In the last third of the original Assassin's Creed game at the mo...I absolutely love that game...Sooooo cool...

Aaaamywho...I'm gonna do them all again...

Loved it all last time and it'll set me up good and proper for AC-IV: Black Flag when it hits me for Chrimbo, like III did last year... ...

Bless the wife, she put up with stuff I tell ya... ...

Aela and the Strike Witches are holding the line against the Clans at Luthien, with 280 tons of Mech.


They made a computer game with Henry Rollins?

Dante's Inferno.

Just put it in, looks cool so far...

*Snorts*... ...

He once did this hideous cover of Led Zep's Four Sticks...Ayyyy... ...

Assassin's Creed IV...

He's a bloody Welshman!!...Booyah!!!... ...*Points*...Yn-dy-fe!!!...

Thank you yes please!!...

Finished me original Assassin's Creed... ...

So, shockingly enough, I'm now on...Wait for it...Assassin's Creed II!!!...

The boy suggested I go in some random order, like Revelations, Brotherhood, III then II, just to make it interesting...

So I locked him in the cellar until he promised never to do it again... ...

I'm kidding!!...But only 'cause we don't have a cellar... ...

The Old Republic.

Ah. I just schooled a few players why they shouldn't trust another Sith player.

They were so mad that they cursed me out so many times.

Why does this not shock me?... ...

...

Heh. I have a perfectly justified reason. See, I did this quest where I had to cleave through a bunch of aliens with a fellow Sith inquisitor player. In the end we had to face this extremely hard boss. We took a good 45 minutes or more to try and defeat this guy to no avail. So I invited a few people over, and they helped us kill them. Except they didn't do the entire quest, only the end.

So when the option for the good loot popped up, me and my buddy claimed them all(though we technically couldn't even use the gear since it was only for heavy armored characters, but I needed the credtis). They called us loot ninjas and used many vulgar words

All I said was "Welcome to the empire, love."

Part of me is disgusted...And yet I can't help but laugh... ...

Fair dues...*Applauds*...

Like you said, you're Sith, what did they expect?... ...


EDIT...I bought my brother's PS Vita for £60 today...And Assassin's Creed III: Liberation...(The Vita exclusive one)...So I'll be doing that from tomorrow...BOOYAH!!...

They didn't do the long flashpoint . All they did was kill one boss, which all of us four combined, was very easy.

No loot for those who don't earn it

Do you play MMO's McBadgere?

Aren't those Vitas kind of small? Maybe it is just my old eyes, but I would rather have my 22 inch monitor to play games on.

Or is the whole idea so that you can take it to work and play it there?

Nah, so you'll not get the epic Sith vs Jedi thing going on that way... ...Sadly, the computer time has to be shared, plus maintaining relationships tends to mean not enough play time of an evening after work... ...

Speaking of which...



Sadly, having parted with the money, I'm now having to agree... ...We got a free Doctor Who short thing from the PS Store...The sight of the four of us trying to see the damned thing on the screen...Ayyyy...

Yes, much easier looking at the 32" T.V. behemoth in the corner rather than that thing... ...But, is done now...We'll see how we fare with Miss Aveline the Assassin when she arrives...

Oh, and the idea of trapsing 'cross t'fields with t'Vita in t'hand past t'cows doesn't bear thinking about... ...

Bah. A real gamer don´t have time for relationship crap

Seems like I'm not the only one playing Assassin's Creed at the moment. I didn't really care much for Assassin's Creed 3 so I'm actually playing through Brotherhood again. Already played through the first two games a couple of times. I don't remember whether or not I actually enjoyed Brotherhood though. I remember that I liked the city very much but that I at the same time was annoyed by the fact that the game was so focused on purchasing stores and whatnot. I thought it was Assassin's Creed, not Sim City's Creed.

