Will Puzzle Quest be no.2?
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Will Puzzle Quest be no.2?
Nope. Stopped playing that a few days ago. It was still awesome, but I wanted a break. I hadn't been that focused on a single portable title in literally years.
Now I'm caught up in Daxter, and have also gone back to Monster Hunter. It could be awhile before I return to PQ.
PQ takes a long time, been playing it almost exclusively the past week and I am only level 15 and barely advancing the story.
Fatal Frame II: Director's Cut - I played through the first game about a year ago and enjoyed it. This sequel seemed better to me. It's more linear which is both good and bad. It's good in the sense that you're less likely to be annoyed from being lost but it's bad in that it reduces the challenge. The main reasons I like the sequel more are that its environments are more appealing, and the progression flows better. It's a good game made great by its art direction and atmosphere.
Beat EDF 2017 on hard today, my younger brother beat normal. Starting co-op on inferno, and holy shit it's hard.
tomb raider legend
started it on ps2, finished it on 360.
holy crap at batshit pissed near-executioner lara at the end.
I finished getting all the medals in Burnout Revenge last night. Not even going to bother with perfecting everything. Some of the later Takedown races were just frustrating, too many times I would ram an opponent into the wall and the game would just decide that I rammed myself into the wall.
F.E.A.R. (360) - Good FPS, mostly because of slow-mo kills look so awesome, but the levels and story don't really stand out when compared to stuff like Half-Life 2.
Adventure (2600) - I had never beat the hardest setting before. It wasn't as intimidating as I remembered. This game is ancient but is still really playable if you can overlook the graphics.
Gears Of War
Puzzle Quest (PSP) - What an addictive puzzler, I have been playing it non-stop the past couple of weeks. My wife started to wonder why I don't play games on TV. I just don't want to play anything else until I finished this. The last boss was cheap but not too hard. I did all the side quest along the way (and gotten all the runes). The only battle left is to siege Bane's castle. I am not going to bother, time to move onto another game.
Rolling Thunder 3 (Genesis) : Finished the "RISKY" (hard) mode.
I had finished the first 9 stages and died in stage 10 somewhere around 70000 points. A couple continues later, Dread bit the dust. The trick is the same as usual- I pick the shotgun for stage 10. Just empty the shotgun of any leftover rounds after defeating the robot, then come in and hack Dread with the knife while crouching under the high lasers. Jump over any low ones that he fires.
I salute you sir! RT 3 can be brutal in the later levels, but it's a great and challenging game. Have you beaten part 2? The second loop there is a killer.
Within the last week, I completed the final trial on Pheonix Wright 2, and got the end credits for Metroid Pinball. Not that that game stops or anything.
contact, but going back to max out my skills. damn, that ending was kind of depressing before that character came for you.
Beat classic mode in Tony Hawk's American Wasteland. Now it's on to finish up the story mode.
What do you think of Wasteland Melf? My opinion of it has changed since it came out. I still love the newer tweaks to the engine, such as the speed and boned ollies, but I've grown to hate most of the levels with the exeption of a few.Quote:
Originally Posted by Melf
I feel exactly the same way, which is why I went and beat the classic mode first. I don't like the characters, missions, or especially the level design in the story mode. It's not really bad, but it's a step down from previous games, which have steadily been declining since part 2. I haven't played Project 8 yet, but I'm hoping it's a return to form for the series.
#2 and #3 of 2007: Ouendan and Donkey Kong: Jungle Beat, although neither 100%s.
I did Easy and Normal mode in Ouendan. That's enough. Hard mode kicks my ass on the very first song. I would like this game a lot better if they let you finish out the song even when you were doing badly to give you practice on the parts coming up, instead of booting you back to the beginning, and forcing you through the long non-interactive intro yet again. IIDX, insanely hard as it is, never really gets frustrating, and I think this is a big reason why. For the last song on Normal in Ouendan, I had a PC Gamer out for reading in between deaths. That's lame.
