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Re: What are you playing now?

Post by Mr P » Sat Aug 22, 2009 12:58 pm

Paco wrote:
Trinity wrote:Haven't played anything for a while but keep getting the urge to play Silent Hill again. I have played all of them (tho haven't finished the Room) and again and again..... I got a bit obsessed for a while....there's something about those games.

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I went down the other survival horror franchise route, Resident Evil games :D The second one is still my fav. Not a huge fan of 4 & 5 though.
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Post by Trolldor » Sat Aug 22, 2009 1:07 pm

It would be nice to have an 'open world' survival horror, where literally your whole objective is to just survive. Time limits are frustrating, and closed linear environments ruin it. The problem with RE games is that there's a lot of backtracking, because the environments themselves are rather small.
Bioshock's atmosphere was good, but the abundance of healing items and ammo quickly removed whatever fear it first generated when all you had was a wrench and a pistol, and every corner had a moving shadow.
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Re: What are you playing now?

Post by The Curious Squid » Sun Aug 23, 2009 4:50 pm

Dead Space is brilliant, I actually shit myself playing it on several occasions.
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Post by Bella Fortuna » Sun Aug 23, 2009 4:53 pm

Paco wrote:Dead Space is brilliant, I actually shit myself playing it on several occasions.
Well there's a successful advertising slogan waiting to happen... :?
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Post by klr » Sun Aug 23, 2009 4:56 pm

Paco wrote:Dead Space is brilliant, I actually shit myself playing it on several occasions.
I could have done without that mental image. Definitely TMI. :coffee:
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Re: What are you playing now?

Post by The Curious Squid » Mon Aug 24, 2009 9:18 am

Thank you :biggrin:
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Re: What are you playing now?

Post by Feck » Mon Aug 24, 2009 9:24 am

Painkiller ....anyone else played this ?
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Post by The Curious Squid » Mon Aug 24, 2009 12:56 pm

Never heard of it, you're making it up :razzle:
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Re: What are you playing now?

Post by Feck » Mon Aug 24, 2009 1:04 pm

Paco wrote:Never heard of it, you're making it up :razzle:
Am not
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Re: What are you playing now?

Post by JacksSmirkingRevenge » Thu Sep 10, 2009 10:42 pm

Just having a bit of a break from Bioshock.
Awesome game but it has no multiplayer or co-op options - which would make it even awesomer. :eddy:
Here's the start of it:-


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Re: What are you playing now?

Post by The Curious Squid » Fri Sep 11, 2009 7:01 am

Are you playing it on the PC Bri?

I've got 10 Showtime roadrules to finish in Burnout Paradise before I complete it to 102% after which I only need to do about 180 on-line challenges and take part in a few Cops & Robbers games for trophies to finish the game completely (well, to finish the stuff I've actually paid for anyway).

I've got 5 single races left in Wipeout HD before I finish the campaign mode on novice and I've just about completed the first 3 grids on elite, this game is brick hard. I'm nowhere close to winning any arcade perfect raceboxes or beating Zico's ghost or doing any of the Zone challenges, if I don't get bored of it then i'll prob be playing this for months.

I've got one trophy to get in Tom Clancy's HAWX that isn't just a case of playing the game for long enough but i've stopped playing it because levelling up has become a total chore. I'll probably go back to it every now and then until I manage to 100% the bastard.

I've also got anther 5 or 6 games on the go too.
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Pensioner wrote:I worked for 50 years and that's long enough for anyone, luckily I worked to live not lived for work.
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Post by leo-rcc » Fri Sep 11, 2009 8:57 am

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Re: What are you playing now?

Post by JacksSmirkingRevenge » Fri Sep 11, 2009 11:59 am

Are you playing it on the PC Bri?
Yes, I'm playing it on the lowest recommended spec machine and it still looks pretty good.
The sound track/score is great too. I occasionally stopped mid-horror trip to listen to the music (Django Reinhardt + Stephane Grappelli most memorably) playing around rapture.
The weapons are fun to use too, and include a 'Webley' type pistol, a Thompson sub-machine gun, a shotgun which can fire either regular buckshot, exploding buck or electric buckshot, a grenade launcher which fires proximity mines, frag grenades and heat-seeking missiles, a chemical thrower - (napalm, liquid nitrogen or an 'electric gel'), a neat repeating crossbow - (steel tipped bolt, incendiary bolt or electic tripwire bolt).
I love this game. :biggrin:
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Re: What are you playing now?

Post by aznxscorpion517 » Wed Sep 16, 2009 12:06 am

Bri wrote:Just having a bit of a break from Bioshock.
Awesome game but it has no multiplayer or co-op options - which would make it even awesomer.
No worries, Bri. I hear Bioshock 2 will indeed have multiplayer!
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Re: What are you playing now?

Post by aznxscorpion517 » Wed Sep 16, 2009 12:08 am

I recently finally got around to playing Fable 2.

I also recently replayed Mass Effect and tried to complete it as much as I could. I love Mass Effect and can't wait for the second one.

I'm also playing Dreamfall: The Longest Journey.

Also, Project Reality, a Battlefield 2 mod, is a great game.
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