Here Today... Gone To Hell!

Well seeing a their is a couple of threads about games. I though how about making one big thread for gaming discussion.

So discuss what game you are playing and what upcoming games you are look forward to ,or anything game related.

Right now I'm playing the new


Grand Theft Auto San Andreas- it pretty much the same thing as the other GTA games ,but it's hella fun

ESPN Basketball 2k5 for the Xbox- just as good if not better than the more expensive EA sport title

ESPN Football 2k5  for the Xbox- the same as with the Basketball version

Fable - Fun game but a little to easy and short.

Star Wars Battlefront for the Xbox - good game and it's fun to get to play through all the classic Star Wars battles .

Doom 3 for the PC - cool game but a little slow at the start but picks up .

Looking forward to gettin Halo 2, Narc , and the new Metal Gear Solid game

Video games are slowly turning into shit. The flashy graphics and animations struggle to hide the complete lack of imagination and hunger for money of the game creators.It's kinda like the music buissness. The peak was reached a few years ago with games like C&C Red Alert,Carmageddon,Warcraft 2 or Quake 1. It all went downhill from there.

But of course,there are exceptions,like the GTA games or Championship Manager

Some people just can't except change.   ::)

No, i agree with MadmanDan.  I used to be an avid gamer when i was younger.  I would get so into a game that I wouldn't stop until every corner and ever secret was explored.  I loved games.  However, nowadays, i don't play the new ones at all.  I still own my NES, SNES, N64 and Gamecube.  I had a PS2 and had some fond memories with it but gave it to my bro. 

The problem is there's just too damn many games nowadays! I mean a blockbuster game that's been in development for years comes out, and it forgotten in a couple weeks when the next blockbuster comes along.  Its just too much to keep track of.  On top of that, there's too many different consoles out which just complicates things more.  It's just out society's short attention span and need for the flashiest, loudest biggest games that is fueling this trend and sadly, as long as there's a market i don't see the end anytime soon. 

Games aren't very fun anymore.  Their just complicated showcases of technology.  I miss the days of simple, fun innovative games but at least i still have my collection for a rainy day.

I bet that's what Good Charlotte fans say about GNR fans...

Their is only three consoles out how is that to many?

Who cares what Good Charlotte fans think? They're losers! I'm mean if people didn't want change in the gaming industry we would all still be playing games like pacman.

Surely you see my point. Change is good if it's done for the right reason.But it's not the developers' huge creativity,it's simply the big companies' desire to make a lot of money easy,sure and fast. They don't take risks with new ideas,that might revolutionise the industry,because there is a big chance they won't sell well. Like I said,the exact same thing is happening in the music industry

The gaming industry has take a lot of risk that have.And it's evovled from  just stuff for kids to stuff that adult like to. 

What I'm playing:

GTA:SA:? Awesome, awesome fun.

Fable:? Like it so far, on my 2nd playthrough, this time as the evilest character you could imagine...having more fun this time than playing as the goody 2 shoes.? Sick, ain't I?

Tales of Symphonia:? Pretty good RPG, if a bit "kiddie", for the Gamecube.

ESPN College Hoops (last years, STILL):  Hey, I gotta play.  My younger brother is in the damn game.  Besides, gotta polish up my skills for 2k5, coming out very soon....

I've seen, but not yet played, Half Life 2.? You think Doom 3 and Halo 2 look good?? I LAUGH at you.? HAHAHAHA.? Half Life 2, from what I've seen, may just be the best game yet made.? It's that damn good.

I am a big video game fan.   I love games.    One problem I have though is the endings.  I dont know why, I am just disapointed with the endings of almost all video games.    The ending to GTA San Andreas is boring, the last mission being way too easy.    I dont know what I expect out of game endings, Im just disapointed.    And also, now days, games do lack imagination.       anyway, some games i have recently bought and played are

GTA San Andreas (great, but i like Vice City better)
Mortal Kombat Deception (really good, one of the best, but all character endings suck)
Star Fox Adventures for the Gamecube.   really good as well.

I am eagerly awaiting Resident Evil 4 next Jan.      I will probably buy Silent Hill 4:The Room and WWE Smackdown vs. Raw soon        hopefully they will be good.

More than three counting pc and handhelds.  Because they all have the same games anyway save for a select few that are system exclusive.  And it seems like every few years a new system will come about and be the talk of the town making the others obsolete (sp?).  I just hate how short-lived everything video game related has become.

im playing

Rainbow Six Black arrow for xbox

Fifa 2005 for xbox

Espn nfl 2k5 for xbox

and im waiting for halo 2 and for metal gear solid 3.


i know many people see the industry like if its worse than a few years ago , i think they totaly wrong , the industry is getting better and better with time , yes of course there are 100 games that sucks , but you have 100 games that are cool , i been playing scenes the atari , nintendo , genesis , playstation , n64 , dreamcast and now with the new consoles , the inovation is there , there are more cool games now than before , i think what people missed is to buy a game and to enjoy that game with out having to worry about the other 30 games that came out the same day and thats because the industry is to big now and you have to keep up , some people dont have the time or the money , so there is a lot of crap in the videogame industry but  there is a lot of fun stuff also .

i remember browsing a catalogue of atari games in 1984-5 and there were hundreds of games in it...so its not a new thing to have a wide choice of games...although it was far easier to write a game back then with about 500 lines of code lmao

pro evolution soccer kicks the crap out of fifa football...there is no comparison

As those wonderful people the Oliver Twins would tell you, eh?  ;)

Dizzy the Egg anyone?

I love having a bash at the emulators I have, and I just recently completed Illusion of Time again. It really is an amazing game, and one that I would recommend to absoloutly anyone who liked the original Zelda serious in any way.

