other gamers here?

[voodooman]

My first PS3 lasted 2 years and this one went the other day after 1.5 years. I'll not be forking out any more cash on Sony's pos.
So
Anybody recommend any cloud gaming for TV's. I know onlive offer a console but if anybody's got any other advice I'd be grateful.

probably cant get it for a while, but this could be cool:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20949071

[Frosted]

probably cant get it for a while, but this could be cool:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20949071

I saw that the other day which got me thinking. Onlive doesn't look too hot and they've had financial problems - they could basically just disappear one day. Now that console by Steam looks the dogs knackers and if they sort any lag and quality issues this is definately going to be the way forward. Consoles are always blowing up - I've never had a PC go down that route so there's something fundamentally wrong with them and they're way too expensive to keep replacing. If that Steam console is at a reasonable price I'm in.

[sgreger1]

I've been playing Hitman Absolution lately. Decent game.

I played the first few levels of it recently and I think it's probably one of the best in the series so far. Definitely a solid game, and i've always loved the unique approach hitman took.

[voodooman]

hitman was good, but got a little frustrating. the disguise system kinda sucked. i felt like in the earlier games you could move around a lot more freely, and really survey the situation and watch how characters interacted. in this one you need to constantly stay in cover even when you have a good disguise and haven't raised any alarms. enemies will "see through" your disguise.

[Zimobog]

I got me one of them 360s a couple months back. I like Fallout 3, Skyrim, Red Dead Redemption, and a few others.

[Nuusku]

Dang I can't wait for Dark Souls 2 :P

[sgreger1]

Wait, is there an announced dark souls two?

[Nuusku]

Wait, is there an announced dark souls two?

Yeah!

[Nuusku]

Anyone play lol?

[Sato]

I didn't care for LoL, it seemed like a flashy and poorly balanced AoS (the game DotA/LoL ripped off) Still plenty of people seem to like it!

Anyone play Starcraft 2, TF2 or Xbox Live?

[sgreger1]

What is lol?

[texasmade]

What is lol?

League of Legends

[PipenSnus]

I'm afraid I have to side with those who think Dishonored doesn't live up to the hype. It's a great concept, beautifully rendered, but the gameplay constantly breaks immersion. It's far too easy to kill opponents, and far too difficult to take them out non-lethally. The plot is too ham-handed, attempting to present clichés as cleverness. With a good deal more subtlety, it could have been among the best games of all time. As it is, it's like the guests at an A-list party -- gorgeous, but boring, once you get over being dazzled.

[sgreger1]

It's all about Minecraft: Feed The Beast right now. Playing that shit every day and every night. Sometime I wake up early before work to play it.

What I like about games like minecraft is that it is open to interpretation as to what your objective is, you can do so much shit and it doesn't come in any real order of importance. This is why I love larger sandbox games (Farcry 3, Mercenaries II, Just Case 2, Skyrim, Oblivion etc), they don't have you playing through a little box and then you are done. The $15 I spent on minecraft has given me years of enjoyment and continuous replay whereas things like Metro 2023 or any other random game gives me one playthrough and then i shelve it forever.

This kid is staying with me at my house right now with hsi parents while they try to find a new house, he found my x-box collection of literally every single game for xbox up until last year (Wehn i bought a proper gaming PC), and he was all amazed. I told him he could keep it all if he wanted it as I had already played the games and therefore don't have interest in using it anymore which is why its all sat in a shelf for a year. It was then that I realized how much i hate so many modern games, they are fire and forget, you pay $60, get liek 10 hours out of it and then you are done. Only a few really good ones like Oblivion, Fallout etc can give you like 200 hours of real gameplay. I wish there were more of those.

[PipenSnus]

...i hate so many modern games, they are fire and forget, you pay $60, get liek 10 hours out of it and then you are done. Only a few really good ones like Oblivion, Fallout etc can give you like 200 hours of real gameplay. I wish there were more of those.

I agree wholeheartedly. I've got more than 700 hours logged in Skyrim, with the Dawnguard and Hearthfire add-ons, and I still haven't completed the main quest. (But I have completed the civil war questline, most of the faction questlines, and the Dawnguard quests.) I played through Morrowind several times, and there's still replayability, IMO, in Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas. But there are very few games that live up to the same standard as those. Most bore me within a few hours.