What We Played #39
The one where panspermia is fact not theory.
Published: 13:00, 10/02/2012 by Greg [Watchful].
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More alive than he was earlier in the year Peter has been reaffirming his existence by playing I Am Alive for our preview. While not a great looking game, he speaks highly of its “great tone” and “very atmospheric moments”. Also singled out for attention are some of the game’s “interesting and innovative gameplay mechanics like the stamina bar and the intimidation”. Seriously, go read the preview that soothed a lot of Peter’s fears for the game following its troubled gestation.
Kris has apparently been playing five games this week. “FIFA. Trainyard. Not sleeping. Reinstalling Ubuntu” and “AJAX”. FIFA I get. I’m going to assume that by Trainyard he means the track-laying, colour-mix-and-matching iOS game. He attributes the not sleeping to “reinstalling Ubuntu”. The only one to get a nugget review is AJAX which “is a bit rubbish”, though the jQuery mod simplifies the interface. Not enough that you can get away with playing it using a gamepad though.
Pikachu is known for his shocking behaviour which likely makes him the closest we'll see to Howard Stern becoming a Nintendo character.
Ironically, in this first week of my paid subscription to Star Wars: The Old Republic I’ve not played it at all. I just haven’t had a good chunk of time to dedicate to it. Given how many others were already running about the galaxy proudly displaying their “Founder” titles, which are given to those who pay a subscription within the first three months after release, I have no fear that there will be a shortage of fellow adventurers when I’m next online.
What I have been playing when I’ve had a few moments is Eufloria. It’s one of a significant number of PSN titles I’ve bought on release over the last year or so and never really got around to playing. Tasked with sowing your seed throughout the galaxy, stop sniggering at the back, you have to grow seedlings to colonise asteroids and combat the other horticulturalists.
It’s kind of like a top-down, 2D Mushroom Wars painted in ambient colours and sounds. I’ve been loving it until reaching one particular level that seems to have just a single solution. You have to play it at a particular tempo and level of aggression to stand any kind of chance. Suddenly losing that sense of being able to play and beat the game in your own way jars with what I’ve always considered a strength of the RTS genre that I’ve enjoyed throughout many years of playing games like Dune 2, Battle Isle 2, Starcraft 2 and Pikmin (not 2).
Toby and friends begin their stealthy advance, creeping through the corn fields towards their unsuspecting foes. No wait...
Bulletstorm has been restoring some of Aran’s faith in the FPS genre. It’s “colourful, loud, quite funny” and manages to offer “new challenges”. That leaves him bemoaning its relative lack of success in the face of the military shooter juggernauts. He’s also still working his way through the challenges in Saints Row: The Third.
Steelport is also still the location of much of Tuffcub’s playing. He played some more of the “horrendously dull” Warhammer 40,000 Space Marine before giving up. Need For Speed: The Run got taken out for a short jog and to top it all off he played Killzone 3. Who’da thunk it?
There’s been no word from Chris but I’ll pencil him in for some Starhawk Beta-ing as that’s normally a safe bet along with some movies on the side. Blair has been playing the “better than expected” Crysis 2 spiced up with a little more Zelda: Skyward Sword. Although the latter is “great” nearing the end is making him feel a little sad.
Hopefully the games you’ve been playing have been making you happy? If so, please let Blair know about them.
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10/02/2012 at 15:42
Member since: Jul 2009
Well it was
Pub, DiRT 3, Pub, Warhammer, Pub, Pub, DiRT 3, Pub
Tonight…. probably Pub!
Tomorrow – feck knows (Probs Warhammer and Darkness II)
10/02/2012 at 15:57
Member since: Jun 2009
What is this PUB game that you speak of??
Sounds like it might be a series of minigames – Stuff like who can pull the hottest date, target practice barfing & who can get the least pee in the urinal.
Bit like Bishi Bashi Special? :)
10/02/2012 at 16:32
Member since: Feb 2011
OMG Bishi Bashi was immense!! I was quite fond of how far down the wedding aisle you would throw a pie/custard tart. Awesome game.
10/02/2012 at 16:53
Member since: Jun 2009
It was indeed awesome & my mate & I were either playing that or tekken tag on PS2.
I was quite the fan of the wedding pie toss as well, but i can also recall (rather hazily i might add), a shaky can game where you had to get it to the moon, a bowling game where you drove a car at the pins & a crazy game where you were seemingly a bodybuilder on a pogo stick trying to jump higher & higher to grab some meat. Funnily enough i think it was called ‘jump for the meat’! XD
Classic.
10/02/2012 at 15:42
Member since: Jun 2010
Still stuck in Skyrim.
10/02/2012 at 16:04
Member since: Feb 2011
I’ve been doing my Insanity run through Mass Effect 2, which I am enjoying rather a lot to my surprise. I’m trying to platinum it before ME3 arrives.
Final Fantasy XIII-2 has also been getting some love, since I picked up my Crystal edition on Tuesday. It’s very good, more enjoyable than its predecessor that’s for sure. Though I do hate how the enemies randomly appear around you, definitely a step back in that respect.
Tomorrow I will be picking up my MGS HD Collectors Edition Collection (it’s called something like that) preorder so that will keep me even more busy in the lead up to ME3. There just aren’t enough hours in the day.
10/02/2012 at 16:38
Member since: Feb 2012
Playing Skyrim. Got it last week and have played nothing else since. 46 hours in and still got probably 60-70% to go. It’s my first open-world RPG so not used to one playthrough being so long, but I’m loving it!
14/02/2012 at 00:49
Member since: Jan 2010
“Dragon Quest Monsters Joker 2″ – Is that really a title for a game or just a random collection of words? ;)
I’ve been playing Halibut Pencil Zebras Fish 3
10/02/2012 at 18:21
Member since: Aug 2008
Mainly FFXIII-2 this week (where possible outside of some crazy work hours anywho). Excellent game and a lot better than XIII in every possible way :)
Also tried the Crushed 3DS demo… I didn’t care for it…
10/02/2012 at 18:24
Member since: Dec 2008
Still more Skyrim. 140hrs in and close to the platinum now and hopefully the new patch will help. Unfortunately not enough money to buy anything new at the moment so will likely go back to BF3 and UC3 till SSX in March.
10/02/2012 at 20:50
Member since: May 2010
Not alot this week. Bit of skyrim here and there and some AC Revelations. My PS3 is mostly being used for netflix atm which i am loving.
10/02/2012 at 20:55
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looking forward to this more and more…
fingers crossed its a good un’
10/02/2012 at 21:03
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a little bit of DIRT3 and skyrim… and motorstorm meets on mondays… as usual… =D
14/02/2012 at 00:43
Member since: Jan 2010
For me it’s mainly been the UFC 3 and Syndicate demos along with Renegade ops and Skyrim (in which I now seem to have 8 clones of louis letrush hanging out at the whiterun stables bizzarely – one of whom is buried to the waist).