Games. Talk about them.

myanimelist profile · Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 5:05 pm

Ye ye, share your gameplay experiences and so on.

Currently playing Super Paper Mario (which I made a great deal on to get), and it's pretty fun so far. 3 out of 7 "chapters" complete.
I'm still not entirely sure if the balance between RPG and platformer/puzzler is as good as the previous PM games; but eh.
Dating Sim bit in chapter 3 was hilarious.

Amateur Musician Joined: 08 Feb 2004 Posts: 197

Currently working my way through Halo3, so far it seems a bit better than Halo2 but nowhere near as good as the first. I dunno, I'm not very far at the moment and I am a little sleepy so I'll reserve judgement till later.

Other recent games:
Stranglehold - Rubbish
Bioshock - Awesome, but the plot and pacing of the game were far too similar to System Shock 2 (not a problem if you've not played that obviously)
Flatout Ultimate Carnage - Fun for half an hour
Jeanne D'Arc - Pretty cool, though I'm sure that demons weren't used in the 100 years war, but what do I know Very Happy

Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2007 1:35 pm

I just beat Tales of Phantasia on PSP and am now starting on Tales of Eternia, which I never beat when it was on PS1. Also getting close to the end of Bioshock, on the level where you have to chase down F*******.

Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2007 5:43 pm

Last game I played through was Half Life 2. I tend not to play too many because I usually feel like I miss spent a bunch o time after I've beaten a game. Probably conditioned by my mother always telling me my brain was rotting when I was younger. Your brain will rot, you're a teenager now, shouldn't you be jerking off instead of playing with those toys. Yeah, sure, whatever maw. Half Life 2 was awesome though, and I don't regret that for a minute.

myanimelist profile · Posted: Fri Sep 28, 2007 11:12 am

Done with SPM now. Took me 4 days, 4-5 hours of gameplay a day.
There were definitely parts I loved, but some undeniable flaws make me hope the next Paper Mario game will go back to the old format.

Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2007 4:09 pm

Right now I'm playing Odin Sphere. I don't normally go for the ultra-Japanese niche-type games, but I was drawn in by the incredible sense of art direction and unique game play, not to mention the story and writing are definitally a cut above the standard RPG fair. Good times, though not quite at the level of my previous two PS2 buys (Final Fantasy 12 and Okami). Before that I was doing a nostalgia run through Super Metriod before my SNES decided it hated me and deleted my data. Twice. Looking forward to the DS Zelda in a couple days.
The big news is I'm finally going to break down and buy a 360. Logic would suggest I start with Halo 3, but I'm a bit sick of the hype surrounding it. I'll probably get it eventually, as I'm sure its very good and if I want to play a FPS on Live that's likely to be the only choice for a while, but I think I'm going to go with Bioshock (yeah, I'm intellectual like that). Everyone here seems to think its awesome too.

Fan Boy Joined: 28 Jan 2007 Posts: 26

Huffy wrote:

Looking forward to the DS Zelda in a couple days.

Word. I read a very pleased reviewer's piece on this game the other day and as far as I can tell his enthusiasm was not just the standard masturbation of your usual Zelda fucktard fanboy, it appears that this is in fact one of the better iterations in the series. I must add that I am especially partial to the idea of drawing on the map, an addition which may not sound like much on paper but actually I can see it turning out to be hell of handy. It sounds particularly refreshing having just come from replaying through Metroid Prime, a game which is full of backtracking and therefore involves many a frustrated outburst of sobbing due to being unable to remember which room had that energy tank that I needed this upgrade to get, for the love of god which one was it.

myanimelist profile · Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2007 5:12 pm

Hush! You're making my heart ache from the lack of a DS.
Style-wise, Wind Waker will always be the best Zelda. And this being pretty much its spiritual successor, makes it must-have.
I also have a feeling it'll be much better than TWW was. Ugh.

Fan Boy Joined: 28 Jan 2007 Posts: 26

Yep, I'd say that sounds just about right.

Also, stylus-drawn trajectories for bombchus and boomerangs? Yes please.

Fan Boy Joined: 30 Sep 2004 Posts: 29 Location: transit

wario: smooth moves

At a friends place, stoned for the first time in about a year.
Was fun but mildly incomprehensible. Wound up dealing myself some serious hand-to-shelf related trauma. All in all, the game is amazingly retarded, in a pretty attractive way.

