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Re: Babble about a video game you are playing
« Reply #60 on: February 27, 2008, 11:59:47 PM »

Finally managed to pull off a 10.9 second 2-wheel in Off-Road Raptor Safari, meaning I have now completed every achievement.

Except I still haven't killed a single pteradon.
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Re: Babble about a video game you are playing
« Reply #61 on: February 28, 2008, 12:19:59 PM »

I'm at work and just waiting for a device I am debugging on to reboot, so this is far from my full review of this game. But, I declare Patapon to be the perfect Toilet game.

You can play a single battle in this game very quickly, collect some resources and new weapons in doing so, create some new Patapons and adjust your formations a little and then save, clean your self up, wash your hands and walk away completely satisfied.

It's also a very cute, musical and fun game.
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Re: Babble about a video game you are playing
« Reply #62 on: February 28, 2008, 02:31:25 PM »

I don't really play very new games.

Mostly, I've been playing Oblivion on my PS3, lately.  Wasn't able to resist the temptation to start messing around with the bevy of bugs in the game, and I now spend most of my time in it goofing off, rather than doing anything very much to the point.  Having fun.  Think I'll see if I can clear out every city, as I once made it my mission to do in Fallout.

There's been some multiplayer Super Bomberman 2, since I arranged my preferred setup.  Playing Super Bomberman 2 really brings home just how much stuff (read: junk) they've added to the series after that.  The multiplayer levels in Super Bomberman 2 are all but perfect.  A ten cent localization, 'Bomberman: Party Edition' for the original Playstation is nice for many of the same reasons, but it's just not Super Bomberman 2, you know?

Was obsessively playing the retail Blockland, working on a single project, until I realized that my project would require well over 200,000 blocks.  Booo.

Right now, I'm playing 'Internet Forum' in the unwise avoidance of real analysis.  I want my money back.
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Re: Babble about a video game you are playing
« Reply #63 on: February 28, 2008, 02:40:38 PM »

I just recently completed FF8PC again, and am now doing FF7. I play them at work on my laptop. Great timekillers.

FF7:
Cloud = Butz
Barret = Wakka
Tifa = A Duck
Aeris = Spike
Yuffie = P. Hilton
Vincent = Sparpoo
Red XIII = Puce9001
Cait Sith = Gackt
Cid = Dr. House
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Re: Babble about a video game you are playing
« Reply #64 on: February 28, 2008, 04:38:45 PM »

I had sort of drifted away from Odin Sphere for a long while, as the first boss of the final book kept raping me hard. Recently I picked it up again, endeavouring to build characters' inventory and grind the recipes and such, and I'm pleasantly surprised at how much fun I'm having doing so. That is one fine game.

I also realized that the Oswald/Gwendolyn romance is the only video game love story I ever really gave a crap about. Possibly the only one in any media. Not sure what's so special about it; it's mostly just a tragedy-of-errors, so to speak. Hmm.
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Re: Babble about a video game you are playing
« Reply #65 on: February 28, 2008, 06:13:23 PM »

I found Quake II! If only I had all those skins I used to dress up the bots I would play against. Blasting Starscream, Darth Maul and John McClane was always a gas.
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Re: Babble about a video game you are playing
« Reply #66 on: February 28, 2008, 06:40:24 PM »

I found Quake II! If only I had all those skins I used to dress up the bots I would play against. Blasting Starscream, Darth Maul and John McClane was always a gas.
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Re: Babble about a video game you are playing
« Reply #67 on: March 01, 2008, 08:40:12 PM »

Why it's Homer. And Chastity. And my favorite, Hudson! They're all here!
We have a winner!
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Re: Babble about a video game you are playing
« Reply #68 on: March 01, 2008, 10:19:15 PM »

Why it's Homer. And Chastity. And my favorite, Hudson! They're all here!
We have a winner!
 ::D:

Reminds me of playing as Bender in the original UT, with full voice pack installed. Man, that was fun. :lol:
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Re: Babble about a video game you are playing
« Reply #69 on: March 02, 2008, 01:04:24 AM »

I just finished No More Heroes and it was goddamn amazing.

