I am a slave to Super Hexagon (iPad).
[url]http://superhexagon.com/[/url]

[quote="Orochi"][quote="Blank"]Oh yeah, right now you can set the game to use holiday art--pretty much every sprite is Christmas-tized. E.g. Curly has a Kris Kringle hat (lol @ the Mimiga named Santa,) Quote is kind of like a reindeer thing, Balrog has a wrapping paper ribbon, etc. The area where you pick up the puppy in the house was also lit up a bit with Christmas lights, so it wasn't a bitch to navigate.[/quote]
Oh yeah, I forgot that it did that. Pretty cute.[/quote]
Oh yeah,

Oh reah?

[quote="GoldenRhino"]I am a slave to Super Hexagon (iPad).
[url]http://superhexagon.com/[/url][/quote]
iPad for Christmas etc., recommend me stuff like you did last year for my Android phone <3

Stanza (for books.) Find books online in epub format; email them to yourself, use the Shared tab of the Get Books section and use Gmail.

Win.

[quote="Blank"]Oh yeah, right now you can set the game to use holiday art--pretty much every sprite is Christmas-tized. E.g. Curly has a Kris Kringle hat (lol @ the Mimiga named Santa,) Quote is kind of like a reindeer thing, Balrog has a wrapping paper ribbon, etc. The area where you pick up the puppy in the house was also lit up a bit with Christmas lights, so it wasn't a bitch to navigate.[/quote]
Some of the holiday art gets messed up on Curly Story mode. For instance, Curly doesn't have her Santa hat (but it shows up in her avatar.) During cutscenes she turns into Reindeer Quote. Sometimes enemies aren't in their holiday getup either. It's a little messed up. But for your viewing pleasure:

[img]http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w25/the_sir_blank/CurlyStory_zpsd6f7011d.jpg[/img]

[img]http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w25/the_sir_blank/CurlyStory2_zps88045897.jpg[/img]

OH SHIT BALLOS WAS JUST SANTA CLAUS ALL ALONG NOW EVERYTHING MAKES PERFECT SENSE.

[img]http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w25/the_sir_blank/FFVIIRhythm_zps65aca7a3.jpg[/img]

But on the PC with a bunch of mods so that it's like playing a different game.

I just started Eternal Sonata for the PS3, and I must say, I'm in love.

[quote="Blank"]Stanza (for books.) Find books online in epub format; email them to yourself, use the Shared tab of the Get Books section and use Gmail.

Win.[/quote]
Why thanks.

Playing Dark Souls today, yowza, I'm killing the phalanx mob in the Painted World of Ariamis with firestorm, what is that, 7000-8000 souls? The bonfire is like, right out the door. That's like... One Twinkling Titanite per minute. Pretty much decimates every farming loop I've been using thus far. I was even down in the Demon Ruins, that first bonfire has capra demons that are all facing the wrong direction, so I would cast hush, walk behind them and OHKO them with the Black Knight Sword's R2 attack. I would also run down the stairs and kill the rest of the baddies. That may have been a more entertaining loop but this new spot is super fast, minimum effort souls.

Since I just got to the Giant Blacksmith, I'm wondering what kinds of enemies are weak against lightning weapons. And now I see where my brother got Quelaag's Furysword but I'm wondering if maybe I should choose the Chaos Blade instead.

Picked up Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch yesterday morning. Apparently it sold pretty well; even the GameStop here in humble little Athens, Tennessee only had one copy that wasn't reserved. Keep in mind this was ten minutes after the store opened on the day the game released. Or maybe the publisher just didn't print that many copies. Who knows.

Anyway, this game is fucking amazing. As far as I can tell, this is as close as perfect you can get in the JRPG genre. I'll leave it at that because I'm only thirteen hours in, but I'll post again when I'm a bit further into the game and more comfortable with all of the games mechanics (there are a lot). I can bottom-line it right for you right now though: buy buy buy buy buy buy

Currently playing Descent II: The Vertigo Missions (PC) and Final Fantasy VI (SNES9x).

Ni no Kuni looks really cool. If I (still) had a PS3 I'd totally play it, it's the first non-Dragon Quest JRPG in years that I think I might actually enjoy. The last two I played were Radiant Historia and Eternal Sonata.

While the former merely bored me, Eternal Sonata was easily one of the most disappointing and aggravating games I've ever played. It looks beautiful, but that's all it's got. You can't move the camera to enjoy the environments or even get close enough to see characters speaking most of the time. Speaking of characters, they're sickening and sound like they're straight out of a self-help booklet. Pretty much all of them annoyed me and spouted off preachy inspirational nonsense about the power of friendship, blah blah blah. They wasted an awesome concept about Chopin and sidelined him in favor of a generic story about a bunch of implausibly pretty teenagers, kingdoms, empires, and stuff that's been done better a million times before, with jarring and intrusive expository cutscenes about the composer. And it was painfully linear, too. This game represents everything I hate about modern JRPGs.

At least Dragon Quest VII for 3DS is coming out in two weeks. Now that's going to be awesome. The PSX original is one of my favorite games of all time.

That's a shame you don't have a PS3. It's a great game. I do have a few annoyances with it though. For instance: if you're going to implement an active time battle system with up to six creatures running around the battlefield at once, why would you interrupt the flow of things every five seconds with spell animations that are basically cutscenes. This is especially annoying during oh-crap moments when you're running from an enemy trying to tab over to spells to heal yourself but are interrupted by a stupid animation before you can cast. To add insult to injury, after the animation is over the game automatically sets you to the default tab (attack). This can lead to you accidentally hitting attack instead of tabbing back over to spells, resulting in your death. However, this seems to only be noticeable when your trying to fight higher level enemies.

Haven't played any vidya for a few months. Looking for something new to play. My wife wants us to get into WoW, but I'm not sure. I played a free trial a few years ago and enjoyed it, but it's a pretty time-consuming game and I'm not sure I have the time to spare. Does anyone here still play it/ know anyone who plays it? I'm kinda on the fence.