This weekend I am flying to Los Angeles for E3, so I’ll be playing whatever I decide to take on my 3DS. That’s it! Also I’ll probably be working. And jet-lagged. And trying to stay awake against all the odds. What are playing this weekend?
On my list is Fire Emblem, which I still haven’t started, and Donkey Kong Country Returns — which I’m super keen to play again. I suspect I might get stuck into Fire Emblem on the flight over, since I suspect it’s the kind of game that requires a serious investment of time. DKCR, on the other hand, strikes me as the kind of game I might play on the train when I get home.
Any other suggestions for the 3DS?
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85 responses to “What Are You Playing This Weekend?”
I wonder if you have heard of this little game called Luigi’s Mansion 2, not sure but you might like it 😛
As for me, Darksiders 2, which I am enjoying more then I thought I would, plus a possible cheap game from EB if I have a look see at lunch.
Plus, of course, SKYRIM!
I have heard of it, and I actually finished it last weekend *fist-pump* That’s pretty exciting for me because it usually take me soooo long to finish games nowadays.
Case-in-point: Assassin’s Creed III. That’s what I’m playing this weekend, for maybe the 4th week in a row. I am making progress, but I keep falling prey to my standard stupid open-world-OCD-gotta-finish-every-side-quest syndrome. I’m at mission 8 or 9 but have basically no side missions left, so I should be able to plow through and finish it before the (long) weekend is over.
Also playing Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D. It’s *ok*, but not as great as I’d hoped. They somehow managed to screw up the controls, too. 4 face-buttons? Let’s make 2 for jump and 2 for roll, rather than replicating one of the trigger actions in case that’s what you prefer. Wanna use the D-Pad? Then you have to go into the menu and change the control scheme to activate it, which changes the rest of the button layout to something completely different?! Bah!
Will be hitting up Marvel heroes, if the servers stay up long enough.
Going to go trade in luigis mansion 2 and my mario bros for the 3Ds for something enjoyable, i just want animal crossing dammit!!
More Luigis Mansion 2 and some cheapo Batman AC. Gaming will be limited due to my darling daughters second birthday, with an excursion to Australia Zoo on the cards (on a long weekend too….may the Gods be merciful /cringe).
Just found Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines. Why did no one tell me about this earlier?
Also, I’m going to try out the BG Reloaded mod for NWN2.
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/06/holy-hell-this-guy-re-created-all-of-baldurs-gate-in-3d/
Make sure you download ALL patches for that game before playing, there is a section about midway where you CANNOT progress without the patches, i had to wait 6 months for a patch when it first came out 🙁
Great game tho, one of the best Vampire games there is.
Just got Virtue’s Last Reward in the post, so might try that and see if I can dodge the save game bug!
Also P3P, and others I’m too embarassed to mention.
Hey ash, don’t be embarrassed about Atelier Meruru – it’s all about ‘moe’ 🙂
I walked into EB and bought Rorona, Totori and Meruru and each time the dude/gal behind the counter didn’t bat an eyelash. I think people are more accepting of the genre than you might believe.
I’ll be starting the Atelier games soon, if I can just finish Okami HD this weekend – boy is that a great game!
I played it for the first time last night. At first I wasn’t sure but before I knew it I was sucked in 😛 You can’t be exposed to those levels of cuteness and not smile/ relax.
Once you ‘ve started playing we need to generate some chatter in TAY and spread the moe love 🙂
I could list dozens of games you can play on the 3DS but you sound way to procrastinating, so I won’t bother.
I’ll most likely play Uncharted 2 and see if I can get a cheap copy of Remember Me.
– Gunpoint
– The Swapper
– Prime World: Defenders
Just bought them all yesterday, going to enjoy a new tower defense game.
Gunpoint looks funny, trailer on steam cracked me up so I bought it.
Gunpoint is hilarious and a tonne of fun. Kind of short though at about 1-2 hours long. Worth the 10 bucks on Steam though.
I’m going to try and play WoW with my unstable internet connection, but failing that I might play Kamen Rider: Battride War or GTA4
I’m going to get acquainted with Fire Emblem myself. I also need to sink some time into Persona 4 on Vita… There goes all the hours right there 🙂
Going to continue Tomb Raider. Really enjoying it.
Splitting time between Rome: Total War, Empire: Total War (going to finally try and get into it), Football Manager 13, Crusader Kings 2 and Metal Gear Solid for breaks from strategy
Rayman origins $12.50 @ Dick Smith. Plus pinball and pool with my BBQ guests (just gotta ckean up first 🙂 )
I had been offline at home for the past five months until yesterday. I cannot begin to express teh feeling of joy last night.
