[Aptorian]

I've also bought the Metroid Prime trilogy. Finished the first Metroid Prime around a month ago. Really liked the game, I especially appreciated how much better the wii-remote is at First person shooting than your regular console controller.

Don't worry about the final boss, by the time you get to it you'll be used to switching back and forth. I still got confused some time though about which button was visors and which button was lasers.

While I really liked the game, I have to say that the constant running back and forth from one zone to another over and over again made me frustrated. I quickly gave up trying to keep track of all the areas that I needed what ever for and just pulled out a walkthrough.

[POOPOO MCBUMFACE]

Finished Wizardry 7 and Witcher 2. Wizardry 7 was an awesome, awesome game, wish I'd played it earlier. Now to import the party to Wizardry 8 and finish off the Dark Savant trilogy... it's been a hell of a ride, one of my best RPG experiences ever.

Witcher 2 was... good. Disappointing, but good. The final act's linear hacky-slashyness was made up for by some devastatingly difficult choices - even though I knew they'd have no real consequences, I was so immersed in the story by this point that they just felt damn hard anyway. I actually had to put the game down four times to ruminate over what to do next, and I haven't done that in... well, ever. So kudos on making a great interactive story, but hopefully the next one provides a better game.

Spoiler

Said four decisions were: killing Henselt, saving Triss/the child, killing Sile, killing Letho. Ended up killing Henselt, saving the child, and letting the last two go - I was all set on killing them, but after killing Henselt, I felt that I wasn't really in a moral position to judge them and wanted to salvage my neutral-Witcher playstyle. Besides, Letho was a bro.

[D'rek]

Pennyapt, on 19 July 2011 - 04:02 PM, said:

I've also bought the Metroid Prime trilogy. Finished the first Metroid Prime around a month ago. Really liked the game, I especially appreciated how much better the wii-remote is at First person shooting than your regular console controller.

Don't worry about the final boss, by the time you get to it you'll be used to switching back and forth. I still got confused some time though about which button was visors and which button was lasers.

While I really liked the game, I have to say that the constant running back and forth from one zone to another over and over again made me frustrated. I quickly gave up trying to keep track of all the areas that I needed what ever for and just pulled out a walkthrough.

I liked the exploring, but it was really annoying that there were places you could explore in a direction for an hour only to reach a part that said "Too bad, you need this missing equipment" and have to backtrack that whole hour. There's some crashed underwater ship I remember making my way through like that until I got to an unpassable point, and it was even harder getting back out. Why didn't they make me need that other equipment at the very start of the ship?! Like Apt I never got used to the visor switching and could never remember what each was good for either, so the invisible baddies always scared the crap out of me. My roomate complains that colour-coding the enemies by the laser you need to shoot them with is silly, but I never would've gotten through it without that!

I played a bit of the second metroid prime but got too bored/frustrated with figuring out how/when/where to use the dark world.

The third one was nice for exploring, though I had to be told a few times where to backtrack to once I'd acquired some new equipment. Thankfully the enemies were usually easier, ass the wii-controls are a bit awkward. There's one part where you move on rollercoaster-ziplines and have to accurately shoot down things flying around your or you get knocked off - had me throwing wii remotes around everywhere...

[Serenity]

D, on 19 July 2011 - 08:20 PM, said:

Pennyapt, on 19 July 2011 - 04:02 PM, said:

I've also bought the Metroid Prime trilogy. Finished the first Metroid Prime around a month ago. Really liked the game, I especially appreciated how much better the wii-remote is at First person shooting than your regular console controller.

Don't worry about the final boss, by the time you get to it you'll be used to switching back and forth. I still got confused some time though about which button was visors and which button was lasers.

While I really liked the game, I have to say that the constant running back and forth from one zone to another over and over again made me frustrated. I quickly gave up trying to keep track of all the areas that I needed what ever for and just pulled out a walkthrough.

I liked the exploring, but it was really annoying that there were places you could explore in a direction for an hour only to reach a part that said "Too bad, you need this missing equipment" and have to backtrack that whole hour. There's some crashed underwater ship I remember making my way through like that until I got to an unpassable point, and it was even harder getting back out. Why didn't they make me need that other equipment at the very start of the ship?! Like Apt I never got used to the visor switching and could never remember what each was good for either, so the invisible baddies always scared the crap out of me. My roomate complains that colour-coding the enemies by the laser you need to shoot them with is silly, but I never would've gotten through it without that!

