Wear them proudly! TBH, I wish you could make custom dog tags in BF3. I'd make TPWW ones and make sure all the TPWW players had them

I'm balls deep in Dead Space 2 right now.

Games I've Beaten in 2012:

Saints Row: The Third - 86
Ultimate MvC 3 - 80
Mortal Kombat - 85
From Dust - 75
Street Fighter III: Third Strike Online Edition - 60
Skate 3 - 82
Back to the Future: The Game - 70
Gears of War 3 - 76
The Simpsons: The Arcade Game - 56
Mass Effect 3 - 86
Payday: The Heist - 70
MLB 12: The Show - 83
NBA 2K12 - 79
Deadly Premonition - Fuck You
Goldeneye: Reloaded - 9
Street Fighter X Tekken - 42
Bastion - 90
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Trilogy Collection HD - n/a
Resident Evil 5 - 70
Dungeon Defenders - 78
Resistance 3 - 53

There was an unnecessarily long install, 3D mode was bad, weird textures, glitches where the AI partners would be stuck in an area where they need to be at a door to unlock it, dumb AI partners in general as none of them killed anyone, when I would click the LS it would toss a grenade for no reason maybe 20% of the time and I never tried online mode because a pass is needed. It's a fine shooter I guess, I'm just sick of playing shooters so when little things like that start to add up is when a decent game becomes average to bad. This one is somewhere in the average to bad scale.

Finished Resident Evil Operation Raccoon City on XBOX. It's like Left 4 Dead in a 3rd person view...

And also I finished the kick-ass Max Payne 3 on PC. I felt sad of what happened to Fabiana. :( She's like the Brazilian Paris Hilton... I love the Matrix slow mo when shooting.. Why can't there be more games with this kind of stuff to avoid dying?

Beat the main story of Kingdoms of Amalur and four of the house quests.

Been playing Dragons Dogma heavily, i don't understand why there isn't a bigger thread, the game is fucking beast, I'm like level 80 at the moment, and if anyone plays it, take my pawn >:o

RE4 for the 50th time, Heavy Rain(again), and MLB the show 12.

Diablo III, Venetica and Silent Hill HD collection on PS3, although "playing" is stretching it...more like "occasionally turning on" being that I have next to no time for games lately...

Diablo III and Prototype 2

Finished the 1st Max Payne on PC. Explosive ending.. Man, that CEO bitch Nicole was a pain in the ass, always running away.. That's what villains do these days.

Now on to the 2nd one where it left off. I'm stuck in the level of the NYPD HQ where I need to meet Mona.

Started Resident Evil Zero today. On a RE fix lately. So far its pretty awesome...

crackdown 2

Still playing Diablo 3, and now I'm trying to finish Sacred 2 again. Fuck me Sacred 2 is a HUGE game if you try to play it thoroughly. You can actually walk further than they do in the Lord of the Rings movies, and I did not think that was possible in any context.

Well currently my first agenda is to open up another can on Roxers bitch ass

other than mlb the show, new ghost recon, borderlands

A can of what? A can of sprite? A can of canned aier to clean yr computer?

I might be incredibly bias here, since Spider Man is my all time favorite hero and because it's been forever since the last open world web-slinging Spider Man game, but the Amazing Spider Game may be my favorite game of the year so far.

Yeah it looks good.

Games beaten in 2012:
Sonic 2 (XBLA version)
Call of Duty Black Ops
Portal (Xbox 360 Orange Box version)
Rainbow Six Vegas 2
Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword
Wayne Gretzky's 3D Hockey

Arcade style hockey game from Midway but with a lot more cheating CPU than normal in a Midway game. Almost ended up ruining the game but managed to win the Cup.

Probably going to just play some random games in the collection until The Last Story comes out 2 weeks from now.

Finished Max Payne 2 Hard Boiled level. Now I can play the hardest level where

Because of some chief motivation in the form of ass kickings, I have return full time to SFxT. Akuma has joined my ranks, for the first time in 8 years.

