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[愛]

Playing that Saints Row IV, guysssssss. I only got to play about 20 minutes before work, but it's already awesome.

[Peanut]

I love how we live in a climate where the Wii U is dead, despite the games in the pipeline, but the Vita is saved by a price drop and yet more "edgy" indie games. What the hell is even going on anymore?

[愛]

Bitches and whores, lol casuals, le epic meme, and all that stuff. I don't even know what's going on, either.

[The Clerk]

I'm waiting for the TellTale Walking Dead game to come out for the Vita. I already have it for the 360 but the game is amazing and I want Lee and Clem on the go!

But currently playing Last of Us (still. The online is addicting), CoD MW2 (360. And yes, still.), Super Mario U, PlayStation All Stars.

[Peanut]

Originally Posted by 愛

Bitches and whores, lol casuals, le epic meme, and all that stuff. I don't even know what's going on, either.

It's like nobody can just love games anymore? Maybe I'm being incredibly naive about the last 3+ decades of this industry, but the amount of sheer negativity about anything and everything these days makes me sick to my stomach. Why do all these people want specific games and companies to bomb? What does it get them? How could that bring someone actual joy?

I don't get it.

[Ninjinister]

Originally Posted by Peanut

It's like nobody can just love games anymore? Maybe I'm being incredibly naive about the last 3+ decades of this industry, but the amount of sheer negativity about anything and everything these days makes me sick to my stomach. Why do all these people want specific games and companies to bomb? What does it get them? How could that bring someone actual joy?

I don't get it.

Goes along the lines of "this game looks like s**t I hope [the company] goes bankrupt!" Like what the f**k, man? Or you know, asswanks threatening to kill scriptwriters' children. How the crap are people like that still sitting in their own Cheeto dust when that one kid got put away for his comments that had to be sniffed out for anyone to find?

I've never wanted any console to ever fail even if it didn't particularly interest me, because, you know, whether it succeeds or fails doesn't impact me in the slightest.

Except the Gizmondo. Only that was less the anticipation and more of being able to smell that trainwreck coming from miles away.

[snake]

Originally Posted by Ninjinister

Goes along the lines of "this game looks like s**t I hope [the company] goes bankrupt!" Like what the f**k, man? Or you know, asswanks threatening to kill scriptwriters' children. How the crap are people like that still sitting in their own Cheeto dust when that one kid got put away for his comments that had to be sniffed out for anyone to find?

I've never wanted any console to ever fail even if it didn't particularly interest me, because, you know, whether it succeeds or fails doesn't impact me in the slightest.

Except the Gizmondo. Only that was less the anticipation and more of being able to smell that trainwreck coming from miles away.

Gizmondo I've never owned one, but I heard it was terrible.

And, yeah, I don't get Console wars/Company wars. Or anyone wishing death upon consoles/company's/game franchises.

[Peanut]

The amount of tutorials in Dream Team, even hours in, is absolutely ridiculous. It makes me not want to play the game. There's no discovery to the puzzles, because someone will come out and tell you EXACTLY what to do in that very specific situation, run you through which buttons to press, when to press it, make you TRY IT several times, then dump you back into the game in front of the puzzle, which is already simple enough for a child to figure out, but not before a few lines of text reminding you how to perform BASIC FUNCTIONS within the game first.

It ruins the game almost completely.

[Seeks]

Last purchase was Prey [Brand new and sealed for £2 at a Help For Heroes garden sale, can't go wrong!] and I am currently playing Blood Money as part of the Hitman HD Trilogy set.

[Cure]

Originally Posted by Peanut

The amount of tutorials in Dream Team, even hours in, is absolutely ridiculous. It makes me not want to play the game. There's no discovery to the puzzles, because someone will come out and tell you EXACTLY what to do in that very specific situation, run you through which buttons to press, when to press it, make you TRY IT several times, then dump you back into the game in front of the puzzle, which is already simple enough for a child to figure out, but not before a few lines of text reminding you how to perform BASIC FUNCTIONS within the game first.

It ruins the game almost completely.

I GET IT, DREAMBERT. Go f*ck yourself!

[愛]

I don't really want to play Mario and Luigi anymore. As Peanut said, the hand-holding is just discouraging.

[Roland]

Originally Posted by Seeks

Last purchase was Prey [Brand new and sealed for £2 at a Help For Heroes garden sale, can't go wrong!] and I am currently playing Blood Money as part of the Hitman HD Trilogy set.

How do you like Prey? I love the gravity defying stuff. It sometimes get hard to tell which way is up.

[Zulithe]

Final Fantasy XIV: ARR. All Day Every Day. Except when I have work. Or... limited sleep. Or showering. Or eating. Or on the train. Sigh. I need to cut back my responsibilities.

[CyberCubed]

Playing Dishonored...the game isn't that interesting. Feels like a poor man's Bioshock with stealth elements.

[Peanut]

I've been attempting to get my 360 back on Live, but Microsoft isn't helping me in the least. It's been a total sh*t show for the past few days and it's really irritating.

My fiance and I have a credit card we use for all of subscription services, Netflix, Live, whatever. This credit card was randomly marked as "compromised" sometime last month, so we cancelled it and got a new one. We changed the billing information where it needed to be changed, iTunes and Netflix etc, but I never changed it on Live, because I haven't turned on my 360 in quite awhile.

My Live expired a couple months ago and reverted to the monthly charge, which I probably would have changed up for a 1-year as I usually do, but I just haven't used it at all. So, I've gone in the last few days trying to get Gold back with our new card and it's a nightmare. According to MS, they attempted to charge the card for a new month of Live, except the card was killed, so it couldn't. They won't just let me sign up for Gold again with a new card and pay off that $8 balance or whatever the f*ck for the month it charged me for but couldn't use. I don't know why this is such a god damn issue, but after repeated calls to clueless assholes, attempts both on the 360 itself and on the computer, and even their sh*tty online chat helpers, I've got absolutely no solution. I'm thinking about just doing pre-paid cards for my Live transactions, but those are such a hassle when it's 10 at night and I feel like putting some money on my account to buy an XBLA game.

Frustrated by the stupid situation immensely.

[Seeks]

BioShock Infinite - Not only is it visually stunning and has an excellent AI in the form of Elizabeth, but it is a truly amazing gaming experience.

Originally Posted by Roland

How do you like Prey? I love the gravity defying stuff. It sometimes get hard to tell which way is up.

I haven't played it yet! I picked BioShock Infinite up for a mere tenner, so that's taken priority!

[The Clerk]

Just purchased the new TMNT game on XBL. Pretty fun, much better than the TMNT: TiT remake... could've used better voices for Raph and Mikey. But oh well!

[Roland]

Played Comix Zone!!! I unlocked it finally on Sonic mega collection plus! It looks like it unlocks when all the other games are unlocked and you opened the game (Sonic mega collection plus) a few hunderd times. When I opened the game it told me that I unlocked comix zone it. Got to the second stage today!

[愛]

I'm playing Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn, and it's so much better than 1.0. Good lord...

[Peanut]

Not exactly a high bar on that one!