Killer list. Haven't played Vagrant Story or either Wild Arms, haha or RE 3/Code Veronica, but the rest are fantastic.


Haha, thanks, sometimes I feel awkward writing about them because everyone else on here is so console oriented. But I dunno, I've always leaned that way. I think it's because I grew up without a super nintendo, so I didn't really have a console for a long time and played everything on the pc.

That said though, I beat the first Legend of Zelda for the first time a few days ago. I really enjoyed it, but damn it was alot shorter than I thought it would be. Only took like three days. All of the monsters were really diverse (hate those fucking wizzrobes and knight guys) and Link has a real sense of progression going from pipsqueak to badass.

It is most definitely a kids game though, just about every puzzle is reduced to 'find the moveable block' or 'find the wall to blow up'. The three best puzzles in the game are easily the forest maze and going up death mountain and finding dungeon 7. Though really none of those are 'puzzles' per se and more of just paying rupees to a guy in a cave who then tells you what to do. But at least they're intriguing.

The bosses are kind of lame, except that Gohmra or whatever it's called, where you shoot it in the eye. Ganon was really lame though. Completely underwhelming, because there's no real strategy to him, not that I found. You just swat your sword around in the general area that he's going to be and hope you hit him. Death Mountain in general is annoying for all the wrong reasons. At least once I ran out of keys, got trapped in a room and then had to kill myself with the candle. Plus, the silver arrows are too hidden for something that's ESSENTIAL to beating the game. The game doesn't even tell you you need them.

It's all kind of nitpicking though (except Ganon, that's dumb). But what's funny I think is that more than anything, the thing that annoyed me more than anything about the game (and I guarantee its just me) is that they never said what happened to the third Triforce! They don't even mention it! After Ganon explodes or whatever and Link goes into the next room, then there's that moment where they hold both of the Triforces up. I'm just thinking, 'Great. Where's the third one?' Haha, I'm not sure why I care, I mean, it's Zelda, early Zelda at that. Might be the only reason I suffer through Zelda II is because it's about the third Triforce.

But yeah, it was fun. Reminded me too much of Zork, I mean it really is a graphical version of it. But yeah, rocking game. Preferred Link to the Past.

I'm also glad that Skyrim has gotten good traction. I don't even know if it's any good. I didn't really like Oblivion. I guess it's just a culmination of the past few years with people responding well to Fallout 3 and Oblivion. Though I get pissed off every single time I have to listen to someone say 'Yeah, I liked Fallout 3, but I never played the first two.' But at least it gives hope to the idea of people being interested in more dense gameplay again instead of CoD and all of its clones like you say.

Oh, I wasn't asking for myself ha. I'm big on the physical copies. Just wondering if you got those from PSN or if you were lucky enough to have a backwards compatible model.



Code Veronica is really cool. I haven't gotten around to my copy of RE3 yet... but I do have both for DC.

I liked what I've played of Wild Arms 3 on PS2...




It sucks. I still have a fair share of older PC games left; but because I have Windows 7, my laptop won't even recognize them. What a bunch of bs.

I've had my LoZ cart for over 15 years now.... and I still haven't played it until the end. I'm a wuss. I am playing Skyward Sword however, great game, but I'm currently without my TV w/ composite hookups. So I must wait until I can dive into it again.

The only Elder Scrolls game I've ever played was Morrowind on the o.g. XBOX. It wasn't necessarily my kind of RPG...

Yes...Code Veronica is pretty good. I never beat it though....I had it on the DC. Oh and Joe, sorry, I thought you were asking for yourself....AND! actually...I think all PS3's are PS1 compatible, just not PS2 compatible....if that makes sense. If I would've known this, I would've been playing FF8 a LONG time ago, since I still have my copy of it. Anyways....I prefer a digital collection, I have a lot of clutter anyways, and if I owned all the games I want, well....my room would be much more of a mess


But yeah.....I fuckin' stayed up till 5 am last night trying to kill the Mechanical Spider on the SeeD exam...I failed. Well...one time I actually got the AP for my GFs but then I was 2 seconds away from the cutscene andgame over. So...I gave up.

Anyways....back to FF8.

I also want one of these.....psx. It's a PS2, but with an internal HDD and video recording.

got some new games for xmas ==

Borderlands (PS3)
Sonic Generations (PS3)
Ico/SotC collection (PS3)
Tactics Ogre (PSP)

plus a bunch of GS giftcards.

Borderlands is pretty fun. I avoided it for a long time because I hate the cover. But it's pretty good. The art is really comic bookesque if that's your thing. The only thing I don't like about it is how it really de-emphasizes any RPG aspects it has. All of the skills you take are really under the hood, noticeable differences are pretty scant. I don't really think the classes are that varied, aside from their one class specific skill. That all sounds pretty negative I guess. But it really is pretty fun. Shooting monsters and crazy howling outlaws is hard to mess up I guess.

Wordfeud lol

yeah I had played it before. I'm not a huge FPS fan, but something about Borderlands just works for me. Maybe it's the art direction. Similarly, I enjoyed XIII on PS2 -- perhaps for the same reason? Though I admit, the leveling up etc in Bordlerlands is a nice draw for me too.

yesterday went to GS and picked up some games with a couple of my xmas giftcards -- all PS3 -- got: King of Fighters XII, Tekken 6, and Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe (all for fightclub) and then nabbed Sonic All-Star Racing as well.

BTW -- it turns out Sonic Generations is one of the best games I've played all year. Mindblowingly awesome. I can't even believe that a new Sonic game is this great. But yeah. I've been addicted to it so hard for the past couple of days, just playing hours at a time and I'm already almost done with it. Haha.