What I'm playing:

Mario Tennis: N64
NHL '96:  Sega Genesis
Super Mario Brothers 3: Super Ninetendo (my original broke).

GTA is the only new video game I've really gotten into.  I play Vice City occasionally, but haven't tried San Andreas yet.

I love the brown "Keep It Real" T-Shirts with the picture of the original Ninetendo controller.  I don't really get into new video games much, like someone said before, it's just a bunch of the "latest, flashiest thing".

I've still got my Atari for fucks sake :nervous:

 :hihi:

go Froga

Deluxe Ski Jump  :hihi:

http://www.mediamond.fi/

i don't see the big deal with GTA
GTA was fun at first, the first one, 2D, top view, that was ok, a new concept.

but since GTA 3 ( and then the numerous useless sequels ...) it sucks. it is so boring.  and so old.
since when ? since the developers started to target the CONSOLE gamers. that is the problem.

console gamers are like the MTV audience, so mainstream, that you have to please everybody, therefore make shitty games.

i still play a lot. i've finished farcry and doom 3, and every new PC games. but it's just a habit. i really don't have that much fun anymore.
i have to get back to abandon wares >>>>       http://gamebird.dk/   (KGB !!!!! that was a game)

well well
we'll see with morowind 2.

Morrowind 2?  How about Elder Scrolls IV.  Morrowind was part 3 of the Elder Scrolls series.  But the new one does look pretty bad ass.

yes but those hundreds of games were all the games that the atari had , now you have like 30 games per month or something .

and i agree totaly with you pro evolution soccer is way better than fifa , i have winning eleven 8 (pro evolution soccer 4) fro the playstation2 , i just play fifa 2005 for the online thing .

ooo i know. morrowind is just shorter to type :) - and i played elder I and II (arena and daggerfall ?)
but as for rpg, i'd go with the uber linear " Lands of Lore"

what do you guy think about having to be online to playe the single player version of half-Life 2.Personly I think it having to be online for fucking single player thats just wrong.



Halo 2 kick ass defiantly worth buying for anybody that has a Xbox.

Smackdown vs. Raw is pretty good ,but the season mode is way to damn short.

You're kidding?  :-\ How does internet access with Xbox work? I've never played console online gaming before. If you pay a flat monthly fee for unlimited normal internet access, can you use the Xbox with that, with no extra charges?

tj if your asking cause of Half0Life 2 it's only going to be on the pc for a while when it come out.


getting the Xbox online isn't to bad all you have to do is buy a Xbox live start thing ,they come in 3,6 and 12 months subscriptions ,then you just have to hook it up to you Dsl or cable modem,and you can buy subsription cards that will do you for a year for about $70 I thihnk.

I just bought ESPN NBA 2k5!

SEGA are sellin their sports titles for 20 bucks so u cant beat that.

i played two games online i am 1 and 1, i had a 3 point lead with 6 seconds to go and this dude hits a bullshit 3 pointer and i lose in overtime by 2 points

im gonna get Halo 2 in a couple weeks cause a bunch of my friends are online in a clan, so im gonna join their clan, our clan is the "lunatic fringe" so be on the look out!

my Xbox gamertag is Machine24? ? ?add me!

damn I need to get online to take you on and whoop your ass :yes:

yeah u should, we could chat over the headsets while my dallas mavericks own u! i am now 6-2 and im beatin people by double digits!

i ordered Halo 2 today, i cant wait to get on there with my pals and start blowin shit up! our clan is now called AMW  or america's most wanted

look us up if u get Halo 2

Right now I am playing...

(All for PS2)

FIFA 2005

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas

Resident Evil: Outbreak

Is anybody gonna buy the Xbox 350 when it comes out?

Yes I will buy it, mostly because I'm a dumbass, I don't even play my Xbox anymore and I haven't bought a game in over a year

 :smoking: Izzy? :smoking:

It's xbox 360 to be precise. I might buy one after it has been out for a few months.

It does look tempting

http://www.xbox360.com/

 :smoking: Izzy? :smoking:

yep damn typing errors.
T
he one thing I want to know before I really decide to get the 360 is .Is it backwards compatibly, cause I know both the ps3 and Nintendo Revolution are.


Though Gears of War looks pretty damn Good for the 360 ,could be the new Halo for them.

check this out


http://media.xbox360.ign.com/media/747/747891/vid_1115701.html?mu=http%3A%2F%2Fstreamingmovies.ign.com%2Fxbox360%2Farticle%2F613%2F613353%2FGearsOfWar_051119_wmvlow.wmv


 :drool:

I'm playing

Fight Night 2004 on ps2, it rocks
Vampire The Masquarade Bloodlines
and sometimes X2

Im like to play The legend of Zelda, I know is kinda old but it still rocks!! Link Rocks!!!? :headbanger:

Zelda games kick ass .

The new looks great and I can't wait ti'll it comes out this holidays season.


Right now I'm playing

Lego Star Wars
Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
Area-51

Has anyone played World of Warcraft? I got it this week, and it looks great so far

I was planning not to buy the new consoles when they come out, been out of the gaming, got 30 thinking iam getting too old  :hihi:
Then picked up forza on the xbox and man iam hooked again. Gta San Andreas and GT4 on PS2 dusted off and iam right back into it.
so xbox360 and PS3, iam getting both of you  :love:

Replaying one of my favorite PC games Return to Castle Wolfenstein.

Is that actually any good?

It's pretty good  for a rental .