I saw the end credits in DK:JB but then new kingdoms kept opening up and I was starting to get annoyed. The last one wants 34 crests, and I only have 30. That means getting gold in four different kingdoms. Eh, maybe some day, but I'm moving on for now.
I have never played Ouendan, but on Elite Beat Agent, I cannot beat the last song on Hard. It is freaking impossible (for me). I tried for weeks too.
Finished Pirates (Xbox). Good game, but it got pretty repetitive by the end. I finally just had my character retire after completing most of the quests/missions.
They fixed that problem in Elite Beat Agents and I would assume in the coming sequel. You can now skip those interactive intros.Quote:
Originally Posted by Compass
As for me. So far this year I've done:
Oblivion - everything in the regular game (and I hated it by the end).
Gears of War - Finally got around to finishing the game on Hard... will go back to it eventually but there's other things to play first.
Burnout Revenge 360 - Got all of the medals but I don't think I'll ever bother to try to get all Perfects.
Completed Civil War on 360. Doubt I'll be going back for the 95% accuracy or find the hidden documents/picture achievements, though.
I feel ya. I am getting BEAT DOWN on the last song in Ouendan on Hard mode. I've probably tried it like thirty times now in the past couple days, and the furthest I've gotten is the third section (of five I think). Usually I die in the second section. Even when I don't miss a note, I'm frequently in the red because my timing isn't great. Then a spinner comes up and I'm toast. :red:Quote:
Originally Posted by kingoffighters
I guess I "completed" Virtua Tennis 3 with a #1 ranking. Yawn.
Is CW good? Worth it? Sounds like it is...Quote:
Originally Posted by haohmaru
Finished up Condemned... good stuff. Chapter 9 scared the shit out of me. I'm looking forward to the sequel.
Um. Nah. I'd say rent the thing or buy it used down the road when it's cheap. There are better choices on the 360, many of them in fact, for this type of game. It is different, however, in that the archaic weapons have reload times that are off the hook and it's probably somewhat historically accurate.Quote:
Originally Posted by kingoffighters
Finished Rocket Slime. Perfect little game with a goofy story and charming characters. Now I will play Contact.
2007 #4. New Super Mario Bros. - DS
I may have credited myself with finishing this last year, but whatever, now it's 100%'ed. And in so doing, I was reminded why I don't usually finish games let alone 100% them. Getting those last few star coins and exits was pure torture. It wasn't even necessarily hard, just tedious, annoying, and utterly unfun. And of course, you're not even rewarded for your efforts. Whole thing left a bad taste. Good game overall, though.
Yah I don't bother to 100% any game now. As long as I finish the story or whatever, I am done.
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Originally Posted by kingoffighters
I lose interest after "beating" the game.
After pecking and pecking at it, I finally finished God of War 2 last night.
fiished Doom 3 RoE for XboX last night. the "ending" was worse than an NES ending.
Beat the Knights of the Nine quest in Oblivion, and it was awesome. It was a meaty, fun expansion with a great final dungeon and battle rebuilding the Order of the Nine and having them assault the final dungeon was a great touch that really made the importance of the the whole quest hit home, and it got me all fired up for Shivering Isles.
Bad Mojo - I finally got around to getting this, and it was awesome all the way through. I love the cockroach theme.
Vampire Night - I really enjoyed this, too. Like HotD, it's great for a quick gun game fix.
I'd been curious about Bad Mojo since it was released, and just finally got around to playing it a few months ago. Sorely dissapointed, I was. Control was terrible, puzzles weren't fun, FMV segments painful, etc. I should probably finish it, but it's hard to go back in...
I guess it's a "love it or hate it" type game. The controls annoyed me a little at first but if you have joy2key and a good d-pad, you can improve them.
I finished off Earth Defense Force (360) on easy the other day. The game is alright for what it is. I would like to see a sequel with a better engine, more varied environments, more variety of monsters, lots more godzilla sized beasts and some online co-op. I'll probably give the game another run through on normal then most likely will put the game on ebay.
