Why are you playing that trash? Your beacon is telling me what you really want to do...
Started Contact on the DS, that game is crazy and had MMO style combat for like, no reason. Only a couple of islands in, but so far it's decent.
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Why are you playing that trash? Your beacon is telling me what you really want to do...
Started Contact on the DS, that game is crazy and had MMO style combat for like, no reason. Only a couple of islands in, but so far it's decent.
I hate only having 200 points for it, I've been trying to clean up a lot of shit. I was really excited for the game when it came out but I don't know why, the last one I really liked was 2.
Theres a fairly legendary review by ARBM around here somewhere...Quote:
Originally Posted by Mzo
Arobimi is a heretic!
Finally playing God of War by way of the PS3 collection. Haven't touched it prior.
This series is dumb and fun! Kratos being mean to people makes me sad.
Get Lords of Shadow. It plays similarly but has a character that is so Dracula by comparison.
I see what you did there.
omg spoiler alert wtf
That was axeulee clevar.
Contact is great.
Sometimes I look at my copy and think, "I should really get around to that."
Borderlands 2 - Finally finished my first story run with Maya. I then proceeded to farm the last boss a few times and got some awesome drops in preparation for the second run, which I'll get to after finishing up all the remaining side quests and DLC that I'm in the middle of. Provided I don't get distracted leveling up other characters, in any case. Steam says I've played for 82 hours and I think only about 10 hours of that is AFK time; this is definitely one of my favorite games from 2012. Certainly wasn't expecting that after the time I had with the first game. Shame that the story decided to occasionally go full retard when it wanted to be super dramatic way to have your shield magically disappear right after combat, Roland, but I liked the loop around to Fyrestone and Jack was fantastic.
Earth Defense Force 2017 Portable (PSV) - This is my newest example of how awesome it is to live in the future. Last night Mzo, SSJN, bbobb, and I were playing four-player cooperative with voice chat on a portable. I am not sure about others, but I wasn't even using a headset. The built-in mic and speakers worked great. We did, however, hit a wall where we were overwhelmed by giant robots, even on Normal. So we need to farm some new weapons.
Hot Shots Golf: World Invitational (PSV) - I've always been a fan of these arcade style golf games, whether it's Mario Golf, Neo Turfmasters, or Hot Shots. This one is very pure in that it doesn't have any RPG elements like the GBC Mario Golf, but it does the actual golf very well. I'm trying to max out my loyalty with one character at a time, so I've been sticking with the starter girl, since I liked her stats better than the guy.
Mark of the Ninja (PC) - I'm glad Josh and Glass Joe called this out in the 2012 memories thread. It's almost like two games in one, not unlike Dishonored. You can play though trying to creatively rid the levels of all guards, or you can play a perfect stealth game and not kill anyone. FirstBlood correctly identified the key to why it works: the visual prompts are nearly perfectly done. There are also scrolls to collect and challenges to complete on each level.
I bought the official "in ear headset" specially for to play with you guys.
Hence my daughter walking through the living room and asking if i am talking to myself.
As an aside, i dont like earbuds, they usually hurt my ears, but after two hours of wearing the headset, i was fine. Very comfortable and really nice sound.
Persona 4 Golden - well, I'm not sure I am playing it yet. I'm about 3 hours in and fought one battle, and was able to explore the town twice, but I couldn't do anything each time. It sure looks nice though.
Assassins Creed 3 - I just got done with Lexington & Concord. I think I'm the only one who likes this game.
Far Cry 3 - like I said in the thread, it's taken some to get going, but it's a cool game. One thing I've learned since release is that there are a bunch of hipster doofuses out there who actually think Far Cry 2 is actually good and are spending all their time complaining about how Far Cry 3 ruined it. Weird, I know.
Some motherfucker's always trying to ice skate uphill.Quote:
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Ooh! I'm going to try the ones that came with my iPhone. I've never used them for anything else.Quote:
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Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (PS3) - Everything I liked and disliked about the first game seems to have carried over, but the new coat of paint (seriously, these graphics are insane) and spectacular set pieces really enhance the experience. The writing and voice acting are noticeably improved as well. It's very easy to see why this was so critically acclaimed.