Minus the city when you're actually trying to play the fucking game.  If you feel like chilling out for a bit, running around and grabbing balls or sticking your sword into the ground isn't a bad way to unwind.
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Re: Babble about a video game you are playing
« Reply #70 on: March 14, 2008, 12:19:12 AM »

So back when Twilight Princess first dropped (Wii) I snapped it up and loved it. Did every little nook and cranny and heart piece etc etc etc. When I got to ganon's castle I was informed by several people that Wind Waker - which I had played for all of 20 minutes and then abanonded - had a final boss that Twilight Princess tried to emulate - and didn't succeed
Fast foward to a few days ago when I finally beat Wind Waker. Just now I beat Twilight Princess. Holy shit awesome final battles.
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Re: Babble about a video game you are playing
« Reply #71 on: March 14, 2008, 03:21:18 PM »

Played Wind Waker and currently playing Twilight Princess.  For some reason, the 3D Zeldas don't seem quite as fun for me as the 2D ones... and I mean all the 2D ones; I played both Oracle games and Minish Cap in addition to the usual retinue.
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Re: Babble about a video game you are playing
« Reply #72 on: March 15, 2008, 08:25:13 AM »

You make it sound like the Oracle games weren't amazing in their own right.

I don't know about the Minish Cap though.  Never played it, but it seems too much like they were trying to stick Link with his own god-damn sentient piece of gimmick equipment.  Because everybody loved FLUDD.
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Re: Babble about a video game you are playing
« Reply #73 on: March 15, 2008, 10:02:23 AM »

The Oracle games were good, just not the first games you think of when someone says "Zelda."  As for Minish Cap, the titular hat wasn't that bad.  Loads better than Navi, to be sure, but that's not saying much.
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Re: Babble about a video game you are playing
« Reply #74 on: March 15, 2008, 03:54:38 PM »

A feral cat with diarrhea would be better than Navi
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Re: Babble about a video game you are playing
« Reply #75 on: March 15, 2008, 05:39:49 PM »

Oh, to be sure.  But as talking sidekicks that help the silent protagonist figure out what to do go, you could do a hell of a lot worse.
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Re: Babble about a video game you are playing
« Reply #76 on: March 15, 2008, 08:14:08 PM »

I finally manned up and finished System Shock 2 today. For reference, the last playthrough I attempted ended on Deck 1 (you start on Deck 2), around the cargo bays. The funny thing is, it's not actually tough at all, at least on Normal: almost everything up to Deck 4 (aside from the odd security bot and those goddamn protocol droids) can be wrenched, and by the time you hit Deck 4 you've got powered armor and lots of weapons and ammo and implants and health and cyber modules and maintenance tools and whatever else, so really not much can get in your way. It's just absolutely scary as fuck. The atmosphere in the game is downright creepy, and the game goes for more of a general "you're never really safe" kind of horror (courtesy of enemies respawning when you aren't looking), rather than relying on the "OOGA BOOGA BOOGA!!" type of horror, and it works. Goddamn does it work.

