A DS or a PS3?
I haven't bought a DS before now because I either didn't have money for it or it didn't entice me enough, but sometime this year the sequel to one of my favorite games is supposedly going to come out for it. However, I'm hesitant to buy a system thats 6 years old and due for replacement soon. On the other hand, because it's so old, there are a lot of games for it I would like to play.
I technically have enough money for a PS3 right now, but given all thats going on in my life I really shouldn't spend... well, actually, I really shouldn't spend any of it. But the sequel to my second favorite game is going to come out for it sometime soon and there's already a few games out that I would like to try, it's current, and I'm wondering if it wouldn't be a better long term investment.
What do you guys think?
What are your favorite games and your favorite game genres? Specifics will help.
One consideration: if you're not averse to emulation, the DS can already be emulated pretty decently whereas the PS3 likely won't be for many years (and certainly not with modern CPUs.)
What would you use more? I think you could get more use out of the PS3. And theres always the ability to emulate the DS.
PS3 if you are going to be home, if you travel a lot the DS is very useful though.
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Add me! =]
Actually I'm with some kind of problem, I can't add people, it says there's an error with the FC i put >_<
Well, just found out what's the problem.
There's the UK and US version.
I'm with the UK one and I can only add other UK ones! =/
Well, anyway, let me know if you add me:
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Cya! ;]
hi guys i'm in the U.K my friend code is 038816613650
I will add you, so post your friend code right near here, and I will post mine.
My friend code is: 0088 4275 0250
sorry sire i cant add you, as you must be with the US version not the UK one
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I can't remember when i last got to play a game that :
1:was fun and entertaining all the time.
2:when i never got tired.
3:the history was top class.
4:i wanted to replay it after i finished it.
5:i could play it for moths witout finishing it.
To sum it up my lates games i have tested is:
Half life(played 1-2days , never replayed it)
WoW(qitted fast)
gw(i only play once in the week)
Silent hunter 3(got boring fast)
hearts of iron 2(only one i have left)
So when in the good games coming?
I'm playing Bioshock for the first time. It's really awesome, but maybe a bit too easy with that awesome lightning wrench combo. Big Daddy battles make up for it.
In my opinion, Legend of Mana was the best of the series. I know everyone loves Secret of Mana, but I hated that game. And Secret of Mana 2 had too much grind, even with an emulator with fastforward.
I have fond memories of playing LoM with my sister.
Though Dawn of Mana was pretty cool. It was cool to see the Mana world in 3D. Very pretty game.
Last game I got completely sucked into was Assassins Creed 2. It helped that this time around they developed the main character into an interesting guy instead of a silent vehicle for the gameplay. And goddamn, the game is gorgeous to look at.
Plus, I became best bros with Leonardo Da Vinci.
I dont have a console, but there're also many fantastic games on PC, for example, Mount & Blade, I really love it! It's a mixture of ACT, STG and RPG, you can grow your own character and join one of the five battling countries, enjoy the feeling of becoming a knight or a laird, just like the mid-country Europe.
You can meet nice people and be a part of the justice, or walk with thieves, robbers, do whatever you want.
Delta Force: Black Hawk Down
Great game, the only problem is the friendly ai, but it doesn't bother me that much.
It's pretty long and hard (cocks lol) and it has an awesome expansion pack, so it kind of sticks it to mw2 (cocks again) even though the graphics and such aren't as up to date.
I think I'm going to go reinstall it...
Hopefully someone plays online still, that game had the best multiplayer (and community) that I've seen in a loooooong time.
Half-Life (obligatory)
I was a kid when I first beat it, and it took me like a month to beat it. Nowadays it takes me like 15 or so hours. I just cannot figure out how it could possibly have taken me a month to finish.
I play the Age of Chivalry mod for the source engine, you can get it free through Steam. It's really good for being free and has a decent online community, also they still have updates so if you don't like it check back in a while and it'll be better.
Legend of Legaia(PS 1)
Too bad the sequel made the gamers shit bricks..
I'm playing Messiah at the moment. It's great, and I've wanted to play it since it came out, so I'm glad to have it now. It's glitchy as fuck, but once you figure out how to deal with all that shit (crashing, long unskippable preview upon game boot up, etc) it's a great game.
