I just got Bioshock 2 also. Might be threadworthy but I'm too lazy to make it. I've also had way too mcuh to dink.
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Finished up Borderlands earlier. I was lukewarm on it at first, but the gameplay grew on me and it definitely is a blast to play four player co-op. Sure made the last mission a hell of a lot easier.
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I bought Rondo of Swords (Strategy) recently for the DS. There's actually a lot I liked about the game, but there are some problems with it that just make me shake my head.
The things I liked
The plot: You take on the role of Prince Serdic as he flees from the Empire after it destroys his country of Bertwalde and takes it over. You start a quest to uncurse the Holy Sword, Spata (sp), before you go strolling on back to reclaim your country (and then save the world, you know how it works).
Did I mention though that you are actually Prince Serdic's double who's got amnesia, and that you are carrying out this request because the actual Prince Serdic died and you gave him his "Knightly" death? Yeah, it definitely gets you hooked.
BTW, before someone goes "let me guess, the double is Serdic's long lost brother", no he's not. At least not at the story split. Also, don't worry about me telling you he's a double, you find out like not even 10 minutes in for the above.
The concept of moving around to attack and planning for those occassions: I was always planning out who to move where, and when instead of just moving into a single spot, I needed to plan for if I wanted to do a multiple attack or a single. It always made me keep my army closely knit as well to make sure that I could beat the game.
The cast: The characters in this game, range pretty well. You get some of the standard cliche types, but you also get some not-so-cliche types as well. The mix creates a diverse cast that you'll enjoy for the most part.
The AI: Why do I say that? Because the AI actually acts like a real army. Sure there are times when it does something stupid, but most often than not, it'll actually make you feel like you are participating against a real human.
Mages = Nukers: When you want something to die quickly, you use a Mage to get it done. They work like a charm.
Training: Probably the best thing in the game is the option to send people out to train their HP, DEF, ATK, etc, and it doesn't actually raise a person's level. So you can send someone out to train and they'll actually be stronger for it without leveling.
Things I didn't like
The Story: Let's get something straight. They had probably one of the better ideas for a plot, and the story barely is there. Strategy games rely on the down time to deliver in the story, and this game fails and fails badly. Sure the plot of the story gets filled out, but aside from a few chimes here and there, there's almost nothing else to the game besides the game play.
The Rest of the Gameplay: The rest of the gameplay hampers the good ideas that I mentioned previously. You almost always need to keep your forces together due to Mages, Archers, and Healers not able to use magic after movement. The same is also of the active skills that all characters use as well. It simple boggles my mind that you can't do any of this in this day and age. On some stages, you'll literially end up dead simply because you need one of those to briefly move to use that, or use up an attacker's turn just to get a skill in place.
There are only two characters whom bypass this, that would be Ansom (archer) who gets to for some reason be able to use his bow anytime he wants (is your most reliable character). The other is Shino (ninja) who can use her kunai just like Ansom can use his bow. Her magic though is fail like all other mages, except even more so.
The Story Takes Place In Conversations On The Battle Field: What I mean is, is that unless you have the correct characters for a stage and put them side by side, you'll miss out on the story. I need to include this just after the game play, because it will effect it as you take some characters in that are under leveled or not the right characters in just to see the story.
Questing, Training, and Shops =/= Side Quests, Some Places To Grind, and Look At All The Things I Can Afford: Unfortunately for this game there is a place where you can quest and train, but you don't actually get to DO any of it. Oh and the shops inventory you never get to see. You just send someone to go buy "what they think". I wouldn't mind if this wasn't necessary, but it really, really is. The game just randomly does it, and they can fail so hard.
Grinding Done Stupid: Wanna know how to get levels in this game? There's certain levels in which you take on a few baddies and then reset the level. This wouldn't be bad if you didn't need to do this for TWENTY MINUTES.
Badly Done Nintendo Hard: As you can guess, because of the above faults, this is Nintendo Hard. Also, you get to a total of 6 guys to the opponents 30 (+20 of random spawns). So much fun! Also, nearly every boss can one-hit KO you. I had to bring out the Cheat Device to even make it worth my while, and even then you are still getting fucked around like a whore. By level 30s, when you are level 99 with nearly 150 defensive rating!
