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sediment · Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 2:31 pm Post subject:

lost odyssey and culdcept saga came in from gamefly today!

i'm also betaing something that I can't say anything about, but I'm kind of excited about it.

and I'm still playing WoW. left my rogue at 29 to sort of be a warsong/arathi twink. I like to play base defense. wee-ha!
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Swimmy · . Joined: 16 Sep 2005 Posts: 990 Location: Fairfax, VA

Marathon part 1 complete! It was rather dull. Durandal is already better in a lot of ways. I'm slogging through on the easiest setting because I really just want to get to the mindfuck story that's supposed to be Infinity.

Marathon's story turns a little bit interesting, but what bothers me is: wait, humans designed this ship? Then why is it so retarded? I can buy hidden passageways and elevators with huge barriers in between them if it's Hell. Not so much if it's a human ship.

Edit: It's probably worth noting that the only interesting things at the beginning of Durandal, so far, are such because I played the first game. I know what the S'pht, Pfhor, Durandal, and Marathon are, including bits of history for each. Otherwise I imagine this is all "blah blah blah."

Edit again: I just encountered my first S'pht and he freakin' shot at me! I can't tell if this is deliberate or stupid.
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sediment · Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 4:01 pm Post subject:

holy fucking shit lost odyssey is four discs of cutscenes, twenty minutes of actual gameplay

it's like ffvi meets ffx, really, except with about a billion years of watching flyover of this country or that country while they spell out random words

also, my fiancee says the entire game looks like it was made using poser, everyone moves like they're a wax sculpture with a little steam engine inside.

the plus side, male lead's a total hobag, although he's a total emo kid.
Seriously, why is it immortal characters tend to be all "WAAAAH I CAN'T DIE" ? I really liked the Nameless One, mostly because he was like "huh, I can't die. Hey guys, I'm gonna go jump on that giant exploding bomb so you can get through, okay?" and "neat, a magic ring on a severed hobo finger, i'll just bite my finger off and stick this one on" and "okay old lady, you can rip my intestines out".

Also there's someone named Goatse. IT'S AN ENTIRE NATION.
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GOD.

I guess i should recommend people read that summary of marathon 1 parish wrote before they play marathon 2.
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daphaknee · Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2008 2:54 am Post subject:

the world is ending with me the world is ending with me the world is ending with me the character design is amazing i am such a teenager
i want to go shopping
i want to KILL HTE NOISE

the combat is amazing you pass a puck back and forth so you dont HAVE TO take turns but it helps you with who to focus on, your abilities are PINS YOU WEAR BECAUSE YOU'RE SO PUNK ROCK

im not far at all but i cant get higher than an E rank on battles, i think i dont have hte hang of it yet and i hope i learn soon

the vocal loops in this game remind me of persona three, goddamn LYRICS IN VIDEOGAME MUSIC WHYYYY

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daphaknee · Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2008 6:44 am Post subject:

harveyjames right now would be a good time to shut the fuck up

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sediment · Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2008 8:58 am Post subject:

culdcept saga certainly seems like it doesn't do the series justice.
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dhex · Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2008 11:04 am Post subject:

as a side note, beowulf is fucking wack and gilgamesh is where the motherfuckin' party's at.
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extrabastardformula · . Joined: 08 Feb 2007 Posts: 295

Elevator Action Old & New is pretty tight. It takes off nicely from EX on GBC (released as Dexter's Laboratory) in the States) which was also pretty damn nice. The way it slowly introduces new enemies is pretty good as each one really changes the dynamics a lot. The zombies that get introduced in the lab stages force you to make use of the doors to hide!

My earliest gripe with it was the aspect ratio on the GBA not being ideal for such a vertical game, but I've finally got to the seventh building after many weeks of off and on playing and things suddeny get horizontal. I think this may be my favorite Elevator Action ever, trumping Dexter's Laboratory and EA Returns!
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dhex · Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2008 11:39 am Post subject:

as an actual games note: isfet showed me dead rising, (and a few other 360 games in glorious hi-def) and i must say i hope they work that concept into something a bit more measured. love the dresses, love the coathanger to the face and cash register to the skull, etc...
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Swimmy · . Joined: 16 Sep 2005 Posts: 990 Location: Fairfax, VA

I know someone who knows this guy, who works for Valve now. Anyone wanna tell me how his Portal levels are?
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dessgeega · Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2008 12:24 pm Post subject:

i used to go to school with that guy. i don't think i've ever met him though.
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Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

I played The Misadventures of Tron Bonne for quite a while last night. It's a very complex and deep game for being basically a hodge-podge of different genres.