Just finished Dragon Age as a mage. Was a lot more difficult than I expected considering the fact that I was playing on casual.

Really liked it though. The controls felt super-weird, but duh. I am going to play 2 soon.

Should've been spec'd Arcane Warrior, easy mode for mages in that game.

Lately I have been playing:

Guitar Hero 3: Legends of Rock (PS2)
WWE '12 (XBOX 360)
Mortal Kombat Arcade Kollection (XBOX 360)
Harvest Moon: Animal Parade (Wii)
Wii Sports (Wii)

Resident Evil Zero (Gamecube)

Lego Batman 2
Max Payne 3

Gone back to Fallout New Vegas. Wonder if I can stick with it this time.

Games I've Beaten in 2012:

Saints Row: The Third - 86
Ultimate MvC 3 - 80
Mortal Kombat - 85
From Dust - 75
Street Fighter III: Third Strike Online Edition - 60
Skate 3 - 82
Back to the Future: The Game - 70
Gears of War 3 - 76
The Simpsons: The Arcade Game - 56
Mass Effect 3 - 86
Payday: The Heist - 70
MLB 12: The Show - 83
NBA 2K12 - 79
Deadly Premonition - Fuck You
Goldeneye: Reloaded - 9
Street Fighter X Tekken - 42
Bastion - 90
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Trilogy Collection HD - n/a
Resident Evil 5 - 70
Dungeon Defenders - 78
Resistance 3 - 53
Dark Souls - 95

For my thoughts on the game read some of the zillions of replies in the thread.

Working on: Magicka, Borderlands, Bunch of Heroes, Alien Swarm, Trine, LOTR: TWITN, Soul Calibur V, Metal Gear Solid Collection

Beat Brutal Legend, and I enjoyed it.

It has a likeable cast of characters, excellent art direction, a compelling narrative, the gameplay is intuitive and fun, and the voice acting is tops across the board.

I was off-put by the mix of hack-and-slash with RTS at first, but it became second nature pretty quickly thanks to the control scheme.

If I had to find a major fault with Brutal Legend, it would be that it's rather easy.

The final boss in particular is a cakewalk, and there really isn't a penalty for dying...also, for a game that was driven so much by character interaction and an grand mythic story, the ending was a bit too brief and felt hollow to me.

In addition, you're given a pretty large world to explore, but there isn't much to do in it.
You have your main quests, and side quests, but the side quests vary between 3-4 different types which all play largely the same.
Outside of that you can go on the standard scavenger hunt for various relics and monuments, but the rewards provided for finding them aren't worth the trouble and time used for searching them out.

That aside, I really did enjoy the game.
The combat is fun, the story engaging, I totally loved the artistic direction (particularly in the Black Metal region) and I found myself laughing on many occasions because the game can be genuinely funny at times.

If you haven't played it, I recommend giving it a try, as it can be had very cheaply (got my copy from newegg.com for $5) especially if you're a metal head, or if you just want a light, fun game to play without having to worry about it whipping your ass without mercy.

Mass Effect 3... This is totally right up there alongside Halo only better!

Lego Batman 2, dunno not as good as the 1st i dont think.

That's very disappointing to hear. I was looking forward to that.

Its still worth getting, you get to play as the Justice League etc., just seems a bit funny now that they speak. Think Hasney said it in another thread but its lost a little of its charm because of it.

I'm still in if I can bust things up with the Green Lantern.

Is the character creator deal in again? Kind of sucks in the first one that you had to beat the thing twice before you unlocked everything. I wanted to play as Azreal, but didn't see the point after beating the whole game twice already.:(

You get an achievement for defeating Sinestro with Lantern/Zod with Superman. Yeah think so,its in the Batcave, not sure if you have to complete the story first to unlock it though. You're actually running around Gotham between levels, all the non story specific characters are there for you to unlock like the Pirates game, you need Superman to open up parts of the city/flash/lantern to build things.

