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I want to play Portal 2 goddamnit.

Apparently Anon isn't really attacking them, Sony is just shutting down because they're afraid of anon's attacks. Whelp.

Anyways, the new Mortal Kombat is surprisingly good. I actually think it's better than SSF4. It actually feels a lot like SSF4 in terms of pace, but it feels a lot more flexible. Not quite as good as MvC3, though.

I blame you, Pokebis.

I affect thousands.

Seibei4211 wrote:

I feel bad for all the Portal 2 co-op users right now. I need to convince a friend to get this game cause co-op sounds pretty fun.

Didn't stop me. I bought the PS3 version so I could play co-op with my friends, and that's what I've been doing. Since it's not necessary to play co-op on PSN. Gogo split screen/irl friends

Moreover, if you want to play online and you have the PS3 version, you can still load it on your PC and play online via steam.

You just answered a bunch of questions that I hadn't gotten around to asking yet. It's nice to use your psychic powers for good.

Better get some new credit cards (and maybe change your name).
http://www.joystiq.com/2011/04/26/sony- ... opes-to-ha

God, you are the biggest jerk Pokebis.

Behonkiss wrote:

Better get some new credit cards (and maybe change your name).
http://www.joystiq.com/2011/04/26/sony- ... opes-to-ha

saw that @ http://blog.us.playstation.com/2011/04/ ... -qriocity/

capital gg

problem is, some of the information that was stolen is a mystery to me. I don't know what my security question is. I don't know what the answer to that is, either, though I could probably figure it out if I knew the question.

Good thing my password re-use is very low, so the password that was probably stolen doesn't work in many places.

I used fake information for most of my PSN account info, used a really old password that I don't use anymore, and never used a credit card, only bought PSN credits.
Does this make me lucky?

the information was compromised a while ago, right? So chances are, anything that was going to be done might be done already

Though I still have shit to keep an eye on

Well, crap. I can't remember if I used my generic password or a unique one....

Then again even if they have my passwords I'd like to see them get their hands on any of my usernames/numbers for anything I really care about. As for credit card... well being a debit credit kinda helps here, can't lose anything if I have nothing to lose XD.


Anyway - I assume someone here is PS3 savvy, is there any cheap/easy way to get either screenshots or video recordings off your PS3. Ie, I play a game and want to record my boss fight or something.

Rantai wrote:

Anyway - I assume someone here is PS3 savvy, is there any cheap/easy way to get either screenshots or video recordings off your PS3. Ie, I play a game and want to record my boss fight or something.

Capture card comes into mind but that's probably not the cheapest nor the easiest method.

So I called my bank today because of the breach, and I got as far as "I'm calling in response to the recent Playst-" before he interrupted me. I probably could have just said "PSN" after hello and he'd have completely gotten my meaning, hah

Today I learned that my bank has a pretty awesome fraud policy in place, though, so I'm not going to lose any money even if my card gets used for something.

I learned that Sony knew about the compromise about a week before they actually informed everyone so whoever caused the breach has a huge head start on doing anything with that information. I never registered my credit card on my profile and everything except my email and password is false information so I consider myself very fortunate.

Akai-Moeru wrote:

I learned that Sony knew about the compromise about a week before they actually informed everyone so whoever caused the breach has a huge head start on doing anything with that information.

I read earlier today that people tend to only be paranoid for about 90 days after learning about something like this, so it's entirely possible that the data just isn't going to be used until people stop caring about it.

I realized earlier today that pretty much all my PSN information other than my name/email is wrong. I've moved twice since I created my account, so all that address information is useless. And since 77 million accounts have been compromised, it's probably gonna take a while before yours gets used. Every time that DB is queried, there's a 1/77000000 chance it's you (actually odds are probably higher for those of us with CC info up there)

In other news, Sony's been hit with a class action lawsuit, they hope to have PSN back up by the 30th, and with any luck they're going to try to have a better relationship with their customers from now on

Portal 2 is fucking awesome. I did some local co-op today and that was freakin' fun. It's a good feeling when you have to think about a puzzle and the solution just comes to you and it totally works. Also, I underestimated how hilarious this game is.

awp wrote:

Akai-Moeru wrote:

they hope to have PSN back up by the 30th

Got a source for this? All I've been hearing is that they hope to have "some" services up in maybe a week.

