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PandaMask from Los Angeles is reading More Than Human February 16, 2012 - 10:18am

Do any of you have favorites? List some unknown ones if you can.

It can be more than one.

I love the Dragon Quest, Metal Gear, Zone of the Enders, and Bioshock series. A somewhat unknown gem of a game would be Phantom Crash.

 

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Jay.SJ from London is reading Warmed and Bound February 16, 2012 - 10:26am

Deadly Premonition, Half Life 2, Bioshock, Assassins Creed 2, Portal 2. It goes on...

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avery of the dead from Kentucky is reading Cipher Sisters February 16, 2012 - 10:31am

The last system I owned was an N64.  Can I still contribute? Ha!

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PandaMask from Los Angeles is reading More Than Human February 16, 2012 - 10:43am

Of course! It can be any video game.

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nathaniel parker from Cincinnati is reading The Dark Tower ~ King February 16, 2012 - 1:52pm

It's not the greatest game, but the most fun I ever had with a game was Heart of Darkness on the old PS1. The story, the action, the pacing, everything about it was fun!

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PandaMask from Los Angeles is reading More Than Human February 16, 2012 - 1:54pm

I always wanted to play that.

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Dave from a city near you is reading constantly February 16, 2012 - 2:03pm

Didnt Raelyn have a video game thread not too long ago?

Either way, Mass Effect is my favorite. I also really enjoyed Metal Gear Solid, but I can't rightly say I know the story and all the twists.

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Typewriter Demigod from London is reading "White Noise" by DeLilo, "Moby-Dick" by Hermann Mellivile and "Uylsses" by Joyce February 16, 2012 - 2:17pm

half life, portal, dwarf fortress, titan quest, stone soup, hitman and star wars battlefront. Then, Lugaru, TF2 and stronghold. pretty much in that order. 

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Jose F. Diaz from Boston is reading Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel February 17, 2012 - 5:29am

The last game that I absolutely loved was Shining Force for Sega. Yep, Sega. The rest have just been entertaining.

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nathaniel parker from Cincinnati is reading The Dark Tower ~ King February 17, 2012 - 7:25am

I always wanted to play that.

 

If they brought that back for the PS3 in, like, a Golden Greats Edition or whatever, I'd re-buy that in a heartbeat! Plus it had a cool 3-D ending with the little old-timey 3-D glasses!

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Flaminia Ferina from Umbria is reading stuff February 17, 2012 - 7:55am

If I had a gaming computer I'd spend my days playing this

It seems freaking scary. And it's home of the infamous Penis Monster

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Laramore Black from Joplin, Missouri is reading Mario Kart 8 February 17, 2012 - 4:17pm

Evil Dead: Fistful of Boomstick on PS2

The only Evil Dead game with the real Bruce Campbell.

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PandaMask from Los Angeles is reading More Than Human February 17, 2012 - 11:42pm

I heard that was really fun. That game was how I got interested in the Evil Dead series.

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Laramore Black from Joplin, Missouri is reading Mario Kart 8 February 17, 2012 - 11:43pm

I loved how there was a button dedicated to one-liners. 

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PandaMask from Los Angeles is reading More Than Human February 17, 2012 - 11:47pm

Hahaha that sounds awesome. I quoted the last film a lot.

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Nick Wilczynski from Greensboro, NC is reading A Dance with Dragons by George R.R. Martin February 17, 2012 - 11:55pm

Would you hate me for sharing another one of my songs?

1337 H4X

So I'm flyin' over Azeroth, scopin out the land
Video Games? My generation' heroin.*
Yeah I'm farmin' gold, yo I'm makin' money,
hackin' your account you won't even think its funny.
I'm a civfanatic, yo my strategy is 1337,
I spearman rush,
Then I crush,
Bismark at my feet.
Ridin Gran Turismo and you're following along,
But your bandwith's taken up by my cheats for Donkey Kong
I hit the standby button and I'm glitchin all around,
All the sudden look at this your flag is what I've found.
Don't talk to me 'bout Starcraft Uber Micro in these hands,
maybe you'd be more at home one player Yoshi Land.

[chorus]

NES,
Genesis,
Sony or PC,
I've been hooked to a TV set since I was fucking three.
Don't call a babysitter, who says you're a shitty parent?
My 1337 H4X provide for me a path thats never errant.

