What Are You Playing This Weekend?

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June 17, 2011 at 11:00 am

You know, it’s been ages since I’ve had the chance to play a game I’ve truly fallen in love with. As much as this year has seen a spate of ‘AAA’ releases, only Portal 2 has really provided me with an experience that got me excited. Thankfully a game was released this week that has me itching to get home and play some more!

That game is Child of Eden. I managed to snag a copy of this last night, and despite my arm being in complete agony, I blasted through some levels on Kinect last night.

I’m in love.

So I’d imagine I’ll spend the majority of my gaming time playing and replaying Child of Eden.

But what are you guys playing this weekend?

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ShiggyNinty

June 17, 2011 at 11:02 am

Duke Nukem Forever and Link’s Awakening!

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1. ba!
  
  June 17, 2011 at 11:16 am
  
  Yeah Links Awakening!
  First time playing it through, so great. Except my battery went dead and took me back a couple levels when i turned in back on 🙁 Right where you battle that STUPID GENIE!
  
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Effluvium Boy

June 17, 2011 at 11:03 am

Probably some inFAMOUS.
Jumped into it with the expectation of blazing through. Didn’t realise how big it was.

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1. Trjn
  
  June 17, 2011 at 11:40 am
  
  Oh yeah, I’ll be playing that too.
  
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2. defkon
  
  June 17, 2011 at 11:49 am
  
  yea i thought the same… now i have to put in some serious game time so that i can go out and purchase infamous 2…
  
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Trjn

June 17, 2011 at 11:08 am

Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition!

I downloaded it last night, mucked about in Arcade mode for a little while. Oni and Evil Ryu are both different enough from Akuma for me to feel awkward playing them, but overpowered enough that I can spam my way to victory against the computer. The twins are weird, but I could get used to them.

Also, Batman and maybe, just maybe, Demon’s Souls.

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1. Strange
  
  June 17, 2011 at 11:46 am
  
  Pretty please?!
  
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DENAz

June 17, 2011 at 11:08 am

Duke Nukem, Dugeon Siege and Alice 🙂

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Stone

June 17, 2011 at 11:08 am

I’m looking squarely at my pile of shame!

I’ve agreed with myself that I need to complete a game on the pile before I can pick anything new up.

I’m looking at you Heavy Rain, Assasin’s Creed, Fable II and Death Spank!

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1. bookiegnu
  
  June 17, 2011 at 11:21 am
  
  Ah, such a noble thought, and one which I’m sure we’ve all had at some point. It’s a good money saving measure, too.
  
  In a similar vein I’ll be playing Dead Space, Freespace 2 and the Witcher 2 (because I couldn’t bring myself not to buy it)
  
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xuchiex

June 17, 2011 at 11:09 am

Minecraft server with friends all weekend and may finish DNF possibly if i get around to it

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ndroste

June 17, 2011 at 11:14 am

Dungeon Siege 3 co-op unless I win a copy…then I’ll have to wait.

I hope the comp get’s drawn before I leave work, then I’ll know whether I have to buy it or not.

Feels like I’m always posting ‘something something” co-op on here, my mates must be getting sick of all the bro-op demands.

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1. The Cracks
  
  June 17, 2011 at 12:02 pm
  
  ‘Bro-op’. I like that. Has a ring to it.
  Co-op action is the best, though, right?
  
  I’ll be playing Hunted: Demon’s Forge tonight – two Xboxes (sp?), two TVs and hopefully a hell of a lot of fun.
  
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  1. ndroste
    
    June 17, 2011 at 1:29 pm
    
    Yep, most def. Most of my favourite gaming memories are bro-op related.
    
    *Nostalgia-gasm alert!* User made co-op missions in Operation Flashpoint, making sure all of my friends playable classes were just right, all shitting ourselves when we hear the squeaky rumble of a T-80 tank. The best of times.
    
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ba!

June 17, 2011 at 11:14 am

I want to finish Starcraft 2.
The game kept crashing at this on point and i still haven’t learned my lesson to save. So hopefully i can get through that mission no hassles and then finally read up on the new expansion.

..and TF2.

and SMASH BROS! doing it.

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1. defkon
  
  June 17, 2011 at 11:54 am
  
  which version of Smash bros? N64 version will always be king in my books
  
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Tom

June 17, 2011 at 11:18 am

Trying to convince myself not to buy PC components yet. Will be a battle all weekend.

Probably just old staples on the whole. Some BFBC2, finish the Portal 2 coop, some Frozen Synapse. Really should dig into that pile of shame..