Ooooh, buying all the shops and stuff so as to make a squdillion (-ish) Florins every hour was so much fun!!...That and the recruiting/sending off on missions of the Brotherhood adepts...Loved that bit!... ...

I loved ACIII for much the same reason...I got the message in the corner that I was in the top 3% worldwide for monies made from trading... ..Dear Gods I'm sad... ...

I discovered that there's another AC game I can get for the Vita...One called Bloodlines...It was on the PSP...Not the best, apparently, but still worth the £8 it will cost...

Ooooh Assassin's Creed?..Yes please!!...

I definitely loved Brotherhood a lot though...Excellent game...*Applauds*...

Liberation is the only game I ever really played in the Assassin's Creed franchise. Yeah, there was 1 but my computer could only barely run it so I never got far.

As for Liberation, my opinion is meh on it. The run and stab gameplay is pretty good once I got the feel for the counters, but the game suffers from a confusing storyline (too many timeskips) and especially from what I call first-wave syndrome. As a game on a brand-new console, the developers tried to make use of every single feature it has, user-friendliness be damned. The money-making minigame is an unexplained touchscreen mess, the back-camera is defective most of the time and I still don't know what the multiplayer is even supposed to be.


As for what I'm actually playing right now, there is Mass Effect 2. I don't like being forced into a terrorist/humans uber alles/umbrella corporation group who the game insists now are just misunderstood good guys. As for how true that is, their leader sits in a supervillain hideout, fancies an overly pretentious title and has Saren-eyes. If he doesn't turn out to be evil, I'll buy a hat and eat it.

Other bad things? The controls feel stiffer than in the last game and too much stuff has been crammed into the same button. Use, sprint, crouch, etc. Too much, too much!

Good things? It's prettier and actually runs better than the first game. The homebase is much easier to navigate and feels more full of life than the previous one. Hell, they even have their own Montgomery Scott!

Shepard headbutts a solid ton of armourplated violence. With his bare face. Someone flinched. That someone's name was not Shepard. Oh, and he's got his private bathroom aboard the homebase/ship! I only found that one out when I was admiring my fany plastic model rack and the wall slid open. Neato!


The really bad thing? I just spent twenty minutes watching targetted advertisements. And I enjoyed it.

Lotta Ass Creeds here it seems

I literally could not play ME2 because the game forced you to join the terrorists. They spend the entire first game killing Earth servicepeople, or kidnapping them and performing torturous experiments upon them. For an organization that pretends to be Pro-Earth, they have a funny way of showing it - by preying solely upon humans.

Yeah, honestly though the game spends the entire time basically trying to get you to understand that Cerberus as an organization isn't a very nice group and is willing to do anything it takes to preserve and protect the human race but in the end they're just scared humans. Much like many people that join radical groups.

I think that the major point is to get the player to admit that Cerberus is an terrorist group but the grunts (your entire team) are decent enough people with real lives and history when taken on an individual basis.

I was actually disappointed to see that the characters that I'd gotten to know and love so much in the second game didn't return as anything more than cameos. The only ones that you get to work with out of the whole second game are Joker, EDI, and Garrus.

I wasn't able to get into the third Mass Effect. The camera was obnoxious and the combat was meh (and seemed buggy too). I lost interest before the story got going I guess.

It was a pretty good game, although you will come to find out that the vast majority of your decisions, which the game has been tracking since the first game, are meaningless and you'll get one of three generic endings.

The ride is very fun and I enjoyed the story but the conclusion is very disappointing. It is better if you download the "extended cut" DLC, which was and may still be free. Bioware ended up having such a major backlash because of the horrible ending that they actually put their for profit DLC on hold and tried to fix the ending so that people would stop complaining.

Yeah, I was waiting through all the tutorial for the part to come where Shepard can go "Cerberus? Hell with this. I'm placing you all under arrest right here, right now!" But it never came. So I put the game away for a while.

