Games, Games, GAMES!! (Besides iDOLM@STER, of course XD)

[JNiles]

Playing Persona 3 Portable for the first time. Only played like 4 hours, but it already made me go to sleep at 6 AM. Hope it won't end up like Fate/Extra, which I couldn't pick back up after some time. The dungeoning became boring and there wasn't much more to do. From what I've heard, Persona is much better in that regard, so maybe I won't drop it...

Male route or female route?

Persona 3 has huge dungeons, which can be a drag.  The issue with Fate/Extra's dungeons is that you can only go in once a day, which makes it hard to level and is demotivating if you get killed.

[Accoun]

Male. Since it's my first playthrough and I've heard the female route was only added in later (be it FES or Portable), I figured I might start with the original one...


And if the news of messed up Shiny Festa western announcement didn't ruin someone's day enough, Gearbox announced they bought the rights to Homeworld franchise.
Two next "big bidders" were Stardock and Paradox...

[SalemJeanette]

Adding more to the list of things I won't probably play again until months because I don't even know what to play now. I got Demon Souls, Dead or Alive 5 and Malicious.

[Yui]

Still playing Fire Emblem: Awakening, but on Lunatic Mode (Already finished the Support Conversation Archives). And I just bought Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance too. Now I have to look for a gamecube controller.

[WarOmnimon]

Add Fire Pro Wrestling Returns for the PS2 to the list of games I'm currently playing.  I'm also awaiting the chance to buy Animal Crossing New Leaf (3DS) and Kamen Rider Battride War (PS3), the latter of which will be my first Japanese import PS3 game.

(On another note, I'm still upset that the 1.03 patch for Dynasty Warriors 7 Empires seems to be Japan only at this point, with no signs pointing to an international release.  You know, the one that's supposed to fix some bugs and add more hair colors and whatnot.)

Edit 5/9/13 Editing to avoid a double post.  As of right now, I'm also playing Hokkori! Tamagotchi-na on Mobage if that counts as something.  (Yes, that's the same Mobage service that IM@S Cinderella Girls is one of the games on, though I haven't started that game yet.)  I have one of the special characters from the current event in my garden right now.

[redhairedking]

I started playing both Tales of Hearts R and Pandora's Tower today. I'm a couple hours into both. Hearts R is awesome so far and the language barrier is not a problem in the slightest. Pandora's Tower started off not scoring too well with me. I felt like the gameplay was a little clunky. I have since gotten used to it and would say it is significantly better than The Last Story, but nowhere near as good as Xenoblade. I'll be sure to keep you guys posted.

[Naryoril]

Hearts R is awesome so far and the language barrier is not a problem in the slightest.

Is is because your japanese is good, the japanese in the game is easy or because understanding what is said doesn't really matter?

[chikorita157]

Started playing Monster Monpiece again and got to Chapter 5... and the game suddenly got harder compared to the earlier levels as the battles are easy... Time to mess with the deck again.

[Cien Laguoire]

Going to play Bioshock 2 in a bit. Why not Infinite? Because I can.

[redhairedking]

Is is because your japanese is good, the japanese in the game is easy or because understanding what is said doesn't really matter?

I have very limited knowledge of Japanese, though I am trying to learn some more. The story, as with most Tales games, is really not that hard to follow without knowing the language. The menus are terribly simplistic and are exactly what you would expect. The only slightly difficult part is setting skills and artes, as that does require some knowledge of the language. You get used to it though. Overall I would say it is a great import and highly recommend it. I recently recorded a little bit of gameplay as a Vita recording test if you are interested (ignore the first 25 ish seconds as I was trying to encounter an enemy).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMu_7Wp7drU

[TheTanStar]

Just finished playing Metro: Last Light on Ranger Easy (It should really be called Ranger Hard) in (according to Steam) 9.5 hours. Got the "bad" ending. Time to replay on Ranger Hardcore!

Edit: Finished Ranger Hardcore and got the "good" ending. The game is significantly easier when you've already played through the game (died way fewer times than my first run).

[redhairedking]

I finished Bioshock Infinite. I think it was overhyped, but I still enjoyed it. The ending was so sad yet happy.

[AweOfShe]

After my 3 months of Fire Emblem Awakening (though I still play the DLCs as they came out), I've switched over to Etrian Odyssey 4, for the last two months. The game is amazing fun.

My main party:
(Front line)
Raine - Landsknecht (subclass - Imperial) - Level 55
Anastasia - Fortress (subclass - Bushi) - Level 55
Sophia - Dancer (subclass - Night Seeker) - Level 55
(Back line)
Rune - Runemaster (subclass - Medic) - Level 55
Miena - Medic (subclass - Arcanist) - Level 55

My secondary party
(Front line)
Cierra - Imperial (subclass - Landsknecht) - Level 35
Usagi - Bushi (subclass - Fortress) - Level 35
Fifth - Night Seeker (subclass - Dancer) - Level 35
(Back line)
Alma - Sniper (subclass - Dancer) - Level 35
Sakura - Arcanist (subclass - Medic) - Level 35

I'm nearing the end of the game, so I'm planning to sink all my time into Soul Hackers next.

[redhairedking]

I'm finishing up my LV1 CM run of Kingdom Hearts Re:Coded and have recently started Atelier Totori Plus. Need to finish Tales of Hearts R in there somewhere too

[Cael K.]

Finally beat Gears of War 1 on Insane. Don't know how many times I tried the last boss, but finally managing to pump him full of Torque Bow arrows and grenades must have helped a lot.

Favorite weapon loadout was Shotgun, Sniper Rifle, Snub Pistol, so it was probably harder than it needed to be (that Snub saw a lot of use, it was awesome). Switched to Lancer, Torque Bow, Snub Pistol for the final battle.

Still on Arcanum Knights as well - it's by the same doujin group that did Labyrinth of Touhou. Not sure what I think about the game balance, as it's usually you mow down enemies until you hit a boss. Then there's something stupid you have to deal with then. My favorite is the full party, enough damage to floor anyone in one hit, but low accuracy attack - even if the odds are with you, it's still a luck battle at that point.

I kinda thought about playing Labyrinth of Touhou, but not so much after this...