Now playing: MLB 10 The Show and Battlefield: Bad Company 2. No other games need exist for awhile, except for LOTRO when the wife wants to duo.
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Now playing: MLB 10 The Show and Battlefield: Bad Company 2. No other games need exist for awhile, except for LOTRO when the wife wants to duo.
Heavy Rain turned out to be disappointingly short. Still another week to cover until FF13 comes out. Bleargh!
just beat inferno. i dont see why that game got such bad reviews. only thing i can think of are religious people thinking its a sin to play taht game but really i think that game is a sunday school lesson dressed in disguise hehe
but anyways its a great game. what i think separates this from other hell games is it's actual 7 layers of hell and not some fiend comic book type of stuff. also i see this gaming having high replay value with the new dlc coming up. co op and a level maker.
anyways im almost caught up with my backlog. just have some steam games i'll probably never get to(bio shock, gta 4, half life 2 expansions) and demon souls/prototype for the ps3. i'll probably put all that on hold tho for ff13. :)
Damn it! My copy of Final Fantasy XIII just came in and I'm in the middle of Bioshock 2. Dilemma!
That doesn't sound like a dilemma at all. But I was never a big fan of FF-series.
i always make a rule only 1 story game at a time. mean dont play like mgs4, halo campaign, and bayonetta all at the same time!
stuff with high replay value like wow, mw2, tekken, even maybe dragon age/demon souls would be okay imo tho because do get worn out on those story games too hehe
It's similar for me, so I decided to finish Bioshock 2 first, which I did last night (bit bloated in the middle, imo). So after two days' delay I can finally jump headfirst into FF13 tonight.
House of the Dead: Overkill
<$20. Much more fun than House of the Dead 1 and 2 (single disc game with both), which was very poorly executed.
Batman Arkhan Asylum. Freaking loving it so far :D
I'm playing Infinite Space, which I bought last month but am only just now finding time to play. It's pretty nifty, but not very polished. It's basically Eve Offline, the strategy jrpg. You build ships, each class of which has it's own strengths and weaknesses, and assign party members to various positions on the ship, improving its performance in some way based on the character's stats.
Meanwhile you can customize the ship by installing modules in a set space. You have a limited space, and the modules are represented by tetris pieces. You have to make the most of the room you have, and choose which you would rather have. You could have a basic radar piece and a shield unit, or you can have a better radar piece and leave no room for the shields. The shields help versus laser weaponry, but not versus missiles, so the loadout will depend on the situation.
While traveling you choose a destination and travel automatically, during which time you may run into random encounters with pirates. Combat is sort of rock/paper/scissors, you have normal, barrage, and dodge. Dodge evades a barrage but is weak to a normal attack. Barrage attacks do a ton of damage if not dodged. All this time a gauge is filling up which determines what kind of command you are able to give (think ATB in Final Fantasy, but with tiers). While waiting for it to fill, you will tell the ship to leave weapon range to reduce the fire you take. Throw in different weapon types, fleet formations, and fighters, etc.
The graphics aren't very good, and the sound is muted. I have to wonder how awesome it would look if it was a simple PC game. Some of the strategy is also muted. You can have up to 5 ships, but they all seem to attack the same target. Even with just two ships at the point in the game I'm at now, sometimes a barrage is massive overkill. I wish they would plaster more than one target in a situation like that.
Also been thinking of starting No More Heroes, which I've had forever, but I don't usually have time for the Wii. The graphics give me a headache so far, and I don't really find the main character particularly likeable. :p
Brutal Legend, picked up for $10 used frm Gamefly. Basically a 7 game that's a 9 if you loved Metal during the 80s.
FF13 - I'm slowly working through it to entertain the missus. I like the combat, I think the voice acting is horrendous, and I enjoy the graphics. The camera gives me a headache.
I succumbed to COD4: MW2, so I'm spending some time playing that. I loathe FPS on a console, but this game works well. I enjoy getting on the phone and chatting with a friend (and using 3rd person view to help him out when I'm dead!).
WoW.
Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box - great game, small snippets of time.
I'm also playing Peggle on every environment it's shown up on.
i gave boarderlands on xbox a chance and glad i did because it's one of the best MP games i've played in a while(well besides tekken, wow or ST4 hehe).
it's sort of like wow meets fps. always exploring around and doing quests for exping. also the npcs get really insane as more people join in.
I'm waiting for that to drop to a lower price point but it looks fun. I just picked up Mass Effect 2 from Amazon and they had a deal where Mass Effect was free. So i just started ME1 and will do ME2, hopefully be done in time for Red Dead Redemption. Oh, I just beat Braid as well, short but lots of fun and tricky.Quote:
Originally Posted by DietCanada
Finally beat Infinite Space. Crazy crazy long game, especially for a handheld. Will finally find time to play God of War 3, a week before Red Dead Redemption comes out. :o
besides wow..
I just got some old school WWII games and am going through them, the best one so far is Theatre of War, it is kind of RPG ish in that your troops get EXP, and can pickup items. Odd but interesting.
The battles are perfect.. no BS RTS building resources and zerg rushing crapola like all of Starcraft/Warcraft(sorry, I hate them both, although Warcraft was more entertaining. ... but I digress..)
Theatre of War has much to like, some oddness, but it is the closest to a 3d table top game of the old school Panzer Blitz (Avalon Hill?) or Steel Tigers or the share ware WinSPWW2.
Although it is not turn based, it does have pause to give out your orders,.
has great graphics, command control, line-of-sight, high level of details down to individual squad member names, even when you have like 50 or more! Each tank has a crew, and off screen bombardments, and air support.. the scale of the battles are between 100-150 units and fixed map borders.. the game is HARD, not your novice game that assumes you know your hardware and how to use it, expect to lose.. a lot and experiment on tactics... great game if you like tactical combat that comes down to having just one tank operational vs one AT gun showdowns... anyway, if you like WWII games, you may want to give it a shot.
I agree, I was very skeptical about this game, and it is rather fun, more than I thought. Doing it solo, not sure about multi player thing.. currently lvl 14Quote:
Originally Posted by DietCanada
God of War 3 was amazingly epic. Also the most disturbingly violent game I have ever played.
My only complaintSpoiler for plot related:
Also a few fights near the end were ridiculously hard. I didn't die that many times in the previous games combined. The exploding dogs and spike trap fight were infuriating! :p
Finished Alan Wake. Short game, recommend renting it if you can.
Fun game, decent story. 7/10
I was worried that Alan Wake might be too much like Alone in the Dark (the 2008 iteration), but so far it's actually very good, though I admit I like the story far more than the very simplistic gameplay.