Just beat Dracula X: Chi no Rondo. All this talk got my Castlevania boner aroused. I'm gonna go back through all the others now.
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Just beat Dracula X: Chi no Rondo. All this talk got my Castlevania boner aroused. I'm gonna go back through all the others now.
I knew there was something I'd played through recently, but couldn't quite remember.Quote:
Originally Posted by frostwolf ex
Spent a couple hours the other night playing through Midnight Wanderers and Chariot in Three Wonders on Capcom Collection Vol.2. Now I've got to go back and complete Don't Pull to get the art gallery unlocked. I'd played Three Wonders quite a bit on Playstation Arcade Gears collection and I can attest that this is a different port and has missing frames of animation restored and generally seems to play better.
Capcom Classics Collection Volume 2 is certifiably the best retro collection ever. Cool unlockables, 3 or 4 player options for Captain Commando, The King of Dragon, and Knights of the Round. And a generally kick ass collection of games. If you missed this at Target last week for $9.99, you missed the gaming bargain of the century.
Beat GRAW on normal last night. I'm going to beat it on hard tonight.
I also finished Drac X tonight. Though it was the SNES one and I was playing on my PSP. Still good though.
Future Wars: Time Travellers - I never beat this back in the day but I finally went back and played it again all the way through. The interface is dated but it's still a great adventure game(love that Chahi artwork). It would awesome to have an updated "Collector's Edition" like Out of this World got last year.
D/Generation - Like I mentioned in a recent thread, I'm a big fan of this old mixed genre game. I never beat it until recently.
Just finished Hotel Dusk. I'm curious as to why I didn't get the extra scene at the end, but whatever. Excellent game.
never heard of this before. checkig it out now. :tu:Quote:
Originally Posted by NeoZeedeater
Cool. :) I prefer the Amiga version but I couldn't get it to load disk 2 on the emulator for some reason so I played through the DOS version which is almost as good.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dragonmaster Dyne
Finished Lost Planet. I am now completely sure I made the right choice for GotM by picking Hotel Dusk.
Beat GRAW on hard. Now to do as much as possible in Perfect Dark Zero. Seriously, this game is like a spoonful of Robitussin: pinch your nose and down it quick.
Then why the fuck are you playing it?
Eh, it's been sitting there on my shelf, all sad and lonely. So I figured I'd blast through it for the achievements and then get rid of it. Might as well get something out of the $25 bones I paid for the premium edition.
I guess asking why you bought it is a moot point.
;)
LP isn't really doing it for me and I'm not part of Melf's Games For Achievements Club. I'll have to try again to see if I get why it's getting praised.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yoshi
Just finished Kameo on the 360.
Now... Marvel Alliance. I'm on a roll!
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Just finished Breakdown. Ho lee shit at the white room T'lan marathon fight at Site Zero. Pretty much the most frustrating scenario I've seen in a game in years.
That aside, this game does so many cool things that I wish other FPS developers would try. FPSes need more specialized moves that restrict the player from time to time and make him not feel like a "floating camera". Shimmying on ledges, slides, throws, and so on.
Dull environments and pretty shitty gunplay, but those are already the age-old complaints for the game.
Cute Half-Life and Halo homages, too, even if the Halo one is a quarter of the game.
Dark Messiah was good at this, particularly with the camera work. Your head would snap back when hit, you could look down and see your body, see you hand when you gave someone something, and of course all the environment interaction. It really helped beat that "floating weapon" feel.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tain
Be proud of your discriminating taste. Friends don't let friends play shitty games for achievements. Resist. You can do it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Melf
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I just finished Diddy Kong Racing DS. I know everybody seems to hate on Rare now, but I still think that this is one awesome kart racing game. I thought it was more fun to play than Mario Kart 64 back in 97, and its still the most fun kart racer for my money. On a side note though, I do agree with the critics of this game about some of the touch screen elements. I actually enjoyed the "baloon popping" stages, but the "Boss Touch Screen Challenges" are down right the WORST use of the touch screen I have ever seen from any game on the DS. I'm really surprised that Rare let the game ship with these awful and buggy touch screen levels. Luckily these portions of the game are optional, or I could see it really ruining an otherwise great game.
