I'm playing FFIII.. well umm.. FFVI on Wii Virtual Console, but FFIII in North America. So confusing. I am loving it! Is it even better for GBA? Anyways this is my first true FF experience since I was not allowed video games back in 94. Those Mooples are cool!

VI is pretty good. Objectively speaking it probably is the best one, though I prefer VIII. It's pretty good up until the middle, then it just kind of falls apart for me. Still a fun game though.

VIII has a pretty awesome story. I really wanna play it again..... though only the enemys suck.....

When I first played through it when I was 13 or so, I would've defended that game to the grave. Defended any criticism anyone ever came up with. No, the draw system did NOT suck! One shotting that zombie boss with a phoenix down does not make it lame! It's clever!

Nowadays as a 23 year old, I have no qualms about admitting that there are some serious gameplay problems with that game. But that's fine, the story is still engaging, though somewhat convoluted and at times very um, teenager-esque. But the story is still interesting. Ultemicia is still the Final Fantasy antagonist I enjoy thinking about most. So yeah, still a very interesting game.

more Deus Ex: Invisible War (XBOX)




and some SEGA Superstars Tennis (Wii)

I haven't visited any of the PSX Final Fantasy titles since I was very young (my cousins had a PSX), and even then - I must not have gotten very far due to my age. FF8 really struck a chord with me, much moreso than the beloved FF7. I can't remember much, but the whole card system really appealed to me. I even enjoyed the animations for the creatures you unleashed over and over again.

My absolute favorite in the series was always ff3 (ff6) on the SNES though.

Fuckin 'A :p :eek:

On my 30" SD TV w/ the sound BLARING from my JVC sound system.

so you don't need me to hold this for you any more then?


ps. The soundtrack for both games is available online. It's amazing.

Hahaha, sorry dude, meant to PM you on RB. I found it today for $1.50. Couldn't pass that up!

BUT I still will need KoF Neo Blood - thank you, and srry for the inconvenience.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listi...&condition=new
sooooo tempted to buy this right now.

picked up Samurai Champloo Sidetracked (PS2) today. You got that Suda game yet Joe? I'm dying to finally nab No More Heroes... grabbing the PS3 version tomorrow hopefully.

No, I haven't. I know nothing of the anime series, and heard the game wasn't anything special. No More Heroes on the other hand, rules hard.

Does the PS3 Move have a speaker in the controller? If not, I'd suggest you save a few bucks and just get a used copy on the Wii (you could probably get the sequel too, and still save $$$!). The use of the speaker throughout was one of my favorite elements in the game.

PayPal'd ya just now, btw.

I know zilch about the anime too, but read that the game was batshit. Plus it's a Suda game for $6. So...

The PS3 NMH supports standard controller. I hate motion controls unless it's lightgun. So I'll be playing with a standard controller, in HD, with bonus content not in the Wii version.

$6? I'd try it out for that yeah.

The motion controls in NMH are actually extremely well designed, and quite limited. The motion comes into play only when adjusting the height of your weapon, charging up your beam katana, or when performing extremely simple special wrestling moves. You use the A button to swing rather than having to fling around like a drunk uncle.

Trust me, this is a very well designed game, created specifically for the Wii. There are many innovative instances that just wouldn't be the same on another console (especially w/ a standard controller): receiving phone calls through the speaker, holding A and jerking off your Wiimote to charge your weapon (an intentional gesture), swinging lethal baseballs back at enemies, etc.

As for HD... well, I guess, guy .... BUT THE SPEAKER!!!! OH MAN; and the bonus content... okay, I guess you kinda got me there, but you could just pick up the sequel for Wii and still save money.

Or is the PS3 version both games on one disc or something? Maybe I'm ill informed. shoot me

nah. But the Wii's in the living room on the big screen. I really only play it with my wife. My PS3 is setup for me and me alone. So I'll opt for PS3.

Samurai Champloo Sidetracked

^awe sookie sookie now

I can't get over her, guy. She's impeccable.

reminds me of someone. Dnt know. Lacey from Mean Girls maybe?

In honor of the Super Nintendo's 20th Anniversary since it's release in North America, I have been playing my two favorites on the console all day long.

Super Metroid & Chrono Trigger

^ ahh CRono@ I still have to finish it. I'm basically at Lavos. I just need to do the sidequests n shit.

yeah I'm stuck at the twin Golems. I need to grind now to level up. And I don't want to. Sigh. I'm like 14 hrs in, too.

You better not quit now! I'm now inspired to play....but when I have time. I have sleep and school stuff to do.

Flawless games. Well I wish Frog was stronger in Chrono Trigger. I always felt like he was playing second fiddle to Crono, even with Masamune. Amazing games nonetheless.



Terrific game so far. The RPG elements are pretty intact and man, there are some pretty interesting choices. See through walls? Cloaking? Punch through walls? Lots of interesting stuff. Can't wait to play some more.