In the end I decided to assume that Shepard does have a control implant installed which prevents him from openly rebelling though his morals and unhuman force of will lets him snipe from the sidelines. (yeah, they say they didn't, but come one. It's Cerberus.)


Besides, there's what Kiln said. On the bottom level, Cerberus has a lot of people who are just plain simple decent folk. These are the guys who buy into the idea that humanity has to go it alone, without all the crazy cyborg-zombie/mind-control/biowarfare baggage. (I'm guessing that part isn't public knowledge) And in the Terminus systems, where both games have taken place so far, that is actually the case. The Council maintains a strict hands-off approach there, and the Alliance seems unable to maintain a large presence as well.

I'm guessing though that the Illusive man manned the Normandy with these 'nice Cerberus' folk not just because they're good at their job and have a vested interest in the Terminus systems, but also to keep Shepard from having a reason to go off the rails and replace the crew with unknown personel the Illusive Man couldn't control. Cause face it, there's still a lot of nasty stuff in Cerberus' closet, as much as Miranda wants to deny it. Heck, there's a character whose sole background can be summed up as "Remember when Cerberus was a gang of mad scientist/terrorist/serial killers without a conscience? Here, let us remind you".




But one question remains unanswered. When did the openly outlawed 'arrest/shoot on sight' group decide that it was a good idea to have an official paintjob complete with identifying symbol and a transponder that actively tags the Normandy as a Cerberus vessel?



One thing I forgot to mention that Mass Effect 2 really improves upon compared to the first game is the dialogue sections. Shepard actually seems to emote more now (or maybe it's the amazingly exaggerated features I gave him). In the first game I mostly remember two guys standing in front of each other while their lips move. Here you have scenes where Shepard chills in a chair or nods and chuckles at what the other guy says. And then there are the times you can interupt the conversation for awesome.

Maybe I'll try the 3rd one again at some point. One thing that annoys me though is my character was breaking cover (in a cover based combat game) to reload. What?


I enjoyed ME2 despite being a part of Cerberus. I kind of summed up being part of them as "well [censored], they just brought me back to life... I guess I can see what this is like."

Never had that problem. I played it on the 360 though. He'll only break cover if you pan the camera too far around so that he's no longer looking over it, at which point the game assumes you're going to leave cover.

I'm on the 360 for ME3 too. It ought to be patched up as well, as I was connected to Live. Interesting.

Welp, I finished the trilogy. I have to say, the third game was quite fun. Even the ending was decent as far as I'm concerned. At least till you get to the 'pick your deus ex machina' part. That was just a bit too blatant.

Oh, what am I saying? The climax was downright awesome and the final boss fight was the best in the series. Mostly because it wasn't a bossfight I suppose. More of a swarm kinda thing.


SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS (Mass Effect has a pretty lousy track record as far as I'm concerned. 1 gives us a guy on a floaty thing followed by a Geth wallclinger on steroids, 2 gives us Arnold Schwarzenegger.) END SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS



I really like the theme they ran through the last game as well as the mood. Heck, I actually got tears in my eyes at points. The decisions from the previous games come back but like Kiln said, it doesn't really matter in the end. Everything is abstracted down to a number on a sliding scale.

Regardless, good ride, decent ending hampered by execution. Farewell Spacewiz, it has been a pleasure. May you and your new underlings quest for many trinkets and help many random old ladies cross the streets



I'm playing L.A. Noire right now. I like the idea behind it and the facial expressions are amazing, check out those eyebrows! That said, it looks like it is linear as hell. Yes guy, I can prove you were at the murder scene. We found your gun (ownership confirmed by checking with the gun store), that fired the right type and number of bullets in a trashcan three steps from the crime scene. What do you mean I have no proof?!

Currently playing Dragon Age 2.
I love it, personally.

It was fun but lacked the depth that the last game had. You can only play as a human and there is hardly any effect on the story by the things that you do. Basically the story is much more linear, which is why I was disappointed by it. I also disliked certain major changes in art direction between games.

