What are you playing right now?

[Phoenix Gamma]

Well that's good, because I'm pretty sure you're building it for the final story mission, which obviously means one thing ;)

I think I might give Monster Hunter Tri a shot tonight. I was watching Gametrailers' review (their video reviews are fantastic) and supposedly it's not annoying like the PSP games or watered down with friend codes. Like, it has normal WiFi. So I'm kinda pumped to try it.

[darkvare]

so mortal kombat is back i hope is good the 2d fighting is definitly a step in the right direction
http://kotaku.com/5560010/the-new-mortal-kombat-trailer-is-pure-brutality

[Dimnos]

http://wikipediagame.org/

[LordSappington]

Beat Bioshock 2. Loved it. The level 3 plasmids were kinda all the same, though.

[DougClayton4231]

Beat Crysis and it's expansion just due to sheer curiosity. Man that game was a fucking drag. Bioshock 2 was the shit btw.

[Esuohlim]

Sonic the Hedgehog 3

[Fathom Zero]

Demon's Souls still. Beat World 2 and a bunch of other bosses.

This game is terrifyingly hard and gets exponentially harder, somehow. BTW, these dudes invading my game to get their souls back are faggots. >:

I'm just gonna stay in soul form from now on. I do more damage, anyway.

[Phoenix Gamma]

So, I just unlocked the Peace Walker missions that take place in Monster Hunter. It's not every day you fire a homing rocket launcher at a flying wyvern and mow down a pack of raptors with a machine gun. Sadly, my advanced technology isn't doing me any good; I keep getting clobbered. You win this time, fireballs.

I went back to playing Trauma Team too. That's a rock-solid game, save for investigating, which just gets longer and more tedious as you progress. Endoscopy's a lot more fun than it should be.

[OxBlood]

Demon's Souls still. Beat World 2 and a bunch of other bosses.

This game is terrifyingly hard and gets exponentially harder, somehow. BTW, these dudes invading my game to get their souls back are faggots. >:

I'm just gonna stay in soul form from now on. I do more damage, anyway.

Do what I did. Go offline with your PS3, solves all your Bastard-Invader problems. They don´t want their bodies or souls back the really just want to piss you off, there really isn´t any other reason for that :lol

I terms of difficulty...meh, it´s not really that hard, you just gotta know what to do and which enemies to avoid at first...once you get to World 4-2, you can grind pretty easily if you´re interested in doing so.

Something that always helped me btw is this: While you´re playing Demon Souls, pretend that it´s Contra, you die in one hit, yeah, but it´s not that hard to play through Contra, once you know how to do it. Same thing with DS.

[Fathom Zero]

Every hit counts. Which is why I'm not bothering to increase my HP and defense anymore, and upping my MP and the Endurance and Luck stats instead. My attack is woefully low, I think because I started with the Archer.

This game demands multiple playthroughs with many characters.

[OxBlood]

It does indeed. I didn´t bother with my HP either, in the second+ playtrough, most things just onehit you anyway, no matter what kind of armor you´re wearing (they fucked the AR-Mechanic up by making armor absorb a specific damage-total instead of a percentage of damage, so they become obsolete rather quickly).
Also, magic helps A LOT in this game, you can exploit...I think 2 or 3 bosses by using the cloud-spells, defeated at least 2 later-game bosses that way, takes about 10-15mins of waiting in a corner but at least it´s 100% safe...at least it was, don´t know if they patched it out by now.

[Fathom Zero]

I just died and lost 40,000+ souls after it took me ten minutes to whittle the Old Hero down to where it would have taken one more hit. The Thief Ring definitely helps against these dumb bosses.

[Phoenix Gamma]

So I got a new desktop today. I've been using my laptop for 5 years now, and while it was capable, it barely ran TF2 and L4D and the like. Now my new machine's 12x better. And since TF2's crowded again because it came out on Mac, I decided I'd pick it back up again.

Holy hell, 24" of TF2 in 1080p...I can't go back to my laptop any more for games. And yes, I am always behind with computers and the like, but I'm broke, and this is the nicest thing I'll own for a long time :(

[Fathom Zero]

I made built a new computer for about $200 and it runs pretty much everything beautifully. It's starting to get where some of the newer games are becoming harder to run, though.

[DougClayton4231]

Nice Pheonix, I just got a 24" 1080p monitor myself. I tried to play Oblivion yesterday but the horrible character creation and zillions of crashes made me uninstall lol. Does anyone know if the Witcher is good? I got a copy for free from newegg and I've never played it.

[Dimnos]

From the few people who have actually played it I have heard nothing but good things.

[Fathom Zero]

The Witcher, I'm told, is good.

I have it. But I hate the fantasy genre almost completely. Fantasy narratives are childish. But I'm told the Witcher's is exceptional. So, sure. Anything's worth a go if you already have it, man.

[Dimnos]

Fathom. Did you ever get Red Dead?

[Fathom Zero]

It's sitting in my 360 waiting for me to finish playing Demon's Souls. I beat the first story mission and helped Bonnie again. It's just not as good RIGHT AFTER BEATING IT THE FIRST TIME.

Give me a little bit. I dun even have a mic.

[Dimnos]

Mics are not required.

[k0k0]

Been playing Gilligan's Island for the NES. Blah this game is totally shit. Trying to beat it so that I can turn it into a game called Chicken Sex Island.

Oh, and awesome avatar Esuohlim...I have the cheese tattoed on my arm. He is the best character in the show. He is better than the balogna and salami combined.

[Fathom Zero]

Mics are not required.

fine fgt

Add me. Raggamofyn.

[Fathom Zero]

UGH. NOW THIS BLUE DRAGON IS FUCKING ME UP. THIS IS BULLSHIT.

[bigtimecow]

Love that game though. I'm still hoping for a HD remake.

Who are you using?

i've been switching back and forth between everyone so they all level up equally :( i always do this in RPGs but am never sure if it's what I should be doing. also, because of this i have to switch materia like every hour or two

i haven't played it like a week / haven't been on this board on a week, because i'm so fucking busy with work and crap. hopefully get back into it soon

[darkvare]

i've been playing heretic hexen and having 6 player endless lobbies on super street fighter 4 is freaking fun specially with an active chat

[k0k0]

Now I'm playing the pre-launch event for All Points Bulletin due to my 360 remote breaking and me being too lazy to go get a new one. I have to say, I'm having fun customizing shit. My character is morbidly obese of course, and has a couple tats stating how hungry he is. He's decked out in a single tube sock on his left foot, stained underwear (poo stains on the ass and pee on the crotch) that I made, and no shirt. The actual gameplay is alright...it's just that they only give you 5 hours to play in the "action" zones. I guess to get you hooked and then snap it away from you when you start getting good so that you'll buy it when it comes out.

[Fathom Zero]

What the hell, guys. I've been playing Red Dead Redemption for the past two days and nobody else wants to play with me. You guys suck.

[DougClayton4231]

I started Metro 2033...it's very boring....I'm really getting tired of ridiculous games pretending to have realistic elements. It's like "Here's a giant mutant rat with AIDS...and realistic shooting physics and reload animations." I really hope this trend never spreads to Nintendo, I don't want to learn plumbing from Mario or horseback riding from Link.

[Fathom Zero]

I think awesomer horseys in Zelda would be better.

[DougClayton4231]

OMG!
New Zelda, DK, Kirby, Kid Icarus, and other shit from Nintendo. The 3DS looks pretty sweet too.

[MLE]

I have lost hope in all MMOs now that Fiesta is the best one out there.

And what I'm currently playing.

[k0k0]

If Zelda makes me swing my wrist again til I get tired of it, I'm not playing it. DK, maybe...I'm unimpressed with my Wii, even though I've kept it since launch. Only games that don't have dust on them are super smash bros brawl and tatsunoko Vs. Capcom

[DougClayton4231]

k0k0, try King Of Fighters: The Orochi Saga, it's by far the best compilation of KOF games and KOF98 is still the best 2d fighter period.

I keep dying in Modern Whorefare 2 on the easiest difficulty :lol. Maybe I should stop charging the russians with the rpgs.

[Fathom Zero]

I only play on Veteran. :\ GO BIG OR GO HOME.

Also, playing all these quick first person shooters has made me better at bullethell games. I breezed through Guwange and DoDonPachi today. Both of which = Excellent Cave games. I'm fucking pumped for Deathsmiles when the localization comes out later this month.

[OxBlood]

Still running around in Fallout 3 but losing interest again. Peacewalker comes out tomorrow over here (whatever their problem was this time) so I´ll try to find one today. Also found Apollo Justice for 10 bucks AND I´m waiting for my new used games. This time it´s Maken X and God Hand.


One other thing: I really really want the Parasite Eve Series on PSN, I love those games.

[Phoenix Gamma]

Just unlocked and beat the last story boss in Peace Walker. Actually getting it was a pain in the ass, but the fight was pretty cool. Ending was a bit of a downer. Nothing particularly sad happened, but the realization that Big Boss would become a villain, despite being way more likable and human than Solid Snake and not doing anything wrong or immoral, made a lot of the ending a bummer for me. Just a "well, we're fucked. So let's just fight the whole world anyways" type of feeling.

