What game are you playing?

[TheRedPriest]

Picked up Henry Hatsworth.  This is GOTY material.  My god it's simply brilliant.  Some of the best voice acting on the DS EVER.  Puzzle element is great, platforming/adventure element is well designed and plays fantastic with a steady (but unforgiving) difficulty curve.

TEA TIME!

[ASR]

Someone mentioned that game to me and I thought they were making it up based on the title alone.

[TheRedPriest]

This is no farce my good sir.  It is #####ing epic gameplay at it's best.

[ASR]

Oh, I know. I've been meaning to play it. A friend of mine has it and I watched him. Looked swell.

[Mikero]

Screenshots please.

[TheRedPriest]

http://www.henryhatsworth.com/en_us/home.action

Official site.  This is all you need and the intro video is kick ass.  GO THERE NOW.

[ChaosVortex]

I needed more personally. I still didn't see how the puzzle and adventure system worked.

GOOD SHOW!

I saw this game in Gamestop before, but I dismissed it by what I assumed was just one of those cheap puzzle games. Looks pretty good.

[TheRedPriest]

You can switch between the top screen (action) to the bottom screen (puzzle) with the X button.  Time freezes in the Action screen while you work puzzles. While in the Action screen the puzzle screen slowly moves up.  If enemy blocks reach the top, they come back into the action screen and attack you.

[ChaosVortex]

Yeah, I saw in the video. It's a very interesting concept. I'd like to play it but I has no cash to spend.

[ASR]

I borrowed Henry Hatsworth from my friend and it is AMAZING. Such a fun game, guys. Seriously.

[TheRedPriest]

Beat it yesterday... the last boss is a BITCH.  But such satisfaction to beat it.  The game is NOT a cake walk.

[ASR]

Yeah, tell me about it! I'm having a crapload of trouble in the fifth world all of a sudden. Fourth world was hard, but not TOO hard. Fifth actually made me give up for a while.

[ChaosVortex]

I'm gonna need to try this game out then. By the looks of the video, the 2nd world looks too easy.

[TheRedPriest]

It has a rather unforgiving difficulty curve towards the end.  I honestly thought World 4 was harder than World 5 myself.  Though the clock tower stage in World 5 could give any Castlevania clock tower stage a run for it's money.

[Edgecrusher]

Though the clock tower stage in World 5 could give any Castlevania clock tower stage a run for it's money.

Those are some bold words.

[TheOnly]

So I picked up King of Figthers 12, I tried playing online, but I got lag up the ying yang, it was just retarded and made me angry.

[Mikero]

Really? It was retarded, was it?

[Fatso]

Of course it was! Would he complain about latency if it didn't slow down the game?

[Edgecrusher]

KoFXII is painfully pared down when compared to its progenitors.

[TheRedPriest]

Gotta make things easy for the HALO kiddies.

[Speed Racer]

I'm currently playing between LEGO Indiana Jones and G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra.

All of you know how the LEGO games play, so I won't go into detail.

G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra's gameplay is this: a crappy Contra knock-off mixed with a crappy version of the Gears of War cover system, with a #####ty camera system to top it off. I'm sure this game is a blast to play with another person, but unfortunately that other person has to be sitting next to you - Live play is not enabled. I'd suggest picking it up if you can find it for $25-30 brand-new; it's helluva lot better than the Transformers 2 game.

[Johncarllos]

I'd rather finally get Fallout 3.

[Majikn]

I've actually never played a LEGO video game, expecting them to suck and all. Not being one to assume but also being one to think about how he spends his money at a glance. Maybe I'd like them more if I paid them any attention.

[ASR]

The Lego games are pretty fun and quality games, albeit a bit bland and repetitive. Still cool.

[ChaosVortex]

I've personally hated them all except for Lego Racers. That's a quality game. Nice and difficult too.

[Edgecrusher]

I dug Lego Batman and Lego Star Wars, but I completely skipped over Lego Indy.
Indy just didn't have as many cool characters.

I don't think anything will ever touch Star Wars though. The idea of being able to manipulate multiple objects at once with your mind alone is a premise that lends itself incredibly well to Legos.
It's just not as neat when your guy bends over and throws the pieces.

