The Computer/Console Gaming Thread

[Accel]

its still the same stuff over and over no matter the Generation

I just like using them to relieve stress

[Doubledealer]

Anyone played Dear Esther yet? I've been reading the reviews and it sounds really interesting. Looking forward to experiencing this one.

Edit: Just logged into Steam and it says it won't be available for another 9 hours.

[Bartrim]

It's my birthday tomorrow. My bro told me he got me UFC undisputed3 Bad news is that it's not actually released until 2 days after my birthday

[SkyWarp91]

OH MY GOD OH MY GOD I'M SO HAPPY! I JUST FINISHED DEMONS' SOULS ON THE PS3!!! AND THE LAST BATTLE I HAD WAS JUST SO DAMN EPIC, ONE THAT SHOULD BE RETOLD IN MUCH CALMER LOWER CASE TEXT BELOW!

So in this incredibly hard medieval-RPG game I was on the very last level where you would have to confront the false, evil King Allant. But in my way was the reanimated dead true prince Ostravia who had also turned evil. But even prior to him was a massive Blue Dragon that had scorched allied computer Knight Biorr to death. I avenged Biorr by slaying the dragon with literally hundreds of light arrows. Through the Dragon's death, I had hundreds of thousands of souls (the game currency).

This isn't the exciting part though.

You think that the obvious thing to do next after slaying this dragon would be to go fight Ostravia, right? But no, another player on the Playstation network had invaded my world in the form of a Black Phantom (basically a renimated version of a human being but all black with a super evil red-glow). This clever enemy by the name of 'tomjedi' had plotted to steal all of the souls I had just earned through avenging a dear friend of mine (Not very Jedi-ish of you, eh?). As I read the text announcing an invader, my first invader in this game, my heart skipped a beat. I took off my armor, placed on Biorr's and waited and thought to myself -
Who is this invader? Were they skilled? Or were they just some weak troll?

Then, in the far distance I see this lightly armored invader run across the fields welding a HUMONGOUS MEAT CLEAVER (Apparently the game's STRONGEST WEAPON). My heart started to panic as I realized I hadn't even equipped any healing items in my inventory yet as this invader ran towards me. He made a thundering slash at me, but I quickly dodged. However, my dodges were much slower as I had not gotten used to Biorr's heavy yet powerful armor. This invader kept slashing at me, but he was too slow and when the opportunity came, I stabbed him one. But the worst of horrors came, he HEALED himself. AGAIN. AND AGAIN. Basically, for the next hour or so, we went back and forth. He'd slash, I'd dodge and attack, he'd heal. Every now and then he'd lay down a hit, and I was slowly losing health.

Eventually, I knew that if we kept this up, I would not have enough time to heal and would soon die. So I had to think of a new tactic, and so I did. I decided to run up the stairs that we thought on and try and fight this tomjedi on a narrow pathway where certain death would be assured if one fell off the side. The corrupted-Ostravia was also waiting on the other end. My intentions were to eventually dodge all of this invader's attack and somehow push him off the edges. And if this plan failed, then perhaps involve Ostravia into the fight as a distraction so that I could heal myself. But no, I was unfortunate. No matter how hard I fought, I could not push off the invader off the edge, or trick him into rolling off. And as for Ostravia, it turns out that when you invade another player's world as a Black Phantom, you actually ALLY WITH OTHER EVIL COMPUTER PLAYERS. I realized this as I saw the invader run all the way up to Ostravia, yet the corrupted did not attack nor anything but simply turned over towards me and started walking. As both started walking towards me I thought holy crap, this is my end. I was going to lose all my hard-earned souls and was so so close to fighting the final boss of the game.