The Episode 3 game is pretty good. If you get through the whole thing and beat Anakin/Vader, it unlocks an extra challenge where you replay that battle but as Anakin this time. If you beat that you get a bonus little animated movie on what would have happened if Anakin beat Obi Wan. It also unlocks a bonus mode game where you fight as Darth Vader against Obi Wan on the Death Star in Episode 4.

Other than that I am playing EA Sports Baseball and College Football. Just cant find a game that accurately recreates basketball or hockey :no:

i completely agree with the people saying the games industry has turned crap.

even amazing series like Final Fantasy has turned crap - FFX-2 was the moment i finally gave up on the series. is it just me who doesnt get turned on by digital tits? now theyre trying to rescue it by doind a FFVII series, but theyll probably ruin that too.

last game i liked the look of was Suikoden III, but that never came out in england  :(

And I completly agree with you. Remember the days when characters were made for 15 pixels. The games were actually better then or maybey it's just because I was younger?

:smoking: Izzy? :smoking:

im playing san andreas i love hearing axl host the radio. and im playing conflict vietnam , its cool its pretty hard though.

Yeah remember the Sonic games. They were so damn cool. i think you're right about the getting older thing though. i played mario 64 ds and i just got bored after 5 mins. it used to be my favourite ever game....(after FFVII, that'll never get old)

Yesterday I hooked up my NES and started to play Ninja Gaiden 2: Dark Sword fo Chaos, I pass it in 15 minutes anyone remember any other NES game like Zelda, Mario Bros. Triology or NG triology?? I also had Double Dragon 3 but never passed it  :-[.
Damn I was really bored  ::)

Battlefield 2 is da bomb right now

Make sure you all buy King Kong when it's out so i get a raise :)

This is me playing NES
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So pathetic? :hihi:

i used to be addicted to warcraft, but since the last one, i'm gone off it.

I am now addicted to SIMS2, thanks to velvet revolver forum ?

I tried because a few of them ranted about it and i am now playing it 6 hours a day... :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

shouldnt you be dressed for the part, all covered in black with fake sword? lol

what level is everyone playing at on Proevolution soccer 4?

Yeah I know But I just came out from work.
Well Im not too good playing PS4, my fave soccer game is Winning eleven I kick ass with liverpool  : ok:


Haven't you play Diablo 2 it's a good game  :yes:

Anybody wait in line for an Xbox 360?

My brother got to walmart at noon today and is waiting in line till midnight so he can pick up a system.

He is 8th in line and he said there are now over 40 people in line.

at 6am people started lining up.

I cant wait to go down to his house tonight and check it out.
he's already bought 5 games for it and all of them look so fuckin incredible.

Did anyone else pick one up tonight?

Gonna wait for the Playstation 3 and KILLZONE 2!!!! :yes: : ok:. KILLZONE is my favorite PS2 game by far. It's an amazing game!! Followed  by NCAA 2006 Football, GTA: San Andreas, Delta Force: Black Hawk Down, and GTA: Vice City.

You think Killzone is great?  :P Come on, you don't need an expensive graphics card these days to enjoy a proper FPS game like Quake 3 arena, Counterstrike, Doom 1/2, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, etc. Console FPS games have never, ever been worth playing. Not even Halo, Turok, or Goldeneye.

By the way, that video was obviously pre-rendered. ;)

take back goldeneye and you walk away with your limbs.......

it is teh pinnicle of colsole FPS......... time spliters 2 same creators..... and now you can fall of ledges

Super Mario Kart people :yes:

An oldie, but a goodie.  I tried to play it a few weeks ago, but I was pretty drunk.  I used to be the master at that game.  Its much harder than I remember, but I was pretty drunk.

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Is your brother one of those geeks? :hihi:

Yes, he let his car get repossessed once because it was either pay his car payment or get the xbox when it came out.


I will be playing it in about 30 minutes, I cant fuckin wait!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! : ok: : ok: : ok: : ok: : ok: : ok: : ok: : ok: : ok:

They're making a Superman game for that system too. : ok:

I know this is kinda stupid but anyone has played Clive Barker's The Undying, my question will be is there any sequel to that game cause I've been looking and in a page there are a lot of new screenshots, makes me wonder if there is a sequel, yet no page tells about a sequel.

Xbox 360 is worthless. To fully appreciate the shiny new graphics, which is just about all it offers, one has to own a $2000+ HDTV. For that much money, I'll keep my computer instead. Sony won't be getting any of my money either, after their DRM rootkit scam.

Nintendo is the only company that's worth looking at. At least they're still innovating. The DS and the Revolution controller are great examples of Nintendo putting out new ideas instead of shiner graphics.

I agree with much of that

The X box sucked - where are its amazing games, Halo? Give me a break!

Seems people just buy these things because of its ''power'' - but if there are no games that use it who cares? The X Box never backed up its ''power'' with decent game in sufficient number to make it worth while.

 :o Jeez. He must love his games!

Actually you can get a 27" Samsung HDTV for $449. I don't think Microsoft is expecting to much to assume that you aren't hooking up their state of the art gaming console to a 20 yearold 19" Zeineth in a plywood console.

Yes and of course there is nothing innovative about the blu-ray player that will be in PS3. Considering that for around 400 dollars you will be getting a game console that plays discs that will normally require a $1000 Standalone Blu-Ray player.

Yes lets jump on board for the ever innovative Super Mario Bros. 35 on the next Nintendo Console (which 6 months after it's release will be selling for $99 dollars to compete with Microsoft and Sony)

Eh, I'm partial to Fable, Halo, and some others.  But, I agree...if you can only own one system, I'm not sure X-box (or 360) would be the one you should choose.  I own the current "big 3" (Ps2, Xbox, and Gamecube), all for different reasons.  They all have their ups and downs, but, if I had to choose 1, it'd be PS2...simply because their library is larger than either of the other 2.