^ XII?!?!? Why not XIII?

I still can't get new Ps3 games because of the firmware update....fug it all!

because it's BUDGET fightclub. We play games that are $30 or under to keep it cheaper. So I'll mess with XII until the price drops on XIII.

my Top 10 games of the year:

http://www.rfgeneration.com/blogs/no...-2011-2076.php

^watched my bud play some. It looks whey cool. I want it.

There's too many Beat-Em-Ups in your list for my taste.

do you mean fighting games? Because the only game on my list that could ALMOST be called a beat-em-up is No More Heroes. But even that's a stretch.

yeah great list NR. Finally got around to reading it. I had never seen anything from Shadows of the Damned, but now I might check it out.


still have Neptunia and Catherine on my list of games to get...

Just started this as well, and it's awesome!

in case you care, here's a list of every game I beat in 2011:

1. Mercs (PS2)
2. Darkstalkers 3 (PS1)
3. House Of The Dead Overkill (Wii)
4. Mega Man 3 (PS2)
5. Mega Man 2: The Power Fighters (PS2)
6. Halo 2600 (Atari 2600)
7. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game (NES)
8. Castlevania Chronicles (PS1)
9. Shadow Of The Colossus (PS2)
10. Capcom Vs. SNK Pro (PS1)
11. Capcom Vs. SNK 2: Mark Of The Millennium (PS2)
12. Super Street Fighter IV (PS3)
13. Mobile Light Force (PS1)
14. Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 (PS3)
15. Galaga Arrangement (PSP)
16. BlazBlue: Continuum Shift (PS3)
17. Mr. Driller (PS1)
18. Dead Or Alive (PS1)
19. Mamoru-kun (PS3)
20. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles In Time Reshelled (PSN)
21. Ridge Racer (PS1)
22. Mega Man X4 (PS1)
23. Rapid Angels (PSN)
24. Catherine (PS3)
25. Let's Go Jungle! (arcade)
26. Super Puzzle Fighter II: For Matching Service (DC)
27. Kill Bill Vol. 1 (DC)
28. Dead Or Alive 2 (DC)
29. Gunbird 2 (DC)
30. GigaWing (DC)
31. Street Fighter Alpha 3 (DC)
32. Streets Of Rage (PS3)
33. Shining Force (PS3)
34. Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix (PSN)
35. Street Fighter III Third Strike Online Edition (PSN)
36. LittleBigPlanet (PS3)
37. SoulCalibur IV (PS3)
38. King of Fighters XII (PS3)
39. Sonic Generations (PS3)

sorry, biopillow_2012 is taken. :(

Do fighters really count? I mean seriously...they take like 30 minutes.

Really? Aw shucks.

shrug. I "beat" the arcade mode. I know they're not long games, but I just keep track of all the games of any genre that I play through all year.

I'm glad to hear that you enjoyed the new Sonic game. I always hated thinking that they could never do the series right again after having so many missteps. And I'll probably get that Ico/Shadow compilation myself someday.

Still playing the ever broken FF8.

Just reached Xian in Golden Sun.



broken?

Yeah...the battle system. All your enemies are basically the same level as you are, which means you can grind the same enemy till you're level 100. There aren't really any new weapons(you upgrade and it's not even worth it), because instead of equiping actual items, you're equipping magic. And well...if you know what you're doing, it's extremely exploitable. And to actually equip magic is a pain, because you have to "draw" it from the enemy and well that can take some time. The max amount you can draw each times is 9 spells. So....if you're drawing the Fire spell, each turn you can only take up to 9 Fires. But the number, I think?, is random. SO you may get 9 Fires, or just 2 and ideally you'd want to max out your spells so you get the most out of your stats.

OH. lol

You don't have to rely solely on the battle system to draw magic. There's also the card game you can play to refine a bunch of the cards to create spells. I know alot of people don't like the card game, but I preferred it to drawing spells. Especially since I'd always have at least one party members that was abysmal at drawing and would only draw 3-4 spells at a time.

Yah...though I like playing the card game, and I don't like refining my rarer cards. or cards that I just like cactuars aand tonberries for instance. I just grind it out. I have sleep(100) junctioned to attack on one guy and draw the fuck outta him. The hard part is drawing from bosses...like Odin....who has TRIPLES! Oh! and the battle is timed too...fuck. So yeah......Found a nice guide to find all teh rare cards though...well actually...I haven't even seen what the cards refine into...I'm going to do that now!

RAYMAN ORANGES SO GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD


and forever ssf4ae2012 and a touch of kof13

GTA IV. Well at least I can say it looks great so far. I'm feeling unexcited.

I liked 4. I don't know why there is so moch hate...




Anyways, I took a little break off ff8 so now I'm playing castlevania :sotn.....

^just beat this.

My nephew got the 3DS. I had to turn off the 3d cause 1. He's barely turning 5 this year, and 2. the 3D doesn't seem to work with my
glasses.



But dood the AR technology is pretty badass.

I started a file on Parasite Eve. Holy awesome. I always thought it was like resident evil type of gameplay. It's better! and the chick really really runs like a girl.

I'm playing this on my Nokia smartphone. It's pretty addictive.

Put some decent hours into this yesterday, and I'll probably play a bit moe when I get the chance. Hot damn, this game rules hard - and I generally don't even like FPS titles! Absolutely terrifying throughout.





:)

Playing some old-school Nintendo like Excitebike, Metroid, Super Mario Bros. 2. I'll have to look for more games later.