I think the first sentence was I don't get it...

And I understand that, that is why I don't play it. I like my games to have a story and characters. Hence why I play games like Legacy of Kain, GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Metal Gear, and just completed The Last of Us, which was amazing.

Street Fighter IV continues to kick my ass, and I should be getting FFXIII in tomorrow.

Almost done in Arkham city.

Playing games like Pac-Man, Metroid, and Starcraft must be tortuous for you, then.

You're trying to find the appeal of one game in another that clearly exists for a different reason.

Been playing Bioshock Infinite all evening. This is THE best sequel I've ever played and all I could ever ask for as a BioShock fan, I waited so long to play this but I am so glad I did. It took the best parts of the first two games and none of the bad and just WOW.

I agree but I also disagree. While going through Columbia, I don't get the eerie feeling I get when going through Rapture. Even in parts where Elizabeth isn't with you, nothing compares to how freaky it is being under the ocean, alone, in a dark, damp, busted hell hole that could just collapse in on itself any minute.

I await to hear your opinion on the ending too :)

Are you kidding? Super Metroid is my favorite video game of all time. There was still enough backstory to Samus and it was enjoyable. I'm referring to games nowadays from the last 10 years. Ever since Soul Reaver and GTA, I want more out of my games than just mindless crap. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying mindless crap is not good, but out of the little time I have nowadays to play games, I want story over gimmicks.

I actually kinda like that though, Rapture in BioShock one is my favourite gaming setting EVER but I always longed to see Rapture before it always went wrong as well, so I'm kinda glad we're visiting Columbia on the cusp of dystopia, but it hasn't quite tipped over the edge yet, so we get a glimpse of how normal life may have once been there. The game gets bloody intense when Elizabeth isn't around though, so I guess there isn't time to be scared.

The powers seem more gruesome this time though, real body horror stuff going on when you access the Vigors and like making soldiers shoot themselves and stuff, that is pretty dark.

I'll let you know about the ending when I get there!

Picked up Project X Zone today, and so far I'm enjoying it quite a bit. The game is for anyone though, but if anyone here liked Endless Frontier, it's basically the same game.

I liked Endless Frontier, but don't have a 3DS :(

At what point is Minecraft a gimmick?
Your statements tend to imply that any game that isn't a beginning to end narrative is just a gimmick or mindless crap.

I say Minecraft is doing it's job. Minecraft is an example of a game that benefits from no background story but, instead the person playing the game can make up their own background story if they want to or not.
basically Minecraft is great for a person who loves to put their imagination to work.

My problems with Minecraft are that it doesn't look all that spectacular, and I like to build tangible things.
Imagine if all our fancy Japanese model kits were all virtual with no possibility of being physical things to build. LEGO Digital Designer no longer has the "buy your creation" service, but at least I can build the creation if I acquire the pieces from actual sets.

The only way I'd play it is if it were for quasi-interpersonal chats with friends.

I love how Animal Crossing New leaf actually has a goal unlike the others which were just you doing whatever the hell you want.

So me and Elizabeth just leapt through the tear together, she is still helping me out but now our relationship is tentative given that I revealed to her my true motivations. I think that is enough for today, I played for like seven hours on and off today. Fucking loving this game!

I honestly think, as of right now, it's better than the first one. BioShock is my favourite game but what really lets it down as an FPS BioShock is pretty weak, two made HUGE improvements on the combat but then the story sucked. Infinite has found a great balance between the two so far and mixed in lots of mechanics which make it really unique and interesting, yet so familiar. I adore the Vigors and their designs as well.

The only annoying thing is I spoiled myself indirectly, I was looking for pictures for my signature and someone made an offhand comment that spoils something major >.< there is still the question of how and why left open for me, but now I know the who.

Been getting deeper into Project X Zone, and it's a great game.

I wasn't sure at the beginning, as the prologues does kind of start slow but now I'm having a blast with it. There's a lot of hilarious banter and back and fourth between the characters whom are trying to make sense of the situation they're in.

If there's anything that appeals to you about this game, I think you'll have fun with it.

For me, I wanted the game for basically everything on the Bamco side of things. Oh and megaman x too.

Being a Capcom fan, I'm pretty interested in it, too.

