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A lot of pickups there, I also bought Dragon Age: Inquistion. Amazon dropped the price to $40 (new) for PS4, and I jumped all over that.

Yesterday I bought Kingdom Hearts 2.5 HD Remix (PS3) impulsively, there was one Limited Edition left on the shelf and I just had to have it.

It was kind of cool that PS+ gave Deadly Preminition and the Hitman HD Trilogy away this month. Games I wanted but not necessarily wanted to purchase.

As far as what I am playing, I am about to finish Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor, I am on the either last or second to last mission. I am completing all the challenges and going for the platnuim trophy because I already have 71% of the trophies, I might as well go for my first PS4 plat.

I want to get Shadow of Mordor.  I watched friends playing it and it looks like fun.  I'll probably get the PS4 version.  I just need to get a PS4.  Maybe next year.  

I'm playing Dragon Age on my PC.  It looks good.  I'd like to connect it to my tv, but I can't really imagine playing it with a controller, as I played Origins with a mouse too, and it just makes sense to me more at this point.  Otherwise, it looks ok on my laptop screen.  I am impressed with the graphics.  I like the design of the topography of the levels and stuff.  IT's really natural and real feeling.  

I'm only six hours in though.  Just made it to the first city.  I really like it, but I have been busy with holiday stuff.  

I need to get back to DQ IV.  I love DQ games.  

I read a few PC gamers had issues with the controls for DA3.  The complaint was they felt like they were set up for controllers and the keyboard and mouse were an after thought.  I guess you don't have that problem.  Or maybe I read wrong. 

It is different from origins.  I dunno i got used to it but there are some annoyances.

Tactical mode definitely feels that way, it's something that only works with an analog stick, not so much with a mouse. The point and click interface for the entire game going away I can understand since there's more verticality to maps, so it may not work, but tactical mode feels like they dropped the ball for the PC version. 

That's sound about right with I read.  I don't even use tactical mode.  Well, I haven't had a reason to use it yet. 

I've had a couple instances, mostly when I needed a mage to revive someone. But combat seems mostly about letting everyone do their own thing since there's no true healing spells and mages to a good job with the barriers.

Lately, my strategy is being the bait (I'm a warrior) and letting the team do most of the attacking.  If someone falls, I revive them myself.  I like that anyone can revive a member just by going next to them and hold the "a" button (probably the "x" for the PS).  It's like Gears of War.  That has been working for now.  I took out 2 dragons with that strategy.  

I have a rogue archer so I'm mostly hanging back with my mage while my two melee attackers go at it. If the magic's low, stealth has been really useful to revive them though. Used it more here than my rogues in Origins and 2 combined.

My wife does the same thing.  She's playing a rogue and when her people go down, she goes into stealth mode and revive them.  

Funny thing is, we found the "revive" thing totally by accident.  I was playing one day and noticed when I ran past a teammate's body, an "a" popped up.  I ran back wondering did it do anything or was it just another glitch.  I held down "a" and bam!  My homie got back on his feet and went back to fighting.  It didn't even use up my potions.  AWESOME!  

Loving Dragon Age also, it's shaping up to be my favorite in the series and my GOTY. Start was slow and I ran into a few bugs, but everything else has been great.

Yeah, there are still issues that pop up that keep me from playing the game.  Game crashes, can't talk to NPCs, origin server is acting up, etc...  Until I finish it, my favorite DA game is still DA:O.  As of now, DA:I is tied with DA2. I'm one of the few that really liked DA2. 

Be sure to let us know how Metroid II and Babysitting Mama compare.

It's not fair to compare them to each other.  Two different kind of games.  I'm sure there is no game like Babysitting Mama. 

In between games at the moment and trying to decide what to play.

I don't like videogame limbo.  I just play a little of this and that until something grabs me.  Sometimes I just commit to something and then there are times I just take a little break from gaming anf focus on my other hobbies. 

Yeah, I've been reading more and starting to train for the snowshoe race I'm doing in six weeks.

What's a snowshoe race?  You race in snowshoes? 

You got it in one. It's 3.5 miles, first one I've ever done. Heck, I don't even run...yet.

That sounds exhausting and fun to watch. 

A lot of goodness there. I love the Devil Survivor games. I sold my physical copy of overclocked but bought it digitally from the eShop when it was $14.99.

