Topic: Babble about a video game you are playing (Read 236785 times)

Dooly · « **Reply #2260 on:** September 28, 2009, 09:18:51 PM »

Bowser's Inside Story is just delightful.

Alex · « **Reply #2261 on:** September 29, 2009, 01:07:02 PM »

Fact: Bowser is way more enjoyable to play as.

Brentai · « **Reply #2262 on:** September 29, 2009, 01:21:31 PM »

Fact: Bowsers are mammals.

...wait.

Disposable Ninja · « **Reply #2263 on:** September 29, 2009, 02:39:15 PM »

Well, he does have hair.

Doom · « **Reply #2264 on:** September 30, 2009, 03:15:54 PM »

Arkham Asylum spoiler follows:

[spoiler]Way to phone in The Joker, god damn, what the hell, fucking fire somebody.[/spoiler]

Rico · « **Reply #2265 on:** September 30, 2009, 03:22:16 PM »

[spoiler]Yeah, all the boss fights were pretty terrible. Bonus minus points for the Poison Ivy fight, during which you constantly have to Evade diagonally and playing on a keyboard the game just seems to roll the dice on whether to move you diagonally, straight right, or extra-dumb straight forward.[/spoiler]

Pretty much every goons pre-set in a room fight is amazing, though.

Doom · « **Reply #2266 on:** September 30, 2009, 03:23:25 PM »

Yeah but with my colossal boss battle boner I carry into every game it's a really criminal offense and I'm glad I just sort of vicariously played the game through my best friend, who actually owns it and the PS3.

Brentai · « **Reply #2267 on:** September 30, 2009, 03:43:55 PM »

America in general seems to be just plain unable to do boss fights. You'll be lucky if it isn't some sort of thinly disguised puzzle.

Even in our lock-down genre, the only notable boss is from a game made in Croatia.

...and was a thinly disguised puzzle SHUT UP.

Bongo Bill · « **Reply #2268 on:** September 30, 2009, 05:23:37 PM »

Bioshock had roving encounters that were better boss fights than the actual boss fights.

Doom · « **Reply #2269 on:** September 30, 2009, 05:25:56 PM »

The last boss fight was pretty OK but did commit the cardinal sins of "Press X to Win" and "Fight some 1st level mooks."

Bongo Bill · « **Reply #2270 on:** September 30, 2009, 05:27:23 PM »

Oh wait: the Metroid Primes had some great bosses. And some terrible ones.

Doom · « **Reply #2271 on:** September 30, 2009, 05:28:56 PM »

Yeah but Metroid Prime bosses are generally good because the vast majority of them avoid Press X to Win and more rely on you actually trying all of your powers until you can do something about a COLOSSAL ROCK GOLEM trying to crush you.

See also Devil May Cry, where even if you find a weak spot, you are just rewarded for it by being able to use the previously-established in-game combat engine to wail on it for massive damage.

Alex · « **Reply #2272 on:** September 30, 2009, 05:38:52 PM »

Quote from: Doom on September 30, 2009, 05:28:56 PM

See also Devil May Cry, where even if you find a weak spot, you are just rewarded for it by being able to use the previously-established in-game combat engine to PUNCH THE EVERLOVING FUCK OUT OF THE POPE WITH YOUR DEVIL HAND.

Cthulhu-chan · « **Reply #2273 on:** September 30, 2009, 07:15:03 PM »

Right, that's what he said.

Niku · « **Reply #2274 on:** September 30, 2009, 08:52:21 PM »

rhythm heaven is exactly what happens when you take an amazing game and ruin it with bullshit gimmickry.

seriously where is the option to just use the fucking buttons.

Saturn · « **Reply #2275 on:** September 30, 2009, 11:37:19 PM »

my daily experience with monster hunter in a .gif

Cthulhu-chan · « **Reply #2276 on:** October 01, 2009, 02:31:47 AM »

Oh Rathalos, you card.

When are you on ad-hoc, anyway?

SCD · « **Reply #2277 on:** October 01, 2009, 08:47:13 AM »

So still playing X3: Terran conflict

again, the learning curve is large,

again, I keep dying.

So right now, I'm doing a police-style arrest and scan mission out in one of the frontier systems. My escort and I destroyed the main target, an illicit drugs smuggler and started scanning other targets when we noticed a red flotilla jumped in,

A race (from a previous game) called the Khaak came in with a carrier, which tore off pods which were individual cruisers which tore off fighters, these..

Of course I'm in an advanced recon scout, so there is no way in hell I could pick off even one of their ships, so I run to the edge of the system and hide while I watch from afar this task force destroy what are normal factory and trading outposts.

They also destroyed all the convoy I needed to scan.

Usually when large-scale ships are used in space sims, their actions are scripted for the most part, even in FS2.

This was the first time I saw a flotilla engaged in a raid that created all-out carnage, and this wasn't even part of the game's theme. It is about a mystery involving self-replicating AI-based terraformers causing shit.

I'm impressed.

Also tried the bankrupt assassin campaign. Didn't make it far, the bounty hunters wanted me more than I wanted cash.

Bongo Bill · « **Reply #2278 on:** October 06, 2009, 12:19:22 AM »

Started on Lost Odyssey, and I'm really digging it so far. More than I thought I would, i'fact. I must have been really wanting a good JRPG. It's got high-definition polish and 16-bit snappiness!

Rosencrantz · « **Reply #2279 on:** October 06, 2009, 05:38:58 AM »

Quote from: Bongo Bill on October 06, 2009, 12:19:22 AM

16-bit snappiness!

Except for the long as hell battle intros.

It's a little too high-def for my tastes, as well, especially since they went so far as to ensure that you can see all of Ming's boob veins.

I'm waiting for more current-gen RPGs that look more like Dragon Quest VIII/anything else Level-5 does than Gears of War.

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