What are you playing right now?

I've been playing Darksiders now that I finally have an adapter to connect my wireless 360 controller to my pc (did not want to work at all with my regular pc gamepad). I gotta say, it's been a lot of fun, up until I hit this Starfox-style flying section. Thing about it is, the flying section is kinda tough, but more than that, it's kinda boring, so I just can't muster the enthusiasm to plow through it. It's just not really what I wanted after hacking and slashing my way through the game up until that point. I wanna go back to splattering demons with my giant sword, not shooting down things while flying an arwing-I mean dragon.

Revisiting the Jak and Daxter series (the first three games anyway). Building up a long-winded rant on these; expect a spew of reviews once I'm finished revisiting the third.

I just downloaded an indie RPG called Grinsia for my 3DS. It's... not awful. Not very deep so far.

Got bored of Grinsia, decided to power through Skyward Sword, since I hadn't done Hero Mode yet. Lemme tell you, as someone wh oenjoyed combat the first time through, the novelty had worn off by now. Swimming in particular is obnixous. Though in terms of environments and story, it's tied with Link's Awakening and Majora's Mask as my top pick. If Skyward Sword would have let people use the classic controller or a gamecube controller instead of wii remote only, gameplay issues would have been next to none. Still, though, I wish you could go from Faron to Eldin to Lanayru without having to go to the sky. The Sealed Temple really should have had more than one exit. Also, what the hell gives with the two life medals? Give us 8 more heart pieces. That not only wasted two slots in an already way too limited inventory, but it cut out on more adventuring. Shields, too, should not have been a pouch item. Oh, also, the gratitude crystal sidequest was weak as hell.

As for Hero Mode, it was a lot harder than I had imagined. I knew there were no hearts or heart flowers (unless you had the heart medal, which kind of moots the point...), but I didn't realize enemies dealt twice the damage. It was frustrating at times, but the extra challenge never felt cheap. Except during the thunder dragon's lightning round when I had to go against Ghirahim's horde as my 8th battle. Needless to say, it took a while to get the Hylian Shield in this playthrough. Demise was as easy as ever, though, even if he can kill you in 5 hits.

Ah well, on to Ni No Kuni and Bioshock Infinite.

I've been playing the PC version of Terraria a lot more lately, mostly cause up until last week the 360 version was buggy as hell after the last update.
Got to the point where I've cleared all the pre-hardmode bosses sans the Wall of Flesh (including the pre-HM Crimson boss in another world) and I'm planning to work on boxing off areas to hinder/prevent the spread of Corruption/Hallow once I hit hardmode. Also, got a few games on 360 last week cause they were on sale (Deus Ex Human Revoution, Beautiful Katamari, and a few others)

Etrian Odyssey Untold swallowed my life last week.

I've been replaying a game called Glory of Heracles, which is an Ancient Greece themed RPG on the DS. The reason I'm explaining this is because I've yet to meet a single person who has heard of it without me telling them about it.

I just finished Yoshi's Island on SNES. I'm also trying to get through Guardian Legend on NES. That game is super tough.

GrantGreif wrote:I've been replaying a game called Glory of Heracles, which is an Ancient Greece themed RPG on the DS. The reason I'm explaining this is because I've yet to meet a single person who has heard of it without me telling them about it.

I've heard of it and also own it, but I haven't played it much yet due to other titles having priority on my game-to-play list.

Been a while since I've been here but...

Just beat Final Fantasy 7 last week and now playing Final Fantasy 9.

mitsymckenzie777 wrote:Been a while since I've been here but...

Just beat Final Fantasy 7 last week and now playing Final Fantasy 9.

Playing Mega Man.

I just beat Mega Man 7 (well, I didn't actually beat Wily's second phase but I lost my save... so #&^#$&$#^) and Mega Man X both 100% even the Hadouken(even though I played through Armored Armadillo's stage like 9 times before I realized I forgot Chill Penguins Heart Tank). I think I am starting a playthrough of all the X and classic Mega Man games. It depends on how well I can emulate X4, 5 and MM8(no 6, 7, or 8 and probably no MM9 and 10).

I've fallen back into the spiral of Skyrim. Running it heavily modded (I think there's like 103 esp files running) and starting with the Dark Brotherhood.

But the best mod in the bunch is by far Skyrim Redone. It's a perk and combat overhaul that makes it like playing a completely different game.