Also, TF2. Getting a little less rusty, and actually getting good with a lot of classes I didn't use when it first came out. And I freaking love Cart Push maps.

[k0k0]

Isn't that the exact same thing that happened in MGS3? Are they copying endings now?

[Phoenix Gamma]

Uh, MGS3's ending revolved around the whole deal with The Boss and the set-up with the government and stuff, and the big reveal of whose side she was really on.

Without giving away anything already covered in the other MGS games:

Peace Walker has two endings that are both canon and take place one after the other. The first is about Nuclear Deterrence and The Boss' backstory prior to MGS3. The second, which takes place a little after and is the final ending, is about Militaires Sans Frontiers becoming Outer Heaven, how it started as a group of soldiers who left their countries behind, and what motivated them to become the enemies in the original Metal Gear. It's not "OH WE'RE SUDDENLY EVIL NOW", it just kind of builds, and ends with MSF being a target for every major power in the world, and MSF deciding what it's gonna do from then on.

Basically, it's not like Star Wars Ep 3 where you see exactly how Anakin turns evil and becomes Darth Vader. You're left with Big Boss somewhere between the tormented guy from MGS3 and the bad guy from Metal Gear, so he's still really likable, but you see the road he's heading down, and that's a bummer.

[darkvare]

Still running around in Fallout 3 but losing interest again. Peacewalker comes out tomorrow over here (whatever their problem was this time) so I´ll try to find one today. Also found Apollo Justice for 10 bucks AND I´m waiting for my new used games. This time it´s Maken X and God Hand.


One other thing: I really really want the Parasite Eve Series on PSN, I love those games.with the announcement of thrid birthday for psp i think there is hope i actually want them too

[k0k0]

You know what game I really hope they make a sequel for? RPG maker. It'd be sweet to make a generic rpg on the xbox 360 (or ps3). I had so much fun creating bullshit rpgs involving my friends on a quest for some pubes in order to make pube pie or something like that. But alas, I don't think it made enough money. I also bought fighter maker, but it just plain sucked.

[darkvare]

theres quest mania from ubisoft coming

[k0k0]

Oh sweet...I hope it's as versatile.

[Phoenix Gamma]

I'm excited for Kid Icarus on the 3DS, so I decided to play the original on the Wii.

Man, that game has NOT aged well. I mean, I know it's an NES game, but Mario and Punch Out and Mega Man are all still fun. This game? You gotta really claw your way through to get the upgrades that allow you to start enjoying the game, and then they get taken away in the abysmal dungeon stages, which are just plain unfair (FUCK YOU EGGPLANT WIZARDS). Not to mention, the game's glitchy as hell.

Maybe I'll play Sin and Punishment 2 instead. Kid Icarus Uprising looks a lot more like that. But I'm halfway through this game now, so I might as well finish.

[OxBlood]

I loved RPG-Maker :)
Had it on the PC ages ago I think, a lot of fun writing stupid villagers and kick-ass attacks and spells.
My favorite is still my ultimate Melee-Technique "Nuclear Fist" :lol...sadly I never found a geiger-counter sound that was loud enough to be played in the background while doing that thing :D

Which reminds me of one thing about RPGs in particular: The voice-actors never get this one thing right. If you do an awesome uber-technique (why am I saying uber and not über...ah well) you gotta SAY it properly. The Lezard VA in Valkyrie Profile 2 did a rather good job with his techs...but most VAs just plain suck at this. Just wanted to mention that cause it always bugs me.

[Dimnos]

I'm excited for Kid Icarus on the 3DS, so I decided to play the original on the Wii.

Man, that game has NOT aged well.

How dare you sir! >:

[Guitar Woman]

It didn't age badly, it just always sucked and was really hard

[k0k0]

Kid Icarus just plain sucked. That's why they never brought it back until now. I hated it when I owned it on nes as a kid. There are a group of people who call it a classic, only because it was hard as shit and gave them a challenge, but if you call anything a classic based on that thought, then there are a lot of games that should be considered great.

[Phoenix Gamma]

They DID make a Gameboy sequel. Wonder if it's as bullshit or glitchy as the original...

[Dimnos]

I LOVED Kid Icarus on the old school NES. It was probably my favorite game. It was fun and hard as shit. Yes there were plenty of games back then that were hard but most werent as fun.

[Pentegarn]

There is a nostalgic NES charm to Kid Icarus.

Plus he was on Captain N

[OxBlood]

I remember the Gameboy Kid Icarus being quite fun but I know I never got very far, so I guess it was as fucking hard as the NES-Version.

Finally got Peace Walker and hell, it´s nice, even though I trigger the alarm too often...then again the enemies can´t see or hear shit, at least in the beginning.
My main complaint is the over-sensitive Analog-Nub, it´s pretty hard to just walk instead of running around.

[k0k0]

I never got into the gameboy or any handheld games really. I don't like the small screens. And really, as for kid icarus, it was a christmas present as a kid and I would have much rather had a different game under the tree that year. I played it as much as I could stand, but it's not a good game to me.

[Phoenix Gamma]

I'm on the final level right now.

My beef with the game is that, on top of evil evil shit like Eggplant Wizards near the end of a dungeon (forcing you to backtrack and start over, or die and start over, meaning they successfully created a fate worse than death) and the bugs that steal your weapons permanently until you rebuy them, there's still really intrusive glitches, like enemies that just fall out of the sky in the first and third worlds, constantly. Or Reapers that fall off ledges, or watching the first boss walk through the wall on the left side only to reappear on the right, and the countless times I've watched an arrow go through an enemy.

It's bad enough that it's Nintendo Hard and that world 1 is the hardest part of the whole game, but constant glitches don't help. It's just really unpolished.

And I love portable games. It just more intimate, I think.

[Dr. Boogie]

Playing Yakuza 3. Fans of the series were mad because Sega left out the hostess bar and mahjong minigames for the American release, but for me, they were among the worst of the minigames.


There's a new weapon/armor creation system where you watch DVDs and read magazines to learn new recipes. I swear to god, though, I think Koko was involved in making one of them:

The DVD: Enema Master II

Recipes:

Ball Buster
Brickshitter Beer
Ass Quills

[k0k0]

It'd be even more nonsensicle if I touched them. Buster would be Buttsr, Beer would be anus, and Quills would be Cocks probably.

[Pentegarn]

Your over the top depravity makes me laugh, not for the jokes themselves, but because they are so excessive it is funny. :lol

[OxBlood]

I think I overdid it a little bit...

Not only do I have Peacewalker, God Hand and Maken X here, my US-PSN suprised me with 20 Bucks on my account that I must´ve loaded some time back to buy Resident Evil 3 or something. So now I bought RE3, Suikoden1 (I´d give half a kingdom for part 2 on PSN) and Wild Arms 2. PLUS The Saboteur should arrive today too (finally cheap enough in the UK).

When am I gonna play all this shit...

[DougClayton4231]

Gonna try out Naughty Bear and Singularity today if I have enough time. Exams + work + other facets of life = no time for videogames. I'll be sure to tell everyone if either of these games are worth it though.

[Phoenix Gamma]

I've been playing TF2 a lot lately, but I feel like I'm getting worse at it. That, or today was just a really really bad day :(

Beat Kid Icarus. Last level's pretty lame. Meh.

[Fathom Zero]

It can be like that. Don't sweat it. You'll have a better day tomorrow.

[DougClayton4231]

Naughty Bear is a vile piece of software. It's clearly marketed towards children, though all the game encourages you to do is curb stomp and eviscerate all of the other bears and it was given a T rating because it lacks blood. Wtf ESRB? Btw, the gameplay is quite horrible and the camera keeps getting stuck on things.

Singularity seems pretty cool so far, but it is very old school when it comes to FPS standards (no recharging health, minimal hud, etc.)

Metro 2003 went from bad to worse. The enemies take way too many bullets, there is far too little ammo, the level design is horrible and the gasmask thing is just annoying. I don't think I will finish this one.

[Fathom Zero]

http://img713.imageshack.us/img713/4575/gigawing.jpg

Giga Wing makes me feel so badass. Even though there are harder ones out there, it's just satisfying to rack up two trillion points sometimes.

[Phoenix Gamma]

ICO!!!

I've wanted to play this game for so many years, but apparently Sony only made three whole copies, because I couldn't find it anywhere. Then I remembered "oh hey, I got a bitchin desktop for graduation. I'll just emulate it!"

So I did.

Man, talk about frustrating combat. The kid controls poorly, and the enemies are just frustrating. I'd like it a lot more if the controls and the combat weren't a pain in the ass.

[DougClayton4231]

Ico made me want to scream, his dumbass girlfriend didn't help much either. I still have no idea why people like that shitty game.

[Guitar Woman]

I tried out Modern Warfare 2 and after playing to the point that I'm not on the bottom of my team's leaderboard every single game, I hate it more than I did when I was bad at it

It kinda feels like a copy/paste of Counterstrike, except in Counterstrike the knife wasn't nearly as fucking ridiculous.

