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Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 4:12 am
by Solidé
I completed the game The Darkness on PS3.
I loved it, one of the most impressive story i've ever seen on (western...) videogame!
Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 4:20 am
by 87th
Sonic Rush. I completed it again last night, while waiting for my friend to beat Leo in ZOE2 on hard. He died too many times to bear.
I can't see why Rush is so critically lauded. I can recognise it as the best Sonic game since 1994, but it still has a ton of very obvious flaws. Some of the later levels are so "stop-and-start" in nature that they are actually a chore to play. I'd have been much happier if they added another level instead of voice-overs for Tails and Cream, too.
Sonic Team rely on the 16-bit games so much, (Sonic Mega Collection, Gems Collection, mobile phone ports, GBA port, XBox Live port, Virtual Console ports, etc.) I wish they'd do another in the same style. Maybe they should just let Nintendo do one? At least they can make good platformers.
Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 4:57 am
by Henry Spencer
If you ask me, Sonic Team just don't know what they are doing with their games...and I don't think they've made a 'great' Sonic game since the Sonic Adventure games on the DC.
Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 5:27 am
by 87th
I heard in an interview that they're aiming the games at the kids who watch the cartoon and buy the toys, not the fans of the 16-bit games.
I can't see them putting out another good game with that type of mentality.
Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 5:28 am
by Synthoid
Yeah, just look at Shadow the Hedgehog. What a debacle that was.
Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 10:02 pm
by joeypete
Final Fantasy Mystic Quest on the old SNES. I've just beaten that easy RPG. I liked it tho.
Next is Live a Live also for the SNES. (I'm old school for the past few months).
Have yet to beat Halo 3 BTW. Fun game tho- but not anymore so then the 2nd IMO. I care little for Xbox Live at this point in my life (w/ all I need to get done). I'm weird I guess. LOL!

Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2007 12:18 pm
by Synthoid
As part of my RE Halloween Marathon, I've completed RE2. I'm about halfway through RE3, I've still got CVX and RE4 to go before tomorrow morning.
Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2007 2:16 pm
by Henry Spencer
Synthoid wrote:As part of my RE Halloween Marathon, I've completed RE2. I'm about halfway through RE3, I've still got CVX and RE4 to go before tomorrow morning.
That's a good idea! I'm gutted now, since I've checked my TV, finding there are quite literally no films on this evening that are horror films, aside from Halloween, which I've already seen far too many times already. How drab. Guess I'll have to head down to my local video store tomorrow and get one, myself.
Never rely on the TV...
Oh, as for games; well, just been playing a bit of Half Life 2, not been into the video games for quite a while lately.
Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2007 2:19 pm
by Marc
87th wrote:Sonic Team rely on the 16-bit games so much, (Sonic Mega Collection, Gems Collection, mobile phone ports, GBA port, XBox Live port, Virtual Console ports, etc.) I wish they'd do another in the same style. Maybe they should just let Nintendo do one? At least they can make good platformers.
After seeing SSF2HD, I'm surprised more studios aren't doing new installments of old franchises in HD 2D. Sonic, Castlevania, Streets of Rage... the list goes on and on. Some games just work in 2D so much better than 3D.
Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2007 2:21 pm
by Henry Spencer
^The day that Sega bring back Streets Of Rage; is the day that they make another console. Ain't gonna happen, sadly.
Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2007 2:25 pm
by Marc
Henry Spencer wrote:^The day that Sega bring back Streets Of Rage; is the day that they make another console. Ain't gonna happen, sadly.
Speaking of which, it's pretty old by now, but...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BE_1M8CiINM
There's an MP3 of the set available too.
Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2007 2:27 pm
by snatcher1988
Ah yes, the soundtrack to SOR1. Yuzo Koshiro's best work by far.
Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2007 2:30 pm
by Marc
snatcher1988 wrote:Ah yes, the soundtrack to SOR1. Yuzo Koshiro's best work by far.
He plays music from 2 and 3 in it too. Not a big fan of 3's, but 1 and 2's is great stuff.
Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2007 5:08 pm
by Artemio
Yes indeed, I regularly listen to the soundtracks for 1 and 2 even today. I also play 2 on xbox live if someone is interested on finishing it (the only achivement I am missing is playing co-op online)
Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2007 5:14 pm
by Marc
Snatcher wrote:Yes indeed, I regularly listen to the soundtracks for 1 and 2 even today. I also play 2 on xbox live if someone is interested on finishing it (the only achivement I am missing is playing co-op online)
Yeah, I remember talking with you about it.
