Currently playing...

[funkstar]

Sam & Max, The Devil's Playhouse. And New Super Mario Bros. Wii with the kids.

I had a fairly good run at the backlog before Christmas, but a few Humble Bundles and... well.

[fog]

I just finished Metal Gear Rising Revengence on the PC and the $30 asking price was well worth it IMHO. Great fun, campy dialog, quick and fast action.

Just got around to playing Metal Gear Rising Revengence myself recently after having it in my PS+ backlog for a while and man is it great fun. Not overly long, I finished it in two sessions, but every single minute was a blast. In places it looks seriously amazing for a PS3 game. Some of the slow motion and freeze frame effects are jaw dropping.

The only disappointment was the end boss battle where more of the fight took place in cut-scenes than you actually had control of. One of my pet hates is games that don't let you play the best bits.

I know there's a "proper" Metal Gear Solid game coming soon, but I hope they do a new Revengence game soon too.

[SuperMappy]

Just recently finished the campaign story mode of Just Cause 2. You may continue playing in "Mercenary Mode" and do as much destruction as you like, hopefully to reach 100.00% of government property, I finished with only 27% destruction so there is lots more to blow up! An excellent sandbox game with stunning visuals and graphics. You can drive and fly all kinds of vehicles: scooters, motorcycles, older cars, fast modern sports cars, boats of all types and variety, helicopters, luxury aircraft, jet fighters, and tanks. It's great to strafe the ground in a military helicopter with rockets and bullets, destroying gasoline storage tanks, gas stations, SAM rocket launchers. guard towers.

I just finished Red Faction: Armageddon tonight. It's not bad, nothing to shout that much about. It's a fun 3rd person, over the shoulder view shooter. You play as a Darius Mason who tries to defend the Martian underworld from cultist and aliens. The two things I found rather silly was the fact that his love interest is killed, for no reason, nearly at the end of the game and the way to defeat the martians could have easily been done at the start, the game would have been much shorter though.

Now I might restart Tomb Raider to finish it off and go on to the next.

[Chirpychicken]

Still on my 3rd play through of Dark Souls with a Great Scythe / Dex Build got to the final boss but having too much fun with Invasions to attempt killing him - I will attempt New Game + at some point before my pre ordered DS2 arrives

Also just finally started playing Dragons Dogma it has been in my PS Plus list for a while quiet enjoyable but just not quiet as good as Dark Souls or Skyrim but still decent.

[fog]

Just recently finished the campaign story mode of Just Cause 2. You may continue playing in "Mercenary Mode" and do as much destruction as you like, hopefully to reach 100.00% of government property, I finished with only 27% destruction so there is lots more to blow up! An excellent sandbox game with stunning visuals and graphics. You can drive and fly all kinds of vehicles: scooters, motorcycles, older cars, fast modern sports cars, boats of all types and variety, helicopters, luxury aircraft, jet fighters, and tanks. It's great to strafe the ground in a military helicopter with rockets and bullets, destroying gasoline storage tanks, gas stations, SAM rocket launchers. guard towers.

I must have put about 60hrs into Just Cause 2 and only bothered with about 2 missions beyond the tutorial. That's the problem when you give players a great sandbox game to play in....dicking about is always a lot more fun than the actual missions.

See also the very underrated Saboteur.

[Marius]

Just completed A Link Between Worlds, and I'm now passing time with Oot 3DS while I wait for Dark Souls 2 and South Park

[MattyP]

TxK on Vita (of course) and Outlast on PS4.


Almost given up on Killzone: Shadowfall. It's been on the shelf for a couple of weeks now. Just nothing that draws me into it at the moment.... May get back round to playing again now they have apparently patched the save system. Just seems a bit of a box ticking exercise of other FPS's features.... Maybe it gets better at chapter 3 at the moment....

[Dvl666]

I've finally started The Last of Us and during the first hour or so i wasn't sure how keen i was on it but now i'm about 5 hours in i'm loving it.

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Mistakenly downloaded Call of Juerez thinking of Red Dead Redemption and, turned out to be a lot of fun so bought and playing that now... there's barely any cut scene/story bullshit, just 6 shooter action with some interesting and pleasant graphic novel type visuals... only £3.75 in the shop atm ...

[carolen]

Got gifted a 3DS XL for Christmas and have just finished Link Between Worlds in between working on Phoenix Wright Dual Destinies. Both very nice games, although I acknowledge that PW:DD is probably not to everyone's taste. LbW was great - I never played Link to the Past so everything was new to me.

[VNVObit]

Finished the main story in Just Cause 2 - have left the mayhem for another day
Currently working my way through XCom:The Bureau - enjoying the game so far, particularly like the 50's feel to it

TxK - really enjoying the game - best played in a dark room with headphones - cracked a million on Pure, haven't really tried classic as find Pure and Survival really challenging

Dynasty Warriors Next another Vita game, likeable button masher

[fog]

Mistakenly downloaded Call of Juerez thinking of Red Dead Redemption and, turned out to be a lot of fun so bought and playing that now... there's barely any cut scene/story bullshit, just 6 shooter action with some interesting and pleasant graphic novel type visuals... only £3.75 in the shop atm ...

Whatever you do don't buy "Call of Juarez - The Cartel" hoping for more of the same. It's shocking.

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Mistakenly downloaded Call of Juerez thinking of Red Dead Redemption and, turned out to be a lot of fun so bought and playing that now... there's barely any cut scene/story bullshit, just 6 shooter action with some interesting and pleasant graphic novel type visuals... only £3.75 in the shop atm ...

Whatever you do don't buy "Call of Juarez - The Cartel" hoping for more of the same. It's shocking.

Thanks for the warning.

PC version gets 3.3 user score on metacritic! Ouch.

[SuperMappy]

Just finished Tomb Raider (2013) a couple of days ago. I have to admit I was silly for rage quitting the last time I started it due to all the cut scenes interrupting game play.
I started from the beginning again to get used to the controls and just skipped the cut scenes I have seen before. I have to wonder why this game was called "Tomb Raider" and not "Lara Croft Revelations". I know there were some extra tombs you could stumble across and explore, but it wasn't the main focus of the game.
Actually Tomb Raider and Red Faction Armageddon seemed like almost the same game along with almost any over the shoulder 3rd person explorer.
I did like how they portrayed Lara as slowly losing her mind while watching her friends get hurt and/or die. The height of insanity is where she yells "I'm coming for you, I'm coming for all of you!" at one point while being shot at and have the enemies yell "Oh GOD, it's HER!" when you surprise them after walking up behind a group and blowing one of them away with the shot gun.

I think I shall try to beat Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon Next. I started it but got distracted by something else.

[nyarla]

Aside from the eternal (TxK, Spelunky) and on-again-off-again JRPG sagas (Chrono Cross atm), i started playing the original Tomb Raider for the first time a few days ago, never having played any of them before.. it's sooo good. Didn't expect that for some reason! I don't think I'd have appreciated it if I played when it came out. Love the controls (even the "tank" turning!).. incredibly satisfying to play. The platforming in TR is like the fighting in Dark Souls! Totally buying the rest of the ps1 games when I finish this one.