Games beaten in 2012:
Sonic 2 (XBLA version)
Call of Duty Black Ops
Portal (Xbox 360 Orange Box version)
Rainbow Six Vegas 2
Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword
Wayne Gretzky's 3D Hockey
WCW/NWO Revenge

Finally got around to playing Revenge after buying it over a year ago and getting the replacement AV cables for the N64 last month. Also was splitting time between that game and beating Rainbow Six Vegas 2 on Realistic mode.

Batman Begins (Gamecube) this is one of the few games based on a movie that is pretty entertaing (despite being rather limited)

lol WHAT?!

I may be alittle behind, but I just started playing through Skyrim. I'm playing as a Nord battlemage named Scott Roberts.

Beat in 2012 - Rating
Assassins Creed: Revelations - 2/5
Mass Effect 2 - 5/5
Mass Effect 3 - 4/5
Modern Warfare 3 - 3/5
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning - 4/5
The Witcher 2 - 3/5
Trine 2 - 3/5
Dragon's Dogma - 3/5
The Amazing Spider-Man - 5/5

I fucking loved it. Being able to actually webswing through the city sold me on this game before I even played it. Loved the Batman: AA/AC style indoors parts too.

"Beat" in 2012:

The Binding Of Isaac - 7/10
The Witcher 2 - 10/10
Limbo - 5/10
And Yet It Moves - 4/10
VVVVVV - 6/10
Alien Swarm - 6/10
NecroVision (2nd time) - 7/10
Spongebob Squarepants The Movie 2/10
Space Marine 8/10

Currently playing:

Dawn of War 2: Retribution
Dead Island
Trine 2

Settle down.

Beat in 2012:
Demon's Souls
The Adventures of Alundra
Catherine
Dead Nation
Uncharted 2
Journey
Blazblue: Calamity Trigger
Brutal Legend
Batman Arkham Asylum
Resident Evil 5
Shin Megami Tensei Nocturne
Skyrim

Currently playing:
Blazblue Continuum Shift Extend
Final Fantasy XIII-2
Wipeout HD (Got it for free last year. No idea whats going on here)

RIGHT NOW: Fifa 12

took a few month break but finally feel 'into it' again. have been beatin the fuck outta peeps.

Going through Resident Evil 2 again...such a great game.

Games beaten in 2012:
Sonic 2 (XBLA version)
Call of Duty Black Ops
Portal (Xbox 360 Orange Box version)
Rainbow Six Vegas 2
Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword
Wayne Gretzky's 3D Hockey
WCW/NWO Revenge
Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time

After owning the game for years, finally got around to finishing it since all I had left was the final boss fight. Either became preoccupied with other games or just forgot to bother finishing it a lot of times.


Main games Currently Playing:
Metroid Prime 3
Portal 2

I got back into Old Republic. God, what fun game. I also picked up Final Fantasy 10 and I'm hooked on that. Except for Blitzball. Concept is great, but needs to be executed diferently. I suck at math.

Urgh. Hate Blitzball. One of the reasons I havent finished FF10 yet...

You dont have to win a single match of Blitzball to finish FFX.

Blitzball was easy as shit all you need is Sphere Shot

Yeah, and you gotta play some to get Wakka's super weapon I think?

FFX has the most annoying cast out of any FF game I think...

If you want to unlock all of his Overdrives and his ultimate weapon you'll have to play a lot of Blitzball. You dont NEED any of them but they will help with Dark Aeons / Arena bosses if you're going after them. Just sign a good goalkeeper (ie. the guy on the bench at Moonflow) and sphere shot / jecht shot the shit out of everything.

Games I've beaten so far in 2012:
Forza 3
Fight Night Round 4
WWE '12 Road to Wrestlemania mode
Earthworm Jim HD

Really hate that game right now. So hard for no reason, especially the "Pete" escort level and the last level.

