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the first one is a pretty solid game. has puzzle elements and perhaps even the tinyiest hint of rpg style in it. there are certain weapons that are not effective against some enemies and vice versa. i thought the visuals were nice, but hey like uzim said. |
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still playing metroid prime 2 if anyone has payed attention to my posts in this thread, you'll see i'm a bit of a percentage nut. well, i'm about 27 hours into the game with 92% scans and 77% items (and game completion i think) obviously, i'm going for 100. i've kept my online reference (gamefaqs) to a bare minimum. i think i'll get something like 98 or 99 then freak out and never touch the game again |
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I don't know, it's just not my kind of thing, the gameplay and the graphics. I bought "far cry". I'm a bit disappointed in the graphics, every review raves about how INCREDIBLE the visuals are and it just looks okay to me. haven't played much, so maybe it kicks in after a little while. also playing "Clive Barker's Undying" - game from 2001, built on the good old Unreal engine. it looks incredibly dated but FUCK am I enjoying that one! nice story and good sounddesign - good sounddesign makes up for a lot, I now find. in the last weeks I've also replayed "Half-life 2" with all the graphics pumped up (first time, on a different comp was with everything on lowlowlow) - it still is one of the most visually dazzling games to me. it's not so much the lighting, but the very design of the characters and the world itself, I think. and yet again - the sounddesign in HL2 is just superb. |
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kagero: deception II. old game, but very fun! |
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I'm getting more and more into Far Cry. fuck this game is hard! |
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katamari damacy i couldn't wait for the sequel |
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metroid prime... loving it |
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PC: X-COM: UFO Defense/ UFO: Enemy Unkown Half-Life 2 Doukutsu Monogatari GBA: Metroid Zero Mission |
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HL2 is, yes, excellent. one of the best games I have ever played. |
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HOLY SHIT XCOM YOU ARE MY HERO BEST GAME EVER (just about) |
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is the GBA metroid game as good as the super famicom version? how are you possibly playing the xcom games i couldnt get those to run if i tried |
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There are actually two GBA Metroid games including the one I mentioned and Metroid Fusion. I think Super Metroid may have been better though. Zero Mission is basically a super enhanced remaster of the original NES Metroid. As for XCOM, go to grab it. It runs off of Win98/2000/ME/XP, though if you're using a flat screen monitor the screen is black. There should be a patch somewhere in their discussion you can download for that though. |
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yeah metroid prime is great! it you loved it you must try also metroid prime 2 echoes. |
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Silpheed: The Lost Planet on PS2 i went searching at a couple game stores today for shooter games (the old school flight kinds) i looked for r-type final, gradius v, gradius III and IV, and ikaruga. came up empty every place i looked. i did spot the above mentioned game though for 10 dollars, and i noticed the design company (treasure) had done work on many past shooters, including two of the games i was looking for. i'm playing it now and it's so so. about a 6 / 10 but i'm a bit more satisfied than that because i was really in the mood for this style game. it's lacking in-game upgrades (health and weapons), has a very repetitive format to the gameplay, and lacks any saving progress or password feature. on the plus side, it has a nice rise in difficulty as levels go on. |
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Cool. I got the Sega CD version of Silpheed off of Emule a while ago, pretty stylish, I love simplistic polygon fakery for some reason. I've been thinking of buying the PS2 Silpheed from Blockbuster, it's cheap. Is the music any good? If yes, I'll buy it, if no, I... might not buy it. |
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i plan to get echoes once i beat prime, im pretty close to the end but school has just started :( on pachi saying that the gba metroid was an upgrade, i went and bought it and i am close to beating it also. its easier to play than prime, but not so easy at the same time. lotta frustrations are there any gunstar heroes fans here? a remake is being done for the GBA and is coming out in october. fucking cant wait for that. i love the GBA so much. |
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also from the makers of xcom theres a tactical strategy game also being released for the GBA called Rebelstar. seems to resemble advanced wars. i will be getting that too once it comes out next week... i love advanced wars but can never find anyone to play. advanced wars is like GO to me for some reason, its sorta rock-paper-scissors at times but has lots of good balance in which you can always have a good opportunity to win. TOO MANY GAMES! |
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Battlefield 2 and SWAT 4 are the only games worth playing at the moment and the foreseeable future |
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augh those squad-based shooters are sucky in my opinion man. teammates never listen to you; they're all out and its just team-based deathmatch really. if that's the case then why dont you just play deathmatch? more opponents that way. |
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i finished Super Monkey Ball 2. all 150 levels. done. with master and master ex done in a single continue. yes. : ) |
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About Super Monkey Ball: |
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It's comfy feeling when you've got someone with you in a game, fighting alongside you. It just... is. [sings]co-operation... working togeeeetherrr[/sings] |
