I think I may have decided that Dragon Age: Inquisition isn’t for me. Too much lore nonsense, not friendly enough to players who haven’t trekked through the first two games. I think this weekend I’m finally going to check out Shadow of Mordor.
The more I hear about it the more I’m intrigued. I love the games that influenced it — Assassin’s Creed, Batman: Arkham Asylum — and the more I hear about its unique Nemesis system the more I want to go and hunt down Orcs. Sounds fascinating.
I realise I’m a little late to the party, but I think the tail end of the year is as good a time as any to play catch-up on the game you missed out on. Wolfenstein is another game I’m thinking about checking out.
What are you guys and girls playing this weekend?
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Finishing off Far Cry 4, Then I really need to go back and finish Shadow of Mordor. If I get that done, I’ll either go back and continue with Call Of Duty: AW or start Sleeping Dogs: DE. Want to try and squeeze in some Smash Bros. at some point too.
Get a life.
Games are life.
Haha, fair call
Smash. Gonna re-train Little Mac again to try and get him taunting after every kill like he started to do last time.
Street fighter x Tekken Vita was cheap on PSN. I reckon I should at least play it once rather than let it sit on that ol’ “bought but not touched” list of games….
Ahh the ol’ pile of shame!
Thats the one! Man, I couldn’t recall the expression! xD
Yakuza 4
& I wanna finish off Shin Megami Tensei IV.
Found out I’m right at the end of Fantasy Life which I got the shits with, so I’ll finish that off.
Might start Mordor, intro didn’t excite me though.
WoW… but I’m pretty close to quitting. Once I get my 150 mount achievement that will probably be it for me. It’s weird, I log on everyday to manage my garrison but its starting to feel like busywork.
I think I’m glad I got out at the end of MoP. I miss my old guildies, but I don’t miss the grind. WoD just seems like too much busywork.
This weekend I’ll be putting a bookcase together with my housemate. If I get time I’ll probably play a bit more destiny and see if I can try the vault of glass raid. If I can’t, I’ll probably break out portal 2 and go through the story again
Just got Divinity : Original Sin off Steam, so I’ll be indulging in some isometric CRPG nostalgia.
got my wii u in the mail yesterday, picked up bayonetta 2 so i’ll play very little of that during the weekend due to working commitments, 6 days a week killing me 🙁
Man, I feel for you. I used to work 6 days a week and even though I only had to be there for like four hours on Saturdays it absolutely killed my free time.
Theme Hospital.
The hospital administrator is cheating!
Patients are reminded not to die in the corridors.
I picked that up the other day from GoG. Keen as to play it again, loved it back in the day.
Same.
Had the PS1 version on PSP and PS3, but I can’t re-download it. 🙁
So, I got it for $3 off GOG. 😀
Has not aged well though. Still fun for a dime.
I beat Dragon Age: Inquisition’s main story and I’m now on to finishing all the area’s and side quests, but in saying that I’ll be going to Sydney this weekend to visit my sister and for Christmas carols etc so, no gaming this weekend.
Definitely DA:I. I took a break from it for a week or so to play GTAV but I’m back with it now. 61 or so hours through.
I was gonna wait til I finished it before firing up Far Cry 4 but I might give that a play too.
Far Cry 4 and Dragon Age Inquisition for me, for the 4th weekend in a row now lol.
Also picked up COD: Advanced Warfare and enjoying the campaign quite a bit. so a bit of that also.
Wait, you voted for Alien isolation without playing Shadows of Mordor?? Who are you?? I’m actually really enjoying DA:I – I didn’t finish the first 2 in the series, but I don’t think you should let lore stop you. Wolfenstein is also awesome, a great FPS actually.
Finishing GTA IV!
GTAV, the first I’ve ever gotten into. i don’t know what it was about the others but I’m really digging this one.
More Hearthstone of course, possibly buy some new GvG packs to start some deck building with new cards. I would’ve done this earlier but my car engine blew up and I’ve been sans $4000 for the last week.
Also, BF4 online.
Probably going to jump back into Destiny, my wife has got an itch to scratch. Otherwise, going to try and get through some of the Wadjet Eye adventure games in my backlog. Gotta finish Blackwell Deception then maybe pick up and play Epiphany in the steam sales – also got Resonance and Gemini Rue to play now as well.
Gemini Rue is brilliant
Actually has anyone imported/bought Guilty Gear Xrd SIGN from the US PS store? I have a strong desire for a new fighter to sink my teeth into and wanna know how easy this process is…
I’m playing “Xmas Shopping 2014”
hopefully it’s a speed-run with no lives lost.
