Video Games - a general discussion thread — Page 188

All the beta, including the one for Silver members, require ODST, which I don't have. So yeah, I'll sit this one out. Don't want to have to buy one game just to try out another one. ;-)

doubleofive said:

And THAT'S my problem with Halo. The good players rub it in, and the bad players think they're good and try to trash talk their way to the top. We went from having full teams of 8 having fun to my wife and I and maybe one other person in a Party so we don't have to listen to anyone else. I don't enjoy being competitive really, that's why I like L4D so much.

That very last bit kind of sums up me and video games as well. I just don't have time or the desire to play often enough to really get any where near as good as most other people playing online. So for me, playing online is usually about dying over and over and over again. I like to play online with my friends, but a lot of them are better than me too.

Which is EXACTLY (or at least one more reason) why ODST is beyond a doubt my favorite Halo. Firefight is great fun, the competition thing is out, now it is more like L4D, just help each other stay alive and survive wave after wave after wave of Covenant forces. There is no way to win, they just keep coming, it is all about endurance and better yet, about shooting things with your buddies.

Have you ever tried firefight 005? If not, then I think I'd feel safe in recommended ODST if you can find it at an affordable price. Between firefight, and being able to free roam the streets of New Mambasa in a team of four makes it a really great multiplayer Halo game. Yeah, the campaign is really short, but I think I actually enjoyed it more than any of the other Halo campaigns. It is quite a bit different than the other Halo games, and I guess the differences just really appealed to me because I love it, despite all the hate it gets. 

I was interested in it, just never got to it. If I do find it cheap, I'll probably pick it up.

Yes... pick it up so we can play firefight... after we play some L4D2 sometime...

We've been trying for Sunday evenings, if you can schedule a session.

Um, that's new.

I'm afraid Sunday nights are totally dead for me, for always.

But feel free to play without me... I'll just have to find Fridays or Saturdays where my wife doesn't expect me to pay attention to her.  :)  Or maybe I have to get her to play like yours does, 005.  I wonder if that dramamine is still good...

I've never seen that logo. I guess its just new to me. I don't watch pre-game junk.

the during junk if i don't have it prerecorded.

xhonzi said:

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G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra $7.99
Brutal Legend $9.99
Indianapolis 500 Evolution $9.99
Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising $9.99
Wolfenstein $9.99
Dark Void $12.99
NCAA Football 10 $12.99
Rogue Warrior $12.99
Wet $12.99
50 Cent: Blood on the Sand $14.99
Street Fighter IV $17.99
Assassin's Creed 2 $17.99
Batman: Arkham Asylum $17.99
BioShock 2 $17.99

Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood $9.99
Ghostbusters $9.99
Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising $12.99
Brutal Legend $12.99
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra $12.99
Prototype $12.99
Red Faction: Guerrilla $12.99
Star Wars The Clone Wars: Republic Heroes $12.99
UFC 2009 Undisputed $12.99
Wanted: Weapons of Fate $12.99
Wet $12.99
Wolfenstein $12.99
White Knight Chronicles: International Edition $17.99
The Beatles: Rock Band $19.99


Cursed Mountain $9.99
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra $9.99
Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2 $9.99
The Conduit $9.99
X-Men Origins: Wolverine $9.99
Ghostbusters $12.99
Reel Fishing: Angler's Dream $12.99
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs $14.99
Resident Evil Archives: Resident Evil $14.99
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Smash-Up $14.99
The Price is Right $14.99
Guitar Hero 5 $17.99
Punch-Out!! $19.99

So... I'm not sure when this became my private thread for just me to post in... (Frink's not even here... what does that say?)  But I thought I would update my pile of shame list and admit... that I fell off the wagon and bought like 10 more games.  :(

GRAW2 - 25% and DONE!
Call of Duty 4: MW - DONE!
inFamous - DONE!
Dead Space - DONE!
Uncharted 2 - 15%
Mass Effect - 30%
Terminator Redemption (for the old xbox! - 50%)
Mercs2 Co-op: 50%
Left 4 Dead Co-op: 99%
Left 4 Dead 2 Co-op: 0%
Gears2 Co-op 85%
LBP Co-op 90%
Burnout Paradise - 10%
Metroid Prime 3 - 50%
Reistance - 15%
Lotr: Conquest - 20%
Indy & Fate of Atlantis (again!)- 10%

To start:
Batman: AA
*BioShock 2
Assassin's Creed 2
Prototype
*New Super Mario Bros. Wii
*Wario Land Shake It!
*Conduit
Myst 4,5 + URU
Tex Murphy Overseer (again!)
Zelda Windwaker
*Guitar Hero 5

Still want to pick up Darksiders, Modern Warfare2, Mass Effect 2, and Fallout 3: GotY, Marvel Ultimate Alliance Borderlands, Monkey Island 2 SE, Zelda TP, Red Faction Guerilla and maybe Wolfenstein and the new AVP.

* Denotes 'falling off the wagon.'

Not yet, but I plan to.

Getting Red Dead Redemption tonight. Trading in the gorily satisfying but ultimately too short Aliens vs Predator.

I feel like Burnout is sort of a "Desert Island" game.  Or, if you could only afford one game, then BP would be a great buy.  As is, I always feel compelled to play games that I can "finish" when I get some time.  I've very much enjoyed the time I've spent on Paradise Island...  But when I get an hour, and I can choose between finishing a game I've been playing, or tooling around in BP for a little bit... I almost never choose BP.

If Heavy Rain is too much like Indigo Prophecy (Farenheit) then I'd probably skip it.  I know a lot of people love love loved Indigo Prophecy, and they were the most excited for Heavy Rain (loose sequel)... But I didn't really care for IP...

So my wife let me buy Red Dead Redemption. She watched me play Friday night and Saturday morning. Then she wanted to try.

Now I can't get her away from it. She just headed south of the border and I'm maybe a third of the way through the US missions. I'm glad she likes it, but I just wish we could play together without buying another xbox and hooking it to the other TV.

I played some Free Roam last night with a friend online, and it was really fun. The towns are not nearly populated enough, but shooting a carriage driver from horseback, then riding in the carriage with your friend driving you to the next gang hideout where you storm at a fort from multiple angles, one rushing in while the other takes shots at them from a distance is AWESOME. I can't imagine having a whole posse of 8 people doing it, but I can imagine that it would be even better.

Also, you can shoot your own horse. As you're riding it. Hilarity ensues.

doubleofive said:

... I just wish we could play together without buying another xbox and hooking it to the other TV.

 Me too.  But I would buy another xbox in a second if it also didn't mean I had to own 2 copies of every game I wanted to play this way.  If they used the install to HDD option to allow you to play it on multiple boxes on a LAN, I'd be all over it.