 60 mins" thing, but I don't think I'd ever actually buy something on it. I can't really come up with a rational reason for it, but I'd rather buy through Steam and have the actual installation files on my side and have the game running on my machine rather than have it all be cloud-based. I guess It's sort of like how some people still prefer physical copies, only it makes slightly less sense

I don't think you'll be disappointed. I paid slightly more for it during the holiday sale and I wasn't. It's shallow but very, very fun action game.

Yeah, they're definitely doing right by the PC platform. It's good to see that some devs still know how to properly port to PC. This is also really reinforcing the idea that the initial "cancellation" of the PC version was out of their hands. Considering how long the game's development cycle was and that they're actually a rather small studio, they probably really needed the financial support Microsoft was offering to finish, market and release the game. And it's no secret that Microsoft can be a bunch of dicks about stuff like that.

Steam release date confirmed to be february 16th! Price: 29,99$ for regular version including DLC, 34,99$ for LCE, which I assume is Limited Collector's Edition. No idea what's in it, only skimmed the post as I must leave for class in like 5 mins. But yeah, pretty happy about this. Definitely pre-ordering or buying day 1, whichever is the first available option. http://www.alanwake.com/alan-wake-is-coming-home/

*checks GOG*

So I just started playing Diablo 2 for the first time yesterday and I've been enjoying it a lot so I decided to look up what the expansion added. Turns out that in addition to a fifth act and a bunch of items, it also doubles your storage space and adds the option to bump the resolution up to 800x600 from the original's 640x480 (it actually blows my mind that this and the original StarCraft run at a fixed - and very low - resolution and don't allow you to change it or even have any graphical settings whatsoever). That seems like something that would improve the experience quite a bit so Blizzard gets yet another 10$ from me. Actually, I'm just now realizing that I've spent almost 100$ this month on Blizzard games alone. Also, I am now totally buying Diablo 3 at launch. Yeah...

Started playing Diablo 2 for the first time today. Man, I was not prepared for how addictive that damn game is! The "click-click-click-click-click" combat had always seemed kinda boring to me, so I didn't bother with it when it first came out. But I recently got quite curious about Diablo 3, so I decided to give D2 a shot to see whether or not D3 is for me. At first it was kind of okay. Came out of the starting camp and started killing shit and picking up gold. Meh. But the first time I ran into a large mob of 30 or so enemies, went "Oh shit!" as I started clicking like a mad man and quickly found myself surrounded by a few dozen corpses and piles of gold... I was almost laughing maniacally. The game had its hooks into me before I cleared the first dungeon. I finished Act 1 when I stopped playing earlier and I fully intend to clear Act 2 tomorrow

I'm more than a decade late on this one but I finally beat StarCraft! Man, that last Protoss mission was a pain in the ass. Think I'll take a break with another game before getting started on Brood War, though. Maybe Diablo II.