What are you playing: Detective Demon Hunter

We're tossing knives at demons and stomping down criminal enterprises left and right this weekend in another installment of "What are you Playing." Speaking of which, what are YOU playing?

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There's a running theme through most of the picks this week: detectives and demon hunters. From new titles like L.A. Noire and The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings to an old favorite like Demon's Souls, this week justice is being served (possibly by someone playing Diner Dash).

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  • Garnett Lee: I’ll be playing E3 planning and preview embargo scheduling but when time allows I’ll probably hop back on some Brink, Gatling Gears, Demon’s Souls, and who knows what else.

  • Xav de Matos: Wrapping up L.A. Noire for review and probably getting in some quality time with Deus Ex: Human Revolution and The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings.

  • Alice O'Connor: With the world ending on Saturday, I'll be drinking in a public place wearing a white bedsheet. Should Sunday somehow dawn, I'll have a lot of witcher's work to catch up on, not to mention a whole floating city to liberate/oppress.

  • Jeff Mattas: Witcher 2. L.A. Noire. Witcher 2. L.A. Noire. Witcher 2. L.A. Noire. Witcher 2. L.A. Noire.

  • Steve Watts: It's going to be a busy weekend with non-gaming commitments, but I'll be trying to squeeze in some L.A. Noire. I've restricted myself to one case per day to watch it like a TV show, so it shouldn't be too hard to find time.

  • Ozzie Mejia: Playing bits of Pokemon Black here and there, unless I get my hands on L.A. Noire. I think this is also a good weekend for me to plow through the XBLA backlog.

Xav de Matos was previously a games journalist creating content at Shacknews.

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    May 21, 2011 12:00 PM

    Xav de Matos posted a new article, What are you playing: Detective Demon Hunter.

    We're tossing knives at demons and stomping down criminal enterprises left and right this weekend in another installment of "What are you Playing." Speaking of which, what are YOU playing?

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      May 21, 2011 12:36 PM

      started up Bioshock Singularity and am enjoying it a bit so far. Not sure how far I'll make it over the weekend though :(

      Aiming to clear it this week so I can blow through Vanquish before DNF hits next month.

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      May 21, 2011 12:43 PM

      The Witcher 2! Sooo goooooooooooood.

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        May 22, 2011 4:22 AM

        Started over the weekend and so far it looks like I won't be disappointed.
        I imported my end game save from the first Witcher and I started with Aerondight!
        I love it when sequels do that :)

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          May 22, 2011 5:17 AM

          Yeah I didn't realize until 4 hours in that they were in my inventory lol. But I was really happy that CDProjekt rewarded me for playing the first one.

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          May 22, 2011 2:28 PM

          I got my raven armor, aerondight, Gwalhir (best steel sword ever) and ~500 orens.

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            May 22, 2011 3:54 PM

            O.O looks like I need to replay the first Witcher

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      May 21, 2011 1:06 PM

      Just got done with Assassin's Creed 2 earlier in the week. I finally got an 360 controller (Tron!) and started Trine, Winterbottom, and Super Meat Boy!

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      May 21, 2011 1:07 PM

      Witcher 2 is only playable at low quality, so I won't play that for a while. Mainly out of shame. LA Noire is on it's last legs. Only 3 cases left. The grind has been pretty unbearable at this point.

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        May 21, 2011 4:39 PM

        It's a grind?

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        May 21, 2011 9:47 PM

        Why only low quality? What's your PC? Have you looked up the various fixes for common issues?

        If you're running nvidia, I wrote a blog post that might help: http://linearskillz.wordpress.com/2011/05/17/the-witcher-2-performance-issue-on-nvidia-cards/

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          May 22, 2011 4:31 AM

          ATI 5770s crossfire (stupid, I know) 6 gigs of ram, intel i7 930 overclocked.

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            May 22, 2011 5:34 AM

            seems like you should be able to play it on high, don't remember system spec for witcher but good computer 'n crossfire 5770 should be pretty good, could try update the driver on card or maybe just some fixing needed in the game

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            May 22, 2011 2:26 PM

            My computer is way worse than yours and i can run it on medium-high settings. Just makes sure you disable ubersampling and ssao.

