[:plant:] Holy shit there's some good stuff coming out soon

So what with being busy as shit and having a backlog of epic proportions, I'd not really looked into what new games are dropping soon but a quick glance at Amazon the other day tells be there's a ton of cool shit coming out and I'm surprised there aren't more threads about the games.

I had no idea there was a new EDF game on it's way for example. I fucking love EDF and have finished the whole thing on Hard and most of Hardest on my own but beyond that, without a second player it's tough as fuck. Thank the lord then that the new one has online co-op multiplayer! Clearly the best idea ever and I shall be buying the shit out of Insect Armageddon as soon as I get paid in August.

Next up is the increasingly awesome looking Space Marine in September. That I'm a big GW nerd is no secret here but even for people not into the lore or whatever the game looks sweet as fuck. Basically looking to reclaim everything that Gear of War stole from their IP, it started life as a combat rpg and now seems to be a hardcore, third-person massacre-them-up. None of this hiding in cover till your shield comes back bollocks, in Space Marine you regain life force by killing shit and only by killing shit. The game promises seemless transition between melee and shooting combat, thousands of pixelated bad guys to explode and carve up however you wish and the kind of micro-transaction market that only Little Big Planet has come close to rinsing in recent years. Truly this will be the game of the forever (I hope).

Then Battlefield 3 looks pretty tasty. Battlefield has always been up there with my favourite franchises and the new one looks mental. Even on the 360 rather than a £3,000 PC the game seems pretty slick from what I've seen and Battlefield type games never really get boring.

Anyway, what games are you planning on picking up in the next couple of months? There's a ton of other shit that isn't on my immediate purchase list but I'll get when the price halves a month after it's released so you guys must be looking forward to some shit.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

I've not had a chance to play it yet, what with it being the last week of the season I've been forced to go out and get drunk pretty much every night this week. I did buy, and have been playing a load of EDF which is awesome. I might download the demo now and play it when I get in later.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Oh hey so I played the Space Marine demo and the game is pretty awesome, I won't be cancelling my pre-order. Hopefully they'll keep the mp maps nice and small to encourage full on slaughter. I also downloaded the Fire Team game which is top fun too, and very silly.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Multiplayer in EDF is weirdly tempremental. Some days if you hit Quick Match you'll get an endless loop of unable to connect/connection has timed out forcing you to choose a custom match instead whereas somedays you just drop straight in over and over. The random element of Quick Matches is hilarious though as you've no idea what skill the game is on until you join meaning if you take a high-level character and it's people boosting crap ones on easy you ruin their game by decimating the bad guys whereas if they're playing on Inferno and you enter with a low-level guy you have to just run for your life until they manage to kill everything, all the while making it harder just by being there (And causing so many more aliens to spawn). I've still not finished vanilla campaign on Inferno yet, 2-1 is kicking my level 7 Tactical guy's arse. It's the damn bomb spiders that do it, although the slow-down works in your favour as you can get ticks off really easily.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Oh hey so Space Marine is awesome. I've played through most of the single player (Chapter 13 was kicking my arse last night, I was too drunk to manage it) and played a bit of multiplayer (Level 5 right now) and it's awesome. I love the fact that so many games try to have a proper badass as the main character and some do ok except they have health packs instead of launching yourself into hordes of the enemy and murdering them in the most brutal fashion possible to regain health. Towards the end of the single player campaign (On normal at any rate) you do need to start hiding behind stuff and popping out to kill people but for most of the game it's entirely feasable to just charge headlong into the enemy and just fuck shit up until everyone's dead. It's a real shame there's no campaign co-op because that'd be hilarious, can't wait for Exterminatus to launch.

Multiplayer is pretty great too. The balancing seems ok so far although that could be because people've not had time to work out which is the "best" weapon yet. One feature I do like is being able to select the load out of the person who killed you when you respawn which means someone can't dominate just because they've levelled up a ton and have the best gear. Also, the customiser is awesome, allowing changes to the minute detail of the colour schemes meaning someone like me who grew up with Dark Angels having yellow trim on their shoulder pads can udjust their skin accordingly.

It's a game for massive nerds but it's also a great game for people into shooters in general. Like Gears of War mixed with the swarms of bad guy cannon fodder from something like Too Human (Or not, if you're one of the many people who didn't enjoy that game).

I was speaking idiomatically.

Yeah, being able to choose between instant respawn at your home base or wait a bit and spawn at a capture point or on a team mate is a nice touch too. I'm using the quick respawn perk a lot at the moment, mainly because I die a lot!

Also, the extra shit in the collectors edition wasn't worth the cash, but the massive, book shaped box it came in was.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Originally Posted by Firefly

And I'm still convinced they dropped the ball on the subject of avatar goodies. Seriously, no Adeptus Astartes armor? No chainsword? Only representing one of the four Dark Gods in terms of Chaos apparel?

There's no chance they won't massively expand the amount of dlc crap like that available over time. Once the Exterminatus dlc drops, next up will be a string of chapter specific skins for multiplayer at 800 points each along with associated avatar items.

FELIPE NO

Originally Posted by EMPEROR SHITWRECKER

Exterminatus for xbox live drops tomorrow.

And it's awesome fun! Irritating that it doesn't count towards weapon challenges but I'm one of those people who plays games for fun, not for a higher number next to my gamertag so the irritation is limited to not being able to unlock perks. I'm getting best results on both maps so far using an assault with swordsman's thingy that gives you health back when you score a melee hit and true grit to replace your pistol with a bolter. The ability to boost your way out of danger and find a spot to recharge is near-essential towards the end and having a bolter as well gives you a chance against hordes of scar boyz and the big hammer nobz.

Also just out is the latest update for Gran Turismo 5 and some DLC cars, a couple of tracks, a bunch of new paint colours and helmets and crap, including the very silly Red Bull X2011 which is a theoretical concept car that's damn near impossible to drive on your first attempt but also a very easy way to get the 111 metres per second trophy. Free update adds in-car view for standard model cars and probably some other stuff, I didn't really read all the description.

Additional Spam:
Apparently there's even more Space Marine DLC coming soon: Looky here.

How ya doing, buddy?

Even more exciting, assuming they don't dumb it down too much which of course they will.

Jam it back in, in the dark.