I was going to plunk down for a 360 on Launch day....then Oblivion got delayed until March-ish.  I'll be waiting to buy my 360 til then. :)

nintendo rocks!
without nintendo  64 PS2 woudnt have had that analog stick thingie...
its nintendo revolutionizing the whole console thing... what did PS2 or X-box do? really?
i dunno what that blu yar thing is, but still nintedo is the inventor of the controllers on all these things, what would they be without them?

and mario games rocks!

We picked one up at Walmart (on Sale) for the kids playroom about 3 or 4 months back for $349. ?Hell, that's less than the "expensive" version of the 360 is.

For $350 I could buy a 7800 GT graphics card and enjoy shiny eye candy right now on my computer, if I felt like it. My old CRT monitor has great resolution and it didn't cost me $500+. An LCD's refresh rate and color accuracy will never, ever match the old CRT technology. Quake, or any other fast paced game for that matter, just isn't the same thing on an LCD, even with shiny HD.

Blu-Ray is Sony's gimmick for imposing their own proprietary format on all the rest of the market. HD-DVD isn't much better at that regard, but at least it's easier to manufacture and will be less expensive for consumers. HD quality is only really good for classic movies with great cinematography, like The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, Citizen Kane, Schindler's List, The Sound of Music, etc. I like these movies, but not enogh to spend thousands of dollars for HD quality.

They should revamp Donkey Kong for the newer stuff. Maybe Plok if anyone remembers that game?

Sorry, no sequel is planned for this game.  It didn't sell well enough.

P.S. Izzy, the xbox has a 733mhz Celeron processor with 64MB of ram, not exactly what I'd call "power."

http://www.1up.com/do/feature?cId=3145759

I was reading this article and I got a bit sad as I vaguely remembered the christmas and the feeling when I got the 8-bit Nintendo as a present.

When we grow up why do we lose the feeling of "magical excitement"?


Yeah, the Revolution is the only console that I'm really looking forward to

That's more power than all computers put together just a few decades ago. It was only 20 years ago Bill Gates said something like 32 kb (kb, not mb!) of RAM "ought to be enough for anyone". The xbox is tremendously powerful, but so much of it goes towards shiny graphics instead of gameplay innovation. 733 mhz is fast enough for all the gameplay one could want, but not for graphics hogs. If it can play Quake, it's fast enough, period.


Well, the fact that there's nothing to be excited about is a big part of it. The NES offered great sound, graphics, and a revolutionary control scheme compared to the Atari. The SNES gave us even more buttons and good sprite graphics. The Playstation gave us CD based games and a great controller. The latest generation gave us much better online capabilities. The Xbox 360 has shiner graphics at a higher resolution. That's it.

I bought the Gamecube just to play Super Smash Brothers Melee and it was worth every penny. I have had so much fun with that game with my friends.

That's true but it's also the sense of wonder thats forgatten.

I bought GC to play Super Mario Sunshine and Legend of Zelda, I bought the new slim version of PS2 about a year ago just because of Final Fantasy X :) and it's still the only game I have for the system, I'm gonna get the FF X-2 someday when I have more money

I get a sense of wonder whenever I play a great game these days. Even an above average game makes me smile.  :) There are so few good games out there now, a few good ones every once in a while are really great for me. I hope you break your FF addiction like I did, since the series hasn't had a good game in nearly a decade. Well, except for FF Tactics, which is admittedly a Tactics Ogre rip off.

Nintendo has made a great comeback with Wind Waker after the disappointing Ocarina of Time. It's the best Zelda game since A Link To The Past. After the disaster that was the N64, I think they're about to jump back up and surprise us. Quality over quantity, especially for busy people like me!

alright, i'll have to defend Micorsoft here.
again, this IS not about graphics. (and that's why Sony is stressed and pushing its PS3 back ... because they thought it would be about graphics)
a good game is a good game no matter how pretty and advanced it looks ( best game of recent years: kirby on nintendo ds)

i think the xbox 360 is a solid system. because it's complete
everything has been thought FOR the player comfort.
It's powerfull. it's open and talkative with a lot of accessories (mp3 players, media center pc, hdtv, usb, wireless ...)

and more that anything, the system is solid. the kits are (finally) stable and powerfull. the system has been thought for the (very popular) Online mode.
examples of the little details that makes the 360 solid:

* you have a buddy list and an msn-like program to chat (audio/video) with your friends, at any time when your playing a game, you can invite a friend to join you
* you come with you wireless controller, press teh central button> hop in, you're a new player
* the profile has built in preferences such has : inverse mouse, sensibilty of the pad, auto/manual for race games, pas schemes < THIS IS HUGE. this IS major advancement. the day i wont have to re-configure my controls and graphics each time i install a game on pc will be a good day. it may seems like a details, but details like this makes s console system comfortable and makes the user like it
* you plug an mp3 player, the songs are automatically recognized as your soundtrack for the game ...
* the pad is VERY solid and efficient (and the wireless has a cord to power it ... good stuff)


overall the system is amazing. then you need good games. but already the system is powerfull. when we know how Online is important now, ?microsoft did good.
Exactly just like Nintendo and Ds online: simple and efficient. users like that. not everybody is hardcore.

i though the Sega mega Drive or whatever it was called had cd based games  way before PS1

Aye, in this boat, I am.

In truth, I'm buying a 360 purely because of Oblivion. So finding that all pre-christmas consoles had been 'sold' prior to release was no biggie when I found out that Elder Scrolls 4 comes out next year.

