04-30-2012, 09:52 PM | #51 |
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Get! : Bastion
Beat! : ...Bastion Honestly? One of the best games I have ever played. There is quite simply nothing like it. Beautiful art, the soundtrack was perfect, the storytelling bit was absolutely superb... and the ending was chilling. Did it have it's flaws? ... ... ... No. I honestly cannot think of any. I think I can honestly say it was perfect, and it had enough content to make you want to come back for another run when it is over. $14.99. You absolutely cannot go wrong. I would have probably paid a standard price for it. |
04-30-2012, 10:19 PM | #52 |
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I've never even heard of Bastion. Though I'm definitely going to have to check it out now.
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05-01-2012, 02:28 PM | #53 |
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OF COURSE 2 days after I buy Bastion Steam puts it on sale for $5.99
IF YOU DO NOT GET THIS YOU ARE A CRAZY PERSON. CRAZY PERSON! |
05-01-2012, 02:37 PM | #54 |
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"I would have probably paid standard price for it," remember? ^^;
deoxys: Yeah, but ... Hey: at least it wasn't a $60-to-$20 price drop like what would happen if you bought a hot game right before the Classic Hits label hit store shelves.
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05-01-2012, 04:58 PM | #55 |
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Or the ultimate version is released and no DLC to update your regular version to it.
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05-02-2012, 12:59 PM | #57 |
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Are you referring to the narrator, played by Logan Cunningham? Although when I was playing it, I thought it was Ron Perlman.
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05-03-2012, 04:15 PM | #58 |
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I have a few.
Fallout New Vegas This isn't as large as Fallout 3, but was still very fun to play through. The story mode was difficult, not because of game difficulty, but because I had difficulty telling what was the right thing to do. Alot of the people you can support seem very antagonistic, and in the end, I went down the Yes Man route. Ar Tonelico This game is so cheaply made it's ridiculous. That usually doesn't bother me, but with boring gameplay, and a meh story (so far), I'm having difficulty getting into this. I was mostly curious about this game because alot of the OSTs I've heard from this game were fantastic. Sadly, that alone is not enough to keep me interested. I've also noticed alot of JRPGs are cheaply made. Fucking Bethesda games have spoiled me. Last edited by big bad birtha; 05-03-2012 at 04:21 PM. |
05-03-2012, 04:58 PM | #59 |
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GET! Section 8, Poker Night at the Inventory, Batman Arkham Asylum (again), Batman Arkham City, Dustforce, and League of Legends.
I bought Batman Arkham Asylum for $6 from GamersGate before, but it never installed properly due to a key shortage. Their customer service was absolutely dreadful and never solved my issue after me constantly bugging them. Then I saw the Batman Arkham Bundle on Steam for $30, and I just said fuck it, we'll do it live. Dustforce is surprisingly fun and is a side scrolling 2D platformer. It's like a calmer version of Super Meat Boy, more relazed, and the soundtrack is great. |
05-04-2012, 07:54 PM | #61 |
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How was it?
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05-04-2012, 11:05 PM | #62 |
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Too short. :P
Seriously though, that was an amazing package. The art, the music, the gameplay, but most importantly, the narrator. Made the game come alive. Morgan Freeman has a contender for "Guy whose voice you want to read stuff in."
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05-10-2012, 11:46 PM | #63 |
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PixelJunk Monsters: Played this a few weeks ago and it is still quite amazing. <3 Can't go wrong with it being $1 in the PSN right now or the 3 for 1 PixelJunk pack for $2.
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05-11-2012, 08:36 PM | #64 |
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Playing: Warlock, Master of the Arcane (12 hours)
Does Civilization V's combat system give you a huge boner? Do you think having to manually instruct your workers is a pain in the ass and diplomacy is for queers? You'll love this game! Yeah, this is pretty much a 4X with an emphasis on the "extermination" part of the equation. You get a lot of units with their own distinct strengths and weaknesses, an experience/upgrade system that feels significant and makes losing a treasured unit feel legitimately painful, and an AI that has a basic idea of how to play the game when you come charging in with your hordes. That said, a lot of the other stuff falls by the wayside: diplomacy is quite literally limited to Montezuma-style "gib monies or I war u", and while there are alternate win conditions besides "murder everyone" at least in the game I'm playing I would have had to go significantly out of my way to win by them (even beyond some of the more esoteric win conditions in some Civ games). There's also other niggling annoyances like the lack of an in-game encyclopedia and the lack of hotkeys, and the fact that the AI (on normal at least) is very passive on offense: why declare war on me if you're not going to fucking attack until you ask for peace twenty turns later? You could do worse for $20 bucks, though. Legend of Grimrock (~3 hours) I want to like this game more than I do. Dungeon crawling is fun, the "old school" clunky controls not so much (especially the combat part, which you will be doing a lot of).