I played a bit of the second metroid prime but got too bored/frustrated with figuring out how/when/where to use the dark world.

The third one was nice for exploring, though I had to be told a few times where to backtrack to once I'd acquired some new equipment. Thankfully the enemies were usually easier, ass the wii-controls are a bit awkward. There's one part where you move on rollercoaster-ziplines and have to accurately shoot down things flying around your or you get knocked off - had me throwing wii remotes around everywhere...

Yeah, these are common issues, I think. They never really bothered me, I must admit - but, then, I've become a huge Metroid fan, including the 2-d platformers, and they all follow this pattern: you start with all the equipment, then something happens and you lose all but the basic stuff and have to set off in search of it all. I loved going into areas for the first time, hearing the telltale sound of a power-up somewhere in the vicinity, or seeing a door which I couldn't open, knowing that I would be able to come back to it and go further into the level at a later point. I remember the crashed ship well! I think I'm approaching that bit again in the Wii version.

The second Prime game was an utter, utter bastard on the Cube, but I hear they've adjusted some parts of it for the Wii version, so I'm looking forward to that. The third game was great, but not nearly as good as the first two, imo. I don't think anything in either of the two sequels ever matched the first visit to Phendrana Drifts in the original game. If you thought the Wii controls were awkward, though, you should have played the first two on the Cube - I remember finishing sessions on Prime 1 with my hand locked into a claw shape

[Adjutant Stormy~]

Just reinstalled a classic, Escape Velocity Nova (which is the 3rd, but you can run mods on it to play 1 & 2 alongside dozens of custom ones) which is a top-down space-shooter/trader. I am suffering from extreme nostalia-paralysis right now.

[Vengeance]

Dragon Age Origins. It is pretty bad ass. I know why so many of you guys loved it so much.

[Gothos]

Be sure to check out at least Awakening and Golems of Amgarrak of the DLCs!

[Hull Beddict]

Playing Dragon Age: Origins, abusing the bad AI, cursing the camera, and pining for Icewind Dale.

[Beliar]

X3 : Terran Conflict

Why you ask, because I love Sci-fi as much as I love a good RPG, and I've been trying to play and complete it since I bought it a number of years ago only It just requires a lot of time which was being spent reading MBoTF

[Tuberski]

I've been playing a lot of Din's Curse. It's a Diablo clone with a difference:

Quote

Din's Curse is an action RPG with multiplayer, 141 class combinations, real consequences, and a dynamic world.Din, champion of the gods, has cursed you into a second life of service because you selfishly squandered your first one while causing misfortune to those around you. Travel the plains of Aleria and save desperate towns from the brink of annihilation. Until you're redeemed, you're doomed to wander the earth alone for all eternity.

This post has been edited by Tuberski: 22 July 2011 - 04:47 PM

[Sammehmander Rake]

Getting back into FFXIV (Final Fantasy 14) the failed MMO we all know and... love? well patch 1.18 came out the other day. and the game certainly is feeling more like a proper game. lots of quests and life in the world. more things to do and an all together smoother experience, It still lacks that certain Final Fantasy Flavour that is what its all about. but I enjoy the game, and its still Free to play indefinitely! basically an extended BETA. it is an incredibly pretty game visually. so if thats your thing.. then.. yeah! woo

[Solidsnape]

Just got MGS4 back off the Polish guy at my work. He's had it for about a year!!!!

I'll be sneaking it up real nice later.

[Dolmen 2.0]

Playing Darksiders...Its like a coalition of every god-of-war-type game you've ever played with a touch of portal in it aswell.
I regretfully admit I'm enjoying it...or atleast I was enjoying it. I managed to get myself stuck in the midnighttower (or
something named to equal amounts of melodrama).

After you defeat tiamat and move on to the level with the crystal pounding gloves, new areas become available in the previous stages
that you couldn't access. in blond ambition I rushed back to see what I could find only to drop into the hole in the ground
where you get the over sized shuriken. now im stuck.

I cant believe such a huge mistake just waits for anyone interested in a hidden item search. wow. not sure I wanna start
over, but pounding the final bosses was SOOO much fun...

[Aptorian]

I've been playing The Saboteur this weekend. It's a mix of Assassins Creed and Just Cause, it's the story of an Irish race car driver turned freelance Saboteur for the French resistance and the British SOE during the French Occupation.

It didn't get a very good score, an average of 70-75 when it came out I think, which is understandable. The car physics are not good, the climbing and roof traversel is a bit awkward, the action slightly clunky, the design and interface a little unpolished, etc. And yet I really like it. There's nothing quite like the stereotypical evil nazi as a villain. It just feels so good running them over with your car or sneaking up behind one and snapping their neck.

