Polished off Children of Mana, and am now continuing my tour of DS action “RPGs” with Lunar Knights. I am currently in intensive negotiations with my wife over Tales of Vesparia, she wants dining room chairs, so I think there may be a breakthrough.
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Polished off Children of Mana, and am now continuing my tour of DS action “RPGs” with Lunar Knights. I am currently in intensive negotiations with my wife over Tales of Vesparia, she wants dining room chairs, so I think there may be a breakthrough.
Finished Uncharted again and playing it again on the hardest setting.
Also playing a ton of PS1 games on my PSP after I finally got a pandora battery. Had a 8gb card on it that before was overkill, but I now need a new one as it is filled up and I still have more games to put in on it. RPG goodness!
Spore and Tales of Vesperia.
Oh so you were actually playing it yourself, my bad about the comment I made awhile back that you probably don't remember. :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Torcer Arcana
Not sure. Children of Mana is a fun diversion, but is more mindless hack and slash than RPG. I don't regret playing it, but I'm looking forward to working my way up to the beefier RPGs.
Currently playing Head Coach 09, DDO, and, just picked up SPORE. Fun, fun.
X-Com, UFO Defense...
Spore and just finished up on Warhammer online beta. Waiting for warhammer online headstart to begin.. :grinyes:
My friends just got me into Day of Defeat this weekend. I played it before when Valve updated the engine to Source, and they had the free weekend, but I wasn't wild about it then. (I'm still fairly new to online shooters, so it was too much to take in in two days.) Now that I have some friends to play with who can show me the ropes, I find myself enjoying it a lot more.
It's a different style than TF2 (not just in setting, but in action as well), so it is a nice, and much needed, break.
Ok..... Tales of Vesperia doesn't actually exist; I've been to over a dozen stores looking for it. WTF.
Sorry, my massive will must have accidentally altered reality.* Let me fix that for you. If all else fails there is always Amazon!
I got Force Unleashed yesterday. I know it has it's own thread but I don't feel like bumping it. :p I haven't gotten to play it yet because I was flat out determined to find some good pvp in Warhammer yesterday but I'm pumped to try it today.
It's gotten a lot of mediocre reviews, but amusingly enough they just make me want to play it even more. You think I care that the targeting is crap when it's got "the best Star Wars story in years"? Heck, for the first run through the demo I didn't even bother using the targeting.
*P.S. Kotaku was having a contest to win a copy of Vesperia. You had to make a fake cover for your own imaginary Tales game and send it in. I got too lazy to attempt it, but my idea was to transplant the Vesperia cover image onto a PS3 case. I thought that was pretty funny!
Not as good as the "Tales of Vespa: Druish Princess: Funny, she doesn't look Druish." shop though.
picked up Ratchet & Clank: Quest for Booty today. It's Pirate Day after all...
Nice so far, and at 16€ you can't do much wrong. I can see I'm getting old though, my fingers don't seem to have the dexterity they used to have (i.e. I'm having a harder time than I had in the "big" R&C on PS3).
Still a fun little game though.
Waghhh!!!!
It's not a true "Waaagh" unless there's at least three a's in it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Destructis
And since I'm posting in this thread, I'll add:And I'm still going strong.Quote:
Originally Posted by me, four months ago
Just finishing a Baseball Mogul season and AGEOD's American Civil War - a game I highly recommend to strategy and Civil War buffs.
WAAAGH! - With an elf-ish accent.
Pure, NHL09, Rock Band 2
Can we get this stickied like the other playing now thread?
Finished the R&C-mini-sequel and picked up Lego Star Wars (Complete Saga) again. Still on Episode 1 and it's such fun...
This weekend, I'll probably also play some more Lego Star Wars on the PSP... just because.
Guitar Hero "on Tour" on the DS...
I probably shouldn't try learning to play the guitar... I suck at this game :(
I finally finished every single level in N+. Second to last one is ridiculous.
Now I'm trying to get the other half of the achievements in Mega Man 9. Going to try and beat the game without dying next.