I have several xbox games to chose from (Injustice, Halo 4, BlOps2, NBA 2k13, Prototype 2) all of which I will prob have a jam online because I can.
I’m keen on getting a new XBLA game though, any suggestions?
* And Kinect too. I can finally download my free copy of Gunslinger and Fruit Ninja. POW
Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon
Monaco
Mark of the Ninja
State of decay which is the best zombie game I have played in years and Fable 2 getting into the hype of Fable 4 and Fable anniversary
Going to try and finish up Bioshock Infinite.
Also, more KH BBS Final Mix side stuff, and probably something on 3DS.
DARK. SOULS.
NG+ Four Kings, Gwyn, then Sif and PLATINUM, baby!Freind is posting me Demon’s Souls now I have a PS3 – is that close enough to satisfy you?
I’ll pay it. For now.
Demon souls is currently free on ps+. Downloaded it yesterday 🙂
Can’t download due to shitty internet at home :'(
I’ll finally be able to play though Dead Space 3 co-op with my house mate
That can’t be done split screen, can it? My wife is super butthurt she can’t get the extra achievements for finishing all side objectives because some have to be done in co-op and none of her XBL friends have it. We have a spare 360 (we replaced it awhile back because it was on it’s last legs) but no second TV, plus we’d have to get a second copy of the game.
unfortunately not, no local co-op … I was annoyed because it means I’d have to buy a second game and considering how I really don’t like the single player, I’m only doing this because I want to play something co-op with my housemate and he’s crazy about the games.
I’ll be going on a Meat Bicycle tour of Pandora with friends in BL2. I’ll also probably put some time into Persona 4 Arena, Ragnarok Odyssey and Code of Princess. I’m also going to try out Dust 514 and the Project X-Zone demo.
Investments and Portfolio Management exam learning simulator Semester 1 2013 Edition.
I don’t recommend it.
I assume by ‘investment’ they mean buying the right games (i.e. no lemons) and by ‘portfolio management’ they mean managing your pile of shame?
Oddly enough I did write up a list of my pile of shame yesterday while procrastinating and trying to decide which games I wanted to play from it more than others and which games I should and shouldn’t buy in the future 😛
Going to be playing two survival games – State of Decay and Don’t Starve 🙂
… but state of decay isn’t out in australia yet. Tell me your secrets, internet wizard
I created a US account and bought it 😛
Getting around to playing Assassin’s Creed 3. Started it about a week ago but holy balls does it have a long introduction sequence. It seems to be taking forever to actually get going.
I dunno. CiV. The Cave (board game). Maybe something from recent Humble Bundles. I started on Dead Space 3 but it feels so clunky that despite the interesting story I’m not sure how I feel about continuing.
Word of advice about Dead Space 3. Most of the side quests are really pointless and a complete waste of time. It’ll only make your gaming experience more tedious.
The only ones worth doing are the first two.
I’ll take that under advisement but once I get used to how the game controls I’ll probably play for the sake of playing, I’m not really in a hurry. I guess once I get to a tedium break point I’ll just race to the end.
Factoring all the side quests, the game took me 18 hours to complete. It should have just been 10-12 hours total but there was so much unnecessary padding going on.
All in all, its an embarassment to the Dead Space franchise. EA/Visceral Games really killed it.
Way too repetitive.
My wife noted that she finished it in 18 hours, but she actually liked the side content.
I’ll play it for the sake ofp laying it and see how it goes.
Embarrassment to the Dead Space franchise? I wouldn’t go that far. I actually think it was better than Dead Space 2 overall and was paced better overall. Dead Space 2 I just got the feeling I was following a linear path down corridors, and I didn’t get that feeling with Dead Space 3.
The first few hours of the game felt a bit tedious, when you
need to fly around space assembling parts to fix the transport,but once you got down to the planet it finally started to open up and was enjoyable from that point.I will say though, and I don’t think it’s too much of a spoiler, that the story doesn’t really start making any kind of sense until quite late in the game. So don’t expect to start putting all the pieces together until then.
I considered an “embarassment” because I genuinely felt that this game lacks that dark, creepy atmosphere like the first two did.
Plus, I thought there was way too much emphasis on the action, weapon crafting and the story really dragged out for too long with Isaac going around ‘fixing’ way more things than he did in the first two. The ‘horror’ was also non-existent in my opinion.
