The "What are you currently playing?" Thread

[Irgendein]

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II (Wii version specifically)

It's okay so far. Gameplay is just the same mindless hack n' slash with Force Powers thrown in. There's two things that really bother me though:

In pretty much every interview, the developers mentioned being able to cut enemies in half, etc. and that the Lighsaber would actually act more like well, a [tornado fang]ing Lightsaber. You know, one or two slices and they're dead? Well, they must've been bulshitting because it take nearly 10 [tornado fang]ing hits to kill just one Stormtrooper, which I swear is even more than it took in the first game (and he's got two Lighstabers this time for christ sakes)

Second thing is the personality of Rahm Kota in this game. Acting like an annoying arrogant [dark hold] only obsessed with attacking the Empire with little to no strategy, I could maybe understand since he's now a General of a newly formed Rebel Alliance. But, when a Jedi Master encourages me to use my rage to attack enemies, there's something wrong.

Posted on: October 27, 2010, 07:16:47 PMI've only had the game for six hours and already beat it's entire Story mode. That's absolutely pathetic.

Thank god I only rented it.

[borockman]

Marathoning Layton for about 3 days. in preparation for epic crossover.

[Pyro]

Re-Playing through Pokemon Platinum, have all my Pokemon leveled up to over 60 and ready to take on Victory Road and the Elite Four. Volkner did not stand a chance against my Lv. 62 Garchomp.

[Gaia]

Still doing a few leftover missions in Phantasy Star Portable 2 before I decide to buy a new game. I still have a few "NEW!" missions left to run. That means I might see a Layton game very soon~

[ViperAcidZX]

Rosenkreuzstilette, Alltynex Second, Kamui, RefleX, and Labyrinth of Touhou Special Disc.

Before anyone asks, yes, I know my family are outlawing PC doujins because of what happened to me a while back (that is until I get my own frickin' PC so I can play them in secrecy as I intent to), but I was working on something for GameFAQs for Rosenkreuzstilette at the time before my brother nuked the hard drive and killed every - constructive - thing was I actually working on. For a time, I was working on it, then lost my motivation, worked on it again, then lost motivation again wondering if anyone would actually use it. As long as I can keep the file space far away from the gray line (it was 20GB worth PC doujins for me when my brother's sh*t took up 40~60+GB), I can avoid any suspicions from raising.

... *sigh* When are the manufacturers are going to give my brother the replacement video card my brother desperately needs.

Also, I can't get Shantae to work on VBA v1.8.0 beta and I saw someone on YouTube got it working.

[Mirby]

HeartGold, and probably some other games.

Beat Layton and the Unwound Future earlier today.

I cried. A great ending.

[Solar]

The King of Figters 2002 Unlimited Match XBLA version

I love it when games come out earlier ^__^

[Frozen Potato]

"Clanud:This is an RPG!"

8-bit,and yet awesome~

[Hypershell]

I'm only just now starting the FIRST Force Unleashed game (Wii version).

I hate to sound like a graphics whore but this game SHOULD NOT have opened with views of ships.  It really stings the eyes for Nintendo fans who are familiar with the infinitely superior work that Factor 5 did with the Rogue Squadron games LAST CONSOLE GENERATION.

The gameplay is decent, but I can see what Mar is saying with lightsaber hits not feeling all that strong.  Somehow any enemy who can pick up a melee weapon gets to be a real nuisance; it makes me miss X7's Zero for crying out loud.  They're not kidding when they say this game is about Force powers, 'cuz the lightsaber just blows.

[Protoman Blues]

My problem with the Wii version of Force Unleashed is that, for all intents and purposes, it SHOULD'VE been the best one. It had the most perfect control scheme with the Mote Chuk combo, and they totally f'ed it up.

[Irgendein]

Never played the first one on Wii, just how was it set up?

In TFUII, it's fairly easy. B to Jump, A to attack (though you have the option to switch them), Shake the Wiimote to use a Special Attack, Shake Nunchuck for Force Push, Hold Z and Shake Nunchuck for Force Lightning, Hold Z and Shake Wiimote for Sabre Throw. Lightly Pressing C resets the camera, holding it goes into Force Grip mode, where you just simply point the cursor at something to pick it up and move it, then flick the Wiimote to send it flying. D-Pad has Force Dash, Mind Trick, Force Sight and Fore Rage assigned to it.

[Hypershell]

In 1, C is your lightning and Z is your grip.  Also, you swing for regular attacks (which is nowhere NEAR as smooth as Twilight Princess), hold A and swing for saber throws, and tap A for force dash.  D-Pad is camera control.

There's no cursor controls in 1 that I've seen yet, beyond the menus anyway.  Enemy/object targetting seems to just be a matter of proximity.

I find the controls not as responsive as I would like (which is saying a lot from somebody who mastered the ability to not jump when picking up a building in Godzilla Unleashed), but still functional.  "Thrusting the nunchuck" feels a bit unnatural since they demand a stabbing motion, whereas I'm trained by both Twilight Princess and Punch-Out!! to do punching motions.

I do like the controller-rotation moves used in "chance" matchups against the bosses, though.  Not that the movements make all that much sense, but they're a unique and fairly simple way to keep the player involved during cinematic attacks.

[Protoman Blues]

Never played the first one on Wii, just how was it set up?

The problem I had with the first one's control scheme was that the you couldn't move the nunchuk around like his hand when using the Force Powers, specially Force Grip/Grab/Throw. I couldn't fling him with the Nunchuk, and rather instead had to use the Analog stick. It wasn't a "major" issue for the most part, but I just felt the controls could've been better.

[Gotham Ranger]

Final Fantasy X and the Vectorman games.

[SUIKA]

When I give myself the time, I play my copy of Pokemon White, briefly, before I leave it running in my DS for a while until I wanna' use some other application and I can't be bothered waiting for a chance to save, so I just go back to where I started.

[Mirby]

I played through to the first boss of Dark Dawn (J) and loved it. The summons are epic!

Can't wait to get my English copy!

[Reg]

Well it was a long and hard road but I finally beat Super Mario Galaxy with 120 stars! Now I'm going through the game as Luigi.

Also playing New Super Mario Bros. again. As Luigi of course. 

[Sniper X]

I finished Battlefield: Bad Company! Thinking of what to play now.

[Hypershell]

Also playing New Super Mario Bros. again. As Luigi of course.  

You know, I realized with that comment that I have truly gotten lazy as a gamer.  In SMB3 and SMW, I had no qualms with starting a 2 player game and killing Mario so that I could play as Luigi.  These days, it just pisses me off that NSMBWii has no character-select in single-player.

Anyways, been replaying Ace Attorney Investigations.  And re-watching the AAI2 trailer in all its awesomeness.

[MrBaryl]

Anyways, been replaying Ace Attorney Investigations.  And re-watching the AAI2 trailer in all its awesomeness.

I can't beleive I missed it!
*watches*
HELL YEAH DE KILLER! 

[Sapphire Knight]

Playing the DQ9 post-game.

[Phi]

Chrono Trigger (DS)

[Sniper X]

Now playing Time Hollow.

[ZeroCracked]

Finally beat that jerkwad of a hologram in MM2. ON TO MEGA MAN 3! SLIDING AHOY.

[Sniper X]

Finish playing Time Hollow, and the alternate ending aswell.