Morrowind is the reason that I am playing games again. I was totaly in awe of how good it was. Okay, so the battle method wasn't great, that being an understatement, but it was still enjoyable. I had never experienced a game that was so immersive.

Just excellent. I only got into it the summer gone by (late, huh?) and...Well, I didn't see much of that summer. Four hours would go by like they were nothing...

I was playing Morrowind on my PC, though. Rather than risk running Oblivion on a computer that may, or may not be, up to the task, is a risk that I'm not going to take.

I can't wait.

Correct. Too bad 99% of the games were garbage. The Saturn was a decent system, however. The Playstation was the cd system that actually succeeded where the earlier ones had failed. For one thing, the Saturn was really hard to develop for, and the megadrive cd was competing with the vanilla version. The Playstation didn't have those problems.

It's worth getting the PC version because of mods and less loading time. You'll have to spend as much on a graphics card as the Xbox 360 costs right now, though.

Are you nuts Walk?  Ocarina of Time is the greatest video game of that era, bar none.  Final Fantasy VII is a close second, but had Zelda been on the PSX it surely would have silenced any naysayers.

Actually, the $350 HD TV from Walmart is a "tube" TV....not an LCD.

And a REALLY good LCD can actually compare quite favorably to CRT.  But you'll pay through the nose to get that response rate/contrast ratio, so the "bang for the buck" certainly leans in CRT's direction.  But 19" CRT behmoths aren't always practical on some people's desktops.....

Not true.  The ATI X850 pro is quite serviceable and will run Oblivion great (check the dev boards..they confirm it) and won't run you nearly $400 (or $350..for the base and a memory card..which is a ripoff if you ask me).  If you manage to get lucky, you can even mod your 850 Pro to an 850 XT....

I preferred Ocarina of Time (and the fact they included it with Master Quest on the Wind Waker preorder was a great insentive!), personally.  Wind Waker was short (even with all the side quests) and easy.

I do like the look of the new Zelda coming out...Twilight Princess looks very good.

I was disappointed in the huge number of puzzles in the game instead of the basic fundamentals of room to room fighting. I didn't like the overly expansive Hyrule field and horse riding, either. The skeleton monsters were the only ones that were truly challenging, even though some of the bosses were really fun.

I believe the original Zelda for NES has never been topped, but the SNES LttP was a decent follow-up. Intellectual puzzles and exploration work better for Metroid and Castlevania games. To me, Zelda should be about action, fighting, weapons, and a bit of exploration. I didn't like having to do those ocarina tunes and stuff.

I played the original when I was like 3, and I still play it as a ROM sometimes. It's a timeless gem. I guess Ocarina of Time could only disappoint me, no matter how good it was. It's also more of an adventure game than a true RPG, as well. As an adventure game, it gets owned by Castlevania: Symphony of the Night and Super Metroid anyway. It's not bad, but it's not the best.

The best console RPG of the late 90's was probably Xenogears, unless I'm forgetting something (I probably am). It is more complex than the beginner friendly FF VII, the story is mature, the game is nice and long, and the minigames aren't annoying like FF VII's. I liked the Orwellian aspects of it, as well.

The pathetic thing about video game consoles is when they first come out, people go nuts over them, then like 4-5 years later, they don't like them anymore.

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night... now that was a fucking masterpiece. Honestly.. i get chills thinking about it. That game was just.. wow. So much personality.. so much freedom to explore.. I really cant describe the greatness. I remember being so sad when I beat it... (as i was with FF7).. a second play through just isn't the same...

I personally don't see myself with a 360 till Halo 3. And even then its only one game.. (even if its got the greatest multiplayer EVER)...

Revolution and PS3 intrest me more.. Revolution for its innovation (which i have yet to see.. but im sure it will be delivered..) ... and PS3 for technical supiority.. (look at killzone 2!!!!) wowzer.

    -jack

Agreed, for the late 90's.

My favorite conole RPG of all time was Chrono Trigger, released in '95.

My favorite RPG of all time (on the PC) is Ultima IV.

well considering the price and the time you spend on it ... it's still good :)

I got my Xbox 360 today. I've played Kameo and Perfect Dark so far and...They took some getting used to. For the last few years I haven't been that into video games, asside from Morrowind. But once I got into them, yeah. It looks like it's going to be good...

Anyway, that's not my point.

Or my question. Well, my question.

My question is: When does Oblivion come out? It's just www.play.com (http://www.play.com) list it as the beggining of March, www.amazon.co.uk (http://www.amazon.co.uk) have it for the end of March and www.amazon.com (http://www.amazon.com) say that it's out in...April.

So, are any of them correct? Or, does the game not have a release date yet?

it will be late i think. but it will be good. very good :)
can't wait either :)

Ah, as expected...

Will you be playing it on the Xbox 360, or your suped up computer?

I'll definitely play the computer version. Mods will extend the game's already long replayability. I also suspect the technical quality will be a bit higher on pc. Higher resolution, less loading time, and better anti-aliasing, etc. The mouse/keyboard control system is also much better than a clunky controller. Oh yeah, and hotkeys!  : ok:

Yes, cheers, but we got your answer a couple of pages back.

Simple copy and paste job wasn't it? Oh, but hotkeys.  :yes:

...Actually, I was asking the Whatever Man.


Edit: Whadayaknow...It was this page.  :P

hop :!

well right now i own a laptop :( not fun for playin .....
but yeah, computer.
im not really a console person ( but nintendo).

i'm just worried about the gameplay complexity ... as games keep being released on so many support .... i think that the games will pretty much be the same (gameplay wise, system-interface-structure wise) on both format.

but, you know, i think that the Revolution will steal the show.

