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dhex · Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2007 11:48 am Post subject:

if only.

(see nerdcore, et al)
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JasonMoses · . Joined: 15 Oct 2004 Posts: 407

I wasn't trying to justify the game's existence over normal karaoke - shaper said "man why does karaoke revolution insist on scoring me" and I pointed out that there's a mode that doesn't.

EDIT: Oh, hey. Powershot Pinball Constructor came out in Europe recently. Gotta check that out.

SuperWes · Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2007 9:52 pm Post subject:

JasonMoses · . Joined: 15 Oct 2004 Posts: 407

Ok, so. Powershot Pinball Constructor is totally hideous, and has Pinball Quest-quality ball physics. It also makes a terrible first impression in other ways - the menus are 100% stylus driven despite the actual pinball game being controlled with the face buttons, it forces you to watch a 3-2-1-go countdown before you can start playing that is so slow as to border on the unintentionally hilarious, and the music is dreadful.

friedchicken · . Joined: 16 Mar 2005 Posts: 496 Location: Port Land, OR

Has anyone played or otherwise heard about Yuusha no Kuse ni Namaikida for the PSP? It's sort of like Dig Dug X Deception X Tower of Druaga X Lemmings, a game where you play as the villain who sets monsters in a series of underground tunnels to keep a hero-type from coming and dragging you away. You have a tool to dig out your lair at the beginning of the round. Some blocks that you dig will have monsters in them, and some monsters combine or interact to spawn different, more powerful monsters.

It's done in a really attractive 'tiny little pixel' style that is tremendously appealing (to me at least).

Anyway, the official site is here. I ordered it (along with Arkanoid DS) today, so I'll post some impressions soon, if anyone is interested.

bleak · . Joined: 22 Oct 2007 Posts: 258

It looks a little interesting, but it's hard to get past Tim Rogers' froth for it.
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friedchicken · . Joined: 16 Mar 2005 Posts: 496 Location: Port Land, OR

Oh yes? I hadn't seen, but then again I wasn't paying attention I guess.

bleak · . Joined: 22 Oct 2007 Posts: 258

Well I mean I'm all about games where you play the villain and make your own trap-filled tunnels, though granted the only one I ever bothered to play was Deception, I had a hell of a fun time with that. It's just that Tim Rogers' taste for videogames seems to run exactly to the opposite of mine. Maybe he's only frothing for it because it's Japanese?
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Cycle · Mac daddy Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 2767

Deception was pretty rad!

Dungeon Keeper was a business sim/RTS with evil clothing Sad

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Swimmy · . Joined: 16 Sep 2005 Posts: 990 Location: Fairfax, VA

I just beat Shining Soul II. It's pretty great except for the dialogue force-scrolling during all in-dungeon events. Since most of the dialogue is terrible and pointless, I just set the game down each time I came to a boss.
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bleak · . Joined: 22 Oct 2007 Posts: 258

Cycle what are you doing I thought the only game you liked was Marathon
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Cycle · Mac daddy Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 2767

bleak it's this kind of crap that made me leave selectbutton, leave it in the axe :@
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bleak · . Joined: 22 Oct 2007 Posts: 258

But you aren't in the axe anymore cycle Sad

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Cycle · Mac daddy Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 2767

I know.

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bleak · . Joined: 22 Oct 2007 Posts: 258

cycle you are depriving me of a valuable commodity and I demand reparations
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Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

NO REPARATIONS ON THIS SITE, K?
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helicopterp · . Joined: 13 May 2006 Posts: 1435 Location: Philadelphia

Mario Kart: Super Circuit is a terrible game.

Picross DS is all sorts of wonderful. I have only attempted Level 1 normal puzzles so far, though. I rented it from GameFly, but someone else's data is already on here and I can't figure out a way to remove it. It's annoying because it shows me the solutions to each puzzle before I start it. I'm going to go get it from the store today.

I have decided, after much deliberation, that BioShock is too disappointing to continue with.

Most of my time, though is spent with my roommate (who really didn't play games for about ten years before he became my roommate a few months ago). We watch each other play Team Fortress 2--he's mostly a scout; I'm mostly a pyro; having logged about 8 hours into the game, neither of us has been an engineer because they just look so boring in all their necessity--and Pac-Man Championship Edition. My high score is ~185000, and he's right on my heels at ~182000. I'm fairly positive these are the two best games released this year.

I never played a Halo game before. I start with the original this week. Wish me luck!
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Lasa · . Joined: 26 Nov 2006 Posts: 128

I'm playing my first ever Phoenix Wright game, which would be Justice for All.
Aspects of this localization are very... working designs like.
Is this a problem with all of them? Should I just play some fan translations?