Currently thrilled with the Left 4 Dead series.
That's the kind of multiplayer gaming I want.
The first Halo was badass.
I still play the PC version to this day, and I got that shit when it first came out 7 years ago (I also had the xbox version;the online multiplayer was definitely worth the extra 40 bucks, believe me, even with the laggy servers).
We all know that lately game companies are running out of/too lazy to come up with original ideas for games and have been chugging remakes and sequels.
I say they should remake Super Smash TV
See its the graphics that make me want to play the games every now and then.
Rainbow Six 3 PC
It has awful AI. And that's a HUGE problem considering that it's such a huge part of the game (it is squad based after all... if it was just a solo shooter, like halo, it wouldn't really matter to me, but in R6 you kinda need good friendly AI).
UBI Just fucked it all up. And they made it so hard to mod, there's barely any community for the game (R63 would have been massively improved by the mod community if Ubi hadn't taken a dump on UE2).
Quest 64!
I'm playing a ROM of the game now, fun shit.
the music of the overworld is easy to get stuck in your head. and then it WON'T GET OUT
I would really like to see a version of the first and second SC's remade with the Chaos Theory formula (with waaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyy amped up ai and difficulty/map and gameplay complexity though)... but that's just a day dream I guess.
I remember that there was a custom map of Smash TV on Warcraft III I played before.
Metroid 1, using the Prime engine.
I know they already remade it, but I think it'd be so much better in the Prime engine.
I've got a huge list on this.
MechWarrior (any of the series, but I lean towards the 4th)
Killing Floor (I know, I know is recent. But it would look sweet on the Unreal Engine 3)
Half Life 1 (HL: Source doesn't count, and Black Mesa Source is pretty much vaporware, so I'm putting it here)
Quake 1 (honest to god remake, not a graphical mod)
Shogo
Sin
Messiah
Rainbow Six
Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic- The Sith Lords
No more heroes
I like how its a satire on "EPIC" plots in general not just games.
But I still consider Killer7 as a better game despite the change from its original script . Cant wait for
Flower, Sun and Rain in October so I can get some sort of understanding of his Kill the Past series.
Just beat No More Heroes 2. Was disappointed.
Just finished BioShock. great game. Scary turns into actiony at just the right pace. Also, the reveal was masterful.
Reinstalled recently, and just got through Kotor 2. That game was pretty awesome the first time I played it (when it came out) and it's still good, and I'm actually playing through it again with a new character, but damn obsidian left so much content out, and there are so many glitches that they never even bothered to fix, I feel like I should write them a very stern letter.
I'm all about the unfinished games, since rpg developers are wont to release games that aren't ready for release yet, but only if the cockbreath creators FIX it with patches later on. Needless to say,
Obsidian gets a big black mark next to their name for this.
I'm glad there's so many mods for it though, or it wouldn't be worth playing. Actually, I'm most glad for the 'skip peragus' mod, because, for pete's sake, it gets just a little boring to go through all that pointless shit over and over again.
That's the ONE thing I like about PC gaming over console gaming - mods can make the games either better things, or simply make them much more enjoyable.
Just finished the Half-Life mod "Paranoid". If the friendly AI was a little better, and the game longer (a lot longer- since it was just a short mod, after all), it could be made into a pretty decent game.
Wow, that sounds pretty cool actually
I just finished Mass Effect 2.
Mordin died. Feels bad, man D:
Been playing White Knight Chronicles a ton the past week. I really really enjoy this game despite it's pretty obvious problems. Finished story mode and I was a bit disappointed that by the time the story actually got interesting it ended, but it's supposed to be a trilogy so that wasn't too much of a surprise. The online mode is pretty fun as well so I'll probably clock a lot of time on it before I actually stop playing.
Just finished Hitman 2.
Completely awesome.
It wasn't one of those 10 hour shmups that developers have been cranking out these past few years.
The story was OK (not great, but there was nothing wrong with it really), and the levels are multipath. You can choose from generally 2 or 3 ways to kill any given target. You can also choose whether or not to use stealth, etc.
Really great. And a lot of replay value of course, since there are different difficulty levels and different ways to proceed through levels.
It was one of those games you can get lost in and play for a whole day without even blinking. So much win...
