What Are You Playing (Autumn 09)

**BioMechanic** · 23 Nov 2009, 02:21 PM

Uncharted 1. I just got my PS3 recently, so I missed this.

So far, the gameplay is very average, but the presentation is keeping me going.

Nate reminds me of tennis pro Novak Djokovic.

**YellerDog** · 23 Nov 2009, 02:50 PM

Rented Left 4 Dead 2. So Good. The lag however is So Bad.

Dukes of Hazzard'ing the stock car out of the mall is my favorite bit so far. That level is vaguely reminiscent of the Glaydos fight...

**Tain** · 23 Nov 2009, 02:58 PM

Originally Posted by YellerDog

The lag however is So Bad.

**YellerDog** · 23 Nov 2009, 02:59 PM

Did that make you take a pleasing shit? Is that what that is?

**Tain** · 23 Nov 2009, 03:03 PM

it's the smug face

the smug face of dedicated servers

for a game i haven't even played

**YellerDog** · 23 Nov 2009, 03:04 PM

Lemme know how that's working out for MW 2!

**Tain** · 23 Nov 2009, 03:06 PM

**A Robot Bit Me** · 23 Nov 2009, 03:42 PM

Outrun 2 SP (XBLA):

I got this since it looked like the racing parts of Burnout Revenge, and this is pretty much exactly what I wanted from a control standpoint. Single player is almost like a version of San Francisco Rush designed with Pac-Man CE philosophy. Instead of the console racing game approach -- a few dozen tracks and mirror images of them -- you have a single (but branching) track; a 4-5 minute long conflation of every good part of every good track of every good arcade racer. The game wants to know what you can do with it.

Multiplayer is pretty brilliant. Letting the first person to each checkpoint decide which path the race is going to take is such a well-designed, frictional, SEGA-y wrinkle.

As much as I love the unapologetic stripping of excess that the one track-five paths approach offers, what other full-fledged console games play like this aside from the racing parts of Burnout Revenge? Are any of the earlier Burnouts all racing?

Basically, I want to OutRun 2-drift forever. San Francisco Rush: Pac-Man CE Version is cool, but I want San Francisco Rush: Tetris Version. I want the game to be a never-ending rope of drifting and dodging, looping and not ending until I fail to hit a checkpoint in time, almost like Wipeout Pure/Pulse/HD's Zone mode. I think the closest thing to this is that 15-minute mode in OutRun 2 SP and, well, Zone Mode in Wipeout, but is there a game that controls like OutRun 2 that has a ton of tracks and unlockables and such? Do the console ports of Outrun 2/C2C add anything else that makes them worth buying?