Any gamers up in this piece?

Non-Phish General
#401

Over the weekend, I finished up Aquaria which is an independent game for PC that you can get on their site for 20 bucks or so. It’s an action game in an underwater world where this gal kind of discovers the underwater world around her…kind of plays like an underwater Metroid. It’s an excellent game. The music is gorgeous, the environments are gorgeous, even the gal’s voice-acting is gorgeous. I can’t recommend it enough.

Even funnier, it inspired me to play the original Metroid for the NES. What surprises me is how when I play these games from childhood, I’m surprised at how short they are when I remember them being longer. I breezed through the game and even parts that I remember as being long and difficult weren’t that bad at all. Very strange. I had the same thing happen when I played Zelda: Link to the Past and then breezed through it over the course of one Saturday.

I think I’ll try out this RPG called Rogue Galaxy for the PS2. It’s the last of my huge pile of games that I bought a year ago (I kept buying new games before I beat the current ones so I banned myself from buying new games until I did finish it). I’ve heard the plot is cliched but the game is fun to play so that’s good enough for me. After this, I may splurge on a PS3.

#402

OK, so I finally made the major jump over to war games. But still, I can only play in like half-hour to hour blocks… Blood pressure starts going all over the place.

Recently beat:

CoD: World At War (which I had for about six months without touching)
CoD: Modern Warfare 1 & 2
Battlefield: Bad Company

I like the Call of Duty “auto-aim” system, but that also made Battlefield a bit more exciting. So looking forward to diving deeper into the Battlefield arsenal.

I just started Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Vegas, and it is pretty hard. I am getting killed, a lot. Which I know happens, but it is frustrating.

Also, got Bioshock from eBay for 9 bucks. So that is on the backburner.

One thing I love about being behind the times, cheap games!

#403

Dude, bioshock and bioshock 2 are amazing. I’m on my second play through on bio2 to be good. So you got BC2? If so hit me up. Or when you get online with MW2 hit me up. Buddies are usually over so we all just take turns. Some are good some suck.

#404

I feel I am “the suck” category, so I don’t go online too much.

When I do, I get blasted pretty easily.

Oh, and I don’t have Bad Company 2… yet.

#405

You’ve got some Lost: Via Domus on the way too Will!

I’m kind of in this position that’s the opposite of yours, which is that I basically have played all the older games this gen and now all the new ones are too expensive, so I’m just going to keep playing the games that I have until Red Dead Redemption comes out (end of May). Splinter Cell and God of War 3 look way too tempting though…so we’ll see.

At least the Halo Reach beta is out in a couple weeks so that’s gonna be a lot of free gaming hopefully for a few months.

#406

Believe it or not, I am really looking forward to that Lost game.

And I started to play Bioshock today… frickin’ awesome!!! thus far!

Yes, that many exclamations.

#407

So, I got the Lost game from Devin today. Thanks a ton, brotha!

And I must say.

Not a great game, as far as games go.

Terrible voices.

But… I am having a blast playing it.

Yeah, I said it.

Carry on.

#408

I beat Lost, very enjoyable story.

I may play a little more and get all the achievements… you know, be ghey and all.

Anyone else interested in giving it a go? If not, I wouldnt blame ya, I can send it back to GR in the next couple of days.

#409

I hear ya. I’m still playing PS2 games that I haven’t played yet. I’m about 100 hours into this Rogue Galaxy RPG that I started. It’s quite fun to play with lots of extras to keep me busy…weapon combining, breeding insects for a fighting tournament, building items in a factory…lots of fun stuff. The plot’s cliched but most RPGs are…at least the characters are likeable.

And I’ve been banging the “independent game” drum for a while and here’s a sweet deal if you want to dive into some. Go to wolfire.com/humble and they’re selling five highly-regarded indy games for one price. The best part…name your own price! You can pay a dollar and then get all five of these games. I already did it and it’s not a fraud and they don’t believe in that DRM stuff so you can download them as much as you want. Plus it has that Aquaria game that I was ranting about. Check it out.

Stevo

#410

BioShock is definitely a one-of-a-kind sort of game. I loved the first one - such a weird, creepy, interesting story. I got BioShock 2 for Xmas, but I only got a couple hours into it and stalled there. I dunno… it’s cool, but it just feels like more of the same. There’s hardly any difference in the gameplay as far as I’ve gotten, so it doesn’t play like a sequel. (Yet?)

I sort of inadvertently stole BF: Bad Company from my brother last weekend, so I might pop that in and see how it goes. We just finished Halo ODST when I was at his place, not bad if you like the Halo games, but pretty short for a co-op campaign. Haven’t tried the Firefight mode yet.

#411

Feel free to send that LOST game to whomever wants to give it a go Will. I know I won’t be playing it again any time soon. It’s not bad as far as a LOST side story goes, sans the terrible voice acting, but as a game it just doesn’t offer much. I’m glad you gave it a play though.

All I want to play is that Halo: Reach beta. I think it’s incredible. It’s not too drastic a change from the Halo 3 multiplayer, but it just feels even more refined and the armor abilities are definitely game changers. Other than that I bought some cheap used games last weekend; Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (completely unimpressed), and Banjo Kazooie Nuts and Bolts (actually a lot of fun) to tide me over until Red Dead Redemption and Alan Wake are released on the 18th.

#412

ill have a go at the game if its not a problem will/dev. Jay, BS2 does play the same, but it amazing in its own way. trust me. keep playing. also the online is pretty fun.

#413

I read a review on it and the game described this same problem and how it’s disappointing that you get to play as a Big Daddy and yet you’re not ultra-powerful like you would expect. However, the said that later in the game, you’ll gain some awesome powers to make you feel like the badass that you should be…but you have to play through “more of the same” to get there.

It may also be that the game was handed to a different studio to make the studio. Also, I read about how they changed some parts of the plot late into production. Like there was only supposed to be one main Big Sister who haunts you throughout the game as the ultimate enemy but that was scrapped and so meetings with them are less interesting in the current game. Again, this is just stuff I read on it.

With all the stuff on Portal 2 coming out, I figured I would try out the first one so I downloaded it. It’s short so it could be a quick play.

#414

^ Portal is one of the best video games in history, period. An amazing game all around. Enjoy it, you won’t play another game like it til the sequel comes out. :slight_smile: (And I hope to god they handle that well.)

And yeah, BS2 probably gets better, and I’ll finish it someday. I just ended up getting it not long after finishing the first BioShock, so I wasn’t as excited to keep doing the same stuff in the same way, in the same environments against the same enemies. Once I get past that point I’m sure it’ll get more engaging and feel like a sequel finally.

#415

Portal is amazing.

#416

Portal is definitely awesome and totally unique, but still, I just want Half Life 3…I wish Valve would stop production on everything else until HL3 is finished.

#417

I can’t wait for Alan Wake.

And CoD: Black Ops.

#418

Yeah, Alan Wake looks fucking great. Have you been watching the little miniseries introduction you can download off XBL? It’s free, so you should check it out.

I’m buying that and Red Dead Redemption next Tuesday and I’m only going to play Alan Wake at night with all the lights turned out…and Red Dead the rest of the time.

#419

That game looks awesome.
Grand Theft Auto turns into a Western…sweet.

#420

Losr Via Domus is on its way to streetbum. How far around the OKP will it go, nobody knows.