Before that I completed Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter 2 on the hardest difficulty in 2 days. Its an incredibly easy game but it has lots of co-op and multiplayer stuff so I'll keep that game around.
I used joy2key with Bad Mojo, but with an Xbox Type S, and it refuses to recognize the d-pad. Maybe that was part of the problem.
Also, I've actually done 5 games in 2007. I forgot about Summon Night GBA early in the year.
Finally finished Yggdra Union today. Saw two out of three endings and unlocked pretty much none of the extra content, other than the card gallery.
Amazingly good game.
Finished Gears of War on Casual, going to replay in Hard.
Tomb Raider Legend is one short game. Seven hours was all it took me. It's still a great game nonetheless.
Finished Time Crisis 4 with a single credit.
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Score: 5221000
Time: 31'14"31
Accuracy: 56.8%
I got a 390 hit combo on stage 2's boss Jack Mathers, and later on took the three walls down with handgun alone- full comboing that with 82 hits.
You can ignore all the Caution arrows on the 3 wall Multi-Screen battle, as long as you fire the handgun damned fast. While you're working on the first wall, the other two may slam into your barricade once or twice, but don't worry. A blindside hit does only a little damage to your barricade, rather than a whole box like a dead-on hit taken with your guard down.
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Pokemon Pearl finished. I liked it, but I'm glad I didn't play any games between Red and this.
Finished Gears of War on Insane today. Also got 10 out of 12 of the Double Dragon achievements. I'm not going to even try for the dynamite achievement.
Why not? That was like, the first one I got. It's quite easy to get.
I tried it a few times but the dynamite kept blowing up in my hands before I could get two enemies in the right spot at the right time.
So I finished Fire Emblem POR recently.
Good game and all but god damn does every JRPG storyline have to involve the same facets and dynamics - racism and family relationships particularly. It's always the same bullshit. Boo hoo we're the oppressed ostracized people and if we'd all just listen to Rodney King and all get along things would be okay. And then there's always the daddy/mommy doesn't understand me crap too. For FE it seems like they strive to make their stuff generic. You mean to tell me the guy who kills pappy is a faceless Vader wannabe only known through the entire game as the fucking Black Knight? Are you people trying?
Thankfully the bulk of the game is the battles so I think that's why all of that crap didn't stop me from finishing it. Fire Emblem: Come for the battles. Don't stay for the story.
The battles are boring and simple though.
This is universal truth. My parents never understood me and when I have kids, I will never understand them either.Quote:
Originally Posted by dog$
Just finished Marvel: Ultimate Alliance. Meh.
Finished Gears on Hardcore.... Not sure if I should even tried to solo Insane. Raam would destroy me.
Hey, if I was able to get through Gears of War on Insane by myself, anyone can do it.Quote:
Originally Posted by kingoffighters
I beat the resular cars in Import Tuner Challenge (I have no idea why). I saw the ways to find the Wanderers and just decided I was done. "Be in a Mitsubishi and find this person on Midnight when the day is a multiple of 6". Yeah, no
Played through Feel the Magic. It was okay! Worth 3 dollars probably.
Even though I bought Saints Row back in November one of my friends has been borrowing it since then, so I finally got it back and knocked it out this weekend. Overall it was good but I have to give them major knocks for things like the constant mission-breaking glitches, no mission checkpoints, and a crappy ending.
One mission I was being chased by some guys and my car disappeared. Just flat out vanished, leaving me and my guys floating in mid-air as though the car was still there, but we couldn't drive or get out or anything. Eventually the rival gangs killed my invisible car and I died, so at least I didn't have to reset. The police chief assassination was the worst, as the first six times I tried to do it they never spawned the procession. Eventually I could make it spawn intermittedly, but doing so meant I had to have certain homies and drive a certain car to the location to make it work.
