TNL's GotM: July 2010

June 2010 Winner: Deathsmiles
That wasn't a big surprise. I imagine not-so-fond memories of MGS4 and the PSP platform choice made Peace Walker fare more poorly than it otherwise would have. I really hope Deathsmiles does well enough for Aksys to prompt them to bring over more Cave shmups.

This month we see the PC's biggest release of the year square off against Japan's biggest release of last year, with a ton of plus-alpha re-releases and digitally distributed titles on the sidelines. I'll probably vote for Hydro Thunder Hurricane because I love classic arcade-style racing. Traditional RTS just doesn't do it for me, and you should all know what I think of typical JRPGs by now.

Tekken 6.

Jesus look at the f-chans voting for DQIX over SCII.

Gotta go with SC2

Me 2 and that's just playing beta.

I voted StarCraft 2 even though I've never played it. Fuck the Fchans and Faggot Quest.

I'm sure DQ9 is good and all but NEED MORE VESPENE GAS

SC2 is the only correct answer. Sequel to the best RTS, and quite possibly best PC, game of all time. May become the best PC game of all time once all is said and done.

Likely to play: Hydro Thunder, Blazblue (eventually), DQ9 (eventually)

Likely to be enthusiastically shown and then forgotten about completely: StarCraft 2 (ala StarCraft 1)

A vote for SC2 is telling SamuraiMoogle he's right. You know the right thing to do here.

Persona 3, games pretty alright.

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Likely to play: Hydro Thunder, Blazblue (eventually), DQ9 (eventually)

Likely to be enthusiastically shown and then forgotten about completely: StarCraft 2 (ala StarCraft 1)

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90% of people singing its praises will throw it on the pile of shame once the next big release date rolls around. Which is fine, but let's not pretend we are some hard RTS OG's.

I like what I played of SC2, but I always find the idea of strategy games and RTS' to be more interesting than the actual games themselves. I'm not sure any of them have ever kept my attention long enough to beat them, though Warcraft III came close.

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Originally Posted by Diff-chan

90% of people singing its praises will throw it on the pile of shame once the next big release date rolls around. Which is fine, but let's not pretend we are some hard RTS OG's.

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What's this we stuff?

75 hours into DQIX and it's still fantastic.

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90% of people singing its praises will throw it on the pile of shame once the next big release date rolls around. Which is fine, but let's not pretend we are some hard RTS OG's.

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In the past I'd agree with you. But SC2 is basically a time machine/chat program for the people who have stopped playing WoW - so it'll have some legs.

I can talk to these WoW fuckwads that I met over the past 5 years for free with SC2, and play games too?
I'll be playing it for a while.

Yoshi will nuke TNL if DQ9 wins over probably the biggest PC game released in the past several years.

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Yoshi will nuke TNL if DX9 wins over probably the biggest PC game released in the past several years.

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I hear they're up to DirectX 11 in Japan.

LOL, oops.

Voting Limbo even though I've played CD2 a lot more, haven't even tried SC2 but I doubt my pc would run it well. I'm sure it's good, but I don't wanna play if I have to upgrade my computer.

That's the thing, Limbo was great, but Short. Deathspank is awesome and would be my pick if not for SC2.

Continuum Shift is probably cool, but I didn't play a lot of BlazBlue. Crackdown 2 sounds shitty. Deathspank at a glance is Diablo with annoying art, so nah. DQIX looks about as cool as any traditional JRPG could, from what I've seen, but I don't really like the genre. Limbo looks like Braid: The Shittier. Hydro Thunder Hurricane could be kind of cool, but I haven't even seen a frame of it.

Starcraft II is where it's at. It's definitely possible that I won't be playing the multiplayer a month from now (I'd say 50/50), but the campaign is pretty cool.

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Voting Limbo even though I've played CD2 a lot more, haven't even tried SC2 but I doubt my pc would run it well. I'm sure it's good, but I don't wanna play if I have to upgrade my computer.

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Whats your computer? I have a 2.2 ghz processer with a Nvidia 7600 GT and two gigs of RAM and it runs awesome on low settings.

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Whats your computer? I have a 2.2 ghz processer with a Nvidia 7600 GT and two gigs of RAM and it runs awesome on low settings.

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You're forgetting the rule that all PC games must run at max resolution with max settings turned on, even if it has a shitty framerate and is barely playable. At least, that's how my PC gaming friends always do it.

Deathspank gets my vote all the way. Never been into SC though I'm sure 2 is good, just not my game.