Demon's Souls (PS3) - Either Dark Souls made me a killer, or this is a way easier game. Being able to carry tons of restorative items and warp to and from the Nexus greatly reduces the tension, but of course I'm playing these games out of order. Just got to 4-2 and have had very little trouble with anything so far (even PvP has been a cakewalk). I'm surprised at how many people are still playing - I actually see more "ghosts" as I wander around than I do when I fire up Dark Souls on 360.
Have any of you ever played Die Hard for PCEngine? That's a weird game. The 1st level is strangely similar to Metal Gear NES and every other level is Ikari Warriors.
I'm finishing this up now too, on 360.Quote:
Originally Posted by sleeve
It really is a great game. I'm playing on Hard too, and it does force you to think tactically and use all of your abilities. The story and characters are all excellent.
I saved the Dalish Elves area for last, so that's where I am now.
If you are on 360, youve no idea what the pc people are talking about.
I've been playing Castlevania: Circle of the Moon for the first time since it was new way back when. It's interesting to actually be able to see the backgrounds since I'm on a SP now, but the game isn't all that great by today's standards. It's a good effort for 2001 or whenever, but it's been surpassed by all of the other portable CV games. I'd probably enjoy it more if the level design was better.
I've also been playing Double Dragon Advance on the thing. Now, this game kicks ass, I still want a higher res PSN/XBLA port with online co-op. This is probably the best Double Dragon game. Hell, I might go so far as to say it's the third best brawler ever, right behind Streets of Rage 2 and Final Fight.
That's fine because you have no idea what you're talking about on any subject.Quote:
Originally Posted by Some Stupid Japanese Name
Yeah well, i am rubber and you are glue.
Why would you take that personally when they're actually pretty different games?
And YES, Gohan, DD Advance is the fucking shit! Co-op mode was amazing.
I've going through the Adventure of Link on NES. It's a great game that requires a ton of grinding early on (got to Death Mountain at level 5, so it was a bit easier). I'm really liking it so far!
I just picked up Saints Row The Third. I'm really liking it so far. Two of my friends kept talking about it, so I finally took the plunge. Also doing the Rocksmith thing on my evenings. It's been an interesting game. Some odd moments, but it's teaching me how to play better.
When I'm on break and before bed, I'm going through Earthbound on my phone.
Man, I think Binary Domain is up there with Vanquish as one of my favorite third person shooters of the generation. It doesn't have the style that Vanquish has, but it does have better pacing and fun enemies to fight, and a better story.
I am playing through Rage. I started this on 360 at launch, and will finish this on PC. The gunplay in this game is a solid A to A+, so I would have to say this was an underrated game
Doing the exact same thing. Tried to finish it on 360, but can't stand playing an FPS with a controller anymore. Still hate the driving, but the shooting is so damn good.Quote:
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Sword of Sodan (Amiga): Usually the Genesis beats the Amiga graphically on the same game, but not this time. This version is 4 disks, which leaves the 4 Mbit Genesis cart in the dust. The animation is still a little rough. Besides the visual advantage, there's a good deal of speech that didn't make it into the Genesis version. The first guard you encounter yells "Halt, stranger!", and a Gauntlet style announcer says things like "more hits required to kill each enemy", "jump over barrels" etc.
TBH it is less challenging than the Genesis one, because of enemies being fewer in number and attacking you from ONLY the front. The city streets scene has just one giant knight boss, not the two found on Genesis' SOS. Magic Zapper, Force Shield (which produces a cool lightning effect not seen on Genesis) etc. are available as pick-up items with no potion mixing required.