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05-12-2012, 01:34 AM | #65 |
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Beat: Batman: Arkham Asylum (12 hours)
An excellent game. Can't believe I've waited so long to play it. The gameplay is essentially Assassin's Creed but better, except instead of Ezio you're the dark knight. Most of the voice actors were brought back from Batman: The Animated Series. The Characters were done very well and the stealthy action was definitely suspenseful at times. Some curveballs were thrown late in the game to curb certain strategies I was using up to that point so that I had to find new methods of sneaking around and fighting. Also, guns hurt! Playing: Batman: Arkham City (4 hours in) - This game is probably one of the best looking games I've ever played, and it's on a dated graphics card, too. It's essentially Arkham City all over again, but in a much more sandbox environment. It's giant collection of all of Batman's greatest enemies all at once, exceptionally well done and in a very realistic way. GET: Alan Wake |
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05-14-2012, 08:06 PM | #67 |
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"Morgan Freeman has a contender for [title]" = "Morgan Freeman has competition"
He knows the narrator was not Morgan Freeman. In fact, his very point hinges on that knowledge.
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05-15-2012, 08:27 AM | #68 |
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Get: Pilotwings 3DS. Nostalgia-ing hard for Pilotwings 64, I've been waiting anxiously for a price drop for this. Today it happened and I picked it up- it's not as cartoonishly funny as Pilotwings 64 so far, but it is quite a bit of fun.
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05-15-2012, 10:36 PM | #69 |
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Get: Diablo III (~3 hours)
Error 37 Error 37 Error 37 Error 37 ..Blizz, can I trade the always-on DRM for not being able to use Also, maybe it's because I'm too dumb to find it but I'd like to be able to start a little higher than Diablo "normal" (ie "I'm worse at video games than unownmew is at coherent thought") difficulty kthx
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05-29-2012, 02:50 AM | #71 |
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I will wipe out all FF, Pokemon, LoZ and FE games to a finish. Now Here's my progress.
Final Fantasy: Currently playing FF7 (PSX) in an emulator, and Dissidia: Final Fantasy in PSP. Next is FF8. Pokemon: Finishing FR/LG/E to gain the complete Pokedex and the Gold Frontier Symbols in Emerald. Next is Pokemon Diamond/Pearl. Legend of Zelda: Dunno where to start. But since I am more story related, and I am playing chronologically, I'll start with the NES version. Fire Emblem: I am also having trouble where to start. Maybe I'll start With Shadow Dragon, coz it's the remake of the original NES version.
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05-29-2012, 10:27 AM | #72 |
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>But since I am more story related, and I am playing chronologically, I'll start with the NES version
If you're after chronology, you want to start with Skyward Sword (then Ocarina, Majora, etc.). Starting with the NES one would be doing it in release order. |
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Zelda ... I suppose starting with the original is fine. I did it myself over 20 years ago. Link to the Past for SNES is in the same style and way better, though.
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Some series, I don't think it matters where you start, even if later titles may have little easter egg references to previous ones in the series. I'd group the Final Fantasies and the NES Mega Mans here. Sure, there's some semblance of a chronological plot linking Mega Mans 1 thru 6 ... but really? Play 'em in whatever the hell order you prefer.
Other series, I think it matters a little, but only for select titles in the franchise. This is where I'd group the Metroids and the Zeldas. For instance, you shouldn'y play Metroid Prime 3 before playing Metroid Prime 1 and 2, but by all means go ahead and play the Prime series before touching the original Metroid or the SNES era Super Metroid. Similarly, with Zelda I don't think it really matters all that much in the grand scheme of things whether you play the NES Zelda (blasphemy, I'm sure ) but it certainly matters that you play, or that you at least read the Wikipedia plot summary for, Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask before you touch Wind Waker or Twilight Princess. Still other series, I'd say you have to play them in release order or else you're doing it wrong. This is where I'd place the Metal Gear Solids and the Mass Effects. Any franchise where all the titles in the series form an interwoven narrative ... yeah, you pretty much have to play them in order. Not doing so is like joining DS9 halfway through Season 6 or like picking up the 21st Century Doctor Who with David Tennant's final episode. Metal Gear Solid provides a good example since the chronological order is {spoiler} but the release order (duh) is 1-2-3-4. And I would say you ought to play them in that order. Playing them in chronological order takes all of the surprise at out of two of the four titles. Since he's asking about Zelda, see that middle category again. I'd say the order he plays in matters ... but only to a limited extent. Play (or at least read about) Ocarina of Time before touching Wind Waker or Twilight Princess. Conveniently, if you aim to play the games in chronological order then you're probably going to still play them in the order OoT --> MM --> WW --> TP anyway, the exact same as the release order.
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I think FE has this (correct the timeline if I'm wrong): Shadow Dragon Gaiden FE7 (The other FEin GBA, forgot the title) Path of Radiance And so on (dunno the rest)... About LoZ, I only know Loz I then Adventures of Link, then I don't know the rest...
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