You make me happy.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tain
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Originally Posted by Tain
Oh crap....good job beating Breakdown!! Seriously, there are about two parts near the end there that have to be some of the most frustrating, yet rewarding moments in the last generation of video games. I felt like I actually accomplished something when I beat that game.
News Flash: you didn't.
My first completed game of the year is Gears of War on 360.
Trust me, I only have 1 and 1/2 levels left to finish it, and then I will never touch it again. I not only plan to never play it again, but I'm going to trade in my copy and hope I get $.50, which is about $.49 more than this piece of shit deserves.Quote:
Originally Posted by Andy
Seriously, PDZ has to be the worst FPS I have ever played in my life. Soldier of Fortune on the DC was better than this. Awful level design, horrible character designs (a chinese girl named Mei-hem?), and some of the worst game design ever (depending on where you go in some levels, objectives are not only unnecessary to finish, but they sometimes don't even register! WTF?) makes this one a blemish on the 360 line up that nothing will ever cleanse.
Aaand just finished Trauma Center DS. The seven sin boss run at the end was stupidly difficult at times.
Just finished Rondo of Blood. Definitely better than Shinobi 3.
Finished Spider-Man 2 (Xbox) today. Pretty good game.
I finished Touch Detective today.
If I can get III done before Crackdown I'll be in good shape.
Beat Psychonauts last night and it should've been a cartoon. Fantastic writing and art design, decent gameplay, weak bosses, and terrible level design. In no less then three stages did I get confused about where to go because I took linear sections backwards, which shouldn't even be possible. It's like they forgot there was an ability to jump higher than normal which let me constantly get around the way stages were set up. Maybe if the game was less platforming and action and more puzzles and exploration it would've worked a lot better.
So far this is what I have completed this year:
Final Fantasy III
Final Fantasy V Advance
Gears of War
Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
Ninety-Nine Nights just bit the dust. Woot.
I still haven't beaten FFXII and I've been playing since November. Twilight Princess is still in its wrapper and DQVIII hasn't seen the light of day since I got it. To top it off, I just got a new system with online play that probably won't get much action either.
Why do I hate video games?
because they take up so much time you could be doing something else.
gba 4 life
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Finished Black. Extremely short game, had some satisfying moments, but should have been way better. Not as good as Urban Chaos.
Did you finish it with the real ending which gives Imphy the real last stage? It even has a real motherfucking asshole son of a bitch boss fight.Quote:
Originally Posted by haohmaru
The Secret Mission? Yes. You basically have to be level 9 to beat him.
Beat Assault Heroes tonight with a friend. Great stuff.
From the other thread... I was inspired to hook up my Jaguar and played some Battlesphere. I had never been able to defend against all the AI ships in Alone Against the Empire before but I did it tonight (in 2nd easiest difficulty though). It feels good to finally do it by picking the right ship and setting the laser to shoot 4 at once so I just need to get 1 or 2 good shots in to kill most enemies.
Got 1100 points, will go back and up the difficulty and beat my own score!
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Originally Posted by kingoffighters
Just beat Def Jam: Fight For New York.
Yeah, it's best in multiplayer, but the singleplayer is surprisingly good. Awesome game.
Finished Crackdown with most of the achievements. I still need the race and stunt rings ones, as well as the full-game co-op one (which I could have started last night with Nirvana, had the network permitted us).
Finished GoW on Casual. The game was a lot shorter than I thought it'd be. Working on TMNT 3 The Manhattan Project and FFXII.
Pussy.
Yeah...GoW on Casual = you lose
I didn't know what to expect. I'm playing Hardcore tonight on Live with a friend. Casual was easy as hell, I'll admit.
I beat Crackdown yesterday but am still working at maxing out all my abilities. I don't think I'll stick with it long enough to get all the stupid "collect all the orbs" achievements, though.
I finished Hotel Dusk, my second completed game this year. One more and i'll have passed 2006 already. Actually, i don't even remember beating 2 games in 2006, so maybe i already did.
Hotel Dusk is a pretty horrible game, but i love the story and the characters. The question the guy boss fights got a little tired by the end, but i still enjoyed reading the responses. I wish this was either a book or a manga instead of a game. I really hope we see Kyle Hyde again one day.
HYDE VS. MARIO!
That would be acceptable, but only if Louis Denono and Dunning were playable as well.