Finally found a non-greatest hits Wii Punch-Out!! for like $15. I guess it's ok. Static image introductions feel really cheap, and I kind of don't like the art style in which they're drawn. In-game models look great, though. The original game had like, three pieces of music in it so I can't believe they left out the pre-fight Title Bout jingle. There is way too much fake-out bullshit for a lot of characters, and it only gets worse. I guess I shouldn't expect to finish the entire game in one sitting, but I feel like the game actively tries to fool you just to make it artificially more difficuly. Bear Hugger has like 8 headbutts with different timings. That's kind of stupid. I never found the original game to be difficult, just fun, but this one gets kind of mean.
I'll probably finish it, but I won't like it. And was this seriously $50 when it released? Wow.
Punch Out? Merely ok?Quote:
Originally Posted by Mzo
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It's too bad Gooch isn't still around to defend that.Quote:
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Also the pre-fight animations stop at really awkward times. It's weird.
Tell your face to leave my fists alone.
Also having to point at the screen between fights sucks. I know there are other control options, but really there's only one that matters.
Tera - Mostly futzing around since it's going F2P soon. I like the more action based approach to combat as it's more fast paced than what I'm usually exposed to in the genre. I've got an Aram priest and a war beaver sorcerer. Not bad.
Tetris DS - Just a great game for killing time. It usually hovers in my rotation of games to play.
Gates of Thunder - Hadn't played it in a while, and just got the urge. Now I've got a hankering for some Lords of Thunder.
http://www.the-nextlevel.com/tnl/att...1&d=1358515087
Also, it's Gate of Thunder; there is no "s."
I've actually started to warm up to Punch-Out!! thanks to Title Defense! Some of the strategies you need to use are pretty cool, like King Hippo, and Great Tiger's patterns were a lot of fun.
Playing World Of Tanks again. Anyone want to play? :3
I started playing Vanguard Bandits. It's the first game I bought with my Real Money back in 2000. I never finished it, which speaks to how deep my pile of shame is.
What a weird game.
This pleases me. Title Defense is the real game, the first part is in there so that noobs don't get their souls crushed. I always love how everyone flies through the game and beats Sandman, getting the title, and thinking they are the man. Then, they get the shit beaten out of them by Glass Joe on the first defense.Quote:
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I still can't beat Donkey Kong.
Started up TTYD and I kind of love it so far! The whole theater battle system is awesome, and the first boss snacking on the audience might be the best thing I've ever seen in an RPG.
Hotline Miami - Played a little back when I got it and tried to go back, only to receive the classic Error 1. On the bright side my version only made the music not play, unlike others who have the game not work at all, run at a maximum of 2fps, or crash their entire computer. Thankfully I was able to resolve the issue by reinstalling and restarting my computer, even though I did get it again later on which resolved itself after rebooting the game. The best part? It's caused by a conflict with the print spooler. It's actually an issue with .net, but is still somehow conflicting with the print spooler.
Anyway, when it's working this game is so good even if my shooting aim is a little shoddy with the controller since it's so fast paced. I also kept getting a bug where a guy would try to chase me and would instead zoom right through the walls and run off into the distance, but since I always ended up dying on the attempts where that happened I don't know if it would've screwed up my ability to finish the level. Still, totally worth it. I just wish it could get patched better.
Torchlight II - Played around a bit on my berserker with maps since I'm holding off a bit on starting NG+, and then decided that since EVERY SINGLE LEGENDARY I've had drop is for the mage class (I've got three parts of a mage set and a shield) that I should level some other characters for a while. So I started a necromancer and went PBAOE which has been hilariously devastating to enemies, as I'm just spamming bone spikes which completely fill the screen with death. It's so good.
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Die Hard Arcade (Sega Ages) PS2 -- It took over a month for this game to ship here from Japan but it was worth the wait. The updated graphics are pretty sweet, plus it has a bunch of cool unlockables like Golden Axe costume mode. I forgot how much harder this game is compared to the relatively easy Dynamite Cop. The reason is that Dynamite Cop has 8-way directional attacks whereas this game only has 2-way directional attacks to the left and right. Plus it is missing the dash move that lets you dodge a lot of attacks in Dynamite Cop. I am also losing many of the quick time events since the warning text is written in JAP.