Ethoscapade · . Joined: 30 Oct 2005 Posts: 276

no, you just happened to pick the worst one.

game starts out comparatively pretty okay, though..

The Great Unwashed · Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 8:35 pm Post subject:

helicopterp · . Joined: 13 May 2006 Posts: 1435 Location: Philadelphia

Unwashed, are we 360 friends yet?

I'm "Portal Mortal"
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The Great Unwashed · Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 9:32 pm Post subject:

I'm "Guy Who Can't Find A Long Enough Cat-5 Cable To Plug His 360 Into The Internet And Activate X-Box Live" but when I know more, I'll get back to you.

(Also I play TF2 on PC! But we should still be friends.)
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Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

So I got to play a lot of games today. Most of them I'd never played before. And! I did not enjoy any of them!

Halo 3
Call of Duty 4
Bioshock
Paper Mario
HL2: Episode 2 (Although it was just a demo, and I could probably see myself playing the full game a lot more)

In addition to this I played Super Mario Bros. 3 and did not have fun. Do I hate videogames?

Cycle · Mac daddy Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 2767

probably?
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Pink Teddy Bear · . Joined: 24 Aug 2007 Posts: 180

Most of the games you mentioned are pretty bad.

And Cycle, I always find myself staring at your signature for long periods of time. It's very entrancing.

helicopterp · . Joined: 13 May 2006 Posts: 1435 Location: Philadelphia

You're pretty bad.
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helicopterp · . Joined: 13 May 2006 Posts: 1435 Location: Philadelphia

Looking!
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captaincabinets · Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 9:06 pm Post subject:

Six · . Joined: 15 Jul 2006 Posts: 313 Location: montreal

So the GBC port of Shamus is a neat oddity, but the game proper is kind of mind-numbing so I'll leave it at that.

Has anyone tried Namco Museum Remix yet? I imagine it's been pushed aside as another piece of Namco-Bandai shovelware, but the remixed games actually sound kind of neat. I still contend that Pac'n'Roll is pretty underappreciated, so I'm curious as to whether it still holds any appeal on the Wii. An updated Motos is intriguing, too.

dessgeega · Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 1:56 pm Post subject:

dessgeega · Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 2:07 pm Post subject:

daphaknee, cossix, aderack, nana komatsu and i paid a visit to the milpitas golfland arcade last night. i (eventually) took the top score on normal difficulty on the mr. driller 2 cabinet, then discovered a namco classics collection cabinet featuring the seldom acknowledged two-player dig dug arrangement, which i played a couple games of with alice and the slut. a broken metal slug 5 cabinet robbed the slut and i of some token, then i played higemaru and strider on the capcom multicade. ghost squad, which i've been wanting to play, was busted, so i resolved to find a copy of the wii version. eric-jon and the slut played house of the dead, and dance dance revolution also occured (alice won). it's a nice arcade, bigger than sunnyvale's golfland and with the redemption machines segregated from the shooting/racing/fighting/dancing games. eric-jon took a moment to comment on how niche the arcade landscape has become: they couldn't last.
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Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

The arcades have become niche to survive because that's all that the people who are willing to go and spend lots of money on them want. It's an oddity. An arcade that holds SF3:Third Strike tournaments on weekends and has some odd Japanese rhythm games is going to do a hell of a lot better than on that stocks the games that Dave and Busters or Game Works stocks though w/o serving alcohol. If you want to see what really happen to the arcades go to Dave and Busters and realize that you don't want to play most of those games and walk away disappointed.
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Pink Teddy Bear · . Joined: 24 Aug 2007 Posts: 180

I'm really pissed that there are eight arcades, all within a 10 mile radius of me. I'm pissed because they are all adult arcades.

I've searched all of my city, and been to every city surrounding my city, and have not seen one regular arcade. That really makes me angry.

daphaknee · Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 11:36 pm Post subject:

by adult arcade you mean pornography and not like dave and busters right?

BLADESTORM is probably one of those most fun koei games ive ever palyed, i love that it attacks over and over and over with you just holding a button down
no really
i really like this, like a lot
i mean okay koei is overcomplicated and confusing and it took me like half an hour to figure out what the fuck iw as doing but i STUCK IT THROUGH (a rare occurance) and now i really want to play
more
and more and more and more its fun

also i just played the dangerous highschool girls in trouble demo and when i heard about it i thought it would totally be some animu buttfest but its like all these ragtime badass girls who i actually associate with and the stereotypes are so spot on
woo

okay yerah

dessgeega · Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 12:58 pm Post subject:

alice wanted me to correct my above post: she did not in fact win dance dance revolution but actually did really really terribly, and everyone was disappointed.

i think i like what dangerous high school girls is doing, and i might buy the full version when it's released.

bladestorm makes no sense whatsoever.
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daphaknee · Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 2:49 pm Post subject:

you're just jealous because you dont get to play bladestorm
you dont get to make a storm of blades
a whirlwind
a twister
a hurricane of edged weapons

Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

How come Alice doesn't post here any more?

ryan · . Joined: 20 Feb 2005 Posts: 999

Being sick and finished with the Fall semester, I'm getting time to catch up/keep pace with all the fourth quarter releases. Wee!

