What are you playing right now?

gr8jrfan said:

Portal 2 was 2011 dude. Like early 2011 too. It came out the day of the PSN outage.

That makes sense. I was basing this stuff off of my trophy lists for 2012, but I remember playing Portal 2 soon after it came out. But that was on my second account. I did it on my main account a year later. I didn't think 2012 was right. I knew it came out in April or so of some year, which would have made some sense with when I got the trophies on my main account if it had come out in 2012.

Seibei4211 said:

I forgot a really important GotY nominee. Bioshock Infinite. Tomb Raider was also super cool. And for last year, Spec Ops: The Line, anyone? At least storywise.

'The Line' and 'Far Cry 3' are exemplary games and, I think, really did push the boundaries of how dark games could go, with severe and drastic consequences pushing characters to the very brink. The very themes of what a true protagonist is was questioned and analyzed in both games flawlessly; salvation and redemption for actions committed underlies the very gameplay; is there possibly any “good” we can do, than what's presented? I've said it before, and feel these two games, as well as a few more, are quite possibly the most beautiful games to have been released due to their depiction of “protagonists” being shrouded in a dark world with no other choices than the most unfortunate of them.

I773D33MABL3 said:

I really need to start making a dent in my backlog

Tell me about it…

Gave 'PAYDAY 2' a proper conclusion earlier that included the plat and the inevitable deletion of the title – ***NO PROFANE LANGUAGE PLEASE*** that game. Spent a good few hours these past few days just grinding 'RATS' Day 3 on 'Overkill' difficulty that gave me 37, 118 for each 30 second run – level 100 requires 23.3 million XP. Quite glad to be done with the title though, as I can now sleep accordingly without the inducing nightmares of grinding or luck based challenges

I completely forgot that there wasn't an 'Uncharted 2' boosting session tonight, so I was completely anticipating finally acquiring my long desired 100%; unfortunately, it'll have to be on hold until tomorrow night   'Uncharted 3' will begin immediately once a good buddy of mine shows up during the week

Downloading 'Grand Theft Auto V' and will be starting the 'Online' portion once it's installed; got my crew since 'Max Payne 3', so I'm quite stoked

I was playing a bunch of Resogun recently. I did not think I would like that game as much as I do. It's weird how easy it is to just sort of feel like replaying those levels even though there's only 5 levels. Like, it's just hard enough, but totally doable enough, that I feel like playing until I beat it. I ended up getting most of the hard trophies on my secondary account, so I think I'll go ahead and redo it on my main account soon just because I like that game.

I've also been doing Tales of Xillia. This is, quite likely, the best Tales game to date. They keep improving and evolving this series. I wasn't sure how I would feel about the return of the AC point system from Graces, but they made it way better. You don't have to sit there and wait for it to recharge. It just comes back after a second once you've depleted it. Also, attacks take only one point no matter what, instead of increasing points like in Graces. And you can chain ANY attacks you want, including Artes. You don't have to do weird attack trees like in Graces.

Auto-items are really nice and let you not have to worry about pausing to use items all the time. It's very reminiscent of the FFXII gambit system. You can switch what characters you're controlling during battle, and you can even quickly swap in your reserve characters if you need something specific. The linked partner skills are actually really useful and all of the enemies are susceptible to certain partner skills. The character skills also make each character unique and useful. Like I don't have four characters that are clearly better than the other two in this game. They're all pretty good.

Screw it, there are too many improvements to even talk about. There's just a huge laundry list of streamlining and improvements done in this game. I can't believe they went from Graces to this. It's like the jump from Ratchet & Clank 1 to 2.

Dusted off Hell mode in 'Diablo Tres' finally – now on Inferno; should have the bad boy finished off this weekend which leaves me to the grind of 5 million gold with a few misc. trophies along the way. As I773 said prior, I will not be making this an agonizing grind to go through; rather, I'll probably create a Demon Hunter class when I'm about halfway through the grind, or even before that, as I want to experience and enjoy as much as I can from the title as possible.

Completed 'Madness Returns' a week or so back, and now solely have collectibles that need to be attained for the plat. I'm still attempting to gather my thoughts on if I actually did enjoy this title, or if I was just intrigued by the art design and concept rather than the actual game itself. During the last few chapters of the game, I became rather bored due to the dull platforming and uneventful scenarios I was thrown in. While the ending was cool, I wished it had whet my appetite a little more in demanding a sequel for this game.

Just about to touch Lvl 60 in hardcore mode in D3. Then onto the Inferno playthrough. I think I might also make that my speedrun and see if I can beat Acts 1-3 in under an hour each. I'll still have plenty to do in hardcore but I can clean that up with Scotty and Kriggs. In the meantime I'll be starting a new playthrough with a new character. I recently learned that there's a challenge for 100 million gold which has just put the playtime through the roof. I still haven't hit the trophy for 5 million yet! Although once I start farming properly it'll be with a paragon character and on Inferno difficulty so gold will be far more plentiful.

Apart from that I've been getting into the new Killzone. I've decided that it's going to be my staple MP for the PS4. It's far smoother t play than the previous two versions and the lack of ranks is unusual. If I have one complaint it's the lack of clan support. KZ2 had probably the best setup for that I've ever seen so this is a real step-down.

I recently discovered the Steam sale and such I've been playing a few titles I never paid much attention to. Being a huge fan of the 40k universe I picked up Space Hulk but as a pretty much direct translation of the board game it's fairly limp. Plodding and frustrating. 

I did, however, have better luck with Anno 2070. I had one of the earlier Sim City titles years ago but I never played it properly and just watched my cities fall into collapse. So this is my first proper effort at a sim and so far I'm loving it. It's difficult enough as I'm not at all used to the genre so learning (slowly) as I go. I've toyed with the campaign but I really wanted the full sandbox experience so I started up a continuous game and I've already poured a few hours into it. It's pretty hard to drag yourself away from as there's always something that needs attention or just about to advance.

My third purchase was Bastion but I haven't got to it yet. Looks interesting.