I also opened up the Torture Chamber to punish lazy servebots.

Overall it's pretty fantastic, though the RPG section (it's labeled as such) is very boring and slow... though I guess that sort of was what they're going for.
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Cycle · Mac daddy Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 2767

i have played a few games! since i got my flashcart to work

first, finished gears of war with bleak. it was fun and i don't hate the game as much i used to, but i still think it needed a butt load of work. the finale and ending was also quite underwhelming/dumb.

ghost squad is the most awesome light gun game ever. one of my new favourite games for the wii! just brilliant.

endless ocean is pretty swell, though the fish swimming patterns are a little too transperant. i also like how there is a story even though it's really dumb and japanese.

assassin's creed DS is like prince of persia 2D but in 3D, doesn't seem too awful so far, surprisingly.

shiren is pretty great, i love the visuals and the jrpg stuff mixed with roguelike stuff, however i wish they used NPCs in more interesting ways. perhaps a little too jrpgy in that respect.

sega superstar tennis is pretty great on the DS, mixes pre-rendered backgroudns with polygons to good effect. it plays great and is lots of fun, especially when you get to harder AI, but the gameplay may be a little too shallow for me to keep playing. needed to be more liek top spin! also needed wifi play, only has local wifi unfortunately. i can see myself coming back to this game often for quick games, though.

cooking mama 2 is cooking mama 1 but better in every way, really! i still want to write an article where i follow the directions in cooking mama for real food and see how sick i get. i'd get less sick if used cooking mama 2, it's a little more specific.

ninja reflex looks kinda interesting, i guess. the graphics are nice! didn't play this one much.

insecticide has nice visuals, but the gameplay is pretty medicore so far. i hear the action bits re drab but the adventure bits are good so i'll give this a better going at later on.

warhammer squad command is in spanish so i couldnt figure out how to play. looks cool, though!

ninja gaiden is in japanese but was easy enough to figure out. looks pretty fun so far, though perhaps a little bit too much of a stylus slasher (as opposed to a button masher)

and finally, space invaders extreme is one of the greatest games ever.
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I played the demo for Echochrome and it played exactly as I expected it to from the videos I've seen. This is quite disappointing. Also the demo is only three real levels and 5 tutorial levels. I'm honestly not all that interested in the game anymore.
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Lasa · . Joined: 26 Nov 2006 Posts: 128

After hitting a wall in the form of the wolf FOE in Etrain Odyssey when it first came out, I finally picked it back up and made it to the third stratum. The damn queen ant battle though is really frustrating.

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

I played Mr. Driller Online. Whaaaaa! Why are the graphics just those of the Gameboy Advance version but blown up?

Also, N+. Not as good as Super Mario Galaxy.

Played some more Marathon. I don't dislike it...

Probably played something else. The Xbox360 demos I keep going back to are: Beautiful Katamari, Dead Rising. Xbox 360 games I actually own: 0.

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I got Ghost Squad, and it's ok, but I'm not sure I'm *getting* Ghost Squad, if you know what I mean. (Partially me and my buddy aren't so good at it at this point) Someone explicate the appeal?
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SuperWes · Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 7:07 am Post subject:

I agree about Echochrome. It's really not very good at all. Also there's no level editor!

I'm still playing Crisis Core and Gran Turismo. Gran Turismo's kind of a pain in the ass to play. I've got to pull out my wheel every time because it's just not the same without it. I tried last night without the wheel and just got frustrated at how intuitive it stopped being.

-Wes
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sediment · Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 10:07 am Post subject:

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My dad hasn't done anything funny while playing computer games lately, but here is something else that happened:

Apparently when my dad and my mum were together many years ago he had some kind of homosexual affair with another man. I've never talked to him about this, but I've never really been interested. In fact, I've managed to last 25 years of my life without his sexuality ever really coming up, besides that he likes 'cunt' and 'tits' and in the 90's, he used to talk a lot about Peggy from Married With Children. Specifically, he would tell me 'when I'm in bed, and I'm having a wank, I think about Peggy from Married With Children'. Anyway, I came home from work today to see he was watching Stargate SG-1, a program he likes a lot. Then he started talking about MacGuyver, a show Stargate's Richard Dean Anderson is also in. Here are some things I learned from my dad today:

1.) MacGuyver is 'hot'.
2.) Richard Dean Anderson is 'a very sexy man'.

