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

I played Trine for 8 hours on Sunday and beat it in one sitting. I enjoyed most of it, minus the last level. It was a little rough around the edges, but I got it when it was $5 on Steam and it was well worth it. I was a little disappointed with the knight in that he felt worse than the thief in terms of combat. Considering that's supposed to be his only strength, I never really used him much. It wasn't until I got a giant hammer towards the end when I felt like he was actually useful. Overall, a pretty solid game. I may replay it on the hardest level that was locked and get all the secrets, but I don't know.

Next on the list is continuing to play Global Agenda and Battlefield Bad Company 2. I just bought a new computer, and I can't wait to play Bad Company 2 on maxed settings.

Finished Mass Effect 2, not impressed, as I loved ME 1 I'm disappointed and hoping ME3 will up the stakes.

Started Dragon Age, pretty impressed so far.

Just beat Bayonetta, out of control is what that game is.

+Style
+feel badass
+controls

-Repetition
-Grace & Glory (play it and you will understand lol)


I would give it a 85/100, a lot of my frustration was because I wasn't very good at the game.

Not sure what I'm gonna play next, I have Heavy Rain on preorder for next tuesday so whatever I play till then is gonna be a stopgap for that game.

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Originally Posted by fastitocalon

Just beat Bayonetta, out of control is what that game is.

+Style
+feel badass
+controls

-Repetition
-Grace & Glory (play it and you will understand lol)


I would give it a 85/100, a lot of my frustration was because I wasn't very good at the game.

Not sure what I'm gonna play next, I have Heavy Rain on preorder for next tuesday so whatever I play till then is gonna be a stopgap for that game.

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Grace and Glory aren't too bad, its the gold versions of them, Gracious and Glorious that annihilate me. I seriously can't get past the Prologue on Hard because of an early fight with these guys that keeps going until you can pull off 3 torture attacks on them.

EDIT: I seriously loved this game. The style, combat system and complete badassery just combine to make something truly memorable. Out of curiosity, what weapons did you end up using towards the end of the game? For my A set I used the sword + lightning boots, B set I used the whip + Scarborough for ranged fights. I also only found 2 Alfheim Portals my first time through the game, didn't even know that many existed until I poked my head into GameFAQs after completing Normal difficulty. I really need to get back and play more :D

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Originally Posted by Kamakazie

Grace and Glory aren't too bad, its the gold versions of them, Gracious and Glorious that annihilate me. I seriously can't get past the Prologue on Hard because of an early fight with these guys that keeps going until you can pull off 3 torture attacks on them.

EDIT: I seriously loved this game. The style, combat system and complete badassery just combine to make something truly memorable. Out of curiosity, what weapons did you end up using towards the end of the game? For my A set I used the sword + lightning boots, B set I used the whip + Scarborough for ranged fights. I also only found 2 Alfheim Portals my first time through the game, didn't even know that many existed until I poked my head into GameFAQs after completing Normal difficulty. I really need to get back and play more :D

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I used some sword I got early in the game and the guns I got at the beginning lol, I imagine I could have made the game easier on myself. I pretty much just wanted to smash face, too bad after about the 7th chapter it was mine being smashed lol. Though at like chapter 14 I bought some hearts and actually used my 1st health potion. Got easier after that, I don't even wanna try it on hard though.

@ Bao I Loved NWN, I never read any bad reviews of the game, and it was a blast on multiplayer. So much so that we ran a dedicated server for more than a year.

Just finished Bioshock 2

+ Duel Weilding of Plasmids and Weapons
+ Great New Weapons
+ Playing Big Daddy
+ Tatical Combat
+ Being back in Rapture
+ Good story

- Rapture is showing its age
- FOV bug on release
- No lead in to the story, the game assumes you played Bioshock 1
- No ghosts

Just beat Xenogears today, after nearly 70 hours of playtime. I started the game sometime in late July or early August, and have been playing here or there for the past 7 months. As much as I enjoyed the game, and it was a great ride, I'm soooo relieved to finally move on.
A few major nitpicks kept it from ranking up there with the all-time great JRPGs for me, but I can see how some people could see beyond that and appreciate its characters and story scope.
I'm not going to launch into a full-scale review, but I can honestly say that buying it off eBay last summer for $30 was a good investment, and I'm glad to have it in my collection and to be able to say I've beaten it. But I'm definitely ready to move on. 8.5 out of 10 from me.

Up next will be Shenmue 2 on the Xbox, and Bioshock 2 on PC. I've been a big fan of Shemue since it debuted on the Dreamcast. Finished the first game at least 3 times, and I bought the sequel when it was released, but never finished. I plan to start over with a new game and see it through this time.
Bioshock 2 will also be getting consecutive playtime. Loved the first game (my personal GotY for 2007), so I'm excited for the sequel.

After that, eh...maybe try and get through some more oldies.

Just beat Dark Void Zero. Not a bad game, but quite simple and over very quickly.

Up next is going to be Heavy Rain and Dawn of Discovery: Venice!

Just beat Heavy Rain and all I can say is what an experience.

11/10, Adventure gamers need to play this game right now, if you are looking for a more conventional gaming experience I would demo it first.

+Gfx
+Storyline
+Emotion
+Pulls at the correct strings, has perfect timing.
+A ton of replayability

-Too short (I think I beat it in around 8-10 hours)
-Clunky controls
-It's over :(

As an experience it is the best I've ever had playing a game, everything about the game was just fabulous. If you liked Fahrenheit then you will love this game.

