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  1. Sean Patrick Kelly says:
    August 29, 2012 at 12:45 pm

    Current Games I’m Playing:
    X-Box 360: Mass Effect 3 (took a brief hiatus over the summer, plan to resume it soon)

    Nintendo 3DS: New Super Mario Bros 2, Resident Evil Revelations

    PC: World of Warcraft

    iPhone: Scrabble, Jeopardy (I also, like pretty much everyone, occasionally play Angry Birds and Plants vs Zombies)

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  2. David Brook says:
    August 29, 2012 at 3:42 pm

    I’ve not been playing as many ‘full time’ games recently other than a recent dip back into Skyrim.

    I’ve been playing a lot of the ‘quick-fix’ games on my 3DS, mainly e-shop downloads like Pushmo and Zen Pinball as well as Super Mario 3D Land.

    I’ve also finally been trying out a couple of the indie games downloaded through the Humble Indie Bundle.

    Has anyone else taken part in this? http://www.humblebundle.com

    I think it’s great. Every month or so they offer a bundle of generally well regarded indie games to buy – you name your own price and the money gets shared between the developers, a chosen charity and the Humble team. You also get to choose what percentage goes to whom. To try and prevent everyone from just donating tiny amounts, they always offer bonus games to anyone that donates above the average amount.

    I don’t always get around to playing all the games I get in the bundles, but you always get the soundtracks too and they’re often excellent and worth the donation alone (in fact they’ve done a soundtrack only bundle too).

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  3. Rick Vance says:
    August 30, 2012 at 1:47 pm

    My soul has been reabsorbed into playing like 3 characters in Dark Souls again. Nothing plays like this game, before or since, real terror, real dread, real skill, atmospheric.

    Love it so much.

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    • Jonathan Hardesty says:
      September 1, 2012 at 3:07 pm

      Dark Souls is pretty awesome. The atmosphere is great and the challenge is unmatched by any modern game. Equal parts frustrating and fun. :)

      Glad they went with open world versus the hub that they were using for Demon’s Souls. The load times were VERY frustrating due to dying a lot.

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    • Voncaster says:
      January 5, 2013 at 1:52 pm

      I actually prefer Demon’s Souls to Dark Souls.

      I don’t use hint guides. I played and lost to Bed of Chaos about 30 times before resorting to a hint guide. When I found the answer I was very disappointed. What a horribly designed boss! That guys ruined my Dark Souls experience. I beat the game, but the last quarter of the game was miserable for me.

      I’m going to re-buy Demon’s Souls when it hits PSN this Tuesday, just so I can play it sans disc loading.

      Demon’s Souls is probably my favorite PS3 game.

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      • Rick Vance says:
        January 6, 2013 at 1:49 pm

        I really love both but Dark edges Demon out for the refined health / magic changes.

        Also I love that the Bed of Chaos is something completely different and a platforming boss.

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        • Voncaster says:
          January 6, 2013 at 10:03 pm

          Here is my gripe with Bed of Chaos:

          The conceit of Dark Souls and Demon’s Souls is that it is hard but fair. That is if you learn from your deaths and observe enemy patterns and clues the way forward will be revealed to you.

          So I played Bed of Chaos the first time. I step onto the central dias and get 1-hit killed by giant tree arms. Lesson learned. Don’t step onto the central dias or you will die.

          After learning that lesson I make my way around the perimeter to avoid the giant tree arms. I take out the left orb, and I take out the right orb. Okay I think to myself, there must be some weak spot behind him. The central dias is a suicide mission. Set foot in there and you will die so look for some other way forward. There is too much area to run through the central dias and not get hit by the arms. It’s a fool’s errand to set foot in there.

          So I try about 30 times to make my way behind him using the outside perimeter. And die either from arm sweeps or miss timed jumps. I’m making progress, but its very minimal. I’m pretty good at video games, but this was testing my patience. I finally gave up and looked up the answer on YouTube. My jaw dropped as I saw the horrible solution.

          When you step on the central dias AFTER taking out the right and left orbs, the center crumbles and there is a root path revealed. So unlike every other part of the Souls games the solution was not to learn the lessons from previous encounters, it was to ignore it entirely. In this case you charge headlong into the danger zone, the floor crumbles beneath the dias and a root path is revealed. Embark on a suicide mission and that is the way forward. Why didn’t I think of that?

          This is terrible game design.

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  4. Jonathan Hardesty says:
    September 1, 2012 at 3:05 pm

    I’m currently playing L.A. Noire, which has pretty much taken up all my time and attention. Before that I played Batman: Arkham City and started Alice: Madness Returns. BEFORE those, I started Dark Souls, which has been awesome….except for Blighttown. I hate that place. It’s designed well, but I hate playing that area.

    I’ve also started Bioshock, Skyrim and have the DLC of Fallout 3 to play, but I haven’t played in so long I kind of want to just start over.

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  5. Andrew James says:
    December 6, 2012 at 1:10 pm

    Has anyone played FEZ (DLC on Xbox)? It’s probably the most creatively designed games I’ve ever seen/played.

    I only got about 2 hours into it, but WOW!

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  6. Sean Kelly says:
    December 6, 2012 at 1:39 pm

    Here’s is my updated playing list.

    X-Box 360:
    Dead Island

    PC:
    World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria
    Half-Life (the original, which I recently bought off Steam)

    iPhone:
    The Simpson’s Tapped Out
    Bejeweled Blitz
    Words with Friends

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  7. Jonathan says:
    December 6, 2012 at 5:40 pm

    I’ve been playing Skyrim for over a year. I’m lucky if I play it once a month. I am an embarrassment to my past gaming self. Past-Jonathan is amazed that Present-Jonathan is so responsible with his time (usually).

    With that said, I really want to play the new Bethesda game Dishonored… but I suppose I should beat Skyrim first.

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  8. JaskeMann says:
    December 13, 2012 at 7:59 pm

    I’ve been checking out this new online game called Dead Zone. Its all about zombies and building your base up. Its pretty cool. Its a browser game, so I can use my older laptop to play.

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  9. Rick Vance says:
    January 3, 2013 at 12:34 pm

    HOTLINE MIAMI
    HOTLINE MIAMI
    HOTLINE MIAMI

    Jesus I can’t stop playing or listening to the ost.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pB63r8nJaII

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  10. Sean Kelly says:
    January 6, 2013 at 1:39 pm

    Post-holiday playing list.

    X-Box 360:
    Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim – This has been taking up the bulk of my time.

    Nintendo 3DS:
    Paper Mario: Sticker Star – This one really goes all out with the “Paper” premise.

    PC:
    Diablo III – Not as in-depth as Skyrim, but still fun

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  11. Rick Vance says:
    January 15, 2013 at 5:18 pm

    FTL

    It is the best Spaceship Sim / Adventure game I have ever played.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4imWvoqxmc

    It was like 5 bucks on steam over the weekend and it is so goddamn addictive.

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  12. Sean Kelly says:
    February 4, 2013 at 3:06 pm

    Time to update my playlist.

    X-Box 360:
    Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim – Hasn’t left the system since I got it, though I’ve slowed down a bit.

    iOS:
    Ghostbusters – Despite simplistic gameplay and repetitive missions, this is a fun little “freemium” game.

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  13. JaskeMann says:
    February 20, 2013 at 2:03 pm

    *Sigh* I keep going back to Eve Online. I can’t help myself. I quit for a couple of months and suddenly get an urge. This time it was DUST. I started playing DUST(FPS tied to Eve Online) open BETA on PS3 and suddenly had to go back to playing EVE. Not sure if the game is THAT good or I’m just a sucker.

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