When is it scheduled to come out, isn't it like a year away?

Or is it less?

ho less !

i say before summer , i think ;:(

edit: but man .... they 're taking a more *casual* approach to the game (who isn't doin that ?) ... so be prepared to be more guided and helped .... less lost (maybe what was *cool* about morrowind) than in the previsous games ....

Oh, sorry, my fault.

I was talking about the Revolution.

I wouldn't be asking the same questions twice.  :)

Getting lost, I loved it. In a sick sort of way. But, the most fucking annoying thing was the...Urshilaku Camp, or whatever it was called. Fuck, that was a bitch to go to, especially seeing as you had to go back and forth...Was that the one? Between the mountains, past the shipwreck...I forget. Good times though!

But. Later in the game, getting lost was very hard, once you had either the magic trousers, dagger or, if you were a very lucky thief, those boots...Up you levitate, above the mountains, and just look at the guide map. Be the arrow.  8)

One thing that I'm very glad that they'll be getting rid of is the fucking repitition of monsters. How many times can you fight a pterodactyl before it gets boring?

Not very many, I'll tell you that. Annoying bastards!

I'm trying to get through Dragon Quest 8 - "Journey of the Cursed King." I'm about 45 hours in with another 75 to go.

You ever play DWVII? Now thats a fun game.. that I just stopped playing cuz i ran out of motivation. You really gotta push through a game thats 80+ hours long with ghetto graphics like that.. but i did get pretty far. Id recommend it to ya

Tonight I was bored so I rented the WPT Offical Poker computer game.  :hihi:

It's fun for about 30 minutes, then falls flat in an instantaneous moment.  :P

I like the concept of the idea, but a game that no matter how good you are you can still be screwed by luck, makes it a bad idea in action.

I bought  The Godfather for XBox last friday, so I got absolutely nothing accomplished this weekend.

I'm playing a great game called Shadow of the Colossus. One of the few great original titles out today.

I've been playing Oblivion for my Xbox 360.  It's one of the best games, never mind RPG's, I've ever played.  Huge doesn't begin to describe it.  I'm 45 hours in (at least) and have worked on maybe 1/4 of the main quest, at the most.  Master of the Fighters Guild, Champ of the Arena, and working on becoming the Arch-Mage. :)

Then, this past weekend, we picked up Kingdom Hearts 2...so I'm taking a bit of a break from Oblivion and having a go at that.  So far, so good.  It's as good as the original, which is saying quite a bit.

You big geek :hihi: Might have to check Oblivion at some point, but I'm a bit suspicious about the angle/player point of view. It's the same as with Morrowind, right? I'm more of a classic Baldur's Gate / Jagged Alliance fan, with the isometric (?) viewpoint. But I guess that's part of the past these days.

The screenshots I've seen look good though - I doubt my computer can handle it in a very high resolution...

The major improvement on Morrowind is the depth of the side quests. They're great! In Elder Scrolls III they were like... A woman asks you to go and kill a witch who stole her ring, and then she gives you 20 gold. They were bollocks. On Oblivion, I can spend hours just doing the side quests! Pirates, haunted houses, drug rings (nice bit o' Skooma), kidnapping, ghost towns... the attention to them is amazing. I've almost finished the Mages Guild, probably about a third of the way through the main quest and I've done one Fighters Guild quest... I'm also in the Thieves and Dark Brotherhood. The last few hours I've been wandering about trying to get as many daedra artifacts as possible. You can get some quality stuff. Absolute quality!

I'm about 40 hours in, level 18. Redguard (always). Knight (My first time without a custom class, I thought that maybe they had grouped some skills together for a reason... Nope. Hand to fucking Hand to progress my level...pfft).

Whoops, looked like I turned into a geek for a moment there. Now, where did I put my WoW...

(...But seriously, I don't play WoW... Seriously)

lucky.

im waiting for my fickiniggabitch super 2000? (ok maybe not 2000...) PC.
i need to sell my laptop first

then i'll play oblivion  ;D

I think that I'm going to sell my laptop, buy a PC.

But I'm playing Oblivion on the 360 right now. Any idea what is missing from it that's on the PC version? Anything special...

Nothing besides higher resolutions. That is if you're using a X1900XT.

Oh, really? Some arsehole I know said that the 360 version wasn't 'the full game.' Whatever that means.

It's default view is First Person, but it is playable in 3rd person.  My wife gets "motion sick" when watching FPS type games, so when she's around I play in 3rd person.  It works....with some switching off to FPS for range or magic and occasionally to find the right "clicky".

It is the best RPG I"ve played since Ultima IV...and that's saying something considering I think U4 is the best RPG ever, bar none.

It is a PC resource HOG, that's for sure.  On the Xbox 360, though.....in HD...it looks stunning. :)

The construction kit and the free user mods.

Other than that, not a thing.

You COULD argue the PC can play the game at a higher resolution...with a screaming rig and $350 graphics card(s).

But I don't know many people who have 50 inch widescreen monitors hooked up to their PC's.? Now, you COULD, of course, hook that PC up to your 50 inch TV....but I'm not a fan of trying to do Keyboard/Mouse gaming in my living room....and even wireless USB controllers (which are supported in the PC version of Oblivion) would mean having my PC within reach of our little kiddies.? And that wouldn't be smart....

:)

Bethesda has also committed to patching both the PC and Xbox360 versions (you'll need the Hard Drive, of course) as well as release new content (horse armor, new quests and areas, etc) for both PC and Xbox360 via the Xbox live marketplace.

I've also heard that they're planning, especially given how well the title has sold, finding a way to release the expansions for 360 AS expansions (and not just as the GOTY edition like they did with Morrowind).