I have to say that Dynamite Cop definitely plays better, but Die Hard Arcade has a much better storyline, better environments and cooler characters.
I miss that game. It was everywhere when arcade machines were dying out.
I've always wondered if any of the guys who worked on it also worked on Gungrave 1 or 2 as something about the bad guy character models are similar.
So, world of tanks, guys. Is anyone going to play this with me? Its actually really good for a free game.
Finally decided to give Minecraft a try and got the 360 version. I get why it's so popular, it's very addicting just clearing out space let alone building things. Now to figure out how to make a saddle so I can ride a pig? Ok!
I woke up to Arctic Tale playing on tv. It made me want to play Endless Ocean Blue World again.
If i wasnt so lazy, i would try to transfer my save from wii to wii u. But i am, and i totally dont mind restarting from the beginning.
If there isnt a new one of these made for wii u (gamepad sonar!), i will be so mad!
Decided to try Spelunky again to try beating it in one go. First try was an awesome run and I made it to Olmec in 11 minutes without any shortcuts. Had him busting down almost to the lava when he decided to move towards me while he moved up, knocking me dizzy just before he crushed me. Goddamnit that shit is frustrating. Turned it off immediately.
Diablo III - Fired it back up to get a better idea how it compares with Torchlight II now that I've had a good amount of experience with that game, and they really nerfed something in inferno hard. I'm not exactly sure what, but I spent (in D3 economy terms) the tiniest amount of gold, respecced since a bunch of stuff has changed, and am in the middle of facerolling act III when it used to be a complete brick wall. I've got a feeling this somehow ties into the monster power thing they added a while ago, but at least it looks like I'll finally finish inferno.
Yea they basically made inferno easy and then added monster power.
I love Vanguard Bandits. I don't recall it being weird, except maybe for the usual over the top Working Designs translation, which I recall being a bit more restrained than usual (except for the goofy shit defeated enemies would say, such as "Calgon, take me away!"). The game itself played like a standard SRPG, the story was good, and the fact that you could play as different characters from different sides of the conflict added a lot of replayability. Good game, overall...it helped soothe the sting of having beaten the awesome Vandal Hearts back in the day by giving me more SRPG goodness.Quote:
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Picked up the Uncharted 2 pack. Playing Uncharted 1 now, on Chapter 18. Man, where'd they get all these pirates from?! Hertz Rent-A-Thug? Suckers never stop coming at me.
Hotline Miami! This game is so awesome!
I don't think so at all. There are surprisingly few effective ranged attacks and hitting someone from the front is suicide, so battles get jammed up with characters jockeying for back attacks while protecting the backs their allies. It isn't uncommon to see a unit surrounded by enemies on all eight adjacent tiles. That never happens in something like FFT. Fatigue points and the array of counter attack options are unusual, too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dolemite
So, is D3 or Torchlight2 the better game? I have time for one only.
It depends on what you're looking for, really. TLDR incoming:Quote:
Originally Posted by Joust Williams
Torchlight II
Pros:
- Supports player mods, which add new abilities, a new class, complete rebalancing, and is pretty much what makes the game worth playing.
- Colorful look that's easy on the eyes.
- Generates tons of random maps for endgame bite-size grinding that doesn't get boring like D3 grinding can.
- Can be played offline.
- Can pick whatever difficulty you want from the beginning and new game+ scales up levels on all difficulties.
- The game feels like it has a little more room to breathe. I don't think the maps are actually bigger than D3's but they feel like it.
- The sidequests usually have their own dungeon so they feel more substantial than D3's.
Cons:
- There is no difficulty until mods get installed and even then it's still not much. I still don't know what the monster enchants do because they're such faceroll it's not worth learning.
- Playing without mods means that screwing up a character requires re-rolling from scratch as there is no provided way to redo stats or skills. Thankfully there's a player program that can fix this.
