Diogo Ribeiro

Having just finished Dawn of Sorrow and currently playing New Super Mario Bros., I'm looking to try out more games for the system. Anyone here that can share a few recomendations? I have no genre bias and can basically pick up any game.

It's shinier crap?

But still aroused

Rule No.3 : You only talk about The Hivemind when you can't provide a solid counter argument and want to impress your little clique who wants to make the Obsidian boards their own self-aggrandizing webspace.

Now, if only Interplay was still alive

Dawn of Sorrow for the NDS. Pretty sexy and closest to Symphony of the Night any of the recent Castleroid's have come, but there are still some rough spots. The graphics are slick though the art direction is hit or miss, while the soundtrack is very good though unremarkable. The gameplay is really just an updated and polished version of Aria of Sorrow with some peripheral curiosities, but doesn't really take the game anywhere exciting. Julius Mode is pretty meh.

Why did you do that, man? They eat puppies over there!

Those "simple rulesets" are what dictate how a game plays, which is far more important in interactive entertainment than how good it looks. Or maybe not. Who knows? A clear revision of the ruleset and associated mechanics may be required to improve the infrastructure that supported the gameplay. I don't expect SPECIAL to be a part of Fallout 3 in any recognizable form, and it would be more rational to develop a different type of system for a different type of gameplay rather than shoehorning an existing system in a gameplay structure that would not be made to accomodate it. But change as a mere dead formality isn't really the way to go.

I wasn't talking about EU2. Pidesco's statement seemed to be a general assessment of some advantage of 3D over 2D in the form of units needing to navigate around obstacles such as mountains. It wasn't. My mistake.

Oh.

But that could be pulled off in 2D anyway.

Just finished Fable: The Lost Chapters. Quite crappy across the board. Now it's finishing Anachronox, then it's off to some Space Rangers 2, New Super Mario Bros and Dawn of Sorrow Or some Silent Storm if I manage to steal Mattias' copy :ph34r:

O RLY??

In any case, I have to go with Dhruin's comment. The game is a nice variation of the Diablo formula and the excellent artwork and setting do score high in my book, but at some point you'll realize it's just really Diablo all over again but not as well developed. The story isn't that great either, but if you're really into the game, replaying it with the other three characters will allow you to experience all of it. I really didn't get to spend much time with it as I wanted but from the demo and what little I managed to play from the official version, 5$ doesn't seem like a bad deal, though being the arrogant prick I ocasionally am I'd only get near it if it was closer to 2$.

The Sea Devil is pretty powerful... Reminds me of Arcanum's Looking Glass Rife pre-patch.

:'(

<{POST_SNAPBACK}> FM4 never had an European release, did it?

Yes. In Baldur's Gate 2.

Goddamn it all of you. All this talk of Bloodlines is making me want to install it again and I don't have the time

I didn't get my Wii now. I'm planning on getting the console one day but for now I'd rather stick with a more traditional setup for my games, Zelda included.

For the NDS that would be Metroid Prime: Hunters. I'm a Metroid fan and all but Hunters is really more of a deathmatchy game than a solid singleplayer entry into the series, especially since it features a bit of recycled content from the Metroid Prime games.

Beats down flooding the board with the emoticon.

You shouldn't assume that a site devoted to discussing traditional CRPGs would frown upon everything else, since people there have different tastes other than what is discussed. From FPS to JRPG to action adventure, it's got pretty varied tastes. I also had a duplicate of me PS2 acquisition thread at the Codex, and all the PS2 titles being discussed and suggested was a pretty good example of how varied tastes over there can be. People can enjoy things they don't bitch about.

I also have a different smiley too, with an evil grin And thanks Now, next up - Zelda: Phantom Hourglass for the NDS and Okami for the PS2.