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Record of Lodoss War.
Going back and finishing (hopefully) Fallout: New Vegas. Finally able to face the system lock ups again, I think it's been two years (was at level 24, 65 hours in) since I last looked at this thing.
I never found any of those other games cheap, other than lodoss war. $19.99 or die.
Resident Evil 5, this time on PC. It's better than I remember.
Now I'm on a PSOne and Grandia doesn't lock up anymore, but one of my saves just became corrupted again. WTF? Looked it up a bit and I didn't see a million nerds raging out, so it might not be the game.
Using an official Sony mem card.
just blitzed through Hotline Miami. Fun game. Challenging but not brutal...although there is plenty of brutality. Man. It wonks out a bit around doors. You can pretty much run the fuck through levels as long as you intersect enemies near doorways. Don't even need to pick up a gun except for the fat fucks really. Varying your kills keeps it interesting.
Yeah I played through that game and hated it aside from the battle system, graphics and music. Like you said, there just weren't any other Dreamcast RPGs to play back then.Quote:
Originally Posted by GohanX
Quick stuff:
Smite - An over-the-shoulder view MOBA that's a lot like the standard HON/DOTA/LOL formula but is tweaked just enough for me to like it a lot more. Combat still isn't as good as Guilty Gear 2 but I can still dig it.
Vindictus - Found out they added two new characters and buffed my main character (scythe Evie is no longer totally worthless!) since I last played so I've been loving it again. They also added gamepad support so I can more easily chill on my couch with it but I haven't tested that out yet.
Grand Knight History - Trying to play the English version of this but it turns out that my PSP battery is fried and only holds a charge for like 30 minutes. At least it's cheap enough to replace, but I'm still annoyed that I have to order one.
Just get a PSP 3000, your 1000 disgusts me.
screen door
I don't remember it too well since it has been so long, but I do remember enjoying the game.Quote:
Originally Posted by jyoung
Weeman took the long way around to say the story sucked, which was almost universally agreed upon. Main character was a dick, but it looked, sounded, and played great.
I was going to say only if it's less than $30, but then I realized a local shop might actually have some that cheap. Time to check!Quote:
Originally Posted by Mzo
I don't remember any of that, but I was probably a little too "WEE DREAMCAST" at the time to care.Quote:
Originally Posted by Some Stupid Japanese Name
Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Wizard (PS3) - I'm still relatively early in this, since I was out of town when it arrived. I got the second party member and passed the trials. The beauty definitely hasn't worn off yet for me. The areas that connect the overhead map, like the forest from the demo and area with all the mushrooms, are just amazing. I like the combat as well, though it could have done with more customization, like FFXII. It seems as though the most efficient set up is for the party leader to act as the healer, because letting the NPCs do it results in gross over-healing. I wish you could set it up to not heal until the character was down to X%. I'm anxiously awaiting the inevitable story twist where we find out who Oliver's soul mate is.
Hot Shots Golf: World Invitational (PSV) - I continue to move through the challenge mode of this at a pretty slow pace. I tend to do two challenges each time but go a few days between plays. So far I've beaten the first 12 challenges, including the first two head-to-heads. I'm forcing myself to stick with the original girl player until I max her loyalty, since there's a trophy involved. I did get some fancy soccer balls that don't do shit but look cool though!
Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing Transformed (PC) - This should be finished downloading by the time I hit submit on this post, so I guess I have successfully passed the time. I wish it would have had a preload option so that I didn't have to wait until the unlock to start downloading it.
I also need to get back to EDF 2017 on Vita... and Giana Sisters... and... I don't want to think about any more.
Yeah Grandia II did everything right except for the stupid story, shitty characters and god awful voice acting.
I really don't know why I put in the 50 or so hours it took to beat that game other than there simply wasn't anything else like it on Dreamcast at the time.
That sounds about right, although I still enjoyed it. Was Skies of Arcadia not released yet?
