hulk

It's a spiritual prequel. Ico is a descendant of the guy in the game. Somewhat.

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Stick

Recently bought/played: Quake 4, Doom 3. These games are all much the same to me. You start at the start and end at the end.
You are the mega-hero, and Earths only hope for salvation. Lucky for Earth you've got the largest pair of nuts ever to hang off a mammal,
or we'd all be zombies/robots/luncheon meat - whatever the latest threat turns us into.
Despite my seemingly negative attitude, I do like playing these games and they keep me amused for a while.

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Xazy

Just started playing Titan Quest, seems decent so far, but it hasn't sucked me in fully like a lot of other games do.

Darth_Kettch

Downloaded Kid Icarus on the Virtual Console for 5€. Great buy, fun old-school game And the save state-feature totally negates the need for writing down passwords! w00t! Not as hard as people make it out to be, though.

Kadath

Borrowed Twilight Princess from my friend. Hope I like to it more once I get into it.

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longbough

Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection on PS3. I like Tekken and, for $20, it's even better.

My favorite fighting game still has to be Rumble Roses XX, though .... for obvious reasons.

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Jerpitcher

I may be a little late to the Gears of War party, but I just got it and WOW. What a game! I'm also playing college hoops and battlestations midway on the 360. All great games in my opinion.

Kadath

Finished Twilight Princess. Fun, but easy. It looks like I'm going to have to upgrade my PC or buy a new system for my next game...

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Pragma

Just recently got S.T.A.L.K.E.R. - Shadow of Chernobyl. It's an interesting game, jury is still out. I haven't had the time recently to get past the first hour into it, but graphically it's pretty nice (though randomly slows down on my machine, which it shouldn't do).

The story is definitely one of the best I've seen in a while in a FPS, so I'd say it would be worth picking up if you're looking for more than a fast paced action game.

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MiSo

i just bought supreme commander for the pc.

its a rts game.
i've only played a little bit but its pretty good.
there's a couple things about it that i dont like but overall decent game.
i like it better than company of heroes (the last rts i bought)

rlbond86

WarioWare: Smooth Moves for the Wii. All I can say is, holy crap this game is the most fun I've had playing a video game for a long time.

Esoteric

God of War 2 for the PS2. Game is absolutely fuckin amazing. If you haven't played God of War 1 or 2 and have a PS2 I suggest you go buy or rent them asap. They are 2 of the best games to ever grace the console and genre.

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bellows

I played at my friends place last night. I love it! Graphics and gameply great and the cut scenes when you execute the combos correctly. We got past the Icarus fight. wow. amazing moments throughout.

BobAlmighty

I just bought FF3 for the DS. I'm kinda disappointed. It seems they changed a whole lot about the game. Changed and renamed classes, rebalanced, and a bunch of other things. The 3d-ification of the game was my biggest problem. I dunno...it just seems to have lost some of its character because of it. What do you all think? Anyone played the original on rom or back when it was new to the NES?

CyCo PL

Just resubscribed FFXI... which means I'm going to remain single for at least the next few months.

Kadath

Dragged my Dreamcast out of the closet. Playing some Record of Lodoss War right now; when I beat that again I'm going to play through Shenmue 1 and 2 again.

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Prophecy

Just beat God of War II, fun game but once you beat I see no reason to play it again. Replaying Knights of the Old Republic(for the 4th time) on my xbox now.

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I miss Shenmue

I wish Sega would make a Shenmue for Wii... so much potential, but I KNOW they won't do it, the game just didn't do well enough.

MontanaXVI

God of War 2

and yes, I am waiting on Pokemon Diamond in April for the DS

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Lokus

I'm currently playing STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl. It's a lot of fun, sort of a mix of between Oblivion and FEAR. I'm loving the AI, enemy stalkers will flank you and use cover intelligently and packs of wild dogs and boars will attack you but run away when you kill or wound most of them.

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Pragma

Just picked up Command and Conquer 3 this evening, having a hard time deciding between it and STALKER - though at the moment, C&C is winning out. The fact that the 1.00000(...)001 patch for STALKER broke all previous save games is the deciding factor at the moment.

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yuntang

I'm thinking about getting resistance fall of man on PS3, has anyone played it? I'm not keen by going purely on what ive seen on the official site but it does make it look so damn good. ( http://www.resistancefallofman.com/ if you're interested)

actually if anyone can recommend any game for ps3 it would be very much appreciated! or if you can comment on resistance that would also be useful!

cheers!

pan6467

How is C&C 3 I'm thinking about getting it I have all the other C&C's. RA2 and Yuri's revenge are my all time favorite games. I just go and do skirmishes now because I've played the full games so much they don't challenge.

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Prophecy

I've never played but I have friends that swear by it. Also, numerous reviews have said it's amazing and lots of fun if you're into FPS games. You could always rent before you buy.

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Pragma

The campaign is pretty fun, I'm about halfway through the GDI one at the moment. The story isn't bad by C&C standards and the live action videos are awesome - Michael Ironside is awesome.

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Peladinho

Call me outdated or worse but I play mostly MOHAA yes the 1st one ... yea I got the others too but hmmmm I played battlefield 1942 but found the free expansion (the middle East one for get the name) better.
Play Day of the Defeat every now and then just now started on Red Orcehstra, But still have not found any thing better than MOHAA

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Wunderbar

Currently playing Battlefield 2142 every so often. Other than that I really don't have any games these days that hold my interest. I think I'm starting to lose focus on gaming (omgwtfsauce!?) because there's just nothing out there that's worth investing time into.