Also

Doukutsu Monogatari, which was apparently ported to mac, is still sweet but insanely hard.

big idjit Joined: 03 Jan 2003 Posts: 280

I finished Bioshock recently (excellent game; the plot rocked. Is a man not entitled to enjoying a great story out of his games?) And yeah I've heard it's too similar to System Shock 2, but I haven't played it. From what I've heard though... Bioshock is a better experience compared to Halo 3, but Halo 3 is more "fun". The funny thing about bioshock is while I was in Neptune's Bounty I made 3 speculations to a coworker who just finished it. All of which were correct, which annoyed him.

I guessed (spoilers so don't read the following code block backwards)

Code:

SPOILERS IN THIS CODE BLOCK!
eniatonf si salta
nayr dellik uoy retfa, thgif ot dah uoy yug tsal eht saw salta
rehtaf ruoy saw nayr

I'm starting on Shadow of the Colossus. I'm only on the 3rd colossus though.

Playing Puzzle Quest on the DS, but I need to pick up Zelda at some point. I also preordered Phoenix Wright 3 (getting a little Phoenix Wright plushie outta it... awwww, yeah!).

Stranglehold actually is kinda fun. The graphics are kinda... iffy. I played the demo and it feels like it's still in alpha or beta mode. But it's pretty fun. Not fun enough for me to buy, but still, it's not that bad.

I played the Jericho trailer too and it reminds me of bioshock. Kind of a Clive Barker's Bioshock instead of an Ayn Rand Bioshock. Though it had the neat ability to control any of your squad mates.

myanimelist profile · Posted: Sat Oct 13, 2007 7:49 am

Frikki wrote:

Doukutsu Monogatari, which was apparently ported to mac, is still sweet but insanely hard.

I've been playing this too. I'm at the last bit now, and Je fucking sus this game is tough. How many boss fights can there be in a row? Respect to people that manage to finish this game.

Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 9:53 pm

Haven't been playing much Phantom Hourglass lately, as much of my time has been devoted to that newfangled 360, but I treasure my brief time with it. 2-D Zelda has a very different appeal to me than the newer games, and to be honest I'm always going to prefer stuff like the Twilight Princess or the Wind Waker over PH or Link the the Past, but buckets of fun regardless. I also agree that the WW's art style was a wise-choice, even if its charm does suffer a bit from the N64-era graphics.

And in light of that artsy adventurin', I have a craving to crank up Okami again. But first my newer games:

Bioshock-Pretty much lives up the the hype. The "HOLY SHIT THIS IS AMAZING" factor is starting to wear off a little bit now that I'm approaching the end and am past the nutty plot-twist, but not enough to really hurt the incredible experience. Really just a great game in every aspect (story, game play, graphics...) Now I really want to play System Shock 2, which is incontinently rare at the moment.

Ninja Gaiden Black-Seeing that I never owned the original Xbox I decided to track this baby down. Pretty damn brutal as expected, and I have to say I'm dying a lot, but the game is awesome. It's a bit of a shock to think that this game was considered visually mind blowing a few years ago though. I guess that's what makes stuff like Okami and The Wind Waker so impressive (even something like Shadow of the Colossus stands tall IMO because of its art-direction).

Right now I'm trying to decide which game to get this November: Assassin's Creed, Call of Duty 4 or Mass Effect. I'm leaning towards AC since I don't have Live access yet and I still want to wait for reviews of ME, but its still a pretty tough call.

myanimelist profile · Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2007 4:10 pm

I just finished Super Mario Galaxy with 120 stars. Which were ultimately much easier to get compared to Sunshine. Took me a week, like most games do.
All in all an amazing platformer that makes 3D its bitch all over again. Nintendo fanservice a-plenty, too. Especially the unlockable you get for collecting every star in the game had me giddy.

Amateur Musician Joined: 08 Feb 2004 Posts: 197

Completed Call of Duty 4 the other day, mucho fun. It's pretty much the only game where I prefer the online multiplayer over the single player campaign.

Orange Box. Verrry good, though I didn't like it as much as Half Life 1. Portal is sublime though.

Most recently; Crysis or made-my-computer-crysis.

And I'm just about to install The Witcher. Games based on Polish fantasy stories ftw(?) We shall see.