^ I really wanna give it a spin, but don't anything powerful enough to play it. In time, I guess. BUT Count, I thought you might be interested in reading this...


http://onlivespot.blogspot.com/2011/...ive-plays.html

Talk about bullshit, eh?

yeah talk about it (on RB) lulz

Yeah, my sister was telling me about this yesterday, it's ridiculous. I bought my copy at wal-mart, and it came with all 57 codes or whatever that came with it (OK, it was only four but that's still overkill). I was actually kind of annoyed because of that. Because as soon as I opened it all these cards with these different codes fell out. There's the one on the manual, the onlive one, this Steam registration one, and this Square-Enix registration one.

First thing I think is 'OK, which one do I use to play the fucking game?' And the instillation doesn't help very much, when it comes to put in the cd key it says something along the lines of 'you will find the key either on the manual, the jewel case, x card, or somewhere else'. But what made it that much more convoluted was that there were 5 boxes where you put in the code, so you would assume you put in five brackets of serials numbers. But nooooo, every single one of these cards has 3 brackets or less.

For about five seconds I thought I was going to have to combine some of them. But nah, you just fill up three spaces and it accepts that. Later today I might see if these other codes offer anything extra.

In any case, its a great game. The difficulty levels crack me up. They aren't listed in that conventional 'easy' 'medium' 'hard'. They're listed 'give me a story' 'give me a challenge' and the one I expect everyone will pick just because of the way it's worded: 'give me Deus Ex'.

But yeah about the gamestop thing. That's so goofy, I don't even really care about not having the onlive thing. Just the fact that they open the game up is just insane. If they're gong to be such chumps about that. They better sell it at used price. Or better yet not open the fucking game up and taking out a coupon that honestly I doubt that many people will use. I mean, all it is is a coupon for a digital copy of the game right? So whatever. I don't have to worry about it, it's just absurd.

This just makes me all the more grateful that I'm a console exclusive gamer. I can hardly handle long-winded CGI intros, let alone having to fill out paperwork when I wanna try out a new game. ha



I love when designers take the extra creative step by adding the tiniest of touches like that. Duke Nukem always had pretty clever titles for its difficulty levels. Games that go the extra mile to insult their players are especially entertaining; having things like "Wuss" and "Crybaby" instead of "Easy" and "Very Easy".

This also works really well with Game Over screens. Like in Friday the 13th for NES:




Pinball of the Dead, and Monster Party have awesomely sinister screens too. Even Donkey Kong Country features a pretty depressing one...



But okay, I'm definitely rambling now...



Exactly.

This definitely isn't a new thing for them though. Often times customers complain of receiving "new" games with the shrink wrap already removed.

GameStop has this policy where they let their employees loan out a title to take home, and try out for themselves. I believe the rules are only 1 game allowed at a time, and if the disc is visibly damaged - they have to buy it. But still though, it's the principle of the whole thing - and now that so many games have DLC content (thankfully I've never had to deal with this), or even Club Nintendo points, who knows exactly what the employee is up to?

Don't even get me started on them literally throwing out the cases for PS2 and DS games. It's criminal.

Well to be honest this was the first time this has happened, usually it's a bit easier haha. Definitely a step up from DOS days, that sucked.




Yeah, Monster Party's game over screen was always depressing. Actually everything about that game is depressing. Entering the password, everything. Castlevania: Symphony of the Night's game over screen always made me laugh somewhat.



It basically is saying 'give it up, you're not going to beat this game. Just cut your losses and go outside.'

But the most unique difficulty selection I can think of was in Quake. When you had to actively jump into the portal of your choice. And the harder ones were more intense looking. Hard having the lava you had to jump over with the withering corpses hanging off the wall. And then there was Nightmare difficulty which was hidden haha.




Man, that makes me want to never buy from gamestop again. Though I never shopped there much to begin with. I bought from there...Metal Gear Solid 2, this Fallout/Fallout 2 compilation which doesn't work very well, X-COM collector's edition, and uh World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King. Yeah, that's everything I ever bought there.

Speaking of DLC, I hate that stuff. I always feel like it's just a piece of the game the developers decided to hold back so they can get another five bucks out of you or something when they release it. Yeah some games have free dlc, though I don't know how common that is. And it's never significant.

But this Deus Ex thing is funny, I mean I'd never even heard of Onlive before two days ago. I can't figure how Gamestop thought this was a good idea. Did they just think no one would notice? Idiots.

one of the most BRILLIANT games of the year.

My cousins had a DOS for a while. The only thing I remember playing on it was Monopoly. My memory is so faint.

I still have yet to play SOTN. That's a good one though.

The thing I hate most about GameStop is sometimes their prices are so cheap that they absolutely justify the company's means. Although, you really do have to sort through plenty of cases with missing manuals (or even worse.... generic GS cases....) to find the hidden treasures.

Tell me more plz.

Chrono Trigger

basically a HUGE tribute to video games. It's a JRPG made by Sega, NIS, Compile Heart AND Idea Factory together. The parties are made of goddesses, each one based on a VG company (IE: Neptunia = Sega Nuptune!) and it's a big giant alagory about the console wars. That's right. An RPG about the fucking console wars. You fight things like space-invaders early on and then things progress throughout the history of video games. Stunningly brilliant. I love it.

Hot damn! That's stupidly brilliant!

I need a PS3.


Hey! Me too!!

Well, I'm not really playing anything at the moment (though I have quite a few games unfinished) BUT I finally ordered a GameBoy Player for my Gamecube!