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Poisonium
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 Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2009 10:20 pm Post subject: 1 |
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It seems to me that a fair share of the Grey Labyrinth community are also avid players of video games, and we haven't really got anywhere to discuss that...
I'm playing Far Cry. After having played a lot of extremely gory shooters, it's a nice change. Basically a homage to Half-Life. The outdoor combat is very interesting, with many different paths to each fight. Indoor is your average generic shooter that feels somewhat like going on against a large amount of Counter-Strike bots in a completely linear map. Even for a game this old, the graphics can still impress me.
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Courk
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| Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2009 12:51 pm Post subject: 2 |
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| I'm in the process of trying to re-unlock everything on Mario Kart Wii. My brother took his system, so I had to buy my own, and apparently you can't transfer saved game data of Mario Kart. |
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raekuul
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| Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2009 2:52 pm Post subject: 3 |
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| I've got Mario Kart DS, Lunar Knights, Final Fantasy 3, Kirby Ultra; Pokemon Emerald, Fire Red, Megaman BattleNetwork 2, 3 Blue, Dawn of Souls, Boktai I and II... as well as a bunch of oddball GB games, including Nail 'n Scale |
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Antrax
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| Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2009 3:38 pm Post subject: 4 |
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Far Cry becomes really awful around the part the monkeys get loose. These monkeys are so buggy it's not even funny.
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Poisonium
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| Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2009 6:38 pm Post subject: 5 |
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| Far Cry becomes really awful around the part the monkeys get loose. These monkeys are so buggy it's not even funny. |
Yeah, I got to that part. They suck. At long range they're cannon fodder, at short range instant death to the player. I haven't got past the Black Mesa-ish research facility yet.
So I went on playing the old console classic Beyond Good and Evil. It seems to suffer from artifacts on vista, which takes about 30 minutes to sort out, but once you get past that, it's awesome.
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Death Mage
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| Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2009 7:44 pm Post subject: 6 |
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I've been playing Phantasy Star Portable on PSP with some friends (who're old PSO veterans, from the Dreamcast days, even though this is the first Phantasy Star I've played pretty much ever), and some Super Mario RPG on Virtual Console (Wii).
As a note, a group of friends and I (some overlap on the PSP group) have had a mini-challenge, somewhat to motivate us to finish games as well, to beat one of our older RPGs every month. That being, an RPG that we bought, and never got around to finishing (pre-2008 stuff, so no buying a new game and beating it). This year I've finished four (I had some progress in some of them). Final Fantasy IV DS (enough of a remake to consider it a "different" game), Atelier Iris 3, Mana Khemia (PS2), and Enchanted Arms. (Super Mario RPG is the one I'm attempting for this month.)
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MNOWAX
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| Posted: Sat Apr 04, 2009 1:09 am Post subject: 7 |
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if you need any help (ewhich i highly doubt) i can give you any amount of non spoiler hints. i know the game inside and out and backwards.The beetle mania game i had a record of 3 million and change before a group of kids figured out that there is a upper limit on the game of 99 million. but anyway let me know if you need anything
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Courk
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| Posted: Sat Apr 04, 2009 3:31 am Post subject: 8 |
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| I need to not suck at Majora's Mask. My brother and I did fine with Ocarina of TIme, did fine with Twilight Princess. Majora's Mask -- awful. I'm not even sure it's the game, I think it's us. |
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Dread Pirate Westley
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| Posted: Sat Apr 04, 2009 4:03 am Post subject: 9 |
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My sister picked up Disgaea: Hour of Darkness not too long ago, which got me back to playing it again. I'm currently taking a break from leveling my Legendary Cosmic Blades to make some ridiculously high level specialists.
I also bought Mass Effect for $20 last week, so it sits next to Fallout3 waiting for me to buy an XBox2 later this year when the price drops again. It still had the orange "Do not sell before sticker" on it, so now I have two on my monitor: one dated 10/28/08, and one dated 11/20/07. |
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Sessie
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| Posted: Sat Apr 04, 2009 8:58 pm Post subject: 10 |
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Just finished replaying Portal with the commentary nodes turned on. Interesting stuff.