I think the Riot Shield was a brilliant thing to put in the game, though, what with about 75% of deaths happening due to being shot by some jackhole on the other end of the continent that you would need a large HD TV to have seen beforehand

[OxBlood]

Even a large TV woulnd´ve helped since there´s always 2-12 people somewhere behind you, above you or the hide in your gun and shoot you or something like that. That´s the sad thing about both Modern Warfare´s, if you didn´t start playing the multi when it was first released, it´s hard to catch up. I still remember the stupid hours in which I tried to get the...what was ist...25 kills or so with my prefered weak gun so I could use a red dot sight. Sadly I can´t hit shit without a red dot sight sooooo...

I WAS fun for a few days, I´ll give it that.

[DougClayton4231]

I still never understand why people love playing deathmatch with complete strangers. The only deathmatch I ever enjoyed was Goldeneye, Perfect Dark, and Outlaw on the 2600. What's the allure to killing random people from a camping point with a RPG?

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

Mainly because they can't screen watch.

[Dimnos]

Better competition. Variety of competitors.

[Guitar Woman]

My borrowed Xbox Live tag is SandierBear002, if any of you fgts think you're man enough

Maybe I can find a way to disable the combat knife so we can't kill each other by magic

[Dimnos]

Man enough for what? What are you playing?

[Guitar Woman]

Modern Warfare 2
:|

[Guitar Woman]

I know most of you guys don't like me but at least pretend that you read my posts ok ;_;

[stevetothepast]

no

[OxBlood]

I still never understand why people love playing deathmatch with complete strangers. The only deathmatch I ever enjoyed was Goldeneye, Perfect Dark, and Outlaw on the 2600. What's the allure to killing random people from a camping point with a RPG?


Dominating people is ALWAYS fun, Me > You is one of the most basic principles of human society :)

Which is of course why I´m a VERY bad and unsporting loser :lol


Erm, anyway, playing a bit of Saboteur now and it´s suprisingly fun, even though its just another sandboxgame no one really needs.
It´s especially funny to listen to the nazis. Some of them are obviously voiced by germans or people who can emulate german without an accent while some of them are clearly american and they are mixed up all over the place...a lot of fun to listen to :lol

Great oneliners too. I break one nazi´s neck, another one sees me and immediately shouts: "Ich bin dein Todesengel!" (I´m your angel of death!)

Just hillariously stupid...also, if the nazis had fortified Paris like they did in the game, it would be german today...there´s towers on EVERY house, there´s FLAKs everywhere, Airships looming above the city, there´s fucking V2 rockets in the outskirts of town goddamnit...when did they get all that shit over there...

[DougClayton4231]

lol Oxblood, the French in The Saboteur is the same, the accents are wrong most of the time and it sounds like they just got some random asshole to voice everyone.

[OxBlood]

True, the main frenchman...what´s his name...Luc, he sounds like some cheap immitation of a french person by someone from god knows where...but french IS a strange language. Ever seen a french guy speaking decent english? I haven´t, so maybe it´s the same the other way round too.

What´s also funny is that, at least to me, most male characters sound like they were voiced by the same guy, they all sound the same more or less.
Sure, Sean has an irish accent...apparently. I don´t know what Irish people sound like, I´m happy that I can tell Scots from English people and some American accents from others...

[Dimnos]

I have never met two Irish people who had the same accent.

[darkvare]

i love how french people talk english they seem uncappable of pronouncing anything that employs using the h in front of a vowel

[DougClayton4231]

That's because you never pronounce the H in French. The main character in the Saboteur has a Scottish accent, not an Irish accent, which is very lolworthy. In every language, foreigners always have a weird accent. For example, I am not French, so my French accent is a little off and it sounds more Haitian or West African. I've never heard anyone speak German in a strange accent though.

[OxBlood]

The saboteur does have it´s fair share of strange-sounding german coming out of american mouths ;)

A common thing is that non-germans often tend to pronounce a soft S like a sharp S. The soldiers in the game for examples have this line: "Ich suche...ich suche" (I´m searching, I´m searching) which is stupid to begin with because it makes them sound like a databank-program :D The S on "suche" is soft but they pronounce it like the s in "search" for example. Apart from the fact that the "Ich" is often pronounced like "Ik"...which people from Berlin actually do but it still sounds different :)
It´s the beatuy of having sounds in one language that another doesn´t use often or even at all. Your rolling R is another good example, or the TH-Sound that maaaany germans can´t seem to get right no matter how hard they try...at least that gave birth to clearly german-spoken english...if you know what I´m trying to say...listening to german TV and writing english seems to confuse me a little...

I like this accent-business, it´s kinda fun for some reason, especially when the people that are supposed to speak german in games have accents so garbled and strange that I - an actual german - can´t understand them anymore :D

[stevetothepast]

I have never met two Irish people who had the same accent.
I'm Irish like a motherfucker

anywho playing that risk xbla game. its kind of okay, but it's just risk with stupid cartoon characters, which is what I was expecting anyways.

[MarioRPG]

I started playing Trauma Team and it is by far the best when compared to the other ones I've played. The controls are polished and the "exact preciseness" of the previous entries has been made a lot more easy. Which is good news when you think about how shaky the sensor can be. Also the different types of operations (ER, ortho, paramed, etc) is a nice touch that mixes it up just enough each time.

[DougClayton4231]

Trauma Team is great, there's nothing like multiplayer malpractice!

I lost all of my Wii saves, so it looks like I'll have nothing but work to do in the upcoming month :lol

[Phoenix Gamma]

"Oh, Diagnostics. That could be interesting."
"Oh neat, the guy is some bitter, unshaven jerk. So basically I'm House without the cane or vicodin. Cool. Let's start level 1."

"Well, here I am, telling a 14 year old girl to lift up her shirt."
It's good that no one was around to see that :(

Oh and I went back to Peace Walker to try the Monster Hunter missions. Really fucking hard. Until I learned an exploit. 100+ tranquilizer darts later and I bagged my first dinosaur monster lizard thing. Big Boss is so much cooler than Solid Snake.

[Dixie]

runescape......again.

[Guitar Woman]

Sometimes I forget how absolutely brilliant TF2 is until I go and play a much shittier online shooter in an attempt to wean myself off of Valve's primary-colored smack addiction.

Modern Warfare being the shittier game in this instance. I've played it for about 16 hours so far and every 30 minutes or so of getting knifed or shot out of the blue with absolutely no warning I'll remark to myself, "Holy shit, I hate this game." Visibility is really the most massive factor. Tn TF2, you can see pretty much everything and always know what's going on; where you are in a level, how to get to the place you want to go in said level, who's attacking you, the direction your enemies will generally be coming from, whether or not you're about to die, etc. In MW2, by comparison, everything is an absolute clusterfuck, you won't know you're going to bite it half the time until you're already dead, and you generally can't fucking see anything. That might be more like real life combat than anything TF2 does, but realism does not go hand in hand with fun. Like, ever.

Not sure why I keep playing it, though; probably because I've found I'm not a horrible sniper, and I've always had a thing for intensely lying prone and peering daggers down my scope while I wait for an oblivious schmuck to wander into sight. Although it's sort of annoying in MW2 since sniper rifles are considerably shittier at distance-killing than most of the standard assault rifles. I get one very precise and very loud shot, while unable to move easily. The other guy gets 30 mildly accurate shots while lumbering at me, and if none of those hit me he'll probably instakill me with the fucking stupid combat knife attack instead.

Another thing I've noticed is that smoke grenades are useless; I tried throwing them at demolition targets a few times to give me some cover to set a bomb up, but the guys outside the smoke's range can see my outline plain as day while I'm fucking blind as a bat inside of the thing and they murder me just as easily as if I'd charged in Leeroy Jenkins style.

I've not touched the single player yet, but seeing as how MW2 was pretty much built around milking the multiplayer popularity of the first one it probably isn't as good. It certainly won't have anything as masterful as Pripyat.

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

I have never met two Irish people who had the same accent.

When my grandmother came back from visiting Ireland she told me how nice the big cities were and how beautiful the language sounded. Then she was like "Then we went out to the country and found a bunch of country hillbilly irish. Sounded like a crowd of fools." :(

I'm Irish like a motherfucker

anywho playing that risk xbla game. its kind of okay, but it's just risk with stupid cartoon characters, which is what I was expecting anyways.

I saw you playing that the other day and was going to get it. Instead I got avatar warriors for 80 xbx points. It's only fun if you have someone to play it with next to you though because you can't play online.

It's basically hilarious slapfighting and kicking with really bad ragdoll physics. So much fun though.

[OxBlood]

I´ve started another round with Symphony of the night...I don´t know how the game does it, but it never gets boring to me...sooo close to perfection.

I also hope they release Puzzle Quest 2 on Wednesday over here, I really want to play that thing, loved the first one.

[darkvare]

I´ve started another round with Symphony of the night...I don´t know how the game does it, but it never gets boring to me...sooo close to perfection.

I also hope they release Puzzle Quest 2 on Wednesday over here, I really want to play that thing, loved the first one.
speaking of symphony of the night it got me pissed off i need the 200.6% achievement and i only have 200.4% :\ does leveling the familiars counts or items

[Dimnos]

I think just owning all the familiars counts. I Dont think you have to level them but I could be wrong.

[darkvare]

curses i really don't know what else to do

[stevetothepast]

super mario galaxy 2

[DougClayton4231]

Finally got Neo-Geo VC games to work on my Wii and I've been enjoying Breakers Revenge, which is damn close to being as good as King Of Fighters 98. Any Neo-Geo recommendations?

