Raiden V or IV or whatever it is.
It's pretty good. I'm terrible at it, but it's still fun.
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Raiden V or IV or whatever it is.
It's pretty good. I'm terrible at it, but it's still fun.
Maybe fun isn't the right word...
i thought raiden iv seemed pretty fun
I think it'll be fun once I learn the boss patterns. For now, it's really just an excuse to yell "fuck" in my living room.
Bah, Bayonetta and I just hit a wall.
PoP: Forgotten Sands
Feels like a mix between the SoT trilogy and the weird dial-a-combo PoP. Stilted and janky as all get out. Feels bad, man. More control not less pls.
That's exactly where I am (at the boss), and I keep getting killed. I'm not sure I like the whole dynamic of foes getting stronger with each round. It seems like my special attacks do less damage the more I use them as well. Is there some special strategy I'm missing or something?
Aside from that, I'm busy with Pier Solar (finally got here), and it's really great, perhaps the best homebrew effort I've ever seen. I also have Heavy Rain to play, but I want to wait for a long weekend to start that one.
I just did a level grind and pretty much smooth sailed the rest of the game. I wish I could find a dump of Pier Solar. I'd like to try it.
A lot of special attacks are combo enders. Meaning they do more damage with a high combo count built up. If you're doing some of those types of moves consecutively then the first would obviously be more damaging than than the subsequent ones.
COD Black Ops - they should rename this series "but there's someone behind you". Shitty but pretty fun none the less.
Killing Floor - with a group of friends, this game is a fucking blast. I've had much more fun with it than the left 4 dead games, and it continues to be a stupid good time.
I just picked up Gears of War 2 again as I really would like to get through these games I bought. It's good but not nearly as good as the original.
PC: Call of Duty (yes I know old school)
360: Reach
I WAS playing Sonic All Stars racing but it is garbage. Playing Blur by yourself (at least at the start) also sucks.
I finished Dead Space 2 already.
I think I might play Test Drive Unlimited 2 until Bulletstorm comes out
I just started Majora's Mask the other day. I never bothered with it when it was new.
Apparently, there are a ton of problems with TDU2.
http://www.joystiq.com/2011/02/11/te...g-launch-bugs/
Giving Bionic Commando: Rearmed a go. It's better than I originally thought! My main pet peeve with it is negated by the iron boots powerup. :lol:
The challenge levels are fun, and I wish they were part of a portable game.
Guardian Legend (NES) - I won a Famiclone through a contest. I was in the local mom n' pop game shop and saw this on the shelf. I plugged it in and was talking to my friends about it (who had never heard of it before). Nostalgia took over and I ended up going home with it. Legend of Zelda what? I'm a shmup AND a top down adventure game... with a cute tech girl in a bikini that transforms into a fighter ship.
Unreal Tournament 3 (PS3) - The Killzone 3 beta made me long for FPSs the way they once were. I hadn't touched UT3 in almost a month. Something unexpected happened when I tried it out again. Some of the updates over the last month must have improved mouse input. The PS3 version suffers from a noticeable mouse movement delay. Hey, at least it has mouse support (go fuck yourself MS and your 360 mouse restrictions). Anyway, movement is much closer to 1 to 1 now. Maybe it's a buy product of "Move" updates, but I was able to aim with much more confidence than a month ago when I last played. I hopped online and it was a riot. Controller players were terrified. Screaming and yelling at other teammates to regroup and get away from me. Running people down with the Flak Cannon, popping them in midair with alt fire. Lots of hopscotch with the jump boots and the rocket launcher (try that with dual sticks). I think I'm going to be playing this more often. Full look speed with my mouse set at 800 dpi was religion.
Galaga Legions (Xbox Live Arcade)
This game is the shit. The presentation is great, the controls are excellent, and I love how you can move around the entire screen. Some of the enemy patterns can get totally crazy. It's just too bad I completely suck at it, though.
Finally got DDP DFK Black Label. Off to a good start with it. There's a lot of Yagawa this month.