**Battlefield: Bad Company 2
Single Player for that game was wicked. I wasn't expecting much, it IS a Battlefield game after all. But now that I wrapped it up after about 10 hours, I noticed that it lasted me twice as long, I had pretty much more fun and looks better than Modern Warfare 2.
It was also 10 bucks cheaper, and it's multiplayer kicks ass.
**Mass Effect 2
Best game ever. Period. (At least for me)
And yah, Mordin died on me too. No spoilers there though.
**Saints Row 2
There was a thread like this in /anime/ and, although it seems to have died from lack of interest, I liked it. Let's try it here.
For instance, assuming >>0's favorite is THE GAME: What fun is a game that can't be won? Also, you just lost it.
My favorite: Metal Gear Solid 3
No protracted arguments in this thread please, just keep it going.
ONE MORE F***ING Bond game.
Time Fcuk
>>355, did you actually play No One Lives Forever? The only thing Bond about it is being a hilarious parody of the movies at their campiest.
As for Time Fcuk: Flash sucks, as do monochrome pixelated 'retro' graphics and one-trick platformers.
No One Lives Forever 2
>>356
You have to play as a chick.
Persona 4.
You have to play as a dude
Dragon Age Origins
Expensive downloadable content.
Halo 1.
The friendly ai/health rating is shit. My team always gets raped, especially on that level where you have to assault that alien ship.
Hitman
I hoped for much more creativity, not just following paths put there by designers. But then... it is common flaw of most games.
Subwar 2050
who wants to play a simulation? go friggen learn instead of simulate a submarine driver...who plays on PCs anyways? everyone plays game consoles.
Oddworld: Abe's Exodus
Can you play Oddworld: Abe's Exodus on PS3? Or you have to keep for PS for that? :P The game was fun though.
Supreme Commander (and I bet the sequel will be nice&easy dumbed down on X360)
Microhassle while your SupCom gets rushed with helos? No thanks.
Deus Ex
I'm about to finish Final Fantasy VIII...just about to finish up disc 3 and am levelling with them stat bonuses now. It's getting abit boring so my thoughts have drifted to another FF...
FFVI
The classic SNES FF, but if I play it it'll be on the GBA
FFVII
a dude with a big sword and another with an even bigger one.
FFIX
monkey boy...incidentally, i ALWAYS rename Zidane. somehow i don't feel comfortable with the hero of a FF game having the same name as a French footballing legend.
Voting begins now!
Play SaGa Frontier instead.
I vote not FFVII. That shit is completely overrated.
Play IX. The best.
XII, there are some 30 - 50 hours of game
VI has my vote for being the best FF, challenging, complex, and so much overlooked by the younger audiences.
And anyway it is a game that deserves being played and replayed again.
I love em all, some might not be great but it's purely nostalgia. I will be replaying VI because i've never done the sidequests (!!) and i've read some about it and they are kickass hard!
>>10
My description of it being challenging and complex, of course, implied to play it fully, hehe. And yeah, some of the quests are REALLY hard. And most of the character quests are very touching (too bad Phoenix works only in battle...).
Tell us how the experience was when you get around to finishing it.
>>11 I will^^ pops FFVI into crappy anti-rpg ps3
My vote is split between I and IX... depends on if you need 3D or not I guess.
FFT
FF12 is quite good, because it doesn't include a cheesy story that recent FF series tend to have and the battle system is a cutting edge.
Discuss all of the games you regret buying.
Currently, I regret buying Dungeons and Dragons Tactics for the PSP. The multiplayer is lame, which is the very core of D&D. It's basically a watered down version of the game that you play on your own. Wow. Amazing.
Phantasy Star Universe. Such shit.
Populous.
Castle of Magic.
Phantasy Star Universe (Though, it's a great anime...)
What's wrong with Populous?
It was the SNES version. Didn't have the guide book, and the internet was vague as hell.
Couldn't play it nor the crappy RPG that I got with it.
A pox on Populous.
AND QUEST 64.
>>291
I like Quest 64... I've never finished it, though...
I regret buying Kingdom Hearts 300-Some-Odd Days for the DS. I think that franchise has lost its charm...
yeah, that can happens inevitably after a monster hit.
