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It is a wild ride. I loved the mission in Chernobyl with the camouflage sniper suit and scripted stealth. I want to play a whole game milking that concept. I got God of War- Chains of Olympus for PSP. It's the usual GoW game, nice to play an action game that's polished, fat-free and consistently fun, refreshing after the awkwardly designed DMC3 and No More Heroes. It still has naked slave women to have sex with and the graphics are too awesome for a handheld, that ends up feeling like a flaw in the end... too many PSP games would be better experienced on a console. Also Army of Two which I bought on impulse... the presentation is insultingly stupid in typical EA style, but the game is FUN. The 3rd-person stop-and-pop co-op shooter genre always seems to be. I love getting my teammate to draw enemy fire while I sneak around behind them to put a slug in the back of their skull. I don't know how I played shooters before cover and stealth were implemented. |
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I guess that's why I found Unreal Tournament 3 so damn boring. I can't be satisfied with straight-forward shooting anymore. I'm just a fucking stealth junkie. |
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final fantasy ix: awesome as always. uncharted: decent so far mass effect: meh, I dunno. sometimes awesome, sometimes shit. ratchet 3: pwness! |
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yes! that Chernobyl mission was my favourite, too, together with the insanely realistic looking bombing mission: just press a button and kill lots of people, that really sent chills down my spine. Overall the scripted sequences in the game were insanely gripping, and the constant feeling of chaos and unpredictability made it seem all the more realistic. |
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hahaa, I just beat the last two songs on the original Guitar Hero on expert difficulty, Pantera's "Cowboys From Hell" and Ozzy's "Bark at the Moon". Those were outrageously difficult, especially Cowboys from Hell, even though GH2 and the later games in the series are generally more difficult. Still, damn rewarding in the end. Man, they should do like a Keyboard Hero next! You could have sort of a midi keyboard and you'd play all the great keyboard/piano pieces of recorded history - say, from Jarre to Chopin... I can't believe it hasn't been done yet! It could work either as a game or as a teaching tool, or both. |
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OMG! there's a new mgs collection! and it's piss cheap! and i don't have substance or subsistence. but it's not released in PAL!! :( :( :( |
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Metroid Prime 3: Corruption |
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Even though I own every version of MGS multiple times, I'll have to get that because it's just that awesome. BTW Subsistence owns Snake Eater soooooo hard. |
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The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay It was the PC version, I finished it last night. A masterpiece! It may not be as innovative or groundbreaking as the games it "borrows" from (Half Life, Deus Ex, Thief, AvP etc), but it is ingeniously crafted and almost without flaw as far as implementation, design and variety are concerned. And it even manages to improve on a number of areas: hand-to-hand combat, sidequests and exploration, night-vision mode, enemy A.I., level design... If only it weren't as short as it is. Even the PC-only additions don't hide the fact that the game ends quickly. Still, I'm willing to call it a must-own FPS game regardless of whether you've heard anything about it or not, and certainly the movie license shouldn't put you off (it's probably better than the movie, anyway). It's one of those games that's easy to dismiss, and easier to miss. But this game has the "wow" factor of Half Life 2 and Deus Ex and offers an incredibly streamlined game-play experience. One of the best FPS games of all time. Next up: Gears of War (PC) |
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because of the camera? i know i pretty much said it earlier, but why wouldn't they release such an awesome in pal :(:(:( |
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Yes. The old camera doesn't do the beautiful environments in MGS3 any justice at all. The gameplay is naturally better too, less disruption from having to unintuitively stop in your tracks just to see what's 20 feet ahead of you. I hated the MGS camera even in 1998. Bob- sweet, Riddick is indeed a near masterpiece, a rarity for modern movie-licensed games. I'd love to play it again but I have the Xbox version and it won't work on the 360. And I can't find my original XBox controller. Fuck. I'm playing Final Fantasy 7- Crisis Core, yet another beautiful PSP game I'd rather be playing on PS2. This game is just pure fanservice, and since I haven't succumbed to the recent FF7 hater-brigade, I'm enjoying it. The battles are enjoyable, the nostalgia is strong, and there's lots of remixes of the great FF7 tunes. An FF spinoff done right. Also Rainbow Six Vegas 2, which is a glorified expansion pack. The gameplay is great, actually better because of the sprint, but 60 bucks for this, I feel stung. |
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I thought a while whether I should call it a "near-masterpiece" but I decided to drop the prefix because I just had so much fun with it, it reminded me of the pleasure I had with the original Deus Ex (which, to be sure, is an ultimately greater game). But if you want to play it again, you should try the PC version because there's a whole new section in the middle of the game exclusive for the PC, and a real fun commentary mode - plus, it looks AWESOME even by today's high standards. ----Newsflash! They're apparently "remaking" the game as "The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena" for the X-Box 360 and PS3 (source: IGN) with some new features, so maybe that's your key. Interesting. Now I wish they'd make a sequel. Also looking forward to Crisis Core. |
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the collector's edition only comes with the 1st disc of subsistence :( meaning no NES and MSX metal gear games |
