IFC debuted Portlandia this weekend. I haven't had a chance to check it out yet but as a newcomer to the city they're poking fun at, it's pretty evident that there's something weird going on here. Up above is a delightful exaggeration of what it's like living in this place.
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Chester:Dead Space 2, and a slew of Nintendo 3DS titles. I can't say anything about the former just yet, but if you're a Dead Space fan and you pre-ordered it, good move. On the subject of the latter, I'm really excited about what the hardware can do -- not particularly the 3D, but I guess that's nice -- but I'm concerned about the launch software. There's some good stuff, but no "killer apps." It's Nintendo, though, so this thing is going to sell. And those must have games? I'm sure we'll hear about them at E3, and they're have the words "Mario" and "Pikmin" in them, for sure.
Bennett, H.: I'm diving head first into Venetica to get the review done. Part of me is enjoying it and another part of me is wanting to kill myself....IM SO CONFUSED!
Been playing a lot of Broken Sword on the iPhone and I love it! Never played it before but the iPhone version works so fantastically well.
Also, while I know it isn't gaming but I have finally started watching House. Turns out my medical back ground gives me a free pass at shouting at the TV and I'm pretty good at diagnosing people. SCORE!
Bennett, C.: Mostly still playing Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne, although I had a tiny bit of time with Jikandia: The Timeless Land as well for review.
Toletino: After looking at DC Universe Online and trying it out for a brief period, I punched out and tried Champions Online ahead of its upcoming Free-to-Play conversion. Turns out Champions Online is a lot better. Seriously, I can use teleportation as my movement mode, and it's easier to rip off anime characters!
Aziz: Only game I can talk about from this week is Crysis 2 multiplayer and all I'm going to say about that if EA pushes this game hard enough, it could easily topple Black Ops.
Concelmo: I am finally able to play videogames again! After one of the busiest three week periods of my life, I finally got to play a little more Pinball FX 2 and beat Conrad and Nick's scores on multiple tables.
It may be a small gaming accomplishment, but it felt so good. <3
Zimmerman: Oh good. Now I have new goals.
I've been playing a metric ton of Indie games, some of them quite good. Aban Hawking & the 1000 Spikes comes to mind, as does Squid, both of which are on Xbox Live Indie games for 80 points and absolutely worth it. I have also played a bit of Pinball FX 2 and, of course, I've been playing Killer 7 on Backlog every weeknight at 10pm Pacific on Destructoid's Justin.tv channel.
Sterling: As if my clues were not enough, I have been playing Killzone 3. I cannot write about it though (squeeeeee).
Other games on the docket are Two Worlds II and Mindjack. I won't tell you about them before my review but let me just say that my weekend has been foul and it may or may not be because of certain bits of software.
Holmes: Just about to start playing Okamiden for review right now. I really hope it lives up to my internal hype.
Other than that, I played Trauma Team, Donkey Kong Country Returns, Retro City Rampage, 3D Dot Game Heroes, and all the latest demos on WiiWare. The Art of Balance was particularly fun.
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DC Universe Online is all I've been playing. I just got my first character to 30. I'm not really an MMO guy, but I really like the game. . . . even though there is a distinct possibility I'm in the minority on that.
Portlandia is a hilariously insane show. Definitely check it out asap. I just finished watching the debut with my partner and was laughing my ass off, mostly because SF is only a couple steps away from Portland.
Playing through FFVI Advance, read one Dtoider's amazing (READ: AMAZING) analysis of Dancing Mad, remembering how unbelievably dark the game is, and loving every minute of it.
Also, got LBP2 CE, finally. Good fun, but I'm holding off a bit until LBP2 content becomes more awesome.
Or I learn how to use the music sequencer. That thing is freaking insane.
More Assassins Creed Brotherhood. I finished it today and man.....what a fucking franchise. I can't believe I've come all the way from the fairly shitty AC1 to the very competent AC:BH. That's probably the only franchise I can truly say I lose myself in. Whether it's the conspiracy puzzles, the CRAZY alternate reality, or the batshit insane plot (a very good thing), I will keep playing them.
Also the multiplayer shocked me the most because they got it right the first time. It's as polished and contextually sound as anytime multiplayer can
be for a new concept.