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1. Wonko
  
  June 17, 2011 at 12:56 pm
  
  You playing BFBC2 on PC or console? What servers are you playing on mate – I love that game and I will prolly play a fair bit this weekend (on PC ofc)
  
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dzc12

June 17, 2011 at 11:19 am

inFamous 2. Holy crap I’m enjoying this game.

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Dire Wolf

June 17, 2011 at 11:20 am

I don’t know what I’ll be playing. As I’ve mentioned before I’m slowly working my way through Kotor in preperation for TOR but I’m in no rush to finish it.

Maybe I’ll play some Playstation. Haven’t even turned it on since the network went down and I think it needs some love.

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Stevorooni

June 17, 2011 at 11:22 am

I need to finish inFamous 2 using evil karma, so much more fun than good karma.

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Brewer74

June 17, 2011 at 11:22 am

DNF and Darksiders. Got the latter really cheap in a sale and it is pretty fun, if not a bit mindless. I also got Brink this week on PC, but so far it just is not doing anything for me, I have to give it another good go and see if I can get into it. iRacing also takes aup a bit of time, and causes a few grey hairs.

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1. ndroste
  
  June 17, 2011 at 11:36 am
  
  Darksiders! I picked it up at JB last week for cheap and been loving it too. The more you play the better it gets, starts a little weakly I think but as you start getting more items and combinations of abilities it gets much better. Hmm, might play a bit of that this weekend too, havn’t finished it…
  
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  1. James Mac
    
    June 17, 2011 at 11:58 am
    
    I’ve gotten lost in Darksiders.
    It’s been so long since I played that every time I get back into it I forget what I’m doing.
    
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    1. ndroste
      
      June 17, 2011 at 1:20 pm
      
      Yeah, and when you hold ‘select’ for assistance Mark Hamill doesn’t tell you shit.
      
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Cakesmith

June 17, 2011 at 11:24 am

Picked up Alice yesterday. Played for about 2 hours so far but I just can’t get into it. Will stick with it though.
Aside from that, probably WoW and some Infamous 2.

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“Jimu” Jimudore Logan

June 17, 2011 at 11:27 am

Me liking LA Noire, plenty of oddness about it but am enjoying it anyway!

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1. Batguy
  
  June 17, 2011 at 11:32 am
  
  I’m going to try to finish it this weekend. Only just reached disc 3 so I might be overreaching here.
  
  Plus 3DS eShop stuff and MtG as per usual… though maybe I’ll but the 2012 version that came out this week!
  
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Hugo the Hungarian Barbarian

June 17, 2011 at 11:29 am

More achievement hunting on New Veags.
All achievements on this game will be mine, oh yes, they will be mine!

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Klutar

June 17, 2011 at 11:31 am

I’ll also be playing Child of Eden.
What an amazing game and the better with Kinect splayed across the box was an actual true statement for once!
I’ll also be playing more Alice: Madness Returns, managed to get a few hours of that in last night too. Enjoying it so far, though a bit repetitive.

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Michael

June 17, 2011 at 11:33 am

Playing White Knight Chronicles 2 and Muv Luv Alternative non stop!

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1. Strange
  
  June 17, 2011 at 11:48 am
  
  What’s WKC 2 like?
  I think I got bored about halfway through the first one and stopped playing. If the second one’s worthy I’ll have to go back and finish the first.
  
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  1. Michael
    
    June 17, 2011 at 1:26 pm
    
    Well I got bored of the first one as well due to the battle system being slow. But playing the remastered WKC1 now i’m not getting bored at all, they have sped up the combat.
    
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RaygunBrown

June 17, 2011 at 11:36 am

Going to try to finish LA Noire. I hereby vow to get all hidden vehicles.

Other than that, Dreamweb. Maybe a little Mortal Kombat.

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1. FatShady
  
  June 17, 2011 at 12:11 pm
  
  I am the same on this one. I have found 75-80 withought walkthroughs yet.. pretty happy with that.
  
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Xegek

June 17, 2011 at 11:44 am

I’ll be playing the “let’s finish writing my masters dissertation” game. *sigh* If I work hard I might get it done early though… If so I’ll be probably playing some LA Noire with the gf or trying to get some Ms. Splosion Man beta games online before they take it away.

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Troy

June 17, 2011 at 11:44 am

Infamous on the PS3 and Test Drive Unlimited 2 on the PC.

Test drive is actually fun when you treat it as a ‘drive pretty cars really fast’ game.