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Yeah, that sucks... and thus of course it also lacks the hilarious blooper/joke videos, though I guess anybody could look them up on youtube if they wanted. I bought the set today, for... some reason... I already have all the games. It was only 29 bucks and the huge, commanding METAL GEAR SOLID text on the side of the box looks cool in my collection. That's worth the price by itself. Also bought Resident Evil Outbreak File #2 for 5 bucks used because it was there. I really liked the first game. The online was interesting, won't be able to play this online but hopefully it should be a good slice of classic RE in the single player. Might be a while before I get to play it. Finally, Condemned 2 for PS3, which is a great game. Also I think the first first-person game to ever to give me motion sickness. The action is the same as C1, I guess it's the really convincing motion blur that mindfucks me. The combat and forensic stuff isn't much different than the original, but who gives a fuck, they're still solid and I'm here for the atmopshere and the environments anyway. They both wail. |
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I really don't see the point of remaking that game at all. It hasn't aged a bit. The gameplay was forward-thinking and the game looks great even now. Inexplicable. Have you ever played The Darkness? Also by Starbreeze, I thought it was really good, these guys do great work with licenses, I wish they'd tackle something else. |
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"Mirror-edge" looks promising. About time they changed the first-person-format. |
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Noticed just now, there's no in-game footage. Ah, well... |
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Could be cool, or it could really suck. Assassin's Creed already pretty much nailed the parkour thing, it's hard to imagine pulling that deft running/jumping stuff off in first-person without a high degree of clumsiness and disorientation. But I'm more than willing to try it, hope they pull it off. I got Dark Sector for PS3, probably the last game I'll buy before GTA4, my backlog is big now. Lukewarm reviews but now I pretty much just base my purchases on GAF threads. The gameplay is second tier compared to Gears/Uncharted, but the huge super-boomering thing is fun to decapitate/dismember people with, a fun enough gimmick to differentiate the game from the other 3rd person shooters. The game also looks amazing. More than gameplay, more than story, I like some good RAIN in my games. This game has good RAIN. Lapping against everything. Making stuff wet. Raining. Moody rain. |
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Metroid Zero Mission |
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I've always wanted to try an FPS where the character has a physical body, and not just a floating head in mid-air. In that clip, they mention that your character has a spine, and builds up a momentum when the character runs. One thing that has been bothering me is that every time you hold a gun or weapon of some kind, you always have to see it in-screen. I remember playing MGS2 for the first time, when I noticed that Snake actually points downwards with his weapon, and raises it when you aim. Apparantly you shouldn't hold a weapon up like James Bond, since there is the possibility that you might shoot yourself in the head (I suppose). Similarly in third person-games I've always been interesting in having the characters interacting with the environment more. For instance if you run head on into a wall, you don't just simply stop; either you (should) slam into it, or perhaps the character protects itself by raising its hands. Also, running around corners ought to make the character slip on the floor, depending on the angle. Subtle details like that could add alot more presence to a game. You'd have to care more of what the character is doing (in the present), apart from where you're heading (in the future). Interaction is the new revolution. |
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*I've always been interest-ED |
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*in having the characters interact ah, well. |
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Anyone playing Gran Turismo 5 Prologue? |
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i haven't played the original mgs since i was a young teenager, so i guess i never realised how hilariously over-the-top macho this game is. i suppose all the games are. it's so bloody awesome! |
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Optimus, you should go to Youtube and check out some clips from the Gamecube-version of MGS: Twin Snakes. I find the action there a little too over-the-top for my tastes, but the original to the PSX is like an excellent Hollywood-film interpreted by a japanese mind. |
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June 5th I'm gonna open up that box and have a glorious run through all the games, then on the 12th I'm going to beat MGS4 in one sitting, then kill myself. |
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Wait, no. I'm gonna try Metal Gear Online first. If I like it more than Warhawk maybe I'll stick around. |
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i honestly wasn't expecting the first metal gear solid to hold up this well. i go more for style than the actual technical aspects of graphics, so the graphics in this game are still a joy for me to look at. the gameplay is still mighty fun as well, though i miss being able to shoot in first person. i wish david hayter didn't alter his voice so much for the other games. |
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oh, my fiancee actually met david hayter at her university, where he was a guest speaker at one of her classes. i'm extremely jealous but she says he was just a typical comic book nerd, albeit one with cool stories about people like alan moore. |
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Shadow Moses will always feel and look awesome, that game oozes atmosphere. Twin Snakes totally failed to capture it, even with the ''facelift''. |
