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[rowan]

Yeah Ice Breaker's the one I semi-nerfed by upgrading with an exotic shard. Currently getting experience with it to enable the perks again.
It has auto-generating ammo which is amazingly useful - especially for missions with the juggler modifier.

I can understand the lack of X-platform gaming - I mean how's all the chat & friend lists going to work?




In other news, been playing a bit of Brothers: A tale of 2 sons.
It seems really nicely done in both graphical style & unusual game controls.

[Chirpychicken]

Destiny - Had a great run of exotics this week - I got plan c last week from xur along with a 2nd one from a random drop. I then got the bad juju bounty which I completed today. A friend helped me and a group through vog and the main parts of crota and at some point I got a random drop of suros which is absolutely amazing (can't wait for the health regen perk). Finally after doing quests for ages i finally got the last strange coin I needed for Icebreaker and treated myself - should help massively especially with soloing nightfall's and weekly's.

[Mat]

Started a Hardcore Seasonal Monk in Diablo 3 on Friday to take advantage of the new season.
Completed the game with him last night then started doing bounties, but got a bit ahead of myself and started doing rifts. He died at 68

So I'm now trying to level a Hardcore Seasonal Demon Hunter, but even though my "Main" character is a Demon Hunter, now I've played all the other classes it's remarkably dull at lower levels, with a distinct lack of punch to it (no pun intended).
I think the problem comes from the fact that high level Demon Hunter relies heavily on abilities that are absolute shit without the gear to back them up, and that gear is only available for level 70 characters Torment or above.

In other game related news, I am also playing Carmageddon Reincarnation and The Marvellous Miss Take.

Carmageddon's basically what it always has been with a fresh lick of paint and some fun new modes. I'm particularly fond of "Ped Hunt", where the first to kill 10 targeted pedestrians wins. It inevitably results in massive pile-ups centred around a cowering pedestrian, like some kind of ferocious automative feeding frenzy.

And The Marvellous Miss Take is simply wonderful, a perfectly executed concept that plays exactly how it looks in preview videos. It's full of charm, style and wonderful music. Highly recommended.
It's also a breath of fresh air to play a game with no killing whatsoever. And fabulous hats.

[Dvl666]

Started a Hardcore Seasonal Monk in Diablo 3 on Friday to take advantage of the new season.
Completed the game with him last night then started doing bounties, but got a bit ahead of myself and started doing rifts. He died at 68

So I'm now trying to level a Hardcore Seasonal Demon Hunter, but even though my "Main" character is a Demon Hunter, now I've played all the other classes it's remarkably dull at lower levels, with a distinct lack of punch to it (no pun intended).
I think the problem comes from the fact that high level Demon Hunter relies heavily on abilities that are absolute shit without the gear to back them up, and that gear is only available for level 70 characters Torment or above.

In other game related news, I am also playing Carmageddon Reincarnation and The Marvellous Miss Take.

Carmageddon's basically what it always has been with a fresh lick of paint and some fun new modes. I'm particularly fond of "Ped Hunt", where the first to kill 10 targeted pedestrians wins. It inevitably results in massive pile-ups centred around a cowering pedestrian, like some kind of ferocious automative feeding frenzy.

And The Marvellous Miss Take is simply wonderful, a perfectly executed concept that plays exactly how it looks in preview videos. It's full of charm, style and wonderful music. Highly recommended.
It's also a breath of fresh air to play a game with no killing whatsoever. And fabulous hats.

Is Diablo worth getting then, i've been waiting for a price drop but i've either missed them or as is now th ecase it's just not dropping in price (PS4), my dad played it on the PS3 and wasn't overly struck he said it didn't have enough dungeons for him?!

[Mat]

I love it, but it took a while to get to the current state it's in. I'm also playing on PC, not a console, but from what I've seen, it looks good on PS3/4.
As for lack of dungeons?
Effectively, they're infinite if you play Rifts in Adventure Mode. These are procedurally generated dungeons based on existing ones and populated with monsters chosen at random from the menagerie.
It's a loot grinder mind you, but one of, if not the best out there. They've created some really interesting items that can completely change the way you play.

