Yeah, I think I've got you beat, even though it might not be related to something being the greatest everest.

Bioshock straight after Stalker is a bad, bad idea. Almost everything Bioshock does, Stalker does as well; just incomparably better, and there are constant, direct parallels. Though, the dialogue in Bioshock is better...and they bothered to finish it before release.

Still enjoying it so far, though.

Riding a dinosaur with 3 buddies in Mario 3D World  :

Usually in a co-operative game you'd see one player take sole control of 'vehicle' movement while others did a secondary action, but Super Mario 3D World takes the opposite stance and gives all players all the possible actions. Every player can steer, increase or decrease speed and jump. At first it's a hilarious mess of people doing their own thing, the dinosaur veering about awkwardly and not exactly doing what anybody wants.

Speaking to the other players and devising strategies, however, yields far better results. With two different teams of players, I took part in two entirely different approaches to the stage that were both ultimately successful.

In the first group we delegated commands, so one of us steered, another jumped and another adjusted speed. With our own clearly defined roles in hand we beat the stage, also discovering as we went along that if two players pressed the jump button at the same moment then the dinosaur would leap higher.

With this information, my second squad opted for everybody to do everything, speaking and sharing commands so that we worked in sync. We discovered that if three people are pushing in a direction, the turns are sharper; if all are jumping or speeding up, the air time and velocity were each higher.

New box art:

Last of us review is up.

Reading Tom McShea's review of Last of Us. .... What am I reading here?

Tess is a badger let loose from a cage. To cross her path is to sign your own death warrant.

Okay, thanks Mickey Spillane.  Did the dame also have gams that went forever?

I challenge you all to a duel.

edgecrusher said:

I started Xenoblade after The Last Of Us, and I'm enjoying the shit out of it. Its really just as good of a game, just in a completely different genre. Which is why I can enjoy it so much. I usually always tend to prefer playing completely different games one after another anyway. Playing too many similar games in a row gets boring, even if they are really good.

I started Duke Nukem awhile ago but stopped at some point...the part with the stupid ac car just annoyed me. Who knows when I'll ever go back?

That's pretty early on.  Don;t go back though, there is a First person platforming level after that that is ridiculous.  I almost had a stroke while getting through that level.

ok

travo said:

TLoU mp discussion, please.

We had no time for multiplayer discussion, we killed an hour on story and gameplay alone. This game is so amazing, so much to talk about, maybe another time.