Llyranor

Portrait of Ruin had nice potential. The best thing about it that Iga has at least toyed around with a very limited coop scheme. That and a dual-character system, and maybe we'll even see a fully-fledged coop Castlevania somewhere down the line. Puzzle Quest is awesome. There's a PC demo lying around, even though there's no official PC version announced yet.

I'm playing Puzzle Quest for the DS. Puzzle game with RPG elements makes for surprisingly fresh gameplay.

That's because you're playing Hollywood games. Be a real dude and tackle the wargame genre. It's your own bloody fault for encouraging devs to rehash the same games.

I think I may just have to pick up Dead Rising.

Well, from a translation of the Famitsu article: - Xbox360, 2007 - Large scale aerial battles - Xbox Live enabled: Battle Royale, Team Battle, Co-op, Leaderboards, tons of rule settings

This is really the only place where I haven't been banned from yet.

The easy answer is fun. This can be from being immersed in a gameworld/interactive story, to sweating bullets in situations against nearly impossible odds that I wouldn't really want to be in in RL, to being a wannabe armchair general going through historical operations, to pulling off insane antics that no one medium would allow, to going through awesome coop experiences with buddies, or to beat the crap out of said buddies, to playing Mr-Mod-Designer-For-A-Day via a game toolset, or murdering Deekin over and over again. If it's funless, it's pointless. I could care less how many levels or items I've gained along the way.

Hmm, since Ace Combat 6 is coming out for 360, I'll add that to the list. I've been meaning to play the series since hearing some of the epic music from AC5. Hmm, two exclusives lost in two days. Hmm.

Well, since Devil May Cry 4 is apparently coming out for PS3/360/PC now, I'll be able to give it a try. Given how people praise the series in terms of action, guess I'll keep an eye on it. http://ir.capcom.co.jp/english/news/html/e070320.html

Just finished Hotel Dusk. Good storydriven game. The pacing could have been better, but overall pretty satisfying experience. As for right now, I'm going through Super Robot Taisen Original Generation (SRPG for GBA) and Yoshi's Island DS. Still going through the Close Combat: Cross of Iron grand campaign, and the scenarios in Airborne Assault: Highway to the Reich. I guess I'm also technically supposed to be modding for NWN2 or something.

Yes, you rock. That's exactly it.

No one debates Xcom's position. NO ONE

http://nwn2forums.bioware.com/forums/viewt...um=109&sp=0 Obsidian employees probably can't apply, so the CEO title is actually backfiring for once.

The problem isn't that Jade Empire's styles aren't different, it's that the differences are for the most part fairly inconsequential. On the same vein, I wouldn't disagree that wielding a longsword would be, erm, different than using a battleaxe in a DnD CRPG, but it's mostly from a statistical/aesthetic viewpoint. I certainly wouldn't replay a game just to switch around the weapons, or the styles. JE's combat was fun enough, and probably benefitted from the game being relatively short. I question how long it'd have been able to sustain a longer game because some players would grow tired of it. It was a decent Bioware game. But doing justice to Wuxia? HA HA HA HA HA HA And RP, the argument that a RPG can have good roleplaying elements and character development while having the fast action-paced combat of a system like NG/DMC/GoW is one I fully endorse, but fairly bold. The problem with that is that I wouldn't be surprised if many CRPGers couldn't be able to handle anything remotely complex control-wise. Then they pull the intellectual superiority card. Because most RPG's combat systems are so tactically demanding.

This isn't really a grognard's game, but there is a fair learning curve. Give the demo a try (gives you access to the full game with all features for 3 hrs).

Taking advantage of the (.... limited) backwards compatibility of the 360, I've ordered Ninja Gaiden Black, Mega Man Anniversary Collection (too bad the X collection isn't available on Xbox) and Halo (I know, I know, but coop > all). I already have Halo2 sitting around somewhere, when I saw it for very cheap.

Ah, yes. In-between all this, I've already managed to find a copy of Black for cheaper than what the original one I initially saw was going for. End of dilemma. I've been itching for a difficult game.

Go go Shadowrun! http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/norther...and/6425333.stm

There's been some talk that EB can sell used/opened games as new. Apparently, employees can 'try out' a game first. I've never had a problem with that, but I rarely go there, if at all. Last time I went there was to preorder NWN2 and get the prerelease toolset. I ended getting a digital version of the game anyway, so I cancelled the preorder. I did buy a DS Lite while I was there for that, though, but stores make very little profit from selling hardware. Before then, I think the last time might have been for Wizardry VIII. As much as some people don't like EB, if it weren't for them striking an exclusive deal with now-defunct SirTech Canada, I wouldn't have gotten to play that, what with lack of publisher interest.

Mega-bump. I'm thinking of picking up this title. For those who've played both the original and Black, is the additional content in the latter worth the extra effort it'd take me to try to get a copy of that?

http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?t=291994

No, the original arcade version. TMNT2 for the NES was a (more graphically toned-down) version of it. 2 to 4 players, man. 2 TO 4 PLAYERS.

I just found out the arcade version of TMNT will be available on Xbox Live Arcade for 5 bucks with offline/online coop later this month. Bloody sold.

If it wasn't for the mods, i would have stopped playing that game after 20 hours (some design decisions really brought the game down). Instead i got bored with it after 200+ hours. Also, there are some performace tweaks out there that make Oblivion perfectly playable at X360 settings (not max settings), even on older cards like 6800GT, X800XT (no HDR for those though)...For the high-end machines there are some high quality graphic mods out there that make Oblivion look 50% better than original. So, not being able to mod oblivion does make it subpar, compared to the PC version. That just means the game itself is subpar.

Hmm, just noticed this. Excellent. Hopefully the action elements of the game will deliver. I don't want an awkward hybrid that fails to provide any sort of satisfaction on either the action or tactical side.