Beat in 2012 - Rating
Assassins Creed: Revelations - 2/5
Mass Effect 2 - 5/5
Mass Effect 3 - 4/5
Modern Warfare 3 - 3/5
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning - 4/5
The Witcher 2 - 3/5
Trine 2 - 3/5
Dragon's Dogma - 3/5
The Amazing Spider-Man - 5/5
NBA2K12 - N/A
Warriors Orochi 3 - 4/5

Not gonna give a rating, but since I broke Wilt Chamberlain's single game points record in My Player mode, I'm just gonna consider the game beat.

Finished Mass Effect 2. Less depressing ending than the 3rd..

Games I've beaten so far in 2012:
Forza 3
Fight Night Round 4
WWE '12
Earthworm Jim HD
X-Men: The Arcade Game
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II

Games I've Beaten in 2012:

Saints Row: The Third - 86
Ultimate MvC 3 - 80
Mortal Kombat - 85
From Dust - 75
Street Fighter III: Third Strike Online Edition - 60
Skate 3 - 82
Back to the Future: The Game - 70
Gears of War 3 - 76
The Simpsons: The Arcade Game - 56
Mass Effect 3 - 86
Payday: The Heist - 70
MLB 12: The Show - 83
NBA 2K12 - 79
Deadly Premonition - Fuck You
Goldeneye: Reloaded - 9
Street Fighter X Tekken - 42
Bastion - 90
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Trilogy Collection HD - n/a
Resident Evil 5 - 70
Dungeon Defenders - 78
Resistance 3 - 53
Dark Souls - 95
Lord of the Rings: The War in the North - n/a

I don't care. The dialogue from the characters was incredibly verbose in describing who they are and where they're from and where they're going in the Tolkienism of being described as "Gydneyelsdij of Fryreshuierh" and "Havelkernp from Flendermore" and after a while my head started to hurt and I just didn't give a fuck.

Combat isn't great. The AI teammates aren't spectacular. The camera is bad.

I beat the first chapter and now I'm sending it out. Waste of time.

Working on: Borderlands, The Walking Dead, Dear Esther, Terraria, Magicka, Trine 2, Soul Calibur V, Metal Gear Solid Collection, maybe Portal 2 co-op (forgot I haven't touched it for 360)

Shit, forgot to put down the Walking Dead episodes, beat both and forgot to add them to the list.

Beat in 2012 - Rating
Assassins Creed: Revelations - 2/5
Mass Effect 2 - 5/5
Mass Effect 3 - 4/5
Modern Warfare 3 - 3/5
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning - 4/5
The Witcher 2 - 3/5
Trine 2 - 3/5
Dragon's Dogma - 3/5
The Amazing Spider-Man - 5/5
NBA2K12 - N/A
Warriors Orochi 3 - 4/5
The Walking Dead Eps 1&2 - 4/5 for both.

"Beat" in 2012:

The Binding Of Isaac - 7/10
The Witcher 2 - 10/10
Limbo - 5/10
And Yet It Moves - 4/10
VVVVVV - 6/10
Alien Swarm - 6/10
NecroVision (2nd time) - 7/10
Spongebob Squarepants The Movie - 2/10
Space Marine - 8/10
Trine 2 - 8/10

Currently playing:

Dawn of War 2: Retribution
Dead Island
Risen
Wolfenstein

I've gone back to owning and now, once again playing, The Elder Scrolls IV: OBLIVION Game of the Year Edition. Can't believe it's been like 5 years since it came out. Best main story of the entire series to date, IMHO, but who knows? If they ever do TES VI, maybe it will actually be compelling instead of MEH like TES V was (in the sense of the storyline, not the overall experience).

Back To The Future
Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim
Half-Life 2
Fallout:New Vegas w/ all DLC
Fear 3
Prototype 2
Left 4 Dead 1/2

Gave Up:
Diablo III-- Took me till the Steam Summer Sale to wake me from that nightmare of a grind fest where I turn up with nothing. I stayed loyal that whole time, but refused and will always refuse to pay Real Money at the Real Money Auction House.