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MrTaco

June 17, 2011 at 11:49 am

Think I might nearly be finished with Ghost Recon on 3DS. Was playing through what I think must be the second last mission last night, only to get red battery right when I thought it was over. Then flashy red battery while I was waiting for the other team to hurry up and make all their god damn moves already so I can save this thing before it shuts down completely. Note: my charger was left out in the lounge room and I didn’t want to get up out of my nice warm bed 😛

Not so sure I should have done that, and maybe just left it on sleep mode and hoped it stayed on til I got up. Nothing worse than saving yourself into a corner you can’t crawl out of, but I’m reeeeeeeeelatively sure I haven’t screwed up too bad.

On the console front, I’ve been hitting up Muramasa on Wii. Golly gosh it looks so pretty @_@

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Gino Rodrigo

June 17, 2011 at 11:52 am

I’m enjoying an experience I missed out on in the early days: Crashing cars senselessly in Burnout Paradise.

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Braaains

June 17, 2011 at 11:58 am

Hurry up and get the PS3 version of Child of Eden out, Ubisoft! I have money for you!

Picked up Dead Space 2 special edition in the EB sale yesterday, so I’ll probably have a go at that at some point. Plus hopefully squeeze in a bit of BC2 and GT5.

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Crazyguy1990

June 17, 2011 at 11:58 am

I’ll be playing Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition, Marvel vs Capcom 3, and Ridge Racer Type 4.
Gotta get my drift on. 😀

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timcue

June 17, 2011 at 11:59 am

Duke Nukem & Child of Eden and probably Flashpoint Red River or BFBC2

Have to say that i prefer RezHD over Child of Eden

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James Mac

June 17, 2011 at 12:03 pm

I’m going to finish Gears of War 2 dammit.

I may play some Duke, and I picked up R6:Vegas-2 last night which I’ve not played before.
I know it’s not going to be like Rainbow Six… but we’ll see.

Aww, hell… i’ll probably end up buying Child of Eden and the Forza3 ultimate edition this evening and playing those instead.

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1. James Mac
  
  June 17, 2011 at 4:53 pm
  
  Update: I caved and bought Forza and Child of Eden.
  
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Lucid

June 17, 2011 at 12:05 pm

Still trying to finish Meowth Guitar Hero from the Ggamecube days. I can’t beat Mew in the final showdown.

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Karachi King

June 17, 2011 at 12:10 pm

Does Child of Eden have normal person controls, or is it Kinect only?

As for me, I’ll be playing some American McGee’s Alice, Duke Nukem Forever, and maybe finally finishing off The Last Remnant.

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Side Effect

June 17, 2011 at 12:12 pm

Alice Madness Returns and hopefully finish Crisis 2.

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FatShady

June 17, 2011 at 12:13 pm

I will spend most of my time writing stuff. Apart from that, not sure really. Pile of shame is just getting bigger atm.

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MrGaz

June 17, 2011 at 12:21 pm

Duke Nukem, Alice and some Outland.
Will be heading to Supanova tomorrow so that means a ‘gaming day’ lost but will try to get some gaming time out of each. 🙂

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Andy

June 17, 2011 at 12:27 pm

First im going to play Financial analysis exam and then im going to play getting trashed at the pub and then im going to come home at 3 AM and play TERRARIA!!!!! for like 24 hours straight.
great indie game. So simple but so clever and yet so addicting.

Warning not simple when you first start i had nfi when i first started but once you get over that first bump OMG nerdgasm

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Gusman

June 17, 2011 at 12:29 pm

I’ll be trying to finish Duke Nukem Forever and Goldeneye on Wii! I might try and fit in some Pokemon White too…

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N0NEoftheAB0VE

June 17, 2011 at 12:38 pm

Feels like a pile of shame weekend – Crackdown 2 and GTAIV are definite starters – then I’ll get distracted with Bad Company 2 and they’ll go back on the pile!

I rented Modern Warfare 2 – but it’s pathetic, worst $2 I ever spent.

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KilimDed

June 17, 2011 at 12:44 pm

HOPEFULLY finishing ME1 and then Starting ME 2 – I know, i’m only 3 years late… Fantastic game though, must have had my head in the sand when it come out…

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Master911

June 17, 2011 at 12:47 pm

Duke Nukem Forever and The Punisher

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f4cti0n

June 17, 2011 at 12:48 pm

Pile of shame. My pay is going towards colouring my latest tattoo. Expensive!