A good Oblivion resource: www.oblivionportal.com

Not really on the current topic....but i dont give a fuck!  :D

Anyone got Resident Evil 4 yet? This is the best game i have played. The other day i played it for 11 hours straight.

Awesome game, never really been a big fan of this series of games but i am definately going to go back and check the others out after playing this.

I beat SotC about a month ago, and I'm on #16 in hard mode. Great game, indeed. What was your favorite Colossus.

I got it the week it came out for Gamecube (January 05). I played the hell outta that masterpiece of a game. I beat the main game twice, spent tons of hours playing The Mercenaries, beat Assignment Ada... aww man that game kicked ass. The gunplay just never got old, and those bosses were incredible.  : ok:

Not to be a dick.. but I totally thought RE4 was lame. Not a bad game at all, but certainly not a real resident evil game. Call me old school but I prefer the pre-rendered graphics and tank controls of the original series.

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Quite possibly the dumbest, most fucked up, most assinine name for a console ever THOUGHT of, never mind chosen.

The Nintendo Revolution is not the Nintendo Wii (pronounced "we...)

What the hell are they thinking?

It sounds like "wee". :hihi:? Anyway, that's a really stupid name, especially when compared to the Revolution, which is a super-cool name.

Hilarious name... I hope someone gets fired because of that :P "I just love my new Wii" ;D

'Mum, can I have a wii?'
'We'll find a toilet when we get out of the shop dear'
'But I want a wii now' :rant:
'Fine, you can go in the corner'

matter of tastes, you can criticize RE4.
in terms of technical and video games theory > the game is perfect. it's a work of art. flawless. i am, here, talking about the game mecanisms and systems.


on the Nintendo Wii > i think it's pretty good.

Wii is a horrible name.The Big N just may go the way of the Big S.

It's Nintendo "Wee"

Nintendo  WII, that just isn't right .Plus now I got to go take a leak. :rant:

Has anyone else here played Kingdom Hearts? I'm playing it now and I'm friggin' lovin' it. Ordered KH 2 last night, ya it's that good.

beat em both... all i gotta say is.. "fuckin little mermaid...."

Haven't gottan around to playing 2 yet .Thought the First one was very good .

just checked out the demo for Ghost Recon Advanced Warfare...... im in love..... i sall purcahse promptly!!!!!!!!!!!!! well May 3rd................i cant wait.....

now to make 3 of my friends buy it........ so we can do the co-op of it.... mmmmmmmmmm ....... and to think i wasnt going to give this one the time of day.... shit.... what a good game..... any problem ive had with GR game play or tactics screen.... are totaly fixed... and it looks amazing

cool, i worked on that game
u talking about the Pc version of the 360  ?

Ghost Recon Advanced Warfare for the 360 is fucking good.But I suck at it .

PC version


i cant wait for the damn thing to drop on the 3rd

PC version was done by a swedish studio, they did a good job i think, tactical map and all these features works fine. more advanced than on the 360.
cool stuff.

I thought Brothers in Arms was a cool game. For a few months. I even started the drew a map for it to outsmart the germans. Played it for a month or something. Then got bored. I rarely play games anymore, sometimes Call Of Duty 2, which is awesome on multiplayer. But that's it really. Computer games are over for me......but every now and then.... when your bored....it's nice.  :)

Played them both.

Just beat KH2 about a week ago.

Awesome game.

Playing Tomb Raider: Legends, now.

I like it, but the control and camera angles/movement can be frustrating at times.  That being said, it's a damn site better than any of the last 3 TR games, which were each just progressively more awful than the last.

Goddamn FF 11 Take for ever to set up .Felt like it tooke ten fuckin' hour. :rant:

I played it for a bit on the PC....and I agree.   The setup process took for freaking ever.  3 different registrations (and now you've got, I imagine, 2 more with the 2 expansion packs) BEYOND just the game install and setup.  A real pain. And, IMHO, not worth the effort.  I don't know if things have changed to be a bit more solo and small group friendly, but when I was playing the game pretty much required a full group to accomplish anything of significance...and the quests were lame.

Anyone into baseballl should definetely get the mlb 2k6, im hooked.  heard its real good on the xbox 360 but i just have the reg xbox and still enjoy it.  also play the last burnout game that came out, still fun after like 6 months of play.

I heard some horrible reviews of MLB 06 and almost didnt get it. However since there was no other new version for the Xbox, I got it anyway. I think its quite good. I really enjoy the Inside Edge feature. The audio gets screwed up quite a bit and doesnt match whats actually happening on the field. I've gotten to the point that I just turn the sound off and listen to music while I play.

Anybody played Assassin's Creed? is it any good?

its awesome

I still firmly believe that "Final Fantasy VIII" is the greatest video game of all time.

Don't you mean part VII?

Nah, I always found VII to be overrated :-\

I some what agree with that. VII had a better villain , but VIII had better overall characters with a slight better plot.

I gotta' replay VIII someday :yes:

That honour goes firmly with Fallout 2 my friend.

There's fallout 3 comin fall 2008, looks wicked!

WAaaaaar.
War never changes.



Yeah both Fallouts were absolutely ace.
They deserve extra props from being very politically incorrect  and violent while managing to stay credible and true to their own world. You could do drugs, get addicted, kill children, have slaves, buy whores..and none of that stuff ever felt out of the place.
None of it felt like a disconnected feature thrown in there just for the sake of being  controversial. it's a lot more than you can say from violent games of today that are often violent just for the sake of being violent.

mario galaxy on wii gives me a boner !
zelda hour glass phantom on ds too !!!