I think I am nearing the end of SMT: Nocturne. The battle customization and art style/atmosphere is excellent, but the dungeon design is honestly horrendous and my threshold for dealing with random encounters just gets smaller and smaller as I play more games. I definitely prefer Persona 3 as far as SMT games go.
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.
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.
By the way, thanks for stickying this!
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.
Persona 4 and Fable 2.
Fable 2 gone on backburner compared to Persona 4 though. Persona 4 gets best RPG of 2008 from me unless something magical comes in the next two weeks.
Started playing the Last Remnant, and after installing to the hard drive discovered I actually really enjoy it - it's one of the rare JRPG's that has really hooked me in.
Lost Odyssey makes me a sad panda.
The memory stories are some of the most depressing things I've ever seen in a game.Quote:
Originally Posted by Torcer Arcana
Sad as in the game is bad, or sad as in every story is depressing as all hell?Quote:
Originally Posted by Torcer Arcana
I enjoyed the game (still on disk 4), but you'd think that in 1000 years he would have some happy memories. He seem to recall the most devestatingly sad moments from the most trivial of things.
Playing a mixture of WoW and X-COM: UFO Defense. Just got my netbook a couple of weeks ago and I need to find some good games that can
a) run on linux,
b) run on dosbox or
c) run on wine
given the hardware on the Acer Aspire one.
Just finished Oblivion with the Xpacs...I couldn't make myself do the Shivering isles, after enjoying the main plot and the Quest of the 9, it seems a poor transition to then quests to become the lord of dementia. I just decided to save myself the time and read the rest of that quest series rather than trudge through it. If I hadn’t purchased the game in a pack that included all the expansions, I would have felt the Shivering Isles was a waste of money.
Right now I’m enjoying the uncensored EE of the Witcher. It’s more violent and gritty in its original form. I like some of the twists in the plots so far.
I couldn't disagree more. Shivering Isles had far more interesting quests than the base game or any of the DLCs.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nafarius
And you could just have chosen Mania instead of Dementia, if that was the rub ;)
Sad as in it’s the most depressing game ever. I mean who the fuck would ever think to have a collection quest combined with a funeral?Quote:
Originally Posted by Droigan
As for the game itself, I would have given it a 9/10 rating, but its either a 8 or a 7.5 due solely to how it forces you to repeat cut scenes when you lose a battle and ity will string you along for more than an hour before allowing you to save. There’s NO excuse for forcing players to repeat crap like that.
Just got the new Kirby game for DS.
I'm playing Valkyria Chronicles.
I have a two game credit at Game Stop and Call of Duty 4 lined up next, thanks to Christmas gifts. :)
I just got to try left 4 dead. I'm gonna try to play a hardcore with some people today.
A friend talked me into buying the Civ IV pack on Steam. Holy crap, that game is so much better than I ever expected. I hated turn-based strategy games I've played in the past, but I just played like 3 hours straight yesterday and am loving it.
Assassin's Creed (PS3). It's on Platinum now, and I feel I've already gotten my 30€ investment back out of the game in maybe 5 hours of playing. It's really nice.
On a sidenote, I'll need a bigger TV to play console games on.
WoW, still. Ugh. I'll never free myself, happily :)
The wife and I went absolutely NUTS and got us both DS's with Xmas money. She's playing the mystery "find the item and tap it" game, I'm playing
Etrian's Odyssey
That game is pure win. Rawr.
I'm thinking about Lock's Quest - we have a free rental, I might try it out. Any other suggestions? I'm loving this thing.
Also, we bought MegaMan 9 for the PS3, and I"m enjoying that, as well. She got me Bioshock for the PS3 as a gift, and I'm waiting for the other games to calm down before I tackle it.
I forgot about Lock's Quest, was going to squeeze it into your other thread somewhere. I haven't played it myself, but I keep hearing good things about it. Basically a tower defense game in which the monsters attack your defenses, and you can fight them yourself as well.
Finally beat Persona 4. I knew it was going to be long, but that took longer than I expected. Moving on to Resistance 2 now.