[Dvl666]

I love it, but it took a while to get to the current state it's in. I'm also playing on PC, not a console, but from what I've seen, it looks good on PS3/4.
As for lack of dungeons?
Effectively, they're infinite if you play Rifts in Adventure Mode. These are procedurally generated dungeons based on existing ones and populated with monsters chosen at random from the menagerie.
It's a loot grinder mind you, but one of, if not the best out there. They've created some really interesting items that can completely change the way you play.

Thanks for that i'll have to search it out when i've finish Shadow of Mordor

[funkstar]

Shot up a few more necromorphs to finish Dead Space: Extraction. It's a standalone, but I wonder how much I would understand if I hadn't played Dead Space previously, and, honestly, I only finished it as I knew I wasn't far from the end, and the animated comic only unlocks fully after completion. I think I'm done with on-rails shooting, really: it just doesn't feel interesting anymore.

I then had two quick sessions to go through Tiny & Big: Grandpa's Leftovers which is a lovely executed concept (carve up pretty much anything with a laser, drag it away with a grapple or shoot it away with a rocket to make your way forward) right up until it starts constraining you too much. Short, but sweet - definitely worth playing if you have it in your library, and worth picking up on the cheap if you haven't. I've seen mention of it being buggy, and the checkpointing poor, but this seems largely ironed out.

Slowly creeping further in The Walking Dead, and have just started up Escape Goat. Also looking through my Wii catalogue for something friendly to play while the kids are in the room...

[Chirpychicken]

Still playing Destiny - its turned into a full on addiction - I have a second character at lvl 30 now to help the weekly Strange Coin farm.

Finished Crotas End with a group of guys from the USA for the 1st time the other night (thanks to DestinyLFG site for matchmaking) really epic.

Had a good couple of days drops wise - Song of Ir Yut - MachineGun, The Chance - Hand Canon, The Calling - Scout, Pocket Infinity - Fusion, Admonisher 3 - Rocket Launcher, The Doo Gooder 5 and Universal Remote from Xur at the weekend.

[Chirpychicken]

Still playing Destiny - its turned into a full on addiction - I have a second character at lvl 30 now to help the weekly Strange Coin farm.

Finished Crotas End with a group of guys from the USA for the 1st time the other night (thanks to DestinyLFG site for matchmaking) really epic.

Had a good couple of days drops wise - Song of Ir Yut - MachineGun, The Chance - Hand Canon, The Calling - Scout, Pocket Infinity - Fusion, Admonisher 3 - Rocket Launcher, The Doo Gooder 5 and Universal Remote from Xur at the weekend.

[Mat]

Recently played through Dying Light, which was an excellent romp, and tonight I finally got a Diablo 3 Hardcore Seasonal character to 70, WOOHOO!

[Jonesey]

Sonic Spinball.

For no reason.

...honest.

[funkstar]

Escape Goat was satisfying: not so difficult as to be endlessly frustrating, and even though precise platforming was required at times, much more of a puzzler at heart. There are definitely modern sensibilities in its level design, but the look of it can fool you into thinking this could have been designed at any point in the last 20 years, though. I've taken a quick look at the "All Intensive Purposes" (sic) level pack, but from what I can see it is ridiculously hard. I think I'll call this done, and look to pick up Escape Goat 2 sometime in the future, instead.

I tried Dewy's Adventure - this looked to be interesting based on its control scheme using the motion sensors in the Wiimote to slide a water droplet around - but it is in fact terrible. Somehow, they've managed to make the controls simultaneously too sluggish and too slippery. Further, strip the controls away, and what you're left with is a decidedly sub-par platformer. Maybe it gets interesting later on, but I'm not going to stay around to find out. In Eurogamer nomenclature: Avoid. Considering Klonoa next...

Also, Hexcells: Infinite. Yet more Hexcelly goodness.

[Baggypants]

I'm playing Doom 2 it's been about 12 years since I last played it properly.

[Mat]

Have you tried it with the Brutal Doom mod Baggypants?

[Baggypants]

Have you tried it with the Brutal Doom mod Baggypants?

Yes and it's great fun but I'm being a purist snob for this run