What VIDEO GAME(s) have you been playing?

jeb wrote: If killing people becomes trivial, you end up with some seriously broken people.

You do not.

That's a great soundbite though.

Ohhhh God.

I'm playing TIS-100 right now and I CAN'T STOP, HELP ME SOMEONE. When I stopped yesterday it was 430am, HELPPPPP!!!

Then, I booted up SpaceChem, because I'm a glutton for punishment, and now I'M HOOKED ON BOTH OF THEM.

Ohhhh Godddddd

I agree with both Sax and Barnes on a few The Last of Us points. The storytelling and character beats are great, and the stealth action would be fun if it wasn't overused or I had more options. It seemed like the only option besides stealth kills were guns, and when I used a gun it was underwhelming to say the least. If the game by design wants me to avoid direct conflict or make my decision to use a gun have consequences then so be it, but resorting to a gun had no weight to it. It took at minimum 3 shots to drop anything when I would have much preferred 1 hit kills, especially with head shots or when firing on ordinary folks. It just wasn't for me. Throw on that the fact that I have no decisions to make in dialog or story direction and I didn't see the need to play out 8-12 hours of an utterly on the rails zombie game.

At least you have decisions to make in the Walking Dead series from Telltale games, and it never resorted to shooting in the face, rinse and repeat. True, those decisions may have been only deciding which NPCs got to stick around longer than others but at least it gave me some control over the story.

Borderlands TPS

Wife is out of town for the weekend and I have 3 toons to shoot and loot up level 70. I hate FPSs in general.... Can't stand COD:Anything or Halo or MoH, etc But for some reason I can't get enough of Borderlands.

MoH?!? What decade is this?

You probably just like that little gearbox robot guy, whatever his name is.

Black Barney wrote: MoH?!? What decade is this?

You probably just like that little gearbox robot guy, whatever his name is.

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$10.00 says Ken has at least one MoH title still in the shrink wrap in his Unplayed Video Game Oubliette of Despair. Did he ever end up unwrapping RE4?

But for some reason I can't get enough of Borderlands.

Same here. I got DESTINY for free from a friend and have no desire to fire that up. But I would play BORDERLANDS right now, no problem. For me, it's a combination of loot--God I love loot optimization--and the art direction--that cel-shaded look is amazing. The writing is also pretty good, and actually funny here and there. This might be the case in CoD and the others, too, I wouldn't know.

Yeah - the loot thing is a big part of it - I really dig the character skill tree optimization as well. I really did like Anthony Burch's writing on BL2 - Handsome jack is probably the most entertaining video game villain ever. The first BL was cool with it's Old West Space Mad Max feel, but BL2 was teh funnay and better gameplay.






/Burch.....Now I'm in the mood to go binge watch some "Hey Ash, Wacha Playin"
//my fav :

My favourite Wacha Playing Ash was the one where they recreate the scene from Iron man where bridges minion fails to make an arc reactor. "...with a bag of scraps !!!" and the brother can't keep a straight face.

But yours is my new favorite one. They've become really good at the comic timing and the brother is amazing now.

And no, Ken has not cracked Re4 yet. If he had, he would obviously have apologized by now.

Jeb, the CoD games don't have humour at all, in fact quite the opposite. Gears of War has some great humour and it helps the experience a bunch. The redone first one is coming out soon with number four next year, holiday season.

Barnes---
Crazy shit is that I think we agree in a lot of respects. But I think you're way more on point with uncharted than last of us---your critique hits home better with that game. Last of us knows that its protagonist is complete psychopath and respects it. There's a wonderful moment, when the woman he's with is out the door, where she looks him in the eye and says "we are shitty people." Later there's a great beat where they defeat a roadblock by murdering ten people brutally and Ellie says "how did you know what would happen" and he's just like "I've been on both sides of that one" and she makes a comment about his chilling immorality.

And I still think the gameplay is better than you guys think, but I'm not like up to sing its praises or anything.