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Still going through Tales of Phantasia (GBA). This game is tremendous fun, and I'm really looking forward to going through the rest of the Tales series. Fantastic.
Wife & Friend: Rock Band (PS3). Trying to get as many stars as we can and finish it, so we can move on to RB2. Almost 900 stars (and 1,000,000+ fans).
Tried out Guitar Hero: World Tour (PS3), but probably won't play it much. It is significantly inferior to RB1, much less RB2.
I played Tales of Vesperia last month and thought it was fun. It's not a very difficult game, the characters are quite stock, but it is quite enjoyable.
Just started on Okami for the Wii, and am blown away. The controls are sometimes a little dodgy, but the artwork is breathtaking. It certainly makes a case for video games being capable of great art.
Just started on Okami for the Wii, and am blown away. The controls are sometimes a little dodgy, but the artwork is breathtaking. It certainly makes a case for video games being capable of great art.
Yes, yes indeed. (Though it's better on the PS2 - same thing, but none of the Wii's poor controls.) It created quite a stir when it first came out.
Just beat "Dead Space", am currently working on "Infinite Undiscovery".
Waiting in the wings?
"Silent Hill: Homecoming" (XBox360)
"Tales of Vesperia" (XBox360)
"Bully: Scholarship Edition" (XBox360)
"Fable 2" (XBox360)
"Fallout 3" (XBox360)
"SW: Force Unleashed" (PS3)
"Little Big Planet" (PS3)
"Ratchet & Klank: Tools of Destruction" (PS3)
Metal Gear Solid 4" (PS3)
And I plan to pick up "Resistance 2" later this week.
Yes, I'm way behind on actually PLAYING any of my games; I always tend to buy far more than I can play. (I still have quite a few old XBox and PS2 games waiting in my "to to be played" case.)
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Just started on Okami for the Wii, and am blown away. The controls are sometimes a little dodgy, but the artwork is breathtaking. It certainly makes a case for video games being capable of great art.
As mentioned, the PS2 version is the same game, and the controls are much easier to manipulate.
Saints Row 2 not only lets you play the entire campaign in co-op, but you come in and leave with everything you earned along the way. That beats a lot of co-op games (like Fable 2) by a mile. And it's got way more content than GTAIV. Best game of the year IMO.
Fallout 3 dragged for me at first, but I think it's going to work out.
It's good, so far. Very pretty, but also fun to play - something I wasn't sure about before I actually bought the game yesterday, and started playing it. Yes, a fair bit like Oblivion in many ways, obviously, but not so much that it kills the 'Fallout-ness'.
Thinking about picking up some more games to put the upgraded PC through its paces, but not sure what else is a must-buy.
Everything about Oblivion that annoyed me is gone, replaced with total awesomeness. I'm like a little kid about to get diabetes in a candy store whenever I turn on VATS.
Also playing Guitar Hero World Tour on the side a bit. The song list is pretty fantastic (better than RB2), but there's lots of stuff I miss from RB1/RB2. The guitar and drum kit are pretty nice, better than RB's, but the presentation feels... off. The interface is kind of annoying and the tour options are no where near as expansive as RB's.
It'll provide some decent competition, but RB is in no danger of being usurped from its plastic instrument throne.
Looking forward to:
Left 4 Dead
Gears of War 2
Mirror's Edge
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I've also played just a bit of LittleBigPlanet (PS3). Wow.
While I won't get to play the whole thing through in quite a while, from what I have played so far, it's definitely a contender with MGS4 for Game of the Year.
Damn you! Damn you all, those with the systems, time and money to waste on the beautiful frivolity of the latest games! There are so many good titles I will probably never play because by the time I have the proper resources, they have already passed by with newer things on the horizon.
StarCraft: Brood War and Chessmaster 10th Edition here, and I am doing my best to give up on God Wars 2. I have been clean for... less than two days so far.
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