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feral

June 17, 2011 at 12:49 pm

BF2BC and Crysis 2 on the PC; have just recently upgraded my aged gaming rig. (amd x2 5600, 8800gts x2) to (intel 2600k, 6990..not yet x2) These things look great in eyefinity 😉 If I can finish these in SP Ill probably take a look at the new Red Faction, Painkiller and/or Left for dead 1 or 2.. (Yes seriously lagging, cheapskate gamer!)

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Wynstyn

June 17, 2011 at 1:05 pm

Nooo, I was trying to convince myself not to buy child of Eden as I’ve got too many games banking up. 50 bucks heading ozgameshop’s way now…I hope ur happy.

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nightFlarer

June 17, 2011 at 1:06 pm

Assassins Creed 2 for me, and maybe some Minecraft.

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1. Ainsoph
  
  June 17, 2011 at 3:21 pm
  
  ^
  
  aye, I took AC2 out of the pile of shame last night and am really enjoying it. Will hopefully have it completed by the time my copies of inFamous 2 and Alice arive on my doorstep!
  
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oggob

June 17, 2011 at 1:15 pm

I have no idea… I’ll look to finish Outland, but there is Duke, inFamous 2 and want to get back into Dead Nation, Portal 2 (co-op) and even BFBC2 and there are so many others that I want to play also!

So I have no idea what will happen, probably won’t end up playing anything! lol

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Shane

June 17, 2011 at 1:21 pm

My pile of shame got too big, and is now two piles.

In intended order of play:
Uncharted 2
Darksiders
inFAMOUS
Beyond Good and Evil
God of War 1-3
Metal Gear Solid 1-4
Dragon Age Origins + Awakening
Final Fantasy 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,12
Chrono Trigger
Chrono Cross
Heavy Rain

… and then on to the second pile 😐

I get about 5-8 hours of gaming on a good week. How long do you reckon it’ll take to blow through this? 🙂

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1. Troy
  
  June 17, 2011 at 9:47 pm
  
  MGS4 and Infamous will eat up a few days easily. MGS4 is essentially a movie (the end cinematic is over an hour long) with some stealth/action elements thrown in. Oh and play MGS2 and 3 before you play 4 or you will miss half the history of it.
  
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Matthew Kermeen

June 17, 2011 at 1:34 pm

I want to attack at least one game on my pile of shame, which currently consists of:

Batman: Arkham Asylum, Fallout: New Vegas (I restarted because my savefile got too gimped pre-patch) and Crysis 2.

I also recently started playing a copy of Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga I bought back in 2008. I finished parts 1 & 2 seperately on the PS2, but never put any serious time into the complete saga on the 360. It’s making me want to pick up some other Lego games – I hear they’re all good except Indiana Jones.

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1. James Mac
  
  June 17, 2011 at 1:49 pm
  
  Skip Crysis… play Batman.
  
  Also, leave the gun… take the cannoli.
  
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Ben J

June 17, 2011 at 2:05 pm

Probably more metroid other m. I honestly don’t know why I listened to peoples opinions on this game. It’s certainly different to metroid prime, but I think it’s a welcome, refreshing different.

If I feel like playing something else I think I’ll finally unwrap bayonetta 🙂

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1. Mark Serrels
  
  June 17, 2011 at 2:07 pm
  
  I like it. I just don’t like the portrayal of Samus, and the story. I know that stems from fanboy bullshit, but it really did ruin the game for me.
  
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Slyph

June 17, 2011 at 2:58 pm

LA Noire. To be honest, I’m a bit over it, thinking about it at work, but I’m sure I’ll get back into it once I get home.

Also, that damn free month of foxtel on xbox is both a blessing and a curse, lol. Thanks for the heads up on that one, Mark 🙂

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buckE

June 17, 2011 at 3:26 pm

I finished Duke earlier in the week, so I don’t have anything ‘new’, but I do have a massive pile of shame. Just started playing AC:Brotherhood, so I guess I’ll stick with that. Maybe some Rock Band 3 and Black Ops for good measure.

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minusInfinite

June 17, 2011 at 3:55 pm

Alice: Madness Returns has be sucked in so likely that. But I should really be doing some study T_T

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Sam Z

June 17, 2011 at 4:17 pm

I’m living in the Uk so I’ll be picking up the Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time 3DS today. So that will be my entire weekend gone.
(btw Im an aussie)

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os42

June 17, 2011 at 6:28 pm

Combination of Alice, Kinect SDK and study for me… unless my copy of inFamous arrived today, then that too (goodbye sleep)… Why are weekends only two days? We need to introduce a new day between Saturday and Sunday…

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