damn you neo, when I saw your name at the bottom of the thread, I was hoping for Laser Ghost impressions!
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damn you neo, when I saw your name at the bottom of the thread, I was hoping for Laser Ghost impressions!
That's still being shipped. It might take a couple weeks but I'm sure I'll give some impressions later.
I'm also playing Enslaved: Odyssey to the West. Monkey is a contender for worst game character this gen and I'm getting a bit sick of modern gaming's "auto-platforming" where you automatically grip everything with no chance of actually falling to your death. But besides that, it seems like a solid action game for $20 so far.
Enslaved is friggin' awful and all the praise I see on the internets about it is the story and voice acting. If the best parts of your game is the story and voice acting... then your game sucks.
Lots of new stuff on the docket these days:
360: DoDonPachi Daifukkatsu Black Label - Cave's been releasing these slow regularly that I am going to need the summer to give them all a fair shake.
iOS: Plants vs. Zombies - The update to add Game Center achievements has sucked me into this again. This is a game where the touch screen is even better than a mouse.
PC: Back to the Future: Episode 2 - Get Tanner! - I'm firing this one up tonight, since its release snuck up on me.
PS2: Final Fantasy XII - Emulation has really breathed new life into this one. Square created such amazing detail that was lost on the original hardware.
PS3: Afrika - Now that Epic Mickey is done, this is my "toddler wants to watch" game.
PSP: Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together - I'm not very far in, but initial impressions are that this is a smart update to a fantastic game, similar to what FFT on PSP was but without the slowdown.
Wii/DS: Super Dust Collector II Turbo Hyper Rotting - There is literally nothing useful coming out for the Wii this year, so I think Epic Mickey might be its swan song.
Keep in mind I have EVGA Precision up which is constantly telling me how much of my GPU is being taxed. Even overclocked beyond 480 specs my card is using 100% of it's capability to get between 55-60FPS. The game runs smooth, it's just that somehow it finds a way to use everything my system has, a thing which I notice a lot in PS2 and GC emulation since it's not very streamlined.Quote:
Originally Posted by NeoZeedeater
I only use 85% to get Crysis running at the same FPS at super high specs.
I forgot about Afrika as I haven't seen it on store shelves for a while. Do you think it's worth buying?Quote:
Originally Posted by Yoshi
There was a quote by the dev on Joystiq the other day that the game tanked because it "was released at a bad time." The game was the most sluggish, unresponsive POS I ever spent 2 minutes with.Quote:
Originally Posted by Diff-chan
Infinite Undiscovery.
I have no idea if it's been stated or confirmed anywhere, but I think Tri-Ace was inspired by Final Fantasy XII when making this because it feels like a poor man's FF XII (or maybe homeless man's FF XII) in many respects, other than the graphics on the 360.
The combat doesn't have the quality and breadth of options/control of partner AI that FF XII has. The side quests aren't handled as well either, they are no fun. IU's characters are stupid trash and the story is piss-poor.
But I am enjoying playing the game, although I think a major reason for it is that I haven't played an RPG in a very long while (at least 2 years?). I finally got into Item Creation around the 19 hour mark, spent some time making some money and upgraded the shit out of my entire party, and am now back on track (about to leave Halgita after destroying the Chain at Dais).
From what I've heard and skimmed reading of the game, I'm not too far off from completing the game. Which is kind of weird because in some ways the game has features more suited for much-longer RPG, but whatever.
I'm looking to charge ahead and get this done. And then do the same with Eternal Sonata and Star Ocean 4, I've heard those aren't very good so I want to get those out of the way before getting to the rest of the RPGs I finally get to playing (will probably restart FF XII instead of continuing where I left off long ago).
Edit: And of course the occasional play of Hot Pursuit. Love that game.
I never got this. If there's a shitty action game or something it'll take like 10 hours max (usually far less) but RPGs are generally 60-100+ hours long, why would you purposefully play ones you don't think you'll like when you have good ones sitting right there? Granted, maybe you think you'll like those, but I lived with a guy a couple years ago just like that, always playing 100+ hour SRPGs he didn't really like before getting to games he wanted.Quote:
Originally Posted by Geo
Anyway, for what it's worth I think Eternal Sonata is pretty meh. It's got a neat gimmick and the story is unintentionally funny, but it's a very by-the-numbers JRPG in almost every respect.
I don't think they'll be great, but I don't think they will be horrible either.
I don't think Infinite Undiscovery is great, but I am enjoying playing it at the moment and look forward to continuing it. However I won't be playing it again on Hard mode or trying to get all the achievements, no thanks.
That's best as I can explain it, I suppose.
And your description of Eternal Sonata is exactly why I want to immediately play it through once and move on. I'm absolutely not putting 60-100 hours into it, I'm around 26 hours into Infinite Undiscovery and it won't be long now before it ends.