Video Games - a general discussion thread — Page 237

RedFive said:

Buffy Summers blowing limbs off of soviet zombies on a frozen wasteland is not a gimmick, it is a wet dream come true.

Eh, until you actually play it. It is like that really sweet and inexpensive Sarah Michelle Gellar sex doll you bought when you were in high school. That was one hell of a wet dream too! Soiled your pants at least three times on the way home; once you finally got it there secretly without mom, dad, or the siblings seeing it, you got her in your room and blew her up only to realize it looked nothing like her. In fact, it looked nothing like a real human being. More like a sort of fur less muppet with a shocked look on its face. Huge disappointment... the exact same kind of disappointment you've come to associate with COD zombies... Turns out Danny Trejo, Sarah Michelle Gellar, and George A. Romero are just lingerie on a pig. The lingerie is top notch! Really sexy stuff! But... its on a pig...

Zombie Games: Sucking since Resident Evil 4.
















Atually since Resident Evil 3, but it was followed by CODE: Veronica, REbirth and Resident Evil 0, which were really good.

Oh, and Buffy rules.

twister111 said:

 

CP3S said:

Turns out Danny Trejo, Sarah Michelle Gellar, and George A. Romero are just lingerie on a pig. The lingerie is top notch! Really sexy stuff! But... its on a pig...

 

*pant*

/DarthSolo

TK-949 said:

Zombie Games: Sucking since Resident Evil 4.

I disagree whole heartedly.

Was never big into the Resident Evil games actually, I did rather like 4 and 5 was a lot of fun too... though it was a bit clunky and had too many annoying awkward quick time button tapping moments.

However, I think Left 4 Dead is a near perfect zombie game on many levels, and Dead Rising has a good deal of popularity, so while it doesn't float my boat, I am not sure it really sucks. The zombie add-on for Borderlands was pretty good, and I hear the zombie add-on for Red Dead Redemption was fantastic, but I've never played it. I also have really high hopes for Dead Island, but am expecting to be disappointed. Time Splitter 2 had a really fun zombie level and I think it came out after RE4, but I am not sure.

Oh man! And I'd consider Half-Life 2 a zombie game, as they play a pretty big role and it kicks RE4's ass! How did I not mention that one!

Speaking of HL2, I NEED Half-Life 3 or Half-Life 2 Episode 3, come on Valve!

Resident Evil's 4 and 5 are not zombie games.

They are 'foreigners with ways different to our own' games.

Some of the most creepy moments in gaming history are in the Rezzy games and I like tank controls.

They really emulate that feeling of panic (that we have all felt at sometime or another) experienced while trying to cook a roast dinner (you have six or seven different pans on the go) and then the Chinese Red Army bursts suddenly through your living room door demanding fennel and boiled rice and you are armed only with really hard vegetable stock cube.

The hubby is on his way over with the boss (who is a devote Rotarian) and then all my clothes fell off!!

I think all the evidence we need that it is time for the next gen to roll around is how bad load times are getting. Bigger open games like Fallout and Bioshock have always given us load screens lasting in the double digits of seconds, but I've always been pretty accepting about that. 

However, the load times in Fallout: New Vegas are so amazingly ridiculous, sometimes lasting minutes, even after being installed to the hard drive, it makes it really hard not to feel like the ambition of this game far exceeded the abilities of five year old consoles. Portal 2 load times are also pretty painful.

As much as I don't want to spend money on a new console anytime soon, especially since I am not an early adopter and it would mean years of not playing the newest games, I think it is past time for the next gen to begin.

Oh yeah, I forgot. Minecraft has zombies, too. And Minecraft rules.

I've just realised the only major console of the previous generation I haven't got is the X-Box.

I have a Dreamcast, a Gamecube (with a gameboy adapter screwed to the bottom of it) and now a Playstation 2.

Is it worth completing the set?

Other than Halo is there much on the first X-Box to justify the tiny expense of getting one now?

But it's hilariously cheap.

Really good games for under £2.

I uncovered my diary for 1997 and gawped at paying thirty odd pounds for Syndicate Wars on the PSONE that was second hand fourteen years ago.

I am being very selective.

Much more so than 1997 (the Playstation port of Syndicate Wars was pants).

btw The Dreamcast and the Gamecube were purchased at the time of release and are still going strong.

The Playstation 2 was purchased last month and is experiencing some bizarre behaviour with one game.

For some reason the original Xbox never interested me in the slightest. After I first got my 360 I decided to look into regular Xbox games to see if there were any worth getting, ultimately, (other than the Halo games) I bought Marrowind and Knights of the Old Republic, neither of which I played for more than 30 minutes before decided they weren't my thing. Marrowind felt extremely archaic having already played a bit of Oblivion and the combat in Knights of the Old Republic just wasn't my kind of thing. Everything else that seemed of any interest to me on the Xbox I already had on the PS2 or the GameCube or the N64 (Conker's Bad Fur Day, if it wasn't so heavily censored, I'd still totally get it).

^ I don't doubt it, sadly. Exploring is half the fun in games like that, but in FO:NV with every opportunity to explore came the question: Do I really want to spend the better part of two to three minutes at a loading screen just to see what is beyond that door or in that cave, plus another two to three minutes at a loading screen when I come back out again?

EDIT: Oops, thought you said Elder Scrolls V and that we were still on the subject of the next console gen being due. Not sure where my head is. Perhaps I should go to the Q&A thread and inquirer.