Daily gaming

I don't suppose anyone else has ever pl... nah.

Eh, whatever, I'll say it anyway - Trackmania 2: Canyon was just released today. I loved Trackmania United Forever, it was the most fun I'd ever had in a racing game until Blur came along. This new one looks friggin' amazing.


(Yep, that's pretty much what Trackmania is like. 200-player racing, on thousands of ridiculous player-made tracks. )

While pondering whether this new one will actually give me £20 worth of entertainment or not, I've been playing a retro game you probably've never even heard of.



King climb-in-a-ship-and-destroy-everything gameplay, awesome graphics, and one of the best soundtracks ever to have graced my ears.

As you can probably tell, I don't "do" mainstream very much. Indie, retro and obscure - that's how I roll, baby.

Actually I have played trackmania once or twice at a friends house... Actually, it's free on steam but I'm to lazy to download it.
Love that trailer by the way: "ingame footage from one of the thousands of tracks already online" I lol'd

The 2nd game looks vaguely familiar, but oh well.

I say that one of you guys should definetly play LIMBO, a 2D puzzle platformer that, just like the game, leaves you in the dark, meaning you will never understand where or why you are there.

Oh, yeah, I've heard of Limbo - I was gonna try it. Not sure if it's any good gameplay-wise, but it does look interesting. Will add that to my "games to play" checklist.

Aye, Trackmania Nations is the free version. It's still quite a big chunk of the game - you can only play the Stadium environment, but I reckon that's the best one. Someone I know has Trackmania 2, and they say it's incredible, so I'll probably end up getting it to play over the weekend. (Along with Mortal Kombat, which LoveFilm have just sent out to me. )

The 2nd game was Stargunner, released by Apogee in the 90's. One of my childhood heroes, and my favourite sh'mup of all time... until Rake In Grass made Jets 'n' Guns, which contained so much awesomeness that it damn nearly killed me.

I did end up getting Trackmania 2. It was a most excellent decision.



The gameplay's pretty much exactly the same as it always has been... but oh, that new car is amazing to drive. If you like arcade-style racers, I REALLY recommend this game.

Although I'm not so keen on how blindingly difficult the replay editor is to use, or the fact that you have to wait 5 minutes after posting an official time before you can post another.

Wow.

I'm currently playing Monkey Quest by Nickelodeon. Like a boss.

Still playing FFX, I know I've been playing it for ar too long, but I'm grinding areas this time so that I can fight the Dark Aeons without getting my ass kicked. And a found a nice little easter egg just before the Ice temple (Can't remember it's name.)

pssh,i still play megaman1/2 and metal slug.i still play some dbz:raging blast and just cause 2.
Oh yeah and blazeblue cs2 (awesome fighting game) Plus modnation racers from time to time.

I don't think I've played any of those.

Deshar wrote:

I don't think I've played any of those.

you should check out blazeblue cs2,its a good fighting game

I might do that, i have heard of Blaze Blue before and I've watched someone play Blaze Blue Calamity Trigger.

reborn574 wrote:

pssh,i still play megaman1/2 and metal slug.

KING. Gotta love Megaman. And speaking of Metal Slug, I got Metal Slug XX on my PSP yesterday. I can't damn play it to save my life, but it's so, so awesome.

POW: "Thank you!" *drops a big letter H*
Me: *picks up the big letter H*
Announcer: "HEAVY MACHINE GUN!!"
Massive ownage ensues.

I've heard of BlazBlue, but I dunno - I'm not really that eager to play it for some reason. *shrug*

It didn't seem all that great to me, very confusing plot line about...Uh...I'm not entirely sure. The Only three characters i remember are Tao Kaka (Sp?), Ragna the bloodedge and Rachel Alucard.

Eh... fighting game storylines are like coleslaw. It's a pointless mess of an addition, and you never really pay attention to it.

Although there are people who like them for some reason. And to those people, I say... "Gee, thanks for throwing my winning analogy out of the window."

I think it was actually designed to be confusing at first, it had something to do with a continueum shift or something. Basically each character would play through the same sort of story, but starting off in their unique places and with each character you played through fully, the events would shift so the story was different.

blazeblue story line is confusing,even though i have the first one and the second one i still never understood it,they jump back and forth alot through the story so its hard to keep up on the story,but heck its still a good fighting game.

Well, some friends of mine have successfully got me back into EVE, for at least a short while.



Quite a nice surprise to find that I still had an awesome ship from the last time I played it.

