02-03-2012, 08:00 PM | #26 |
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Bought Warhammer 40k: Spees Mehreen
My only regret is having watched this first, knowing that the actual opening of Space Marine will not be nearly as awesome.
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02-09-2012, 12:27 AM | #27 |
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No More Heroes Oh wow, this is totally not what I expected it to be, and I mean that in a bad way. The combat in this game is stale. The gameplay simply consists of block, attack, block, attack, block, attack, rinse and repeat until the enemy dies. I can't see this game as anything more than a watered down Godhand. Dark Souls I might not play too much into this. One thing I hate is having to use caution. Another thing I hate is being constantly forced to use melee even though I'm a freaking mage! I mean, the gameplay is indeed very nice, and I like the atmosphere/plot. However, this game is just too damn unforgiving of mistakes. I can't stand having to turtle my way through enemies and having to save my magic because I can only use a certain amount until the next bonfire. I'll see how far I can go without rage quitting. |
02-09-2012, 03:15 PM | #28 |
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Dead or Alive 4:
Seven years after its release and two years after purchasing it off of eBay for $15, I finally got the chance to play this game for the first time in my life last night. I'd been avoiding spoilers on the game's plot for seven years now. Pretty much everything was fresh and exciting for me. Unfortunately, the game doesn't hold up to seven years' worth of high expectations. ^^; They really stepped up the A.I.'s abilities in this game, to the point that they're almost super-human in some of the stages (like Kasumi vs. Kasumi end boss). In other stages, the A.I. remains as easy to beat as ever -- something of a disappointment in some of the final matches (like Hitomi vs. Hitomi's end boss). The ending movie files are a little too silly, something I guess I'd forgotten the DOA series has always been plagued with ^^;, but ... complaints aside, it was really great fun to finally be able to play this. Spoiler: show Biggest graphical complaint I have with the game has got to be the hair. It looks terrible. It looks very ropey and it ridiculously passes straight through characters' shoulders. I'm pretty sure DOA2:U has better hair physics than this, so there's really no excuse for the atrocities I saw in 4 last night. But all in all, I had fun. Worth the $15 I spent? Absolutely. Worth the $60 it would have been at launch? I'm not sure I can say "yes," even as a long-time fan of the franchise. Could just be nostalgia glasses, but I feel like DOA2:U was the best game in the series. Would it be worth buying a 360 just to play this game? I'm not certain it would be. So now that I've had my chance to play it, I guess I can forget about needing to get a 360.
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02-09-2012, 05:33 PM | #30 |
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- Ehrgeiz: God Bless the Ring Caught up in the FFVII hype I went an got this old PS1 fighting game I rented many times but never could buy! Beat! Final Fantasy VII - covered in anniversary thread Drill Dozer - covered in last years thread |
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Spoiler: show Also, Beat: Spees Mehreen (~5.5 hours) Not a bad action game. Anticlimactic final boss "battle" though.
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02-10-2012, 08:30 PM | #32 |
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Suikoden: The Woven Web of the Century (Japanese) Wow, it's really been a while since the last Suikoden too. o.o |
02-10-2012, 10:28 PM | #33 |
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Half-Life 2:
The last time I signed in to Steam was apparently August 13, 2010. I know this because that was the time stamp on my last save file when I signed in today, on a whim, to go ahead and complete Half-Life 2. What is it with me and abandoning games at the 90-99% completion mark, I just don't know, but I was already halfway through invading the Citadel with Barney when I last apparently played. So, three de-orbings of energy barriers, five or more metal daddy long legs, and an electromofied gravity gun later, I got to the final boss fight of the game and ... ... wow. After all the trouble the first one gave me *shakes fist at glitch*, this was surprisingly easy. I honestly feel that this was more intuitively obvious and simple a boss fight than even the one in Portal was. Kind of surprising, really. I had been dreading this final boss fight but before I knew it things were exploding and a G Man was showing up and the credits were rolling. Theoretically I guess this means I should move on to Half-Life 2 Part 1 now, but ... , I think I'll pass. Maybe in another two years.