According to wiki (for whatever that's worth) Skies actually released three weeks before Grandia II.
I was going to start playing through Deadly Premonition today, but then Tekken Card Tournament got ahold of me.
Skies of Arcadia blew. And I'm a huge Sega/DC fanboy.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gondolin
Yeah, Skies of Arcadia and Grandia II came out nearly at the same time. I remember Official (or was it Unofficial) Dreamcast Magazine talking about it.
And it was good at the time. It would've been really good if it wasn't for the fucking encounter rate and spinning battle load garbage. The story was stupid, but it wasn't about the story, it was about the characters. THEY'RE NOT GENERIC, THEY'RE ICONIC.
So the cheapest one they had was $70 and it was a 1001, so that was Nope x2. On the bright side, after doing a bunch of testing it looks like my battery isn't actually dead and the constant shutoffs while not plugged in was actually some kind of glitch with custom firmware. On OFW I had a steady decrease in percentage as I watched it but then when I would swap to CFW my charge would be at 92% and shut off, and when I turned it back on the charge would say 27% and then 56% and then shut off again, and turning it back on would say 86% and shut off.Quote:
Originally Posted by MechDeus
So I changed the game speed setting back to default and it appears that all is well again. Hooray!
Grandia is definitely ugly enough to be a Saturn game, with the added bonus that it runs like shit on the Playstation. Pretty rad! Other than that it's a surprisingly charming and fun adventure. ADVENTURE!
I reinstalled Aliens vs. Predator 2 today using the HD textures mod and 1080p resolution mod that are still up on filefront from years ago.
The game holds up just as well as I remember. I even see that there are custom servers still up for online play if you download the multiplayer server mod. I definitely will try to go through this game again before Aliens Colonial Marines drops.
Mad Planets
What an incredible arcade game. I can't believe I didn't know about it until nimitz over at the Shmups forum used it to start off a small competition. They've moved on to other games but I'm still playing this. It's definitely up there with Robotron and Defender as one of the best early shooters out there. Waves are quick, there are worthwhile bonuses if you manage to kill every planet before one spawns some moons, the bonus rounds require a lot of skill, and everything just seems perfectly balanced and frantic. It's wonderful, and I recommend that everyone try it out.
Din's Curse
What if the dungeon in Diablo fought back? That's the basic gist of this action-RPG. Towns are randomly generated, and mobs actually do their own thing while you're doing yours. Quests can and will be failed, and if you ignore enemies as they level up by killing rival mobs, they'll eventually start building machines that screw up the environment or even send monsters up to the town to start killing NPCs. I just finally destroyed a machine that had cursed basically everyone in the town, causing some of them to attack each other, and vendor prices to go way up. While I was down there, a monster came up top and killed one of the major quest givers, so now I have to recruit another before I can turn in a number of my quests. I'm not usually into Diablo-style games, but the randomness and the very real possibility of losing a town is keeping me hooked.
Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed
The PC version of this is wonderful. It runs at a flawless 60 fps at 1080p for me. It's still a kart racer, but the weapon balance and the trick system both reward skill and ensure that the best racer really does win out. No blue shells here. The singleplayer challenges are varied and interesting. The only downside is that online doesn't seem to work well. I couldn't join any of my friends online, as I kept getting an error message when I accepted their invite or tried to join them manually. Playing with randoms seems to work well once it (eventually) finds a match, but who really wants to play a kart racer with random internet people? Especially since the game seems to enable microphones by default, so you hear a lot of random noise from stupid people who have not turned theirs off - and there's no mute.
Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia: I had this back in the day but never played it. I'm up to Drac's castle now and its definitely the hardest of the Igavanias. Its more about finding the right glyph combos than anything else. Fun playing on the 3DSXL tho.
Skulls of the Shogun(WP)- Just started this one since there's nothing else on windows phone at the moment. I like it but its a lil clunky without tiles to move around. Good art and gameplay tho.