ExciteTruck all S rank in both Excite Race and Challenge modes.
Man that game is fun.
Finished Far Cry Instincts last weekend. End boss invincibility glitch can blow itself. Solid game, outside of that.
Bullet Witch. Short game overall, but the final boss takes like an hour alone. Overall, a game with some good bits and some bad bits, but more or less forgettable.
Sell/Trade it to me if you're looking to unload it.
Not yet. I'm going to wait at least until the first DLC comes out to see if the promised concept missions make it worth holding onto.
Beat Crackdown, odd ending but overall a good game.
Beat Earth Defense Force 2 on normal. I like the game despite there being so much wrong with it.
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Finished Twilight Princess. Really freaking good. Best in the series.
That said, fuck holding the A button in the rare instances in which you throw people. There isn't a single other action in the game where you actually have to hold the button. Some sort of indication would've been nice, because by the time I was fighting beast Ganon, I totally forgot about the Gorons. But I could've used an indication for those guys, too. Yeah, it annoyed me that much.
I wish I weren't borrowing the Gamecube for such a short period of time, as I'd like to run around a bit and do some of the million side quests I noticed and skipped.
Tomb Raider Legend - 360, with all Secrets.
First finished game of 2007. I ended up really liking this. Probably my favorite TR, after the first of course. The opening parts of Ghana/West Africa were very reminiscent of the first game. More of that for the inevitable sequel, please.
I beat the Tiger Challenge match play ladder in TW 07 :D Working on season now (will win all 20 events the first time around and be done with the game).
Crackdown, of course. Need 2 more agaility orbs and about 70 hidden ones.
Alien Hominid on Easy. You get tons of lives/continues (yes, I am counting continues because you don't quality for the leaderboard until your game is TRULY over, I believe). Took me like 80 lives. The gae is way too long though. PDA mode is great.
The Godfather. Yes, I went there. It was OK, IMO. It's like GTA but only the missions and less mayhem. 3/5 stars.
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Just finished No One Lives Forever.
I liked it. I like the levels, the characters, the weapons, the gadgets, the music, the conversation trees, the cutscenes, the characters, all of that.
The stealth sections were pretty frustrating early on, but I slowly got the hang of sneaking around. It was easier once I got the slippers.
Could've used a little more polish, since having to quickload due to getting stuck in level geometry multiple times throughout a game is never a good thing, but it was pretty good.
I liked it a lot, too... at first. Pure torture to finish.
I just started the second one to mess around and I really like the way it looks. Leaning keys are much appreciated, body pickup seems handy... I'll probably actually play it after I get some other games finished.
Finished Monster Kingdom: Jewel Summoner for PSP. The game got alot better once you get through all the dialogue in the first 1/3 of the game.
Damn, you were focused. I really like it, but I just have so many other games that keep distracting me. How long do you reckon it took ya? (gotta estimate prolly since the game clock keeps ticking when the PSP is asleep).
Also, the jewel customizing scares me. I'm worried I'll waste all my points on gay upgrades for lame monsters. How did you approach it?
Beat Drill Dozer the other day. Got the rank of crook. Working on the last few treasures.
Beat Portrait of Ruin a few days ago with all the quests, good ending, etc. Overall I'm happy with it. My sentiments are similar to everything that's already been said about it: good riddance to touch screen shenanigans and soul collecting, the level design was a bit improved but still not on par with SotN. I liked the two character and portrait systems, and how it tied the game into Bloodlines. Overall the best handheld CV except for Circle of the Moon.
My biggest complaint is that the bosses were lame as fuck.
I would say it took me 20 to 25 hours (yah putting it in sleep mode made it 400+ hours lol). Once you get to capital city, you can buy all the upgrade quartz so you can waste/experiment anyway you want. The last 2 dungeons are fairly long and easy to get lost in so it took me longer than it should.Quote:
Originally Posted by Compass
The amalgamy is actually not that bad. Someone at Gamefaqs posted an excel spreadsheet on how to upgrade the monsters. Even if not, just keep mixing the elements you want the monster to upgrade to and amalgate a few times and it should work. It is actually pretty addictive but the game is pretty easy. My highest lvl monsters are only 33 or so but they kick everyone's butt (including boss). Just don't forget to reinforce your monsters stats (both the base stats and also the combat abilities to +50).