That's pretty much Rondo of Swords in a nut shell. Great concept, very terrible execution. I'm probably selling the game after I get through the Part A Ending. The game promoted that you can change the course of the country, Bertwalde, by your actions, but in reality its a single action and then each route has a certain requirement to get the best ending or worst ending in either Part. I already spoiled myself of Part B's endings because I really didn't want to play this game ever again after the first time.
Though Path B is a lot more cooler and true to life, if everything was explained in the story... Which it is not...
The things I liked
The plot: You take on the role of Prince Serdic as he flees from the Empire after it destroys his country of Bertwalde and takes it over. You start a quest to uncurse the Holy Sword, Spata (sp), before you go strolling on back to reclaim your country (and then save the world, you know how it works).
Did I mention though that you are actually Prince Serdic's double who's got amnesia, and that you are carrying out this request because the actual Prince Serdic died and you gave him his "Knightly" death? Yeah, it definitely gets you hooked.
BTW, before someone goes "let me guess, the double is Serdic's long lost brother", no he's not. At least not at the story split. Also, don't worry about me telling you he's a double, you find out like not even 10 minutes in for the above.
The concept of moving around to attack and planning for those occassions: I was always planning out who to move where, and when instead of just moving into a single spot, I needed to plan for if I wanted to do a multiple attack or a single. It always made me keep my army closely knit as well to make sure that I could beat the game.
The cast: The characters in this game, range pretty well. You get some of the standard cliche types, but you also get some not-so-cliche types as well. The mix creates a diverse cast that you'll enjoy for the most part.
The AI: Why do I say that? Because the AI actually acts like a real army. Sure there are times when it does something stupid, but most often than not, it'll actually make you feel like you are participating against a real human.
Mages = Nukers: When you want something to die quickly, you use a Mage to get it done. They work like a charm.
Training: Probably the best thing in the game is the option to send people out to train their HP, DEF, ATK, etc, and it doesn't actually raise a person's level. So you can send someone out to train and they'll actually be stronger for it without leveling.
Things I didn't like
The Story: Let's get something straight. They had probably one of the better ideas for a plot, and the story barely is there. Strategy games rely on the down time to deliver in the story, and this game fails and fails badly. Sure the plot of the story gets filled out, but aside from a few chimes here and there, there's almost nothing else to the game besides the game play.
The Rest of the Gameplay: The rest of the gameplay hampers the good ideas that I mentioned previously. You almost always need to keep your forces together due to Mages, Archers, and Healers not able to use magic after movement. The same is also of the active skills that all characters use as well. It simple boggles my mind that you can't do any of this in this day and age. On some stages, you'll literially end up dead simply because you need one of those to briefly move to use that, or use up an attacker's turn just to get a skill in place.
There are only two characters whom bypass this, that would be Ansom (archer) who gets to for some reason be able to use his bow anytime he wants (is your most reliable character). The other is Shino (ninja) who can use her kunai just like Ansom can use his bow. Her magic though is fail like all other mages, except even more so.
The Story Takes Place In Conversations On The Battle Field: What I mean is, is that unless you have the correct characters for a stage and put them side by side, you'll miss out on the story. I need to include this just after the game play, because it will effect it as you take some characters in that are under leveled or not the right characters in just to see the story.
Questing, Training, and Shops =/= Side Quests, Some Places To Grind, and Look At All The Things I Can Afford: Unfortunately for this game there is a place where you can quest and train, but you don't actually get to DO any of it. Oh and the shops inventory you never get to see. You just send someone to go buy "what they think". I wouldn't mind if this wasn't necessary, but it really, really is. The game just randomly does it, and they can fail so hard.
Grinding Done Stupid: Wanna know how to get levels in this game? There's certain levels in which you take on a few baddies and then reset the level. This wouldn't be bad if you didn't need to do this for TWENTY MINUTES.
Badly Done Nintendo Hard: As you can guess, because of the above faults, this is Nintendo Hard. Also, you get to a total of 6 guys to the opponents 30 (+20 of random spawns). So much fun! Also, nearly every boss can one-hit KO you. I had to bring out the Cheat Device to even make it worth my while, and even then you are still getting fucked around like a whore. By level 30s, when you are level 99 with nearly 150 defensive rating!
That's pretty much Rondo of Swords in a nut shell. Great concept, very terrible execution. I'm probably selling the game after I get through the Part A Ending. The game promoted that you can change the course of the country, Bertwalde, by your actions, but in reality its a single action and then each route has a certain requirement to get the best ending or worst ending in either Part. I already spoiled myself of Part B's endings because I really didn't want to play this game ever again after the first time.
