What Are You Playing? (Spring 2011)

Bad Company 2, Monday Night Combat and Dragon Quest 9 again. Portal 2 later this month and I'll want to finish up dead rising 2 finally.

Also trying out mech warrior 4

Picked up Enslaved today, I'm excited to go try it out. Also GH: Aerosmith, lol. Should be done achievement farming that one within a day or 2.

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Originally Posted by Pineapple

Also GH: Aerosmith, lol. Should be done achievement farming that one within a day or 2.

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Nice face saving attempt.

I DON'T WANNA CLOOOOSE MY EYEEEEEESSSSSSSSSS

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Been trying Guwange on XBLA. I don't know why I got this, I think I just had money to spend the other night and couldn't think of anything good to download so I tried this. The best word I can think of to describe it is "annoying". Doesn't feel like a test of skill to me as much as fighting the controls in that little tiny box they display the action in. Boo.

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Yeah the lack of true TATE mode killed my interest in XBLA Gunwage.

Secret of Mana (SNES)

I got to the part where the AI character joins your party, and goddamn the AI is terrible. I think I'll play through this game sometime with a friend, 'cause single player is definitely not tolerable.

Oh well, on to Chrono Cross!

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Chrono Cross - I never played this when it originally came out and my wife got it for me this past Christmas so I figured it was time to try it out. Only a little under 5 hours into it and dig it for the most part with the exception of the battle system. I am just not a fan of it but maybe it will grow on me. The music is really good and I hope to hear some of it at Video Games Live next week.

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Man, I'm 2 hours in and already there is some pretty deep shit in this game. You can tell how much better JRPG translation had become by the time this game came out.

Not sure about the battle system, either, but otherwise I'm impressed.

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Man, I'm 2 hours in and already there is some pretty deep shit in this game. You can tell how much better JRPG translation had become by the time this game came out.

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CC was the genesis of Square's obsession with portraying accents phonetically that has marred nearly every one of their RPG's since. I love the game, but I'll always resent it for that, charmed though I was at the time.

Lynx's oil paint dream world is still the prettiest thing a video game has ever put on my TV.

Surging Aura (Mega Drive): This one's been translated into French, but I only have the Japanese ROM. Thankfully, some decent fellow has done a series of videos (32 in all!) on YouTube where he plays the game from beginning through to the end, narrating all the dialogue in English and even with subtitles on the cut scenes. I'm about 3 hours in, and it's a real shame that Sega never localized this one. The magic system is really innovative, using a series of charm categories that have casting times. Depending on the casting time selected in the charm category, a different spell is used. The only problem is knowing which spell is which, but I've been diagramming them as I've played, so it's not so bad.

Awesome game so far, and my next review for sure.

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Yeah the lack of true TATE mode killed my interest in XBLA Gunwage.

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Guwange has TATE now. It always had it on 16:9 displays, but now it has it for 4:3 displays as well.

Unfortunately, it's still not fun to play.