Last weekend’s Operation Savage in Mass Effect 3 led myself and three friends to spend a lot of hours in Mass Effect 3’s multiplayer. Between us we didn’t rack up anything like the seven million kills one of us had at one point thought possible(!) but our combined kill total over the weekend was somewhere north of ten thousand which I don’t think is all that bad.
We played another couple of hours during the week and that’s been pretty much all the gaming I’ve done as my week’s been pretty messed up for various reasons. There has been literally just a couple of games of Treasures of Montezuma Blitz on my PS Vita, and a half hour of solo Rock Band 3 to help me unwind last night.
Josh has finished up his Hard and collectibles run through Batman: Arkham Asylum this week and has got going on Arkham City, “which would be much easier if the damn ‘online pass’ code in [the] box actually worked”.
On the portable front his PS Vita is seeing plenty of gravitationally-challenged action in the “brilliant and unique” Gravity Rush and having picked up Unit 13 in the recent PlayStation Store sale he has played through the first few stages of that.
Playing the sugar-coated and blood-soaked Lollipop Chainsaw we find Tuffcub. He’s also been blinking the sand out of his eyes in Spec Ops: The Line and lastly playing with some decks as he prepares for some DJing next week, the first time he’s publicly taken to the decks for a few years.
Peter has got his hands on Skyrim’s Dawnguard expansion:
I’m a vampire that can turn into a flock of bats. It’s all a bit weird, given that I played Skyrim mostly as a combat game rather than a magical one. I kept fire on my left hand and a one-handed weapon on my right. Now I’m dual wielding magic and flying around. It’s taking a little bit of getting used to.
When not vamping it up he’s been playing the PSN’s Dungeon Twister which is “a complex turn-based strategy game based on the board game of the same name”. Failing one of the game’s tutorial levels half a dozen time before taking a break has left Peter wondering “if it’s really difficult or if [he’s] just quite bad at it”.
Newly 360’d-up Aran has exposed himself (not like that!) to some of this gaming generation’s best shooters. He’s enjoying the original Gears of War, has played a bit of the Halo 3 campaign which is yet to grab him and has been scoring a few lucky kills in Halo: Reach’s multiplayer, somehow managing to avoid any abusive messages.
Fable 2 has also seen quite a few hours of play where his Eastenders-with-magic-like existence is summed up thusly: “I’ve become an expert blacksmith, twice married, twice divorced and I own 3 homes. Oh and I accidentally set some town folk on fire.”
Alex has had something of a mixed gaming week in respect to platforms and experiences:
I played a bit of Lollipop Chainsaw and thought it was alright in a kind of “this isn’t Mad World and I wish it was” kind of way. It’s deliberately trashy but almost unplayably silly and rather too rude for pre-watershed gaming.
I also played some LittleBigPlanet on Vita, which was splendid.
I wanted to play some iPad games but couldn’t be bothered wrestling with whatever Apple have done with iOS 6 and decided to just sit in silence staring at the walls instead.
Last but not least we come to Kris’ gaming adventures, at least if civil engineering can be considered an adventure. He’s been playing SimCity Social on Facebook. “Whilst the timings for refresh on resources aren’t great”, he tells us, “it’s got that core SimCity gameplay that’s so appealing”. His overall verdict is that ultimately it just makes him want to get his hands on a real SimCity game again.
Have you been providing viral advertising gaming on a marketing platform Facebook or played any real games this week?
TSBonyman
A quiet week for me, just some Loco Roco and fl0w on Vita and Trine2 on ps3.
Rocket_345
Not alot. Played some Max Payne 3 single player and realised i still suck. Bit of Outland which is a pretty decent platformer. Got back into SSX aswell so have been playing some of that.
Tuffcub
Oh cripes fogot MGS vita is out. Better nip to the shops
The Lone Steven
Completed Rimlag’s mainquest this week. So today, i started a new character. A female Dunmer. She is a theif and i plan to have her do the Theives Guild despite the notorious bugs that are said to break it. I’m using daggers and bow for defending myself as well as taking out bandits from afar whilst sneaking. I’m going to use the same method of leveling up as i did with my breton and level up health 3 levels in a row in every ten levels. For example, level 1-4 health will be leveled up, 10-13 etc.. Going to ignore the main quest as i’m establishing my own canon. For example, my Breton was the dragonborn and fulfilled his destiny whilst the dunmer came to Skyrim after he had escaped from Helgen. Going to ignore that the begining happened. :) Not sure if i want to do the DB quest with the same character as i stick by the 1 guild per character policy. :)
blast71
Yet more pes master league, bit of Limbo(till i got stuck), Singularity(stuck on that too).
Oh and still stuck on Kane & Lynch Dog Days.
I’m really good at getting stuck, pitty u don’t get trophies 4 sucking :~p
blast71
pity*
allan_treebeard
Still working through the newest PS+ games, never going to be able to get through even half of them before the next ones come out!
Started Darksiders which is fun and can see why people keep comparing it to Zelda.
More multiplayer Space Marine, that level 41 multiplayer is going to take a looong time, currently at lvl 35. Given up on getting the platinum for it though, grinding for the kill 40,000 enemies trophy is not my idea of fun.
Oh and went back to Journey when a friend came round and I showed it to him. He sat with his mouth open for the next 2 hours as went through it. Every playthrough is amazing no matter how many times you’ve played it.
Oh and a bit of hamster ball sumo…
Dom El
I seem to have managed quite a bit of gaming this week on both my PS3 and Vita for a change! On PS3 I’ve played Uncharted 2 (which continues to impress), Darksiders, Space Marine, Wakeboarding HD (which seems terribly glitchy despite my initial hope that it looked like an old Sega arcade game) and Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown.
On Vita I’ve played some Wipeout 2048 and Katamari, and managed to not grab any more games in the Vita sale!
gaffers101
Now that I’ve completed Skyrim, I’m onto Mass Effect 3, (well until I get the Skyrim DLC that is).