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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote JJLehto Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 19 2010 at 19:41
Yeah all the console COD's are just poorly built, but at least I enjoyed 2 and 3.
I like to enjoy my games, you know. Not that huge a deal. 4 on there was hardly even a campaign and they just sucked. But enough talk about f*cking COD....


Buying Demon's Souls tomorrow. Heard enough about it from lots of people, gunna do it
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Anirml Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 19 2010 at 19:45
Originally posted by Gamemako Gamemako wrote:

Originally posted by Anirml Anirml wrote:

Liero is really fun! Smile






Friggin classic. Loved that game. The players in the video are awful, though. My friends and I were too skilled at that game; we had to turn off some of the weapons due to the utter havoc we'd cause if we didn't.



Tongue     Me and my sister love to play with minimum hp, 20 sec+ loading time on weapons and make Dart or Rifle duels LOL. She is almost as good as me, it's great fun!
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Conor Fynes Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 20 2010 at 00:11
Playing Baldurs Gate (the oriignal!) right now!
Anyone else played it?
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote JJLehto Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 21 2010 at 17:47
Did it, bought Demons Souls.
I am hoping I am going to embark and an awesome, yet terrifying journey.
Think this may be the first time I'm afraid to play a game! Knowing just what I am getting into.

Also bought Heavy Rain. Played it already, but its one that I just want to have. Truly remarkable experience, and I can always do things differently to see what changes.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote crimson87 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 25 2010 at 21:10
I have the intention to buy a console and restart gaming big time. Last console I had was PS1. It's been four or five years since I stopped playing on a regulary basis.
 
What console should I get?
 
PS2
360
PS3
 
PS3 games are way too expensive starting at US$ 60 , while PS2 games are just U$$ 3 and 360 games are less than U$$ 10.
Also I have heard PS3 is somewhat of a failure. Can anyone tell me what's been going on these last 4 or 5 years in the gaming industry?
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote stonebeard Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 25 2010 at 21:13
The PS2 was probably the best console ever. You can get one for $30 and games for $3, so why not?
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote JJLehto Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 25 2010 at 21:14
Yeah PS2 was the best system I've ever had, no doubt.

Might as well go with that. I regret selling my old one. Especially since I was assured PS3 will be backwards compatible, oh wait! Well it WILL be. Uh...eventually? Angry
Shoulda bought a used old one that was....
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SNES is the best system ever, end of story.  Too bad all the best games are so expensive, even if they are worth every penny.

Edited by UndercoverBoy - July 25 2010 at 21:25
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote SaltyJon Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 25 2010 at 21:27
Originally posted by Conor Fynes Conor Fynes wrote:

Playing Baldurs Gate (the oriignal!) right now!
Anyone else played it?

Yeah, I've played through it several times.  Same with BG2.  Great stuff!
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Originally posted by Conor Fynes Conor Fynes wrote:

Playing Baldurs Gate (the oriignal!) right now!
Anyone else played it?


Many times. Many, many times. The second is probably better in many respects but then, they have a very different feel. I tried playing as an evil (and by evil, I mean psychotic, police-slaughtering, kitten-kicking type, not one of these wusses who drifts around 10 reputation for as long as possible and does all the little rescue-my-cat quests for the XP reward) character recently - found there's some additional material for them.

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I'm currently switching between bioshock and the original fallout (which is every bit as brilliant as I remember - stormed mutant base without trouble at level 10 or so with heavy guns and a sledgehammer... l'm not patient enough to actually use the sneak skill I tagged). Bioshock has a superb setting, interesting gameplay, excellent writing and is disturbing to terrifying at times. Wouldn't mind it having a couple more accessible areas that you don't have to go to... would make it a more rounded world in my view. Also, the spawn points are often quite obvious and occasionally seemingly implausible...

Um, despite those couple of nitpicks, it's a superb game.
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If I was getting a console I would get an N64
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Playing through the Chzo Mythos, just started with 6 Days a Sacrifice (the last one). These games scare the living hell out of me, but they're so damn good. What really boggles my mind is that it's freakin Ben ''Yahtzee'' Croshaw that's made the game. I mostly know him for his Zero Punctuation videos, which are anything but scary.
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Just finished Bioshock... generally a great game (haven't played SS 2 though). The story was superb, the characters brilliantly written and voice-acted, the use of visuals to suggest narrative and vice versa was very rewarding and it genuinely looked superb, horrifying, beautiful and awesome simultaneously. The setting is superb, even if there is quite a lot of Fallout influence on it. I didn't think it dragged in any particular sections. It didn't generally pull the cheap trick of prohibiting you access to areas until you need to go there. Superb game. Oh, and the soundtrack was great.