It still has problems. For example, it takes a sickeningly long time to make money, or train skills, or travel anywhere... or make any sort of progress. And mining is skull-crushingly boring. And PvP is inaccessible. And it's the most expensive MMO I've ever seen. But higher-level missions can be pretty satisfying. And I like its depth; the combat system isn't just attack - defence.

Oh, and the music that plays when you go through an Acceleration Gate WINS. Unlike the rest of the soundtrack.

Someone at work suggested I try a game called Gitaroo Man. I'm glad he did, because it's AWESOME.



It's a music game, kinda similar to Parappa the Rapper/Um Jammer Lammy. It's even got a NanaOn-Sha-style storyline - so ridiculous, you can just tell it's Japanese. The differences are that you've gotta point the analog stick in the right direction during Attack sequences, and Defend sequences are sometimes just utter chaos.

The music is amazing, too. Oh, and it's much more difficult - I nearly destroyed my thumb on Stage 10. And Master difficulty... well...

Lol Mongz.

I got my new computer by the way.

I know of guitaroo-man, I think I watched a playthrough of 40 minutes on it. It' awesome. If I remember correctly, it was about a kid who learns about his new powers and that he is guitaroo man, and with his... dog I think it was, he has to save some kind of civilazation and the final boss is... I believe it was his crush? Who cares anyway

Anyway, I've been playing some indie games that came on the new humble bundle pack, so I'm sure that I'll write about them later

Lmao what a spoiler XD

Yeah, that's pretty much it. Second to final boss is some girl (maybe his crush, but all I remember is that that stage has some awesome riffs ), then you get the final boss which is some guy who wants to rule the universe or something else just as generic. (He also has a very unenthusiastic voice actor. )

Deshar wrote:

I got my new computer by the way.

Awesomeness. Is it good? (Must be if it doesn't have Vista on it. )

I have vista...
anyway in other news:

One of the games that I got in the humble bundle was an indie game called TRAUMA. The game wasn't as bad as it was short and sort of boring. The game starts out with a representation of a car crash, after the long scene ends, it shows us a women on a hospital bed. The game takes place in the various dreams of this girl, who dreams about things of her past.
There are a total of 4 levels in the game. I am not kidding, it's incredibly short, with about an hour to finish the game 100%. 5 min. if you speed run.
The first dream takes place where "your teddy bear is stuck under a giant mass" which is a giant sphere, like in the photo. You start clicking around and find out that this is a first person point and click adventure. You can change the perspective and the direction of places where you're looking by moving your mouse in the direction where you wanna go, and if the games permits it, the indicated place will light up and you can click it to go there.
The game is narrated by the girl in the bed in a completely "dead" voice, showing completly no emotion. I swear that when I started playing, I was scared that a screamer would appear, due to the creepyness of the game.

Then we have symbols that, if you can draw it on a certain screen in the correct place, you can make certain things happen, like unclog certain sinks found in the game.
There are a total of 4 special symbols that each level teaches you, and if you use, for example one symbol in another world in a certain place, that will activate another secret ending. They are not intresting at all and finding all the secrets was not worth it.
I do NOT reccomend this game, unless you got it for a cent LIKE ME

It's a good computer, yes. I'm thinking of doing a live stream with it.

Windows 7 acted up abit though at first but I fixed the problem.

Ugh. Sounds like fail, Sword. Good thing you only payed did an offer worth* one cent for it every game in the pack* though, hahaha.
I'm not really a fan of point-and-click adventure games anyway (unless it's Day of the Tentacle or Monkey Island ), so I'll stay well clear of that thing.

Well, let's see... I've been playing Duke Nukem 3D, co-op.



I love this game so much. The level design is amazing, it's challenging (unless you set the difficulty lower than Come Get Some ), Duke's one-liners are all friggin' hilarious and/or awesome (unlike in some other Duke Nukem game released fairly recently), it's fast-paced, it's completely unrealistic, it doesn't ever take itself seriously, the weapon set is ace, there's a fan-made High Resolution Pack which increases the graphics quality massively (although I kinda prefer the original graphics) and there's a cutscene every episode, not on every other goddamn corner, so 99% of the time, you're PLAYING the game, not watching it. Yep, it's my favourite shooter of all time. Nothing comes close.

We were recording while playing, and I'm in the process of getting those vids edited. So I might post some vids of our playthrough, maybe on YouTube, if I think they're good/funny/interesting enough.

Deshar wrote:

It's a good computer, yes. I'm thinking of doing a live stream with it.
Windows 7 acted up abit though at first but I fixed the problem.

Nifty. What'cha thinking of streaming?
And ya, Windows can hiccup every so often, but since I've now tried both Mac OSX and Linux, I've realised that I can't complain... because Win7 blows everything else out of the water.