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dethwing
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| Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2009 5:31 am Post subject: 11 |
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| I just finished a freeware adventure game called Out of Order. Fun stuff. |
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Antrax
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| Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2009 6:55 am Post subject: 12 |
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I'm currently playing World of Goo on the WIi, game is good enough that I'll probably buy it. PC front is dull, Fallout 3 was so full of bugs at some point I really couldn't progress in the game. Luckily that point is like 10 minutes before the end of the game, so I never got back to it. Instead I'm waiting for a PC version of Braid, I played it on my friend's XBOX360 and it was nice.
Might get Mass Effect at some point. I heard good things about it.
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ShadowSword
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| Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2009 2:21 pm Post subject: 13 |
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| Sessie wrote: |
| Just finished replaying Portal with the commentary nodes turned on. Interesting stuff. |
Have you played Portal Prelude? It's a fan made expansion pack. It was very well made and quite a step up in difficulty. Best of all it's free but you need to have a copy of Portal.
I've been patiently waiting for StarCraft 2 to come out. Pre-ordered it over a year ago.
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Sessie
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| Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2009 4:13 pm Post subject: 14 |
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Hmm...I haven't yet, ShadowSword, but thanks for the recommendation. I'll check it out.
Ooh, Out of Order!! I loved that game. Need more like it. 
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| Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2009 6:34 pm Post subject: 15 |
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Supposedly they've decided to release Starcraft II a race at a time. I've seen the gameplay trailers and it looks really good, I just hope they actually publish it before I die.
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ShadowSword
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| Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2009 10:25 pm Post subject: 16 |
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The first release is called Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty. It will be the Terran release. The Zerg and Protoss versions are supposed to be called Heart of the Swarm and Legacy of the Void respectfully. The result of dividing it by race is a better campaign but less cash in my pocket. My understanding is that the Zerg and Protoss will be expansions on the Terran version meaning that you have to buy the Terran version. However all the units and buildings for each race will be included in the Terran version.
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Scurra
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| Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2009 10:47 am Post subject: 17 |
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| Poisonium wrote: |
| So I went on playing the old console classic Beyond Good and Evil. It seems to suffer from artifacts on vista, which takes about 30 minutes to sort out, but once you get past that, it's awesome. |
I finally got all the photographs a couple of months ago (although I came terribly close to resorting to a walkthrough for the last two.) And it's still one of the few games that reduced me to tears because I was genuinely involved in the story.
And there's a sequel coming. Woot 
I'm currently just struggling to the end of the second Heroes of Might & Magic V expansion which I am still enjoying, but the designers do have this nasty tendency to make 95% of the campaign missions fair and then make the last one utterly impossible (unless you are a serious expert.)
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Silverfire
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| Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 10:29 am Post subject: 18 |
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| I need to not suck at Majora's Mask. My brother and I did fine with Ocarina of TIme, did fine with Twilight Princess. Majora's Mask -- awful. I'm not even sure it's the game, I think it's us. |
Where did you get Majora's Mask? Is it out for virtual console?
I'm working on Twilight Princess with my brother. In two days we will have been working on it for six months. It's not hard, we just don't play it very often. |
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Courk
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| Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 10:49 am Post subject: 19 |
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It's a used game for the good ol' N64. We got the game years ago, started out fairly well, then didn't have time to play it, then completely forgot where we were and what needed to be done next.
In Twilight Princess, are you to that one area that goes on for a while? The Cave of Ordeals? What'd you think? I've read reviews and such that make it out to be impossibly hard, and I don't recall us having too much trouble. I mean, we didn't breeze through it, but I don't recall it being frustrating. |
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Poisonium
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| Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 8:57 pm Post subject: 20 |
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| ShadowSword wrote: |
| Sessie wrote: |
| Just finished replaying Portal with the commentary nodes turned on. Interesting stuff. |
Have you played Portal Prelude? It's a fan made expansion pack. It was very well made and quite a step up in difficulty. Best of all it's free but you need to have a copy of Portal.. |
Portal: Prelude was junk. It relied solely on bugs in the game to solve the puzzles. They weren't even hard, they were just tedious.
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| Just finished replaying Portal with the commentary nodes turned on. Interesting stuff. |
Is it worth it? I recently played HL2: Episode One and Episode Two with commentary on. Episode Two was too long to really be worth it, but Episode One was pretty interesting. Lost Coast, TF2 and Left 4 Dead commentaries aren't bad either.
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| I'm currently playing World of Goo on the WIi, game is good enough that I'll probably buy it |
It's my all time favorite video game. It's just that good. Replayability is only for about 10 hours, but it's the best 10 hours you'll ever have playing video games.