I’m very glad I cancelled my pre-order and rented it instead.
I guess I’m very old school when it comes to survival horror.
None of the Dead Space games are really truly survival horror. Not once during any of the three games did I find myself panicking because I was running out of ammo or supplies.
It’s obviously been a while since you played the original as well, because in that Isaac basically goes from one point to another to fix stuff almost the entire game.
DS3 may not have been as dark and creepy as the original, but personally I enjoyed the change of scenery. Each to their own I guess.
“It’s obviously been a while since you played the original as well, because in that Isaac basically goes from one point to another to fix stuff almost the entire game.”
You shouldn’t make such presumptions. How do you know that? Maybe I did. You didn’t think of that did you?
BTW, if you don’t consider Dead Space to be true survival horror? Then I guess Resident Evil and Silent Hill weren’t either. Don’t make me laugh mate. Not all survival horror games need to be like Amnesia.
Get over yourself.
@awesome_jeevs
I made the comment about it being a while since you played the original, because you said:
“the story really dragged out for too long with Isaac going around ‘fixing’ way more things than he did in the first two.”
I replied by saying that was purely almost all he seemed to do in the original game. My comment about it being a while since you played the original was based on the fact that you seem to have forgotten how much stuff needed “fixing” in that game. Virtually half your objectives involved needing to fix something…in fact your very first objective once boarding the Ishimura is to fix the communication blackout. It’s always go here, fix something. Get the power running. Re-fuel the engine. Activate the elevators. Re-route power. Restore life support. Fix the array. Repair the shuttle.
I could keep going but I think you get the point.
The original Resident Evil and Silent Hill were different. In those games, you REALLY needed to properly balance how you used your resources and ammo. If you didn’t, you were screwed. I said I never got that feeling playing any of the Dead Space games. Ammo and health packs were always plentiful enough to never really be a problem, so it never really felt like it had that “survival” element to it to me.
I actually liked the side quests and the rewards at the end of them made them worth it. I played through it in single player though and there’s a few side quests in there that are co-op only, which is a bit of a bummer, so I couldn’t get 100% completion.
Going to put some more hours on Toki Tori 2 on Wii U. This game is severely underrated.
@kermitron
sorry, reply fail :SPlease elaborate. For example: what is it? Who do you play with?
It’s a co-op board game where you place down tiles to explore a cave – the tiles are randomly drawn to there’s a lot of variation in how the “board” will look when you’re done, and the tiles get more complex as you work through the stack (the tiles are divded into four phases).
Some tiles have wonders on them – water features, squeeze points, etc. Some increase the depth of the cave as well, so you get extra points the deeper you go.
There’s a resource management component to it as well, since you have a limited inventory and will need to periodically restock.
I’ve only played one test game with my wife but I’m having friends over this weekend so we’ll see how it goes with four.
Yes this sounds good. I am looking for further entertainment options for my wife and I, however she is suepr competitive so traditional versus type games are no good. Co-op ones like you describe seem rare, unless there are others you can suggest?
I’m interested in Space Cadets, where you each take on the role of a bridge officer and respond to scenarios played out at intervals determined by, I believe, a soundtrack/ambient noisetrack. However I think Space Cadets is 3-5 players whereas The Cave is 2-5.
I’ll get Space Cadets to play with friends once we’ve determined how committed we are to tabletop gaming. I could never get the wife interested in D&D, so… baby steps.
Hopefully finish C&C original, then start on Red Alert.
Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare and Call of Duty Black Ops II
In what little spare time I will have, it will be Remember Me, which will most likely get finished, and then returned to help pay of Last Of Us.
Persona 4 Golden! How did I not bother with this series earlier 🙁
Bully.
New update dropped for Arma 3 Alpha yesterday, so I spent last night changing my weapon crate scripts to incorporate the new rifles and ammo. Will be replaying some of the missions with shiny new sniper gear!
Also getting Animal Crossing this weekend (US 3DS, digital download) so looking forward to that.
Time not playing Arma 3 Alpha or waiting for Animal Crossing will likely be spent with Wargame : AirLand Battle.
Also, 3 day weekend! \o/
Call of Juarez: Gunslinger. Tried the demo last weekend and bought it immediately – I was genuinely shocked at just how much fun it is. Nothing particularly fancy about it – it’s basically just a shooting gallery since the enemy AI is pretty simple, there are no stealth sections, no multiplayer etc.
