What games are you currently playing?

[Maranello]

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Uncharted 3, Skyrim, FFXI, MW3

[Taskmage]

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I've been playing a lot of indie games lately.

The Binding of Isaac is like Zelda 1 with an extremely dark motif and brutal roguelike-ish mechanics. The dungeon levels are randomly generated each time, as are the selection of treasures and bosses you encounter, so it's a little different every time you play, and since you only have one life you'll be starting over many times. It's one of the creators of Super Meat Boy, and in the same way as that game it can hand you your ass and make you love it. Played this non-stop for days. Possibly the best five bucks I ever spent on Steam.

Dungeon Defenders: hybrid tower defense/action RPG. You set up towers to fend off waves of enemies and pick up a weapon to join the fight yourself. I wouldn't have thought this concept would work out as well as it did, but in multiplayer it can feel a lot like Helm's Deep and that's pretty great.

Bastion: lovely game, awesome soundtrack, very intricate combat and some cool and unique storytelling. It took me a long time to listen to the people who were telling me how I had to play this one, and they were absolutely right.

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

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So first it was Mona Chrome, then Bea Afraid and Claire Voyance.

Now comes fire-wielding speedster Sola Flare.

[Kailea]

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So first it was Mona Chrome, then Bea Afraid and Claire Voyance.

Now comes fire-wielding speedster Sola Flare.

Wow, are all your heroes from the 60-70s? ;p

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

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There are many ways to come up with a comic book character that's in-character with the world, I just find the old play-on-words approach is the best way to bypass the name generator most of the time without forcing it through.

The point is to sound like a comic book character rather than force some variation of what you wanted the most through.

[Kailea]

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yeah that I understand, I like the names, but crazy puns

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

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I just feel sorry for the people starting an MMO with Star Wars: The Old Republic.

While no MMO is safe from absolutely terrible names, its going to bear the brunt of them.

I can see it now...

Darth Death
XxSithSephirothxX
EvilTrunkz (had that one try to invite me in DCUO today, actually)

Granted, I called my Mithra Omgwtfbbqkitten, but an FFXI player's first impression of that would be a mule name and it was. But I wouldn't be the first person to have leveled their mule, either. I had three variant mules of the same name. If the name amuses you and others it can be a good name.

I turned EvilTrunkz down for his party, it was a blind invite but I would have done the same if he had been polite enough to send a tell. There's just no game I've encountered a Trunks in where things ended well for the group. I say this from experience in several games where several Trunks have been met. If you make your fandom of DBZ known by handle, you shouldn't be associated with as a rule.

[Icemage]

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^ Funny, but true. For all the years that I've played online, I've met probably thousands of players with variations on character names from shows or manga or whatnot. I don't think I can recall more than a handful, and some of those are only memorable because of being more lame than the average. I think it has to do with a lack of enough creativity to even find your own personal identity; such people make for very poor company, as a whole.


Icemage

[Taskmage]

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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. -- Oscar Wilde

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

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I just saw someone named IDONTCARE shouting for a healer.

Totally sounds like someone I'd accept a League invite from.

[Armando]

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Done with the semester.

My face

Started Cave Story+ (fuck yeah Humble Bundle 4.) I'm really, REALLY liking this game.

[Firewind]

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I just saw someone named IDONTCARE shouting for a healer.

Totally sounds like someone I'd accept a League invite from.

Healing on DCU Online is just asking for it really so I'm hardly surprised that nobody was answering it. It has one of the worst game communities in an MMO I've played. I've lost count of the number of times someone got himself killed though his own stupidity and then blamed me and tried to get me kicked.

There's also those idiots in instances who will just fly off to the objectives and die horribly. Or those who act like they know everything, have no idea where the objectives are then scream at you if you try to help because they "know everything about the game".

Oh, there's also those idiots who go running off away from the rest of the party or keeps LoSing my heals. If I ask them to cut that crap out they start having a go at me for not following them *sigh*

It's worse than WoW really. At least in WoW, the playerbase there was smart enough to actually realise when a death is not the healer's fault (about 95% of them if you regularly play MMOs at endgame). Then again WoW players just blame the tank instead if there's no Hunter in the raid .

Take it from someone those main uses Heal specced Sorcery and someone who regularly plays a Healer in MMOs: Being the Healer on DCU is the worst task in any MMO thanks to the community. Compare FFXI, FFXIV, Rift (I would say that 90% of Raid deaths are caused by some horrible AoE or cleave a player stood in), Age of Conan, D&D Online (I would say most deaths in that game are caused by D&D noobs using CON as a DUMP STAT), Phantasy Star Universe (See Rift comment), Phantasy Star Portable 1&2, Everquest, Guild Wars, even Battlefield games and TF2 for good measure. In not one of those games have I been blamed for a death I did not cause while main healer (Or Support/Medic i nthe case of BF and TF).

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

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I'm an Electricity user, its currently the favored healer because its broken off the hinges thanks to things like Arc Lighting, which seems to be tailored just for getting the guys that stray out of reach in a big melee mob, When it connects with an enemy, it damages them and damages any other enemy it subsequently jumps to, but any allies it jumps to get a heal.

it sort of reminds me of SCH in the way it breaks the conventional rules of healing.

Truth be told I do prefer my light-based Controllers just a bit more. I have three controllers, Two Light and one Mental, the Electric healer and a Fire tank so far.

I might drop the green lantern Controller for the Sinestro one as I don't really need two. I don't want to do Gadget Controller at all as nothing the Gadget or Acrobatics trees offer is worth a damn. I'm probably going to trim my roster down to four characters so I can have two slots free for future expansions and probably reroll the Fire tank as hero anyway. If anything I wish they kinda would let you switch sides as a one-time only move per character. Well that and Gadgets/Acrobatics to be worth a damn.

And Robot Sidekick, but I'm respeccing to get rid of that when I have the cash again. Damn thing doesn't really do anything.

[Armando]

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Beat Cave Story. Pretty sure I missed some shit. This game, wow. I love it so much.

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

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Been on a small Skyrim and Zelda break this week, gonna try to finish off Zelda and pace myself through what's left for me in Skyrim, which is still quite a bit but I've hit many of the high notes and don't know how many bigger storyarchs remain there. Went to a party last night and it mostly ended up watching my friends mess around ins Skyrim and we played a little UMVC3, Halo Reach and Otomedius Excellent as well (which i expected to be more like Gradius, yet it was about underaged Japanese girls with large breasts just as much).

Also, I kinda hate this this video and like it.

Hate it because it reminds me there's games coming out next year when I have plenty to deal with right now. I like it because it turned me on to Lana Del Ray's stuff otherwise.