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| I finally got all the photographs a couple of months ago (although I came terribly close to resorting to a walkthrough for the last two.) And it's still one of the few games that reduced me to tears because I was genuinely involved in the story. |
All of the pearls too? Heh, I'm too scared to go on with the story because I'm frightened of what might happen (I have to enter the Slaughterhouse now), so I'm attempting to complete all of the Looter's Caverns and other side missions.
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Sessie
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| Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 9:17 pm Post subject: 21 |
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| Poisonium wrote: |
| Is it worth it? I recently played HL2: Episode One and Episode Two with commentary on. Episode Two was too long to really be worth it, but Episode One was pretty interesting. Lost Coast, TF2 and Left 4 Dead commentaries aren't bad either. |
It's definitely worth a trip through Portal again to catch the commentary. It's a short game, and each node plays a sound clip of maybe 1-3 minutes long, with 5-6 nodes per test chamber (lots more in the "escape" part). The only thing that was annoying was the fact that activating a node doesn't decrease the rest of the in-game sounds, so if you don't time it properly it sounds like GLaDOS and the developers are desperately trying to out-talk each other.
A few nodes are clips of Ellen McLain talking about how she developed GLaDOS' voice and inflections. Pretty neat.
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Poisonium
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| Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 10:45 pm Post subject: 22 |
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| Sessie wrote: |
| It's definitely worth a trip through Portal again to catch the commentary. It's a short game, and each node plays a sound clip of maybe 1-3 minutes long, with 5-6 nodes per test chamber (lots more in the "escape" part). The only thing that was annoying was the fact that activating a node doesn't decrease the rest of the in-game sounds, so if you don't time it properly it sounds like GLaDOS and the developers are desperately trying to out-talk each other. |
That's what subtitles are for. Don't ever play with commentary without subtitles.
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Poisonium
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LordKinbote
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| Posted: Sun May 10, 2009 3:01 am Post subject: 24 |
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| Played through Wallace and Gromit Adventures: The Last Resort a few days ago. For anyone who's a fan of old-school adventure games, it's a treat, though the two seasons of Sam & Max are better. |
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Poisonium
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| Posted: Sun May 10, 2009 8:51 pm Post subject: 25 |
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I played the free episode of Sam and Max. It was pretty good, but I don't really play point and click games. And I'm not good at them, either.
I've been playing Red Orchestra. It's probably the most realistic World War II shooter out there. It's pretty fun.
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Antrax
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| Posted: Mon May 11, 2009 5:04 am Post subject: 26 |
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Bought myself the second season of Sam & Max online the other day, almost finished it. Much more challenging puzzles than season 1, slightly less funny.
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Silverfire
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| Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2009 1:16 pm Post subject: 27 |
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| Courk wrote: |
It's a used game for the good ol' N64. We got the game years ago, started out fairly well, then didn't have time to play it, then completely forgot where we were and what needed to be done next.
In Twilight Princess, are you to that one area that goes on for a while? The Cave of Ordeals? What'd you think? I've read reviews and such that make it out to be impossibly hard, and I don't recall us having too much trouble. I mean, we didn't breeze through it, but I don't recall it being frustrating. |
We've finished the game now (three days short of the 8-month mark) without going through the Cave of Ordeals. We're there now, though. It doesn't seem like it'll be impossible, but I don't know how many levels there are. I hope there doesn't turn out to be one for every single item. "From here on in, you will need a fishing rod. . . for some reason"
On the subject of MM, us normal console-deprived people don't own N64's, so we have to wait and hope Nintendo will show us mercy by putting MM out for virtual console. |
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Courk
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| Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2009 1:27 pm Post subject: 28 |
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| I'm playing Twilight Princess again. I got to the Water Temple. It's not as bad as Ocarina's (though, I *still* get lost in that one), but I just dread the Water Temple. |
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Scurra
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| Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 12:47 pm Post subject: 29 |
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I replayed Ocarina a few weeks ago and got badly lost in the Water Temple. What is it about that place?!
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Antrax
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| Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 1:01 pm Post subject: 30 |
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Oh, I pre-ordered Monkey Island 5.
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raekuul
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| Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 1:53 pm Post subject: 31 |
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Water Temple's the scrappy level; It's the only dungeon that got easier in Master Quest.
Currently playing Pokemon Blue, using Wartortle, Snorlax, Parasect, Dodrio, Haunter, and Dragonair. Currently at Silph. Damn battery failure.