Playing it I can't help but wonder what could be achieved if somebody picked the game up and made the same improvements that was made between Assassins Creed and Assassins Creed 2.

This post has been edited by Pennyapt: 24 July 2011 - 08:42 AM

[MTS]

I bought that game for PC late last year - ended up being so buggy I couldn't play it, which was disappointing, as it looked like a game I would really enjoy.

[Gothos]

Dolmen, on 24 July 2011 - 06:29 AM, said:

Playing Darksiders...Its like a coalition of every god-of-war-type game you've ever played with a touch of portal in it aswell.
I regretfully admit I'm enjoying it...or atleast I was enjoying it. I managed to get myself stuck in the midnighttower (or
something named to equal amounts of melodrama).

After you defeat tiamat and move on to the level with the crystal pounding gloves, new areas become available in the previous stages
that you couldn't access. in blond ambition I rushed back to see what I could find only to drop into the hole in the ground
where you get the over sized shuriken. now im stuck.

I cant believe such a huge mistake just waits for anyone interested in a hidden item search. wow. not sure I wanna start
over, but pounding the final bosses was SOOO much fun...

Do it, the game is crazy fun I must say. Plus - god of war / devil may cry / zelda gameplay without idiotic fixed camera angles! And WH40k-level cheesy beefness!

[Mentalist]

still playing through Alpha protocol. i'm in my third city (Taipei), and i've started to encounter some of the bugs the game was infamous for.
nothing too serious, but sometimes when I reload an area, voice prompts don't play properly. which can be really annoying when said voice prompt is supposed to turn all the guards hostile, but because it doesn't occur, they all treat you as an ally and ignore you no matter how many alarms you set off.

oh, and in this level the minigame sudddenly get a lot harder. if before they were a mild irritant, now they are a game-breaker. have to go back and stock up on several dozen EMP charges to bypass them.

[Primateus]

These days I'm mostly playing War Inc. Battlezone. It's a free FPS game on Steam and it ain't half bad.

[Tattersail_]

POOPOO MCBUMFACE, on 19 July 2011 - 07:14 PM, said:

Finished Wizardry 7 and Witcher 2. Wizardry 7 was an awesome, awesome game, wish I'd played it earlier. Now to import the party to Wizardry 8 and finish off the Dark Savant trilogy... it's been a hell of a ride, one of my best RPG experiences ever.

Witcher 2 was... good. Disappointing, but good. The final act's linear hacky-slashyness was made up for by some devastatingly difficult choices - even though I knew they'd have no real consequences, I was so immersed in the story by this point that they just felt damn hard anyway. I actually had to put the game down four times to ruminate over what to do next, and I haven't done that in... well, ever. So kudos on making a great interactive story, but hopefully the next one provides a better game.

Spoiler

Said four decisions were: killing Henselt, saving Triss/the child, killing Sile, killing Letho. Ended up killing Henselt, saving the child, and letting the last two go - I was all set on killing them, but after killing Henselt, I felt that I wasn't really in a moral position to judge them and wanted to salvage my neutral-Witcher playstyle. Besides, Letho was a bro.

Are there games like this for the X box, or for a DS or I phone? I recently got Crystal Defenders which was okay and i've played Etrian's Oddysee (sorry if that's spelled wrong) which was fantastic. I enjoy playing them and continue to play them on a daily basis. I was just wondering if games like this, which receive massive rep from you guys, can be played on anything else other than PC or Laptop.

[Sammehmander Rake]

Tattersail, on 25 July 2011 - 09:27 AM, said:

Are there games like this for the X box, or for a DS or I phone? I recently got Crystal Defenders which was okay and i've played Etrian's Oddysee (sorry if that's spelled wrong) which was fantastic. I enjoy playing them and continue to play them on a daily basis. I was just wondering if games like this, which receive massive rep from you guys, can be played on anything else other than PC or Laptop.

Well you can play Final Fantasy 1, 2 and 3 on Iphone now. there are a few other Decent rated RPG's on the IOS but I don't have a new enough device to handle the 3D rendered games
otherwise you can jump on IGN or other game sites and search for highly rated games on iOS devices, that might suit your criteria.



Edit: About FF3 I'm not actually sure if its released or not.

This post has been edited by Sammehmander Rake: 25 July 2011 - 10:26 AM