I quickly started running away from them, but damn Biorr's armor was too heavy. Tomjedi came up and quickly slashed me with his then-revealed small sword, I was losing small bits of health and quickly. But where was Ostravia? Well thanks to game programming the fella got stuck behind a pillar and decided to walk away from the fight. But the battle between me and Tomjedi roared on. I was certain that I was going to die as my speed could not out-dodge Tomjedi's swift small-sword attacks. But then I thought to myself - I CANNOT GIVE UP. NOT NOW. So I stood my ground, and used Biorr's shield to block Tomjedi's attacks and poked back at him with my sharp spear. Tomjedi was getting cocky, he was growing impatient with his attacks and they became more predictable. The tides of the battle had turned as I started winning, on 4 occasions I reduced Tomjedi's health to a mere 5%, but the lucky devil had a never-ending supply of healing goods and would keep replenishing himself to full health. Eventually he knew that he could not keep this up anymore, so he ran back to go get Ostravia. I knew that if I stayed, I would be doomed. And so I ran, ran all the way to the start of the level, hoping that I could use the game's archstone (a sword buried in stone) to teleport back to my safe-haven, the Nexus. I had lost Tomjedi but knew that he would catch up soon.

But as I got within view of the level's starting point, I noticed something. THERE WAS A WALL OF THICK FOG BLOCKING MY ACCESS TO THE ARCHSTONE. I could not escape and had to fight Tomjedi. If I fought him, I would lose all the souls needed to level up to fight the last boss. And in fighting Tomjedi, I would have used many of the health items needed to fight the last boss. But then I saw something in the corner of this battleground, it was a glowing-blue marking in the floor - A BLUE PHANTOM SPAWN POINT. (A blue phantom is an ally online player) I used the spawn point, hoping to invite a random online ally into battle... ....but no-one came. And in the corner of my eye I could see Tomjedi approaching by himself. Seems like he could not get Ostravia to follow him but I could not last that much longer in battle against him. But then, out of no-where (actually perhaps good ol' Lag), a savior by the name of 'thorpbe' came. NOW TWO CAN PLAY AT THAT GAME, TOMJEDI. I looked to my side to see a character that very-much resembled a normal version of Ostravia. As soon as he stepped besides me, Tomjedi had quit.

My panic was over.

Together, we cheered (you can actually do that using in-game gestures) and decided to go fight Ostravia and the last-boss together. We easily sliced down Ostravia and patiently took down the evil King Allant once and for all.

And when it was all over, I thanked Thorpbe dearly for saving my ass from being robbed by Tomjedi. He was modest about his involvement, but if it wasn't for him - I would have been SCREWED.

And that my friends, is an epic adventure worthy of spending an hour writing!

[Gutsman Heavy]

Epic!

[Doubledealer]

That's brilliant SkyWarp91, thanks for helping us re-live some of the final moments in one of my all time favourite games. I remember feeling incredibly sad when the game ended as I didn't think any other game would be able to top it...Then they made a sequel. As the Soul Calibur announcer would say: The Soul(s) still burns!

[doveduff]

I was playing Kingdoms-Of-Amalur.I ended up playing about two hours of this last night and had a pretty good time. The demo was hard to get into knowing that my character was not going to stick with me, but now that I'm actually playing the full game I'm definitely into it.

[SkyWarp91]

Dear gamers, especially those that are fans of Doom,

Does anyone know why this novel, the 3rd installment in a 4-part series of Doom novels costs $55 compared to the other novels which only cost like $6!?!?!?!??!

[Hursticon]

Dear gamers, especially those that are fans of Doom,

Does anyone know why this novel, the 3rd installment in a 4-part series of Doom novels costs $55 compared to the other novels which only cost like $6!?!?!?!??!

Because they're severely overcharging!

Have a geeze at BookDepository, I'm dead sure you'll find both the 3rd and 4th books there at a way reduced cost; I own the 1st 2 as they're based on Doom: Ultimate & Doom 2: Hell on Earth respectively, the 3rd and 4th aren't bound to any game and go off on their own tangent or so I've read.

Pleases me greatly that someone else is willing to pick these up, I'm pretty lonely in my Original Doom Fanboy status.

[Doubledealer]

Only Doom related book I've read is 'Masters of Doom' by David Kushner and it was epic.