What are you playing right now #2

[Chie]

Just started Blacks Ops declassified. Already disappointed

[Rasgrez]

I'm playing Mount & Blade: Warband. Having fun so far.

[Elin]

Only Proto Merkabah stands between me and finishing my Japanese replay of Xenosaga Episode 1. I don't know whether it's a good or bad thing that it now takes me over a month to finish such a short RPG. :'D Had so much fun, though! Ultra-nostalgic~

Also bought Xenosaga Freaks and the DS Xenosaga I-II the other day. Because if we're going to do this whole play the Xeno series in Japanese in Japan thing, we're going to do it right~

[SOLDIERSeeD]

Only Proto Merkabah stands between me and finishing my Japanese replay of Xenosaga Episode 1. I don't know whether it's a good or bad thing that it now takes me over a month to finish such a short RPG. :'D Had so much fun, though! Ultra-nostalgic~

Also bought Xenosaga Freaks and the DS Xenosaga I-II the other day. Because if we're going to do this whole play the Xeno series in Japanese in Japan thing, we're going to do it right~

Haha, what a coincidence. Also replaying the Xenosaga series in Japanese. Noticed they include various things that were not present in the western releases, so I gave them a shot

[Varun Highwind]

Earthbound, got the 6th Melody. Gained a lot of Level's (4 for everybody) & almost 40,000$ thanx to Instawin technique in Dalaam's dungeon.

[Gypsy]

Yakuza.

[Elin]

Haha, what a coincidence. Also replaying the Xenosaga series in Japanese. Noticed they include various things that were not present in the western releases, so I gave them a shot

Hee, cool! You'll finish them way quicker than I will, I expect. I'll be lucky if I'm finished by February. XD Honestly just amazed that I can understand them in Japanese, though. The Japanese in them is actually way easier than I expected, jargon words aside.

And yeah, they were censored pretty badly in their Western releases. In 1 and 2 the cut / edited material wasn't really a big deal and the scenes worked either way, but in 3 it was just ridiculous, and outright ruined one major scene in particular. In 1 and 2 they seemed to genuinely think about how to preserve the scenes in the best way possible while still getting the game released to its target audience. In 3, they just removed all the blood regardless of its importance to certain scenes and called it finished. So lame.

[JKDarkside]

Rayman 3 is like a drug trip turned into a game. The desert level is when the trip goes bad.

Also tried Darkblood Online. It's a ton of fun. Also, titties.

[SOLDIERSeeD]

Hee, cool! You'll finish them way quicker than I will, I expect. I'll be lucky if I'm finished by February. XD Honestly just amazed that I can understand them in Japanese, though. The Japanese in them is actually way easier than I expected, jargon words aside.

And yeah, they were censored pretty badly in their Western releases. In 1 and 2 the cut / edited material wasn't really a big deal and the scenes worked either way, but in 3 it was just ridiculous, and outright ruined one major scene in particular. In 1 and 2 they seemed to genuinely think about how to preserve the scenes in the best way possible while still getting the game released to its target audience. In 3, they just removed all the blood regardless of its importance to certain scenes and called it finished. So lame.

Well, university life keeps me busy and as a Chemistry student, I can only play intensively on the week-ends after finishing my assignments. So yeah, I wouldn't bet on that one
But fortunately, I lived in Japan for a while and am 90% fluent with the language, so I have little problem understanding the contents. Have also imported a few games from Japan mainly due to the audio. For localized games, I prefer to listen to the native voices. One major reason beside the cut contents to replay Xenosaga ^^.
So 3 was butchered that much, awwg, shame .
BTW, what does your sig mean? Roughly translated, it's about a cat thanking its owner for drawing a picture of him even though it won't sell. Can't make much sense of that. Where is the quote from?

[Elin]

Well, university life keeps me busy and as a Chemistry student, I can only play intensively on the week-ends after finishing my assignments. So yeah, I wouldn't bet on that one
But fortunately, I lived in Japan for a while and am 90% fluent with the language, so I have little problem understanding the contents. Have also imported a few games from Japan mainly due to the audio. For localized games, I prefer to listen to the native voices. One major reason beside the cut contents to replay Xenosaga ^^.
So 3 was butchered that much, awwg, shame .
BTW, what does your sig mean? Roughly translated, it's about a cat thanking its owner for drawing a picture of him even though it won't sell. Can't make much sense of that. Where is the quote from?

Oh cool, another importer / Japanese speaker! I'm living in Japan at the moment, actually, but I studied Japanese for years before coming here. Mainly by playing videogames. :'D I always expected Xenosaga to be particularly difficult as far as videogames go because it's sci-fi and full of nasty jargon, but it's actually not that bad. Or maybe novels have just improved my Japanese to the point where videogame Japanese isn't very scary anymore. :'D And ditto on games. I always prefer the native dub. I'm the same with foreign movies, too. I always prefer the original language track, even if it's a language I don't understand.

It's from this song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ee_QaBjj08c. It's about a stray black cat who is hated by people for being a bad omen, but is one day taken in and befriended by a struggling artist who calls it Holy Night. The artist collapses one day through malnutrition and poor health, and uses his last remaining strength to write a letter to his love who waits for him in the town he grew up in, which he urges the little cat to deliver. The cat understands that the artist grew ill caring for him and drawing nothing but pictures of him which nobody was ever going to buy, and takes the letter all the way to the town, giving his life to fulfill his friend's last wish. When the artist's love reads the letter, she buries the motionless cat in the garden, adding a K to its name (hence the title, obviously), and turning it from Holy Night to Holy Knight. I'm slightly obsessed with cats and the song always makes me cry, particularly the lines in my signature. XD I don't know what possessed somebody to write a song about something like that, but I find it kind of lovely that somebody did. :'D

[Polizzi]

Pokemon Red

Just owned Brock and his Lackey with a level 16/17 Charmeleon spamming ember

[SOLDIERSeeD]

It's from this song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ee_QaBjj08c. It's about a stray black cat who is hated by people for being a bad omen, but is one day taken in and befriended by a struggling artist who calls it Holy Night. The artist collapses one day through malnutrition and poor health, and uses his last remaining strength to write a letter to his love who waits for him in the town he grew up in, which he urges the little cat to deliver. The cat understands that the artist grew ill caring for him and drawing nothing but pictures of him which nobody was ever going to buy, and takes the letter all the way to the town, giving his life to fulfill his friend's last wish. When the artist's love reads the letter, she buries the motionless cat in the garden, adding a K to its name (hence the title, obviously), and turning it from Holy Night to Holy Knight. I'm slightly obsessed with cats and the song always makes me cry, particularly the lines in my signature. XD I don't know what possessed somebody to write a song about something like that, but I find it kind of lovely that somebody did. :'D

Oh, cool, thanks for the nice vid^^.
BTW, almost finished Xenosaga 1, only 5 hours or so to go.

[JKDarkside]

The Suffering. I like the easier controls compared to what I get in most horror games, even if jumping around like a jackrabbit is more hilarious than scary. The atmosphere is downright fantastic, but when the actual monsters appear, it's not as scary. But sweet crap, the jump scares are top notch, hinting at how fucked up the prison really is. One of the few times jump scares aren't stupid.

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Also playing a hentai game called Slave Maker where I'm trying to do a lesbian harem run.

[Varun Highwind]

Jackal on Nes

[FranzDemian]

Harvest Moon: A Tale of Two Towns and Silent Hill 1, both are from my two favorite game series.