I've been chipping away at Shinobi, which is harder than I expected for being a Sega arcade game. I'm getting to stage 4. Maybe I just suck at Rolling Thunder stuff, I don't know.
Played some MvC3 with GF/friends, but we're all pretty much stopping. Not feeling it very much.
Pecking away at SotN for the game club. I knew it was a pretty looking and sounding game, but I forgot how much so. The action is a little less exciting than in the past, sadly, but it's still a pretty good time.
Finally, I'm about halfway through Kagero: Deception II, where I've been having a hard time getting sick of throwing people around and crushing them with iron balls.
edit: I'm also playing a handful of games of Tribes 2 each week on the only currently active server. This game is way better when you're old enough to know what's going on.
Burnout Paradise: I seem to only play it as a suppliment to listening to music. I'm pretty much done with offline racing games I think, but this is good enough that I'll see it through on principle.
Legend of Zelda: Yeah, that's right, the original. I started messing with Nestopia for the first time and 4x HD rendering makes me all sorts of excited, I had no idea that the newer emulators were capable of what they are. It's pretty mind blowing.
Prince of Persia Forgotten Sands: Runs like crap on hardware that is way beyond what it needs, but that's what happens when you port games from console to PC I guess, just, this is ridiculous. Why do I have more FPS on Crysis with everyting on supr high quality than I do in this low texture emtpy environement game? Well, it's fun to run around on shit I guess.
Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days: Still poking at this when I have to pick up my sister or wait before class. This weekend I'm going to the desert for four days and I figure I'll put some more tim into it there, maybe even finish it up if I'm lucky.
Aban Hawkins & the 1000 Spikes: Maybe one day I'll be able to finish this.
Super Meat Boy: That someday could be right around the corner, but this game gets exponentially more demanding and time consuming as you progress. I did the entire first world in the time it takes me to do some of the levels world 5 and 6, but they're so rewarding when you get them done.
That's strange, I don't have the greatest PC but it runs smoothly for me. Games ported from console usually have lower system requirements nowadays than ones built for PC.Quote:
Originally Posted by Opaque
I have been playing it, too. I like it but it seems a little too by-the-numbers for a Prince of Persia. It doesn't have a lot of personality of its own and is making me want to play Sands of Time again. The gameplay's better than the botched PoP '08 but artistically it's so dull in comparison. I hear the Wii Forgotten Sands is actually the best one so I'm curious to try it.
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.
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
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.
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.
How is Tales of Vesperia? My friend really liked it.
I haven't played it yet, hopefully some other TNLers will chime in to tell you.
IU is the first 360 RPG I've played.
The story to Eternal Sonata isn't unintentionally funny, it's embarrassing to watch. It's not even an average jrpg, it's painfully boring, just a horrible waste of time and material. There's no reason you should ever want to play Eternal Sonata. Ever.
I tried to get my wife to play that game. She hated it and calls it the Little Bo Peep game.
Eternal Sonata is great. Short, too. Like 25 hours I think. You should play it. It has a ridiculous story, boo hoo. Welcome to JRPGs.
I thought Infinite Undiscovery was an absolute trainwreck from stern to bow. I couldn't make it through more than an hour or so. I tip my hat to your perseverance.
Eternal Sonata wasn't perfect, but it was quite a memorable game. Second only to Lost Odyssey when it comes to JRPGs this gen. I know the past few years haven't been kind to the genre, but it still counts for something.
If nothing else, it will help you appreciate Chopin's work. If you have a soul, that alone will make the Japanese silliness worth it.
Thanks to Korly I'm playing through KOTOR again. I think this is, maybe, my favourite game of that generation? I never played the sequel, but that's next.
Don't do it man.
Let the first one live on as a crowning achievement in gaming.
The general mediocrity of the sequel will sully the greatness of the original.
This the way of Star Wars shit in general, it seems.