This article echos a few claims from Sony (apparently through Kotaku, but when following the source link I just get a "main page" on Kotaku, not the actual article) which suggests so:

Sony Online Entertainment says that it has a number of special events planned to thank players of the PS3 versions of DC Universe Online and Free Realms for their patience while work continues on getting PSN back up and running.

These events will commence on Saturday 30th April, although that is presumably reliant on PSN being back in action by then

though I don't care about PSN being down; nothing good is coming out of the Rock Band store these days and I've been too glued to Persona 4 to even play Portal 2 (which I don't use PSN for anyway, I'm just saiyan). So the fact that the PSN has been down for the past week or two hasn't actually affected me in any way yet.

It's 2011, you should have played Persona 4 several years ago.

You should be sharing in our collective misery.

I still haven't gotten around to finishing Persona 3 8-) ;_;
Haven't played my PS3 in ages either thanks to my PSP...

Then get rid of all your shitty psp games and play persona 3 portable instead.

You guys disgust me.

lol sony

Ivalset wrote:

Then get rid of all your shitty psp games and play persona 3 portable instead.

I bought Persona 3 FES and Persona 4 for the PS2 a couple days ago, so I'm tempted to do a second run of P4 (thanks for having various branching paths, Atlus. I can't have everything can I) before cracking open P3.


Apparently the new estimate for PSN is May 3. And yet I still don't care~

Even when the PSN is up, I pretty much only use the store aspect. I've played RB2 with Rolled a few times (hey Rolled I have RB3 now just fyi) but that's mostly it for me.

I don't remember any significant branching paths in persona 4, unless you mean shit like basketball team/ whatever the other shitty one was.

Well, I guess you'd have to do a second run for the optional boss fight anyway.

Also, you should have played FES before P4. Actually, it probably won't be much of an issue for you to play 3 after 4, it's just lacking a few refinements from P4. And while you could technically play p3p for those improvements, you'd be missing out on cutscenes, exploring the town and the Answer (though some may say that's more of a blessing than a curse). Actually, you'd have to play p3p eventually anyway just for the female route.

Man, you have a lot of persona ahead of you.

Yeah I'm gonna play them backward. I don't know the difference between P2 Innocent Sin and P2 the other one, but I've got P2IS on my PSP.

Having said that, yeah, I may well go play P3P, but I'm undecided whether I'll do that before P2 or after. We'll see how P3FES hits me. And yeah, I am referring to things like who you become intimate with (in my case it was actually two girls, and I didn't think that was allowed) and sports/arts clubs. I didn't even finish some of the social links (Yumi, Ai, Hisano, Margaret, Kanji) that I did start. Also, I never found the temperance social link. I'm guessing it's Bro Konishi, but he can really go fuck himself for all I care.

I'm still in the process of chasing Izanami in my own personal world but I've got mothra-fucking Beelzebub on my side now, so it should be even more one-sided than it already has been thus far.

Should I feel like a genius for being one step ahead of the mystery/Investigation Team, or was the game just well-written enough to be obvious, but not obvious about being obvious? I didn't use a FAQ for any of it, but I was ahead of the curve for every single one of the plot twists except that until the morning of the last abduction, I had no suspects. But man, I knew Nanako was in trouble like a week before it happened. That one was totally obvious.

If you're stupid and end up getting the bad ending, do you at least get a full dungeon out of it, or do your lousy decisions just go "oh, well, that's everything: you win!"? Because the midnight channel made it look like there was a dungeon involved. One where I could find a new Dousing Rod which I need for a Quest. That'd be kinda douchey.

Minecraft world is pretty cool.

Also, yes, I found out how to get the true ending on my own, but this was after I didn't get the true ending and read up on the Internet that I did, in fact, not get the true ending, and that you can't lock the true ending out if you get to the ending.

