Currently Playing in 2014....

Just a quick heads up Joer, you might know this, but steam has a built in screenshot capture and hosting function you know? Like here's my gallery:

http://steamcommunity.com/id/winckle/screenshots/

It's all set up in the in game tab of steam settings.

Playing original Mass Effect. Sooo good. Although I am regretting letting the Rachni free after finding a side-quest where the Rachni were just strawberry floating gooseberry fool up.

Really enjoying Crysis on 360 now. Just started the 3rd level. Making a LOT of use of the stealth suit, so much so that I'm probably going to miss it when playing other shooters now.

Also made some more progress with The Dark Brotherhood in Skyrim. I've not touched quests in a few of the major cities yet, and I'm starting to wonder if I'm cutting any future quests off by killing these targets for the guild. One of the first side contracts was definitely someone involved in a previous misc mission I'd done earlier.

Had a cracking session online with KOFXIII last night.. Trying out a new team made up of Andy, Robert and Mature. Even though I lost overall they worked out quite well and soon started to gel.

Will perhaps try another mix this evening.

Totally don't get the hate for Halo 2. Sure, the single player was a bit wank but the multiplayer was second to none.

Winckle wrote:Just a quick heads up Joer, you might know this, but steam has a built in screenshot capture and hosting function you know? Like here's my gallery:

http://steamcommunity.com/id/winckle/screenshots/

It's all set up in the in game tab of steam settings.

Yeah, all those screenshots are from a quick F12, but cheers for the heads up anyway!

Joer wrote:

Winckle wrote:Just a quick heads up Joer, you might know this, but steam has a built in screenshot capture and hosting function you know? Like here's my gallery:

http://steamcommunity.com/id/winckle/screenshots/

It's all set up in the in game tab of steam settings.

Yeah, all those screenshots are from a quick F12, but cheers for the heads up anyway!

I think his point was you can link to them directly from your Steam profile.

Steam's so sluggish when it comes to my screenshot library though, that's why I linked them from that tumblr account.

Brerlappins little hat wrote:also the compression on steam screenshots is pretty awful (if you care about that kind of thing)

I think it'll be ok for screenshots of Hali-Life

The Binding of Isaac is pretty amazing, can't get enough of it. Surprised at how easy it was after playing Super Meat Boy but the later levels are definitely a challenge and I'm struggling to beat Mom!

Corazon de Leon wrote:Totally don't get the hate for Halo 2. Sure, the single player was a bit wank but the multiplayer was second to none.

I didn't have Xbox Live back then, or even internet where I stayed. I imagine a lot of Xbox owners weren't on Live either - the high uptake has really only came about since the 360.

Brerlappins little hat wrote:

StayDead wrote:The reason why the first Halo's single player was so good is it was a different experience all together. Halo 2 captured this too but I think Halo 3 was when the formula got a bit stale. I've not got to play Reach though yet so I can't say how good that is.

ODST was quite good as it was unlike anything the Halo series had done before.

Aside from the cortana level, personally i think 3 is the best. Its got a great story, great setpieces and again aside from cortana, some great levels.

3>Reach>ODST>CE>2

Ooh lists, Brer almost gets it right

3>CE>Reach>ODST>2

Mortal Kombat

Got this for my birthday. Knew nothing about it and it's been a great surprise. Going to get stuck into it properly later.

Henke wrote:

Corazon de Leon wrote:Totally don't get the hate for Halo 2. Sure, the single player was a bit wank but the multiplayer was second to none.

I didn't have Xbox Live back then, or even internet where I stayed. I imagine a lot of Xbox owners weren't on Live either - the high uptake has really only came about since the 360.

I dunno, there was a reasonably high percentage uptake for Live on XBox.

I bought Need for Speed The Run a few weeks back for cheap. Started it last night and boy, it is a stinker no? Awful handling and the graphics compared to Hot Pursuit are terrible!

Also played the Rhythm Thief demo, could end up very special this game.

Ninja Blade


Runs horrifically on my PC, but I managed to get it playable.

It seems quite fun and there are some good ideas in there, but it's not got a very deep combat system and it's genuinely no exagerration to say that it is essentially QTE: The Game. About a third of the gameplay is QTEs.

The dialogue is also horrendously bad. So bad it's good, in fact. For example:

Guy becomes a traitor and stabs another guy in the heart with a sword and the guy just survives. Doctor comes out with "It missed a major artery by millimeters. It would take a master swordsman to make that mistake on purpose."

What?

Ninja Blade is fan strawberry floating tastic. I've been meaning to replay it.

Just finished Mass Effect 1. Can't decide whether to play another game first before I reply ME2. Thinking I might play Splinter Cell HD or maybe Driver San Fran but I can't decide. Hmm... Could play Killzone 3 actually. Hmm, hmm, hmmmm....

Okay, FarCry 2 is HUGE. However I like the pace of the game which means I can just jump in and out and not feel pressured to blaze through it.

Fired up Bayonetta. It's teh awesome.

And at around 11:30 last night I had an overwhelming urge to play RE: Code Veronica X.

Tragic Magic wrote:Just finished Mass Effect 1. Can't decide whether to play another game first before I reply ME2. Thinking I might play Splinter Cell HD or maybe Driver San Fran but I can't decide. Hmm... Could play Killzone 3 actually. Hmm, hmm, hmmmm....

Driver San Francisco is oodles of fun. Play that.