Bvork, Sumo posted on the Steam forum about the connection and mic issues in Sonic All-Stars. I don't know if they'll default mics to off but they're definitely going to add a mute option.
Strania: The Stella Machina (360) 3.77M stage 6, Normal
Good G.Rev mecha shooter & one of the best $10 games on XBL. The weapon system (with nine to pick from like side, direction, laser, homing missile etc.) makes for some flexibility, with some combinations being better for certain parts. It's about 20-25 minutes to finish, but the length isn't bad at all. This invites replay, mixing it up with different groups of weapons on a future run while trying to get 1-dan on as many as possible by the end.
After a week of trying, I finally cleared out the first mission of Aliens vs Predator 2 on the hardest difficulty. It doesn't let you save at all, and one Alien can fuck you up in a millisecond. This shit is intense. The second mission is awesome so far, but I can't manage to beat it yet.
Crazy Taxi (Dreamcast) -- The models and textures still look good in VGA but damn, I didn't remember there being so much slowdown in this game. Do any of the other versions fix the slowdown? I believe there is a port on the Crazy Taxi 3 disc as well as versions for PS2/Gamecube/PC. I will not consider the trash ape Xbox 360/PS3 versions since they screwed up the soundtrack and store licensing.
I've been playing One Piece for PS3. I really like the episodic nature, as I can play through a chapter and put it down. I know some of you other jerks have picked it up, what are your thoughts? I've only just beat Arlong. I really like the mixing of QTEs and basic button mashing. The amount of combos keeps things interesting too.
Is it just me or is Nami a bit more filled out? (Not that she was lacking in the anime.)
It's not the best musou game, but it's the closest they've come to making a real game with the engine.
The animations are fucking amazing and the characters are portrayed perfectly. If you're a fan, that's huge.
Nami's tits are also huge.
Her feet are the biggest things on her.
god I just want to lick those arches
I just typed her name into Google image search and this was on the first batch:
http://www.the-nextlevel.com/tnl/att...7&d=1360605526
Over the weekend I put a lot of time into the Etrian Odyssey 4 demo and played through the Fire Emblem demo on my new XL. Such nice hardware!
Outside of that brief time, I've been revisiting Far Cry 2 lately and trying to clear Ninja Warriors Again. Having a lot of fun with both. Ninja Warriors Again seems like one of the top-tier action games on the SFC, and Far Cry 2 is much better than I gave it credit for back when it was released.
The month is pretty packed. Ys Chronicles+ comes out on Steam on the 14th and I'll dive into those if I finish something else by then, Revengeance is out on the 19th and I will be dropping everything to play that, Etrian Odyssey surprised me out of nowhere and I'll likely be getting that on release, and I'm meaning to get Gunhound EX sooner or later (will involve getting another Vita memory card). whew.
Crazy Taxi 3 doesn't come with a port, but it has the original Arcade city reworked to fit CT3's mechanics. So you'll have CT3's camera, controls, car jumping, and you'll see multi-passenger pickups. The neat thing is that new areas are added to the city to make jumping have a purpose. Jumping down the initial trolley hills and onto the rooftops is awesome. It's no replacement for the original game, but worth checking out.Quote:
Originally Posted by jyoung
I haven't played the PS2 or Gamecube versions but I remember hearing Gamecube had no slowdown. I think.
This is probably the best month for video games I can think of in a long time.
I only want the rare and expensive Japanese release of Crazy Taxi, even though I don't speak Japanese.
can't deny that cover at least
You MUST get Ghost Recon!Quote:
Originally Posted by Tain
A friend of mine had it back at the system's launch and it seemed cool. Eventually!
QFT. I just got a copy. Only 10 bucks or so at GS.Quote:
Originally Posted by A Robot Bit Me
If you bought the 3DS at launch you had a year to buy the one good game it had.
I am playing Sonic gokarts. It probably is the best kart racer. There are better weapon oriented games (like Wipeout, but I much prefer the weaponless modes), but it beats the everliving hell out of the later Mario Karts.