The ending really did feel like a candidate for the true ending, as long as you don't mind a handful of loose ends never being tied up or explained, which would have defeated the moral behind the ENTIRE GAME

I'm pretty sure Bro Konishi was Hanged. I think Temperance was day care mother (with annoying kid).

I think you should have started being super suspicious about halfway through, I think around Rise's affair. Then there's always the classic video game logic deduction methods, ie which characters have assets that they probably shouldn't considering their current involvement. But that's a pretty gay way to play a murder mystery and a really gay way to play games in general.

As for bad endings, you just cut to a depressing ending scene (or a scene that leaves you with questions unanswered).


Also, Ishtar owns, Trumpeter is as ridiculous as ever, and Yoshitsune is fucking broken/op as hell.

Oh I didn't do Daycare either. Fuck that.

Anyhow, I got the super true ending. It was kind of funny, as I was fighting the first phase of the Truth I thought to myself, that mechanic where your allies take a mortal blow for you is actually a pretty emotional thing, game mechanics aside. They really should have put that in the final battle. And they did.

The credits are rolling right now. I'm not sure whether it's my PS2 or my burned copy of Persona 4 (the legit one's in the mail atm) but the loading time between now and the 3.5 weeks ago when I started playing have quadrupled. Hell, just two nights ago I'd cleared the game, and during the credits, the video/BGM would skip a bit, and by sheer luck, the audio ended juuust as the credits did.

Going through it again, my disc reading can't keep up with the buffer consumption worth a damn. The actual credits (the copyright Atlus 1996, 2008 message) scrolled and faded about seven minutes ago, but the PS2 is still struggling with streaming the videos/audio. It's funny, because every time the PS2 stops to read more content into the buffer, the train stops. It's gotta be a really irritating ride, that one.

I thought this thread was about the PS3. If you silly mods don't get back on topic I'm going to, uhhhhh.

No, this thread is about the Playstation 3 Club, of which we are all members.

Yeah, I talk about Wii games on here sometimes. But if someone without a PS3 came in here talking about Halo or something, then they're in the wrong thread.

besides, Persona 4 is awesome

and 3 is probably also awesome, I'll find out soon enough

Sony wrote:

We discovered that the intruders had planted a file on one of our Sony Online Entertainment servers named “Anonymous” with the words “We are Legion.”

Yeah, I totally believe now that Anonymous had nothing to do with this.

And anybody could have placed that there. Including disgruntled employees or hackers looking to frame.

Pokebis wrote:

And anybody could have placed that there. Including disgruntled employees or hackers looking to frame.

frame would definitely be a good idea, considering the FBI is after the perp

That would make sense, but it also seems like something that Anonymous would totally do. The whole ominous bullshit thing. Then again, they usually don't mind publicly stating that they totally did it.

In any case, Portal 2 co-op was fucking beeeeast. Those puzzles are awesome. Can't wait for that DLC.

Everyone forgets Anonymous isn't actually a group, but a handle that people can use literally. As in, it's an actual word and stuff.
Point in the end is, the original Anon DDoS group are not the hackers period.

PSN's supposed to be up this weekend, and the people who attacked it are planning to, well, attack it again, apparently. Or maybe some other Sony servers (in which case PSN will probably be okay).

Sony still hasn't said what "free downloads" entails, but if they're not retarded, it should consist of "money added to your Wallet" so you can download whatever the fuck you want rather than some obscure title less than 100% of the people want.

Back on Persona 4, my legal copy arrived in the mail the other day, and I've noticed that the soundtrack CD is missing the last two tracks from the Truth. No, missing isn't the right word. They're just hidden. Accepting them as missing would be a convenient truth, but if I look hard enough I might be able to find them.

awp wrote:

PSN's supposed to be up this weekend, and the people who attacked it are planning to, well, attack it again, apparently. Or maybe some other Sony servers (in which case PSN will probably be okay).

Sony still hasn't said what "free downloads" entails, but if they're not retarded, it should consist of "money added to your Wallet" so you can download whatever the fuck you want rather than some obscure title less than 100% of the people want.