[Speed Racer]

LEGO Indy is okay, but they ramped up the difficulty a bit, and the partner A.I. seems to be dumber in this one. The thing that I don't like about it was that the LEGO Star Wars games, sure, they had some killing in there, but it was a lot of puzzles and building while being able to act out scenes. In LEGO Indy, it is never a fair fight (a swarm of Nazis will kick your ass a couple of time before you defeat them all), and you have to shoot them with a gun or whip them a few times. I dunno, it's weird - for some reason it feels like LEGO was actually promoting violence with this one, and I don't really dig it.

One thing that I thought was funny was that to have Nazis in the game, they can't come out and say it or give them all swaztikas on their clothing - so they all have blonde hair and blue eyes.

[Vinchenz Rock]

lol I'm playing the first Star Force.

Just trying to get a Completed Status for my backlog.

...Anyone who owns it want to be Brothers? >.>

[Majikn]

God I don't even want to put the card in.

But I have a cool customized mugshot thing that I randomly put a lot of energy into because it's easy to put in an effort when you're really limited. YOU'D WANT THAT IN YOUR PROFILE.

I forgot, my USB connector doesn't work anymore anyway.

You know that thing always heated up ridiculously whenever I used it. Damn thing probably melted. It's really lame that the DSi doesn't offer backwards compatibility for internet access, it would have been so easy to do. Any smart programmer would have the DSi's working connection appear as an "access point" under the network settings interface of any older game. Then you just select it and bam it works. But no, they didn't bother.

[GMG]

Megaman X collection. The X games are better than most of the classics, but not as good as 2 and 7.

[Vinchenz Rock]

Well, I beat Star Force.

Does anyone else think Geo hallucinated his friends and dad there at the end when he deleted Andromeda?

Anyway, I'm contemplating whether if I should do the extra stuff to get a shiny "C" in my backlog or not.

[Mikero]

What's a backlog and why care about it?

[Vinchenz Rock]

It's in my sig.

It tells me that I have some games to beat.

Getting a Shiny "C" in every game means that you're the coolest (in the nerd world).

[Mikero]

You could just lie. I think doing the main part of Star Force is nuff torture to earn that C.

[ChaosVortex]

Last I checked, I think I was looking for a Dragon brother in the game, but I really don't want to put my card in. I don't want to see a BN-like game at all anytime soon.

[Johncarllos]

I downloaded just about every demo on XBL.
Batman: Arkham Asylum is fun, and I REALLY appreciate the effort put into the surround sound.

Shadow Complex is really cool too.
Mirror's Edge doesn't seem like my kind of game though.

[ChaosVortex]

That Batman game really does sound good from what I hear, and Mirror's Edge was one of those games that you expected to be the bomb with so much potential, but falls short.

[Johncarllos]

My problem is that, of all things, the controls feel awkward.

[Mikero]

Very awkward.

[Edgecrusher]

Arkham Asylum is the first good Batman game.

It has it's shortcomings, but overall it's a damn fun game.

[TheRedPriest]

Lots of BtAS voice actors as well, which REALLY helps.  If I had a PS3 I'd probably get it.

[Edgecrusher]

Mark Hamill is dead-on through the whole thing.

It wasn't a terribly long game, but it was still quite enjoyable.

I'm a bit sad that we didn't get more of The Riddler than we did, but at this point that just seems like nitpicking.

[TheRedPriest]

I'm sure if it does well enough we'll get a sequal of some sort, give the other villians more of a chance to shine.

[Mikero]

I plan on renting it for the box.
Maybe this week, but I don't know.

[Majikn]

I bought that game and uhhhh IboughtMetroidPrimeTrilogy.

*runs away*

Iiiiiii don't wanna die!

[Fatso]

I gave it a good look but decided 'nah, another day'.

[Edgecrusher]

##### yeah! I forgot to pick that up myself. When my financial aid surplus comes in a few weeks, I'll snag it and relive all that wonderful Prime goodness.

[NovaMan XP]

Maybe someday I'll pick it up and try it out.

Played a bit of Prime 3 (the beginning though) and it seemed alright.

Kinda low on money at the moment now though.

[Mikero]

##### yeah! I forgot to pick that up myself. When my financial aid surplus comes in a few weeks, I'll snag it and relive all that wonderful Prime goodness.

YOU would, fatty!

[ASR]

I really want to play the original Metroid Prime with Wii Controls, so maybe I'll grab that trilogy sometime down the road.