Damn, I'd totally play with you online...if I had a 360.
Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2007 5:17 pm
by 87th
Osiris wrote:
After seeing SSF2HD, I'm surprised more studios aren't doing new installments of old franchises in HD 2D. Sonic, Castlevania, Streets of Rage... the list goes on and on. Some games just work in 2D so much better than 3D.
I was actually considering that very thought when looking through
some sprites from Sonic The Screensaver today. I then started daydreaming about a hand-drawn Green Hill Zone with foliage that waves in the wind. I had to stop myself from sending death-threats to Sega employees after that.
I'm sure Capcom will put out more HD remakes if SSF2HD's sales justify them. I'm not sure if anyone else will follow their lead, but considering the art direction in some of Konami's, Sega's, Lucasarts' and Treasure's 16-Bit games, I'd be very happy if they did.
Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2007 5:51 pm
by Artemio
Osiris wrote:Snatcher wrote:Yes indeed, I regularly listen to the soundtracks for 1 and 2 even today. I also play 2 on xbox live if someone is interested on finishing it (the only achivement I am missing is playing co-op online)
Yeah, I remember talking with you about it.
Damn, I'd totally play with you online...if I had a 360.
Thanks man =) But it is a totally shitty piece of hardware, although the service and online play are great. It also has a bit more software, but that doesn't stop the HW from sucking. Mine just broke last friday, but it has already been replaced. The funny thing is that 4 of my friends had their's broken the same month. They are taking massive losses on that one, the UPS guy told me that he picks up 3 daily at least.
Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2007 10:00 pm
by Synthoid
Just nearing the end of CVX, I've got until 7am to complete RE4.
Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 10:11 am
by shidoni
Synthoid wrote:Just nearing the end of CVX, I've got until 7am to complete RE4.
hu hu hu hu, good luck! Though I didn't find RE4 to be that hard, just... more fun than anything....
Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 10:38 am
by Marc
I found RE4 to be the most disturbing of the series, but also one of the best.
Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 11:04 am
by shidoni
^ It was pretty disturbing... But I don't know, I laughed at Leon everytime he opened his stupid mouth...
Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 11:32 am
by Marc
The first time I got a headshot and that Plaga popped out the guy's neck... yeah, that freaked me out.
Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 2:25 pm
by Henry Spencer
Yeah, that was sick. But the part that really freaked me out was when you are passing through the jail cells and you open up that trash can, and find that flopping fishy sort of thing, the way it just suddenly started moving really was weird. Not to mention the Iron Maidens and Regenerators scaring the shit outta me the first time I fought them. I honestly thought on my first playthrough, they were invincible, so I just ran away from them every time. Then I found they could stretch their arms out to incredible lengths and reel you in for a bite in the neck. Ugh. Freaky shit.
Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 4:21 pm
by epitaph
I'm most likely going to be flamed for this, but I find RE4 to be the only playable Resident Evil. The others have not stood up to the test of time well at all and employ all kinds of cheap gameplay mechanics (the camera - ugh - among other things) to increase the supposed "difficulty", and herein lies one of my problems with many, many video games - their tendency to pass off poor gameplay for difficulty. I've gotten the impression that it's especially common in Japanese games (JRPGs do it a lot; the RE series did it and still does it to some extent; MGS does it etc.), but I could be wrong.
Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 4:49 pm
by shidoni
FLAME! Nah, I'm joking. They're tough... but one can argue about older games like that eh. Though I have to say, I find that kind of challenge alot of fun, aside from the fact that I find primative graphics to be inherantly scary.
I was freaked out by most of the 2nd disc of RE4... The first, one could get used to the infected village inhabitants, but, like Henry Spencer said, it was the Heaven Smiles-- oops, I mean the Regenerators... and being stuck in close quarters, hearing their whisper-gasps, along with the clever mechanics of the level design and sound/music maximizing the effect. As well on the 2nd disc was the more bizarre neck-explosion plagas, especially the ones that detach themselves from the corpses. Getting crowded by them sends the room screaming, hahah~
Ohh, edit: the last game I completed was Dead or Alive 2 Hardcore~ IMA DA CHAMPIUUNE~!! Best DoA ever, I can't play it enough!