- There is no balance in anything in this game. The classes are only comparable while using certain types of builds and using other setups will generally result in being pathetic instead of overpowered (again, with no developer provided way to fix this). The outlander just flat out doesn't work in any way remotely intended, you literally have to turn it into a mage to have better than shit output.
- Gear has wacky stats that makes everything past a certain point either the best thing that has ever existed or absolute trash. +15% or +20% to all damage is not an uncommon enchant on various items, almost like a patch to cover up for anyone who picks one of the useless skills and also makes good builds into even more faceroll.
- Loot is the same on all difficulties, so while you'll get more loot on harder difficulties it'll even out by the end of the game and everyone will have roughly the same great stuff.
- A couple achievements are unobtainable because they require a game feature that doesn't exist.
Diablo III
Pros:
- Has a much better difficulty that goes up to ridiculous levels, and some elites can actually be frightening to fight.
- Good balance that's constantly being tweaked and improved, with a huge amount of worthwhile meta game planning if you're into that sort of thing.
- Lots of enemies to fight at once which gives a more interesting constant onslaught.
- The skills layout is designed explicitly for the players to experiment with to find out what works well, and allows adjustment on the fly to tweak playstyle all the time.
- Online auction house means it can very easy to patch holes in gear farming aside from the expensive stuff for getting ridiculously powerful.
Cons:
- Has to be played online, and having the connection drop will destroy stacks that are a big deal for endgame farming.
- The levels are random but not hugely so, and so repeated play can very quickly lead to fatigue.
- No mod support, what you see is what you get.
- Have to play through the game to get to harder difficulties, you can't just select harder ones from the outset. The game is designed for this since the character levels with the difficulties, but this is part of what can lead to fatigue.
- Sidequests are usually just killing a couple things right next to the quest giver.
Of course there's also the price difference, and you may be willing to overlook the lack of support in TL2 since Runic is a small company and Blizzard has crazy money and staff. Factoring in mod support is what makes it hard for me to say one or the other, as I like them both for different reasons.
I've been playing a lot of Garou MOTW lately, probably more than I've played at any one time. I'm actually getting really good with Terry and Butt/Rodriguez, too bad I have nobody to play against but the computer.
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Get Torchlight. It's cheaper and the DLC will be free.
Persona 4 Golden (Vita): Oh my god THE TALKING. I've reached the point where it really opens up (60 hours in, of course), only to run smack into what felt like 5 HOURS of dialogue. To make it worse, I picked the wrong person as the killer, failed to save before visiting Nanako at the hospital, got the bad ending, and had to sit through an hour of unskippable dialogue ALL OVER AGAIN. ARRRRRRRRRRRRGH
This is a better game than P3 in so many ways and yet it's also worse. It's not that the story is bad per se. It's just that there's so much of it and it prevents me from actually playing the game. Also, they lay on the anime tropes SO MUCH HEAVIER.
Still, in spite of my frustrations, I gotta hand it to Atlus. They really had some balls to put that bad ending where they did. I was seriously freaking out when I saw it.
The way Torchlight II handles difficulties is a dealbreaker to me.
This isn't a big deal anymore due to the monster power system. Normal in pre-MP D3 was a joke.Quote:
Originally Posted by MechDeus
The game is relatively short. You can make it harder in seven or eight hours.
I forgot to mention that you're also locked forever to the initial difficulty you pick in Torchlight II without using the Rapid Respec mod program or creating an online/LAN game (and the latter seems to introduce memory issues to me). Creating online/LAN games is also the only way to replay a map.Oh yeah, I forgot that can be applied to the lower difficulties.Quote:
Originally Posted by Diff-chan
Sounds like Diablo 3 is a better buy for me. I wish there wasn't an auction house though.
Diablo 3 has some annoying stuff, like the story is about 3x more overbearing than it should be. It is, though, a lot of fun to play.