They're going to be retarded, because they know they can save more money by forcing a shit title on members instead of having them save money on the expensive stuff. Also, where did you hear that it'll be up this weekend?

And another update. Sony no longer has any clue how long it's going to take.

People were doubting me when I said that this could kill the Playstation brand, but the longer it goes on, the more likely it looks.

PSN didn't exist the first two generations and it was successful enough.
Provide good software support and people will buy it. Network ain't everything.

awp wrote:

Back on Persona 4, my legal copy arrived in the mail the other day, and I've noticed that the soundtrack CD is missing the last two tracks from the Truth. No, missing isn't the right word. They're just hidden. Accepting them as missing would be a convenient truth, but if I look hard enough I might be able to find them.

The soundtrack packaged with the game omitted a lot of songs. I think they threw half the soundtrack there and the other half was available for purchase or something.

Ivalset wrote:

The soundtrack packaged with the game omitted a lot of songs. I think they threw half the soundtrack there and the other half was available for purchase or something.

Atlus and some other companies do this quite a bit. They throw in a "sampler" disc with half the tracks from the game and it's worse when the sampler is in the special edition...
Still slightly bitter that Disgaea 2 didn't come with all the tracks.

Behonkiss wrote:

And another update. Sony no longer has any clue how long it's going to take.

People were doubting me when I said that this could kill the Playstation brand, but the longer it goes on, the more likely it looks.

Wait, wasn't the JPN PSN already up? Or maybe I heard wrong.....

Pokebis wrote:

PSN didn't exist the first two generations and it was successful enough.
Provide good software support and people will buy it. Network ain't everything.

The problem is that online console gaming wasn't a big deal then. Now nearly every game on the console integrates it deeply in some way, and players aren't getting the full experience for their 60 bucks. People are already pissed and are getting more pissed with every announcement. Even if they survive this, they're never going to be the same again.

anongos wrote:

Wait, wasn't the JPN PSN already up? Or maybe I heard wrong.....

You heard wrong.

In a couple months, provided it goes back up and there's no further trouble, I'm sure everyone will forget about it completely.

Ivalset wrote:

In a couple months, provided it goes back up and there's no further trouble, I'm sure everyone will forget about it completely.

three months, actually. Three months after it's all over people will have forgotten about it

awp wrote:

I've played RB2 with Rolled a few times (hey Rolled I have RB3 now just fyi) but that's mostly it for me.

HI AWP TOO BAD PSN IS FUCKING DOWN

Rolled wrote:

awp wrote:

I've played RB2 with Rolled a few times (hey Rolled I have RB3 now just fyi) but that's mostly it for me.

HI AWP TOO BAD PSN IS FUCKING DOWN

I'll probably be getting RB3 soonish. I've finally gone through most of the games I wanted to play and RB3 is finally at a decent price. But there are a lot of really decent games coming out soon, too, like LA Noire. But since RB3 is so cheap, I can get it and just play it every now and then or whatever.

Rolled wrote:

awp wrote:

I've played RB2 with Rolled a few times (hey Rolled I have RB3 now just fyi) but that's mostly it for me.

HI AWP TOO BAD PSN IS FUCKING DOWN

I know I had my first bout of "oh god dammit PSN's down" the other day when I was playing rock band 3 and it was like "Harmonix recommends you download Blood and Thunder by Mastodon" and I was like "that's a great suggestion I think I will

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO YOU WON'T"

ps: I am terrible at pro keys I get like 4 stars average on medium /flex

when playing non-pro Keys I jumped right to expert and was Gold-Star'ing everything. That stuff's pretty easy.

Very easy indeed, and I think you are better than me at pro keys. Haven't played it for a long time though.

Haven't played because the laser deck failed in my ps3, and before I knew that was the problem, I tried all kinds of fancy things including formatting the HD. Haven't been arsed to re-download 300 songs, but I'll get around to it Not to mention I sold all my old fucking games. No idea how I'm going to export. Rrrrgh

Is anybody excited about LA Noire? Just 9 days left. Also, I feel sorry for Brink since it's a mostly online-based game that's probably gonna be released to the PS3 with no online.

