What are you playing now?

[Calax]

played and beat assasins creed again. This Time did EVERYTHING I possibly could at the first opportunity except the flags and templars.

 

interesting thing I noticed on my second play through, Altiar is missing his ring finger on his left hand (so he can make a fist and allow his hidden blade through.) Also you can fight (counter anyway) with the hidden blade for some REALLY BRUTAL kills. (if you can time it well I oneshotted the final boss with that sucker.)

[Rosbjerg]

You know I tried making that work (countering with the hidden blade) but couldn't get it to work, so I gave up.. Obviously I sucked at the time, because now I tried it again and it works! Great!!

 

ahh.. now I can use my favorite weapon ALL the time!

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

Just a question about Assassin's Creed: is the combat any fun? I want to buy it, but only if the combat is any good.

[Krookie]

Combat is actually pretty okay, but I had more fun running away and jumping and stuff.

[Nick_i_am]

Combat is basically just, they line up and try and attack you, while you dodge and killing blow every one of them.

 

Don't play for the combat.

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

Sounds awesome... for the first few seconds.

 

Play for what, then?

Edited May 20, 2008 by WILL THE ALMIGHTY

[Krookie]

Don't play for the story either.

[Deadly_Nightshade]

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.

[Krookie]

G.T.A. F.O.U.R.

[Deadly_Nightshade]

Ha ha, very funny - look at the title of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl and tell me if it does not appear as I wrote it. But, getting back on topic, I am currently playing with video editing software.

[Rosbjerg]

Just a question about Assassin's Creed: is the combat any fun? I want to buy it, but only if the combat is any good.

 

You have alot of options, like grabbing people and throwing them around - a long blade, a short blade and a finger blade. But you end up just using the long sword, blocking their attacks and countering, because that's almost always an instant kill in the game. If you want it to be fun, you can jump around, switch weapons - throw people into walls etc. make it cinematic - but that takes forever.

 

The combat is great for the first couple of hours imo, when you see all of Altairs moves, he does some wicked kills! After that it's still fun, but not so exciting.

 

The cool stuff is climbing everywhere.

[Musopticon?]

I don't understand why they fumbled combat in Assassin's Creed. Their previous game, Two Thrones, had some really challenging combat scenes.

 

Then again, perhaps that's why.

[Deadly_Nightshade]

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.

[Hurlshort]

Um, I don't think the "What You are Playing Now" thread needs a daily update when you are playing the same game. Proper forum etiquette also would dictate you say something more than simply the game title. For example:

 

I'm still playing Age of Conan. I've reached level 17 and I'm almost out of the newbie island. There was a lot of server downtime this weekend, but the game launches officially today, so if you are interested go buy it. It's actually pretty stable if you have a good rig.

[Musopticon?]

In this case, I think DN probably just forgot he had already posted for today, considering the posts are so near each other.

 

But yeah, there's really no need for an update if there's nothing to bring up-to-date.

 

I started Golden Sun 2 and then realised that I had yet to play Golden Sun 1! So I'm gonna do just that.

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

I need a new (single player) 360 game... I've pretty much narrowed it down to:

 

Assassin's Creed

Bioshock

Call of Duty 4 (I can't play online, so only the single player)

Lost Oddyssey (Been a while since I've played a turn-based RPG)

Gears of War

 

I already know all the spoilers for each game, so that kinda ruins the fun.

 

Help me decide, please?

[Krookie]

Don't get CoD4 just for SP, to short. I'd say Bioshock was the best single player game (personally, at least) on that list.

[Pidesco]

I haven't played CoD4 and Lost Odyssey, so I'd say Bioshock, especially if you haven't played the PC's smart FPSes.

[Moatilliatta]

CoD4 SP does have some cool parts but is also quite short and probably not really worth choosing above something else if you know beforehand that you won't play MP.

 

I can easily say that Bioshock was a very interesting experience for me, but you have to want to look around at the architecture and focus on the story to really enjoy it i.e. it doesn't suit itself to just an action game experience.

Edited May 20, 2008 by Moatilliatta

[Krookie]

I need a new (single player) 360 game... I've pretty much narrowed it down to:

 

Assassin's Creed

Bioshock

Call of Duty 4 (I can't play online, so only the single player)

Lost Oddyssey (Been a while since I've played a turn-based RPG)

Gears of War

 

I already know all the spoilers for each game, so that kinda ruins the fun.

 

Help me decide, please?

 

Also, have you thought about Dead Rising or Lost Planet?

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

I already have Lost Planet, and I've thought about Orange Box and Deadrising, but I'm pretty sure I wouldn't like Deadrising. Orange Box might be fun, but the demo kinda threw me off.

 

Thanks for the tips, everyone. I think I'll go with either Bioshock or Orange Box.

Edited May 20, 2008 by WILL THE ALMIGHTY

[Hurlshort]

I've been thinking about Lost Oddysey as well, but I'm already pretty backed up on games. I figure I need to finish The Witcher before I start a new RPG.

[Kelverin]

NWN2 - Had to restart due to a crash in Port Llast

 

Currently Act I Bandit Quests. Playing a Female Drow Cleric of Lolth who I am about to turn into a Stormlord, got Neeshka, Qara and Khelgar, who I will replace with Bishop.

[Deraldin]

Ikaruga. I spotted a copy for the Gamecube today when I was out checking my usual second hand store so I picked it up. This game is better than me.

[Krookie]

GTA 4