[Phoenix Gamma]

the Metal Slug games, KoF 98 and 2002...uh...

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

speaking of symphony of the night it got me pissed off i need the 200.6% achievement and i only have 200.4% :\ does leveling the familiars counts or items

I bet I can help you out. I have 200.6 on my PSX save. In the regular castle there is the merman room. Look on your map or let me know if you got the jewel sword from there. In the lower part of the room where the mermen attack from there is a secret room to the left with a jewel sword in it. To unlock the door you have to enter the little cave part in the top half of the merman room. Enter in the left side of the cave as the wolf. Exit out the right side as the bat.

You can also do that in the inverted castle.

[darkvare]

i have that i also have the beryl head thing i used it to beat galamoth i even filled the part on the inverted castle with the wolf and the jumps

[Dimnos]

Have you spent hours going over your map looking for a tiny little gap?

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

might just be a random corner then. Can you take a picture of the castle maps on your game? I know another thing people miss are getting the log data for shaft and dracula. Kill shaft, then attack dracula once and then use a library card.

[darkvare]

ah finally god damn i feel like an idiot it was a small 2 rooms thing i was missing thanks for the help

[Pentegarn]

Why not do the sword brothers trick and get 210%? Or can you not do that on the non PSX versions?

[darkvare]

xbl patch i think it removed it

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

I could never get the damn sword brothers glitch to work. GLAD TO hear you made the 200.6 club darkvare. My caps got locked in the first part of the last sentence and I',m lazy/drunk so I didn't fix it. Congrats though :)

[OxBlood]

I never got the whole castle...always bumbling around at 198-200% Some of the water-pools in the inverted castle just won´t let me fill them in...pisses me off.

[kahljorn]

pissing off is probably your entire problem :(

[DougClayton4231]

Just beat Aria of Sorrow on GBA, it was pretty sweet.

[OxBlood]

pissing off is probably your entire problem :(

If Alucard could fill the things with his half-vampire-piss and it would count towards the 200.6% map, I´d gladly let him ;)

Aria of Sorrow was pretty good, yeah, I think of all the handheld Castlevanias, Order of Ecclesia is my favorite, don´t know why, none of them is as good as Sotn...

[Dimnos]

So have you guys heard of this new multiplayer Castlevania coming to xbla?

[Fathom Zero]

I've seen that and the new Columns-esque Castlevania puzzle game.

[Dimnos]

Is the puzzle one out yet? I keep looking for it but I cant ever find it.

[darkvare]

Is the puzzle one out yet? I keep looking for it but I cant ever find it.nope and is also iphone exclusive >:
so now my ps3 has video editor lol

[Dr. Boogie]

I never got the whole castle...always bumbling around at 198-200% Some of the water-pools in the inverted castle just won´t let me fill them in...pisses me off.

For some of the pools in the inverted cavern, I had to switch to wolf form and use its silly dog paddle to scoot along the ceiling.

[OxBlood]

Oh...Dog paddle, eh? Never thought of that, thanks Doc :)


This new Castlevania on XBL seems to be a pure Bossrush-Game, doesn´t sound very interesting to me but we´ll see.

[darkvare]

Oh...Dog paddle, eh? Never thought of that, thanks Doc :)


This new Castlevania on XBL seems to be a pure Bossrush-Game, doesn´t sound very interesting to me but we´ll see.
i wanna try it cause is multiplayer

[Dr. Boogie]

I'm interested in how the single player aspect will be. For the multiplayer, everything scales up, which means you need to hook up with good players, and not idiot losers like the guy who played the E3 demo before me. That guy sucked.

[darkvare]

when it comes out we can have i-mockery teams

[OxBlood]

I´m gonna take a look too, but I´m just pretty sure it´s not gonna be that good. But I like to be pleasantly suprised so what the heck.

The Dog-Paddle thingy worked really well :) Now I´m up to 199.2%...what the fuck...it´s like trying to find a specific blood vessel in your veins and write a little poem on it...damn my metaphors suck in english...anyway, you get what I mean.

I hate it that XBL updates "sometime" instead of "when something new arrives". I want Puzzle Quest 2 damn it.


Late-Edit:

Okay, so after about 4 hours of Puzzle Quest 2 I come to this conclusion: Good but somehow not as good as the first one. Why? They put in some new elements (Weapons, shields and accessories usable in combat, good idea, giving every class a means to heal in battle and stuff like that) but at the same time they apparently took out the whole castle-building-thing with all it´s possibilities as well as the mounts. You CAN upgrade your weapons but it´s very expensive and you can find the same weapons randomly in chests (good minigame-mechanic btw).

But my main complaint: No random battles. What the fuck. How am I supposed to grind? Quickbattle? Gives me around normal XP but only 30 Gold.

Oh and the game is really luck-based most of the time, the CPU cheats again, though not as much as in Part 1 and the battles are all pretty long and difficult. Somehow feels like playing an RPG where you´re about 5 Levels too low for the region you´re in if you know what I mean.

[DougClayton4231]

Trying out Crackdown 2 today. I'll be sure to tell you if it's worth the investment. (Offline at least :P)

[MattJack]

It aint.

There I saved everyone a lot of trouble.

[Fathom Zero]

http://www.amazon.com/Deathsmiles-Limited-Xbox-360/dp/B003E6VK5Q/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=videogames&qid=1278027704&sr=1-1

Oh shit, Deathsmiles is out.

[Phoenix Gamma]

"Man, why does everyone say Quest 64 sucked?" I said. "I rented it as a kid and thought it was pretty cool. Never beat it since I didn't have a memory card though. Maybe I'll emulate it now and try beating it!"

"Nevermind, this game is horrible. What was I thinking?"

That was pretty much the last hour and a half of my day today. I really want Persona 3 Portable to be out now :(

Also, Super Mario Crossover has a new version if you haven't played it. Tweaked a lot of the old characters, and you've also got Ryu Hyabusa added. Shit rocks.

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

I played quest 64 for an hour trying to figure out how to get out of the courtyard. Bad times.

[darkvare]

i think i actually finished quest 64 it was average

[Pentegarn]

Quest 64 was a blight on humanity

[Phoenix Gamma]

Got Trine during the Steam sale. Man, what a fucking frustrating game. Apparently the developers never got the memo that spawning enemies two feet from the player for minutes on end isn't a fun way to stretch out the length of the game. Especially when the combat isn't very good. Also the physics frustrated me, which isn't good, because 80% of the game involves puzzles. I'm glad I finished it.

Waiting for Persona 3 Portable to come out so I can care about the PSP again.

[Esuohlim]

Playing through Chrono Trigger for I think the third time, but I haven't played it in a long while so I don't really remember a lot of it. Fucking fun as hell, though

[Dimnos]

I hear they will be porting it to iPhone by the end of the year.

[Phoenix Gamma]

Hope not. It'd be pretty hard to use the menus with the touch screen. It was fine on the DS if you moved the HUD to the touch screen, but the iPhone doesn't have enough space, and you have to make commands pretty quickly in CT.

[kahljorn]

there is an option in chronotrigger though to make it passive turn whatever shit

i think anyway

[Phoenix Gamma]

yea, only when you're choosing a target or spell. But when you have three separate menus for three characters running, it'd be pretty easy to fuck up and choose Chrono's attack instead of Marle's Magic or whatever. Unless you made the menus bigger, but then the battlefield would be smaller. It's not like FF1 where you have all the time in the world, and enter commands in a specific order.

Eh, I already have the definitive version on DS. That's all that matters.

[kahljorn]

yea, i guess i was thinking of a different game :( i thought chronotrigger was the one with three time options but that's prolly cause i was like HAHA CHRONO--TIME MUST HAVE LOTS OF TIME OPTIONS ;/

[darkvare]

i finished battletoads cheating of course and found out that level 2 has a warp and that the game lets you drive a little jet

[Phoenix Gamma]

PERSONA 3 PORTABLE!!!:love:love:love:love

The original is one of my favorite RPGs. I'm bummed the presentation took a hit, but the new content and game tweaks definitely makes up for it.

I'm playing as the girl so I can gossip about girl stuff :lol and because I want to see the big changes they made. Supposedly they changed the story for both genders, but playing as the chick changes a lot of the scenarios around. Apparently which genitals you have is important in society or something :rolleyes I wonder if she can date chicks...

Oh, her music isn't as good, though. Too bubbly. The guy's soundtrack is more tolerable, plus he doesn't run in heels, so you don't have to hear those clapping all the time. I did forget how great the voice acting is, though. Really convincing delivery.

[Dimnos]

Hope not. It'd be pretty hard to use the menus with the touch screen. It was fine on the DS if you moved the HUD to the touch screen, but the iPhone doesn't have enough space, and you have to make commands pretty quickly in CT.

They actually did pretty good with the FF ports. I bet they do change it to be more passive and change up the menus to be more touch screen friendly.

[Zomboid]

Crackdown. Man, this game is repetitive, and finding those stupid orbs is annoying.

[kahljorn]

i saw somebody play the demo for crackdown 2 and i dunno. it looked/played like what i would've expected crackdown 1 to look like.