I'm excited about it but not excited enough about it to pay over 25 bucks for it.

http://www.joystiq.com/2011/05/09/repor ... by-may-31/

Let the ship-jumping begin!

This just gives me a pretty damned decent excuse to not spend $60 on Brink just yet. And hell, maybe now I'll have the time to finally play TWEWY or something.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEoJsJGU3jM
Alright, anyone else excited, i've been looking forward to this for awhile, and was like "what? gameplay video!!!"
Anyways, same team (Suda 51 and Shinji Mikami (RE4 guy)) that worked on killer 7 is making this awesome stuff

looks like DMC with RE-quality writing. Should be funny, at least

Behonkiss wrote:

http://www.joystiq.com/2011/05/09/report-sony-plans-to-restart-psn-services-fully-by-may-31/

Let the ship-jumping begin!

That's been debunked by Sony.

Though, that doesn't state whether they plan to restore it before or after May 31st.

That Shadows of the Damned video is old as sin, dude. I've been waiting for that game since E3 2010.

New PS3 update is live. PSN is coming back up very, very soon. Time for things to get back to the status quo.

Edit: Or at least, you know, some of it is back. The Store isn't back yet, which kinda sucks cause Honest Hearts for Fallout is coming out on Tuesday. Also, my LA Noire DLC needs the Store.

Seibei4211 wrote:

New PS3 update is live. PSN is coming back up very, very soon. Time for things to get back to the status quo.

Edit: Or at least, you know, some of it is back. The Store isn't back yet, which kinda sucks cause Honest Hearts for Fallout is coming out on Tuesday. Also, my LA Noire DLC needs the Store.

Yes! Time for some Portal!

anongos wrote:

Yes! Time for some Portal!

PSN's already up for me, sooo...

Waiting ~2 weeks for sycning my PSN with Steam was worth the weight wait.

I wonder when Australia will get PSN back up and running... all I've seen is a firmware update that hasn't done anything yet

Knowing our track record though, we'll be after every other region.

America's turned on. Europe's next. Austrailia's third followed by New Zealand, then the Middle East. Every country should be connected by the end of the month apparently.

Yay, it's down again! Thanks, Sony.

What are you talking about? It looks pretty online to me. The only ones who got the PSN turned off again temporarily were Europe and the Middle East and such.

Seibei4211 wrote:

What are you talking about? It looks pretty online to me. The only ones who got the PSN turned off again temporarily were Europe and the Middle East and such.

The U.S. got shut down for a while last night.

Well shit, if you haven't played inFamous or LBP before, now's probably a pretty good time.

http://blog.us.playstation.com/2011/05/ ... h-america/

Wow I can get Wipeout for free? That basically counterbalances the outage for me XD

I guess inFAMOUS is good too.

Oh~ Look whats back in action~ :3

Hmm, of the five free games, I own 2 and was only interested in one other, so:

Dead Nation, or Super Stardust HD? I'll have to find out what either of those are, but Dead Nation sure sounds like a zombie game.

I hear Super Stardust HD is an asteroids-type game.

Not sure what I'm going to get yet, but I am sure I'm not going to get LBP. Though I do have a few accounts on my ps3 so maybe I can just get the other four.

I'll probably just get Dead Nation and Super Stardust HD. No point in letting a giveaway go to waste. If I were more into racing, I might get Wipeout HD.

Anyway, I just picked up LA Noire and they have this reeeally neat thing. There's this Badge Pursuit challenge that came with my copy. There's this envelope in the game box that has these 7 photograph negative film strip thingies that basically show you where each badge is in the game. That's such a neat way of doing a scavenger hunt.

I'll just wait until Media Go is back online in Australia. If it goes back online.

PSN store please, I want some more RB songs

awp wrote:

PSN store please, I want some more RB songs

It's scheduled for next Tuesday. At least in North America.

Just learned the hard way that LA Noire doesn't autosave (the only way to save) as often as I would like. Just spent hours last night trying to find some really annoying and elusive cars just to have my progress not fucking save.

