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Post by jtron on Jun 17, 2011 12:45:00 GMT -5
We just got our PS3 fixed, and I'm looking into getting my long-busted PSP sorted as well. We've also got DS, PS2, XBOX, XBOX360, Nintendo 64, Gamecube, Dreamcast, Mac, Windows, and Linux systems kicking around (my housemate used to be a collector, and I have magical dumpster diving luck - just in the past few months I've scored an XBOX and a tricked-out pro-gamer tower with neon etc, and once I scored a NEO GEO through Paying Attention).
Anyway...
I'd like recommendations for games to play. They don't have to be new. In fact, I'd prefer ones I could get used for $20 or less. I also like games where one can play for five minutes or five hours.
What I Like/Play: Strategy rpgs (Disgaea, FF Tactics), Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup, Civilization IV, Fire Pro Wrestling, Out of the Park Baseball, quirky Japanese stuff (Recettear, Katamari etc), pinball (including the Hall of Fame games, which are lovely).
What I don't like: It seems like 90% of the stuff coming out these days is a FPS with Big Guns and Big Boobs set in a humorless world where everything has turned brown and grey. None of that, thanks. Another dealbreaker is voice-acted segments with no subtitle option.
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Post by armyofkittens on Jun 17, 2011 13:15:33 GMT -5
Valkyria Chronicles is a superb series of turn-based strategy games set in a pseudo-European WW1-era continent. I've only played the first game on the PS3 but there are two PSP sequels. Well worth checking out. Battles take quite a long time; this is an "hours" game  Demon's Souls (yeah, that apostrophe is in the right place!) is a rock-hard third-person dungeon-crawler with Monster Hunter-style combat. It's incredibly atmospheric, a lot of fun, and a multi-platform spiritual sequel (Dark Souls) is out soon. It's not a genre on your list, but Wipeout HD/Fury is the definitive entry in the series. If you haven't played Metal Gear Solid 4 then you haven't seen the most baroque, bizarre masterpiece in the MGS series. With cutscenes approaching the two-hour mark (that's for one scene, not in total) it's a marmite thing, but what game there is is fantastic. It's probably dirt cheap by now, too. If you've never played any games at all in the MGS series, and if it seems like something you'd like, then an HD-remastered collection comprising the PS2 games (and a download token for the original PS1 game) is coming out later this year. In fact, this year and next HD editions of a lot of classic PS2 games are coming out on the PS3, including Ico/Shadow of the Colossus, and the good Silent Hills. Uncharted and Uncharted 2 are third-person climby shooty adventurey games. I don't know if you'll like them but they're certainly not grey or humourless. Proper acting (including people moving around and touching each other!) rather than just talking heads in the cutscenes. Uncharted 2 is by far (imo) the better game and you don't have to have played the first to know what's going on -- I didn't. Little Big Planet 2 is great fun, although it's quirky british stuff rather than japanese Look into the Pixeljunk games on PSN (I love Shooter) and Flower, which is stinking beautiful. Space Channel 5 Part 2 is the most joyous rhythm action game ever, out on Steam now and PSN/Live "later". edited to remove text at the top that made it look like I was doing a real list divided by genres, doi
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Post by giraffe on Jun 17, 2011 13:30:05 GMT -5
Have you tried Demon's Souls yet? You may remember it as the game that was "too hard" (it's not). It's a dungeon-y RPG. It might be darker than what you're asking for. This FPP turned into a "why I like Demon's Souls" echo chamber. You can read the whole thing without worrying about spoilers; the plot is very simple. Bonus: it's retailing now for $20. Edit: Aaaand I'm about 15 minutes late. |
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Post by cortex on Jun 17, 2011 19:34:22 GMT -5
Also, Demon's Souls.
Just Cause 2 is a terrible amount of fun even though it superficially resembles some of the dumb-action-film stuff on your Don't Like list. It's got a dumb plot, bad acting, and a sort of lack of redeeming story qualities in general, but the basic gameplay action of paragliding around with a grappling hook and machine guns and blowing up lots and lots of infrastructure kept me pretty seriously entertained despite the dumb.
