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I encourage you guys to keep trying playing with the two screens instead of just leaving it on auto. It's overwhelming at first but you do get better. Well I did anyway. :p
Just keep most of your attention on whoever has the puck, but try and pass the puck often. Knockbacks, blocks, and running away should help you stay alive while you aren't watching a character.
I still haven't figured out how to pass the puck! I'm an expert at getting hit by dog creatures though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wool
It's been awhile so I am a littly fuzzy, but I think you pass the puck on any combo landed on the enemy. You might be too early in the game to have unlocked all the features. It sort of eases you into it all.
I have TWEWY but haven't had a chance to play it much. I generally only play my DS before I go to bed and usually treat it like a book and lay back and relax, but you pretty much can't with TWEWY since your hands need to be doing so much and holding it up with your left doesn't work. I'll probably get around to it eventually.
I dropped both the games I was playing because I picked up Fable 2 and it is excellent. I might make a thread about it since no has yet.
Fable 2 suffers from having come out to close to Fallout 3 for me. I'm hoping to pick it up sometime next year. It looks somewhat cool, but the reviews note a short main storyline (8 hours???).Quote:
Originally Posted by Agent-Jesus
GamePro said it was 15-20 hours, which I already found rather short for an RPG. But I'd rather have 20 hours of fun than to suffer through days of frustration and/or boredom (*cough*Drakensang*cough*).
I've had the game since last friday since it shipped early. Apparently I've played for forty eight thousand seconds, which my head math tells me is somewhere between 13 and 15 hours? Why is it listed in seconds!? I don't know how much left to the game I have, but it looks like there are 2 (of 5) major storyline achievements left if that will work as a metric. 1 (of 4) towns left to visit. A loading screen tip tells me some quests only open after you beat the game.
The main storyline can't be terribly long, but if that's all you do, then you are playing Fable wrong. There's so much side stuff to do. I'm acquiring real estate (own half of Bowerstone by now), going on archeological scavenger hunts, am already a master blacksmith/woodcutter/barkeep, etc etc etc. Lots of stuff to do.
Clothes don't give you stats. So you could play through the whole game in your ratty starter clothes or stop at every clothing shop you try out new threads. I started passing out free beer to everyone (I own the pub) and had the whole town drunk and puking. Then some guy kicked my dog so I shot him. It's all about how you play the game.
It's one of the better realized video game worlds I've played in.
Fable 2 just went from "I kind of want," to "I MUST have!"Quote:
I started passing out free beer to everyone (I own the pub) and had the whole town drunk and puking. Then some guy kicked my dog so I shot him.
My copy should hopefully come in today (used to getting everything later over here :p). I didn't get around to replaying the first game (been a few years), so I hope the story doesn't build too much on that one.
Sorry, but I'm not buying into Fable 2. I've read the reviews, and *everything* about it screams Fable 1 / Black and White to me. Another of Peter Molyneux's over-hyped dream projects that lacks a game at the heart. I love all the additional stuff, but only when it's backed up by a top notch game - instead, it seems that it *is* the game, from all the reviews (and what you are saying).
I want the guy who made Populous back. Not the idiot who keeps trying to re-define the entire gaming genre and constantly forgetting that he needs a game somewhere in that...
(also tired of the fact that ALL of his recent games have followed the same pattern - ecstatic initial reviews, then a couple of months later everyone is sheepishly admitting they were wrong. Black and White, Fable - it's a disturbing habit).
If you're going in with high expectations you're bound to be disappointed, same as with just about every other "big" release these days.
I approached the original Fable knowing just the basic premise of the game and got a very enjoyable RPG. I expect the same from the second game.
Well, the first Fable is my second most disappointing game ever. This was not something that took time to develop. I was initially underwhelmed and straight shocked at how short it was. The thing is, it was not a terrible game, it was the build-up and hype around it -- not the normal kind of hype which I easily ignore, but a whole slew of the features that were supposed to be in and the general idea of the game that was being sold just did not come to pass.
I only bought Fable 2 so soon because a good friend of mine really enjoyed the first game but was playing through Dead Space and we had planned to swap the games permanently when we finished them.
Also, I'm not sure what your problem is with the main game. It's a competent action RPG. I'm specialized in guns mostly with a bunch of spells learned (magic system is much better than the first) and rolling around dropping bandits with my flintlock pistol is fun. It's just very short if you all you do is follow the main story.