Should have Pre-ordered your copy of that! Comes with a bonus exclusive of “Get’s delivered to your house.”
the browser based version isn’t as fun.
I prefer the browser based version because it doesn’t come with the Painful Parking Spot Expansion or the Dodging the Masses of Shoppers DLC.
You don’t need the parking expansion if you get the Public Transport Kit instead, though the microtransactions are terrible.
This thread deserves a tonne of upvotes!
Well The iOS/Android port sucks,
Especially if the in game GPS stuffs up and you cannot find your way to the gift shop.
I just paid $1.99 for the gift card expansion and finished easily.
I bought this, but have been waiting for all the patches – so maybe by 2015 I’ll be ready to play.
Finished Far Cry 4 the other day, so back to PES 2015, I think. Maybe go back to BF4, too, since I haven’t taken a look at the last map pack yet. They’ll probably be deserted by now just like all the other DLC maps and it’ll be back to the original ones instead.
Oh man I picked up BF4 a couple of weeks ago and decided against buying the season pass for this exact reason. Shame because it seems some of the new maps are quite good.
I haven’t tried the latest bunch yet, but to be honest all the expansion maps have been pretty disappointing compared to the original maps, which are mostly great. The exception was the Second Assault map pack, mainly because it’s remade maps from BF3, some of which are also pretty good.
Doesn’t bother me too much, since I love playing the original maps anyway. But yeah, if I had my time again I probably wouldn’t bother with the premium subscription. Although I think there are a few weapons / gadgets in those expansions (I love roadkills with the SUAV!) so you wouldn’t be able to get those.
It’s disappointing, though. I’d love to try playing the Carrier Assault mode that game with the Naval Strike expansion, but I’ve never found a game of that with more than about 6 people in it. That’s the problem with paid DLC in a game like this – you fragment the player base. The fact that servers only seem able to host specific sets of maps (e.g. original, Second Assault, Naval Strike, etc) instead of being able to mix-and-match among them all doesn’t help, either.
I’m a preview program member on xbox one, and I just received a message about the halo 5 beta early access this weekend, so hopefully I’ll be thrashing that!
I’m playing “Fly home to visit parents for a couple of weeks,” “catch up on sleep,” and “catch up on books I’ve bought recently I’ve not had time to read cos Destiny.” Also Pokemon OR, and maybe some Hearthstone, if I can get the Android version working (it keeps getting stuck in an infinite loading screen when I start a game, so might resort to just playing it over RDP to my laptop).
I’ll be playing through the Dracula X Chronicles (including the bonus games of Rondo of Blood and SOTN) as well as mixing in some Disgaea 4 and maybe finishing Etrian Odyssey IV.
shadow of mordor. Just hit the branding section and while the controls are clunky and the main story is poor it’s still a fun game.
Most likely working on my current project while also dreading the inevitable loss of my job.
For games I might still work on Phoenix Wright on 2DS, and maybe tap into anything from my backlog.
Earthbound! and probably some more PS4 Shadow Warrior
35 hours in and I’ve finally given up on Dragon Age: Inquisition as well.
In the end I was still playing it because I had already invested time in it, which is not a good way to spend my free time.
The game has great graphics and a large, impressively expansive world, but I found the content therein to be very flat. There’s a ho-hum story in there, some simplistic RPG mechanics and a lot of questionable UI decisions.
Tactical combat is poorly done (I want to be able to queue commands as per past Bioware games) and non-tactical combat is akin to holding down the trigger to win, with the odd other button presses to vary things up a little.
Most of the quests involve running from dot to dot on a map then holding the trigger down to kill all the things when you get there.
I don’t feel there’s the same sense of freedom of choice in shaping your character’s identity, as there was in the KOTOR games and Jade Empire.
I miss the free flowing nature of social interaction with party members happening while you actually play the game, as opposed to new system – throwing it all in a segregated area like a social mini-game.
Funnily enough I’ve also gone back to Shadow of Mordor, a game I’d left half complete for a few months. I literally had a moment where I stopped playing DA: I, removed the disc from the PS4, put it back in its case, put in Mordor and started playing that instead.
The difference was immediately noticeable – I found myself having a lot of fun playing SoM, moment to moment, whereas DA: I had long begun feeling like a chore.
