Since my family is going on a big vacation next week, and I’ll probably end up playing Wii with my nephews I picked up the game Guilty Party because if I have to play that shitty Toy Story game one more time I may have to jam a Wii remote into my brain. I’ve only played it a little bit so far, but so far it seems pretty fun and actually very well written and entertaining even though some of the mini-games were kind of confusing.

Picked up Ys: Origin on Steam this past weekend. It's been awhile since I played anything so JRPG-ish, I highly recommend it if you like action RPG, 2D zelda-style games. Also bought the first Thief game off GOG to see what the big deal about it was since I never played it back in the day. It seems cool but I wish I played it back in the day. I am also STILL playing Skyrim after 6 months which is amazing to me.

I did. It's alright. Some of the new enemies and items are dumb but some are kind of cool. One of my biggest issues is that the drop rates for classic items are super, super nerfed. I hardly see vanilla items in game anymore, it's kind of beat.

Max Payne 3 arrived in the mail today. Should I be happy or sad?

@Dave, is there any chance of getting a mini boss doors where you and Graz play 2 player QWOP against each other for a few minutes and have a running count of f-bombs?

QWOP

Have you tried GIRP? http://www.foddy.net/GIRP.html

Played a bit of Pinball Arcade which reminds me that there is only four days left for the Pinball Arcade push goal to get a digitized version of Star Trek: TNG pinball. They hit the goal for the Twilight Zone pinball but they're pretty far from their push goal of $110,000 (licenses are expensive as fuck for pinball apparently). If you've ever played the Pinball Arcade, this is a great opportunity to help preserve great pinball tables and put out excellent tables for a new generation. Sorry to be very heavy handed with this pitch, but I love pinball.

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Played, and beat, Lollipop Chainsaw. Had enough good parts to make it feel decent, had enough bad parts to make it feel shitty. So, basically, a game with Suda 51's name on it, though a little better than the average. Game is simultaneously super short (5 hours) yet pretty repetitive.

I want to try Lollipop, but I feel too burned out on Suda. I really want to like him, but the only game I found enjoyable was Killer 7. Even No More Heroes bored the crap out of me, and I loved the premise of that.

I've never understood why people like Suda 51 games. Being unique doesn't make something good, more often than not, the games themselves are pretty bad but people try to cling to the quirkiness of the writing.

What kind of insult is "you are a noob for playing someone really good"?

That dude was trying to troll. He was just mad because he got wrecked.

Home sick for a couple of days, so I scroll through the demos on XBL. Oh Minecraft, people were talking about that here one time, right? Half an hour later I paid for it and now I'm obsessed. And I hate creepers.

I found it best to just turn monsters off. There's nothing more irritating than building a house and then you turn around to see that there's a green penis exploding. Now you have no porch and you are sad.

I guess I'm fine with most, but those Creepers. The worst was when I build my house over a quarry and used glass to make the floor to see all the way down. You can take a guess as to what happened.

Make sure you have enough light down there. Monsters spawn in the dark.

I spent my sunday playing through and beating Binary Domain because Vinny mentioned that he beat it in one sitting on the bombcast. Dave warned me about the almost totally okay reveal regarding the villain's motives and how everyone takes a leave of common sense beyond believability. It's really kind of fucking crazy but the game was still good despite that. Another thing that's beyond believability is that anyone in the world would still say Japs over 100 years later. I was also not a huge fan of the main character calling the chinese agent rice paddy farm girl, I don't think that's in any way comparable to "yankee".

Beyond my complaints about the characters, I actually really liked how well integrated their dialogue was, every cutscene and moment in-game actually seemed to reflect which team members I chose to bring with me. The first time you get to choose your teammates, I ended up picking the two women, partially because I wasn't entirely sure if I was supposed to be the rearguard like your commanding officer wants or taking point. I went up going half and half, picking the girl with the sniper rifle and then deciding I should get the one with the shotgun too in case I really was going to be taking point. Shotgun lady immediately asks why I chose them and sniper girl is all like isn't it obvious? I just picked her because she had the shotgun ;_; We did end up taking point but then it turned out the sniper girl wasn't a mistake when we snuck up on some robots and she asks if she can take the shot to which I queried if that was even a question.



Anyway, game is cool and it's $40 on steam which seems alright, but I would wait for the summer sale and hope for a price cut. If it does go on sale definitely pick it up, it took me 8 hours to finish and it was pretty fun.

I now have a house full of cuddly wolves in Minecraft. Awww.

Creaty said:

Been playing Hero Academy on the iPhone lately. It's pretty much like a multiplayer Fire Emblem game with some tweaks. This would do really well on the DS with bigger maps and a timer.

Anyway, my username is Creaty there too.

So this is getting released on Steam, with a new TF2 team available to commemorate the event.

At the moment I'm jumping around between the Skyrim DLC, Dragon's Dogma, and the Game of Thrones game. I guess I just can't commit to one game. In DD, it's pretty weird to have your friends pawns following you around and calling you "Master". =/

*looks RPG guilty*

I am running through skyrim which I didnt finish because the
Bugs and freezes were to much and drove me to seizure like fits of rage I am also playing final fantasy origins

Just finished Lollipop Chainsaw. Man that was a short, but sweet game. Now I kinda wanna play Suda's other games.