There are a few problems with the game -- co-op is trash, menu system is terrible, relationship system needs work, but I don't think it's anything like Fable or Black and White.
Yaxa, the game takes place a few hundred years after Fable. There's some minor links and one big link between the games but none of them are necessary to understand the story.
I'm playing Dead Space (Xbox 360). I'm only in the early levels, but so far it is very well done. The holographic menus are great.
I'd disagree. I honestly think the last 18 months has been the best release period for games... ever? Bioshock, Mass Effect, TBC, Uncharted, R&C - I bought all of those games, and was hugely impressed with them (and others like Crackdown). Dead Space is getting astounding reviews as well. Why make excuses for games and tolerate them not clearing the top bar when others are doing?Quote:
Originally Posted by Yaxa
Yeah, got Dead Space today. Absolutly fucking terrifying. It's like someone took Event Horizon, and made it scarier.
Yay!
Playing Fable 2 right now by myself. But I picked up Guitar Hero (World Tour) and my girlfriend and I have been rocking out all day :-P
I've been getting a crash course in Online FPSs lately. A couple of my friends introduced me to the Unreal series. I was able to pick up the Anthology for $10 from Newegg. I'm enjoying it far more than I thought I would. For one, it's nice to have a FPS that isn't set in WWII. Secondly, this is the first one I've played with vehicles in it. I'm having a blast mowing down the enemy.
We've mostly been playing UT2004. I'd love to get UT3, but for some reason it doesn't run well on my computer and ends up giving me a headache (literally) after playing it for a bit.
I also bought The Ship during one of the Steam Weekend Deals. For the $5 I spent, it's a pretty enjoyable game. I have to say there is something extremely satisfying in hunting down your target and then bludgeoning them to death with a mannequin arm. It's not a game I can play for long stints as the rounds go pretty fast, but I really appreciate the design behind the game. I'm looking forward to seeing what the developers are working on for their next project.
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After re-playing Tomb Raider: Anniversary and Legend again in preparation for Underworld (Nov 21st), I don't really have anything to play atm.
I lost interest in Fable II after finishing the (weak) story and Fallout 3 was a disappointment to me (and gave me motion sickness), so I quit playing that. More money down the drain.
i think i'll finally try D&D online (have a game still unpacked since who knows when..), hopefully there are still some servers running heh
WAR is too repetitive, there are basically 3 classes only: range, heal, and melee - and no matter which i start (i have like 12 chars) it boils down to these 3 archetypes with cosmetic differences.
Wasn't sure when Persona 4 would get here, and was burning myself out on Yggdra Union, so decided to open up some of the toys I got from Amazon's Black Friday!
Accidentally got mildly hyped up for Resistance 2 and Killzone 2 (had been ignoring them for months), so got the original for 10-15 dollars. I accused it of being the PS3 Halo (not exactly a bad thing) a year ago, and it turns out Halo is pretty fun for 15 dollars. While most of it isn't anything to write home about, the enemies and weapons are pretty interesting.
Level design is incredibly simplistic but once I wrap my head around the idea that running around like a maniac is better than aiming I do pretty well! It has really helped me relate to the knuckledraggers that only play fps games on consoles! :p
Second game I started was Rune Factory 2, also for 15 dollars, whoooo. I got a stuffed squirrel with the game, which made me wtf, then I realized I wasn't the target audience for the thing. The fact that all the characters are 10 years old wasn't enough to clue me in apparently.
So anyway, I found this game to be very surprising. They took the Harvest Moon formula and turned it into a genuine game with game systems that make sense and a UI that tells you what you need it to. Every past game in the series I have ever tried was clunky in one way or another, with the unique gameplay being the main reason why you come back even though it doesn't always make sense.
So now, you will have stats and can level up like an rpg. Your skills level up as you use them. You make people like you in more obvious ways, and get quests from them when you do so. The menu system and inventory system are easy to use and provide a lot of information. Stuff like that.
My only complaint right now is that in streamlining the experience they made the thing too easy. Half the fun (for me) in the series was starting with nothing but dirt and a couple of radishes and building up your holdings. My house seems to already be maxed, I get all my tools (and a ton of money) from the starting villager quests, etc etc.