Video Games - a general discussion thread — Page 243

Hehehe, I want Half-Life 3 so bad... I might actually be willing to reach into your pants to get it... but I'd have to be really sure it was in there first....

Oh, and the troll comment was meant in the most loving way possible. I was actually surprised to look back at it and see I didn't put I winky after it, I thought I had.

Agreed. But get on with it! We need some HF3.

Streamathon? Did we mean Steamathon?

Anybody else ever play an old mid nineties game called The Neverhood Chronicles? From a game mechanics standpoint, it is absolutely awful, the puzzles aren't exactly hard, but sometimes they are unreasonable in the large amount of memorization and mass back tracking it makes you do. Though if it didn't make you jump through these annoying hoops, the game would be rather short.

Despite all of this, the game is very pretty... in a quirky claymation kind of way. The entire set is made out of clay and it uses full motion video as you walk around the tiny clay world. I can't recall how many times I've started this game throughout my childhood, got frustrated with it or stuck and gave up only to get in the mood to start it again a months or years later.

The last time I played this game I was probably 12 or 14 and still hadn't beaten it. Last week I started thinking about it again and decided to see if there was a Mac port of it available in the seedy underdepths of the interwebs (my old original CD-ROM is probably rotting away in a box in my parents garage), and sure enough, I found one that works brilliantly on OS X. And now, finally after all these years, I beat it today! 

The game is a very pleasant and unique experience. I'd recommend it to any adventure game fans and/or clay animation fans.

4 out of 4 balls.

Maybe someday I can get my hands on its hard to find sequel for the PSOne, Skullmonkeys.

Just installed Outcast for the first time in 6-7 years. No problems under Win7 64 bit and simple cfg hack for widescreen. It was a pleasant surprise. Looks pretty damn good after all these years.

I've had the Silent Hill Collection set for years but I've only had the PS2 to play it on for a few months.

I've been playing Silent Hill 2 for a couple of hours and it's already much more colourful and cheery than the first one.

for the past two days I've been playing Duke Nukem Forever on and off - on and off because it just can't hold my attention.

After all this time I expected the game to be average but I only wanted 2 things - action and humour. It stumbles on both.

The references in DN3d were cool because they were kinda obscure. here Duke makes reference to everything from Aliens to Starship Troopers.

the action in the game is in quite small doses as feels extremely scripted, it's pretty much - 

walk into an empty area, solve some mundane puzzle, fight off a few waves of monsters that suddenly appear...continue through the empty area....

I'd be very surprised if any single element they planned in 1997 exists in the game today - it really feels like they shoe-horned in anything they saw in other games - two weapon limit? check. physics puzzles? check....

the level I just played through feels too much like the flood / gravemind levels i the halo games. complete with egg sacks and sphincter type doors. 

it's the sort of game you couldn't make in 1997 due to technology and shouldn't make in 2011 because it's all been done in better games.

bkev said:

 

doubleKO said:

Just installed Outcast for the first time in 6-7 years. No problems under Win7 64 bit and simple cfg hack for widescreen. It was a pleasant surprise. Looks pretty damn good after all these years.

Ooh! Teach me this widescreen hack!

 

Easy as pie instructions here: http://www.widescreengamingforum.com/wiki/index.php/Star_Wars_Jedi_Knight_II:_Jedi_Outcast

Anyone else looking for to ICO and Shadow of the Colusses HD remakes? Never played ICO but SotC was an awesome game.

HaloA sounds great, hopefully its no more than 29.99 when it comes out. Playing the campaign online coop is great. Remember playing it for hours on end with a friend in college, really fun.

Anyone play Borderlands?

doubleofive said:

I didn't know it actually came out. You'd think angels would have heralded it's coming, as long as we've been waiting for it. Or not caring, as the case may be for me. Sounds about like what I would have expected: crap.

well, we were meant to get it before you guys anyway - no idea why. Here it broke street date by a day as well - probably to make money before all the negative american reviews?

and as far as waiting all this time - it would be equally disappointing for a game in development for 2 years.

the thing is that duke 3d kind of had a style to it and they've ditched that to just rip-off other games - while mocking those games at the same time [ie: the halo series]

it's kinda sad that Halo is getting a TEN YEAR anniversay re-release - that is the same game and that's more exciting.

Is anyone else playing this? - i know i'm not the only sucker who bought this.

I've had no interest at all in Duke Nukem Forever beyond the amused Wow, it is finally coming out. I have to agree with you, I seriously doubt any of what was once meant to be Duke Nukem Forever remains in this title. Feels kind of like a cash in on what became a game that was infamous for never being finished. It's kind of like someone building a city over the ocean and naming it "The City of Atlantis" and saying, "Hey, look everybody! We finally found it!"

kilik64 said:

Anyone else looking for to ICO and Shadow of the Colusses HD remakes? Never played ICO but SotC was an awesome game.

HaloA sounds great, hopefully its no more than 29.99 when it comes out. Playing the campaign online coop is great. Remember playing it for hours on end with a friend in college, really fun.

Anyone play Borderlands?

Even though I own Ico and SOTC on the PS2, I am looking forward to the HD remake. Though I do cringe thinking about dealing with those horrible controls on the otherwise near perfect SOTC. But imagining climbing colossi on a big screen TV in HD makes me very, very happy.

I agree, I really hope Halo Anniversary is a lower priced game, even being only downloadable and in the $20 range would be really nice. I am afraid they'll pull an ODST and add a bunch of fancy multiplayer features and consider it worthy of full $60 price tag.

And yes, I do play Borderlands on the 360. Love it. I've got all the expansions and (sadly) completed everything, even got the unreasonable Mad Moxxi achievements. I'd love more DLC or a sequel, after all those hours I still didn't get my fill of that game. 

Xhonzi was playing it too a while ago.

re: Halo Anniversary - they have mentioned it being a less than full price game, but they did plan the same for ODST initially so Fingers crossed.

Apparently there's some event in August where they'll reveal more on Halo 4 and let people get their hands on halo anniversary.

It's been a certainty for a while now that there'd be more halo games and why not? - they make money. 343 Industries was set up specifically to handle HALO releases.

Halo 3 was also open ended with somewhat of a cliffhanger.

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doubleofive said:

As soon as MS said that they kept the rights to Halo I assumed that we'd start getting yearly entries like CoD. Bungie made Halo, I'm not planning on caring for the rest of the Halos.

I honestly don't know where I am in that. I really enjoyed Halo, H2, H3, and ODST, but felt like I had played an awful lot of Halo by the time Reach was being made. I was never really excited for Reach, not only because I was afraid it would be more of the same, but the whole prequel storyline didn't seem the least bit interesting to me.

I ended up buying Reach after reading some good reviews and finding it at a discount price shortly after its release. And I ended up not caring too much for it. Yet, while none of the Reach trailers sparked the least bit of interest in me, that Halo 4 teaser has me kind of looking forward to Halo 4. Maybe if different people are making it, it will actually turn out different. Halo's biggest problem was that it was a really, really good game, but it never did much growing and maturing; instead it just kind of remained the exact same game with very minor tweaks each installment. An actual evolving Halo franchise would be great, it is almost shocking to consider how little things have changed between Halo:CE and Halo: Reach. Board games have typically evolved faster than the Halo franchise.