The last game you beat,did you like it and what are you playing next?

Started up Rage recently and got an hour or two in, and I'm still in the middle of Enslaved and Sengoku Basara 3, but for the most part all I've been playing is the original Wild ARMS. Game holds up VERY well imo in every way except in-battle graphics. The two big things that usually keep me from playing/replaying JRPGs from this era are slow *** battle systems and random encounters; in this case, while the battle system is a bit slow, for some reason this one is highly conducive to frame skip using an emulator (not being ATB helps with that, I played FF9 recently and frame skip didn't help in battle much at all), and the random encounter rate is low enough to not be too annoying.

May actually see this one through all the way to the end.

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Originally Posted by taggart6

Honestly, I had no idea what was going on. I'm not use to the the combat system which seems like you are not really playing a game, but more like generally telling the computer what they should maybe be doing.

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I liked that about the battle system. Kept me a lot more involved for most encounters than the traditional "just mash X" system for 99% of random battles in previous FFs.

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Originally Posted by monroeski

I liked that about the battle system. Kept me a lot more involved for most encounters than the traditional "just mash X" system for 99% of random battles in previous FFs.

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i'm playing resonance of Fate and I'm enjoying the active battle system. Character placement of field strategy play a massive part of combat and if you try to just rush through things you'll most likely see a game over screen soon. Its probably the most interactive combat system I've seen with the player actually being able to alter actions while executing attack commands.

That said, it can be very frustrating with how unforgiving the game can be when you make a mistake, and the action does get difficult to control at times. I can see why lots of people find it to be a grind fest because they have a hard time placing and controlling their characters effectively.

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Originally Posted by Kamakazie

Twisted Metal is awesome! I've been ignoring it since SSX came out, but I was having a lot of fun with the game before that. What's your PSN name?

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Unfortunately I don't have the game, I just played thru the campaign with a friend that brought it over. It was incredible fun. In multiplayer death match I'm getting pretty good with Crimson Fury - at first I thought he was impossible to control (so effing fast), but I stuck with CF, and now that I'm used to that car NO ONE can catch me! My friends get pretty annoyed with me racing into the action, unloading specials, then jetting back out to go find powerups. :cool:

Oh, but if you still play Dark Souls and ever see a summon sign for Impulsive_1, that's me. Right now I'm alternating between my mega-tank with tons of strength & +15 demon great axe and my glass-cannon sorceror with 50 intelligence and pretty much no other stats. I always have either a summon sign or invasion sign down.

Done with Mass Effect 3. Like I have said in that thread it was great and I expected nothing less or more. And yet again I have to stress if you weren't or have never been a fan of the series don't even waste your time. BUT if you were, awesome game. The ending was a little....

Spoiler

heartless, bitter, empty, hollow

but it was still very good.

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Originally Posted by monroeski

but for the most part all I've been playing is the original Wild ARMS. Game holds up VERY well imo in every way except in-battle graphics.

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My God do I still love the intro music on this one.

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Originally Posted by dyne

My God do I still love the intro music on this one.

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The entire soundtrack is fantastic.

I just finished Black Mirror 1, a point and click horror adventure game. I really liked it, only got stuck a few times. The voice acting was atrocious and really doesn't help you connect to any of the characters or the setting. The ending was garbage as well. There are also a load of other issues. But even so it definitely had it's share of great moments and I didn't find it boring at all. Perfect length as well (apart from the lame last chapter). It ain't perfect, far from it, but I enjoyed it quite a bit.

Also finished Dungeon Keeper 2. Not much to say about this except it is just as brilliant as it was when it released. Hugely entertaining.

Just finished Perfect Dark "HD" on Xbox360. A+

Loved:
- It's perfect dark. It's the same game that followed Goldeneye in the same engine with all the awesomeness and extra perks. (Including being able to stick mines to other players/NPCs, that never gets old.)
- It's old school FPS. You need to memorize the maps, work your way through, failing continuously until you succeed. Awesome-sauce! :D

Hated:
- The Xbox360 sticks in my opinion are not good for manual aiming. I've logged probably 50 hours into it, and I still can't aim worth a damn in manual aim mode. I've become quite good at simply moving my crosshairs and strafing across people though.
- The last achievement is for people who are better than I am. It's getting every single other achievement, 100% the game, and then find all of the super-secret hidden "leaderboard crowns" to end up at 201% completion of the game. Won't be getting that any time soon.

Summary: If you loved GoldenEye/Perfect Dark on the N64, you will love this. You know how we always complain (or is it just me) that we would totally buy all our old games if only they released them with HD graphics? This is the answer to that complaint. This and Beyond Good & Evil. And hopefully Baldur's Gate.

I just finished Saints Row the Third and really enjoyed it.

It's a total rip off of GTA, yet they do it so well that it doesn't matter. I'd use spoiler tags to not give away the plot, but there is no plot.. Anyway, after one of the mini-games that substitute for missions, you end up with an 8-bit tank that you can drive around Steelport. This sealed the deal for me, I busted up laughing, it even shoot squares like the old Atari 2600 tanks. I made my character a girl and kept her topless for the whole game (hey, it's just the way I am...) So the contrast between the busty babe and the 8-bit tank was a crackup.