[OxBlood]

PERSONA 3 PORTABLE!!!:love:love:love:love

The original is one of my favorite RPGs. I'm bummed the presentation took a hit, but the new content and game tweaks definitely makes up for it.

I'm playing as the girl so I can gossip about girl stuff :lol and because I want to see the big changes they made. Supposedly they changed the story for both genders, but playing as the chick changes a lot of the scenarios around. Apparently which genitals you have is important in society or something :rolleyes I wonder if she can date chicks...

Oh, her music isn't as good, though. Too bubbly. The guy's soundtrack is more tolerable, plus he doesn't run in heels, so you don't have to hear those clapping all the time. I did forget how great the voice acting is, though. Really convincing delivery.

Didn´t they announce that they would make your Partymembers controllable in battle? That was about the only bad thing about P3 on the PS2...or...wait, could you already control them in the FES-Version? I got it here but never played it after I finished the regular P3...

[DougClayton4231]

Almost finished with Trauma Team and replaying Splinter Cell Conviction on expert. The endoscopy missions on Trauma Team should have been banned, not only for being disgusting, but also for being ridiculously difficult on the higher levels.

[Phoenix Gamma]

FES had better AI, then P4 had the best AI and manual control. Portable is straight up P4's core engine with some of the stuff from the original game, and a few changes. So it's kind of a mix of everything:

-Manual control (P4)
-awesome AI (P4)
-Getting up from being knocked down doesn't end your turn, but getting Dizzy while knocked down is a threat. (P4)
-Additional commands like helping someone up, follow-up attack (P4)
-Navigator tells you enemy weaknesses, not the weaknesses you've already found (P3)
-Three types of physical attacks (P3)
-The best cast of characters (P3 <3)

They change a few other core mechanics. Fusion spells are gone completely; now you get Spell cards ala more traditional SMT games. Getting tired also works differently; you can fight as long as you want, but it seems you won't get tired until you go home. To balance that out, returning to the entrance won't fully heal you anymore (it costs money). Combined spells from the first game are gone like in P4 (Cadenza, the best starting heal spell from Asparas+Orpheus, is now an ITEM, so you can't abuse it anymore). Personally I left the AI on for P4 and P3P because it adds to the role playing aspect of the games, and it makes battles more streamlined. It hasn't let me down yet.

Some other changes were implemented from FES to Portable, like the social links, and donating money at the shrine taking up time now (but now you can WORK at shops now, which ups 1-3 of your personal stats and gets you some cash). Managing equipment is done through the main menu instead of talking to people, and the weapons store doesn't frustrate anymore.

The tweaks definitely make it the best version of the game, even if the presentation took a hit, and the changes to both the original story and the female story give an added incentive to play again.

EDIT: Aw I liked the Endoscopy levels in Trauma Team. Just found it funny that you could turn around and NOT see the endoscope at all :lol My beef with the game was that Forensics took fucking forever!

[DougClayton4231]

Aw I liked the Endoscopy levels in Trauma Team. Just found it funny that you could turn around and NOT see the endoscope at all :lol My beef with the game was that Forensics took fucking forever!

Yeah the forensics was pretty ridiculous, especially the mad bomber levels. I just don't like the controls in the endoscopy levels, it's like they got the wiimote and nunchuck controls backwards.

[Esuohlim]

Does anyone know which is the best SNES Final Fantasy game? And are any of them worth avoiding?

[Seven Force]

Final Fantasy 6 is the best in my opinion.

[Dimnos]

FF6 that was originally sold here in states as FF3 is the best FF game ever.

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

FF6 is the best FF game on SNES. The music is fucking amazing. I'm trying to negotiate my girlfriend into naming our child Locke if its a boy. She's almost settling on it as a middle name at least.

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[stevetothepast]

do not bother with mystic quest, its shit.

I prefer FF2 over FF3.

[Pentegarn]

I think Mystic Quest is worth one play through. Then you can call it quits on that one. It is an intro to RPGs for the SNES in essence, and is worth looking at for mere curiosities sake. Takes a few hours to beat and then you are done forever.

I don't think there is a better between 4 and 6, they both have good story, good play, and good characters.

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

If you get bored try and get a copy of Lufia 2: Rise of the Sinistrials for SNES too.

[Phoenix Gamma]

Does anyone know which is the best SNES Final Fantasy game? And are any of them worth avoiding?

Chrono Trigger addresses my complaints with jRPGs: you can just end conversations mid sentence by walking away. No random battles, so you see who you'll be up against or avoid them if you want. And since battles take place in predetermined locations, there's really no need to grind; the game gives you just the right amount of battles that it's not too easy or hard if you just fight everyone Plus the combat is great. It's worth it to let the time meter stay full for awhile since you can combine other characters' attacks for different effects, as opposed to just picking attack or your strongest spell as soon as the meter fills. Also character location makes a difference, since some attacks move in a line, or in a circle.

It's also got a fun story about time travel, a talking frog knight, a slutty cavewoman, a polite robot, and a parasite that ends civilization in the year 1999. The time travel aspect is explored surprisingly well, too, both in story and gameplay. By the end of the game you get a sweet flying time machine to travel between time periods, solving mysteries linking characters from totally different eras together. It's surprisingly deep for an SNES game from 1995. I think a lot of people don't realize how impressive that game is.

FF6 is pretty cool too, but it's pretty dated in a few ways. It's got the best story in the series, but I think CT improved a lot of it's game mechanics. FF6's story is more dense than CT's even with all the inter-time period relationships and events. CT's story is more fun, for the sake of the gameplay, FF6 keeps the same old gameplay from FF4 and focuses on telling a good story. They compliment each other well and are both stellar, and which one you like more will come down to preference.

Anyone who recommends Secret of Mana has nostalgia goggles on. That game's aged poorly. I don't care for Super Mario RPG since I liked the Paper Mario and Mario & Luigi games one hundred times more, but for whatever reason SMRPG is loved by many, so maybe I just don't get it.

Tales of Phantasia is pretty cool. If you don't know the Tales games, all their combat is in real time, on a 2d side scrolling plane. The stories are usually pretty bland, but the combat's pretty fun. Later entries focus heavily on stringing together combos, though Phantasia still definitely encourages keeping attacks going between all the characters.

And I'm pretty sure most of i-mockery loves Earthbound. It's got some flaws (totally hard and a little unfair at the beginning, fairly easy later on. Figuring out what to do next can be pretty frustrating without a guide, which the game came boxed with.) but it's charming as fuck, and it doesn't involve swords and dragons, so it's got a different feel to it. I think Mother 3 is a lot better, but they're both fun.

[kahljorn]

i think tales of phantasia is like the greatest rpg ever :(

there's also star ocean 1. I really liked lufia 2 also.

[Fathom Zero]

I LIKE ARC THE LAD AND DARK CLOUD

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

Secret of Mana is still fun to play if you play it with a friend. SMRPG is still great. I never played the paper mario games though. I've always wanted to play Star Ocean 1 but never did.

[DougClayton4231]

I just started playing Lufia 1 and Final Fantasy 4 again. I forgot how much fun these old rpgs were.

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

The thing that was really annoying about Lufia 1 was the targetting system during a battle. Example: You are fighting 4 goblins and you select all 4 of your party members to attack the same goblin. The goblin dies after the 2nd party member attacks him. The remaining 2 party members will still attack the blank space where the goblin was instead of attacking the 3 other alive goblins.

During regular battles this isn't so bad but I've spent a long time on a boss battle where you fight the 4 goblins in question. So you would spend a good amount of time trying to kill one of the 4 goblins. Then after attacking the 1st goblin for 6 turns you might kill it on the 1st party members attack sequence and the remaining 3 party members attacks would be useless.

[DougClayton4231]

Yeah, that's true. I don't think I've ever played an RPG like that other than Lufia. The story is kinda cool though. Playing Assassin's Creed 2 and it actually is much less annoying in French than in English. If I spoke Italian, I'd probably play it in that though.

[Fathom Zero]

There are a couple other RPGs like that, not that I can name one at the moment.

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

I've always wanted to play the Wild Arms games because they looked like a spiritual sucessor to the Lufia games.

I played through a good amount of Secret of Mana 2(maybe 3....Seiken Densetsu 3 maybe) on an emulator and it wasn't that great. Would have been fun with more than one person.

[kahljorn]

someone told me one time that mystic quest was supposed to be the secret of mana 1 or 2 or something ;(

the thing i hated most about lufia 1 is when you get to that place where you have to do some shit with fucking towers or something. I couldn't figure it out :(
The first star ocean is hella awesome though.

[Zomboid]

I looooove Final Fantasy 6. Such an awesome game.

[Phoenix Gamma]

Engineer update for TF2 is live! I didn't expect it so soon! The new upgrades look fantastic, especially the Gunslinger.