Aliens vs Predator: Requiem: DONE. This game sucks. Way to make the Predator feel like a gigantic pussy. Yeah, I can just shoot everything, but I'm the fucking Predator, I want to swing aliens around by their tails, rip heads off, and break some alien back. Instead, I just strafed around firing away with the shoulder and hand cannons. Blargh.

Virtua Fighter 5 Online: I didn't do too well during my first online outing. I went back and started playing the computer some more to brush up. I can't beat Dural just yet, but I do love this game so. I've been watching some videos off youtube and a couple of the few included to see what I need to do as Lion. Using the controller is a bit tough, constantly switching from analog to digital, but a $60 joystick isn't in my future. There is one thing the computer can't prepare you for, though: opponents squatting and doing a low punch ten times in a row.

Uncharted: Drake's Fortune: I am enjoying this a lot more than I was expecting. It reminds me of those Sunday afternoon movies that would come on between Hercules and Xena, with the C-/D+ grade actor running around with the woman, firing every type of gun imaginable as if they were born knowing how to do it, and gruff villains that can't quite catch a break. The scale is very impressive, with a few sequences almost catching my stomach. Good stuff.

Assassin's Creed: No, I won't give you any gold.

Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts: Hot damn, the Germans are a versatile bunch! The new British units and their bombard/rush provide a lot of ol' Sudden Strike/Blitzkrieg fun. A shame the install process was a bitch.
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dhex · Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 12:44 pm Post subject:

hey does anyone want enemy territory: quake wars? i had to get that (Cause my wife is getting me crysis for xmas and she'd be pissed if i got two copies) and i just can't fucking be bothered with online gaming.

otherwise i'm playing gears of war (interesting, though i'm stuck at the hide and seek with the monster bit) and shadowgrounds: survivor which i'm enjoying a lot more than i first did. it's gauntlet in space with aliens and exploding buckets. i bet co-op would kick ass on this.

also someone stop me i'm going to go buy the witcher and i don't really know why.

edit:
can i get a what the fucking hell people?
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ryan · . Joined: 20 Feb 2005 Posts: 999

I really enjoy Quake Wars, but I don't think too many people will be playing it in the near future. You can carpet bomb with the special ops class; I'm not saying that will sway you, just give that a few minutes to sink in. (aahhh boom boom boom! aahh this is so much fun!)

The Witcher is getting a lot of praise. It and the NWN2 expansion, which I want to get back to as soon as possible, are supposedly very good. I'd say that's actually a good call, on your part. No regrets there, chief.
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Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

Quake Wars is awesome, but it's already very low on the amount of people playing it. I try to play a couple times a week, but there's so few servers with real people playing it. Give it time and the game will pick back up if Wolfenstein: ET is any indication (there's currently something like 10k people playing right now). QW needs two things and you'll see people get into and come back to it: custom content and a much cheaper price.
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-Robert E. Howard in a letter to a friend circa Decmber 1932

"There is no place in this enterprise for a rogue physicist!"

kirkjerk · . Joined: 12 Apr 2006 Posts: 1227

Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

Well, W:ET was a free game! So they made no money on it.
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“The average man has a secret desire to be a swaggering, drunken, fighting, raping swashbuckler.”
-Robert E. Howard in a letter to a friend circa Decmber 1932

"There is no place in this enterprise for a rogue physicist!"

dessgeega · Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 4:04 pm Post subject:

arkanoid ds is great. there's a lot of vertical space - the blocks are on the top screen and the vaus on the bottom - so anticipating where the ball is going to go and returning it is pretty smooth, even at high speed (and the game gets fast quickly). the play area is narrow, too, meaning it's usually easy to hit that last block without relying on some secondary ball-trajectory-changing mechanic like in break quest. death has also been changed: instead of three lives, you now have a barrier that takes three hits before it vanishes, so death doesn't break the game's flow or the ball's motion.

you earn unlock points that you can use to buy a bunch of different graphics to reskin the game's stages (which are explored via darius-like branching paths). so far i bought blocks that are shaped like space invaders. (there are a huge amount of wallpapers.) i havn't tried "quest mode" yet, the other of the game's two single-player modes.

i havn't been playing with the ds paddle, either, because i've only flashed the game. i'll probably buy a paddle, though. it does control really well with the stylus, as you might expect.

i got bored of geometry wars ds, by the way. yeah, it's too easy.
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