Don't most of us already play humans IRL anyway? I am always disappointed when fantasy or sci-fi games only give you the round ear option. It really drove me nuts in Mass Effect 1. As soon as I saw an Asari I knew that was what I wanted to play. I had to mod ghouls into FO3 in order to play a nonhuman there.

That was what got me playing the original Warcraft. You could actually play the Orc side against the humans! But they spoiled it in Starcraft by taking the choice away again, and making you play all the races.

I actually try to play as human when given that choice in games. That way I can feel like I´m in the game world a little better and forget where I actually am. That said, you all know what the one and only ever race I picked in Oblivion....

That's because Dunmer's are awesome, mirocu! My Breeva is a Dunmer

Yeah but it works well in Starcraft because it helps you if you do MP or even SP against bots.

Knee deep in AC: Brotherhood and Liberation on the Vita...Urgh...My brain hurts...Soooo much to dooo...Far too much for someone with obsessive tencencies... ...

Playing through Two Worlds II again. This game is very fun and despite a few plot holes, is a pretty good game.

Anyone ever played Red Baron on the PC?

I'm going to start playing Mass Effect 1.

Steam says I have 5 hours in it but I did barely anything in it.

Has anyone started playing "The Last of Us"? I saw a video on YouTube, one of those "Let's Play" types, and it looks cool...

I haven´t. I´m pretty tired of all the zombie movies and games now. What are they trying to tell us? That we´ll soon have that kind of apocalypse and these movies and games are meant to prepare us?

It's not really a zombie game.

They aren't really zombies and you more deal with humans.

AND THE STORY AND ANIMATIONS OH MY GOD IT'S BRILLIANT!

Finished Brotherhood and am now on AC: Revelations...

Three down, two to go... ...Although yes, as the boy pointed out, I still have to finish Liberation and do AC; Bloodlines which is the actual direct sequel to the first AC game which was on the PSP, and therefore the Vita...But still...

I'm thinking about getting a game called Remember Me. Has anybody here played this game yet? I think it has a fascinating premise, but it sounds like a 'save-point' shooter and my experience with the latest Tomb Raider game has put a bad taste in my mouth for this type of game.

The plot of Remember Me deals with memories and the mixing of different people's memories together. I live with a person who suffers from long-term amnesia (she is actually mentioned in the Wikipedia article on Fugue State) so the subject of memory is interesting to me. It's just that I'm kind of 'gun-shy' of shooters right now (pun intended).

It does sound very interesting. Not in the least of which because it *gasp* features a female protagonist. But if it is one of those save point games, I'll not waste my money on it. I cannot stand those games.

I hated the way they tried to market "We have a female protangist pay attention to us!"

Also.

WTF is Remember Me?(A video by Totalbiscuit)

Quite the opposite in fact. Having a female protagonist discouraged publishers, who felt a male protagonist would sell better. That's a common theme in games, even today, and I cannot count how many foist a sausage off upon you. Even after Bioware's Mass Effect series showed that is not at all difficult to allow you play a character of either sex, and still have an engaging storyline.

And even when a game does allow us to create a female protagonist, as in Skyrim, they market the game using a male character. When I log onto the official TES forums what do I see as my background image? A male Dovahkiin. Blecch.

I am playing Witcher 2 for the first time. Right now, other than being more glitchy than a new Bethesda release, the game has been some fun. Combat seems to consist of running up to your opponent, stabbing them a couple of times, and then quickly rolling in the mud away from them to avoid their counter attack. There is supposed to be a way to pull off a riposte, but that mechanic is broken. I hope it doesn't become important.

!!!

Zing!

Anyone up for some Nanotank? 100% gender-free!

I dunno if I'd say more glitch than a Bethsoft game. They've kind of set the record for games that are never completely glitch free. The Witcher 2 is awesome. The story is the main reason I loved it, the gameplay wasn't too bad either though.