[darkvare]

i was playing tf 2 and it froze :c

[OxBlood]

FES had better AI, then P4 had the best AI and manual control. Portable is straight up P4's core engine with some of the stuff from the original game, and a few changes. So it's kind of a mix of everything:

-Manual control (P4)
-awesome AI (P4)
-Getting up from being knocked down doesn't end your turn, but getting Dizzy while knocked down is a threat. (P4)
-Additional commands like helping someone up, follow-up attack (P4)
-Navigator tells you enemy weaknesses, not the weaknesses you've already found (P3)
-Three types of physical attacks (P3)
-The best cast of characters (P3 <3)

They change a few other core mechanics. Fusion spells are gone completely; now you get Spell cards ala more traditional SMT games. Getting tired also works differently; you can fight as long as you want, but it seems you won't get tired until you go home. To balance that out, returning to the entrance won't fully heal you anymore (it costs money). Combined spells from the first game are gone like in P4 (Cadenza, the best starting heal spell from Asparas+Orpheus, is now an ITEM, so you can't abuse it anymore). Personally I left the AI on for P4 and P3P because it adds to the role playing aspect of the games, and it makes battles more streamlined. It hasn't let me down yet.

Some other changes were implemented from FES to Portable, like the social links, and donating money at the shrine taking up time now (but now you can WORK at shops now, which ups 1-3 of your personal stats and gets you some cash). Managing equipment is done through the main menu instead of talking to people, and the weapons store doesn't frustrate anymore.

The tweaks definitely make it the best version of the game, even if the presentation took a hit, and the changes to both the original story and the female story give an added incentive to play again.



Downloaded it from the US-PSN this morning (bless Sony for their foreign-fake-account-policy of not giving a shit)

Oh man, does that mean, I can´t abuse...whatever the name of the ultra Fusion spell was that lucifer+? had to oneshot the final boss? That was fucking awesome back then!
That bugs me a litte, the fusion spells were really cool and I absolutely LOVE abusable things like that in RPGs ;) it´s not like P3 was the easiest RPG in the first place, it was freaking brutal at certain spots if I remember correctly...sounds like, it´s even harder now...AND your playing on a timer AND you have to know exactly what to do on each day to maximise your results...man.

Good thing I still have my 300+ Pages of Guides around here somewhere...the things you do for your favorite modern JRPG...

Oh, one question, Episode Aigis is not part of Portable, right?

[Phoenix Gamma]

From what I hear, no, but I saw the Doors of Sands in a trailer, but the male was being played. Which is kinda, you know...impossible. So there's some new content with that that isn't Answer related specifically. And I clarified a few things: spells ARE passed on still, but combo spells between two personas are items now because they were all too amazing. Like Cadenza and stuff. You CAN fuse Personas with specific weapons now, which I don't remember, but haven't tried.

The game's easier now that you don't get tired until the next day. Means you can basically grind forever, which is what being tired was supposed to prevent. Now they charge for healing, but it's not a ripoff like in P4, so you can dungeon crawl for a long time.

EDIT: Oh and I won Destructoid's P3P contest. I'm getting Junpei's hat in the mail :D Second Persona-related contest I won!

[Phoenix Gamma]

Also I got two of the three Engineer updates! Still need 3 or 4 more achievements for the last one, which is the most interesting I think (Wrangler. Lets you manually aim sentries, though they do jack shit by themselves. Replaces pistol.)

The miniturret is pretty interesting, and a few times I found it useful. Like if I need to escape, I'll drop it behind a corner I'm running down and it'll at least slow down the other guy. Plus there were a few times where I ran to a point, dropped an Exit, picked up some scrap, then dropped a minigun and went on my way in seconds flat. That's pretty empowering. But since you can't repair them, it makes their role totally different. I can't figure out how to use them effectively beyond quickly setting up base or shaking off people while I haul ass.

The new shotgun is worth having right now, because everyone's either an Engineer or a spy or demo. So shit explodes. Having those revenge bullets is handy when your sentry's having a hard time staying up (or is a minigun. In which case you'll lose them a LOT and save up revenge bullets).

Moving buildings is pretty fucking ridiculous though. That's a game changer, and the fact that he can do it by default now really opens up strategies that are a little too effective. Like upgrading a sentry in your base, packing it up, teleporting, and planting it someplace way further off without having to camp and wait for an upgrade. If only the Minigun could do it, I'd understand, but regular sentries, dispensers, and teleports can all float around? Matches are really gonna flip flop now.

Also, I'm pissed the guitar is ONLY a taunt, and not an actual weapon. As cool as a mechanical arm is.

The new maps are awesome though. Really fun.

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

someone told me one time that mystic quest was supposed to be the secret of mana 1 or 2 or something ;(

the thing i hated most about lufia 1 is when you get to that place where you have to do some shit with fucking towers or something. I couldn't figure it out :(
The first star ocean is hella awesome though.


Final Fantasy Adventure for the gameboy is like secret of mana 1.

[Zhukov]

I gotMario Galaxy 2, but it's just like the first one. I don't know why I buy these games. I don't know why I expected different.


Uh, the first one was good, but I don't want to buy it and play it again.

[timrpgland]

Final Fantasy Adventure for the gameboy is like secret of mana 1.Yeah. Seiken Densetsu series. FFA is considered the first, SoM the second. I like the 3rd the best. Some of the best music too.

Mystic Quest was called Final Fantasy US cause we were considered "inferior" at the time and didn't get #5.

[Dimnos]

I beat FFA while hiking through the grand canyon.

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

:lol take that nature. Seiken Densetsu 3 just seemed kinda disjointed.

[Dimnos]

I couldnt put it down. I took it mostly for the car ride but once we got there I had to take it with me.

[Esuohlim]

So FF6 Japan = FF3 USA?

Because I've (barely) played FF3 on DS, which I'm guessing is FF3 Japan :\

[Phoenix Gamma]

FF1 = FF1
FF2 = Only released in America later
FF3 = Only released in America on the DS
FF4 = FF2
FF5 = Also released later
FF6 = FF3

The rest are all properly named, and all the first 6 are properly named now thanks to countless remakes.

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

Final Fantasy V was pretty good too. I have it on PSX, not sure if they remade it on the GBA as well.

[darkvare]

i got a key for the medal of honor beta

[kahljorn]

Oh :O i guess final fantasy adventure was called MYSTIC QUESt in europe but it has no relation to final fantasy mystic quest ;/

Seiken Dentsu 3 does seem kind of disjointed at first but i think that's because you get to choose your 3 characters and depending on which characters you choose the scenarios are similar/different. i think its a pretty cool game though, especially once you start changing jobs and such :O

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

It prob would be better with a controller. I was using WASD and the numpad :(

I did play as the thief guy, got to his 2nd job as a ninja I think and started cleaning house.

[Fathom Zero]

I'm so excited to get back home and download the engie update.

[DougClayton4231]

Was Secret Of Evermore a sequel to SoM? And more importantly, was it worth playing?

[kahljorn]

nah i dont think it was a sequel, its a fun game though. better than secret of mana, i think.

[stevetothepast]

nah i dont think it was a sequel, its a fun game though. better than secret of mana, i think.

In my opinion SoM is way better than SoE. I think squaresoft just used the "secret of" title to lure in consumers, and they use the same menu screens and controls.

[stevetothepast]

i got a key for the medal of honor beta


how'd you swing that?

[Phoenix Gamma]

That's the word on the street, at least. Like all those "Xeno" games are aren't related at all. Xenogears, Xenosaga, Xenoblade, the latter of which was renamed near the end of development because the same director had worked on it (and they wanted the association.)

Similarly, no one would have been disappointed in Chrono Cross if it had a different title :P

[darkvare]

how'd you swing that?they are giving them away at fileplanet

[OxBlood]

Wow, played Persona 3 Portable for around 3 hrs yesterday and it was really hard to put down while waiting for the fucking sun to dissappear in the basement (the stupid heat got to my system, headache, nausea, the whole program)...I hate summerdays, oh how I hate them...unnecessary bullshit.

[DougClayton4231]

Assassin's Creed 2 had one of the most unsatisfying endings of any game I've beaten. :(

[Pentegarn]

All the talk about old SNES carts got my nostalgia juices flowing. I went to a place about an hour away and bought 2 old SNES games I owned once but sold. Paladin's Quest and (because it was mentioned) FF Mystic Quest

[OxBlood]

As much as I love my old SNES, I prefer to carry most of the library around on a USB-Stick :D

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

That's the word on the street, at least. Like all those "Xeno" games are aren't related at all. Xenogears, Xenosaga, Xenoblade, the latter of which was renamed near the end of development because the same director had worked on it (and they wanted the association.)

Similarly, no one would have been disappointed in Chrono Cross if it had a different title :P


Xenogears and Xenosaga are related.

[Phoenix Gamma]

On several occasions, developers of Xenosaga, including series creator Tetsuya Takahashi (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetsuya_Takahashi), have maintained the two stories are not meant to exist in the same timeline or universe.

Not really. Just subtle similarities.

[Dimnos]

Phoenix! Im trying to put an SNES emulator on my sons PSP. When I turn on the PSP and go the "Game" section and look at the memory card I can the emulator but when I try to launch it I get an error saying the data is corrupted. I have a feeling you can help.

[Phoenix Gamma]

It won't launch the rom? Or the emulator? What emulator are you using? I've been having the most luck with SNES9x, which worked without any configuration for me. Something might be in the wrong folder, but I'm not sure. dl.qj.net has working downloads, incase you suspect your download really was corrupted.