Wait a sec, you can make her topless? Why did I not see this option? I have the game and it is a hoot, playing @6048x1200, maxed out. Btw, I want the female character to be topless for purely research purposes.....:p :D

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Originally Posted by mikeysg

Wait a sec, you can make her topless? Why did I not see this option? I have the game and it is a hoot, playing @6048x1200, maxed out. Btw, I want the female character to be topless for purely research purposes.....:p :D

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Still blurred out you perv...not that I know from experience :o

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Originally Posted by fastitocalon

Still blurred out you perv...not that I know from experience :o

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*cough*therearemodsthatremovetheblur*cough*

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Originally Posted by James

Just finished Perfect Dark "HD" on Xbox360. A+

Loved:
- It's perfect dark. It's the same game that followed Goldeneye in the same engine with all the awesomeness and extra perks. (Including being able to stick mines to other players/NPCs, that never gets old.)
- It's old school FPS. You need to memorize the maps, work your way through, failing continuously until you succeed. Awesome-sauce! :D

Hated:
- The Xbox360 sticks in my opinion are not good for manual aiming. I've logged probably 50 hours into it, and I still can't aim worth a damn in manual aim mode. I've become quite good at simply moving my crosshairs and strafing across people though.
- The last achievement is for people who are better than I am. It's getting every single other achievement, 100% the game, and then find all of the super-secret hidden "leaderboard crowns" to end up at 201% completion of the game. Won't be getting that any time soon.

Summary: If you loved GoldenEye/Perfect Dark on the N64, you will love this. You know how we always complain (or is it just me) that we would totally buy all our old games if only they released them with HD graphics? This is the answer to that complaint. This and Beyond Good & Evil. And hopefully Baldur's Gate.

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Dude you are like 5 years late on this one lol (and that's even in the $10 bin back then). Great game indeed.

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Originally Posted by Snakespy

Dude you are like 5 years late on this one lol (and that's even in the $10 bin back then). Great game indeed.

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My main two games right now are I am Alive and Final Fantasy 9. Old games need love also.

Well, I reached kind of a standstill in Albert Odyssey. Reached a very tough boss, and just don't have the will or time to go back, level up XP and gold, and try again several hours down the line. =\

That said, the game is absolutely charming, with some of the best music and legitimately FUNNY, clever, and quirky dialogue I've ever seen in any JRPG, ever.
Glad I got the game, and glad I played it. Maybe one day I'll get back to it and finish.

But right now, Deus Ex HR is taking up most of my time, and Europa Universalis III (w/expansions) is filling that ever-present strategy craving.

After that, who knows...

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Originally Posted by Snakespy

Dude you are like 5 years late on this one lol (and that's even in the $10 bin back then). Great game indeed.

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It was released in March of 2010. Not sure how i'm all that late to the party considering I picked it up on 2011 and finished it in 2012.

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Originally Posted by James

It was released in March of 2010. Not sure how i'm all that late to the party considering I picked it up on 2011 and finished it in 2012.

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He for sure is thinking of Perfect Dark Zero, think it was a launch game for 360.

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Originally Posted by mikeysg

Wait a sec, you can make her topless? Why did I not see this option? I have the game and it is a hoot, playing @6048x1200, maxed out. Btw, I want the female character to be topless for purely research purposes.....:p :D

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Yep, takes about 10 seconds to remove the blur.

http://www.saintsrowmods.com/forum/i...-nude-mod.230/

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Originally Posted by fastitocalon

Still blurred out you perv...not that I know from experience :o

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Uh, no.

Removing the blur is a 10 second operation.

Just finished Alpha Protocol. I went in not expecting much thanks to the internet, but I really enjoyed it. I definitely got my money's worth ($10 new).

I picked the Rookie class and went with stealth and pistols. Very Deus Ex-ish.

Just beat skyward sword. Clocked in at about 55 hours with about 98% completion. I actually liked the story but the controls were the most aggrivating thing about it. That said, I thought the actual game design was pretty good. I really enjoyed the whole time stone mechanic and thought it lent for some new and interesting puzzles. The game also answers some of the Zelda lore which I thought was a nice touch.

If you can get past the controls, I highly recommend the game.

Finally done with Wild ARMS and moved on to Final Fantasy VII.

As I've mentioned before, Wild ARMS has aged surprisingly well in all ways except combat graphics which are god awful. The fights themselves are a bit lackluster and slow as well but it's nothing that frameskip on an emulator can't fix. I was pleasantly surprised by how good it still is.

...but as I've also said for years it's hard to look at the combat graphics of that game and believe that it came out within a year of FF7, and now that I'm replaying FF7 there are a LOT of things going on that make it hard to believe they came out the same year. The worst FF7 graphics (town/world map character models) are still way ahead of the worst WA graphics and FF7's combat graphics are still good enough to be an upper-middle tier 2012 indie game. The towns are just more alive feeling with the NPCs running around and scripted sequences and such while WA just had the old "NPCs randomly move up down left and right" type stuff. Only a few hours in, haven't even raided Shinra HQ yet, but average random combat already feels more varied than WA did in the end game and the animations and such are much faster. Even little things you don't think of like the multiple overlapping text bubbles in big crowds in FF7 just remind you of how massive of a leap forward that game was back when it first came out.

WA felt like a good old game; enjoyable, but obviously made a decade or more ago. FF7 still feels like a good modern game, out of battle character models notwithstanding.

FF7 was mind blowing when I played it. I bought a PS1 just to play that game and was mesmerized for months. Although the overarching story was a little convoluted, FF7 was the only game that made me really care for the characters.

FF7 is one of my favorite games ever. I still have the original PC box with install CDs from probably 15 years ago.

If there are any FF7 fans here who played Dark Souls, give this a watch. I busted a gut laughing. :D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O32ufmdQ6gk