Video Game Mini-Reviews

[LordMune]

My biggest gripe with FFXII, 21 hours in, is that it bores me to tears. The graphics are far from spectacular, the story is retarded (if more sensibly retarded than, say, FFX), and the battle/chain/loot system does nothing for me except make me want to kill someone.

Fortunately (unfortunately?), the voice work is spectacular, and the character design is far from bad.

EDIT: I usually only play to the next save point, then I have to go do something else for a while before picking the game up again, lest I try to commit suicide by bashing my own head in with the PS2.

[Ayanami]

The character design is bad.

The characters themselves are nothing to wright home about either. Except I do like Balthier and Fran. They are pretty shway.

The battle chain / loot system does drive me to madness. The game is difficult to get money in the first fucking place. The only good place I have found to make money is the damn skeleton bridge in the Lhusu mines.

[LordMune]

The character design is bad.

At least it's not FFX. v:)v

The characters themselves are nothing to wright home about either. Except I do like Balthier and Fran. They are pretty shway.

Well yeah, as the story in general and characters in particular seem sprung from a Star Wars/LotR fanfic more than anything else.

The battle chain / loot system does drive me to madness. The game is difficult to get money in the first fucking place. The only good place I have found to make money is the damn skeleton bridge in the Lhusu mines.

Word on both accounts.

[Malvado]

Elite Beat Agents.

Pretty fun and awkward game even though it reminds me a lot(and I mean it) like Cool Cool Toon from SNK for the Dreamcast. Probably was made by the same people.

Mini-review: 8/10.

[LordMune]

It's the American version of Ouendan, I'd sooner compare it to that.

[Malvado]

It's the American version of Ouendan, I'd sooner compare it to that.

yeah yeah, Cool Cool Toon

[Eldo]

I just finished Super Robot Taisen: Original Generation 2.

It's so ridiculously hard. I resetted the game so many freaking times. It's so goddamn insane. Sometimes, a stage had to be played more than 3 times to get the near impossible to obtain skill point. Fucking ridiculous. But still, it's a good game.

I give it 8.5/10. It's much, much more challenging than the first game.

[halfnhalf]

Rainbow Six: Vegas

fun, everything you expect from a rainbow six game. However ever since GRAW came out, this game is like a step back from franchise.


best part about the game, fucking upside down shooting through the window. It just looks sick.


8/10

[DarkenRahlX]

Games I've played recently.

Godhand 8/10
Okami 9.5/10
Zelda TP 10/10
Final Fantasy XII 9/10
Disgaea 2 8/10
Valkyrie Profile 2 9/10
Gears of War 9/10
Resistance Fall of Man 8.5/10

[Ayanami]

So you thought Gears of War was better than Resistance eh Darken.

I have Okami but I have not played it yet, pretty dope eh.

[DarkenRahlX]

I didn't expect Okami to be such a long game.

[LordMune]

I didn't expect Okami to be such a long game.

I semi-expected it to end after the showdown in the Moon Cave.

But it just kept on going.

And going.

And going.

[Libaax]

Is that a bad thing


Anyone got MGS: OPS yet?

[Sandman]

Getting OPS for christmas hope its good... damn gamestop stoped selling it with the bonus PSP skin

[MonkWren]

Most recent game I've played? Uh...

Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind.

What can I say? It's pretty much the perfect game for me. Expansive, fully-explorable world, tons of side-quests, an engaging storyline (once you actually decide to explore it), a strong levelling system (not perfect, but very good), and generally fun combat. If I could only change one thing, it would be to lower the spawn rate of those freaking Cliff Racers, though, because they're everywhere. And near-impossible to outrun (without boosting your Speed into rediculousness).

Why Morrowind and not Oblivion? Morrowind has more to do. Yes, it's smaller in terms of game area, but there are more factions, more random quests, and generally more things to do/fight/explore/talk to per square whatevermeasurementyouprefer. Oblivion just feels kinda empty at times.

[LordMune]

Also, Morrowind is inherently more broken than Oblivion due to it being more open-ended.

Seriously, I had more fun breaking that game apart and playing in the rubble of millions of lines of not-quite-watertight code than questing or whatever.

[Libaax]

Getting OPS for christmas hope its good... damn gamestop stoped selling it with the bonus PSP skin

I read they are gonna make a series of OPS to show more of BB and his story before going evil which is great in two ways.


1. He is uber cool just like Solid 2. He is basicly Solid Snake but back in the day.

[Sandman]

That sounds bad ass, I couldnt get into MG3 for some reason but hopefully this one will not be that way... I finally got my hands on FFXII not that bad its like a mix of XI in a single player RPG... not the greatest but I havent really got into the story yet, but one this is clear, the Movies are awesome still one of the reasons I play the games.

[ShinigamiGuts]

So I got a Xbox 360 for christmas bought Splinter Cell DA and Halo 2.
Splinter Cell is ok, haven't played it since christmas because instead of wasting 60$ per game to see if it's fun I got a block buster card. Best idea so far.
I rented Dead rising 10/10 so far, so fucking fun. One problem though, YOU HAVE TO play it on a big screen if not you won't be able to read the text for the missions and you'd be fucked walking around like a chicken with no head.
I played GOW, didn't like it. Too slow compared to Halo 2

[halfnhalf]

Killzone Liberation


Controls are wonderful, combat system it uses is brillant. This game is fun, and hard as hell too. Soo much shit to unlock too that i know i will be playing for a long time. Havent tried multiplayer yet or the share a game, but plan to when my brother picks up his copy.

9/10 no infrastructure prevents a perfect score for me.

[Tempest]

I wasn't sure exactly where to put this, but this seems like as good a place as any since they are "reviews" of games in a sort and they are rather short, so here it goes:

Zero Punctuation


I may not always agree with the guy, but I find it to be pretty damn funny.

[fujinsan]

all im going to give right now is old games I've played

God of war 1/2(ps2): what can i say sex many game carnage too powerful but the game is still challenging and good story line this game is perfect.

Devil may cry 3(ps2): piss your ****ing pants OUT OF THIS WORLD HARD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

kingdom hearts 1/2(ps2): Very good games but on kh 1 the controls were stiff, kh 2 controls were very fluid but lacked the difficulty that kh 1 presented.

metal gear solid 2/3(ps2): mgs2 didn't really do nothing for me when i played it recently but way back when that game was the ****. mgs3 on the other hand had no flaws that i could see.

Zelda: a link to the past(ds):It was a fun game actually that game had me up playing for hours that's why I'm an insomniac.

Blacksite: area 51(multiple):pfffffft

Heavonly sword(ps3): it was a very fun game a good weeks worth of entertainment but it was too short.

Virtua fighter 5(ps3): Not a big fan of fighter games so i wasn't surprised when i got bored

Halo 123(x-box,360): I liked the first two but halo 3 was dissapointing.

Resistance: fall of man(ps3): I had alot of fun on campaign mode on this game but online mode i love!

Well I feel that's enough for now the list is getting too big.

[Femto]

Hey, I remember this thread.

[The Prince]

Hey, I remember this thread.

Were you able to get your hands on DMC4?

[Femto]

I will later today or tomorrow.

Why don't you just download the demo?