After spending an hour on the Internet looking up theories, my head's gonna splode. GIMME ASS CREED (SOMETHING) NOW!
Finished AC: Brotherhood single player. Really, an excellent game all around. Calling in your assassins doesn't get old.
Played Leiliana's Song in Dragon Age. Nice little backstory. Definitely has me primed to dive I to Awakenings this week. I have no idea how I ever played that game above easy.
Also, Game Dev Sfory, Fable III, and a tiny bit of Costume Quest.
Playing through Assassins Creed Brotherhood finally. :) the only thing I dislike about that game is the damn "full synchronization" stuff. AC2 was great without all that. Also played alot of NBA 2K11, LittleBigPlanet 2, and Fallout New Vegas.
Well i can't wait for Sterling to roast Mindjack (or will he..lol)
I've been playing Gang Garrison 2 (my fix til i get a new PC for TF2), also been on Desktop Dungeons non-stop - i'm anxiously waiting for FEZ (for XBLA) & can't wait for Voxatron..yep
Finally beat Muramasa as Kisuke so now I can forge his & Mohohime blades together
Beat Fragile Dreams: Farewell Ruins of the Moon, the rare instance where gameplay wasn't that important, I absolutely loved it.
Today I downloaded and beat Monsters (Probably) Stole My Princess, it was pretty fun plus I got it for free cause I do PSN game sharing with my friend
The last two days I've Really been glued to Valkyria Chronicles, So far I absolutely love the game I'm on chapter 8 right now.
Last week I beat Bayonetta and Other M
I've been playing games like a mad man lately, I just started the semester in College and I wanted to take advantage of not havinghomework, last semester I was so swamped with Homework and other stuff I went a month and a half without playing games. It was painful, I needz my games
I was just at a market in portland and some girl was asking the deli guy if the chicken she was buying was able to roam free with it's friends...just like they were making fun of in portlandia
I finished Kirby's Epic Yarn this week, and played a little bit of Golden Sun Dark Dawn. Not too much now that school has ramped up again. I'm hoping I can still balance my time so I can have video game time.
This past week has been eventful for games. During boxing week I got 4 new games, so I've been juggling between them all week. I was playing New Vegas for a good while, great games and all but there are definitely some pretty annoying bugs. One in particular involved disfusing a bomb, and then the bomb blew up anyway.
Then I was finally able to play Batman AA, I was looking for a good deal on this game for so long and I finally found it and a ton of copies at Gamestop. Finished it in a few days, then did all the challenges, then replayed it on hard mode, and got all the cheevo's while I was at it. Loved every minute. (Ok well, the bosses were kind of lame but besides that)
Got to play a bit more of Resident Evil 5 with my friend, I think we're about half way now. It's pretty good but since I'm playing with my friend there's no time to really delve into the story, I'll probably replay it by myself once we're done. It sucks not having the shotgun in the team.
Replaying the first few cases of Phoenix Wright for the hell of it at the moment. Tomorrow is the day I crack open NieR. Pretty excited for this, it's the only game that I had bought that I know next to nothing about, besides the fact that it got mixed opinions.
For me I replayed through Dead Space in preparation for Dead Space 2 and it's much better then I remember, also add in some Gran Turismo 5 and AC:B and thats my week
Beat DKCR (awesome!)and also played some Brutal Legend (second playthrough), Crackdown and finally got Muramasa! I also play some DOOM 3 at night but it is difficult to stick to it for more than an hour.
I finished Dead Rising 2, played all through Batman and did the last couple of quests of Borderlands claptrap dlc. Also helped a friend get DoW II and Dead Rising 2 running, GFWL doesn't like him.
Been rotating Pokemon Soul Silver and Dissidia Final Fantasy in preparation of their incoming sequels. This was largely influenced by the distribution of Pokemon and the forthcoming Dissidia Duodecim Prologue demo.
