Wipeout HD ... it's challenging, yet fun. Nice graphics too. I should have waited buying that flat panel TV and gotten a 1080 instead of a stupid 720 ... ah well.
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Wipeout HD ... it's challenging, yet fun. Nice graphics too. I should have waited buying that flat panel TV and gotten a 1080 instead of a stupid 720 ... ah well.
So I hurt my foot. Don't ask me, I don't know how I did it. A few days later, my mother needed my help for heavy lifting. I couldn't put much pressure on my foot, and I twisted my back.
Wtf does this have to do with anything? Well I couldn't sit in my chair, so the lure of warhammer was broken. I started playing Yggdra Union on my PSP. I dig it so far.
First of all, the most important thing: the sprites. The sprites are beautiful, I love them. The artwork is pretty simple in this game. You've got character portraits, an incredibly simplistic strategic map, and then the character sprites used in battle. They have nice detail and are very fluid.
Voice acting is pretty good so far, but there is an option for original Japanese if you are a nerd. :p
The game itself plays like a weird cross between a collectible card game and Fire Emblem. You have this very basic battle map. Extremely small, reminds me more of one of those super old computer strategy games than your typical srpg. You choose a card and it determines your attack power and movement range for a round. You can only attack once a round. But adjacent units form a "union" and attack or defend all at once. It's nifty.
Battle plays out as a sort of extended battle animation sequence, although there is a bit of strategy you can play with by choosing how aggressive your attack is.
I managed to nail every achievement 200/200 for mega man 9. Something about mega man is extremely replayable. I also got to the last boss in SMT: Nocturne-- but wait, due to the ending my path through the game chose, it gave me yet another final final boss that would have taken like 20 levels worth of grinding for me to beat. So I quit, which is pretty rare for me.
I've replaced those games with Yakuza 2 on my PS2 which is really engrossing and 100% brutal so far and Hitman: Blood Money which is also pretty cool. It reminds me vaguely of old adventure games with all the tools scattered throughout the level and it being up to do you to figure out how to combine everything for the perfect hit. You can just run and gun too though, so it's like MGS in the way you can play finesse vs. brute force.
WAR and D&D:Tiny Adventures on Facebook. Surprisingly entertaining.
Quiet before the storm of winter releases. Some Warhammer, though I still feel like I'm mostly running errands. Some GTA4 (picked it up where I left off in June when I got bored with it and already getting bored again) on the 360. Some Tomb Raider: Anniversary on the Wii -- after playing the PC and 360 versions, the "Wii exclusive content" seems more like an annoyance than a bonus, and the controls are awful.
Finally got internet in my new apartment, and managed to download the witcher enhanced edition.
Then it wouldn't run, crashed every time.
Reformatted computer today, runs 10x faster, and now playing the witcher, enhanced edition.
Will download warhammer again tonight.
Saints Row 2.
The true sequal to GTA: San Andreas.
This game is so freaking awesome Im having to tear myself away at 3am.
did they get rid of the stupid insurance fraud?Quote:
Originally Posted by Ibliss
SA was actually a low point for GTA, date some more, go lift weights :/
Yep, SA got a bit boring in those parts.Quote:
Originally Posted by milaru
There is an insurace fraud minigame. After you get hit so many times, you get an adrenaline boost that lets you really take a beating. Its a lot of fun if you get hit by semis on the freeway. I thought SA was the best out of the series. It seemed to actually capture the essence of the time.Quote:
Originally Posted by milaru
You didnt have to date, though. I found it retarded and never did it. I also only had to lift weights once in SA and I maintained my bulky self. Theres no dating so far in SR2 unless you count pimp slapping some hoes as dating.Quote:
Originally Posted by camrael
you did have to work up swimming, eat, etc that really dragged the game down.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ibliss
and not being part of a gang in the 90s, I really don't know how well it captured anything, and actually found 4 to have a better story before I got distracted and having picked it back up.
~pictures milaru as a Jet~Quote:
not being part of a gang
go man go, but not like a yo-yo school boy... just play it cool boy, ~real~ cool...
~dies laughing~
lolQuote:
Originally Posted by milaru
I meant what the lifestyle was portrayed as on TV and music.
WTF.
You werent poppin caps on a mufuka? How you gettin' yo snaps for petro, yo? Dont be frontn.
in that case I feel both VC and GTA were good about the lifestyle, VC was straight playing miami vice, and I actually was turned off by the language in SA even if it did make it authentic.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ibliss
Just started The World Ends With You.
Wowsers, what a breath of fresh air.
It's good isn't it? Let me know if you figure out a way to play both screens at once though, I never managed it... :).
Why is the most innovative RPG this year on the DS?
Poking away occasionally at Pokemon Pearl, FFIVDS, and Kirby Super Star Ultra.
Also playing WoW regularly, as well as getting my ass kicked in Tetris DS every other day or so by my girlfriend.
I really suck at controlling both screens; I pretty much let her go auto at this point. (I suck at controlling the bottom screen too!) TWEWY is definitely the most innovative RPG this year, which is good since most DS RPGs have been very derivative. The art style and soundtrack are inspired. I should have picked it up sooner, but was having fun with more conventional games.Quote:
Originally Posted by Maledict
(I have DS ADD - I’ve been playing games for 10-20 hours or so and then moving on to the next one before I finish the last one!)
RPGs are playing it safe on the consoles this Gen, but I’m still in love with some of them. Tales of Vesperia adds absolutely nothing new to the genre, contains every tired cliché of JRPGS, but is executed so well that its still manages to be top notch. I’d still like to see a developer take a chance with something like TWEWY on the X-Box 360 or PS3.
Valkyria Chronicles on the PS3 is fairly "new" in terms of combat mechanics. Certainly not the standard JRPG. More of a tactical action rpg.Quote:
Originally Posted by Torcer Arcana
As for me, I'm still playing The Witcher, on chapter 3 now.
Also started playing Far Cry 2.