Video Games - a general discussion thread — Page 239

A bionic Xbox would have been sweet! How's that biotic Xbox working out for you, Xhonzi?

Wouldn't a bionic Xbox cost six million dollars and make a racket while slowing to a crawl during the action scenes?

We get so much mileage out of xhonzi typos.  It makes me weep with joy.

Leonardo said:

I never could figure out how did they make that sound effect.

Unlike some classic sound effects like the lightsabers and the Tardis  the bionic effect is still the subject of some debate. BUT :

Charles King, the Sound Designer for the shows said :

I braced a metal ruler or yardstick on the edge of a table, pulling and releasing the extended end, then slowed the resultant sound to 25%.

GF and I finished Lego Monkey Island with full achievements. Final verdict: felt extremely short. It usually doesn't take the two of us long to take down a Lego game, but this one felt like it took us about half the time any of the others have taken us. Lego Star Wars III on the other hand had some pretty decent longevity to it, definitely a much better value. Lego Pirates of the Caribbean would be a good bargain bin or $14.99 and under GameStop section purchase. Fun, but not really worth more than that.

You mean Star Wars: Dark Forces III: Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast? Yeah, that is a fun game. I actually also rather liked Star Wars: Dark Forces IV: Jedi Knight III: Jedi Outcast II: Jedi Academy.*    ;)

Though it didn't go over as well as SWDF3JK2JO, I thought it had a lot of really fun new elements to it. Like the tauntauns, wampas, sandworms, and some other unique things I am probably forgetting. As much as I hate the prequels, one thing about them I always liked was the Jedi Master and Padawan thing, so I was actually pleased to see it show up in this game in the post-ROTJ EU setting. I also liked the branching mission system. Sadly, I never actually got to finish it, I reached a level that was too much for my computer and would always cause the game to crash. By the time I got a new computer I had kind of forgotten about it.

I think there is a version for the original Xbox, maybe it is backwards compatible with the 360. If so, I ought to try to find a copy.

fiveouttafiveballsfrink

Picked up Metal of Honor: Airborne the other day. I always really liked the MoH games on the PC, I owned a few on the PS2 as well. Definitely always preferred them to COD, which was more flashy, action packed, and cinematic, where MoH took a lot more care in historic accuracy.

The series kind of died out when this gen rolled around (until they tried to go all Modern Warfare with the series, which didn't seem to go over so well if the reviews are anything to go by). Airborne came out pretty early in the current gen, but didn't seem to go over so well which put the series on hiatus.

Having played several other titles in the series, Airborne is more of the same (which I think was responsible for its poor reception). But since I haven't played a MoH game in years, I kind of appreciate revisiting that familiar feel but with current gen upgrades.

Glad I gave it a chance; since the recent "rebooted" Metal of Honor is rapidly dropping in price, I suspect I'll pick that one up as well sometime in the following months.

bkev said:

Your PSN screennames. Gimme.

Is PSN even running? - I've been out of the loop

Ringo_Baggins

I don't really have any multiplayer games tho - I find the ps3 controller frustrating and I have more friends with Xboxes so usually i just pick up ps3 games at bargain bin prices.

Johnny Ringo said:

I find the ps3 controller frustrating...

Actually, this in one of the reasons I haven't bought a PS3 yet. Every time I try to use my PS2 the controller feels really archaic and uncomfortable. Since the PS3 controller has very few changes from the PS2 version, the idea of playing something like Resistance with the thing makes me cringe.

The "mishmash of stuff" is one thing that really stood out to me about Star Wars: Dark Forces IV: Jedi Knight III: Jedi Academy. I haven't played the Jedi Outcast campaign since it first came out, and I only vaguely remember the storyline, though I do remember very vividly a lot of the gameplay moments that have really stuck in my head for being completely amazing. I've never played a Star Wars game with a story that really moved me or did anything for me for that matter, and Outcast wasn't an exception.

I think Academy's mission select idea was one of the very few steps that game took in the right direction. Its biggest problem was it came out a very short time after Outcast and had very little of anything new or different to offer.

It felt like an expansion pack that was being sold as a complete game.

CP3S said:

Johnny Ringo said:

I find the ps3 controller frustrating...

Actually, this in one of the reasons I haven't bought a PS3 yet. Every time I try to use my PS2 the controller feels really archaic and uncomfortable. Since the PS3 controller has very few changes from the PS2 version, the idea of playing something like Resistance with the thing makes me cringe.

Hehe, so, just the day after I wrote the above quoted post, Gamestop emailed me a coupon for $100 dollars off (!) a brand new 160 - 320gb Playstation 3. That is quite the price cut. Long story short, I now own a currently unopened PS3. I might keep it, I might Craig's List it; but $100 off was too good of a deal to pass up.

I've really wanted to play Resistance since it first came out, but other than that (along with its sequel and a third installment coming later this year) there are not really any Playstation exclusives that interest me that much. I liked the first two God of War games, so playing the third might be fun but it is something I think I could live without. Metal Gear Solid 4 would also be fun, but I still haven't completed Snake Eater. So none of these are really selling me on keeping it by themselves. And I still really dislike Sony's refusal to change their controller. Kind of lame when the base design of the thing has gone unchanged since the 90s.*

Looked at Sony's backwards compatibility list and was extremely amused to discover that almost every single PS2 game I own is backwards compatible with this model. Also, I hadn't realized that all PS3s are supposed to be backward compatible with all PSOne games. Definitely some major selling points.

Also, I do not own a Blu-ray player, so that is another plus for keeping it...

For those of you who do own PS3s, any exclusives that I am really missing out on by being an Xbox only guy?

*Other than the PS3 triggers, all the other changes have been rip offs done to keep up with the Joneses (Nintendo, mostly), they stole the joy stick idea from other consoles and actually added them in the middle of the first PS1's life along with force feedback vibration which was stolen from the N64 "rumble pack" add on. Kind of an "Oops, we should have done that in the first place. Silly us for not thinking big enough". Obviously every console that has ever been made has taken its controller design from the things that have come before it. That is understandable. But Sony never changes theirs; they keep their same overly simplistic original controller design from the original PS1, and they continually Frankenstein new parts onto it when they draw inspiration from their competitors. The fact that their answer to the Wii was to develop a Wiimote knock-off add-on rather than trying to actually out do or improve on the concept shows how bad Sony has been at thinking outside the box when it comes to their game consoles.