Some weak bits:

... found that it actually got much easier as it went on for the most part but that's largely due to excessively cool weaponry (once you have a rocket launcher, electric gel and a crossbow, big daddies cease to represent a serious challenge as they did earlier and I thought that particularly was a problem) and there being lots of resources all over the place. I wouldn't have minded a more consistent challenge level and needing to use a bit more of my many many cool things to deal with splicers. The hacking minigame was a bit incongruous, though I thought it was good to have the ability to hack things. The research element was similary rewarding but also a bit... odd in the context of the game. One issue was that a couple of the spawn points felt a bit obvious, and especially with the big daddies, I feel they'd have been more of a memorable event if they were roaming more evenly over a level rather than just respawning in the same places. As it is, you'd end up fighting two or three in more or less the same area. Oh, and splicers turned up in one or two areas that you'd had to go through some extremely tortuous route to get to with no indication of how they did it. That hurt immersion just a bit.

Some things I'd have liked:

A few more optional areas with a bit of development. There were a few around (and some of them had lots of narrative strength) but I think a few more wouldn't have gone amiss. Making the machine gun a bit less unreliable prior to its upgrades would've maybe made me get them sooner... keeping a

One fairly significant problem:

The ending was entirely disappointing. I mean, there was a lot of build-up to it, the boss battle would've been harder and more fun, I guess, if I hadn't abused the crossbow but then I felt kind of cheated by the conclusion of that and the optional ending I got didn't really reflect the character I had at the end (I probably saved/harvested about half/half on the little sisters, but I something of a change of heart after a certain point in the narrative, so my character's decision in the cut scene at the end and therefore the conclusion did not reflect the mindset I was playing him by that point of the game... ) and I think having Tennenbaum as narrator smugly reinforcing that with some surprisingly mindless judgement made it far more awkward.

So, yes, trying not to spoil anything... thought Bioshock was a generally outstanding game but it didn't really end on a high note.
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Originally posted by Conor Fynes Conor Fynes wrote:

Playing Baldurs Gate (the oriignal!) right now!
Anyone else played it?


Very much so.  I've even managed to complete it once. Big smile

Another playthrough is due again soon.  Currently want to finish Icewind Dale though.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote SaltyJon Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 05 2010 at 22:36
I never made it through Icewind Dale (or Icewind Dale II) the whole way.  I should try to find those two and play them again sometime. 
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I keep starting over because I'm being anally retentive and making sure I get the best randoms.  I save every time I loot certain chests. LOL

That +2 Defender bow is dirty.


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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote SaltyJon Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 05 2010 at 23:02
Last time I tried to play IWD2 something disagreed with my graphics card - that was on my old computer though, hopefully this one goes a bit better. 
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I've got IWD2 but I haven't touched it yet... it's installed though.

I just want to finish the first game... not that the second game is a sequel.  I just like to play games in release date order if I can.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote TGM: Orb Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 06 2010 at 06:34
Hm... played both IWD games last Autumn, I think... the first had a much stronger plot than I remembered and I played it with a genuinely dice-rolled party rather than min-maxers, which made for a much more interesting and characterful game... personally, I really liked the loot randomisation... made it feel sort of worthwhile to have a few points in various weapons rather than just specialising in the best thing I'll get.

IWD II is actually pretty good... I'm not sure if the 3rd edition class system really transfers all that well (or if it does, it transfers with its problems... if I want a fighter/mage, I want them to be a fighter/mage from level 1 rather than just a mage with two levels of fighter thrown in for the feats... I think there are a lot of customisation options but most of them aren't all that useful anyway). Still, there are some brilliant settings, it builds on the character types available pretty strongly, has a lot more diplomacy and thieving available than the first and the time loop is just insanely good.
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I like the loot randomisation too.  I'm just too lazy to play lots of different playthroughs.  So min-maxing is the best to play a whole game for me.  I tend to play games for a bit and then stop... and then forget where I got to and start again.
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