Mission checkpoints could really be used as almost every mission in the game is: Drive for two minutes from one end of the city to the other. Do something easy. Now to finish it off do something that will most likely glitch out, not work right, I may just get unlucky, or all three. At the very least being able to cut out that useless opening drive after the first time would've been great.
But the customization was fantastic (I was a well-dressed albino thug), the aiming and ability to have driving controls like a normal racing game was great, some of the missions were a lot of fun (using a rocket launcher to chase down guys WHEE), a lot of the side missions were cool, and just lots of little touches all over were well done. I'll be there for no sequel no question, I just hope they at least have less glitches.
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Finished RE: Director's Cut. Really don't know what made me decide to play through it, but after some initial adjustment to the whole 11 years old thing, I found myself liking it. Serious lollin' at the acting, though, of course.
I agree with Mech 100% about Saints Row. There were some glitches that could really break the game. I chalk it up to it being the first time (that I know of) Volition has tried a sandbox game, and on new hardware. Hopefully the sequel will be cleaner.
I finished up the last few achievements I needed for Double Dragon and Uno this weekend. I want to get those last Arcade ones that I need, so if anyone wants to play some Gauntlet or Smash TV, let me know. :D
Yesterday I finished up Super Paper Mario. Pretty decent game, looks good enough, music and sound is typical nintendo stuff and the gameplay is alright but very simple and easy. I won't bother with the extra stuff in the game.
I don't know how you ever get through the part on top of the train where you have to man both sentry guns. I had to call in the cavalry to get through that hellish part. Now I am at Raam and I am I dying.... alot.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nash
I REALLY need to pick up this game. Tokyo Extreme Racing has easily been one of my favorite racing games ever, and I feel like this one would be no different.Quote:
Originally Posted by Joust Williams
The turret sequence on the top of the train didn't give me any problems at all. I manned the left turret and just fired away at all incoming enemies. The crate between the turrets shielded me from attacks on the right, should any right-side enemy get through the barrage of bullets. When no more enemies came on the left, I unmanned the turret, took cover behind the crate, and killed the enemies on the right with my regular weapons.Quote:
Originally Posted by kingoffighters
As for Raam, I mainly waited for him to get close and then blind-fired, since even popping out for a second will get you killed. When he started coming around the cover, I made my way to the other end of the train and repeated.
Awesome, ElCap helped me clear Gears on Insane. Now I just need to replay to get all the cogs. And co-op with someone as Dom so I can unlock those achievements. Great game.
Yeah, even though I've gone through Gears of War five times already, I continually want to play through it again.
Spidey 3
Rapala Pro Fishing......oh Jesus what have I done?
Finished GTA III (Xbox). I'd played through it before on the PC and wow, aiming was so much easier with the mouse. I still had fun with it though. The Rhino tank is a blast to cause trouble with.
Completed Grim Grimoire JP on Normal (both storyline and Trial stages). Hard Mode got unlocked, I'll probably try to clear that through within the year and see if that unlocks something else.
completed GRAW2 on xbox360. The general wins 'best character in a videogame' award. His frantic voice kept me on my toes and really added to the atmosphere of the game. He drove me to wanting to complete the missions, the best I could. The graphics were excellent, some of the best I have ever seen. (I'm new to next-gen gaming though...) I never thought I would say this: but the game was too short. Normally I prefer very short games, but not in this case. I wish they had left armored vehicles and helicopters out of the game. I want to take command of a squad, (dammit!) not drive around in some dumb AI tank that only moves on a fixed course.
Since I finished it within 10 days, I might just return it back to EBgames and get my 108$ back.
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Resident Evil 2, Leon A Claire B.
Way kinder than RE1 in terms of health and item distribution, but the repeated puzzles in the opposite scenario kind of annoyed me. It shakes off that nasty early low budget Myst-style look that the original's CG backgrounds had, which is a big plus. Hard to say which game I liked more.
I'll probably play RECV before 3 if I decide to play another any time soon.