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      May 21, 2011 1:10 PM

      Ozzie or Jeff should be playing Terraria for indiegameschannel.com :/

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      May 21, 2011 4:41 PM

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      May 21, 2011 4:44 PM

      Morrowind!

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        May 22, 2011 6:51 AM

        I like the way you think! I'm still replaying Oblivion, but only because I've still never actually finished the main quest.. Skyrim's on the way after all.

        Also debating about checking out Morroblivion after that. Morrowind was, imo, a much better game (at last count, I had somewhere over 3k total hours clocked in it, compared to just a couple hundred in Oblivion)... and replaying it's setting and story in the newer engine is appealing to me.

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          May 22, 2011 8:21 AM

          I am still in the middle of my first play through of Oblivion. I bought it the day it came out and I've been playing it off and on ever since. I love the game but I can't seem to finish and I can't seem to quit it. It's actually becoming a problem because I have skipped over entire RPG's like Dragon's Age and The Witcher because I feel I should finish Oblivion first. After all these year though.. I might have to just give up. There are too many other games to play and after 100 hours or so I'm not even close to finishing it I think. I keep getting distracted.

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          May 22, 2011 10:00 AM

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            May 22, 2011 10:46 AM

            Holy crap... that's impressive. You must really love that game (or just have crazy amount of free time on your hands). I regret not finishing Morrowind as well. I loved both games... I guess I just get distracted and never finish them up for some reason.

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              May 22, 2011 11:26 AM

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                May 22, 2011 11:28 AM

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                  May 22, 2011 12:58 PM

                  Sounds like a good time. :)

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                    May 22, 2011 2:49 PM

                    As I said in another thread Elder Scrolls games and GTA games get me to distracted. I never finish the story. I just wander about about doing whatever finding cool stuff. This is the upteenth time I'm trying to finish Morrowind. I'm actually making progress this time though. I don't even want to think about trying to finish Oblivion after this let alone have people talk about Skyrim.

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      May 21, 2011 4:46 PM

      Slogging through Terraria, occasional games of LoL, fighting the urge to finish off Just Cause 2, and getting ARMA2: Operation Arrowhead going again.

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      May 21, 2011 5:03 PM

      Playing Kings Bounty: The Legend. Pretty good fun, but the difficulty spikes and quality of the English translation are pretty annoying.

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      May 21, 2011 5:28 PM

      LA Noire. I've been enjoying the shit out it. I haven't really found it too repetitive or derivative. haven't watched a movie in awhile so this is filling that niche.

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      May 21, 2011 5:44 PM

      La Noire, aka Dragnet the game, and Terraria, aka 2d minecraft .

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      May 21, 2011 9:49 PM

      I just finished Mafia 2 and Section 8, so I might play some mp with that. I want to start Panzer Dragoon Orta, and play some 360 DooM.

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      May 21, 2011 10:11 PM

      Witcher 2; breathtaking!

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      May 21, 2011 10:12 PM

      Lots and lots of Brink.

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      May 22, 2011 6:25 AM

      (not sure if necessary to read first part) but I'm a PC only guy, and not much interest in getting a console, but no problem playing most except fps games on consoles (mostly fighting / racing games) when visit a frien.


      It has been kinda funny that over the weekend so far, me and my friends went to see the newest Pirates of the Caribbean movie and then check out L.A. Noire, always same guy playing and others just watching and most giving their opinions on when interviewing / checking their story with the case, and of course with finding evidences also, been suprisingly fun just to watch it, setting is done great and just game pulls you in very well and overall just well done, and of course very nice the facial capture so of course you can try figure out if they are lying or not, and been few times (specially yesterday) going 'oh i've seen this actor / know what (s)he's from maybe or know that seen him/her somewhere but don't know the name :P don't remember on what case he/we where at but kuddos to Rockstar on this game, wouldn't be surprised if it would win at any real game awards.

      So long time that I've played i think no games so far (though gonna check into DoW2: Retribution multiplayer now)

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      May 22, 2011 10:23 AM

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      May 22, 2011 2:57 PM

      The Witcher 2, and still the good old faithful League Of Legends

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