But god damn if they didn’t get the simplest, most important bit right – the simple act of shooting people is more fun and more satisfying in this game than pretty much any other FPS I can think of right now. Helped by the fact it usually only takes one, maybe two shots to put an enemy down which makes the guns feel like they really pack a punch. Not too many irritating bullet-sponges here.
Already finished it once and will finish my new game + this weekend.
X-com enemy unknown.
Alan Wake… Bandwagons and trains are similar to me, I’m always late for them!
Sims 3, gunslinger and remember me
Assassin’s Creed Revelations. Definitely not enjoying it as much as II or Brotherhood. Tries to add in new features (den defence and bombs), but they’re just a pain more than anything.
Have a friend coming over this weekend, so going to be finishing the PS2 title, Rogue Galaxy, with them, or more specifically the ghost ship. Really cool game for the most part. Probably also going to be playing some more Disgaea 4 as well, the perpetual grind to defeat Baal.
Mass Effect 2… May have to restart, as I let my wife toy with Shep’s face and she fucked it :\
I know what you mean. I spent about an hour and a half trying to recreate my Shep from ME1 on PC in ME2 on PS3. For some reason I didn’t know about or could get the face code to work. The face is what makes each Shep unique.
Totally. Got the new face looking like the old one but with a ponytail, which looks pretty cool with the scars and all from the Lazarus project… like an evolution of the same character. Sorta.
However, as my wife is keen to point out, she now has frog lips again. Weird, pouting frog lips. But only from certain angles.
Crap.
Yeah, mine had a permanent duckface. I kind of liked it though. She was a pouting badass.
Silent Hill Downpour for me
Metal Gear Solid. Finishing off my replay of the original, then continuing my replay of four
Playing all of Soul Sacrifice. It’s the Monster Hunter for the Vita, which is sad, because Vita should have a monster Hunter title. Not that Soul Sacrifice is bad, far from it, but it’s not monster Hunter.
Nintendo have bought exclusivity rights from Capcom to license Monster Hunter games on the 3DS, because the Monster Hunter series is a handheld maker-or-breaker. I doubt the PSP would have sold one third as well without a whole series of MH games under its belt, and Nintendo’s taking advantage of this to keep Vita sales lower than an overweight Jamaican Bureaucrat limbo dancer!
CONSPIRACY.
Out of my 180+ games between my PS3 & 360, I’ll be playing Bioshock Infinite, Last Light, Tomb Raider and maybe Persona4 Arena. Having so many games can be a real pain, it takes me ages to decide what to play lol. BTW I’m not bragging, I just love games. Not much of a collector but I admit I do go overboard. Oh and I wanna finish Limbo and Journey too.
LAN WEEKEND HAS ARRIVED! YIPPEE!
We’ll be playing Battlefield 3 into the wee hours of the night, unless we’re too intoxicated and irrationally decide to head into the city to the Treasury. Hopefully convince the 2 other dweebs to buy Borderlands 2 so we can have some good co-opness.
Okami HD (awesome game, thanks PS+)
Trails in the Sky (about 40 hours in, this thing is going on forever! Or at least another 20-30 hours)
Quell Memento on Vita (very very good puzzler with great atmospheric music. Very soothing).
I’ve just returned from some time in Italy and it has compelled me to replay ACII. Quite enjoying it again. Also trying to clear a couple of other things – Thomas Was Alone (Vita) and LM2 – in preparation for The Last Of Us. Want a clean(ish) plate before that lands. Psyched for it.
Last night I bought The Secret of Monkey Island 1 & 2 and Mark of the Ninja – all on XBL. So i’ll be playing those this weekend!
(Maybe some Dark Souls @shane!)
Praise the Sun! \o/
OH GAWD, Fire Emblem is so good! You gon make so many babehs. So many…
18 holes of golf at Royal Fremantle, and possibly some Battlefield 3.
Sitting down and playing some Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas on PC and some NBA 2K13 and MLB 13: The Show on my PS3
My game order from Oz Game Shop arrived today, so will be playing a choice of Persona 4 Arena (PS3), Lego City Undercover (Wii U) and Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate (Wii U) but also have Borderlands 1 GotY (PS3) and Portal 2 (PS3) to play.
So, actually have stuff to play this weekend that I want to play but still need to conquer my pile of shame.
State of Decay and Last of Us! Epic Weekend!!!!
I will be playing Okami HD (yay for PS+) and more of SC2 and maybe Dead Space 3 but I am not digging it like the others unfortunately.