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in reply to ophecks: the silpheed soundtrack is pretty weak imo. i've concluded that the whole game is pretty weak and i traded it in. in reply to anyone who wants to know what videogames i am playing now: i found ikaruga in the town i used to live in. it's an awesome game and i have yet to beat it. i also traded in a bunch of games i didn't play at all and got bombastic (devil dice 2) and suikoden III for ps2. and some credit left over as well. bombastic is a great little puzzle game and suikoden i'm gonna wait for a rainy day or something to start heavily. i also bought OPM (official playstion magazine) solely for the demo of shadow of the colossus, which is incredible. |
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Playing Mario Baseball. Pretty damn fun, especially once you get your characters powered up. Also Advance Wars DS. Really cool game. First in the series that I've played. Seems hard but I like hard games. Next game Castlevania DS. And SSX On Tour. |
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i picked up a ds for the bus rides to toronto but ended up playing advance wars obsessively at home. i'm now letting the system rot in a corner while i catch up on my reading, that is of course until castlevania ds. |
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Well, I'm currently playing to Tekken 5 for ps2. I have all episodes of it, I have also the original and first Tekken on ps1 (Japanese version). In this episode there are special features, never been on others Tekkens, you can edit all personages, changing thier dressed; then you can also play to old Tekken on ps2 (Tekken 1, Tekken 2 and Tekken 3). Anyway I always liked the series, I love this new episode too, my favourite personages are: King, Kazuya and Jin Kazama. Nice game, recommended for all people who love fighting games, anyway my favourite fighting game will be always Soul Calibour. |
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Finaly, after half a year I finished playing Doom 3. I was terrified during the first half and played only a couple of minutes a day. Recently I had to start my master's thesis at the university, so I returned to the game and finished the rest in 3 days. The final boss was so goddamn easy and the skeletor with homing missles on his shoulder's looked so stupid that I wouldn't give this game a 10/10. How can you fear an enemy who looks like it was thought up by a 5-year-old. But I had my fair share of terror, thank you id Software. |
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I'm in the process of playing Minesweeper it's so... boring. |
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Don't play too long. I had nightmares about minesweeper. I would wake up all sweaty because the eyes of the happy face once again changed into crosses. |
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Replaying Thief 3 for like the 3rd time. Not a lot of games I'm interested in right now, I'm just counting the days until Xbox360 and Perfect Dark Zero and Ghost Recon 360 or whatever they're calling it. |
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been playing F.E.A.R. since yesterday. the singleplayer demo made me go "meh" but then I read the raving reviews so I thought "what the hell" and blew 50 euros on a game. damn it. anyway, it's excellent lol. I'm normally not the guy for 'special moves' but this game has me doing them. you can do a slidekick if you hit forward, right mouse button and crouch at the same time (which still means I go "ehhh", staring at my keyboard while I try to figure out how to pull it off), all in first person, which looks great. even better is a bicycle kick which has you flying through the air and kicking someone in the face. like I said, I normally can't be bothered doing those kind of moves, but here I've even done a few bicycle kicks out of sheer panic, even done them in 'slo-mo', the games name for bullet time. great thing about these kicks is that it just looks great while you're doing them and feels even better. I must say F.E.A.R. also has the best implementation of bullet time I have experienced thus far - probably because of all the particle shit - it's amazing to see particles spray from walls while your bullets slam into them, or even how the blood sprays from your enemies. the visuals are great, even though I run it at minimal specs. but the sound is the real winner. I'm not too convinced by the horror aspect - it's quite prevalent in the first parts of the game but it almost seems like the designers kind of forget about it later on. hopefully it'll return though. that said, I do agree with some reviews I've read - you need to play this one in the dark. it doesn't work as well with daylight around you. and yes, the AI is pretty amazing, not to say nasty at times. it really gives you a slight high when you're able to defeat 12 opponents in a quick but spectacular manner, even when using slo-mo (which does make it easier ofcourse). haven't tried out multiplayer yet, so can't say anything about that. |
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Thief 2 and Thief 3 are excellent. I thought T:DS also had an excellent (electronic) soundtrack which, if you're interested, Sum Yung Guy has ripped and . |
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excellent. |
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fellow canadians, there's an excellent sale at toys r us where games are FIFTEEN DOLLARS. it started yesterday and ends on friday. yesterday i picked up the excellent meteos for my ds for only FIFTEEN DOLLARS. they also have games like the excellent metal gear solid 3 for only FIFTEEN DOLLARS. but i think the best deals are with the psp and ds games. some of them are shown they're all sold out online but it's also an in store promotion anyway. get down while you can since this bizarre yet excellent sale is going to bring out the hounds. from what i hear it already has. anyone want to snag me kirby's canvas curse or nintendogs? i won't be anywhere near a commercial area for a week while i'm in toronto and can't afford to spend any more cash this week anyway. :\ |
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Burnout Revenge: really fun game (if you remove some awful songs from the playlist). KOF '02: good old school fighting! : ) my main characters: Mai, Kula, Angel, K', Vice, Ryo, Andy... sometimes Leona, Shermie, etc. (they should just have made better drawings for the characters in the character selector screen... Mai and Vanessa are really ugly in this.) i used to take Yuri in the older versions too but i'm kind of disoriented with her changed moves... |