So I beat LA Noire yesterday. That's probably one of the best games I've ever played. Totally worth the $60.

Anyway, I thought the Store would be back today, but apparently that's not gonna happen. Should be up before June though.

Yeah.

I wish I had more to say in this thread. But that store needs to go up.

There's a wizardry game coming out over PSN that I've been craving for a few weeks and its been held up in all this bullshit.

Ivalset wrote:

There's a wizardry game coming out over PSN that I've been craving for a few weeks and its been held up in all this bullshit.

Is there any info on the price that it's going be?

adam2046 wrote:

Is there any info on the price that it's going be?

Haven't heard one. I assumed it's going to be cheap, but I could be in for a huge surprise, now that I think about it.

In other news, finally got back on track with my Persona 3 Portable solo Maniac run. It's slowly getting to the point where I think the bosses are getting easier to deal with now that I have more options to deal with them.

Also, I've never been so reliant on attack spell gems before.

Ivalset wrote:

Yeah.

I wish I had more to say in this thread. But that store needs to go up.

There's a wizardry game coming out over PSN that I've been craving for a few weeks and its been held up in all this bullshit.

The crappy thing about that is even when the PS Store goes back up, you'll still probably have to wait until they eventually release the game. Cause they're not gonna just release everything we've missed all at once.

Yeah, apparently they're releasing twice a week or some shit until they get caught up.

Oh well, EU version of White Knight Chronicles 2 is coming soon as well, and I'll probably end up importing that.

Just gotta be patient...

White Knight Chronicles good? I've seen it in Microplay for 20 used, which is a small price to pay for something if it's good

Uhh, the first one is questionable. It has some good elements but some serious flaws. The sequel looks to be significantly better in every way, and it will also include the entire first game on the disc (with all the gameplay improvements of the sequel).

Honestly, just from the gameplay improvements they've made in the sequel, I could confidently say that WKC2 will be an absolutely amazing game for online multiplayer (which is the meat of the game).

I wouldn't recommend playing WKC1 now unless you just want to get your feet wet, and I certainly wouldn't advise spending any money to do that. Either wait for the NA release which is slated for August, or import the EU release sometime in early June. Since it's very focused on multiplayer, it's one of those games that's much better to get into near release. That said, there was still a decent online community in WKC1 a year after its release, and you don't even need that many people to be able to fully experience WKC.

I'll also note that the singleplayer campaign is pretty unremarkable. It's really just a springboard to get you ready for online play. The singleplayer campaign is something like 20-30 hours of play. Finishing everything on online could easily take you 300-500 hours depending on your efficiency (it's a huge grind, but a huge fun multiplayer grind).

It scratches a similar itch that PSO does, except that instead of hunting for red boxes you're hunting for crafting materials to upgrade your shit. Though apparently in WKC2 you can find weapon drops as well, so...

Whatever, fuck. Just wait for WKC2 if anything.

Edit: I forgot, there's also a psp game coming out in early june I think, that might also be a decent way of figuring out if you might be interested in WKC2. I haven't played it yet though so I can't really attest to that. It might be awful.

Speaking of Persona...

http://blog.us.playstation.com/2011/05/ ... ng-to-psp/

Edit: Also, Disgaea 4 - http://www.viddler.com/explore/sceablog ... 21/387.987

Damnit I want a PS3 to get Disgaea 4.

I already have Disgaea 3. But I'll skip that for 4.

Oh shit! New DeathSpank! The Baconing. I didn't think they'd make a third one.

http://www.ps3trophies.org/news/news-36 ... ning-.html

Ivalset wrote:

I could confidently say that WKC2 will be an absolutely amazing game for online multiplayer (which is the meat of the game).

See, this is plenty good information for me: I don't like playing games online.

God dammit that Disgaea 4 trailer makes the game look amazing. Disgaea 3 looked like Disgaea, which was always good enough for me. I just like Disgaea games. But Disgaea 4 seems to have added a lot more polish to the visuals and then they shoveled in a fucktonne of additional content to an already obscenely bloated game.