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Post by griphus on Jun 18, 2011 13:39:02 GMT -5
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World ( www.joystiq.com/2010/08/10/review-scott-pilgrim-vs-the-world-the-game/) game is wonderful if you're into old-school beat-em-ups. Its Double Dragon/River City Ransom-revivalist gameplay (with all the failings) but with a whole lot more shit to throw scattered about and made by Paul Robertson, who is an amazing artist (the same dude responsible for the Cabana Baby and Kings of Power.) Edit: ...how do you hyperlink properly here? |
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Post by PhoBWanKenobi on Jun 18, 2011 13:45:55 GMT -5
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World ( www.joystiq.com/2010/08/10/review-scott-pilgrim-vs-the-world-the-game/) game is wonderful if you're into old-school beat-em-ups. Its Double Dragon/River City Ransom-revivalist gameplay (with all the failings) but with a whole lot more shit to throw scattered about and made by Paul Robertson, who is an amazing artist (the same dude responsible for the Cabana Baby and Kings of Power.) Edit: ...how do you hyperlink properly here? It's taken me awhile to figure it out, too, but try typing in the text you want hyperlinked first, then highlighting it and then clicking the add hyperlink button. Then add =http://www.whatever.com after the phrase url in the first brackets. There might be an easier way. But I think it works. |
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Post by armyofkittens on Jun 18, 2011 17:15:00 GMT -5
Edit: ...how do you hyperlink properly here? [ url=http://blah ]this is your link text![ /url ] only without the spaces |
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Post by emmtee on Jun 18, 2011 17:51:22 GMT -5
I've been playing an awful lot of Child of Eden the last couple of days, and it is stunning. It does kind of come with a bunch of caveats, though: if you've played Rez you know roughly what to expect (this is Rez 2 in all but name), otherwise it's a sort of on-rails shooter with a Panzer Dragoonish lock-on system, except that it's really all about the utterly gobsmackingly gorgeous abstract visuals and the fact everything you do affects the trancey electro soundtrack. Also there is literally about an hour and a half, maybe two hours of like, original first-time-through content in it. There's obviously an awful lot more in terms of playing for ratings and high scores, not to mention just for the visual and sonic beauty of the thing, but that's still not a great deal of stuff, looked at one way. Kinect is all over the box and marketing for it, and I hear the game's pretty great that way, but me and AoK have been playing with the controller (lack of space, willingness to drop £100 and creaky third-floor floorboards are between us and a Kinect) and haven't felt like we're missing out in the slightest. |
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Post by jtron on Jun 19, 2011 13:36:33 GMT -5
I will definitely be checking out Child of Eden once the price drops. Demons Souls looks interesting but I feel like I might not have urge skillz for it... though I might convince my housemate to buy it to watch him play.
One more weird caveat: I have arthritic hands! I can usually manage 2 guitar hero songs, or a level of katamari, before having to take a break. Is it true Demons Souls doesn't have a pause button? That would be am instant dealbreaker...
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Post by armyofkittens on Jun 19, 2011 18:30:14 GMT -5
I'm not actually sure. We'll load it up and check I sympathise; I don't have arthritis but I have similar problems that can limit my play time. I've been known to totally balls myself up when I get too involved in a game! edit: yeah, not even going to the playstation menu pauses the game! A pity, and I will say that I was able to play to the end despite this -- you can play in short bursts, and the hub area to which you return regularly is safe -- but I'd recommend renting to start with. |
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Post by obiwanwasabi on Jun 21, 2011 4:52:18 GMT -5
I take it you've done ICO and SOTC on PS2? Skies of Arcadia on DC? The Professor Layton titles for DS? The Baldur's Gate titles for Xbox?
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Post by jtron on Jun 21, 2011 9:43:31 GMT -5
I've played SOTC on PS2 and am looking forward to picking up the PS3 ico/sotc remake set. Have not played Skies of Arcadia, I will look it up! The Professor Layton titles didn't look like they'd be my particular cup of poison, but I'm pretty sure my housemate has it, so. Why XBOX version of Baldur's Gate specifically? This question may have been somewhat mooted as my preorder download of Out Of The Park Baseball 12 just showed up - the only game I've found to be as horribly reinforcing as Civilization. That doesn't mean I don't want more recommendations, though! |
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