Look who has changed his tune.
Now I kind of want it D= Yoshi BS aside, is the PC version the best?
Unquestionably.
There is still some dumb shit (like Battle Race, what a dumb ass mode), but the further you go and once you know about the flips in mid air to boost, it's better
The weapon design reminds me of SNES Mario Kart in how the weapons are useful but never overpowering. It's actually more beneficial in this game to be in the lead instead of trailing like in the later Mario Karts
Right. Oh and PC is the best, duh
When isn't it? DF says PC, Wii U, 360, PS3 in order.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mzo
Burnout Paradise. No Big Surf Island gives me sadface.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yoshi
Yeah. That's one of the 5 games I kept on 360 just for that reason. And Mirror's Edge didn't have the DLC either. Really pisses me off.
Mirror's Edge has the DLC on PC. Just not the steam version.
That's only the Steam version because EA is shit.
Necessary evil I guess. For all the hate they get (and some deservedly so), if you look at the games they've made and published this generation, it's awesome. Like all-time great.
Tried the Mark of the Ninja demo. that is a purchase for damn sure
Ys Origin (PC): Attempting Nightmare mode with Toal this time. :sweat:
Strania (360): Had a 4M score on the last run. Still working on the Normal mode 1CC.
A scoch late, but...
I'm gonna let the obvious pun go and pretend that I didn't just read this.Quote:
Originally Posted by Frogacuda
Yeah, the encounter rate was obnoxious. Especially when scouring for discoveries. And it WAS all about the characters, not unlike the Suikoden series. Actually, Suikoden (I and II) and Skies shared a few similarities. I loved all three games, but the Suikodens were far superior.Quote:
Originally Posted by Finch
Jak & Daxter via the HD collection. I'm missing fewer than ten orbs in every stage I've played so far. It's driving me crazy.
Diggin' it, though.
I kind of hated Jak 2 and never played 3, perfectly mirroring my Sly experience.
Earth Defense Force 2017 Portable (PSV) - I'm about halfway through the first campaign, still eating a truck load of Mzo's dust. I'm not sure the others that bought this, SSJN and bbobb, have played since we did four-player. Hopefully we can meet up again once we all unlock the Pale Wing. I still really like the game, but banging the button to shoot 8,000,000 enemies on each level literally makes my hand numb after a while, so progression has been slow.
Hot Shots Golf: World Invitational (PSV) - I'm up to level 5 in the Challenge mode now. Level four was a bitch. I had to play through several of those multiple times to get 1st, including losing a couple on tie breakers, which is really infuriating. Everything about this series is great except the characters. Sony really needs to scrap them and go full-on Mario Golf. They've already broken down that wall with PlayStation All-Stars and even the the horrid ModNation, so let's just go for it. Victor Sullivan please.
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater HD Edition (PSV) - As posted in the MGR:R thread, I decided to try to play through this series in chronological order this year, so here I am in 1964. I make the HALO jump (best use of those four letters in a game ever), listen to Major Tom for too long, walk ten feet to get my backpack, listen to Major Tom, Boss, and Para-Medic for way too long, save and take nap. Seriously, I couldn't take this on the ass end of a JRPG. Hopefully I can play some of the game now that I woke back up.
You'll likely never see an all portable update like this one again. Something non-portable is going to squeeze in-between the now finished NNK and Tomb Raider's unlock on March 5. I may try to get back to Ys Origins now that the new one is out to apply pressure.
You'll be on training wheels a little while longer then it gets much better.
This is true. I got Ocelet, and it's definitely starting to pickup. I like how there's a trophy called Problem Solved, Series Over if you kill him.
Clash of Heroes for PS3. This is a lot of fun! Looks nice, too. I wish it did a better job informing the player as to what the unique enemy pieces do, though.