Beat Lego Star Wars II story mode, so now I'm going back to get all the studs and mini kit pieces I'm missing, as well as the undefeated achievements.
Awesome, awesome game.
Finished Samurai Warriors 2: Empires with 1000/1000. Time consuming and nothing new here if you've played any in the series before. "Finished" Catan too, on hard mode, and would love to get 4 TNL'ers together for a match.
I've beaten part 2 on both the Genesis and the arcade one. I've 1CCed the arcade thanks to the easier boss- here you can just spam Gimdo to death assuming you've saved 30 bullets for him.Quote:
Originally Posted by Melf
On the Genesis RT2, I had gotten to the final stage but I had to continue a few times to get the boss there.
The Halo 3 beta made me want to run through the story campaigns of the first games since I haven't done so since each came out, so I busted those out this weekend.
Halo I haven't really changed my mind on, it's a basic FPS with good visual design. I do give them credit for pulling a bunch of stuff from lesser FPS' and not being one themselves, but the best part of the game is the music. A number of tracks made me smile as they sounded similar to the old-school synth tracks you'd find in PC games from the early 90s. The voice acting was a lot worse than I remembered, Cortana in particular sounded like she was just reading the lines and not caring.
Halo 2 is all over the place. The graphics were a huge step up right away - except so many textures looked so terrible. The faces are godawful and everyone has dead eyes, and the weapons blend in so well with the ground that I had a hard time finding weapons during some areas (compared to the basic look of Halo where you can easily see any weapons on the ground). The level ideas and overall theme were really cool (I'm one of those people that didn't mind the Arbiter) but some areas were pathetically lazy. No less than three seperate elevator rides where you stand in one spot while they throw enemy spawns at you. Retarded. I do think that the Arbiter sections should've been a seperate piece you unlock afterwards, as they hurt the cohesive flow that Halo had.
Granted my reservations about both games become downgraded to the progression. I have a weak spot for whenever stories get expanded on, and the upcoming game I think will help solidify the series to me as greater than the sum of its parts. I might even read the books since one of my friends owns them.
You should read the books, they are not half bad (I always expect videogame novels to be horrible, so I was pleasantly surprised). They definitely add to the Halo universe.
Yeah, I was told the ones by Nylund were actually decent but to stay away from the second book. Is the graphic novel any good?
I have never read the graphic novel. Didn't even know they existed.
I only read The Fall of Reach, but it was fantastic. Highly recommended if you want to get a well-fleshed out piece of the Halo backstory. I never read the second (The Flood) because it's essentially a novelization of Halo 1. It was also written by a different author.Quote:
Originally Posted by MechDeus
The graphic novel is really nice. It consists of four stories set in the Halo universe. Excellent art (Simon Bisley and Moebius are two of the bigger names), and the stories themselves aren't half bad either. There's also a section of artwork by various artists inspired by the Halo universe.
Not an essential purchase for a non-Halo fan, but it has some merit on its own.
That's pretty much it (graphic novel aside --haven't read it myself). The Nylund books are worth a read if you're into the Halo mythos. Light reading, sure, but entertaining none the less.Quote:
Originally Posted by MechDeus
One drawback, though, is that it'll probably sour you to the way Bungie has advanced the actual games' storyline, because you'll know how much better it could've been.
Compared to how fucking stupid it is now. :p You had better make up big time for Talking Mother Fucking Venus Fly Trap Guy, Bungie.
You fear Seymour.
Turns out my friend's copy of the first book managed to end up in Dallas, so I just grabbed the trilogy and graphic novel off Amazon since they were cheap.
played through Donkey Kong Country again on saturday. love the underwater and Kremkroc Industries tracks.