Pikachu, I choose you, now the battle's done
don't make me get my Charizard, use your turn to run.
Don't mess with me on Counterstrike console or PC,
unless you're playin Source in which case I'm gonna leave.
This shit is just like Tetris, breakin up your stacks
thanks is due in no small part to my 1337zor H4X.**
Lookin' for your princess? You'd better ask a Toad.
She and I are laughing doing burnouts down the road.
Grab you in the face, fight you like a wombat,
Animality up in this Mortal Kombat

[chorus]

Call me Sonic cuz I'm fast and I'm jacking all your rings,
In the alley doing adderall and snatching shiny things.***
Then I get my quarters and I head to the arcade
where I leave you roadkill on Cruisin USA,.
Then let's play some Rampage, kick it up old school,
I was runnin' this shit when your mommy breastfed you,
I'll beat your ass at billiards, don't talk about Skeeball
I was playin pinball when i was four feet tall.
I worship my diversions, these temples in the sky
Only thing to keep me sane, work for the man then die.

 

*-I don't even want to hear it. Literally the first thing that .mpfr33 said to me when I showed him this line was "Isn't, heroin, kind of our generation's heroin?" but I think that this question misses the point. Imagine the generation that invented heroin. They invented heroin to deal with a much more pronounced morphine addiction problem and for the most part the people were not warned about the dangers of doing heroin. In THIS SENSE, video games are like heroin insofar as we were the "canaries in the coal mine" for their negative effects.

 

**-second favorite line.

***- lollersk8s. I love sonic the hedgehog so much.

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PandaMask from Los Angeles is reading More Than Human February 18, 2012 - 12:01am

Not at all haha. This was clever.

Videogames are a mind numbing drug.

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Laramore Black from Joplin, Missouri is reading Mario Kart 8 February 18, 2012 - 12:02am

@Panda Perhaps...too clever?

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PandaMask from Los Angeles is reading More Than Human February 18, 2012 - 12:05am

Maybe it is haha.

Check out 8-Bit Brothers, Brentalfloss, and Duane and Brando.

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Jimothy Scott from Canada is reading The wise mans fear February 18, 2012 - 12:34am

Mass effect is pretty awesome

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Mellanie Blue from Lewisberry, PA is reading The Ultimate Guide to Kink by Tristan Taormino February 20, 2012 - 8:57pm

Half life 2 was amazing.

Fable - all of them.

COD - all of them

Mario Kart.  :)

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PandaMask from Los Angeles is reading More Than Human February 20, 2012 - 9:32pm

I'm actually playing Skyward Sword right now.

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Bill Tucker from Austin, Texas is reading Grimm's Fairy Tales (1st Edition) February 20, 2012 - 9:52pm

Same here, Panda!  Think I'm maybe 80% done with it and it's a pretty amazing game, despite my dopey Wii forcing me to recalibrate the controller every 15 minutes.  Good characters, nice "geek out" story.  All in all, a very slick game.

As for my favorites, Bioshock and the Uncharted series rank pretty high for me these days, but my number one favorite game of all time just might be Super Metroid for the SNES.  Everything about that game is pitch perfect, from the graphics to the sound to the gut punch ending.  Can still pick it up and have a blast playing it.

Oh, and I have to take this opportunity to say Shadow of the Colossus.  Another one that just might be in my Top 5.  Absolutely brilliant.

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PandaMask from Los Angeles is reading More Than Human February 20, 2012 - 9:57pm

I love Shadow of the Colossus!

Yeah in an issue of EGM Super Metroid was ranked the #1 game of all time. This was released during the PS2, Xbox, and Gamecube era too.

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Dave from a city near you is reading constantly February 20, 2012 - 10:55pm

Good one, Shadow of the Colossus was pretty amazing. I want to pick up the HD or whatever version for the current gen consoles.

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Dwayne from Cincinnati, Ohio (suburbs) is reading books that rotate to often to keep this updated February 21, 2012 - 3:35am

Dragon Warrior 3 for other NES, best game ever.

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Bill Tucker from Austin, Texas is reading Grimm's Fairy Tales (1st Edition) February 21, 2012 - 7:41am

Pikced up the HD Shadow / Ico Collection when it first came out.  The games look and play amazing, but Ico shows some age.  Great game, but the control mechanics are very last gen.  Still, a good game with a great ending.

Never played Dragon Warrior 3, but I will admit to being a huge Final Fantasy fan.  There are a few entries I haven't played, but VI (FF3 in the US) ranks as my all time favorite, even above VII.  While I love VII, the 16 bit era games hold up better visualliy than the PS1 era games.  I also played VI when it first came out and didn't pick up VII until a couple years ago, so I may be a touch biased. 

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bryanhowie from FW, ID is reading East of Eden. Steinbeck is FUCKING AMAZING. February 21, 2012 - 11:32am

I just finished Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning.  Good combat, long game, lots of interesting character building options (and, like most MMOs now adays, you could respec, which ruled).  84 hours, 56 minutes to play through it.

