What has everyone been playing this week?

[Holio]

Killzone 2, not very much of this yet and only singleplayer.

FIFA 09 and losing to Ezee.

Peggle, it really is truly addictive, DL'd the demo and had a go, 3 hours later and I was turning my XB off.................

V-Rally 3, more of this little gem on the GBA.

Resi Evil 5 Demo, took a few goes to understand the play mechanic of it, but would like to play the full game Co-Op.

[Darwock]

My KZ2 plans were scuppered by a dead bluray drive, so I have gone back to the last gen games I never got round to playing.

Firstly Okami - normally I love this kind of game but Okami misses the mark. There's way too much talking.. and all with that excruciating babbling noise to cap it off. It makes me reluctant to talk to anyone, but talking is almost all there is. The combat also sucks, you just get trapped in a tiny arena and mash the button and that's it. Result was that I gave up on it after getting out of the village.

Then I moved on to Twilight Princess (GC). It looks like mince after having gotten used to HD but it's way more enjoyable than Okami already.

[BaudAttitude]

Firstly Okami - normally I love this kind of game but Okami misses the mark. There's way too much talking.. and all with that excruciating babbling noise to cap it off. It makes me reluctant to talk to anyone, but talking is almost all there is. The combat also sucks, you just get trapped in a tiny arena and mash the button and that's it. Result was that I gave up on it after getting out of the village.

My wife bought me Okami for Christmas a couple of years ago, and I play through the games she buys me, no matter what. (Brute Force... brrrrr)

For the record, it DOES get awesome.

My time played at the POINT where it got awesome was 13 hours and change.

It's a bit of a ramp up is what I'm getting at, and no shame in deciding it's not worth it.

As for me, I have a choice between giving X-Blades a second run through, for the good ending or starting Onechanbara.

Think it's going to be the one with the scantily clad chick with the guns and swords for me.

[C']

I've heard a lot of people describe Okami as the game that out-Zeldas Zelda so your opposing opinions on the game are quite interesting.

Myself, got a few things on the go.

Fallout 3 (Xbox 360) - Went back to this after a few weeks break. Looking at my achievements list I've only got a few quests left to complete so I'm now traversing every corner of the map for new dungeons and locations to scavenge and find my own adventures. The

->Open Spoiler<-

Dunwich Building

scared the bejesus out of me. It's amazing how one little "trick" had me on edge for next 45 minutes. I'm just grateful I had a follower present to hold my hand through there.

Picross DS (DS) - Unbelievably addictive. Currently working my way through Normal Mode (where you are told if you make a mistake at the cost of time penalty) but the difficulty has no jumped as I'm up to the 20x20 puzzles.

Street Fighter IV (Xbox 360) - Simply wonderful. The best beat em up in years and it's really invigorated my love for the genre. Constantly learning new stuff.

Star Ocean: First Departure (PSP) - Only just started this (1 hour on game clock) but thought it was about time I got another J-RPG underway. Not fully sure about the real time battle system but still early days yet. Quite surprised about the production values for a PSP game.

[Skull Commander]

My KZ2 plans were scuppered by a dead bluray drive, so I have gone back to the last gen games I never got round to playing.

Firstly Okami - normally I love this kind of game but Okami misses the mark. There's way too much talking.. and all with that excruciating babbling noise to cap it off. It makes me reluctant to talk to anyone, but talking is almost all there is. The combat also sucks, you just get trapped in a tiny arena and mash the button and that's it. Result was that I gave up on it after getting out of the village.

Then I moved on to Twilight Princess (GC). It looks like mince after having gotten used to HD but it's way more enjoyable than Okami already.

I have a very similar opinion of Okami. I tried to play it when it came out on the PS2 but it just bored me. I really thought it was just like a bad version of Zelda with nice graphics.

[Dirty Sanchez]

First week for ages that I haven't played COD4!

Mostly working through HAWX and a bit of Gears 2 thrown in.

Last night was my first go with the new flightstick - more difficult than I expected, thought it would be easier/more intuitive with the stick. Not so far.

Have Ace Combat 6 ready to go once I'm done with HAWX.

[QualityChimp]

After trying out backwards compatibility of the PS3 by playing Capcom Vs. Marvel 2 and Shadow of the Colossus, I seem to have been sucked back into Dead Rising on the 360!

I thought I'd try and get a few more achievements on it. I started off with Gourmet, but have done another 5 on top of that!

I was supposed to just be taking photos of the PP stickers, but found myself helping as many people as I could and enjoying following the plot again.

I'm now planning on photographing more pychos and trying to get the Full Set achievement too...

[Skull Commander]

A lot more of Street Fighter 4 this week, Peggle, Guitar Hero 2 and Aerosmith, Ninja Gaiden 2, and finished Quantum of Solace on normal difficulty.

Retro wise I'v been playing Operation Wolf and The New Zealand Story on the PC Engine.

[Holio]

Peggle : 360

Quantum of Solace : 360

Call of Juarez : 360

Race Driver GRiD : DS

[ezee ryder]

Madworld, GTA Chinatown Wars, FIFA 09 Ultimate Team mode, WWE Legends of Wrestlemania and Resident Evil 5.

[Decider-VT]

Played and finished Flower on PS3, a bit more SFIV, Dawn of War on PC and continuing to fiddle with Noby Noby Boy on the side. A bit between games at the moment as I finished Shadow of Destiny, Uncharted and Shadow of the Colossus recently and I don't know what to start next- the agony of choice. I should probably knuckle down and finish Lost Odyssey.

[Silvergun X]

It's been *entirely* Dodonpachi Daioujou Black Label Extra. My opinions in the first play thread.

I'm ranked 32nd using Type B / Leinyan, and ranked 93rd using Type B / Exy. Almost 60mil.

715/1000 gamerscore, I *will* perfect this. And it will be my first.

[NemesiS]

Finished Drakes fortune last week. Great game. Probably the best i have played on the PS3.

Now about halfway through TR: Underworld. Not bad at all. The cam can be totally ridiculous at times tho, especially when you have to make fiddly jumps. You line up to jump and the cam decides to move just as you press and you plunge into the abyss becuase you are now facing in the wrong direction

Some of the puzzles are a bit obscure but not too frustrating. If i'm honest tho, i should have played this before Drakes, as DF supercedes this in every department.

[ETC]

Well I was going to say I was continuing on my Animal Crossing but I had better not now thanks to the bad press last week, so quickly turned that off never to play again
So im going through Trauma Centre New Blood and We Cheer much less suspect, a dodgy back alley surgery simulator and a cheerleading game, very normal

[kryss]

Lol, I admit I'm tempted to rest AC for a while and play some of my other games instead...

Tales of Hearts, Super Robot Taisen K, Monster Hunter 2ndG, and (mainly) Hacolife.