I lost interest in Ring of Fire after UpinFlames came around, honestly. Nothing against him, but he just always kind of bothered me. Struck me as a Mr Knowitall type, made worse with a mod badge.

I decided to replay Eternal Darkness as a special Halloween time game to play, and started it up last night.

Now I probably haven't played this game since like 2003, so its been 10 years. I played through it 3 or 4 times to get all the endings, then never touched it again. What struck me last night, is how well the game still holds up a decade later.

Obviously the graphics are quite dated. Even at release, this game didn't have visuals that would blow you away. It looked GOOD, but never amazing. But the art design is such that you can appreciate it without the eye candy being at max levels. However, it terms of every other aspect of the game, from sound to controls to story and level design, this game is still a top level horror game to this day. It also runs in progressive scan and widescreen if you have Component cables, which is a must playing it on a modern HDTV.

I think the reason it holds up so well has a LOT to do with the fact that horror adventure games in this style have unfortunately become few and far between. When they do get made, they just don't have the same quality as these old classics. And seeing as Eternal Darkness was one of the best games of this type ever made, its really still at the top of its class. It has a level of maturity in the storytelling that was unlike anything ever seen up to that point...and really even to this day. And another thing that struck me is how well it controls....you can totally tell Nintendo was helping Silicon Knights out in this area because its got a smoothness to the controls that games of this type didn't have.

Having a good time replaying it...it always brings back so many memories of not just gaming, but of things you were doing in life at the time whenever you go back and take these trips down memory lane. Kind of makes me sad that they never made 2 or 3 sequels though. And now it seems Shadow Of The Eternals might not get made either. A damn shame.

SteelAttack said:

Dark Souls is the gift that keeps on giving. After fooling around in Anor Londo having beaten O&S, I went and cleared both Darkroot Garden and Basin last night. I should be going to New Londo now, but I still haven't gone to Painted World, the Hollow and Ash Lake, all of them optional areas with cool shit to get. I think I'm going to do those first.

You are quite ahead of me now.  I haven't played since last weekend when I beat Sen's Fortress and tiptoed into Anor Londo.  I don't feel strong enough for this area.  And O&S proved a brick wall in all of my previous playthroughs so I need to be more careful about it this time.  Maybe I should  level up or something.  Hmm

Edge, GTA V on PC in early 2014

bugsonglass said:

You are quite ahead of me now.  I haven't played since last weekend when I beat Sen's Fortress and tiptoed into Anor Londo.  I don't feel strong enough for this area.  And O&S proved a brick wall in all of my previous playthroughs so I need to be more careful about it this time.  Maybe I should  level up or something.  Hmm

What is your SL? I beat Anor Londo at around 50-ish. +10 uchigatana, grass crest shield +5 (stamina regen), whatever clothing (mixture of shadow set, and the weird red one), chaos pyro bombs. I've been at 40DEX for a while now since I reached the diminishing returns point and now I'm working on VIT and END.

O&S gave me a beating for a number of times. The final fight was me trying to work Smough from a distance with pyro bombs, finish him off whenever I could with the sword, then super Ornstein, which was more than a handful until I realized that I had to be at a distance when he makes the ass jump or the lightning ranged attacks, and lunge towards him when he did the regular big spear swings, that puts you beneath his swing reach and you get to sneak in a slash or two. then backflip a couple times to a safer distance, rinse and repeat. It was still a very close call, though.

Shia LaBeouf 'beaten up' in London

travo said:

Edge, GTA V on PC in early 2014

SteelAttack said:

This time it was just me and my huge balls. Chaos pyromancy upgrade is given (sold) by queelag's sister lackey. DEX and VIT sound low, yeah. I was at about 40 DEX and 22 VIT or so, END has always been third place in the upgrade hierarchy. Since katanas scale with DEX, that's probably the reason you feel so fragile in Anor Londo, coupled with the lowish VIT.

Oh cool I got that when I joined her covenant.  But it's only 4 fireballs and it takes up two slots.  I only have a total three slots as I didn't upgrade attunement at all

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olXWEuJ2Wfg

edgecrusher said:

So if you have Human Revolution on Steam, you only have to pay $5 to get the extra Director's Cut content. That is awesome.

I have it on PSN; they should offer the same deal, but of course they won't.