I now have DQ 4 on Android. Again my physical copy was sold a while back but now I can play it on a big(ger) screen.

I finally picked up Persona 4 for my PS TV. I bought a physical copy at EB. It looks pretty good on a 27" screen but I'm not going to play it until I finish my Suikoden run.

I've decided to play through the first game before starting 2 because I want to use my save file when I start the second game.

I'm still on the fence about getting a PSTV.  I bought P4 Golden a while back and I don't have anything to play it on.  I want to get a new system next year, but I just don't know what.  If I save my money and stop buying games, I may be able to get 2 new systems. 

Well all I needed the PS TV to do is play the Vita RPGs and since it seems to do that plus PSP RPGs on my TV that sold me.

That's why I wanted a PSTV.  I thought it would be awesome to play Vita games on a TV.  But, then I realized, I like playing rpgs and I play rpgs a lot more on handhelds.  I looks like I'm leaning toward getting a Vita.  

I reviewed Babysitting Mama.  One of the weirdest Wii games ever!

I also reviewed Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams on the Wii U.  That game has awesome graphics.  It is based on an old Mario clone.  In fact, it's rumored that Nintendo asked the makers not to release the original Giana Sisters back in the day because it was so much like Super Mario Bros.

Okami was my Game of the Year in 2006.

I want to play Babysitting Mama just to experience it.  Right now it's just sitting on my shelf.  I made sure to get the baby and everything. 

I played a bit of Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams.  It's a neat game.  I would like to get my hands on the original game too.  I think there is a pc version.  

I hadn't played Okami since it released on the PS2 back in 2006.  I thought about getting the Wii version, but I read it had some problems.  

Still need to get Overclocked, Devil Survivor is one of my favs.

Speaking of NeatherRealm games (sorta) i'm planning to get Tekken Tag for the Wii U becaus it's been years since i've played a proper Tekken Game.

I've had no time for games the past 2 months, working in retail is hectic this time of year.

I got Tekken Hybrid (PS3) a few months ago and I still hadn't played it.  The last Tekken game I played was Tekken 6 and I didn't play it much.  

that's a bevy of good games up there chief.

What am I playing?  a whole lot of Dragon Age: Inquisition.  After that, gonna be either Mordor or Assassin's Creed Rogue.

After I finish Dragon Age 3, I think I'll wrap up Sleeping Dogs and then jump back on South Park.  Hopefully, I won't play through DA:I again right away.

I'm waiting for Borderlands The Presequel DLC to drop, so I've been playing some games roughly at random. Today was Resident Evil 4 and Angry Birds Star Wars and tomorrow will be Phoenix and Sid Meier's Pirates. I think I might preorder Fantasy Life for 3DS tomorrow as well. I saw it was out on Dec 27th and the more I think about it, the more I want to play it.

Lately, my son has been playing Angry Birds Star Wars a lot.  I don't now what Fantasy Life is.  I'll have to look it up. 

Fantasy Life  "is a blend of life simulation and RPG" according to IGN. In my words: an RPG plus Animal Crossing created by Level-5.

I'll check that Re-release of Devil Survior. I really want to get into the game of Atlus.

It's better than the original.  Also check out the rerelease of Devil Survivor 2.  Comes out next year for 3DS.

That is a good list of pickups. I loved San Andreas, so much so I bought it again on the iPad. As for what I am playing, I'm currently hooked on Lego Marvel on the PS4. I'm 47% finished and I haven't even gone back into the story mode yet to finish collecting everything. 

I bought Lego Marvel a few months ago while it was on sale.  I need to go back to unlock more characters.

I guess I'll avoid DA:I for the time being.

I'm hoping Suikoden II will be relisted for the PSP. Can't see myself buying it without it being accessable on my PSP. PS3 is nice but I don't have a Vita.

I noticed Suikoden II wasn't playable on the PSP.  Maybe it's a mistake?  One of these days I'll get a Vita.  They're not selling well, so I hope I can get one real cheap, soon.

I liked Injustice a LOT. Way more than I thought I would since I didn't know hardly any of the characters. Strider was pretty good too if a bit motonous at times. I've been waiting on the PC version of GTA V... but man, I don't know if that's gonna happen. Hopefully they will actually bother to optimize it.

The new GTA V looks nice.  I think I've decided to get a PS4, so I'll get GTA V again on that console.  I still hadn't played Strider.