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02-21-2012, 06:27 PM | #34 |
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- Hakuoki: Demon of the Fleeting Blossom Yay I finally get to play a true blue visual novel and win the guy of my choice! Or not of my choice currently cause I'm getting hearts from the one guy I don't want >.<; Beat! Fate/Extra - 42 hours 7 minutes No one told me who to pick so I just went with Saber. I grinded alot an won the game pretty easily. Game was fun overall and Saber being someone else entirely in the game was pretty cool. Really coulda used more monster variety cause reskinning some of them 2-3 times in a game this "small" seemed lazy. Gotta replay this for sure later on ta see the other servants stories & the Rani path! |
02-26-2012, 11:01 PM | #35 |
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Hakuoki: Demon of the Fleeting Blossom - 7 hours~ I'm a failure! I didn't get any romance and the ending was all kinds of depressing! Thats what replays are for but it still made me sad. Didn't really like the drastic time jumps cause it seems like development was uneven? idk maybe it was the results of my poor choices. It was a nice lil story with thankfully only a few really creepy/icky bits. Will play again! Oh and I liked this games shinsengumi way better then Kenshins! |
03-11-2012, 03:44 PM | #36 |
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Thought I was getting bored with video games, due to having a backlog of shit that I don't play. Turns out, not so much:
Playan: SMT: Devil Survivor 2 (~10 hours) I loved the original Devil Survivor, even though the story skirted dangerously close to the edge of going full retard by the end (lol Cain and Abel). That said, I like their take on the SRPG formula even if I'm beginning to see the contours of the derpy philosophical conflict that's brewing (although there's still a ways to go, so who knows what the ridiculous left turn will be). Beat: Mass Effect 3 (25+ hours) Maybe this belongs in the Mass Effect 3 thread, but spoilers below (so don't cry like a bitch if you click the button and you have the story ruined): Spoiler: show The story is otherwise alright (closes some character arcs satisfactorily, isn't stuck in the COMMANDER SHEPARD, SPACE THERAPIST rut that ME2 sometimes bogged down to), but the ending definitely stinks somewhat of Bioware writing themselves into a corner.
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03-11-2012, 04:16 PM | #37 |
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So I let my cousin borrow my Wii and Skyward Sword and in return he let me borrow his PS2 with FFXII. So far I am really liking how this game plays for the most part. I don't fully understand the story though but that's probably because I didn't pay much attention in the beginning or something.
Sometimes I feel the game can be a bit vague in what I am to do or where to go next, though all I usually had to do was wander around. The bosses seem kinda hard to me and I've had to battle nearly all of them multiple times, tough a bit of grinding and knowing what they will do helps me bring me down. Save points sometimes seem scarce, but since they fully recover you it would make the game easier. I don't know how I should be filling out each individual's License Board. Is it possible to fill it all out save the quickenings and Esper tiles? And how long is the game roughly story wise? I'm at the part where I have to go to the village south of Giza Plains to find out how to use the Dawn Shard. |
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As for filling out the license board, iirc yes you can potentially fill out everybody's license board. However, it'd take a ton of grinding to do that. I think when I beat the game everyone's license boards were ~75% complete. Everybody had (almost) every single block in the top half, and everybody had about half of the blocks in the bottom half.
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03-11-2012, 04:31 PM | #39 |
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Okay thanks. I don't know how much longer I'll have the game so I should try to play as much as I can. I don't think I'll touch the side quests then if I find any.
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03-11-2012, 07:00 PM | #40 |
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Depending on what point in FF12 you're in, you can actually program the gambits to basically have your characters auto-grind themselves.
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03-20-2012, 01:32 AM | #41 |
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There are a few games I'm looking at possibly getting. One of them is Tales of the Abyss; it looks like a nice jRPG, and you can never have too many jRPGs. Another is Sonic Generations. I've heard it's a good game, so hopefully it lives up to its reputation. Then there's Kid Icarus: Uprising. That may well be a LoZ ripoff, as far as I could tell, but I'd still go for it.
Also, I've just gotten into League of Legends, and it's pretty fantastic, I gotta say. I just unlocked Nasus, so hopefully I can use him instead of Ashe in some situations. But what I'm really looking forward to is KH3D: Dream Drop Distance. That just looks awesome, and hopefully it'll continue where KH2 left off. Then there are games I want to see announced. I'd like an Earthbound 3D at some point; I mean, it's been a while since they've done Earthbound games, so maybe they'll pull something like they did with KI:U. Also, where's the next Golden Sun game?? Dark Dawn leaves you hanging, and I want to see more!
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04-09-2012, 11:51 AM | #42 |
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Just picked up the Metal Gear Solid HD Collection. I want to play the games in chronological order, so I started with MGS3: Snake Eater first. I've played it for about two hours, and already enjoy the game. However, there is one little complaint I have with it: cutscenes.
I didn't mind the opening cutscene; I actually found it pretty epic. (And seeing "Metal Gear Solid 3, Snake Eater" on Naked Snake's helmet made me laugh) However, the first codex call... it drags. Horribly. A bunch of it is backstory between Naked Snake and the Boss, which probably will be neccessary to know later in the game. However, it just seems like a big info dump to me. I think they could have spread it out over the course of the game, instead of giving me everything in a 15 minute long cutscene. Also, the first time after I saved the game, a five minute long cutscene initiated between Naked Snake and the paramedic. What was it about? Godzilla movies. I have no clue why the game developers would put something like that in. Personally, I found that it was just a waste of time. I really don't care about Godzilla movies when I'm playing a video game. Unless that was some sort of symbolism that will be present later on, I really don't think it should be there at all. If it was humorous, it would get a pass. But it's not, so it doesn't. However, other than that, I'm really liking the game so far. Can't wait to play through the whole series.