I'm just hoping Bethesda won't rape the license completly, doesn't look too good at the moment, I hope I'm wrong.

Also one game to look forward, Deus Ex 3, though the second one was rubbish.

Anyone here playing Mass Effect?

Final Fantasy VIII

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I am obssessed with Guitar Hero 3, so im gonna turn on my wii and play it right now!

 :peace:

stunning graphics, just unreal - maybe the best yet on a console

...gameplay wise, its fun for a while but doesnt have enough options or depth

The 20 on one combat is great fun - when you pull off combos (everything done with one button :-\) it goes into a cool cinematic view

^I haven't owned a system since Nintendo's original back in '86 but I have a hard time believing anything is/was better than the original Legend of Zelda (played completely without any cheats).  Oh yeah!   :yes:

360 finally died, got the Ring of Death today. Luckily I've had it since launch.

Sending it back this week :/

hahah oh man that sucks.

MLB 2k8 is utter crap.  The game lags so much and the playability of the new pitching shit sucks. 

Next game to try is Army of Two.

I found Army of Two disappointing . Their are some cool things but even more annoying things about the game.

i actually liked army of two. only thing that sucked was that its a sort game. i am looking forward to part 2 though :smoking:

and tomorrow morning i will be playing GTA IV  ;D

Playing Viking:Battle for Asgard on 360, right now...and Gran Tourismo 5: Prologue on PS3 (along with other assorted "stuff", but those are the main 2).  Oh, and Rock Band.....that never gets old.

Waiting for the "Bionic Commando" remake in a few weeks!

For those who have Wii - No More Heroes is a cool game. It's a 'sandbox' game like GTA, but  a bit more restrictive at times.

I really get into having to get off the couch and move around with this one, you feel more 'part of the action'

Graphics are not as sharp as XBox, but as a casual gamer, that's OK.

i just totally cannot wait for the new GTA game.

Is a Wii version coming out? I have not heard anything regarding that.

i heard that it's already on downloading sites, at least for 360.. damn shame i don't have 360 yet

From what I know, it wouldnt' much matter if you did...

Maybe things have changed (I'm not an active member of the mod/dl community) but I think unless you've modded or chipped your Xbox 360, it can't play the downloaded "backups" anyway.   So it being on the dl sites PROBABLY doesn't get you the game any faster, even if you did own a 360. 

i know but if i had had a 360 i'd chip it : ok: my friend has a chipped 360 and have downloaded lots of games ;)

Was it all that hard to do?

I've thought about it...but I'm not one for soldering, etc, inside my console.

Combined with the fact I have a 360 from launch....which means I'm but susceptible to, and warrentied against, the Red Ring of Death.  I'm a little leary of voiding that warranty.

I'm also leary of getting booted off Xbox Live....

There's a strong possibility that Microsoft could block the XBox consoles on the Live thing if the GTA copy isn't original.

At least that's what I've been told. So I rather wait for the original copy than to fuck everything up and not have the opportunity to play GTA on-line and with more missions.

im buying this game for real. for my ps3.

Why you ask.

because GTA games last me years, i never grow tired of them they have so much replayability.

I just hope this one lives up to standards.

he actually bought it chipped and ready from some internetcompany that sold chipped consoles and other computer stuff

I'm loving Assassin's Creed for the PC right now.

Played it for PS3 and really enjoyed it, too.

My one and only complaint was that the camera can be sort of "wonky" at times.

I'd imagine with the PC setup, it'd be easier to deal with.

its not hard to do at all. i modded my 360 and there was no soldering involved. Yeah its true you can get banned from xbox live but thats if you decided to play online (multi player) but a lot of the games that get released online are stealth patched which allows you to play online without getting banned.

just bought a ps3 and changed my preorder of GTAIV to PS3 instead of 360. heard it was better on PS3.

got mlb2k8 and halo 3 for 360 to keep me busy for awhile and GTAIV and then MGS & Gran Turismo soon for ps3 when I get cash.

:hihi:

fun times ahead!

apparently the 360 version has issues mwhahaha.

Got Turok for PC coming in the mail. Hope it's a good port.

StarCraft II :drool:

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very nice  ;D

I picked up my copy of Grand Theft Auto IV on Tuesday. It's pretty cool so far but there are some things about it that gets on my nerves.

Grand Theft Auto IV has best opening week every.

Take-Two proves crime does pay.

By Mike Smith

Take-Two coughed up Grand Theft Auto IV's first-week sales numbers early this morning, and as predicted, they're absolutely huge. The free-roaming crime drama racked up over $500 million in worldwide sales over its first week, setting a new record for interactive entertainment. The previous record holder, Halo 3, "only" mustered about $300 million.

GTA IV's whopping tally corresponds to about six million copies, of which a touch over half were sold on the game's April 29 launch day. In a press release, Take-Two's chairman, Strauss Zelnick, heralded the game's release as "the largest launch in the history of interactive entertainment" and went on to claim it has surpassed any movie or music launch to date.

We're not going to argue. Iron Man's May 2 launch, heralded as a tremendous success, sucked up about 100 million of our hard-earned dollars over the weekend, and even current box-office kingpin Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End sailed away with a mere $142 million. Even though GTA IV's producer, Leslie Benzies, was recently quoted in The Times estimating the game cost approximately $100 million to develop -- making it the most expensive game ever made -- today's announcement should put a smile on the face of every Take-Two employee.

Source: http://us.i1.yimg.com/videogames.yahoo.com/feature/gta-iv-smashes-sales-records/1210669

like when you spawn a car and it is like in a tree or a wall? :hihi:

Yep, that has happened to me quite a few times.  ;D