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

[Wang Mandu]

Gamespot just gave it a 9.0

monday is going to be rough

Doesn't unlock on Steam until 12 am Wednesday here. On the other hand, I'll have a few days of Dishonored before XCOM unlocks, too. Glorious week for games.

[Wang Mandu]

Seems like 8s, 9s, and 10s across the board for Dishonored. I hope this game sells well.

[fallbacktostone]

Dishonored is almost certainly the finest stealth game I’ve played since the dawn of The Metal Age.

those are some big words..

[The Bill]

Shit, this comes out THIS week? Welp... see ya' later sixty bucks!

I'm telling you, there's a stench about this one that tells me I'm going to love it, and will be my GOTY. Hell, maybe GOTY versus non 2012 games I played this year, like Batman: AC or Skyrim What a glorious stench. We shall see.

[guardianoftheblind]

currently figuring a way to scrape together money for dishonored tonight.

everything seems amazing about it, but i need to know the length. if its 20+ hours, that's one thing. but if it's less than 10 i'll prolly wait

[guardianoftheblind]

i always explore and dawdle thoguh

[The Bill]

One review said the main mission was 10-12 hours. So, there you go.

[guardianoftheblind]

is it a main mission/side mission thing?

[guardianoftheblind]

i'm trading in halo reach (cause of the impending release of halo 4) and with a bonus it gets me like $24. not bad...

[guardianoftheblind]

game paid for welp

[abdominalpillaging]

Playing through chrono trigger for the first time ever. Probably a bit more than half through. It's good I guess. Unless something awesome happens in the story then I don't see what all the "best game ever" shit comes from.

Also ordering retro city rampage on vita/ps3 tonight. Stoked for that one.

[james]

Playing through chrono trigger for the first time ever. Probably a bit more than half through. It's good I guess. Unless something awesome happens in the story then I don't see what all the "best game ever" shit comes from.

Don't do this to me. Are you playing with the volume up or are you listening to something else while you play?

[Necrometer]

I was 27 when I first encountered that game... I think I feel the same as AP. The music is good indeed, but the gameplay falls into some chasm between FF games and Zelda games. Or something. Did not love. Did not finish.

[abdominalpillaging]

I'm listening to the game. Playing the ps1 version so I don't know if the music is the same as the snes game. Music is really good, ill give it that. I just gave frog the masamune so that's where I'm at. I've never been big on turn based RPGs so I wasn't expecting it to be my best game ever. Just based on how people still talk about it I was expecting more than ff3(6) or whatever. I'm enjoying it and ill finish though.

[Wang Mandu]

is it a main mission/side mission thing?

Yep. Apparently some of the side missions will affect how the later stages of the game play out. I've read some impressions from people with early copies and scoff at their short game complaints when they kill everyone, don't do side missions and play on easy. Some people have said it's a six hour game, some have said they spent five hours on the first mission alone. It's all about what you put into the game.

[CoconutBackwards1]

I was 27 when I first encountered that game... I think I feel the same as AP. The music is good indeed, but the gameplay falls into some chasm between FF games and Zelda games. Or something. Did not love. Did not finish.

Same. Played a couple years ago (28?). Didn't finish.

[guardianoftheblind]

lol

http://imgur.com/a/W6yJs#4llQJ

[Friendly Goatus]

I'm watching a stream of someone playing Dishonored. It looks pretty awesome. It's kind of Bioshock-ish.

[spacehamster]

I knew I'd get pathetically addicted to Borderlands 2, and here we are... I'm such a sucker for loot, it's really kind of sad. I mean, awesome, but sad.

[Gunther]

Playing through chrono trigger for the first time ever. Probably a bit more than half through. It's good I guess. Unless something awesome happens in the story then I don't see what all the "best game ever" shit comes from.

Also ordering retro city rampage on vita/ps3 tonight. Stoked for that one.

i'm going to completely ignore the first part of your post and ask you how retro city rampage is

[Wang Mandu]

Good man. Can't wait to fire up Dishonored in an hour or so.

[right over there]

downloaded Police Quest 1-4 and Gabriel Knight 2 from GOG for less than $7.00 can't decide which to play first.

that sale was insane - i probably spent close to a thousand dollars on all those games back in the 90s...

gk2 is pretty good if you don't compare it to the first one. the chapters you play as grace are really boring, and most of the acting is cringe-worthy.

police quest 4 is cool - start with that, it has some good twists and turns.

[The Bill]

Whenever I get around to playing Borderlands 2 I think I'm going to play as the Mechromancer chick. Ricocheting bullets

Amazon's Dishonored status.... out for delivery.

Going to have to finagle some gaming time for today.

[canon.docre]

police quest 4 is cool - start with that, it has some good twists and turns.

iceman also ruled really fucking hard.

[Comrade Slinky]

Game is sitting on the coffee table, can't play it till later this evening.