I do realize that Torchlight 2 is appealing to the types of people who like this sort of stuff (YOUR CHOICES SHOULD BE PERMANENT!), but it sounds so horrible to me.Quote:
Originally Posted by MechDeus
It is horrible, but that's also what I can't figure out. The design choices all seem to be retard hardcore ideas, like locking in stats and skills and including invisible diminishing returns which means you can put points into literally useless stats, but then they practically nullify everything by making it dead simple and stacking on percentages to make everything overpowered. It's like they went into it trying to make Diablo 2.5 and then got cold feet at the last minute and nerfed the whole thing.
Thank god for the mod community. Rapid Respec is so great.
So with that mod, you can respec any time you want for free? Wow, that sounds like a great idea. An ARPG developer should add that to one of their games some time.Quote:
Originally Posted by MechDeus
Diablo 3 does combat really well and it looks great but the other annoying stuff keeps me away. My biggest problem is that the game still fucking stutters when new content is being streamed in. And LOTS OF SHIT is streamed in. New monsters, areas, spell effects, sound effects, etc. So my game has an aneurysm for the first 15 minutes and continues to run like garbage. This was a bug in beta that STILL hasn't been fixed (even though several official posts said that it was fine in the finished game) and it only happens on certain computer builds. It's incredibly annoying.
Torchlight 2 runs at a flawless 60 FPS and I guess that's all it takes for me to prefer it.
That problem has almost completely disappeared for me. Not sure if that's just a lucky spot I've been in but I've only had the loading stutter happen once in the last couple days that I've gone back to it.
where is that necromancer mod at? synergies crashes my torchlight
Ive now progressed farther in 6 hours of playing EO:BW than i had in 15 hours on my previous playing. I am not wasting time salvaging and shit like that until i have max capacity and can keep everything i find.
Im off to study Polar Bears!
The main character of the game is an obvious weirdo dressed as a superhero. His goal is however not to save the world, and not even to destroy it. It is all about doing mischief. Badass is essentially not one game, but a collection of diverse minigames, similar to Tap the Frog and Albert HD. The player will have to pop balloons by quickly tapping on them, open locks by swiping lockpicks, drop pottery on pedestrians, find items, shear sheep and so on. The gameplay is easy to understand: game controls are primarily based on rightly timed or fast enough tapping and swiping. Swiping can be all about speed, precision or both. The games are not repetitive. In one game it may be about tapping, in another the player needs to shoot something or find an item, so it doesn't feel like playing the same puzzle again and again. The art of the game has its own unique style which is somewhat bizarre, but blends well with the game's spirit.
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This is a game I am interested in playing.
https://itunes.apple.com/cn/app/bada...4829?l=en&mt=8Quote:
Originally Posted by voxverbi
Driver: SF. This game has the worst controls of any game involving things with wheels. And yet, the story is oddly compelling. It's similar to Deadly Premonition in terms of the game being horrible but the story being worth playing for a while. I don't think this game is very long, so there is that.
Really? My limited time with that game left me with the impression that the gameplay was fun but the story was stupid beyond words. That's the one where he can astral project, right?
Yeah. It is stupid, but I still want to see how weird it gets, is what I am saying. But the gameplay sucks. The cars I drive either feel like the wind can blow them off course or some other thing, as if the gamepad is a digital input device and there is no subtlety (and the AI has no such problem weaving without getting all squirrely). Most cars are really lame to drive. And for the chase people levels, you just project to an oncoming car ahead of your target and then plow into them head on.
Playing Binary Domain now. This game is much better than I thought it would be (and when I played the PS3 demo). The voice thing is stupid as is the entire conversation system. When your only three options are 'Damn', 'Shit', and 'Roger that', it's even worse. Also it sucks that you have to tell the game which button pictures to use (360 pad or keyboard) in the outside of game menu rather than have the game know you are using a pad to begin with.
But I am enjoying it.
Yeah, there was clearly something lost in translation with the responses you give people. I like banter with the characters and the loyalty system apart from that, though.