I appreciate the variety of opinion here, but man, even Final Fantasy XIII, as not as good as FFXII as it was, was SO MUCH BETTER. "MOMS ARE TOUGH!" was more genuine than anything in the entirety of Eternal Sonata. Also Tales of Vesparia doesn't look bad at all, and that Resonance of Fate looks genuinely good. Jrpg's are fine this gen, just no one pays attention.
Ugh, just listen to Chopin instead. This is a game about Chopin's Final Dream Before He Died, AND IT WASN'T SAD EVER. That's just horrible direction on display.Quote:
If nothing else, it will help you appreciate Chopin's work. If you have a soul, that alone will make the Japanese silliness worth it.
Speaking of jrpg's-
Final Fantasy IX- Man, so much better than i remember.
moms choose jif
Dark Spirits (DSiware)- Picked up on a whim for lack of hori on DS. Sluggish, awful looking waste of $2.
Art of Balance (Wiiware)- DEMOS ARE GOOD NINTENDO!!! Very addictive feng shui stacker with Ikea design. Nice job Shinen.
Deathspank - this one is going to take all my effort to finish. Something about it just isn't clicking with me. I also hate the fact that the game won't save my resolution setting. It keeps defaulting to 1920x1080 instead of 1920x1200. It doesn't look very good either.
Stacking - this one seems like a slow grind to 100% it so I'm taking it an hour or two at a time.
City Bomber (Xbox Live Game Room)
I've been playing a lot of Game Room lately, and experienced City Bomber for the first time. This game is totally awesome. It's like Spy Hunter but better. I love the colorful, Micro Machines style graphics, the power-ups are pretty cool, and the twitch navigation of some of the terrains can get pretty intense. I just wish your shot could go all the way up the screen. But then again, that would make things a little too easy.
So from what I understand, Game Room is done and there won't be anymore game packs coming out? If so, that really sucks.
Friend lent me his copy of Crysis like two years ago but I had a hard time playing more than like 10 minutes of it, it just didn't click with me. Bought it during the Steam sale for $10 since I wanted to give it another try and finally got around to starting it, and I'm liking it a lot more this time. Tearing up the forest with assault rifles while I watch the Koreans popping their heads out trying to find me is great, and I love running into a group of them with stealth on to pick one up as a shield and mow them down. Good times.
Now to find the config alteration to make the Koreans speak Korean on any difficulty.
Siren (PS2) - So, is the whole game mostly escort missions? I really want to love it as the atmosphere is amazing and it does the survival aspect of survival horror so well (I miss that this gen) but having to make sure some dumb bitch doesn't get killed is annoying.
Vanquish - PS3
Sonic Colors - Wii
TvC - Wii
MvC 3 - PS3
Pixeljunk Shooter
Bowser's Inside Story
Bad Company 2
Whatever SP game I feel like finishing
Monday Night Combat is pretty fun on multiplayer so far. Single player is really boring, SHOCK. The better moments of it put me in mind of Quake III Arena on DC.
Bionic Commando just petered out just after the central park level, not sure when I'm going back to it. Sucky combat! Fun swinging around though. They couldn't figure out what to do with the weapons in this game.
Bionic Commando Rearmed, on the other hand, is very good!
Messing around with Bit.Trip Beat, there's either not very much to this or I'm doing it wrong.
3D Dot Game Heroes
Generic at its core, but a blast nonetheless.
You must not be very far in. By the 3rd dungeon I got burned out.
It's the first top-down Zelda with normal controls in years. It's gonna take a while for me to get burned out on this.
Speaking of this, it's the Zelda series' 25th anniversary today.
Downloaded BS Zelda Third Quest last night and mucked around with it a bit. Then ended up firing up LTTP on the GB Micro, just beat Aghanim and got thrown into the Dark World.
Really I wanted to play the GBA port of Zelda 1, but wouldn't you know it, that's the one cart I seem to have misplaced.
I got my retro game room put mostly together. I will upload a pic later. Last night I played some neo geo fighters I never played before (breakers revenge, glalxy fight, some shitty I think Visco game with fight in the title or some shit). I then fired up the saturn to play X-men vs SF to get the awful taste of those previous games out of my mouth. This morning I played Zombie Dinos and The Apprentice on CDi. Then I listened to Mozart.