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Well, you've probably already spoilered yourself then about that game, but ... had you told us "I got these games and am thinking of playing them in chronological order ..." I'd have shouted "NO! " to you and told you to play them in the order they were published. Really, it's not an issue from here on out anyway since the chronological order is 3-1-2-4 so you'll be playing the remainder in proper order anyway, but ... you kinda just went and spoilered yourself on a big surprise in Game #1. Oh well.
I played 1 a few years back and enjoyed it. Moved on to 2 and, despite the criticisms from the fandom (and yes, I agree it's generally less fun than 1 was), I enjoyed it all the way up until the final boss fight. Never was able to beat that (I could only get ~12% or so of the way through that final boss fight) so I said "Fuck this shit " lol and put the series down. I didn't want to move on to 3 until I had beaten 2 ... and before I knew it, the weeks turned to months and the months turned to years and now here I am. But yeah. Despite the old graphics, I think you'll enjoy Game 1. And Game 2's graphics honestly aren't too bad. (For their time, I'm sure they were amazing.)
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04-09-2012, 12:09 PM | #44 |
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>Chronological order
Oh. Well now that I've gone down that path, might as well continue. Chronological order according to Wikipedia is... MGS3 MGS Portable Ops MGS Peace Walker MG MG2 MGS1 MGS2 MGS4 So I'm going to play them in that order, I guess, since I've already started. I should've probably thought about playing them in published order a bit more, but I really don't like it when timelines jump around, except in extreme cases like Legend of Zelda, where the timeline really doesn't matter. I currently don't have Portable Ops, MGS1, or MGS4, but I'll pick those up when I get there.
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04-09-2012, 12:18 PM | #45 |
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No, this is one of those "I just watched Star Wars in chronological order" cases, dude. And you just spoiled Darth's whole backstory for yourself. [/way2go] But meh, what's done is done. You're young. Live and learn. Make this mistake with the MGS franchise and (hopefully) learn from your mistake and never repeat it again with other video game franchises.
Also, I assumed from your post that you were only going to be playing the Solid series. You specifically mentioned getting the MGS HD Collection, so yeah.
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>Really, it's not an issue from here on out anyway since the chronological order is 3-1-2-4 so you'll be playing the remainder in proper order anyway, but ... you kinda just went and spoilered yourself on a big surprise in Game #1. Oh well.
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I dunno. I haven't played 4 myself and have avoided spoilers on it since it came out after I'd already read up on the series and decided to try it for myself. My impressions from 1, 2, and what I know of 3, though, would lead me to believe that maybe you should (as you put it) "bother" with the other titles but that at the same time you probably shouldn't expect many surprises. Like ...
(spoiler for game 1/2, safe to click if you've played the first mission in game 2 or have played game 4) Spoiler: show A lot of little things like that. But on the flipside, MGS 1 is where you first meet Otakon, so that could be fun for you. And MGS 2 is where you first meet Raiden (and good lord is he bright-eyed and optimistic in that title! ^^; ). So that might be fun for you to see as well.
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04-09-2012, 08:21 PM | #48 |
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Beat: SMT: Devil Survivor 2 (~25 hours)
So the central moral conflict in the game is between communism and libertarianism. uh Of the SMT games I've played though, that's at least more relatable than the standard "the demons are chaotic dicks, the angels are fascist dicks and despite the rest of this game being a metaphor for how shitty humanity is here's a nebulous middle road that cops out by clinging to vague notions of human potential" SMT plot. Also, my attempts to complete the game with everyone alive are apparently doomed to failure: Spoiler: show
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Anyone get Xenoblade Chronicles? Got it myself but I want to finish ME3 before starting it and not sure if I should finish ME3 right now with the talk about the conclusive endings coming in the Summer I believe. Have quite a few games to finish though. More like 40. ._.;;; I know I should finish my backlog first but can't help getting games that I want to play and I will get through them...someday.
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.hack//Infection
- 15:54:01 (100%: 24:31:11) Still a decently challenging game to this day. That I got game over 4 times shows as much! And of course its still fun! For the first time ever I played this while watching .hack//SIGN 1-5, reading AI buster Vol.2 Chapter 2, reading Another Birth Vol.1 Chapters 1-6, and of course watching Liminality Vol.1. Seeing how many stories fit together concurrently is pretty cool. Up next AB Vol.1 Chapter 7, SIGN 6-10, AB Vol.2 Chapters 1-?, Mutation, and Liminality Vol.2! |
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