Re: Game suggestion thread

by Archer Sun Jul 21, 2013 10:51 pm

Well IIRC the first things you should be fighting WERE skeletons...

or Hollow.

Who cares, they're not human so it's all the same.

by Aboithagameboi Mon Jul 22, 2013 9:33 pm

Bioshock Infinite holy shit that game

It actually engages your head and makes you think and pay attention and I'm only 1.5 hours in. Got it -50% on the Steam sale and finished downloading it this morning and holy shit.

by Yoshi Tue Jul 23, 2013 2:45 pm

So postal 2 is a weird fuckin game but oddly enjoyable..and i'm only on Wednesday and Blood dragon,my god blood dragon,never has mini-gunning down all life with a mini-gun to lil Richie nor have i heard any cornier jokes till now.

by MrNaleIt Tue Jul 23, 2013 10:28 pm

Yoshi wrote:So postal 2 is a weird fuckin game but oddly enjoyable..and i'm only on Wednesday

... I looove postal 2

by Dracojounin7 Thu Jul 25, 2013 11:30 am

I'll let the trailer speak for itself.

by Cloak Thu Jul 25, 2013 7:54 pm

I HAD A BETA KEY FOR THAT
TOO BAD MY COMPUTER DIED BEFORE I COULD USE IT

by spplmj Sat Jul 27, 2013 10:09 pm

Haha time for the longest week ever.

by The Mysterious Gourmet Sun Jul 28, 2013 1:18 am

SMT IV is fantastic. I don't want to give away too much so just get it; even if you haven't played a Megaten game before it's a fairly good starting point from what I can tell, the only thing you'll be missing out on is familiarity with some of the designs.

by Hunter Axel Sun Jul 28, 2013 1:20 am

I support the above message.

by Archer Sun Jul 28, 2013 11:53 am

TIME TO GO TO GAMESTOP AND CHECK IF I PRE ORDERED TALES OF XILLIA.

Hey how did I lose 50 dollars.

What's this SMT IV LE doing here in my bag.

by The Mysterious Gourmet Sun Jul 28, 2013 12:53 pm

Congratulations, you're now an hee-honourary hee-ho!

One of us! One of us!

by Nick Soapdish Mon Aug 12, 2013 10:32 pm

Here are some game specials from Play-Asia with free shipping for Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward and Sin Megami Tensei - Devil Summoners (with free shipping).
These are NTSC so I can't buy them.
http://www.play-asia.com/zero-escape-virtues-last-reward-paOS-13-49-en-70-4xi3.html
http://www.play-asia.com/shin-megami-tensei-devil-summoner-soul-hackers-comes-with-free-paOS-13-49-en-70-5uov.html

Zero Escape (which I own but haven't got far) is meant to be excellent and if you base it on the prequel, 9 hours, 9 persons, 9 doors that game is amazing. I highly recommend 9,9,9 which you should play before Zero Escape.

by Yoshi Thu Aug 15, 2013 4:48 am

I whole heartily recommend Duck Tails Remastered for both nostaligia and fun times.

by **Leo E.** Thu Aug 15, 2013 12:10 pm

Spoiler:

I really wanna play this game again.
Guess I'll wait for the HD version.

Also, DRAGON'S CROWN.
ALL OF YOU. NOW.

by spplmj Thu Aug 15, 2013 1:10 pm

but I am

by Archer Thu Aug 15, 2013 1:42 pm

I wish I could.

by Gam Thu Aug 15, 2013 1:54 pm

Leo E. wrote:Also, DRAGON'S CROWN.
ALL OF YOU. NOW.

Not really into shameless fan service, no thanks.

by **Leo E.** Thu Aug 15, 2013 2:28 pm

Gam wrote:
Leo E. wrote:Also, DRAGON'S CROWN.
ALL OF YOU. NOW.
Not really into shameless fan service, no thanks.

Get-a-load-of-this-casul cam

by Archer Thu Aug 15, 2013 2:48 pm

I'm not too big on the fanservice but I hear the actual gameplay is really good.

by **Leo E.** Thu Aug 15, 2013 2:59 pm

Alpar wrote:the actual gameplay is really good.

Understatement of the century.

by Nick Soapdish Thu Aug 15, 2013 10:36 pm

Gam wrote:
Leo E. wrote:Also, DRAGON'S CROWN.
ALL OF YOU. NOW.
Not really into shameless fan service, no thanks.