The action in Binary Domain is one of the best I've played in that third-person cover shooter genre. The enemies are really fun to fight and there's a bunch of giant awesome boss fights. It's very good.
FFXII: Revenant Wings - I'm at the very end but not strong enough to tackle whatever last boss I'm on (I guess I beat the previous fights despite being much lower level than what the FAQs said I should've been at), so I'm grinding in the extra dungeon to try and get up higher. Though once I beat the next mission which may or may not be the final final boss my completion percentage will be high enough that the last boss (if that's not what I'm on) will be level 99 instead of like 60 or whatever, so I'll probably have to hit max level before I can finish this off. Whee.
Once I'm done with this I'll finally restart my barely played copy of TWEWY.
Guild Wars 2 - I played a little more Path of Exile and remembered that I never hit max level in GW2, so I promptly dropped that trash and updated GW2. I've been away for so long it feels fresh again.
DMC Trilogy - Time has not been kind to this series. I played some of the first and third game and they are really rough these days; it was almost physically painful listening to the opening exchange between Dante and Trish in DMC, and the mechanics feel really clunky anymore. I don't have much memory of the third one between Cerberus and the demon whale so I definitely need to run through some more to refresh myself.
I'm the one who was supposed to fill your dark soul with liiiiight!
Almost done with Paper Mario TTYD. Gotta say it's pretty great. I'm thinking Grandia next.
This year I'm going for no walkthroughs or gamefaqs at all, no achievements or 100% completion. Just gonna play a game cold from start to finish and whatever happens, happens. Started that near the end of last year and I love it so far.
I really liked that game. I think I still like the original a little better, but ... it's still great. Thinking about that, I still have the original Paper Mario. I should bust that guy out.Quote:
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"You're the man who lost a mother and a brother to evil twenty years ago, the son of the Legendary Dark Knight Sparda, Mr. Dante."
All I can think of is finding the most awkward way to greet people for pointless exposition.
"Ah, so you're the lady with two children who go to a local school and decided to sign up for classes at this university, Mrs. Clark."
Jet Set Radio. Took a while to bring my brain and thumbs back to the way 3D worked in 2000, but I've finally found my stroke. There are some instances of crude level design and stuff unfairly whacking you from offscreen, but this is still a great game. The best Dreamcast Sonic game for sure.
Fuck Fight or Flight. Those jetpack assholes.
I thought it was well known that the dialog in DMC games is garbage?Quote:
Originally Posted by MechDeus
I think we even had a long discussion about it where people defended the game saying it was part of Capcom trying to incorporate the bad dialog of 80s American horror movies or some such.
Just being "bad" doesn't say much, and there's a difference between cheesy and painfully awkward. I didn't remember the first game being like this outside of the ending stuff.
But on a gameplay level we've come so far in recent years that I'm having a hard time going back. I've always felt DMC4 was the equal of 1&3 but my revisiting is looking like 4 is better than I gave it credit for.
I bet DMC2 is amazing now, everybody is just too afraid to play it again.
I just played it like 5 months ago on the PS2, it's garbage.
I didn't understand the backlash when the changes for DmC were announced, everything about the story and characters in the series were stupid from the start.
Not to kids who have never read a book.
I was annoyed because Ninja Theory is terrible. I'm glad that they delivered something decent, no doubt about it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rumpy
I played the first DMC when it was new and have never forgotten how painful the cutscenes were, particularly the opening. And no I don't think it was their master plan to make it all so awful.
Wow, Grandia is a for reals PS1 game that fucks up on the PS2. Random lock-ups and save game corruption. Good thing I had my adorbs PS1 lying around.
I'm pretty sure it's on psn as well.
I bought grandia new back when it was current, still in my pile of shame. Yet, I have completed Grandia 2, because what other rpg was I going to play on the Dreamcast?
Evolution Time Stalkers E.G.G. Silver PHANTASY STAR OFFLINE! SKIES OF ARCADIA!
There was also... uh...
Hm.
I see people trying to shove Dragon Riders and Shenmue into the category. No.