I also took (another) break from Yggdra halfway through the game, and am trying out Professor Layton now. I usually play it before bed, which amounts to slow progress. ;) Very charming so far.
A friend showed me a pretty cool website that keeps track of your backlog and what you are playing now. I was going to post it here, but on second thought, I'm not sure I want anyone else to know just how huge my stack of unplayed games really is. :p
I finally finished playing Valkyria Chronicles yesterday. Damn good game (as a number of people have mentioned). Planning to move onto Gears of War 2 which has been sitting and collecting dust for a few weeks now.
Oh, and as embarrassing as this is to admit, I've been playing Animal Crossing: City Folk on the Wii... My girfriend got it and the stupid game is strangely addicting.
I've been messing with Fable II's Knothole Island DLC after belatedly finishing Tomb Raider: Underworld (other games got in the way of Ms Croft :p).
Knothole Island is a bit of a disappointment. At least there are some unique clothing options.
On the other hand...
Spoiler for read if you have finished the main game:
My wife got me Puzzle Quest for the DS. Apparently, she remembered me downloading the demo (surprising - I download a lot of demos) and how much I raved about the game (also surprising - I rave about 2-3 games a month, and this was months ago), and how much I bitched about it not slated for release on the PC.
Despite the noise in the interim, she remembered the game, she bought it for me... and I haven't put another game in my DS for two weeks.
It's gotten bad. I really need to quit playing that game at night - I stay up too late.
Nowadays, I'm playing WoW, Company of Heroes, WoW, Dawn of War: Soulstorm, WoW, R6: Vegas 2 on the 360 and WoW.
Oh, and Fierldrunners on my iPhone.
And WoW.
College Algebra, English 122, Mass Media / Popular Culture (Jou), Some Computer Class requirement for transfer credits to a 4 year school.
I have a couple games for the PS3 (Little Big Planet, Fallout 3) that I haven't finished yet, and likely won't see the end of until the summer. I am still subscribed to WoW and play about 2-3 hours a week. I am also playing in a LoN (legends of Norrath TCG) tournament next weekend.
How are the graphics on English 122? And I've heard College Algebra gets repititive :(Quote:
Originally Posted by Lysandor
I plowed through Resistance 2 faster than I expected, the single player was awesome. It was missing a few of the things that were actually good about the first one, but the enemies and weapons were great, and the levels were well designed. Story was also cool, I don't know why people kept complaining about this story. I'm pumped to see what happens next. Haven't tried mp yet.
I didn't like the chameleons or the zombie things though. Zombie things rush you, and only you, and come in a flood that you can't reload fast enough to kill without getting hit. Chameleons I don't think are even present in the game world until they spawn, invisible, right in front of you. Suckage. Everything else was good.
P.S. I liked Algebra, but stay away from Trigonometry, the interface is confusing and the loading times are slow.
Meh, Trig wasn't so bad once you saw how it launches the basic platform for Calculus. It is a regressive type of system that the next-gen apps always make the previous ones look easy (and are easy, by that point) and useful.
I found myself having actual FUN with Calculus. Sad.
At least it's not Ninja Gaiden - so hard it will kill your friends!
I thought Calculus I was fun, although II started to push it. :p Trig though was one of the few subjects I actually had to put effort into. Like, less problem solving, and more endless glut of information.
I started (attempting) to play GTA4 (PC version) over the weekend, it seems plagued with stability issues... However still seems quite fun (not that I'm far into it yet).
I chickened out before trying Resistance 2 online (I have issues, shut up) and started playing Resident Evil 4 instead, sort of in preparation for 5. It's pretty good, but the controls are hard to get used to. The longer sequences are really starting to annoy me though, I don't like being forced to replay a 30+ minute scene because I got ganked near the end. I'm not even sure if it's the length of the repeated gameplay that bothers me, or of it is just because it is so intense that you have to repeat a very specific plan in order to not die, and I can't stand the repetition.