Aside from that, the rotation has included Donkey Kong Country Returns, Lost in Shadow, Cave Story DS, No More Heroes 2, Kingdom Hearts Re:coded and doing the extra stuff in KH:BBS now. I already have the secret ending in BBS, but haven't done secret bosses and such yet.
being from oregon, i can confirm that portland is quite like taking a trip to the nineties. it IS the place where young people go to retire, and therefore is full hipster douchebaggery. i do like to visit on occasion, however...
as for games, i played goldeneye (again), along with lilt line (still awesome), and a bit of donkey kong (i'm still playing a bit of catch up). if i get my video capture device in the mail, i'll be dusting off the old nes to do some retro game reviewing, but that's a side project dtoid is not yet privy to...
Portland has a great indie comedy/sketch scene of its own. It's too bad they don't use more local talent instead of all these jaggoffs from Chicago and New York.
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Also, got LBP2 CE, finally. Good fun, but I'm holding off a bit until LBP2 content becomes more awesome.
Or I learn how to use the music sequencer. That thing is freaking insane.
Also the multiplayer shocked me the most because they got it right the first time. It's as polished and contextually sound as anytime multiplayer can
be for a new concept.
After spending an hour on the Internet looking up theories, my head's gonna splode. GIMME ASS CREED (SOMETHING) NOW!
Played Leiliana's Song in Dragon Age. Nice little backstory. Definitely has me primed to dive I to Awakenings this week. I have no idea how I ever played that game above easy.
Also, Game Dev Sfory, Fable III, and a tiny bit of Costume Quest.
I've been playing Gang Garrison 2 (my fix til i get a new PC for TF2), also been on Desktop Dungeons non-stop - i'm anxiously waiting for FEZ (for XBLA) & can't wait for Voxatron..yep
Just finished fable 3.....
Still got sealed copies of maijin and ghost of sparta that will probably get some play this week finally....
Bummed that the Bears lost.....especially to the f-
Looks like the superbowls a wash now....just another game....
Haven't seen portlandia yet, but I've really started liking a new showtime series called "Shameless".
Anyone else?
Finally beat Muramasa as Kisuke so now I can forge his & Mohohime blades together
Beat Fragile Dreams: Farewell Ruins of the Moon, the rare instance where gameplay wasn't that important, I absolutely loved it.
Today I downloaded and beat Monsters (Probably) Stole My Princess, it was pretty fun plus I got it for free cause I do PSN game sharing with my friend
The last two days I've Really been glued to Valkyria Chronicles, So far I absolutely love the game I'm on chapter 8 right now.
Last week I beat Bayonetta and Other M
I've been playing games like a mad man lately, I just started the semester in College and I wanted to take advantage of not havinghomework, last semester I was so swamped with Homework and other stuff I went a month and a half without playing games. It was painful, I needz my games
Then I was finally able to play Batman AA, I was looking for a good deal on this game for so long and I finally found it and a ton of copies at Gamestop. Finished it in a few days, then did all the challenges, then replayed it on hard mode, and got all the cheevo's while I was at it. Loved every minute. (Ok well, the bosses were kind of lame but besides that)
Got to play a bit more of Resident Evil 5 with my friend, I think we're about half way now. It's pretty good but since I'm playing with my friend there's no time to really delve into the story, I'll probably replay it by myself once we're done. It sucks not having the shotgun in the team.
Replaying the first few cases of Phoenix Wright for the hell of it at the moment. Tomorrow is the day I crack open NieR. Pretty excited for this, it's the only game that I had bought that I know next to nothing about, besides the fact that it got mixed opinions.
Aside from that, the rotation has included Donkey Kong Country Returns, Lost in Shadow, Cave Story DS, No More Heroes 2, Kingdom Hearts Re:coded and doing the extra stuff in KH:BBS now. I already have the secret ending in BBS, but haven't done secret bosses and such yet.
haven't bought AC Brotherhood yet, heard it was great ^^
@ Jim- judge from you Tweets I think I know what scores those games with get.
as for games, i played goldeneye (again), along with lilt line (still awesome), and a bit of donkey kong (i'm still playing a bit of catch up). if i get my video capture device in the mail, i'll be dusting off the old nes to do some retro game reviewing, but that's a side project dtoid is not yet privy to...
that's why you live outside of portland and only visit on the weekends. i've got it all figured out.
yeah venetica was kinda frustrating with all of the confused what do i do next moments. =P
long live the 90's!
By which I mean Fred Armisen.
Who is terrible.