Somehow the game, with its much older graphics engine, manages to be scarier than Bioshock and its high-def bump-mapped realisticly glistening enemies, despite both games having a similar approach to creepiness and horror. At first I thought it was because Bioshock gets retardedly easy, even on Hard, once you start racking up all the good upgrades, but SS2 is about as easy, so that's out. No, I think it's that SS2's environment and enemies are much more unknown and alien to the player. Bioshock's enemies are all people who have gone insane and people wearing huge-ass diving suits. SS2, by contrast, has people who have been corrupted by an alien (well, sort of) race of parasitic worms and alternately warn you to run or tell you that their flesh welcomes you when they see you, psychic monkeys that throw bolts of cold (and later on, heat) at you, women who have been cybernetically modified to act as maternal guardians of the Many's eggs (and have also had their faces torn off, for some reason, not that they needed help with being creepy), protocol droids that ask if they can help you even as they run towards you with the intention of exploding right in your face, eggs that explode when you approach them and produce either alien worms, a swarm of bugs that can't be killed and will follow you around until they die naturally (thankfully they have a lifespan that makes the mayfly look long-lived), or a cloud of poisonous gas, big-ass alien humanoids who are fast and can hit hard, and floating psychic... things that are highly damaging and can only be permanently killed by destroying the brain hidden somewhere nearby. As creepy as Bioshock's crew was, they've got nothing on that cast of horrors.
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Re: Babble about a video game you are playing
« Reply #77 on: March 15, 2008, 10:26:24 PM »

I never even got the vibe that BioShock was meant to be scary.  I mean, your enemies are basically ruined crackfiends and bureaucrats and occasionally the big lovable robot that only wants to protect little girls.  You're never in any danger, at all, ever thanks to the regeno-whatsits, and the whole atmosphere is less "OH GOD THIS IS A NIGHTMARE" and more "Oh God... this could really happen."  At least you think that until you realize that there's no such thing as magical sea slugs.

For all the traumas in SS2, the one I never got over was the very basic zombie enemy.  We've been so conditioned to think of zombies in FPSes as pitiless fodder that it's really upsetting when they do something almost human like begging you to just get the fuck away before one or the other of you dies.
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Re: Babble about a video game you are playing
« Reply #78 on: March 22, 2008, 03:08:24 AM »

I recently picked up Mass Effect, and naturally decided on playing as a hot lesbian renegade. Got the first two parts down already, but I'm really surprised by how heavy the renegade options were. More and more, I kept finding myself pointing the analog stick up (towards the neutral and nice options), rather than the lower right it should be. The difference between Paragon and Renegade is a pretty simple philosophy: the Paragon believes in giving a chance or two, whereas the Renegade doesn't take any chances at all. I'm surprised by how far they take this, and by how affected I am, personally, by the Renegade choices:

[spoiler]I just completed one of the main missions to save a tiny colony being attacked by the evil decepticons, and it turned out that the colonists were being mind-controlled by an evil plant. When you got to the evil plant, it spat out a clone of an Asari woman for you to talk to (and fight). When you finally kill the plant, the Asari is set free, and because of what she tells you, you have the option to either allow her to live on the colony to help the people she helped make suffer (Paragon), or execute her due to her over-willingness to switch sides (Renegade). It was about that time that I remembered that I was supposed to be playing a Renegade. I wasn't prepared for how much this would actually upset me.

Even more bothersome, I was surprised that when I returned to the ship how nobody seemed to care that I shot a defenseless woman in the back of the head in cold-blood. They were more interested in how amazing and determined the recently halved colonists are. Except Liara -- she was much more interested in touching Shepard's vagina.[/spoiler]
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Re: Babble about a video game you are playing
« Reply #79 on: March 22, 2008, 03:48:40 AM »

I am playing through Skies of Arcadia again, because I had been thinking about it and I discovered that I have a save file about halfway through left over from somewhere. It made me remember rumors that I once heard about a sequel. It seems to be a moot point now, since Overworks no longer exists and Sega hates fun, but. Since the whole point of that game was exploration, a sequel wouldn't work anyway: there's not many world-shattering discoveries or revelations after the last one. I mean, you can't top finding out that [spoiler]the world is round[/spoiler], can you? But the idea of a heavily discovery- and exploration-driven RPG, with good and evil painted in broad strokes, and good-natured protagonists, and a grand old quest full of colorful characters - that's the sort of game that I'd like to see more of. RPGs, at their very roots, are good at adventures, and I can't remember any other game that feels quite this adventuresome.
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