SMT: Strange Journey (DS): Started playing this again, for the umpteenth time. I'm really enjoying it, now that I'm good at SMT games! I'm stuck in Sector Carina, the shopping mall dungeon. I can't figure out how to advance the plot. I found the Elve, it got swallowed up by some horrific pig demon, and...now what? I've found a ton of portals and can't open any of them. Also, I killed the toilet demon.
Fire Emblem: Awakening (3DS): It's tough playing this on Hard/Classic when you don't fully understand all the mechanics. I'm playing under the assumption that the game will not fuck me over too badly if I permanently lose one character or another. So far, I'm doing ok. I think I'm on Chapter 9 and I've done a couple of the paralogues.
Yeah, those games give you plenty of characters, you really shouldn't worry about losing characters Unless they're the ones pulling your weight.
The game gives you a ringer, Frederick, in the early game. Even on Hard he can protect entire flanks by himself.
PICK A GOD AND PRAY
Yeah, on Lunatic mode using him wisely is very important. Having him die means it's impossible to continue if you aren't past chapter 4.
SMT: Strange Journey (DS): Still playing this! I'm at 43 hours, and I'm in the FOURTH Sector, and there are AT LEAST THREE MORE TO GO. Agh! I have such a profound love/hate relationship with this game. The setting is so fucking awesome, the atmosphere is killer, the art is fantastic (Kaneko!), and the demon co-op system is interesting. But oh, my God, there are stretches in each sector where you hit a spot where you don't know where the fuck to go next and are forced to wander around blindly until you find the right unlock or doohickey or whatever that will take you forward, and it is SO BORING. I actually started to nod off a couple of times today while I was playing this. This is not the first time I've nodded off while playing Strange Journey, either! I can remember doing it a couple of times in Sector Bootes, in what seems like a lifetime ago.
I still love this game but I can't wait to finish it so I can get to Nocturne!
I haven't played them all, but that's by far my favorite game in the series. There's no teenage melodrama, and I love the space theme. I wish they'd do an Overclocked version of that on Vita.
Geen and I are starting a FFIII DS revival. This could be your only chance for moogle mail ever!
That game's touchscreen control scheme is brilliant.
I played Max Payne 3 a bit yesterday while I was waiting for the plumber. I got to the part where you switch to disc 2, only to discover my wife had packed up the case and I have no idea which box it is in. Shit.
Lol 360.
Lol marriage.
Dont worry, you will be able to in any state you wish soon enough.
If that's your passive-aggressive way of demanding a venue change, you're redoing the seating arrangement.
No matter where we go, you'll always be on my lap.
You're my little Charlie McCarthy.
reading about making a PC rpg. did we have a thread for that?
CivRev stole like 7 hours of my day yesterday. I had no idea those games were so awesome.
If we did, it's all about you now.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fe 26
If anyone else is playing LINE Play feel free to come visit, I left waffles on the counter.
Watch out for James though, he watches you bathe....
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I thought you were making a thread what is this shit
James is skeevy.
I don't make threads...your expectations were too high.
Make a thread... or i will
I think my girlfriend is the only person who can take Journey and turn it into a 3 hour experience. Sheesh.
Picked up Shift 2 and Dark Souls. I HATE the shift2 presentation, but everything else about the ui is nice, i like how the faster you go the cockpit gets blurry while the road comes into sharper focus. nice little effect. the sense of speed is amazing.
Dark Souls im only a few hours into it. i have no idea where im supposed to go, besides NOT where teh skeletons are lol. I like it though, its fun, and any mistakes i make right now are my own fault.
About halfway through Tomb Radier, and DNG and I are playing Titan Quest (me for the first time). I think I would rather play Diablo 3 but he doesn't want to. It's still a good game though.
I enjoyed Titan Quest back when it came back but when I tried it again I was really discouraged by all the trash loot everywhere. Great setting though. I like it more than D2.
Yeah it's a lot of trash and it's hard to pick up (at least in 1080P) and you can't compare it to what you have on.