Also, firmware might be the problem. Some emulators require them to be in GAME150 instead of GAME depending on the firmware, though I'm pretty certain newer custom firmwares don't require GAME150. But definitely give that a shot. I think this only works on fat PSPs with 1.50 kernel installed.

Lastly, make sure you have the newest version of the emulator (dl.qj.net has just about everything), since some were rewritten for newer custom firmwares that don't support 1.50 kernel. If the newest version doesn't work, try updating to newer custom firmware like 5.50 GEN or 5.50 Prometheus.

So yea, it's gotta be one of those three. Corrupted file(s), a misplaced folder somewhere, or your emulator or firmware is outdated.

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

Not really. Just subtle similarities.


They are like Cable and Nathan Summers.

[Dimnos]

Wont launch the emulator. Its the SNES9x that Im using. Although after looking at that site you posted Im not sure I have the latest version. Ill have to get to the house to check though.

[Dr. Boogie]

Tried Crimecraft for a day because it was free. I was kind of liking it until the PvP portion came along. At that point, the tutorial disappeared, and I had to try and figure out where to go from there.

It's odd; you don't get newer, more powerful weapons, per se. You just get weapons with more slots so you can put in different modifiers. There's plenty of skills to choose from, too, but you can only take 2 on at a time, including passive ones.

I finally quit when I realized that nearly all the quests required PvP in specific areas where no one was playing. Plus, I didn't know anyone else playing the game, so I had to pair up with whoever was available.

Sucked.



But now I'm playing The Red Star. It's pretty fun. Like part beat-'em-up, part shooter, and part bullet hell game.

[darkvare]

i had a red star demo for xbox of course soon after the game was cancelled for xbox :(

[Fathom Zero]

Now it's on the PSP, iPhone, and PS2. :)

[DougClayton4231]

Singularity was pretty good, if not a bit old school. The TMD is one of the coolest things in games since the gravity gun in HL2. I need something new to play for 360, can anyone suggest anything?

[OxBlood]

What genre? Can´t help you with shooters, but I´d reccomend Prototype and Just Cause 2 from the open-world-blahblah-genre if you haven´t played them yet.

As for NEW games...is there anything new apart from Crackdown 2 which isn´t new but just a DLC-like sequel?

[DougClayton4231]

I dunno. This month is pretty dry with the exception of SC2. Was Prototype good? I heard that it was a bit like Infamous for the PS3.

[timrpgland]

Similarly, no one would have been disappointed in Chrono Cross if it had a different title :PTechnically they were related as well... remember the "bell scene" in particular?

Secret of Evermore wasn't related to the "Mana" series other than the system it used. US made at least. It's a pretty good game (SoM is better) but I don't think they did a good enough job with the settings... Cool idea and all.

[kahljorn]

lol there's this other chrono trigger themed game too but it was only on the gameboy or some crazy shit. I think that you play magus in it ;/

[OxBlood]

I dunno. This month is pretty dry with the exception of SC2. Was Prototype good? I heard that it was a bit like Infamous for the PS3.

It´s the same genre but plays a little differently.
Prototype is extremely hectic and brutal where Infamous is more relaxed and tame. There´s hardly a quiet moment in Prototype and it is a bit less polished than Infamous but I liked both games a lot. If you can find it cheap or whatever, give it a try.

The main thing in Prototype that CAN get on your nerves is that you´re really hunted by the military AND the infected freaks. Anyone sees you, all hell breaks loose, tanks show up, attack helicopters are on your ass and you gotta get out of there if you want to survive. Sure, you can disguise yourself pretty effectively if you want but the missions force you to venture into the more infected regions of the city and the further you are in the game, the more is infected until the whole city is one giant molloch of violence and screaming and the red shit that infects everything.

Oh, and I liked the story and the way it was told. You get your normal exposition during the missions but you can also work on "the web of intrigue" which is basically you stalking goverment officials and scientists and absorbing them which reveals strange visions of the whole shit that led up to you being in that city and the way you are. And from one guy you get a lead on the next and so forth.

And of then there´s one of the major draws of the game: You are SO fucking powerful in the game later on it´s not even funny. You take out Helicopters and Tanks left and right, you mow through a whole street full of infected with your tentacle-arms, you pound APCs into the ground with your sword-arm before hurling yourself 2 blocks by throwing your giant-fist and shit like that. The feeling of power really came across in Prototype.

Sure, it has some cheap and frustrating missions and the constant pressure can be annoying but all in all: Awesome game.

And...yeah, I guess you can tell I like it :lol

[Dr. Boogie]

It really was a great game, Prototype. The one big complaint that I had was that in the middle of semi-challenging missions were a few ridiculous boss fights where you're getting pounded from every direction all the time.

[DougClayton4231]

Prototype is fun, but the only thing I don't get is why the military wont just bomb the damn city. There's mutants everywhere and a guy in a hoodie who can rape tanks with his bare hands lol. I think that more than warrants a better strategy than "let's stand around idly until some shit pops off."

[Dimnos]

Prototype was one of those games that the more you thought about what was going on the more retarded it became. Infamous was WAY better.

[DougClayton4231]

I'm gonna try and get through Red Dead Redemption again. The controls made me ragequit the last time I played. Might play through Arkham Asylum on Hard again too. I loved that game so much.

[bigtimecow]

over the last two weeks i spent $55 on PSN buying monkey island SE, monkey island 2 SE, the tales of monkey island bundle (chapters 1-5), and just yesterday deathspank. i've beaten MI and MI2 in the past, but god are they glorious in the special editions. control scheme for MI2 is a huge step up from MI. i've beaten tales chapter 1 which was pretty good (the puzzle when you're trapped in singe's lab is great), and am fair enough through MI and MI2

i started deathspank yesterday and i lurrrrve it. great monkey island style humor and conversation trees + mindless hack and slash. quests are pretty retrievey but i don't care, the combat is fun enough

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

I just got Monkey Island 1 over the weekend because I've never played it myself.

[Dimnos]

Never played the new special editions? Or at all?

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

I watched my friend play part of it when I was younger but I've never played through it.

[timrpgland]

You'll have fun with them.

A friend came over the other day and I decided to pop in my SNES cart of Zombies ate my Neighbors for some 2 player action. I was saddened to find that I wasn't having any fun with it anymore.. Didn't hold up for me.. We put in The King of Dragons instead. Even if the arcade version stomps it it's still good on SNES.

Zombies might be going on ebay. :(

[Dr. Boogie]

Prototype is fun, but the only thing I don't get is why the military wont just bomb the damn city. There's mutants everywhere and a guy in a hoodie who can rape tanks with his bare hands lol. I think that more than warrants a better strategy than "let's stand around idly until some shit pops off."

They were tied up with that Blackwatch organization, who were trying to capture both the hero and villain of the story because they're products of their research. Also, they do eventually try to bomb the city in the endgame sequence.

Prototype was one of those games that the more you thought about what was going on the more retarded it became. Infamous was WAY better.

They're both kind of silly in terms of plot. In the case of Infamous, you have questions about how hobos are becoming weaponmasters and creating trash skyscrapers and psychic trash robots, not to mention all the time-travel questions that pop up at the end of the game.

I just enjoyed the gameplay in Prototype more. You had a greater variety of powers, as opposed to the electricity grenade, missile launcher, sniper rifle, etc. You were also a lot more mobile in Prototype, which really comes in handy for moving around a huge city.

[Pentegarn]

You'll have fun with them.

A friend came over the other day and I decided to pop in my SNES cart of Zombies ate my Neighbors for some 2 player action. I was saddened to find that I wasn't having any fun with it anymore.. Didn't hold up for me.. We put in The King of Dragons instead. Even if the arcade version stomps it it's still good on SNES.

Zombies might be going on ebay. :(

King of Dragons was a solid beat em up.

I wish I had invested in a Saturn and the 2 D&D arcade games. They were a lot like King of Dragons

[Phoenix Gamma]

So for about a month, I've been saving items in TF2 in hopes of a new hat. I finally crafted one tonight...

http://tf2wiki.net/w/images/thumb/e/e0/Sniperwithhat.PNG/200px-Sniperwithhat.PNG

It's the same fucking hat, but with teeth on it.
If my math is right, it costs 2 items for a scrap metal, and three scrap metals for a reclaimed metal, so a reclaimed metal is 18 items. Three reclaimed metals makes a refined metal, so that's 54 items for a refined metal. Then three refined metals for a hat, so 162 items total for a hat, correct?

I wasted 162 items on the default hat with teeth.
I am so fucking mad right now.

[Sam]

You'll have fun with them.

A friend came over the other day and I decided to pop in my SNES cart of Zombies ate my Neighbors for some 2 player action. I was saddened to find that I wasn't having any fun with it anymore.. Didn't hold up for me.. We put in The King of Dragons instead. Even if the arcade version stomps it it's still good on SNES.

Zombies might be going on ebay. :(

ZOMBIES MIGHT BE GOING TO SAM. PM ME.

[OxBlood]

Errr...TF2 has items now? Did I miss something? Last time I looked it was a team-based funshooter...but that was back when it was released...


Played about 4-5 hrs of DeathSpank and I really like it. Nice humor (not always but most of the time), fast, simple gameplay, a very relaxing game.

