Game: What game are you currently playing??

[Xelbair]

Super Meat Boy.
The game is as tough as guy eating razors for his breakfast and drinking sulfuric acid after that.

[Dark Dragon]

Golden Sun DS, finally an old school style jrpg that isn't a complete pain in the ass to play.

I recently got addicted to Dawn of Discovery (Anno 1404 in europe). Civilization 5 was a huge disappointment for me, so this game serves as a nice replacement.

The game pretty much have you maintain a fiefdom and you advance through it by providing the population with what they need. The people require basic necessity such as food, religion, community and drinks. They advance in rank from peasants at the lowest to noblemen at the highest and each tier has it's own set of requirement that get more complex as you progress. Peasants only requires fish for food, but citizen will wants spices too and also require new category such as entertainment. There's also trading with the orient (middle east mostly) for rare resources like spices.

The campaign pretty much function as a giant tutorial and there's a continuous mode where the game becomes a big sandbox and let you build your own island city and fight other people.

[Xrlderek]

Golden Sun DS, finally an old school style jrpg that isn't a complete pain in the ass to play.

I recently got addicted to Dawn of Discovery (Anno 1404 in europe). Civilization 5 was a huge disappointment for me, so this game serves as a nice replacement.

The game pretty much have you maintain a fiefdom and you advance through it by providing the population with what they need. The people require basic necessity such as food, religion, community and drinks. They advance in rank from peasants at the lowest to noblemen at the highest and each tier has it's own set of requirement that get more complex as you progress. Peasants only requires fish for food, but citizen will wants spices too and also require new category such as entertainment. There's also trading with the orient (middle east mostly) for rare resources like spices.

The campaign pretty much function as a giant tutorial and there's a continuous mode where the game becomes a big sandbox and let you build your own island city and fight other people.

Please say it is multiplayer it sounds amazing.

I played the previous golden suns and thought they were good, is this one on par?

[Dark Dragon]

The original doesn't have multiplayer, but the Venice expansion does support multiplayers up to 4 and Coop up to 8. You can buy DoD gold off steam for 30$ and it'll have both the original game + the expansion.

I really enjoy Dark Dawn so far, but i hear a lot of complaints from old fans. There's several point in the story that stop you from backtracking and apparently people have a huge problem with that. I don't think it's anything major though, if you like the old GS then you'll most likely enjoy this one.

[Ryllharu]

Not so much games I've been playing (still Fallout NV and Super Meat Boy), but I picked up one of the Special Edition Xbox 360 controllers with the transforming d-pad while I was out shopping for other things.

Huge improvement. I modded one of the wired controllers a few years ago to remove 70% of the plastic ring surrounding the d-pad. That fixed most of my problem in fighters where I use the d-pad instead of the analog stick (SCIV, GGXX#reloaded mostly).

So I tried out the transforming d-pad with my standard test. Performing Dizzy's Gamma Ray in GGXX (fwd, back, fwd, half-circle forward - HS).

With the standard 360 d-pad: I can manage about 3/10 tries.
With my modded wired pad (70% material removed): 7/10 tries.
With the transforming pad: 5/10 tries.

That doesn't sound like a huge improvement until you take in this other factor into account. Even with the modded controller, I still have trouble doing the standard Arksys super move (forward, half-circle forward - S). I pulled off 3/4 in combat against the AI with the transforming pad.

I highly recommend grabbing one of these controllers if you're into fighters on the 360 and you don't use an arcade stick.