Just unlocked the second floor of my house.
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And i unlocked Majora's mask.
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Played another six or so hours of Infinite today, didn't plan to but the clock is fucked on my 360 and I wasn't sure if it was actually saving or not. And although I am enjoying it still to massive degrees, some of the problems of the game are starting to become more apparent.

Firstly, the game really wants you to explore its mechanics, which not only makes fights unnatural because you have to do specific things to defeat specific enemies, it can also make the fights - possibly intentionally - much more difficult than they'd otherwise be, because you'd be focusing on x while z gets in cheap shots because their kill requirement isn't the same as x.

In some of the more larger fire fights, you're really getting pummelled from all angles and there really is little to do other than just take it or be pinned down. But it all just becomes a bit of a frantic mess in places, the localised shoot outs are great fun and the FPS mechanics are fantastic but when you're dealing with about ten variations of turrets, ten variations of enemies, Heavy Hitters and enemies on all manner of different platforms at once it's just a nightmare, I had to turn the game down to medium at times because I just couldn't hack it.

The other criticism I have is I think the tears are under utilised. Maybe by the end this will have changed, but at the current point of the game I am in, they are underwhelming.

The first time one is used, to bring a man back from the dead, Booker says something along the lines of, "with a change like that, you can't possibly expect anything to be the same." when in reality the tears only really change localised things for specific story moments and about the only other thing it does is respawn enemies.

I would have liked to really liked to feel like I'm in another world, time and place, or that at least my actions had reverberations across the dimensions like all the story makes it sound like it does.

In case anybody here wants a Kyoryuger shirt in Animal Crossing.
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So I got to the Command Deck section on Infinite, I've already gone at length into my problems with the game up above so I'm gonna assume you've read that and focus on my specific issues with this section.

It's a tower defence section which means strategywise you have basically one way to play these sections to make it past without your ship being destroyed, unless you're extremely lucky. I HATE sections like this with a passion, if you want to play the game so badly Infinite then just make this a cutscene, I hate it when I feel like I'm not playing a game at all and instead I'm just dancing to the games tune.

Obviously we are all limited by the mechanics the games choose to include but I like to feel like I progressed by my own choices from the selection, rather than the game holding my hand so I do it exactly how it wants me to.

I'm trying to build my own Man-cave in Animal Crossing. And by that i mean i'm putting a flat screen TV and a couch in the basement with a Princess Luna poster on the wall. It's gonna be fun.

Are you talking about the part where you can summon Songbird? If so, I didn't see that a tower defense game at all. Yeah, it was mostly linear, but with a bit of Vigor Trap placement, it's actually hilarious and quite easy to pull off.

Yeah, at first the novelty of Songbird was awesome but then I realised that if I didn't use a combo of blowing people off the ship and possessing the Patriots then I wouldn't have passed it.

Replaying the campaign of Halo Reach I just realized a massive spoiler in one of the legendary edition bonuses. Am I the only who sees it here?

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Give up? (Major spoiler for the entire game!) They are lined up in the order that they die.

Wow, I've never noticed that!
As for me, I've been playing Hydro Thunder: Hurricane! Best game I've got in a long while! As a fantastic update to a game I loved as a kid, it truly is a great game! :D

Just finished BioShock Infinite, the game wasn't flawless but I'd honestly say that is the best gaming experience I've had since the original BioShock. I remember how I was in my bedroom going 'holy shit!' when all the 'would you kindly' stuff came together, well as soon as me and Elizabeth found ourselves in Rapture I was screaming the roof down. Just wow.

The only real question is how much am I meant to take away from this, is Jack just another part of Booker? So would that mean Ryan = Comstock = Booker = Jack = Ryan? FUUUCK. Does that mean Booker crashed through a tear which is why Jack has no memories in BioShock? And are the Little Sisters just another part of Elizabeth/Anna? Or am I just reading to much into this?

Just finished Vampire Hunter -D for the PS, Playing PREDATOR-Concrete Jungle next then i will play Evil DEAD- A Fist full of Boomstick, finally i think i will play Transformers

The other day I rented Bioshock Infinite. I then realized that I suck at FPS games. And also that they suck on consoles.

Although I do prefer the precision of a mouse I hate using a keyboard, it just feels too big and clunky when you're trying to do commands quickly, I love the tight controlled nature of a controller.

I've yet to start BioShock 2, so if there are details from that I'm ignorant of, please excuse that.

