The Bill's Now Playing Video Game Thread (Now with Bames)

[Spooky Apparition]

famitsu gave dark souls 37/40 (10/9/9/9) and dengeki playstation gave it 95/95/90/90. shiiiiitttttttttttt two weeks from today

[Wang Mandu]

Arkham City PC version is delayed to "an unspecified date in November." Glad I didn't pre-order this. Good luck going against Skyrim, MW3 and people still playing Battlefield 3.

All will be forgiven if GFWL is replaced with Steamworks.

[CoconutBackwards1]

>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cByzDM18 ... r_embedded<

Way over my head. I don't get any of this

[guardianoftheblind]

at least you're honest

[CoconutBackwards1]

Care to give some hints?

[fallbacktostone]

people are getting antsy about half life: episode 3 not coming out.

[guardianoftheblind]

things i've learned from gears 3 so far:

-the cole train is pretty funny.

[The Bill]

Only played about 45 minutes of Dead Island, since last I posted... I'm thinking at this rate when I finally get done with all the current gen console games I own and have pre-ordered the next gen consoles will have lowered in price and have fantastic bundles to choose from (and I'm not talking about that new Nintendo one, I'm done with Nintendo). Any how, I need to get my kick/weapon/kick timing down a lot better. I'm positive I can go toe-to-toe with a thug zombie, without taking damage, if I can work out the kinks. Kicking doesn't use any stamina. It's a gold mine, Jerry. Oh, I love the sickle, machete, and cleaver thus far (I know I'm only at the beginning). Beheading and dismemberment is top notching in this one. Is it my imagination, but do I also take chunks out of their torsos as well? Haven't tried a leg attack,, yet.

[fallbacktostone]

[fallbacktostone]

>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTdwHsLn ... ture=feedu<

[guardianoftheblind]

i'm not watching that shit for an hour.

just commentary?

[fallbacktostone]

me neither

i just need to post it for some reason

i havent watched 1 second of it yet

[guardianoftheblind]

[guardianoftheblind]

speaking of which:

http://thegamerstudio.com/index.php/pc- ... kyrim.html

Some of the biggest changes in Skyrim are found in the quests. Much like previous entries, the quests are extremely varied in style and content. But this time around, quests adapt to the character. If you explored a cave that a quest would normally send you through, it will send you to an unexplored one instead. Quests also use NPCs that are around the area and not a dedicated NPC. Every new game deals with new NPCs. How this affects the dialog is unknown.

[Songs of Love and Hate]

That's actually sounds pretty neat.

SPOILERSPOILER_SHOW

It will be glitched as hell at release.

[guardianoftheblind]

i can all most guarantee it will not be glitched "as hell"

but glitches for sure

[Wolfey]

That's actually sounds pretty neat.

SPOILERSPOILER_SHOW

It will be glitched as hell at release.

If it was gamebryo, then yeah, I would agree, but that is not the case, so I'm gonna wait and play it till I judge.

Honestly, it CAN'T be worse than the last one.

[copstache]

rip_gamebryo_rip

[fallbacktostone]

yeah i liked the demo and found myself enjoying it way more than i wanted to considering how fruity and japanese it was. the combat wasn't really even developed but it had charm.

[BroMan]

Battlefield beta goes OPEN on the 29th. or the 27th if you've pre-ordered or bought MoH or whatever

Yep, so I might just be playing it early due to that Alpha invite. I'm excited as all fuck for next week because of the beta, and it ends in time for The Walking Dead!
Here's a tip with Dead Island, jump kicks knock down the zombies unless they're one of the specials. I have to work on my timing when infected come running at me for that 5 kills with one hit. I was up to 4 then a slow walker came at me.

[Comrade Slinky]

Resistance 2 is definitely better but 20 dollars used seems a little steep.

[Wang Mandu]

Do yourself a favor and don't even bother with any Resistance game. If you want to shoot things, you'd be better off buying Resident Evil 4 HD for $20 instead.

[spacehamster]

Do yourself a favor and don't even bother with any Resistance game.

Care to elaborate? I've actually held off on buying R2 or the new one partially because absolutely everyone on this board seems to hate the Resistance games. I have the PSP one, and while I don't think it's particularly great, the creature design and the general retro-Euro-sci-fi setting are awesome, and the problems I have with the gameplay (clunky controls, repetitive combat) seem to have more to do with the fact that it's a PSP game than that it's a Resistance game. So... what's the problem?

[Hypnagogia]

[The Bill]

Resistance 2 is definitely better but 20 dollars used seems a little steep.

Which has the better story?

I can't even say. I guess 2 has more cut scenes and character interactions. Yeah, I guess 2 does. I like 2's game play much better and it has better graphics. Fall of Man felt a bit too much like Halo cramped into WW2 Call of Duty. 2 is a bit less of that and more Quake 2 jammed in. I don't know. I have 3, but that's in que and I probably won't play it for some time.

Yahzee says Dead Island has completely bunk escort missions: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/ ... ead-Island. Say it ain't so, Reeelapse. Say it aint so! What's the story here? I will flat out sell the game back now if I have to deal with some total bullshit escort mess. Is it side quests only?