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Shadow of the Colossus oh yes. I'm about 4 and a half hours and 10 (out of 16) colossi done. It's a bit short, I'm afraid. In all fairness, I had the demo so the first colossus took only a few minutes. And I basically follow the light of the sword and look for the next colossus, so I'm not really exploring much. I really don't think there is anything to explore for anyway. Sure, the game is huge, but there isn't anything to gain from riding around on the horse while not going to a sequential part of the game. I still love it though. And from what I've read on gamefaqs, on the messageboard section, there are some replay additives once you beat the game. |
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I just finished F.E.A.R.. It's very short. Only a few hours of play and I don't concider myself an experienced gamer yet. I must say that generally I'm not very impressed. Like qrter said, it has a great implemetation of bullet-time/slo-mo which makes the battles one of the (if not the) most spectacular in history, but it lacks in almost every other department. The graphics engine is very good. Very realistic smoke effects, particles and stuff. It runs pretty smooth in 800x600 with all details even on my dated system (Rad9600Pro and AMD2500+). This said, I must say that the engine's power was completely wasted. Unless you are in a middle of a fight the lack of environmental detail is shocking. The dull interiors look no better than in Max Payne, and like in Max Payne, you see a very limited set of furniture and equipment which is often nonsensically scattered in the rooms. The labirynthine interiors are also an oddity. It looks like if the main goal of the architects was to make it harder for the regular office Joe to get out of work. I'm also very dissapointed by the horror aspect. It's like in a very cliched Japanese film. You have: a skinny naked brunnete with extremely long hair (Ringu), the same girl in the innocent incarnation ("A Tale of Two Sisters") some robo-guys... Bleh. I could work if they were consistent with the design. But the action is so intence and you move so fast that when you stumble upon a horror sequence, you just get distracted and irritated instead of scared. The programmers didn't do a good job with event triggering either. I often didn't notice what was supposed to be scary because I was faced the other way. No Doom 3, I tell ya. On the other hand, the AI makes a very good use of multiple ways of getting from one place to another and the enemies often attack you from behind in the middle of a fight. Hmm, I didn't want to write a review, but this game was a serious let down for me and it sort off erote itself. Now, let's hope thing |
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Fuck I don't have a Toys R Us handy. Sometimes I hate living on the edge of the universe. Gonna rent Shadow of the Colossus this weekend hopefully... I'm too broke to be playing many games lately. |
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I have to agree on the length of the game. I normally take quite a while to play a game, and I finished this one in a weekend. Half-Life 2 took me about 2 weeks, at the about the same frequency of play. and that immediately leads to another point I agree on - the interiors used get boring very quickly. that was so incredible about HL2 to me - I spent a LOT of time just looking around, watching the beautiful design. I can't see how you could've been disappointed by the horror aspect if you had played the single player demo. it was immediately apparent that this part would be a big cliched rip off. I do however agree that the pacing was shit. like I said before, it felt like the designers forgot about the horror stuff and it would suddenly disappear for levels on levels. however, some of the creepiest parts were ofcourse the stretches where nothing happened - you wandering around in deserted offices. the great thing about the game were the firefights. the word "kinetic" seems very apt - I haven't seen as lively firefights like this in ages. this is truly were the game scores - it might seem like a small thing, but it's just great. I also especially liked how the enemy would curse - this may sound quite silly, but it was actually refreshing to hear the enemy scream "SHIT!" and "FUCK!" when I would come round a corner, guns-a-blazin'. the story wasn't great, and already an add-on has been announced, for the autumn of 2006, directly moving on from the ending of the game. |
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oh and now playing: Planescape: Torment.. |
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god of war its has really intense good fighting/action and the graphics is superb.i really enjoy it |
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tales of symphonia |
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finished Paper Mario - The Thousand Year Door. i liked it very much. : ) actually it's the first rpg (or rpg-like) game in which the fights doesn't annoy me, and it has a much better ambiance than Mario Sunshine... |
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Nuthin', waiting 'till the 22nd... Xbox 360 lands and I just found out it'll play (most) Xbox games upscaled to 720p with anti-aliasing. Totally wicked. I guess Perfect Dark Zero is out on launch, that's next in line for me. Then a replaying of certain Xbox 1 games in HD. |
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i'm about 70 hours into suikoden III (ps2) and i think i hate it. maybe i just hate all rpgs. if anyone has played this, is it like most rpgs? the only one's i've played were evolution on dc (i know this isn't a good one), paper mario - the thousand year door (good but not exactly challenging or long) and skies of arcadia legends which i found to be pretty good although nothing groundbreaking. i'm really trying to like rpgs... |
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the warriors on xbox - a great bit of ultra violence for when im on the scag. |
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i'm really trying to like rpgs... I believe you. 70 hours playing a game you think you hate? I used to play a lot of RPGs but I haven't played many this gen, I'm just not a big fan of them anymore. Actually I loved Final Fantasy X-2, I thought it was sexy and spunky and had a rad soundtrack. Kingdom Hearts is awesome too. |
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Just playing some Star Wars Battlefront II online (PAL edition) and I'm owning everyone! |
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mario 3 on my ds. my favourite levels are the ones that scroll automatically -- i wish they were much longer. |
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Playing Animal Crossin gDS, I never thought I'd like a game like this but I'm addicted, and Mario Kart DS. Both really fun games. |
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