Though Path B is a lot more cooler and true to life, if everything was explained in the story... Which it is not...
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I've put in 6 hours or so of Resident Evil 5 over the past 2 days. I also just got Tales of Vesperia from the library for 2 weeks. I can probably renew it like I do with books, but if I like it as much as previous Tales games, I'll buy it since it's only $30 new.
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I beat Uncharted 2 this afternoon. EPIC!
About to start Heavy Rain.
About to start Heavy Rain.
KingPK
KingPK
I just finished Assassin's Creed II about 10 minutes ago.
Someone's going to have to help me with that ending.
Someone's going to have to help me with that ending.
Specifically everything after Ezio enters the vault. So the sun is going to burn the Earth and Desmond is the only hope to stop it? They basically used one of those stupid 2012 prophecies as a plot twist?
FroGG_NeaL
WIT DA GREATEST OF EASE
I'm just starting to play vidja games again.
I'm having fun with this right now:
http://www.flashgames.it/webmastergame.php?icona=he.man
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe: Lair Of The Slime Mutant...
I'm having fun with this right now:
http://www.flashgames.it/webmastergame.php?icona=he.man
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe: Lair Of The Slime Mutant...
FroGG_NeaL
WIT DA GREATEST OF EASE
KingPK said:
That's pretty much what I got from it. I watched my brother play it pretty much all the way through. The ending could have been better. My bro put it like this,'Holy shit. What the fuck. So everything blows up and that's it? There better be another one...cause if not...if not, then.. well fuck this game then.' that about sums it up as a review, for me. It's gotta be a set-up for a third game. It's too obvious to not be. I hope, anyway.
Beat The World Ends With You (Awesome), another playthrough of Final Fantasy VII (still really good), finally finished Final Fantasy VIII (not really that good at all), and currently switching between Deadly Premonition (which is one of the best budget, "B-games" I've ever played. It's outright hilarious.) and Wet (which is like the bastard child of Max Payne and Prince of Persia. i.e. awesome, although it appears the overall game may be a bit on the short side).
Uh...this isn't all today, of course.
Uh...this isn't all today, of course.
My gaming time is pretty limited until after April 15th, but when I can play I've been playing a lot o Star Trek Online now that I have a working Internet connection again. I'm up to Commander 6 (level 26 with a 50 level cap) and still really enjoying it. Can't wait to get to Captain and be able to get a Galaxy class ship. Hell I'll probably be a true nerd and also buy a defiant class and Discovery class ship just so I can have one each of the enterprise d, defiant, and voyager looking ships.
A Happy Medium
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I am playing Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II.
It only took me nine hours to find what I needed to build my lightsaber! Record time!
It only took me nine hours to find what I needed to build my lightsaber! Record time!
Sabre
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As much as i love the KOTOR games, they have not aged well at all.
Im replaying ME2 since i now have the DLC.
Im replaying ME2 since i now have the DLC.
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I've been playing the hell out of FF13. I'm avoiding the FF13 thread like the plague to avoid spoilers.
AntiLeaf33
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I just rented Bioshock 2. I figured I'd rent it since I heard it wasn't as good as the first one. I'm a few hours in and it's not too bad. Along the same lines as the original.
Sabre
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Bioshock 2 wasnt all bad. It just felt like it could have been a DLC to me. Considering 10yrs have passed since BS1 someone explain how the place is still standing since it was leaking everywhere?
KingPK
KingPK
I think that was everyone's problem with Bioshock 2; it's basically the same game as the first one with a few new enemies. I don't even think there are that many new plasmids (I haven't played it yet).
I started Just Cause 2 today. I'm three hours in and I've only done about three missions because it's so much fun to just explore the world. There is also a TON of stuff to collect and blow up in a HUGE gameworld. This is sandbox gaming at it's best. They basically said "Here's a big world with a fun way to get around and lots of stuff that blows up good. Have fun."
I started Just Cause 2 today. I'm three hours in and I've only done about three missions because it's so much fun to just explore the world. There is also a TON of stuff to collect and blow up in a HUGE gameworld. This is sandbox gaming at it's best. They basically said "Here's a big world with a fun way to get around and lots of stuff that blows up good. Have fun."