Hey when did Kotaku start posting in these forums?

by **Leo E.** Thu Aug 15, 2013 11:28 pm

nicksoapdish wrote:
Gam wrote:
Leo E. wrote:Also, DRAGON'S CROWN.
ALL OF YOU. NOW.
Not really into shameless fan service, no thanks.
Hey when did Kotaku start posting in these forums?

Over a year, apparently.

by Hunter Axel Fri Aug 16, 2013 1:03 am

I won't be able to play for at least a week.

Hopefully by then Alpar will have the game and take it easy from Dark Souls. And maybe others too...maybe.

Although it will be competing with Xillia for me to play.

by **StalinCommander** Fri Aug 16, 2013 2:23 pm

I finally started playing Hitman: Absolution that I got like a year ago.
SHit it is great.

by Archer Fri Aug 16, 2013 3:30 pm

Well I finally got around to beating Dark Souls.

This game... was a lot of things.

First off, I wouldn't say it's as hard as everyone made it out to be. And by everyone I mean the people that got the game a few years ago and claimed "OMG DIS IS WON OF THE HARDEST GAYMS EVAR."
I'd like to state the fact I think there are two kinds of difficult in videogaming:

The frustrating sort of difficult: Where there's a ton of stuff going on which makes it hard to keep up, makes you incredibly tense as opposed to just on your guard, and if you screw up you will be punished pretty hard, maybe with some trace of artificial difficulty to fuel this. Examples for this I can think of are God Hand, Lunatic Touhou, and Ninja Gaiden.

The fair kind of difficult: Where the game will push as much in your favor as it can to make it as balanced as possible for both the opposing and the protagonist side. If you screw up, it will punish you, but not brutally. It will also keep you as informed as can be and if you stack up on mistakes, you know that all of it will have been your fault and you "willingly" in this sense lose whatever comes with the death you brought upon yourself. Little to no fuel for artificial difficulty and you feel on your guard as opposed to super tense. The reason why this would be considered difficult at all, is because the most important requirement for this to be pressing in any sense, is that you have to die more than you're supposed to, based on the credit of how much the game has made its situations fair for you. The best example I can think of this is probably Devil May Cry.

Dark Souls is the latter. So yes, it's to say it is a hard game of sorts. This is something I wanted to get across but kind of had a hard time wording, so I hope this makes sense.

The game itself is nothing short of fantastic, and I'm really happy that I picked it up. It's not perfect; it has some few flaws such as some mechanics that need working out, a few conveyance problems, and traces of what Extra Credits would call Power Creep

*cough*:

among a few other things. Glaring issues as they may be, they're only glaring because they're small flaws that can be overlooked in a game with highly excellent design. The game does all it can to keep you informed about the situations, sparing enough so that you aren't practically using a guide, and informing enough so that you can make logically constructed decisions at nearly every turn.

One of my favorite things about this game definitely has to be the era in which it was released. It was not only released in a time perfect enough to make this game as pleasing, innovating, and immersing as possible with technology, but it was also the perfect time to deliver a kick to the face against the masses that have no idea how the differences between "you play the game" and "the game plays itself" work.

There's a whole ton of secrets too, and I'm sure we don't need to dive into those.

To top it all off, the endurance system is simple, but it goes an unbelievably long way. It's a really easy-to-understand concept but thanks to it, you immediately get how the game will go, and you feel that everything you do based off of this system will always matter in the long run, even accounting the smallest situations. This really drives the whole thing home, and it's probably the reason why this entire game kicked its way right into my top 9.

The only real problems I had with this game that I could call the biggest issue (on a personal level) was probably the lack of music. I mean yeah, whenever music plays during the bossfights, it's awesome, it's defining to the atmosphere and theme, it does a great job

For one example:

but I get the impression they could probably have squeezed more out of their budget to structure atmosphere more with some music. The visuals are great to an extent, which helps, but yeah.

Anyway, after finally having beaten it after all this time, I recommend it to anyone and everyone that has a 360, PS3, or a PC that can run it. It's deserving of its must-play title, not so much for how hard it is, but the incredible elements of game design that are weaved carefully into nearly every inch of the game.

I don't care about your backlog, play this game you pleb.

Also I demand a personal apology from Phoenix.
This game does NOT deserve to be compared to Skyrim you filthy casual.

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