The story actually gets alot better toward the last 1/3 of the game.
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Beat Condemned.
Probably one of the scariest games I've played, and it had pretty cool combat. Hope a sequel does make it.
god of war 2.
after that ending, God Of War 3 HAS to be even more explosive then 1 and 2 combined.
After the last 5 minutes of this week's episode, next week's Lost HAS to be amazing.Quote:
Originally Posted by RDM Brian
E-SWAT (arcade) 2427100 1-Credit ALL
Not a bad Rolling Thunder type game from Sega, but it's maybe a little too short. You will zip right through the first 10 of its 15 stages before you know it, and the last boss is fucking weak.
EDIT - Full Video Here - 2437100 pts. (played again to record)
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I always preferred the Genesis version of ESWAT over the arcade, but it's still a great game.
I beat Enchanted Arms recently, and it's a lot better than most here (who probably never played it) made it out to be. I did dislike the fact that you could breeze through the game without using any golems, except for when the story took a character away, but had no choice but to grind some at the end. I had to spend around 6 hours just maxing out Atsuma, Raigar, Odin, and Phoenicia just to be able to beat the Ice Queen (who was far harder than the last boss).
Great game overall though.
EDF3. Three out of five stars!
This week:
GRAW 2
Resistance
Working on this weekend:
Castlevania: SOTN
Command & Conquer
Beat Lego Star Wars Trilogy 2 on 360.
It was really fun, I'm gonna spend a bit more time on this to complete some achievements.
I beat Gears of War on Casual, now to take it on on Hardcore!
Just beat Richters game on 360.
Finished Earth Defense Force 2017 on normal. I'm going to go back and beat it on easy and hard now.
Finished SOTN.
Should finish Oblivion this week... don't think I'm going to bother with the Expansion... the game's starting to bore me.
The arcade one would've been cool to see on the PC Engine or X68000.Quote:
Originally Posted by Melf
I've seen the Amiga one by US Gold - the graphics show what the arcade game would look like if it got beat with the ugly stick. The color palette is sharply reduced, and it looks disappointing next to some decent ports like R-Type II. Creative Materials (who also savaged Street Fighter II and Final Fight) developed this hackjob.
beat God of War 2 on sunday. can't remember the last time i finished a ps2 game.
The Ice Queen is easier than the last boss? No fucking way. You have to beat that asshole 5 or 6 times and have to have the forethought (which I didn't) to have maximum healing items going in. Now, I'll probably have to end up doing the whole Ice Queen scenario all over again.Quote:
Originally Posted by Melf
I played the whole games without golems, too.
Edited - Finally beat this game. Melf, did you do the holy beast shrine quest? That dungeon alone is supposed to be 5-10 hours and the bosses are more difficult than Ice or Infinity.
Armored Core 4
that was short.... story was just about non existant.
This is what Melf really wanted to say.Quote:
Originally Posted by Melf
Knocked out Marvel Ultimate Alliance and got beat all 20 challenges on Worms
TMNT- 360
One of the easiest games I have ever played and a super easy 1000 achievement points. The game wasn't awful, but it was far from great. The platforming was actually pretty fun though, but the fighting left much to be desired. I really feel sorry for anyone who payed full price for it however. A definite rent though.
Finished Blazing Angels for 360 with Ace ranking on all levels. I also beat the mini campaign mode, and I have only arcade to finish. :)
I said she was harder, for me at least. The whole regeneration and constantly summoning golems was a real bitch, especially when she'd steal a turn from you., and the last guy was basically "beat on him nonstop." I find Infinity to be much easier than the Ice Queen though, and it's true what you said about healing items. Since it's 7 battles in a row, if you're not fully stocked, you're fucked.Quote:
Originally Posted by haohmaru
I was going to do it, but I decided to battle the IQ for shits and giggles, after level grinding for a few hours. Much to my amazement, I beat her and went on to finish the game. I didn't see much reason to do the shrine after that.Quote:
Edited - Finally beat this game. Melf, did you do the holy beast shrine quest? That dungeon alone is supposed to be 5-10 hours and the bosses are more difficult than Ice or Infinity.
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Originally Posted by Nash
Lol. True, true....with the exception of Moonwalker. Arcade > Genesis.
