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Re: Official Recent Game Happenings Thread
« Reply #7575 on: August 19, 2012, 11:35:02 PM »
Waiting for my day off on Tuesday so I can sink my teeth into the Last Story.

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Re: Official Recent Game Happenings Thread
« Reply #7576 on: August 20, 2012, 10:12:38 AM »
All of them are in my list except D3 GW2 and Hero acadamy. But regardless you should add me on steam.
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Re: Official Recent Game Happenings Thread
« Reply #7577 on: January 12, 2013, 11:38:27 AM »
I beat Paper Mario Sticker Star. It was pretty good, although I don't think it has any replay value.

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Re: Official Recent Game Happenings Thread
« Reply #7578 on: January 14, 2013, 07:40:37 PM »
Been playing some CS:GO competitive matches. Getting ok I guess.

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Re: Official Recent Game Happenings Thread
« Reply #7579 on: January 14, 2013, 07:45:13 PM »
I've been playing:
Need for Speed Most Wanted - Ps3 & Vita (no joke)
Tekken Tag Tournament 2 - PS3
Dayz Arma 2 Operation Arrowhead Mod - PC

Star Craft 2 Heart of the Swam BETA - PC (YAY :lol)

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Re: Official Recent Game Happenings Thread
« Reply #7580 on: January 14, 2013, 08:30:34 PM »
I'm addicted to Unchained Blade. It's an interesting dungeon crawler rpg, with a monster recruiting system similar to the Shin Megami Tensei games. I'm playing it on the 3DS, but I think it's also available on the PSP. I'm a little over ten hours in and still haven't beat the first Titan! And I think there's like ten of them or something, so I've got plenty of gameplay ahead of me.

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Re: Official Recent Game Happenings Thread
« Reply #7581 on: January 14, 2013, 08:36:50 PM »
I'm addicted to Unchained Blade. It's an interesting dungeon crawler rpg, with a monster recruiting system similar to the Shin Megami Tensei games. I'm playing it on the 3DS, but I think it's also available on the PSP. I'm a little over ten hours in and still haven't beat the first Titan! And I think there's like ten of them or something, so I've got plenty of gameplay ahead of me.
hm.. when was this released?  I haven't read anything on this game yet.

Sounds interesting!  Dungeon Crawler kind of like Diablo 2?  Or more RPG elements than action elements?

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Re: Official Recent Game Happenings Thread
« Reply #7582 on: January 15, 2013, 01:58:15 AM »
There is this werid ARPGMMO game thats about to come out into open beta called path of exile.

It looks alright, google it if you wanna take a gander at it.
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Re: Official Recent Game Happenings Thread
« Reply #7583 on: January 15, 2013, 05:17:57 AM »
I seem to be spending a lot of my time playing Tekken on my 3DS. Right now it is becoming my most played game.
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Re: Official Recent Game Happenings Thread
« Reply #7584 on: January 15, 2013, 02:58:17 PM »
I'm going to see If I can't get a competitive match or two in.
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Re: Official Recent Game Happenings Thread
« Reply #7585 on: January 15, 2013, 05:06:19 PM »
I really like the touch screen buttons for the 3DS Tekken. It gives me that "arcade feel" that I like.
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Re: Official Recent Game Happenings Thread
« Reply #7586 on: January 18, 2013, 03:01:57 PM »
hm.. when was this released?  I haven't read anything on this game yet.

Sounds interesting!  Dungeon Crawler kind of like Diablo 2?  Or more RPG elements than action elements?

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Unchained Blades was just released on the 3DS eShop about two weeks ago I think. It's eShop only (there's no physical copy/retail release) and it's like $29.99.

The dungeons are like this, where you walk around in a first person view and it's sort of a grid.

As you explore more of the dungeon, it fills out the map.

The batttles are random, and take you to a separate screen.


The leveling system is similar to the Sphere Grid from FFX. You start in one spot and move around on the grids. You don't have to level in a linear way; you can go down different paths depending on what kind of skills you wish to prioritize. Eventually you would probably max all of them out, but this way you have some customization on how you want to build the character.

The monster recruit system is more similar to SMT than say, Pokemon, because you can't just capture the monster. Some of them require you to have a high enough charisma, and then you have to "unchain" them. It's like a little mini-game where you have a circle that you have to stop before a certain point.