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Is the soundtrack the same to Twin Snakes (with updated sounds) or is an entirely new soundtrack? |
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the goddamn torture sequence is destroying my arm. i'm going to have triceps by the time i actually get past it, and i'm only playing on normal. |
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lemmings on atari st and yoshi's island on super nes/super famicom |
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I'm playing again and I hate it so much, in a way that makes me love it. |
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Entirely new, that's another strike against it. It's more generic-techno-ish, not nearly as dramatic or distinctive. Which is weird because it's by Norihiko Hibino, who does such an awesome job in MGS2 and 3. |
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Ophecks, you seem to be a fellow admirer of the MGS-series. What is your opinion on this? It has been posted in the youtube-thread already, but any fan ought to find it interesting. Hideo Kojima seems unsure on how to react, as well (he keeps flipping that cd case). |
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Can't wait for Mario Kart Wii. |
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finished mgs1 last night and started on mgs2 today. nearly everything about it is still impressive. i've already spent about half an hour just playing around with the guards, when i was expecting to just rush through the game. the only thing that i don't like about mgs2 -- and this is something i've disliked about it since the very first time i saw the game -- is that all the character models look like thunderbirds puppets to me. that one aspect makes mgs2 feel more dated than mgs1 for me. |
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Haha, yeah, I saw that. The similarity is impossible to ignore. The structures are the same and there's note-for-note quotes in each section of each song, not just one isolated riff. And the MGS tune hasn't been heard in any of the MGS4 trailers, and was edited out of some recent music collection. It would suck if they couldn't use it for MGS4. I'm sure Kojima had no idea, and the composer of the MGS theme hasn't been involved with the series since MGS1. Anyway, I'm loving Condemned 2. I just got to a history museum, and I'm sneaking around avoiding security guards and engaging in sword duels with crazy looters in medieval armor. Man, it almost feels like a Thief game at the moment. But every time I save a security guard from a mob of psychos, the guard starts attacking me. WTF dudes. |
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I just finished BioShock and I wish I had killed all the little sisters. Jesus, that ending was terrible. So I save the little girls and they grow up, get an education, marry and have children and gather round my deathbed. How fucking bourgeois. The game itself is okay, pretty fun at times, but it's still fairly mundane. I wish there were more moments like the end boss, that was cool. I'm glad the game doesn't take itself seriously, if you forget that horrible ending. It has revived my hope in modern FPS a little bit. I mean, at least it's better than fucking S.T.A.L.K.E.R., which is clearly the worst, most painful and humourless game ever made. I fucking hate you, STALKER, you're my enemy. |
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I just played five minutes of and it had more fun and joy than BioShock in its entirety. Plus the music is extremely awesome. |
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beeing a latefag i'm getting an x360 next week, and i was just wondering if ikaruga had been released on xbla? |
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anyone got the new COD4 maps yet? -i'm probably going to get mine later on today. i was reading about how we're in a new golden era of gaming. i think that we are. there's been some incredible games recently on a variety of different machines. i think the new gta is going to be something special. |
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Nostalgia aside, every successive gaming era is a golden era. Anyway I've decided I don't like Crisis Core that much. I think. I thought I'd get a nice big party eventually, but the game remained some sort of hack-n-slash thing. It also has a ridiculous ''limit-break'' system that I can't wrap my head around. The story is supposed to pick up later. The game also reminds me how much I actually miss those PS1-era pre-rendered backgrounds. They were pretty limited in some ways but packed with more fine details than these PS2/P engines can muster. I hope the PS3 can bring the best of both worlds... FF7-8-9 detail in full 3D. Now I'm playing Timesplitters Future Perfect which I picked up for 2.50, been in my PS2 backlog for years. Surprisingly great, wonder why I waited... Free Radical made some cleverly designed, charming FPS games, so it's funny how the entire gaming world is hating on Haze at the moment. |
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Played through the old Blade Runner adventure game this weekend since I hadn't played it in a couple of years now and it still kicks ass. |
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it wasn't on last time i checked but i think it's due soon. |
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ok, a bit behind with this one, but just got ff7 off a friend yesterday. tried playing it on my computer except couldnt get the settings right to get the framerate and all that right, so i might just play it on the playstation. |
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I've tried playing God of War on the PC, but first it didn't work at all, then an update almost killed its framerate... Even while it works, it's buggy as hell, not to mention requiring of dubious Microsoft spyware installation. I might just skip this one and try the X-Box version when I get the chance. Seemed alright. Next up: ?? I have no idea, Bioshock won't work on my computer, Halo 2 requires Vista... I might start Orange Box for the Half Life 2 experience. |
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god of war is ps2 only isnt it? howd you even get a buggy version on the computer? |
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