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Courk
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| Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 2:32 pm Post subject: 32 |
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It's not so much that I find Ocarina's Water Temple hard (well, except for Shadow Link, but his hardness is unrelated to the overall level hardness), it's just that I cannot, for the life of me, find my way around it. And it doesn't make sense. It's been a while now, but IIRC, the doors on the levels all look somewhat different, so it's possible to distinguish them, yet I can never find the one I need, even if I was *just* there.
This is only my second time through Twilight Princess. I'm a bit worried about this one. |
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dethwing
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| Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 3:40 pm Post subject: 33 |
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| I never had trouble with the Water Temple on OoT. I thought the alter-the-water-level motif it had was very cool. |
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LordKinbote
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| Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 4:46 pm Post subject: 34 |
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| Oh, I pre-ordered Monkey Island 5. |
The developers are purposefully not calling it Monkey Island 5, as they believe a full-blown sequel deserves an epic, not episodic, treatment.
Not that I don't have high hopes for the series. |
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Scurra
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| Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 7:45 pm Post subject: 35 |
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| It's been a while now, but IIRC, the doors on the levels all look somewhat different, so it's possible to distinguish them, yet I can never find the one I need, even if I was *just* there. |
Yup - that was exactly my problem. I think it's because even though I know which door I need to go to next, the trek around to get the water level right means I then lose track of where it was I was supposed to be going.
(I haven't played Twilight Princess yet. I keep meaning to try and track down the Gamecube version which I don't think even got released properly in the UK.)
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Poisonium
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| Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 8:03 pm Post subject: 36 |
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I'm playing Half-Life 2 on hardest difficulty, which is not very hard. It's a really fun game, though.
Also, I bought Penumbra and Freedom Force series. Freedom Force feels like a simpler version of Diablo, although quite funny 
Penumbra just seems like an attempt to make a game so scary that it's nearly unplayable. And it works.
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| Oh, I pre-ordered Monkey Island 5. |
The developers are purposefully not calling it Monkey Island 5, as they believe a full-blown sequel deserves an epic, not episodic, treatment.
Not that I don't have high hopes for the series. |
LucasArts hired Telltale (studio who did Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People, the new Sam & Max and Wallace and Grommit games) to do it, right?
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LordKinbote
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| Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 10:06 pm Post subject: 37 |
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LucasArts hired Telltale (studio who did Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People, the new Sam & Max and Wallace and Grommit games) to do it, right? |
That's the gist, though I think it's the other way around. Telltale Games is made up of a bunch of refugees from Lucasarts who left after the company canceled a Sam & Max game back in '04 or so. The rights reverted back to Steve Purcell who partnered up with Telltale.
For five years, they've been building up their goodwill and their popularity, and finally, they're in a position to afford the Monkey Island license.
My point is, I don't think Lucasarts hired them so much as Telltale Games chinked away at Lucasarts' armor for five years until they *let* them make a Monkey Island game. From what I've read, though, one of the new head honchos at Lucasarts is much more adventure-game friendly than his predecessor.
Edit: I stumbled on a quote from Game Designer Dave Grossman:
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raekuul
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| Posted: Wed Jun 10, 2009 2:15 am Post subject: 38 |
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| Penumbra just seems like an attempt to make a game so scary that it's nearly unplayable. And it works. |
Have you played Eversion, by any chance? It's a fairly cutesy game with a twist, sorta like those shock sites where you sit and look at one picture, and it's quiet, and then WHAM! Instant shock and alarm. |
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Antrax
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| Posted: Wed Jun 10, 2009 5:57 am Post subject: 39 |
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Too bad for the Honcho. Ever since they canceled "Freelance Police" at the last second, it is my wish to see Lucasarts fail exactly for this reason (giving up on the adventure genre and moving to clone more and more SW shooters). That's why I have no intention of touching their Secret of Monkey Island remake, but still pre-ordered the Telltale product (that, and both seasons of Sam y Max were excellent, so odds are the product will really be good).
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Courk
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| Posted: Wed Jun 10, 2009 9:03 am Post subject: 40 |
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Random question about guitar hero for Wii:
I have mine set up for lefty, but when the opening Wii screen comes up (where you have to select the game vs. internet vs virtual console, etc), it's still assuming righty, so it's a bit weird to get the cursor over to the game icon. Is there a way to fix that? |
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