[RobotRocker]

Playing Sega Rally Revo on a regular TV set = Rocking good times

Playing Sega Rally Revo on a HDTV set = Religious Experience. Hallowed be thy Stratos.
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[Lurky]

Snatcher has about as much gameplay as a MGS4 mission briefing; It is blatantly a take on Blade Runner.
I like it. :)

[Drem]

I never realized until today, after seeing the frame data and joystick input display options in Virtua Fighter 5's exhibition mode, that they are all actually recorded matches. Are these taken from the arcade? That's pretty awesome.


JoJo's Bizaare Adventure on the PSX has a great story mode. I am currently watching my friends play Gradius with Stands.

[dongle]

I played two levels of the Duke 3D XBLA port last night. I never liked Duke 3D that much when it was new, but I dug the CON hacking and the BUILD editor's instant-preview thing made mocking up floor-plans of my house for my friends to DM in much more convenient than DOOM's editing tools of the day. Anyway, take the modding out of Duke 3D and it's a collection of boring weapons, boring enemies, and boring, if somewhat creative, level design.

:(

[sam]

wipEout HD

wooooah
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[invisibleyogurt]

[kzkb1]

Playing GTA San Andreas on the PC has been somewhat revelatory to me because I've never really gotten into a GTA game before but the sense of bliss associated with seemingly-endless freedom is pure here, and especially after playing IV it's cool how driving is fun, moving your character isn't a chore, the world is actually interesting to be in, and the missions tend to be mildly affable rather than torture.

[firenze]

Gotta say, the Duke3D XBLA port's "rewind" feature is really cool. It's not just a Prince of Persia style rewind for a few seconds and retry sort of thing, you can go through the entire level like you were watching a video, and at any point press play to start from that point.

I always considered myself more of a Doom guy, but I don't think I realized how much I played Duke back then. It has really well designed hidden secrets in the levels, the action is pretty straightforwardly intense, and it's just a fun little game.

[Felix]

[CubaLibre]

[glossolalia]

played some kirby super star ultra ds or whatever. i don't really want to talk about the changes except that the fmvs are pretty stupid. it's way, way easier than i remember, but that's probably just me being a decade older.

this game is/was fucking generous. no pop-up tutorial every time you get a new ability, no stringing them along with little variation a la kirby 64, not a lot of "hey! use this here!" just tons of different forms all over the place, many of which play really differently from the others or have a surprising number of moves - you could go through a whole game with fighter or suplex or ninja and not get sick of it.

i forgot about the rpg section in great cave offensive, too. "you gained 285 exp! not that it matters. courage went up by 4! puffiness went up by 1! eye shine went up by 5!"

[gooktime]

vehicle handling in GTA IV is gorgeous jesus

[Predator Goose]

[monaco]

I'm catching up!

It's quite the experience, and one of the most aurally blissful, to be playing with the Wiimote in one hand with all the buttons that one needs, for the first time this game called EarthBound.
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fbk . skp . ggl

[haze]

I finished Marathon Infinity today

this is a good story

play Marathon



also finished MOTHER3 for the second time through. aw shucks.

[dementia]

3S over 2Df. I'm pretty terrible. Netcode rocks though.

[sharc]

finished prince of persia: sands of time. sorry cuba libre i still hate your game dude. :\ kind of makes me want to write something about it just to get it off my chest.

got to the last boss of elemental master. in years of owning the game i never did beat the boss of stage 6, who's invulnerable to whatever you can throw at her. i always assumed i was missing some obvious weak spot somewhere, but somehow i never noticed that at that point in the story your standard weapon suddenly grows a charge-up function that obliterates the shit out of everything. triumph of finally putting her down was a little dimmed by reaching the final stage to find a lame boss rush though.

i got a wonderswan a little while ago! rhyme rider kerorikan is fucking absurdly hard.

[Marshmallow]

[Tlon]

beat The Warriors last night... short game. probably the first Rockstar game i've finished... not that i beat many games
played Shinobi on the PS2 this morning... woo Ninja Dogs! its interesting how 'pure' it is - no buying abilities, no RPG crap. just featureless rooms, slashing, and wall-jumping

probably going to play Shadow of the Colossus later
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[Tlon]

played like 7 hours of Gungrave: Overdose yesterday. this thing is pure gaming. the plot is silly, the characters are over the top and awesome, and after playing it my hands couldn't stop shaking... but man its awesome. more games like this
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From way out beyond the stars
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It will store our brains in mason jars

[Lurky]

Just started Super Metroid, these are some nice graphics.

Tion, I think your avatar made me do it.

[Tlon]

ah...
your avatar makes me want to play the Bad Dudes cabinet that was in the YMCA that was across from my ex's house in the States that i'd play during 'Neon Nights' - the preteen/middle school/early high school social mixers that had dances and kareoke and videogames and i'm going to stop before i go into a really pathetic nostalgia trip
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Someday somethings coming
From way out beyond the stars
To kill us while we stand here
It will store our brains in mason jars

[CubaLibre]

[Mikey]

[CubaLibre]

I am okay with this
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Let's Play, starring me.