The Little Sisters came across as most definitely their own thing.

Jack was explained by Fontaine as his own creation. He was a test tube subject by him. I doubt he was a Booker.

Andrew Ryan... Well, I almost think the fact that you went to Rapture in Infinite is supposed to scream "HEY HE ALSO TOOK THAT NAME IN AN ALTERNATE WORLD." Especially since you can use a Bathysphere. But that's just me.

BioShock 2 didn't happen... (:p)

Yeah but Anna/Elizabeth says something along the lines of 'there are millions upon millions of us - details change - but all playing out in these other worlds.' and as we learn that Comstock is in fact just Booker in another world and that every aspect of your adventure through Columbia mirrors that of our adventure through Rapture it is easy to draw the connections and similarities.

Jack was the son of - and possible clone of - Andrew Ryan. Rapture is basically Columbia only under the sea and not a bible bashing themepark. Comstock and Booker are LITERALLY the same person. And if we are then to take logical leaps off of what Anna has said, then Booker is just Jack in another world or vice versa then that would suggest that they are all the same person.

It is also impossible to ignore both the visual similarities between Anna and the Little Sisters and their general role and position in the narrative.

Final Fantasy XIII: I'm glad I ignored the criticism and gave it a shot because I absolutely love this game.

Just started building my man cave.
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Just started replaying Kid Icarus Uprising. I forgot how fun this game was.

I'm also doing a Nuzlocke run of Pokemon Sapphire playing as May, who i love using more than Brendan.

Started Skyrim. Around this time last year my 360 RRODed and I was only like a quarter into this and honestly I really wasn't enjoying the game anyway but as I've finished Infinite and the game I wanted to purchase wasn't in stock so I decided to start this game from scratch and honestly...I'm enjoying it a lot more this time.

I decided to make Locke into an overweight, extremely flamboyant lizard man who combined skills of archery, sneak and...heavy armour (shuuush). Done a little training in one handed combat for sneaky kills and if enemies catch me off guard and get in a little close. I'm also the Thane of some town and a member of the bards college. Oh and I also have a companion who is an archer like me.

The main thing that put me off the first time was I found the game bloated. I understand the wonders of an open world title but Skyrim's map wouldn't be nearly as huge if they didn't block your path every five minutes with unclimbable mountains.

The second was a general lack of focus and tonal clashes. 'Skyrim is burning to the ground, time is off the essence you must train and stop the dragons!' the game would tell you but then didn't seem to mind at all if you did the tesco shop of every single person in the village you are currently in first.

How can I feel engaged in a story that has no sense of tension or immediacy? Mass Effect 3 did this as well. I countered this by basically avoiding the story all together and trying to do as many side quests as I can before I have to start the story, that way I'm just an adventurer going on quests and the game doesn't feel like it's contradicting itself as much.

And my nuzlocke is pretty much over, out of all the Pokemon that could have killed me if had to be Taillow.

So I finally accepted my destiny and discovered my true Dragon Blood nature (largely because the only side missions I had left by this point were on the other side of the map where I had no locations I could quick jump to and I couldn't be arsed to try and navigate around and over fifty mountains).

Honestly the shouts are a wasted mechanic for me, Archery has proven to be such an incredibly useful fighting style - one that only gets better as you upgrade it that I honestly don't know why you'd use anything else. Last time around I used to use two handed weapons as my fighting style, it was great for the first sixth or so of the game but whenever you were fighting ranged enemies of about any level above five it was just hopeless. Now I've cleared a room usually before anyone has turned around, especially as I can slow down time now.

I've also upgraded my Sneak skill so much that I can have all the benefits of heavy armour and largely skulk around in the shadows undetected, that may also be because the AI kinda sucks. Like seriously you can stand right in front of an enemy and not be seen as long as you are in the shadow of something, even if it's an otherwise brightly lit space and you're just in the shadow of something small and innocuous.

One positive to come of finally accepting the story missions was on the second story dragon encounter a story and random dragon encounter ended up overlapping and until the game seemed to catch up with itself and have the random dragon fly off it was hilarious and insane.

Ugh...I still haven't played it I've been meaning to for a long time. I'm glad to see that you enjoyed it.

I've really gotten into it, maybe too much - I'm already on Chapter 11.