Games I've Beaten in 2012:

Saints Row: The Third - 86
Ultimate MvC 3 - 80
Mortal Kombat - 85
From Dust - 75
Street Fighter III: Third Strike Online Edition - 60
Skate 3 - 82
Back to the Future: The Game - 70
Gears of War 3 - 76
The Simpsons: The Arcade Game - 56
Mass Effect 3 - 86
Payday: The Heist - 70
MLB 12: The Show - 83
NBA 2K12 - 79
Deadly Premonition - Fuck You
Goldeneye: Reloaded - 9
Street Fighter X Tekken - 42
Bastion - 90
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Trilogy Collection HD - n/a
Resident Evil 5 - 70
Dungeon Defenders - 78
Resistance 3 - 53
Dark Souls - 95
Lord of the Rings: The War in the North - n/a
Bunch of Heroes - fair
Alien Swarm - good
Magicka - great
Jamestown - really great

I saw a bunch of the co-op games I haven't beaten a few days ago that have been in my steam library for ages and thought I might try to beat them but fuck it. They're fine games but there are finer games out there. Magicka is pretty great but I'm not so hot with m+k and the controller config is a bit weird. Jamestown is good too but I don't like how the campaign is laid out. Lack of online co-op too. Great soundtrack though.

Might try to dive into some of these HIB games that I've never gotten around to.

Working on: Borderlands DLC, The Walking Dead, DYAD, Dear Esther, Terraria, Trine 2, Super Meat Boy, Soul Calibur V, Metal Gear Solid Collection, maybe Portal 2 co-op (forgot I haven't touched it for 360)

Beat in 2012 - Rating
Assassins Creed: Revelations - 2/5
Mass Effect 2 - 5/5
Mass Effect 3 - 4/5
Modern Warfare 3 - 3/5
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning - 4/5
The Witcher 2 - 3/5
Trine 2 - 3/5
Dragon's Dogma - 3/5
The Amazing Spider-Man - 5/5
NBA2K12 - N/A
Warriors Orochi 3 - 4/5
The Walking Dead Eps 1&2 - 4/5 for both.
Sniper Elite V2 - 2/5
Sleeping Dogs - 3/5
Transformers: Fall of Cybertron - 5/5

Sleeping Dogs - Good game, liked the story and driving around Hong Kong. Combat was kinda slow tho, and while driving around Hong Kong was nice, I would've liked a better fast travel feature.

Transformers: Fall of Cybertron: Might just be me loving Transformers, but the only complaint personally that I have is not being able to play Grimlock till the second to last chapter of the game :(

Games beaten in 2012:
Sonic 2 (XBLA version)
Call of Duty Black Ops
Portal (Xbox 360 Orange Box version)
Rainbow Six Vegas 2
Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword
Wayne Gretzky's 3D Hockey
WCW/NWO Revenge
Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time
Castlevania Dawn of Sorrow

Felt a lot shorter overall than the only other handheld Castlevania I ever played (Harmony of Dissonance) but not as confusing to get around besides 2 spots. The souls system works out great but the use of magic seals to end boss fights became frustrating once the seals got more complex.

Probably going to get around to beating Portal 2 and replay Majora's Mask as my main games for now. Currently on a hiatus with Metroid Prime 3.

Red Dead Redemption (replay)
Mass Effect - Hiatus
Dark Souls - Hiatus
Civilization 4 - Engulfed

Daikatana :p

Games I've beaten so far in 2012:
Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
Journey
Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne

Was so hard, took me forever, got the shittiest ending, nothing happened. Have to spent 20 more hours beating the optional dungeon I guess

I ended up with the "Human" ending because all three reasons are batshit insane. The endings all suck except True Demon. Fuck that optional dungeon though. Damage floors everwhere, random boss level enemies every five steps, random warps, hardest three bosses in the game. You can't even win against the last boss unless you specifically clone a party with a specific skill from a monster that costs an insane ammount of macca. I pretty much gave up on that as soon as I beat Dante.