Concerning Infamous vs. Prototype, I think the Plot of Prototype is better, Infamous´ Story is just too bland even with the twist-stuff. Also: The town descends from center of modern civilization to deadly mutant moshpit in a week? I don´t think so.

The concept of Prototype feels a bit more realistic, I mean how many days does the game span...not that many if I remember correctly. Military tries to contain the outbreak, fails and nukes the site from orbit. That´s about what happens over the few days in the game.

[DougClayton4231]

They were tied up with that Blackwatch organization, who were trying to capture both the hero and villain of the story because they're products of their research. Also, they do eventually try to bomb the city in the endgame sequence.



They're both kind of silly in terms of plot. In the case of Infamous, you have questions about how hobos are becoming weaponmasters and creating trash skyscrapers and psychic trash robots, not to mention all the time-travel questions that pop up at the end of the game.

I just enjoyed the gameplay in Prototype more. You had a greater variety of powers, as opposed to the electricity grenade, missile launcher, sniper rifle, etc. You were also a lot more mobile in Prototype, which really comes in handy for moving around a huge city.

lulz, I get upset sometimes when I ask a question like that in a game and then it happens. It's like watching a bad horror movie and predicting the next scene. Prototype is fun because it's like the Hulk mixed with Mr. Fantastic, Wolverine, and there's a bit of Spiderman in there somewhere. Did that make me sound like a nerd? lol

[bigtimecow]

infamous was baller and probably one of my favorite ps3 games. yeah the story is a bit unbelievable, but so is a guy who gets struck my lightning or something and then can... jump off of buildings and not get hurt

but the gameplay is fucktons of fun

[Dimnos]

I liked infamous better because it felt more fleshed out. It felt like you were more a part of the story and not just some super guy running around killing everything. In prototype the guy spends the first half of the game bitching about having super powers and all concerned about a virus he himself released?! I dont know about you guys but I dont play games for their believable stories. If I had to pick what story was more believable I would still have to go with infamous.

[DougClayton4231]

Red Dead Redemption just won't fucking end. I killed Williamson and Esquella, but there is still more genocide left to be committed. Now they want me to shoot endangered species and Native Americans. Haven't they suffered enough?

On another note, I find it hilarious how much hypocrisy there is in RDR. John Marston acts as if he's the good guy, but he is just an assassin with a flimsy cause of reattaining his family. Literally, everyone you meet convinces you to commit multiple acts of homicide based on their poor political philosophies or outright racism within two minutes of meeting you. 12 hours in, I've killed over 800 people and I haven't done any killing outside of missions. How can you have a mass murderer take a moral stance on anything lol?

Dan Houser really needs to give it up, San Andreas was the only marginally good plot that he wrote, and that was filled with shitty dialog and paper thin reasons to kill people as well. Any parent who'd give this game to their child is setting them up for failure.

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

I actually grew disdained with RDR single player after meeting the legendary gunslinger. The rest of the game just felt rushed. I did like the "I know you" stranger though. Hoping the single player add on is good and not garbage like every other DLC I've played.

[DougClayton4231]

Ghost, I killed the last gang member that I was supposed to and now the game has reverted back to being about being a farmer, rather than just fucking ending.

[Dimnos]

Your getting close Doug dont worry. :lol

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

:LOOLOLOL Oh man Doug. I can't wait for your next post.

[Dimnos]

Did any of you guys see that article on Destructoid about the moral implications the end of that game represents? It was quite convoluted and clear the author was looking WAY to into it. You cant help but laugh and think "Dude its just a game! :lol "

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

I actually skipped the opening scenes and the closing scenes. I read about what happens so I didn't bother watching them.

[Dimnos]

So you didnt see... ?

The part where John just walks out of the barn to get gunned down? Dude couldnt even hide out in the barn for cover?! Come on John! >:

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

I got to that part, then skipped to the "after that" part where I can change clothes again. Was kind of in a hurry. Need to go back and watch it.

[Fathom Zero]

The final final part where you kill the guy and get your revengeance was really lame. You killed one guy YEARS AND YEARS later who all but forgot about you and was only marginally responsible for all the shit anyway.

Fucking lame.

[Dimnos]

I felt it wasnt so much about revengeance as it was "Do it or we kill you!".

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

QUOTE "FATHOM ZERO" F LAME. QUOTE


exactly, that's why I skipped most of it.

[kahljorn]

THIS IS A VErY PHILOsTOPHICAL GAME >:

[Dimnos]

Only because the buffalo died. :rolleyes

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

I've tried not to kill any because I tried saving my fellow Buffalo. One did get corpsed and skinned though. :(

[Dimnos]

Man. Fuck those buffalo. If they werent meant to be killed god wouldnt have made their fur so soft and their meat so tasty.

[DougClayton4231]

Wow....just wow. What a shitty ass ending. After 10+ hours of gameplay, the last thing that anyone wants is for the protagonist to commit suicide by US Army rather than flee for his life. Personally, I thought that John was going to make a run for the border. That revolutionary asshole said that he could have his own personal asylum down there whenever he wanted. It's like if Rambo surrendered to the Vietnamese army in #2 rather than trying to fight his way out. I'm just fucking mad now.

[kahljorn]

i stopped playing single player before i had to kill dutch or something :(

[OxBlood]

The ending was a bit of a letdown, especially the "epilogue" for reasons you all know well enough :D

But the real lowpoint of Red Dead for me was Mexico. The plot just takes a 15 hour break or something and just assumes you´re still there when it decides to come back.

That and I fucking hate the desert. As a concept, as a place, you name it. Even Videogame-Deserts make me feel uneasy, so I guess I really don´t like it...

Can´t really decide what to play now, finished Ghostbusters (360) a few days ago...good think I just got it from a friend over the weekend, pretty boring game even with all the nice atmosphere.

I was also urged to play Zone of the Enders 2 since I never played that (finished the first one when it came out though)...and...I kind of hate it. Boring gameplay, stupid story, unlikable characters I almost thought I was playing an Armored Core-Game with all the senseless boosting and shit...I don´t know if it´s me or the game and I honestly don´t really care.

Been thinking about givin Blacklight a shot, but the feedback from other people was not really that enthusiastic, despite the rather good ratings...good thing there´s a Demo.

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

Man. Fuck those buffalo. If they werent meant to be killed god wouldnt have made their fur so soft and their meat so tasty.

>: I am no so soft and my meat is not so tasty.

Wow....just wow. What a shitty ass ending. After 10+ hours of gameplay, the last thing that anyone wants is for the protagonist to commit suicide by US Army rather than flee for his life. Personally, I thought that John was going to make a run for the border. That revolutionary asshole said that he could have his own personal asylum down there whenever he wanted. It's like if Rambo surrendered to the Vietnamese army in #2 rather than trying to fight his way out. I'm just fucking mad now.

:lol Bad times

i stopped playing single player before i had to kill dutch or something :(

That's where I should have stopped but I wanted to XBLOX LiVE Pointers.

The ending was a bit of a letdown, especially the "epilogue" for reasons you all know well enough :D

But the real lowpoint of Red Dead for me was Mexico. The plot just takes a 15 hour break or something and just assumes you´re still there when it decides to come back.

That and I fucking hate the desert. As a concept, as a place, you name it. Even Videogame-Deserts make me feel uneasy, so I guess I really don´t like it...



That's where I got annoyed with it too. I usually love the desert levels the best in videogames. It's the water temples/levels I hate.

[Zomboid]

Overall, I enjoyed single player, but that ending was definitely a bit disappointing. I think the idea was that by doing what he did, they'd finally leave his family alone, but I don't think that came across very well.

Also, I think the "years later" revenge should have been more a bigger deal but I think it fits well with the western theme.

Still, I put in over 5 days of play time, and that was before I started multiplayer.

[DougClayton4231]

I guess I'm going to start FFXIII today....sigh.....

I know that it's going to suck, but I have nothing else to do to kill time until mid-August.

At least SC2 comes out in a week.

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

I guess I'm going to start FFXIII today....sigh.....

I know that it's going to suck, but I have nothing else to do to kill time until mid-August.

At least SC2 comes out in a week.


XIII is pretty fun to play. I need to finish it though. AND SOUL CALIBUR 2 CAME OUT YEEEEEAAAAARRRRSSSSS AGO.

[Dimnos]

I dont know what you guys are crying about Mexico was the best part. Of course I spent most of my time there drunk playing liars dice. :\

[Fathom Zero]

AND SOUL CALIBUR 2 CAME OUT YEEEEEAAAAARRRRSSSSS AGO.

I was gonna say that. >:

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

I dont know what you guys are crying about Mexico was the best part. Of course I spent most of my time there drunk playing liars dice. :\

In one of the DLC's coming out you can play liars dice in multi. I know what we're doing.

I was gonna say that. >:

:SORRYDYLAN

sadface

[Dimnos]

Yeah I heard about being able to play the liars dice in multi. Thats going to kick ass. What about the other games? Can we play hold em in multi?

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

Pretty sure horseshoes, hopefully poker too. I would have to think they would need some kind of online currency or something then though.

[Fathom Zero]

Horseshoes is stupid. It's stupid in real life, too. >:

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

You just have to know the twist.

[Dimnos]

The gay twist?

[Fathom Zero]

And it all comes back to glory holes.