As a traditional game experience it is lacking honestly, the camera angles can be a pain and the movement is very early RE'ish. I did not come into the game expecting GoW so it wasn't a problem for me and you do get used to it but if I need to find a chink in the armor then that is it. I believe I will end up beating this game at the very least 3 times as it is a multiple path game and I have a few things I want to change for sure.

If you have a PS3 you must play this game. It was a day 1 purchase for me and I don't regret it at all. Knowing what I know now I would have spent >$80 on it and not cared in the least. Awesome.

Just beat Borderlands. It was fun but nothing real special, I thought there would be a level of customization to the weapons which there wasn't. I played through it entirely with a buddy of mine and I don't think I would have even finished it if I were playing solo.

+Solid Co-op experience
+Nice visuals
+controls (after tweaking the fov and mouse smoothing)

-Story is very blah
-Doesn't run too great
-Have to tweak ini files

All in all it was a good time, I would say 7.5/10

Getting baseball games tomorrow so I doubt I'll be finishing any story based games anytime soon.

*edit* Forgot I'm getting BC2 tomorrow lol, I should probably be more excited about a game I've already pre-ordered.

Just finished Heavy Rain. Just... oh my god. Cinematic as hell, the story is extremely compelling and your choices really affect the game. Gameplay is very light, but for once I didn't mind because I was so interested in what was going to happen next.

After beating the game I went into the Bonus section and checked out the Making Of videos and holy hell I did not know they went so far as to model the characters on their real life counterparts. I think Madison is the only one whose likeness is not also the voice actor... and she's pretty damn hot. :eek:

Up next, probably going to sink more time into Spellforce 2 and DoD: Venice until Chaos Rising comes out next week.

EDIT: Oh, and plot hole

Spoiler

What was with Ethan's blackouts followed by holding origami? Just a diversion? A stupid, plot hole diversion?

I'm about 30 hours into Lost Odyssey. Took about 10 hours to actually get into it, man is it ever boring and monotonous at the beginning.

I should have it beat by the time FF13 comes out but has anyone seen the 360 screenshots for it? Looks... not so good. I generally prefer to get things on 360 over PS3 (variety of reasons) but I might have to get it on PS3. I'll wait and read some final reviews.

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Originally Posted by Kamakazie

Just finished Heavy Rain. Just... oh my god. Cinematic as hell, the story is extremely compelling and your choices really affect the game. Gameplay is very light, but for once I didn't mind because I was so interested in what was going to happen next.

After beating the game I went into the Bonus section and checked out the Making Of videos and holy hell I did not know they went so far as to model the characters on their real life counterparts. I think Madison is the only one whose likeness is not also the voice actor... and she's pretty damn hot. :eek:

Up next, probably going to sink more time into Spellforce 2 and DoD: Venice until Chaos Rising comes out next week.

EDIT: Oh, and plot hole

Spoiler

What was with Ethan's blackouts followed by holding origami? Just a diversion? A stupid, plot hole diversion?

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Spoiler

Pretty much, they have a lot of plans for DLC and I would guess that this will be addressed with them.

Finished Borderlands yesterday and playing Assassin's Creed 2 starting tonight. I liked Borderlands a bunch. It wasn't the greatest thing since sliced toast, but it was fun and delivered some exciting moments.

Finished Banjo Kazooie and now playing Banjo Tooie on XBLA. Also trying to 100% Castle Crashers, but that's more of a long term thing.

Just finished Stalker Call of Pripyat. Not planning to play anything for a while now.

I rarely finish a game but I got tired of Dirt 2 (360) sent it back to Gamefly, and received Deadspace. At first I thought Deadspace was pretty bland but I'm starting to like it more.

Now Playing: Chaos Rising! Also Bad Company 2.

I know I swore I'd never play Need For Speed Shift but I did, and love it, and beat it. Not sure what I'll play next. I just invested in an old PSP and figured out how to get PS1 games on it. It's like the perfect medium for playing old games since the dated graphics don't bother me. I'm playing the hell out of ROAD RASH.

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I know I swore I'd never play Need For Speed Shift but I did, and love it, and beat it. Not sure what I'll play next. I just invested in an old PSP and figured out how to get PS1 games on it. It's like the perfect medium for playing old games since the dated graphics don't bother me. I'm playing the hell out of ROAD RASH.

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Nice. I recommend Patapon (PSP) if you're into rhythm/RPG/RTS games.

Wipeout Pure and Wipeout Pulse are damn solid racing games on there as well.

I got the urge to play Mass Effect (started the game 1.5 years ago) and am almost done. Part of me wants to do a second playthrough for the achievements :o, while other part of me wants to just finish so I can start on the sequel.

Completed AvP as CM, now playing as predator. Also playing BC2 and it's pretty damn awesome.....SP mode of course.:o

Annoying to see this thread keep getting updates posted while I'm still probably 10 hours from finishing Magna Carta 2. :D

I'll have to throw some short games into the mix after MC2 but before I jump headlong into FFXIII.

Time for some DOW Chaos Rising! *rubs hands together*

Just finished Batman Arkham Asylum, quite an awesome game.
Almost finished Dragon Age, quite an awesome game too.

Starting Prototype and Dead Space, I don't know which one will get my preference right now.