A Happy Medium
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Actually, I think that the KOTOR games have aged fine. The sequel is about five and a half years old at this point, and was never built to be about mind blowing graphics. The games are about the stories, and they did the part tremendously....except for the fact that II isn't even a complete game. Obsidian wanted to re-release the game with all of the content they were forced to omit. Lucas Arts didn't want that.
AntiLeaf33
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Yeah, I don't know how far I am into the story, but I'm getting bored with the game pretty quick. I just straight out harvest the little sisters, as waiting around, finding a body, and have them harvest the body, and then kill the little sister seemed like a way of artificially lengthening the game. Kinda glad I rented it, as I can't see me coming back to the game once I beat the campaign. I'll mess around with the multiplayer if I have time left with the game before I have to return it Thursday.
tonyjaymz03
Kinsey
The Blockbuster near my house is going out of business so I went on a pretty sick run
NBA 2k10
FIFA 10
NHL 10
Midnight Club 3ub Edition
Pure
Tetris Revolution
Tom Clancy's Hawx
All for a tad under 100 bucks
NBA 2k10
FIFA 10
NHL 10
Midnight Club 3
ub EditionPure
Tetris Revolution
Tom Clancy's Hawx
All for a tad under 100 bucks
Despite the annoying omission of Lock-On in the Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection, I beat Sonic and Knuckles today as Knux, and started a new game of Sonic 3, and made it to Carnival Night so far, grabbing the 7 Emeralds on the way.
So now I'm planning on wrecking through Carnival Night with Super Sonic. Should make it slightly less shitty! Sadly, with Super Sonic Ice Cap will be all too brief, but ah well.
So now I'm planning on wrecking through Carnival Night with Super Sonic. Should make it slightly less shitty! Sadly, with Super Sonic Ice Cap will be all too brief, but ah well.
devo
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Bought Mega Man 10 today, beat the Sheep Man level this morning before heading to work. In retrospect that was a poor decision, since it was really really fun and now all I can think about is getting home and playing the rest of the game.
A Happy Medium
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I bought Mass Effect and Afro Samurai yesterday for a combined thirty dollars or so. I'll get to those once I finish KOTOR II.
Obi Chris Kenobi
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Finished Uncharted 2 today, it was an OK game, but I don't understand the hype behind it. I think its partly due to being one of the few decent games on the PS3 that makes it such a well received and loved game. If it had been released on the Xbox I think it would have fallen into 'just another game' category.
The ledge detection is dodgy at times, along with the camera angles. Hit detection on the fire fights is poor, with headsets seemingly happening randomly. The story is good, and probably the best thing about the game, especially how it loosely uses Legend/Folklore grounded in reality.
The ledge detection is dodgy at times, along with the camera angles. Hit detection on the fire fights is poor, with headsets seemingly happening randomly. The story is good, and probably the best thing about the game, especially how it loosely uses Legend/Folklore grounded in reality.
Sabre
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Finished my Mass Effect 2 playthough on my new 360, and im PISSED that i completed the game with everyfuckingthing imagineable dont/completed/collected and i ended up lvl 29 with 900exp to go.
I imported a lvl 58 ME1 character, and there was no way i was playing ME 1 again just for a lvl 60 version.
Heres hoping the DLC released on the 6th will get me the lvl 30 achivement.
I imported a lvl 58 ME1 character, and there was no way i was playing ME 1 again just for a lvl 60 version.
Heres hoping the DLC released on the 6th will get me the lvl 30 achivement.
AntiLeaf33
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devo said:
I have been considering buying MegaMan 10, but then I realize I suck at MegaMan games. I know there is an easy mode now, but it sounds like a watered down experience.
devo
Integral Poster
For what it's worth, 10 might be the easiest Mega Man game I've ever played. Beat it the first time through in under two hours - I've never done that on a MM title before.
A Happy Medium
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I'm playing through the first Mass Effect now. I was very pissed last night when I found out what happens when you don't do Wrex's side quest, or have a charm rating of 8. I then gave Ashley a very harsh assignment. Overall, I think the game is great, and can't wait to finish it, and then find a used copy of Mass Effect 2.
Sabre
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If you want any of the free DLC (and there is alot of it) its best to get a brand new copy on the cheap, as it cost me 1200 ms points to get the cerberus network due to not having the code.