Which reminds me how annoying the health bar is; it is very misleading! At least Ghost and Goblins is honest about how easy you are going to die, I've got a ton of life bars, but everything either kills me in one hit or two.
I'm also playing Professor Layton. Actually I am almost done with it. I like the characters and the setting/style, but I have a few issues with it and didn't like it as much as everyone else seemed to.
I tried the RE:5 demo. Amazingly dissapointed. RE:4 was one of the best games *ever* made, RE:5 just feels like Gears of War: African Murder Town.
I'm playing "Not Enough" currently... and it sucks.
Funny you should mention that, I just downloaded it for phone. It was fun to explain to my son that: "This game was really something some 20+ years ago!"Quote:
Originally Posted by Wool
And the 20+ years show. I suck at it.
Other than that, I'm playing WoW full-bore, just got my Death Knight to level 80 last night, so my 2-box adventures of madness (tm) (r) can begin!
My friends and I would “sneak” into a local bar and play Ghosts and Goblins – we eventually got so good that we could make it through the whole game without dying. I tried it recently on MAME and I sucked as badly as if I’d never played it before! Few games piss me off as much as that one.
still have 5-10 unopened games on desk.
Installed black&white2, played 10 mins, thats it.
Installed Titan Quest, will play with wife in future.
Installed Age of Mythology, will delete it - thing has no real 3D.
Playing WAR dilligently, nearing 20 with my 6th or 7th char.
I'm currently alternating between Midnight Club: Los Angeles (360), which is a nicer time killer, though not nearly as fun as Burnout Paradise (can't wait for the new DLCs!) and LEGO Indiana Jones (360), which doesn't really motivate me much. Seems like the series is running out of steam.
I've been taking a bit of a break from console games and when I do that I tend to occasionally just play some easy pick up and play stuff every few days. Samurai Warriors 2 and Civilization Revolutions has been great for that since they're mostly self contained levels/games. Civ Rev is excellent, never has something being dumbed down been so good a thing. It's amazing regularly finishing civ games. I think they went over-the-top in how often the other civs declare war on you, but as the emphasis is on winning the game it makes sense.
I haven't had access to the Wii lately, so I started F.E.A.R. up. I was thinking of picking this game up a long time ago, and even made a poll on it, but ended up going with Half Life 2 instead (which was the right decision).
Well the sequel is coming out soon, so I figured I would pick up the original. It doesn't creep me out as much as it used to, but the AI and gunplay is really good.
I've also (finally) started Star Ocean 1 for the PSP on a whim. I like it a lot so far. It's obviously an older game, but I am impressed that SquareEnix once again has not spared the polish. You can even view anime cutscenes from an option on the main menu, which I really wish more games would do (*cough*persona*cough*).
They reactivated my SWG account so I've been messing around with that.
Somewhere in there is a game I think I'd like, but for a game that's been out so long it has such a rough unfinished feel to it.
I picked up Flower off of PSN today. It's gorgeous, and probably the first time a game has made me care the slightest bit about sixaxis controls.
It's very simple. The gametype has existed before, although I cannot think of any examples. You control wind and fly through a trail of flowers. The more you cause to bloom, the more colorful the level gets. Some will open up paths to new flowers, or sprout new ones out of the ground. If you are the type to chase butterflies you might find yourself doing loops and spins in the air instead of following the objectives.
If you are concerned about your masculinity you might want to keep gears of war on hand to inject the much needed testosterone. But then again, if you are that concerned with your masculinity shouldn't you be out somewhere shooting a gun or buying a ridiculous car?
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I'm playing Nintendogs, so it's too late anyway :grinno:Quote:
Originally Posted by Wool
I finished the main storyline in Fable 2 already and I am pissed that the game felt too short. So I'm trying to go back and get some of the achievements I haven't already done, but I refuse to play an evil character or do anything "evil" in the game.
I won't kick chickens either. :(
I guess I'll start Gears 1 next, and I've also been dabbling in End War.
I reactivated Eve again and I keep wanting to log back into WoW.
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