That is all.

sediment · Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 2:44 pm Post subject:

My dad looks like a dark-haired Richard Dean Anderson.

I am vaguely frightened.
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simplicio · . Joined: 03 May 2005 Posts: 1091

Hey so Space Invaders Extreme- DS or PSP?
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dessgeega · Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 10:41 pm Post subject:

ds.

i havn't played the psp version, but the ds boss fights do marvelous things with the dual screens' vertical space.
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helicopterp · . Joined: 13 May 2006 Posts: 1435 Location: Philadelphia

yeah: i'm not sure how the stage 4 boss would translate to a single screen, since it's primary mechanic is a visual reversal.
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aderack · . Joined: 15 Jun 2005 Posts: 1105 Location: San Francisco

I keep reading your username as "helicopter pervert".
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Aderack is the king of the 'misreading' gag.

dessgeega · Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2008 11:58 am Post subject:

and i'm the queen of the mishearing gag. you don't know, harvey james.
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aderack · . Joined: 15 Jun 2005 Posts: 1105 Location: San Francisco

This isn't the misreading gag. You're right; it's just, this is different. It's more an issue of filling in the blanks. What does "P" stand for? Well, "Pervert", clearly. I think it's the "er" sound and the "t" just before it, still lingering in memory.
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helicopterp · . Joined: 13 May 2006 Posts: 1435 Location: Philadelphia

the p doesn't stand for anything. it's all one word. it doesn't mean anything.

it's like "hella kop turp"

WHO'S THE PERVERT NOW!?

aside from dessgeega. she's an all-purpose one.
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Winged Assassins (1984) · Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2008 5:51 pm Post subject:

I've always thought it stood for "helicopter pimp".
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Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

It's also mispelt. he is 'Hella copter pervert.' Like you thought you'd seen copter perverts before. They were nothing compared to this one.

Anyway, I PLAYED CAVE STORY

Pretty much all the way through! I got stuck on the very last boss, though. But, it's great. It's exactly what you want from a video game, really. It just seems to get everything right. I think my favorite moment was when I went and found the tiny woman's husband and brought him home. Just because both the woman and the husband were so easy to miss, and it was such a leap of logic to assume that going and finding him again would actually do anything, that it was very gratifying when the game actually let me take him home and rewarded me for it. It was like the perfect videogame secret.

I also found a number of things on the way to the end I still don't know what the hell to do with, like the blue mushroom man and the clock room! I will have to cheat and read up on what to do with them, because I don't think I'm going to beat this boss equipped as I am.

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I beat Cave Story! And I'm going to play though it again, without question! That it's possible to save Curly Brace is incentive enough to play through it again, but there are all types of things I seem to have missed. That was wonderful.

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Lestrade · Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2008 11:40 pm Post subject:

Am I turning into a casual gamer? I haven't played much of anything in weeks, it seems. Even HL2: Episode 1 is sitting unfinished in my 360 (though I know I'll get to it and its sequel eventually). I'm thriving mostly off occasional bouts of Rock Band, and even those are few and far between these days.

The really interesting part is that none of this seems to bother me. This seems odd considering I have five separate video game systems hooked up to my HDTV right now, yet the games I'm most looking forward to are Wii Fit and Guitar Hero: On Tour.* I keep watching preview videos and reading about new releases and it all just washes right over me.

Maybe I should hand in my badge and gun. Move over, grandma!

*Actually, I'm starting to think that Space Invaders Extreme is going to be pretty good too.

ryan · . Joined: 20 Feb 2005 Posts: 999

I've been playing mostly older games lately. A lot of time with Rome, Street Fighter Alpha 2, Civilization II, with the only new titles being Mana Khemia: Alchemists of Al-Revis for the PS2. I'm looking forward to Wii fit as well; I'm not sure how effective it's going to be, but it has to be better than the no movement I'm getting now. Come to think of it, I've been having an urge to play PowerStone lately. I think I need to take the Dreamcast out of retirement.
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