Video Games - a general discussion thread — Page 223

Fun playing with you 3PX. Maybe we should practice so we can beat a L4D finale when it's NOT on Easy! ;-)

Remember how I said that Ocarina of Time being remade for the 3DS might push us to buy one? Today we bought me a DSi so I will have something to play while my wife is playing on her 3DS when it comes out.

;-)

Theoretically OoT comes first chronologically. So there's that.

I really need to start Windwaker.  I bought it when we got the Wii 3 or 4 years ago, and I haven't even started it.  I need to start it, THEN I need to finish it, THEN I will go buy a copy of Twilight Princess (and not start that for a couple of years).  Which reminds me... I need to get my son to play Ocarina of Time.  He's almost 8 which I think is probably close enough.

My wife and I are this close to finishing Mass Effect, then maybe we'll start WW.  But I really want to play Monkey Island 2 with her, so that we can also play 3 and 4 SO THAT I can finally play Tales of.

Decisions, decisions...

Also:

1. Back to the Future The Game is pretty fun.  I got the first episode free by responding to some solicitation before Christmas.  I'm not sure how hard it is to get it free now... but the game is also coming to PS3 and there's a "demo" on that which might be the whole first episode as well.
2. The wife was sick on Saturday so we logged a professional's day (about 6 hours) in World of Keflings.  That was a good time.
3. Looks like I missed the OT.com L4D-athon.  :(
4. Deadly Premonition is still bizarre and hilarious.
5. I finished the story on Fable 2, and there are a few sidequests I want to mop up.  But, as always, once the "story" is over, I seem to lose most of my interest in the sidequests... even though my thought just prior to ending the story is: Let's put the story to bed so I can get back to these sidequests!

xhonzi said:

I really need to start Windwaker.  I bought it when we got the Wii 3 or 4 years ago, and I haven't even started it.  I need to start it, THEN I need to finish it, THEN I will go buy a copy of Twilight Princess (and not start that for a couple of years).  Which reminds me... I need to get my son to play Ocarina of Time.  He's almost 8 which I think is probably close enough.

It's not that I didn't give it a shot for bad press, I just never gave it a shot because I never had it. I'm not big on emulators, so hopefully they'll make a 25th anniversary pack this year for DS, or I'll just get a Wii someday (have to play the new one!).

Yes, I've played all of the Zeldas, but I'm pretty sure I've only beaten Link to the Past (favorite game ever), Link's Awakening (GB), Windwaker, and Twilight Princess...

But you plan to add OoT when you get it for the 3DS?

xhonzi said:

But you plan to add OoT when you get it for the 3DS?

doubleofive said:

xhonzi said:

But you plan to add OoT when you get it for the 3DS?

Yes, though I'm fairly certain I beat it, though if I did, there are several dungeons I don't remember at all. I did beat Majora's Mask, or at least helped some kids I was babysitting beat it. Can't recall. Never had an N64 of my own.

 But... they're not on your above list?

Somehow once my wife has beaten it, I will wrestle the 3DS away from her

Read as:

Somehow once my wife has been beaten, I will wrestle the 3DS away from her

 That's more or less how it looks on the gamecube.  I have that collection with the 2 NES ones and the 2 N64 ones, with the extra dungeons.

EDIT: Wait... which pic is which?  The top looks like a low render resolution- but the bottom looks like a low texture resolution.  I'm not sure which one looks better.

xhonzi said:

doubleofive said:

xhonzi said:
But you plan to add OoT when you get it for the 3DS?

Yes, though I'm fairly certain I beat it, though if I did, there are several dungeons I don't remember at all. I did beat Majora's Mask, or at least helped some kids I was babysitting beat it. Can't recall. Never had an N64 of my own.

But... they're not on your above list?

Somehow once my wife has beaten it, I will wrestle the 3DS away from her

Read as:

Somehow once my wife has been beaten, I will wrestle the 3DS away from her

 That's more or less how it looks on the gamecube.  I have that collection with the 2 NES ones and the 2 N64 ones, with the extra dungeons.

EDIT: Wait... which pic is which?  The top looks like a low render resolution- but the bottom looks like a low texture resolution.  I'm not sure which one looks better.

Bob said:

These games you guys play.....they're not just text?

Oh my...

That's right! While you old geezers are playing outdated, obsolete text games, those of us who are young and hip are playing multi-colored video games with real graphics! Like this!

The N64 could do resolutions of 256 × 224, 320 × 240 and 640 × 480 (rarely). And even then it was blurry. How did I survive...

I bought Rogue Squadron 2&3 for my Wii since I never owned a GC.  They're pretty much unplayable with my GC controllers since the thumbsticks have such massive dead-zones.  You can't fine-tune anything, so you either turn 10 degrees or none.  I thought I should just pop them in my laptop and boot up dolphin and play them with a real joystick.  But then I found out that you can't play from the disc and you have to go snag a ROM.  I owned the games, so I thought- why not?  THEN it turns out that they are un-emulatable.

Darn.

Been playing Red Dead Redemption a bit lately. This is actually the first Open World game I've played. Not a big fan of the genre, but the game is loads of fun. Can't wait til I'm comfortable enough with the controls to try the Zombie Pack.

ricardo said:

Been playing Red Dead Redemption a bit lately. This is actually the first Open World game I've played. Not a big fan of the genre, but the game is loads of fun. Can't wait til I'm comfortable enough with the controls to try the Zombie Pack.