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SuperWes
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 Posted: Thu Jun 24, 2010 5:14 am |
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Risk Factions came out today on XBL. Kind of short (5 Campaign missions for $10), but it's really good. Only $10 when most of the quality games have been $15 lately.
-Wes
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SuperWes
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| Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2010 3:18 pm |
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| ghost_dinosaur wrote: |
| Played the Crackdown 2 demo. Uh, it's pretty bad. Kinda feels like it's ignoring everything great about Crackdown in favour of action and ugly textures. I wasn't expecting much, but it still feels like a disappointment to actually play it and have my fears realized right there at my fingertips. |
I'm couldn't disagree more. It seems to take what's great about Crackdown and just give you more to do while keeping things relatively free-form. It's interesting how they put Zombies in as an excuse to give a different feeling to day and night more than anything else. I assumed they would be there to add structure, not to add to the open-worldness.
-Wes
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SuperWes
Joined: 04 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2010 8:23 pm |
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| RT-55J wrote: |
| Levi wrote: |
| What is this wonderful looking game? |
It's Hebereke, which was released in Europe under the title of Ufouria (with a couple character designs changed). |
It's available on Virtual Console in America if you're interested in a legit copy.
-Wes
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SuperWes
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| Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2010 5:46 pm |
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Played Epic Mickey last night. It's actually really good! I was expecting it to be basically unplayable based on all of the "bad camera" comments, and the camera certainly doesn't do what you want sometimes, but if you're a bit forgiving and don't mind a few obtrusive (but quick and useful) text boxes, it's pretty darn fun.
It's the first game I've played where the morality system takes place within the actual gameplay instead of being relegated to A and B choices in text boxes.
-Wes
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SuperWes
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| Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2010 8:27 pm |
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| Moogs wrote: |
It wasn't the camera for me, it was the moldy, decade old, Rare-style game design that turned me off.
That and the "quick and useful" text boxes kept telling me the same shit over and over again. Who the fuck doesn't know how to double jump these days? And what person needs to be told five times in just as many minutes? |
See, I am comparing the text boxes to Mario Galaxy where they aren't quick and rarely say anything outside of providing "flavor." The amount of recurring reminders is a bit annoying.
As for the Rare comment, I guess I haven't gotten to that point yet. There's a lot to collect, but there doesn't seem to be any incentive to collect things, and nothing urging you to return to levels before moving on. The game doesn't even seem to provide the option. Progression is tied to little mini stories/missions rather than arbitrary collectibles. And well, yeah, there hasn't been many good platformers since Jak and Daxter, so I'm more forgiving.
-Wes
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SuperWes
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| Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2010 4:02 pm |
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| another god wrote: |
| PS3 emulation is going to be real exciting. |
Yeah, this isn't happening any time soon. It's hard enough to program for a PS3, let alone program something to emulate how all of those processors work together. And buying a computer with enough power to run something like the PS3 through emulation at this point just doesn't seem cost effective.
-Wes
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SuperWes
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| Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2011 5:40 pm |
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| bleak wrote: |
| Condemned is the shit. |
It's a shame it sometimes feels like a game about beating homeless people to death.
-Wes
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SuperWes
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| Posted: Thu May 05, 2011 5:35 pm |
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You guys dissin' FFXII are cuhrazy. It wouldn't take major changes to be amazing, it IS amazing. It's my favorite Final Fantasy game by a large margin, and a game that will never be emulated or topped, mostly because nobody has the ambition to try. It's got the detail of a Matsuno game with the scale of an MMO, and everything just comes together so cleanly. The only complaints I can maybe see would be the story, but who plays RPGs for the stories?
-Wes
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SuperWes
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| Posted: Thu May 05, 2011 8:33 pm |
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| idle wrote: |
I think a large amount of people play RPGs for the stories, if the FF series is any indication. Unless that was supposed to be sarcasm. Sorry, I just woke up.
I'm kinda surprised XII is your favorite, Wes. |
Yeah, it was supposed to be a joke. Maybe not sarcasm, but something. I play RPGs for the stories as much as I play any game for the story. If it gives me another reason to play a game I'm happy, but if it doesn't I'm ok with that as long as it doesn't get in the way of the game itself.
And I don't really buy that people play FF games for the stories. I think people claim that they do, but I think that's more a result of people not taking the time to consider or correctly articulate why they enjoy things. FFVII and FFX's stories are total fucking messes, but people claim to have played those for their stories.
The best story in a Final Fantasy game is Final Fantasy IV.
-Wes
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SuperWes
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| Posted: Fri May 06, 2011 2:16 pm |
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| boojiboy7 wrote: |
| Bennett wrote: |
| I've been thinking of going back and playing 12 again, to approach it as a technical game rather than a story-and-exploration game. I think I'd probably enjoy it a lot that way. Unfortunately, I don't have a PS2. |
This is the only way to enjoy 12, as the story for the first half of the game is literally just the first Star Wars movie in a slightly modified setting. I say this as a guy that loves 12. |
You say that like it's a bad thing!
-Wes
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SuperWes
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| Posted: Mon May 16, 2011 12:08 pm |
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| Texican Rude wrote: |
OH MY GOD CATHERINE IS GREATTTTTTT.
Can't believe it's coming to the US.
It's about 10 hours long.
Seriously can't believe a game this mature is coming to the west. Almost can't believe a game this mature got made.
It's sort of the second coming of Silent Hill 2. |
I don't believe this, but I'd like to. The demo was just dumb. Seemed like a cell phone game with nice anime cutscenes.
Also: isn't it more surprising that a mature game came out in Japan at this point in history?
-Wes
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SuperWes
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| Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2011 5:25 pm |
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| Mikey wrote: |
| So according to the little rank thingy on the title screen of Galaga Legions DX I'm 406/7,548. I feel pretty good about that! I haven't had this much fun chasing high scores since The Club |
7,548 is a pretty depressing number for this game. I didn't buy it, but I liked the demo a lot. I just have too much else to play.
-Wes
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