I tried resubscribing to WoW, but I don't have any time to raid for end-game stuff, so I see no point in it.

/sigh.

Kadath

So my Dreamcast died after I beat Lodoss War (one last hurrah I guess) and I've got nothing going on, gamewise. Like Wunderbar, I feel pretty apathetic about games right now. Whatever I do I'm going to have to shell out a few hundred dollars at least. A 360 looks like the best of a bad situation; I'll get access to some of the Xbox library I never played (never had an Xbox) plus the 360 seems like the strongest bet overall. I don't know. It's discouraging.

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MexicanOnABike

Kadath: get a PS2 man! you'll get one of the best game library since it's been out for longer than any of the current consoles. plus, they have free internet multiplayer. and the new ps2 slims are like 100$ now. that's fucking great.

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Wunderbar

agreed. I'm saving up currently for an xbox360. I want Guitar Hero 2 for the xbox. Downloadable songs? Yes please.

Kadath

Happily, I do have a PS2. Sadly, there is nothing that I don't have that is interesting to me. I pretty much just have GTA games, Dynasty Warriors games, Disgaea 2 and Katamari. I know there's a ton of games available, but nothing really compels me.

Wunderbar: What's your ETA on getting the 360? I am sort of torn on waiting for the Elite, in the off chance I get an HD TV as some point in my life.

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Esoteric

Not even the God of War or Devil May Cry series? :/

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CyCo PL

You can still achieve HD (720p, 1080i) without having the X360 Elite, you just may not be able to get "True HD" (1080p) without the HDMI cable. Honestly though, unless you have a pretty big HDTV, the difference in visual quality is negligible.

Honestly though, if you haven't gotten an Xbox 360 yet, you should get the Elite. The price value is really nice considering it comes with a 120gig hard drive, HDMI output, and, well... it's black. Black is beautiful.


Honestly though, I just realized I say "honestly though" too much.

I just bought Fight Night round 3 for PS2, and although it's not nearly as nice looking as the 360 version, the framerate seems a lot faster and it's basically the exact same game.

MontanaXVI

Resistance is a very nice game, I have yet to do the online multiplayer though, I have mainly played on single player. I cannot speak for anyone else, but that is about the only PS3 game that I even think is worth owning right now to be honest. I got my system on a bundle deal from Gamestop, I got 6 games with it, and outside of that and Ridge Racer (which wore off really fast) I could take them all back right now and care less, Madden 07 is horrible trash when compared to the PS2 version, it plays (from what I hear) exactly like the 360 version, so that is just a port over instead of a new game for a new console and I don't entirely blame EA for not wasting a ton of time making a new game, but to change the entire controller layout and everything is just ignorant. NBA 07 also wore off really fast, it looks pretty but that is about it, I just don't care for it. Untold Legends again, it looks pretty and is supposed to be an RPG but I think it just sucks, the graphics add to the gameplay but it is nothing more than a button mash fest to pull off the combos. Full Auto 2 is a waste to me, I hated the gameplay, but again, it looks nice.

Motorstorm came out in March and I did play the demo downloaded from the PS Store and that was pretty fun I have just not had time to go out and buy a copy to try out all the cars and unlockables etc.

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Rinndalir

Me too, it's awesome! Total Annihilation 2, in spirit if not in name!

Brightwater

I'm not a big fan of Resistance: Fall of Man. I know a few people who got PS3s when it came out so I played quite a bit of the game over winter break a few months ago.

The biggest problem I had with the game was that often, in the campaign, cover means nothing because half the bad guys can shoot through walls. Also, in the campaign, the maps are uninspired and often have many repeating identical sections- I'm a fairly experienced console FPS gamer and got lost more than a few times.

In other news, I recently downloaded and tried the Command and Conquer 3 demo. I was pretty impressed by it, but I think I'll hold off on buying it for a few reasons. The last few times a C&C game was released, I rushed to the store to buy it immediately, only to become bored after about a week (Tiberian Sun, Generals). The second reason is that my laptop can barely support the graphics- I have a Radeon X300 mobile which is fairly crappy. I can only render the game at decent framerates with low resolution and detail settings.

For lack of willingness to spend money on a new laptop when the one I have works fine for most things, I'm going to end up buying an Xbox 360 Elite to do most of my gaming, I anticipate. I can't wait for Halo 3.

Wunderbar

my ETA on the 360 is whenever I get a damn job. HP let me go so I'm in between jobs right now. It wont be too long though until the 360 is in my hands, and yes, I'll be getting the Elite version, it just makes sense.

In other news.. as my post states, I recently got Rainbow Six: Las Vegas for the PC.. and I'm loving it. It's just an amazing game.

TheClarkster

Just bought Dead Rising and Fable:The Lost Chapters.
I'm screwing myself over for any midterms that were coming up.
Mindlessly killing zombies with everything from bowling balls to shower heads to lawn mowers is just so satisfying...

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pacaveli

command an conquer three is a good game, i've yet to get online and play yet but so far it's a great game

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Pragma

Yea, I don't like how EA handles gaming from behind a firewall (sorry, I'm not going to blindly forward 30,000 ports to my desktop) and so I haven't been playing C&C3 online at all. The single player campaign is good though.

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