Currently I'm playing through Zelda: A Link Between Worlds. It took me a long time to get into the game - bought it a while back, but didn't play much. I guess it was just too different from other Zelda games for my tastes. Now that I've gotten a feel for it now, I'm really into it and having lots of fun. It reminds me of the first time I played Link to the Past - just this huge world to explore, and I can basically go anywhere and do whatever I want. The puzzles are great, too. None of them are impossibly difficult, but they're challenging enough to feel satisfying when you solve them. Plus the "merge with the wall" mechanic really reminds me of Portal in a way - just that feeling of figuring out how to creatively navigate around with the possibilities that ability opens.

[MENTION=42665]rock_nog[/MENTION] I am glad you are getting into A Link Between Worlds. I have played through it 3 times now. It is really a fantastic game and without a doubt one of my top Zelda games in the series now. There was a lot of careful thought put into this one and it paid off.

I've been working on Lunar Silver Star Story Complete for my own enjoyment. It's better than I remember it.

Finally got Shovel Knight. If you have it, for fun enter this at the character name screen (it doesn't change the gameplay itself btw): X&BUTT

I am now playing Kirby Super Star for a future review. I'm also playing Final Fantasy II on the SNES because I was able to successfully swap out its save battery!

Picked up Etrian Odyssey 4 for 3DS a while ago cause it was on sale. Finally getting around to playing it. Death. Death everywhere...

Working on the true ending of Bravely Default. Over 60 hours in and Lv.99

Oooh I want to pick up Bravely Default soon! How is it?

I'm working on getting shiney stars in Super Mario 3D Land. I've only got a few Special world levels to beat as Mario. That game was way shorter than I had expected =\

I've also just recently started Fallout 3 for the first time. So far I'm down to clown.

Aliem wrote:
That game was way shorter than I had expected =\

I guess maybe I'd feel the same way if I had sat down and played it exclusively. I thought the game was nice and long. I loved the fact that there were two separate versions of each world to play through, and the addition of Luigi was great. I got the game around Christmas and I just finished the special worlds a few days ago. I don't know if I want to start working on the shiny stars or not. It was a fantastic game, though.

Aliem wrote:Oooh I want to pick up Bravely Default soon! How is it?

The story gets repetitive about halfway through. The gameplay makes up for it, though, as the job system is really fun to play around with. It's a very challenging game, too; you can't just brute-force your way to the end.

I'm currently in the middle of a FE: Sacred Stones play-through. I just can't get enough of that game.

Pure Chess on Wii U and CoD: Ghosts.

Iondra is my Wii U's name for Chess. Would you like to challenge?

Started playing Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate (3DS) recently. I've also picked up Golden Sun: Dark Dawn and Final Fantasy Tactics A2 for DS with plans to start playing them sometime in the next month or so.

Also, I've been playing Smash Bros Brawl in preparation for Smash4 in October.

I picked up Bravely Default last night. It's freaking gorgeous! I can't believe how good this game looks! It actually makes me want to play with the 3D on. The 3D is a lot more subtle than the two other games I've played, and it works REALLY well.
The music is fantastic as well. The game just oozes personality. The entire presentation is really great so far. The voice acting and the dialog are a bit JRPGish, meaning a bit silly, but I've always been able to give that kind of thing a pass.

Recently I've picked up a tablet and picked up Final fantasy Dimensions, Final Fantasy V and Final Fantasy VI (Note 6 does not work on my shit tablet I'll get me a quad core tab at some point to play it).
Final fantasy Dimensions is a pain though man the enemies are hard at least for now, it feels like an old fashioned RPG which is a good thing.

Revisiting Breath of Fire III, it's been years since I played the game and I'm trying a new team dynamic (Instead of my goto Momo-Rei combo).

I am repeatedly reminded of the validity of my rant about the game: Peco is entirely useless as far as the plot is concerned (as far as I've played this time through anyway, though I know he has purpose at the dead end of the game). Still, it's a solid RPG experience and I'm enjoying it, even with the stinky onion in my party.

EDIT: When Balio and Sunder kidnapped the party, I left Peco in their custody as a hostage. I kept thinking to myself "Gee, why don't we just run away and let them make a salad?"

Since my computer no longer crashes when playing games released within the last decade, I'm finally getting around to Bioshock Infinite.

I'm still very early in, but the tonal change from the previous two is welcomed; I like this new dystopia.

I was at a local consignment shop and I found a new copy of Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix for sell, I asked the shop keeper if he would be interested in trading and he said yes so I traded a couple 64 games Banjo Kazooie and Banjo Tooie... I have 2 each so it was not no skin of my back to trade them.

With that being said I ripped it into an .iso and patched it with a translation patch and I started playing it!

The only thing though I wonder how that consignment shop got a copy of that game? I guess they could have gotten from an online deal or maybe someone around there sold it to them... I guess it doesn't matter I own it now!