No way. Moonwalker the decent platform action game >>>>> Moonwalker the shitty isometric mess.Quote:
Lol. True, true....with the exception of Moonwalker. Arcade > Genesis.
I just completed overseeding and fertilizing my lawn. I decided that I am going to be a total yard snob now that I own a house. :p
Good lord Yoshi, when they say seed your lawn you don't use your seed! Impressive work though.
Call of Cthulu: Dark Corners of the Earth.
I've recently gotten into Lovecraft, so I had no choice but to track this game down. It captured the feel of Lovecraft pretty well. Innsmouth was perfect, as well as a bunch of other little touches (I loved the captain killing himself after the deep ones attacked. He read from the bible, then shot himself. He couldn't handle the truth, that shit is so lovecraft).
I loved the begining of the game, running around innsmouth without a weapon investigating, talking to people, I wish the game had more of this. The escape from the inn had my heart pumping, this captured the feel of the story PERFECTLY, but man I really hated all the fucking crawling you do for the rest of the game. I liked sneaking around at times, but there was a bit too much of it.
I will say this though, in the begining I really felt alone and helpless sneaking around the town, which again is just as lovecraft would have wanted it.
My favorite levels were the escape from the inn, and the navy boat, that whole level was great. The worst levels were the fishing cannery and the refinery.
The mythos creatures were handled well, the flying polyp was probably the coolest. I didn't really like Hydra. That entire boss battle was anticlimatic, as was the ending. I understand it in the context of the mythos, but it left me wanting more, and not in a good way. Yeah, there are no happy endings in lovecraft, but I still wanted more. Too bad we'll probably never get a sequel, I really wanted to see Cthulu rise.
It took me 11 hours to finish and I got a super shitty mythos rating because I used a million saves, plus I didn't get %100 because I didn't get the rifle in the refinery.
Just finished the career mode (which was surprisingly long) in NFS Most Wanted. The cop chases alone make it better than the Underground games.
Yeah, I finished this game too. I actually thought it was pretty good. The fighting is simple, but I thought the platforming was great. I like how the levels are set up so that you try to make it through them as fast as possible. And yeah, this is the second easiest 1000 achievement points I have gotten. NBA 2k6 was the easiest.Quote:
Originally Posted by ElCapitan
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Finally got around to playing through Devil May Cry, despite having it for years. It's a great game with cool bosses and hilarious cutscenes, and the difficulty was just right, but I'll be damned if the camera didn't blow.
Gonna play DMC3 immediately, I think.
Defeated the final boss in Armored Core 4, who wasn't even near the hardest Next to take down. Now to smack the game around in hard. Really wish there were more parts through...
Been playing this, too. Far exceeded expectations.Quote:
Originally Posted by elfneedsfood
The Moment of Silence - This definitely does not deserve the 9/10 scores the major adventure sites gave it. It's decent but the puzzles aren't anything special, there are some tedious parts, and the ugly art hold it back. The story was pretty good; it was the main reason I played it to the end.
And before that, I played through Deus Ex again. It was my fourth time through.
Game #3 of 2007! Phoenix Wright! Woo! 3rd DS game, 2nd game that's not much of a game game, but more of a game than Hotel Dusk. Contrary to popular opinion, i found the last case to be the absolute best. Before, the characters were just loopy and silly. In the last case, they were loopy, silly, and endearing. It really fleshed Edgeworth and Gumshoe out too. There were maybe 2 parts that were absolutely impossible to get right the first time, but then all the other parts that were just vague enough to make you go, "AW, SHATTINGS!" when you finally figured out what to use all by yourself! 1-4 had not enough of that.
Awesome piece of interactive comic book. This is a game that's at its best on DS. 3 and 4 need to come out tomorrow. Right now, i'm starting 2 and it'll probably be my 4th game of 2007, since playing console games feels like a waste of time when i'm trying to get work finished and portables is good train/bedtime material.
That's one thing I will never see myself doing.... I just hate yard work and a total waste of a good weekend.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yoshi
As long as the cash is there, someone else is doing this shit for me too.Quote:
Originally Posted by kingoffighters
You know you're lagging when Finch is finishing more games than you.
I've only done Tomb Raider Legend in 2007. I blame IIDX, 24 (catching up), and my usual lack of focus.