Also, Quest 64 was a charming game. You just needed a guide to tell you where all those spirits were.
And I also agree with SNES populous. I'm 26 and I STILL don't know how that damned game works...
Tales of the Abyss.
Never understood why Tales were so great and what not.
A typical JRPG with familiar and even boring elements that repeat in every asswipe of a typical JRPG.
Haze. I bought it on pre-order and kept the faith in the face of mounting evidence that it might be utter shit. It was WAY WORSE. The final line from the main villain caused a facepalm to rival the Chilean earthquake. Fuck.
I bought Myst (it cost less than a blank CD), but the 320x200 graphics looks hopelessly tiny on my 1920x1080 screen.
fuckin' monster hunter freedom 2 gets me :/
im stuck with congalala, fuckin ape just won't die :(
I'm stuck in WoW
I... I finished all the vr missions on mgs2:substance.
I did it. I really did it.
I think I'm going to put this on my resume.
"I see here that you... finished the VR missions in some game? That hardly seems appropriate for a position at-"
"Nah, man, you don't UNDERSTAND. There's this one mission, like, where you need to get at this thing in the center of like 8 guards in a tight circle, and you have to get there undetected. They're like 2 inches apart, onscreen. I did that, Man. I did that."
"You are hired."
I just reinstalled Delta Force: Team Sabre
I've had it sitting in my room, collecting dust, for about, oh... 5 or so years now I think. I can't remember now. Whatever.
It's so fucking hard... I played it when it came out, and it was fucking brutal then, it's still brutal now. Seriously. I never actually completed it when I first played it. I spent most of my time on the "mission failed" screen. I frequently had what could best be described as rage seizures. The gods of fate had mercy on me at the time and made my computer crash and everything get fried beyond repair so I ended up putting the game box up and forgetting about it until now.
But now that I've opened Pandora's box... I can't stop playing... I just... can't...
Oh the horror...
The horror
Wow.. I can't believe it.. I just lost the game..
Still playing Team Sabre. I'm stuck on the first of the Colombia missions.
Fuck. It' horrible. I clear the village of the smugglers, and then BAM a fucking ambush with gun-trucks and rpgs.
MISSION FAILED
And then that god forsaken mission failed song
de de do da da daaiiaiaiiaia...
And only THREE SAVES ALLOWED IN THE MISSION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
oh god oh god oh god oh god fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuckkkkkkkkkk
Half-Life 2. It's not the combat; it's the fact that there's no apparent place to go.
Goddamn it Phantasy Star.
Do you WANT me to not go to another planet?
I WAS ABLE TO CROSS THE GOD DAMN LAKE OF FUCKING LAVA, BUT I CAN'T STOP DYING AGAINST THOSE DRAGONS!
AREN'T I SUPPOSE TO BE ABLE TO TALK TO THEM?!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHH!!!
Dante's Inferno...does portals at the gluttony part are just mindfuck....
Megaman 10; please stop raping me in the butt.
Yeah. I've looked on Amazon, eBay, and Craigslist. There are no listings for Final Fantasy 7 anywhere that I know of.
I'm looking around because I want to sell my Greatest Hits edition of Final Fantasy 7. It's a little worn, there's a bit of adhesive left from an old sticker years ago, and the case has small scratches, but it has the booklet and all the discs are in great shape.
So how much do you guys think this will go for?
I am a retard. I wasn't searching using the Roman numerals. God damn it.
One would think it pulled up the game anyway, though.
In a Gameinformer magazine, they said that the FFVII with the black label version, it is worth $300. The greatest hits label cost $40 or more.
>>4
Well you should tell that to Gameinformer, not me. FFVII is recently available again. This time on the Playstation Network store for $9.99
Ryuuchi is right about it being 40$ but not 300$
but if you want to make a profit sell it for 55$
$300 for the black label, as in the ORIGINAL release version.
The $40 dollars is for the GREATEST HITS version.
http://reviews.ebay.com/Final-Fantasy-BLACK-LABEL-game-buyers-beware_W0QQugidZ10000000004673273
The only reason that the black label is worth more is simply because it was an "original" release. The greatest hits are re-releases with possible modifications in that release (ie: updating potential glitches etc.)
It all comes to collector's value... in the end, it's still the same goddamn game.