A fourth book also came out last year. Its called Ghosts of OnyxQuote:
Originally Posted by MechDeus
Nylunds books are the best ones, the other guys was not really that bad, but his style of writing was pretty bland
Yeah, but my friend still has that one so I'm not going to bother buying it yet. There's also a fifth one coming later this year but it's by a different guy so the potential quality is up in the air, and I also think he's a Bungie employee (for whatever that means).Quote:
Originally Posted by D_N_G
Just finished Scurge: Hive for DS. Good game, the last iteration of the final boss was a little bitch, it sucked me in 3 times in a row (down to 1 hit point) but never took a shot at me so I killed it because it has shitty AI. Hehe.
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I didn't have the highest expectations for EBA (or the Ouendan games) going in, but this fucking rocked. I just did a run through the standard difficulty and was surprised at how tough the last two songs were. I'll definitely be putting time into the hard mode. Ouendan and Ouendan 2 have my interest now, no doubt.
Good luck with hard mode. I can never do the last song, ever.
I put Ouendan down at the second to last song on Very Hard mode -- Shanghai Honey -- which also happens to be the worst song in the game. After failing for the 473rd time, I was dangerously close to flinging my helpless DS into a wall. That, coupled with the recent anti-hype around the sequel, has sapped my enthusiasm for Ouendan 2 (which has still yet to arrive).
After finding out that Dreamfall: The Longest Journey was released on xbox, I got it from Gamefly. I liked what I played in the PC demo and felt a weird itch to play it ever since. I've had it for 2 weeks and spent the last 2 nights marathon-ing it to finish it up.
I basically played through it just for the story, it intrigued me enough to plod through the absolutely horrible game design. Maybe not horrible, but really fucking lazy at the very least. This would probably have been better as a book or a graphic novel as this was pretty much an "interactive" movie.
The best part was the music and voice acting, the graphics were alright. They got the job done but after getting used to 360 level graphics you really see how flat and lifeless most last gen games are. Smeared and bland textures, very few nice details, characters that look and move like plastic. The big problem is how lazy the game design was. Nothing that left the fetch quest type of mindset. Often times you just had to walk in a straight line through 2 loading screens to get something, backtrack back to where you started, go the opposite direction in a straight line for 2 more loading screens, back track back, sit through a story section. And repeat. And the combat? Oh man, we're talking shit that felt like it was coded in 1986. Double Dragon has better movement and feel. Thankfully there wasn't much combat but it would have made a world of a difference if it wasn't such a horrid experience.
The ending was a downer too, but I really liked the story and the characters for some reason and would really like to see a sequel. They have a good thing, they just really need to make the actual game better. I'd like to know what the first game was like now.
The first game is even better.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rumpy
Much better. And I loved Dreamfall.
It was recently announced that they're doing an episodic thing for the next game.
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Originally Posted by Rumpy
mmmmmm. i'll love more. reminds me i have yet to try the new S&M episodes.
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I beat Lego Star Wars II with 100% completion. I just need the Speeder and Death Star 2 achievements to get the full 1000. :D
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hmmmm. shit that did come out wrong.
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Just beat Gun for 360. It was actually a lot better than I thought it would be.
I did everything except the pony express and the card game missions, oh and 6 gold left to find.
I guess I could do those, but I don't really care for this game much anymore. Fun while it lasted.
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Finished The Red Star.
Pretty good. It took a long, long time for the challenge to set it, but it was nice when it did. I liked the Gradius stage.
Whoo! Finished up all 1000 achievement points in Lego Star Wars II. And I get to do it all again when the complete saga arrives in fall. :p
Played through Panzer Dragoon Saga for the third time (last time was in '99, I think). It has aged incredibly well and still ranks really high for me. Honestly, it this ever gets remade I think increasing the difficulty is more important than improving the graphics.
I remember PDS (and Burning Rangers) being ugly as sin when it came out, I don't even think I'd want to see it these days. I do remember unknowingly cutting off access to the uber-form and then cursing myself at the end of the game when I figured out what I'd done. Damn my nature to shoot everything that can be shot.
Beat the "original" Final Fantasy on GBA Dawn of Souls.
I had never really played the original. It was mostly enjoyable, but way too easy.
Is FF2 as bad as most say?