Just couldn’t get into SoM, really dont understand what all the fuss is about. Bland, boring world, terrible and uninteresting story… Sure the combat is fun but you can only repeatedly press square and watch Talion for so long. Fun for half an hour here and there, but that’s about it.
Dragon age for me, I’ve been saving it for my Christmas break. Holidays! Woo
Buying a Vita and playing Persona seems to have kicked me into a Japanese mindset. I’ll definitely be watching some Naruto, probably playing some Persona 4 Golden, but for some reason I really, really feel the need to play either all three FFXIII games or FFXIV. It’s weird because I’ve got a ton of other games I could play, and besides FFXIII being considered a really weak entry I really don’t know that much about how any of those games play, but I feel like I don’t just want to play them but I need to play them. I think there might actually be something wrong with my brian…
XIII honestly wasn’t great on a lot of fronts, but it’s badness has been blown waaaaay out of proportion, imo. The story was nonsensical, many of the characters were just plain awful – but I still sunk 150 hours into it quite happily. The combat system was enjoyable, and I had a lot of fun maxing out each character’s Crystarium and finishing all the C’ieth Stone Missions, etc.
Yep. Same here. I think LIghtning is terribly misunderstood by Western audiences. I think she is basically a female version of Cloud Strife, who keeps her emotions under tight control most of the time. The combat in XIII was pretty awesome when you got past the ‘press X to combat’ level and into swapping paragon setups on the fly, which you pretty much had to for some of the higher level enemies.
Beating that big walker/mammoth type guy in the corner of the open field area for the achievement was pretty full on. Had to switch paradigms constantly – debuff, buff, dps/nuke, and an ‘oh shit’ shield/medic setup. Not enormously complicated, but you had to be on your toes. Satisfying.
I get the impression the game only has one or two major flaws, but those flaws sort of leave you in the state of mind where you nitpick. Sort of like how Dark Knight Rises and Iron Man 3 share a lot of faults, but you only notice them in Dark Knight Rises because in Iron Man 3 the movie is fun enough it’s flaws aren’t distracting.
Anyway, after running around the city all afternoon digging through piles of pre-owned games I couldn’t find XIII on the 360, so I picked up XIV on the PS4. Anyone here played it before? Any tips? I’ll probably just run down my 30 days without hitting end-game unless it’s really good.
I’ll be playing Train Catcher: 7 hours edition. Can anybody recommend a good 3DS game to take?
Fire Emblem Awakening – but it will take you a damn sight longer than 7 hours 🙂 I think Kirby Triple Deluxe is pretty good too, although I’m only up to world 2.
Just picked up Kirby Triple Deluxe – thanks!
Zelda : Link Between Worlds.
Great suggestion, but already played!
Awwww. Well… maybe something like Weapon Shop de Omasse? Short, fun.
DA:I, some Sunset Overdrive, maybe some Shadow of Mordor….SO excited, I am finally on holidays! Woo…to…the….hoo.
Recently taken a WoW hiatus, and have decided to check out Destiny again courtesy of the new DLC. Will likely be engaging in Destiny, and any time in between will be a handheld title of some description – probably finish my Perkermern AS playthrough. On Victory Road, so almost finished with the main playthrough.
Every time I go to fire up FC4, Perkermern AS calls to me instead.
Dragon Age Inquisition!
DA:I + FC4
Playing MGS5: Ground Zeroes on PC
Kerbal Space Program and thats it.
PS4 – Drive Club, debating whether to buy the season pass. I’m having a great time so far. Just unlocked the Bentley Continental GT Speed. The engine sound is exquisite!
PS3 – Finally called time on BL2. Didn’t finish all the raids but did most of the side quests. I’m playing Vessel at the moment from the PS+ collection. It’s a little bit meh but if you like puzzle platforming it is okay.
Vita – Soul Sacrifice Delta which I bought on sale and liking OK at the moment. Also Miku and more Miku with the new song DLC just downloaded.
2DS – Maybe some Kirby… maybe.
Hey Kotaku.
I am 13 and might be getting an xbox 360 for christmas (I got a subtle nod in the form of a microsoft gift voucher on my birthday)
For everybody who isn’t too caught up in sighing and saying “not another blooming squeaker”
I would like to ask you this,
Are there any good Teen (M in Aus) rated or below games to play on the system.
An open world free roam would be nice,
Thanks in advance,
ASchnauzerCalledFred
I’m playing this little gem and will be playing it for hours and can’t think of a better way to spend time:
http://academmedia.com/en/apps/punch_the_chief
Judge away. 😛