The monsters level up with XP, but you don't get to pick their skills or anything. And the monsters have a max level, so you always want to switch out monsters for better ones as you go. You can have a max of four monsters, and that's also somewhat dependent on your capacity and their rank. Some monsters are higher rank, so if your capacity is four, and you have two monsters with a rank of 2, you'd only be able to have those two monsters, because between them they fill up your capacity.

Storywise, I don't want to spoil it too much, but the premise is that your main characters are all trying to get a goddess to grant them a wish, and to do that, they have to defeat large monsters called Titans (similar to Shadow of the Colossus). Each character has a different wish and different abilities, and you have different parties for parts of the game.

It's pretty awesome and I highly recommend it.

One thing I will warn is that you should be prepared to do a lot of level grinding. Don't move on to the next floor of a dungeon until you can go through the floor you're on without using MP or losing health in battles. The difficulty of the monsters literally spikes with each floor of the dungeons. If you're not strong enough you'll die pretty quickly.


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Re: Official Recent Game Happenings Thread
« Reply #7587 on: January 21, 2013, 10:45:41 PM »
Building a nice little town in Sims city 4. Probably going to have to demolish and start over though...I don't have much experience so I may have mess up a bit.

Also, been playing some CS:GO. And tried playing some L4D2 with a friend but it kept laggin.
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Re: Official Recent Game Happenings Thread
« Reply #7588 on: March 02, 2013, 01:05:38 PM »
I've been trying to clear up a lot of my backlog. I beat the main scenario of One Piece: Pirate Warriors on PS3. Now I'm doing the "Another log" stories. I'm also trudging away at Ni No Kuni. Truly a marvel of a game.

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Re: Official Recent Game Happenings Thread
« Reply #7589 on: March 02, 2013, 07:38:48 PM »
I finished Fire Emblem Awakening with my first character. I'm playing through again with a male character and I'm about three levels from beating it again.  :lol

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Re: Official Recent Game Happenings Thread
« Reply #7590 on: March 02, 2013, 07:48:21 PM »
I just started 999 on my 3DSXL. Pretty solid so far.

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Re: Official Recent Game Happenings Thread
« Reply #7591 on: March 05, 2013, 10:12:34 AM »
Been playing BF3 and the Half-Life series.

Also just bought Dead Rising on sale in steam so gonna probably play that.
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Re: Official Recent Game Happenings Thread
« Reply #7592 on: March 05, 2013, 01:05:52 PM »
Playing Tomb Raider. I am helplessly addicted. The game is phenomenal.

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Re: Official Recent Game Happenings Thread
« Reply #7593 on: March 06, 2013, 05:21:20 AM »
getting mine tomorrow. Woot!
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Re: Official Recent Game Happenings Thread
« Reply #7594 on: March 06, 2013, 02:12:25 PM »
More BF3

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Re: Official Recent Game Happenings Thread
« Reply #7595 on: March 07, 2013, 05:52:17 PM »
Started on Tomb Raider. Love it so far.

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Re: Official Recent Game Happenings Thread
« Reply #7596 on: March 08, 2013, 01:05:16 PM »
Been playing some Dead Rising 2 and BF3
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Re: Official Recent Game Happenings Thread
« Reply #7597 on: March 08, 2013, 04:50:41 PM »
Me and my sister split Tomb Raider $30 apiece, but I haven't gotten around to playing it yet lol. She loves it, though. Some people are saying it's, like, more refined than Uncharted, or something like that. I'm anxious to see how it is.

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Re: Official Recent Game Happenings Thread
« Reply #7598 on: March 09, 2013, 07:19:44 AM »
Looks like Pac-Man & Galaga Dimensions has made a home in my 3DS. Some updated ole school fun.
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Re: Official Recent Game Happenings Thread
« Reply #7599 on: March 09, 2013, 09:16:55 AM »
Me and my sister split Tomb Raider $30 apiece, but I haven't gotten around to playing it yet lol. She loves it, though. Some people are saying it's, like, more refined than Uncharted, or something like that. I'm anxious to see how it is.

Yeah it is a lot smoother than Uncharted. But Tomb Raider as a franchise has been around a lot longer than Uncharted anyway, so it would have been weird if they didn't learn from the mistakes of Uncharted and the older Tomb Raider games. This new Tomb Raider nailed the combat, especially.