I've paid so much money on 360 and PS3 junk and online shit and all they get used for is netflix. Bah.
What did you end up using for a monitor?
Got a 32' jvc D series off craigslist for $65. Was going to beat the guy down on price til he brought his kid in the room. "This was his tv, so I told him whatever we get for it, He can keep."
Bastard.
Still, I'm very happy with it and its picture.
I've had that Donkey Kong Jungle Beat sitting in a box, a pair of unused bongos its only company, for what has to have been four or five years now. I think I'm going to run through the SNES DKC trilogy after I finish up the absolutely fantastic DKCR and cap it off with DKJB before its box ages and gets pulled through a fence.
DKJB is the crowning achievement of the series.
And video games.
Maybe that's what subconsciously prompted me to play Neutopia today after so many years.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bacon McShig
I've been travelling quite a bit internationally over the last month so it's been portable gaming for me on the airplane and taxi or in the hotel room.
Finished
Gears of War 2 + DLC (360)
Heavenly Sword (PS3)
I Won't Forgive You (PSP)
Splinter Cell: Essentials (PSP)
In Play
Biohazard Gaiden (GBC)
Jeanne D'Arc (PSP)
Rise from Lair (PS3)
Soul Calibur: Broken Destiny (PSP)
I haven't beaten the level 5 yet (there are 7) but I'm quite happy with the game. If you're a fan of SMS gun games, it's worth getting. The gameplay is similar to Exidy/Atari's Crossbow in that you protect a character walking across the screen. The only things I don't like are: having to use a controller for the special attacks as I prefer holding the gun with two hands, and some enemies seem impossible to avoid being hit from.
I have also been playing Divinity II. Besides The Witcher, a lot of the big fantasy RPGs (Dragon Age, Risen, Drakensang, Gothic 3) this gen haven't really clicked with me but this has. It seems like a worthy transition to 3d for the franchise.
Played a bit of Bulletstorm. Beng unable to play fps for the vast majority of my life means I'm dying left and right while the rest of you say this game is way easy. I'm such a noob when it comes to something as theoretically easy as moving with one stick whilst looking with another. I am having fun with it, though I wish I could co op throughout with my kid. He's a lot better at these than I am.
Why were you unable to play FPS for the vast majority of your life?
Anyway, I have been playing:
Bulletstorm: Awesome. I just love the campaign. It rewards you so well for doing creative kills, but you never feel bad if you screw up and only get ten points, because another group of enemies will be heading your way in short order. Probably the best use of UE3 yet, as well. The vistas in this game are amazing. While nowhere near the technical achievement of Crysis, the art design makes them vastly more interesting to look at.
Lost Odyssey: I got this free from Club Bing with the assistance of an American friend who let me use his address. I rented it briefly when it came out but now I'm putting more serious time into it. It's about as good as traditional JRPGs get, though the loading times are pretty painful. I'd install it, but I'm still limping along on a 20gb HDD. Can games be installed to USB sticks?
I used to get severe motion sickness. A few months ago I got talked into playing Halo 1. Played through the whole thing with no adverse effects. When that game first came out I tried it. Less than five minutes of playing and I was ready to throw up. Now all of a sudden, they don't affect me like that anymore. It's weird.
I started playing through this again recently as well (back when it came out I got to disc 3 and stopped, so I started over).
The main characters are pretty good, and I even like how Jansen's humor is generally unfunny because I think that adds to the personality cover he uses of being a buffoon. The dreams are by far the best part of the game, I love those so much and they add way more to the atmosphere and Kaim than anything else that happens. The distinction in skills between immortals and mortals is nice, and I like the auto-resurrect of immortals in combat.
However, having random battles in a modern day RPG is just retarded, though the encounter rate is at least pretty low (unlike DDS, which I'll never beat because fuck their battles every two steps). A lot of the character designs are also pretty bad; I loathe the two kids and the queen's outfit is just ridiculous. The bad guy would make for a great double-crossing villain if they didn't feel the need to randomly insert scenes of him maniacally laughing for no reason and have his voice actor really stress how he's lying to people. At least everyone else's voices are pretty good.