Kind of sad they haven't added another digit to the level cap though. Base stats better not still cap at 10 million (or was it 20? I forget). I mean, 10M is a fair stretch higher than FF's 255ish (okay, so 13 let you go to around 4000, there was no "cap" there) but I just felt so disappointed when my high-powered equipment, in combination with aptitudes and resident multipliers, was being cut short. It'd be nice to have an indistinguishable cap, like FF13. But not a puny one, like FF13.

Rolled, I finally officially have RB3. Now sign on more often, you motherfucker.

Edit: Oh, and it's probably worth mentioning that I'm playing RB3 on my Chiaki4211 account. This game is kind of a bitch though. I'm still trying to get the calibration just right. I don't think I ever needed to do that with Guitar Hero.

Edit2: I was THIIIS fucking close to just saying "Fuck this game" and giving up. I finally got the calibration to acceptable levels though.

fuckin' love rock band

in the ~2.5 years I've had it, I've probably clocked like 400 hours on it

I've gotten so...so...bad at this guitar shit. Also, my arm is not what it used to be. I can only make it through maybe six songs before my arm's shot for the day. But that's because I fucking suck at up/down strumming unless it's at shredding speed.

warwolf - warwolf696

I just got DJ Hero 2 cheap and I'm surprised how good it is. I really want to buy Rock Band 2 + 3 as well but I can't find a good (and cheap) guitar.

My brother picked up L.A. Noire and Nier today.
I haven't even started on Red Dead Redemption...

Looking forward to playing Nier at some point in the next...year.

Yeah, I'll probably be picking up Nier and RDR at some point this summer as well. Lately I've been spending all my time with Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World though. It's not as good as the original, but it's good enough. It's also a bit harder than the original ever was. Some of the most random enemies are able to drain my health in less than 2 seconds sometimes. It kinda sucks that there's only two actual party members, and one of them suuuuucks.

I've only heard absolutely terrible things about Dawn of the New World.

Also wow, about time there's a quick reply. Or maybe it's always been there and it's the first time I've misclicked.

Seibei4211 wrote:

Lately I've been spending all my time with Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World though. It's not as good as the original, but it's good enough. It's also a bit harder than the original ever was. Some of the most random enemies are able to drain my health in less than 2 seconds sometimes. It kinda sucks that there's only two actual party members, and one of them suuuuucks.

I never really had trouble with getting killed by enemies like that, however one of the late bosses did that. Also, I played with my brother so I was stuck as Marta, I don't find her too bad though, and her Mystic Arte is great for random enemies.

Ivalset wrote:

I've only heard absolutely terrible things about Dawn of the New World.

Also wow, about time there's a quick reply. Or maybe it's always been there and it's the first time I've misclicked.

Quick Reply has been around for several months, but not always.

atm I think I'm only looking forward to getting Disgaea 4. But I have 2 games in progress and 4 I haven't even opened, and that's on the PS3 alone. So many games, so little time.

Ivalset wrote:

I've only heard absolutely terrible things about Dawn of the New World.

Yeah, it's not my favorite by any means, and I wouldn't recommend anyone to rush out and buy it, but it's a decent enough fix for someone who hasn't played a Tales game in ages like me. The game gets a lot better the more you play it, cause you start out with shit moves and stuff. The good thing is that this game isn't nearly as long as the first one, so I should be able to get through it soon enough so I can start the real run with 10x EXP and all that GRADE stuff.

rust45 wrote:

I never really had trouble with getting killed by enemies like that, however one of the late bosses did that. Also, I played with my brother so I was stuck as Marta, I don't find her too bad though, and her Mystic Arte is great for random enemies.

I died in my very first non-tutorial battle. The bats in the cave could somehow kill me almost instantly. It took me a while to realize that I should get surrounded by enemies, which would always drain my health fast, and that I should just play Semi-Auto instead of Manual because I can't block/dodge for shit in this game. I could in ToS, but not here. Once I realized that juggling was pretty much the easiest way to not get hit, I stopped getting hurt so much. Also, I forgot about Quests until chapter 4, so I wasn't getting a lot of EXP.