I loaded up on sugar late last night and played games until the wee hours of the morning. I found where the wife packed Max Payne 3 so I played it for a couple of hours. I really love this game a lot more than I probably should.
Switched it up for something more lighthearted and dug out my spare spare Sega CD and played some Lunar. I'm annoyed that I had to yaaarrrr this despite owning it since it is also packed up. The thing that struck me the most was that I was using headphones and DAT MUSIC!
is titan quest better than tochlight2?
Titan Quest is terrible. It might be worse than Path of Exile but I don't want to play it again to find out.
Joust: Message me on Steam and I'll play D3 with you.
Yeah, Titan Quest is the worst Diablo clone maybe ever. I'm always shocked when I'm reminded people exist who like it.
I've been trying out Wizardry Online and... I have no idea how I feel about it. It plays like From Software outsourced a Dark Souls MMO, with a similar look to the environments and colors, a persistent PVP atmosphere that can be carried out anywhere (even in towns), a brutal and unforgiving action combat system, and other touches like the "You Died" in a scrawled font when the obvious happens.
The hardcore aspect is probably the most interesting part, as there is permadeath. You have a soul level, which is what all the characters you make are connected to and determines how far through the story you are and what's unlocked, and then the characters themselves have levels like normal. When slain a character has to run in spirit form from their corpse to the last guardian statue they visited and make a sacrifice, all the while dodging Watchers that are trying to eat spirits. Once the character reaches a statue they have to make a sacrifice in order to be resurrected, and if they run out of time, take too many hits from Watchers, or get rejected too many times by a statue then the character is "permanently" dead and is rendered a tombstone on the select screen. It is supposedly possible to resurrect someone like that by finding their corpse, taking it back to town, and then using some special items but I can imagine that happens all of never.
The character animations are pretty half-assed, and it feels really weird controlling with a m&kb but is smoother with a controller. The actual gamepad support seems a little unfinished and I find myself using the controller for most stuff but still talking to people and looting with the mouse. There's probably a way to fix that but I haven't looked yet. You can also loot other people's corpses for items and so on but this will brand you a criminal, though what that entails beyond getting glowing red eyes and maybe some fights with guards I don't know. When corpse running you can teleport directly to a statue but this will cause a large hit to your equipment durability, so you have to decide whether it's better to pay out the nose for repairs or leave your corpse unguarded to potential vandals.
So yeah, it's not friendly and anyone who's going to play really needs to read the tutorials because the game is a bit obtuse, but it's definitely neat in a masochistic kind of way. A good game overall? Not so sure about that yet.
Also trying to get the achievement in MGS:R for listening to most of the codec conversations while playing through revengeance. They must've recorded like ten hours of dialogue, they have something to say about everything and conversations go on forever. It's ridiculous. After saving a civilian chase after them and slash at the person to take their clothes off, then call up people on the codec.
http://www.the-nextlevel.com/tnl/att...1&d=1277515894Quote:
Originally Posted by MechDeus
For someone who has complained about the lack of tough MMOs and the rise of WoW-esque theme parks, you shouldn't be against this.
I'm absolutely not. In fact, your post piqued my interest. The sarcastic surprise face is just aimed at the fact that you are playing yet another MMO.
edit: You left out the "free" and "on Steam" parts!
It's free!
But really I installed it just out of curiosity and expected to delete it within minutes. It definitely tempted me too, since you can't access video options for the first time until you're in town so I had to watch all the intro stuff and character creation in the wrong aspect ratio and resolution.
The races look almost exactly like FFXI.
edit: ok, I'm downloaded and installed. I think I'll wait until the morning to watch the tutorial videos, since I am watching the baseball game.
edit2: I created a female gnome priest named Gnoma'am, and, as you said, I was finally able to set my video and other options once I got to the town.
The game looks like a PS2 game, meaning it's way better looking than FFXI. In fact, it looks more like FFXII, giving it bonus points in my book. I haven't actually done anything but watch the intro and exit to get the graphic setting changes to take yet though.