ProTip based on current personal experience: Don't try to play three RPGs and three Cave shooters at the same time. You'll make little progress on any of them.
Yes, I know this is common sense, but that didn't stop me! Thankfully Bulletstorm is still getting love.
When I got my 360 Elite a couple years ago I got Lego Indy and Kung Fu Panda with it. A couple nights ago I popped in Lego Indy. It's easy as shit but a nice change of pace. I don't know how many secrets I will try to find but it's a nice little game. I kind of wish it was Lego Batman though, since all these are the same and it seems that Batman would be a better fit for the style.
I don't know if I ever will play Kung Fu Panda though I heard that was decent too.
They're all the same, essentially, but I don't think they're all made as good. I liked what I played of Star Wars, Indy, and even Harry Potter, but the demo of the Batman one was really bad. They never hold my attention long enough to actually beat them, but I will never buy the Batman one.
Too bad. With all the characters, differing skills, lack of fixed storyline, and cool locations, it seems like Batman would be a natural for this series.
I'll beat Lego Indy for sure. I got through Raiders in like 2-3 hours. So we are talking 6-10 hours for all 3 total. It was pretty fun platforming/puzzling.
I loved Lego Indy. It was the first (and still only) Lego game I played and it surprised me how fun it was.
Cell phone PC-Engine bonanza!
Playing Dracula X, the Bonks, Download, and trying like hell to get PCE-CD Godzilla to work and having problems. Fuccck it looks so good though. ONE DAY.
Godzilla isn't too bad for an early fighting game. My friend is a huge Godzilla freak and originally bought the Duo just for that game. He had a japanese guy translate the quiz sections so he could accumulate enough points for all the unlocks.
Nerd!
I really like that it's every Godzilla suit from the 50's through the 90's in there. Need to play.
If it ends up that I eBay a copy of the damn game and rip it myself, that's ok!
edit: WHOOP got it working And it starts out with the sweet-ass Toho logo. NICE.
iv decided to start play grand theft auto again , cant wait for a new one
Good news, noob - they're up to GTA4 now. 8 in Japan.
Shatter
This...this is it? I've been more riveted by screensavers. It's slow, it's ugly, the wind control mechanic is as unwieldy as it is uninspired, and the super meter is excessive. There are much better Arkanoid-type games than this. For example, Arkanoid. I'd like to recommend the Block Kuzushi series to anyone who enjoyed this, but if you found Shatter even passingly entertaining, I fear the pitch of ecstasy brought about by a single game of The Block Kuzushi 2 will fissure your liver.
I had a fun time with both Lego Indy and Lego Batman, and from what I can recall from memory, I enjoyed the latter slightly more.
I think the villain story mode could have been handled a little differently for a more cohesive story, but it's not a deal-breaker or anything.
Just about to finish KOTOR. Up next KOTOR 2.
Been playing Ninja Gaiden Sigma. I used to own the Xbox original. I liked it but not as much as most people did. The game seems better this time around but that's probably because I'm more accepting of it being a beat 'em up. Last gen when I got it, I wanted there to be more platforming. Some say this version's inferior to NG Black but I haven't gotten to the parts you play as another character yet. That seems to be the big complaint.
Tiny Wings. Best iPhone game I have played so far that is not a puzzler.
Send out GameCenter requests, noob.
Beyond Good and Evil HD - Loving it except for the camera when in the hovercraft. Worst ever.
There is nothing good about those hovercraft sections. Have transportation sub-games (Gummi Ship, Spirit Tracks, Phantom Hourglass ocean, Jade Empire's overhead shooter) ever truly made a game better?
Yes
ugh I already have my openfeint up there I have to do more shit?
Yes. And noobs add.
Well, this one doesn't.
I'm sure my gamecenter ID is the same as every other ID.