[chompers po pable]

been playing castlevania 3 for a few days now. hard mode is really....really hard. i'm on the ghost ship right now, getting my ass kicked. i played through the game the first time with the 'help me' extra life code, and the second time straight up killa g style, with no codes. i love grant, i've tryed playing with sypha, she's really cool, and alucard, meh...neither of them really stuck...grants quick with the knife (sypha's staff is also quick, to wit...and she looks cool, has some devastating spells. grant though, grant) and is a wall climbing pirate. if i had money to burn, i'd buy a famicom and a copy of this game, but as it is i'll just begrudgingly slog through hard mode with my gimped grant and gimped music/graphics and tell myself it's all the better for being made inferior and harder. love this game.

[monaco]

neo contraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

i can't believe i ran thru the second half of mission 3 without shooting anybody, mad grin on my face
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fbk . skp . ggl

[glossolalia]

[glossolalia]

i'm also sticking with my persona 3 tradition of trying to keep at least one hot chick demon in my roster at all times

[leoboiko]

Into Rockman ZX. Good little game overall, but I dislike the new rating system where you have to kill bosses without hitting their weak spot to earn a plushie — it’s annoying and not a measure of real ability. I miss Rockman Z’s insane score requirements; they really made me play Rockman with an attention to detail I never did.

[Tlon]

i got really bored with ZX and ZX Advent tripped me up on the first boss. sucked 'cause i love the art
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From way out beyond the stars
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It will store our brains in mason jars

[Tlon]

oh and i beat Gungrave: Overdose as Rocketbilly... time to beat it on the other difficulty modes as Juji and Grave. i was kinda affected by the anime cutscenes... go Nightow

oh god what if i turn into an otaku...
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From way out beyond the stars
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[Martial Loh]

been playing lots of Crackdown & Too Human, co-op. For some inexplicable reason my save in Crackdown became corrupted, so I had to delete my old 4 star agent.. I've rebuilt him fairly quickly, except for his shooting skill, which has remained at 3* thanks to my overzealous rocket use.

Too Human is still frickin' awesome, despite its buggy nature.. Its such a pity that the majority of reviews are negative, though I feel that its mainly down to the reviewers not spending enough time with the game (check out any review footage....they never do any combos and rarely have characters above level 10 - thats less than an hour's playing!).

About to restart Castlevania Circle of the Moon on le GB Micro.

[leoboiko]

Sim City Creator DS, aka Sim City DS 2. This is an attempt to make Sim City into a videogame, with varying success. It feels rushed-on at times; for example, it has cartoon characters to advise you but the “sims” are abstract non-cartoon blue anthropomorphic figures.

Drawing your city with the stylus is somehow more pleasurable than using a mouse. Unfortunately the controls are not very well thought-of and it’s easy to do things you don’t want to.

Gamewise it’s still Sim City, as addicting and perplexing as ever. I had to ask in a forum to learn why the hell the sims were leaving my city when every single in-game indicator was perfect (turns out from the second age onwards you’re not supposed to place agricultural regions next to residential zones, a detail the in-game advisers never mention). I hated that, but on second though I kind of dig this opacity — it builds the lore sharing aspect of videogames tim108 was talking about, something difficult to do in these days of internets.

[nocturnedelight]

After owning Guitar Hero 2 for about a year, and even beating it on Expert finally a few weeks ago...I was finally able to get the lag calibration set about as good as I think I'll ever get it, and the game is actually fun now (relatively speaking, since the Xplorer isn't really fun to play with).

The lag calibration option is terrible, btw. It's auto based on strumming to a click sound and a visual indicator, and most of the time is doesn't even set any time lag difference. Weeks ago I got it at 25-ish and thought that was as good as I could get it. Now it's at 15-ish.

So last night I 5starred all the standard songs on hard.

Did that instead of practicing on my real guitar with fresh strings. :(
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[leoboiko]

[nocturnedelight]

[Tlon]

for the price of Guitar Hero and a fake guitar i can buy a shitty real guitar
i mean i know its an old argument and stuff but if i'm going to sit in my room pretending to be a rock star i might as well do it in a way that will help me get gigs outside of poetry open mics
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Someday somethings coming
From way out beyond the stars
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It will store our brains in mason jars

[Lurky]

My shitty bass sits in a closet. It was still a way better purchase then Guitar Hero would have been.

[Leau]

I don't particularly like the Guitar Hero games, but I do like that the games continue to incise guitarists, or people who consider themselves to be such. Much like passing gas, this never seems to cease amusing me.
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[Tlon]

yeah its pretty silly but to some people the guitar is like a sacred object. i want more music games that are like Gitaroo Man or the Rocketbilly bit of Gungrave, where the guitar is an object of power... not just a Simon Says game

i'm probably saying that 'cause i don't play guitar tho
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Someday somethings coming
From way out beyond the stars
To kill us while we stand here
It will store our brains in mason jars