Red Dead Redemption, been developing a fan theory for it.

The demon ending? Where they're just like yo... you're a demon, that's about it, alright. That's the one I got. I felt the same way about all three of the reasons. I got to the third kalpa of the labyrinth and I don't think I ever got past the part where Dante chases you around and shoots at you. What level were you in when you finished? My main dude was in 85, then the others were like 80-84.

Also I somehow fused the Fiend Trumpeter towards the end of the game, and the last skill that he learned was a move that instantly killed the enemy with the lowest HP percentage, even if they were at 100%. It was so helpful in that fucking final dungeon.

I think I'm gonna try to finish the labyrinth because of that one move, and I also got a Chakra Elixir which seems to be a never ending MP rejuvenator, so why not

I actually wanted to realize the reason of the Manikins

What game dat?

Nocturne

True demon is what you get for finishing the kalpas. Regular Demon is the worst ending, but the reason endings are all generally underwhelming too since they dont actually show you anything of the new world. My demi-fiend was about 74 I think, Kagutsuchi took me forever because I was using mainly phys-null demons and relying on Daisoujou to heal me every turn. Luckily my party had all the buffs / debuffs so i didn't get absolutely murdered. Must have been in that battle for 40 mins at least though.

That would have been a cool option, that part in the promised land was absolutely brutal. All the real humans were such dickheads.

I didn't even get to face Kagatsuchi. It just told me that the world can't be created by a demon and then it went to credits. The longest fight I remember was Noah, Isamu's god who kept changing his resistance. I got the hang of it after a while but he had so much HP.

Resident Evil Twooooooo

What a bunch of bullshit, you can't progress in the labyrinth after you create the Tower of Kagatsuchi. So I beat Dante in the third kalpa and then literally was stuck there with no way to progress nor return to the vortex world. Couldn't even watch the peephole scene.

Sold Modern Warfare 3, bought Fallout: New Vegas.

Pretty excited for that.

The Last Story

Future criteria for playing "current gen" RPG that most modern games do which makes me hate them:

- Battle systems that require more than 30 seconds of tutorials
- Massive towns that you get thrust into and have all different types of stores
- Complex equipment upgrading systems

I can't deal with these. I just started playing The Last Story and it's guilty of all three. The only games I ever settle down with are ones that pretty much need no explanation.

Ouch. I made a backup save before I summoned it just in case I ever felt like taking on the last two kalpas / finishing the Jack Frost minigame. Wouldn't want to go through the entire thing again.

Final Fantasy 13, just started, maybe 20 minutes into the game and I find it pretty terrible so far.

It doesn't get much better

Moms are tough

Nocturne might have the best battle music ever

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Lyrics:

I am Heaven above and outside you!
I have your back to the wall!
Survive the fall from grace!
Drink of the wine of the wrath of God!
One more god rejected! I am Heaven above and outside you!
One more god rejected! I have your back to the wall!
One more god rejected! Survive the fall from grace!
Thou wilt not oppose the wrath of God!

Madden
TOR
Fallout 3.

Surprising, considering FF 9 and 10 were great. Haven't played 12 though...
But this barely feels like a FF game so far...

It never feels like a Final Fantasy game and if you don't care for the story / characters then you probably won't like it at all. I didn't think it was horrible but it's not even comparable to anything from FF6-10.

hehe, good thing I waited until it was 19.99 to buy it then.

Haven't played anything since the first 10 mins of FFX-2

Since this seems to be the general discussion thread, Is a playthrough of Fallout 3 needed before New Vegas to understand the story.

Nah, it's a completely seperate story. There's a few minor references to the previous games in various sidequests but thats about it.

Thought as much, Thanks.