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PandaMask from Los Angeles is reading More Than Human February 21, 2012 - 11:45am

Dragon Quest 3 is my favorite of the series. I'm playing IV right now on the DS, which I will never understand how they put on the NES. It has multiple storylines that eventually interwine and all the characters meet. The story is sad and deep.

@Bryan

Was it better than Dragon Age or Fable?

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bryanhowie from FW, ID is reading East of Eden. Steinbeck is FUCKING AMAZING. February 21, 2012 - 12:02pm

Dragon Age on PC was much more strategic and had the benefit of being Bioware (my favorite developer).  Dragon Age was better.  I loved pausing and assigning moves to everyone.  

Fable had more character.

Amalur has better combat.  

But if you liked farting on people (or marrying hookers), Fable has that.  Amalur is more serious and has quests that feel very MMO in some ways.  It also has some great quests, too.  It's got a lot of quests.  It's not true open-world (like a Bethesda game), but more like the hub system of Fable, where you can go anywhere, but it's all connected by mountain passes.  

Also, by the end, Amalur was too easy on Hard.  I mean, ridiculously easy.  

I'd say it's not as good as Dragon Age (PC) and equal to Fable II or III.

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PandaMask from Los Angeles is reading More Than Human February 21, 2012 - 12:04pm

Have you played Skyrim or Mass Effect?

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Jose F. Diaz from Boston is reading Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel February 21, 2012 - 2:57pm

I've played Skyrim. It is good, but a bit overdone. I need a fresh take on the RPG genre. Something that people can really sink their teeth into. Something that requires more brain power than running around hacking and slashing.

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Dave from a city near you is reading constantly February 21, 2012 - 3:03pm

Have you played Mass Effect Joe?  I disliked RPG's before I played it.  I was so blown away I think I played through it five times in a row...and it's about an 80 hour game.

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Jose F. Diaz from Boston is reading Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel February 21, 2012 - 3:05pm

Is it a brain power game or a "go here, then here, then here" kind of game? Is there action? Is there strategy? Is there interaction? And no, I haven't played it.

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Bill Tucker from Austin, Texas is reading Grimm's Fairy Tales (1st Edition) February 21, 2012 - 3:20pm

I have Mass Effect 2 sitting on my coffee table, just waiting for me to finish Skyward Sword.  Question is, do I desperately need to play Mass Effect 1 before starting 2?  I'm playing on a PS3, so my only option for playing the original is to get a PC version but if I can catch up to the story quickly enough, I'll just skip it.  Thoughts?

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Dave from a city near you is reading constantly February 21, 2012 - 3:22pm

Man, about the brain power.  I lost sleep over some of the decisions I made in game, because it has an ongoing effect, into game two and no doubt part three as well.  That and the dialogue tree's.  They're great but they don't have such weighty consequences as some of the game path decisions. 

There as a lot of "grinding" in the form of go explore these planets for minerals and other items.  That got tedious, but there would inevitably be someone on the planet who didn't want you there and would fight.  In part two you can "scan" planets from orbit and send probes to gather the minerals, with which you upgrade your ship and weapons etc, but it's still kind of tedious.

As far as go here, do this, yes there is.  But not the way I've seen it in Fable or some others, like KOTOR.  You have a galaxy map and there are A LOT of places to go that can either be part of the story or the tons of sidequests (most are optional).  I never felt like I had to go to A before B so I could open up C.  That element exists, of course, but there is just so much you can do in whatever order you want, it never felt like it to me.

Lots of action, with pretty smart squad AI.  Lots of INTERACTION, with your ships crew, during the story missions, yeah, it's pretty heavy on interaction.

Strategy, yes and no, IMHO.  Again, there are decisions that follow you through the trilogy, but I found that part 2 had more strategy that the first.  If you'll accept small squad fighting tactics as strategy, then yes, plenty.

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PandaMask from Los Angeles is reading More Than Human February 21, 2012 - 3:29pm

Joe have you ever tried RTS games?

Yeah I beat Mass Effect three times, but haven't played Mass Effect 2.

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Dave from a city near you is reading constantly February 21, 2012 - 3:36pm

@Bill...short answer is No, you'll still get a lot out of ME2, and they handle it in such a way...well, you get a crash course in the story, like an opening sequence, think a TV show's season opener, "Previously in Mass Effect...." like that.  While you watch this, it pauses and allows you to make the big game decisions that you would have made in the first.  It's kind of cool, I did it just to see hwo they'd handled that.

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Dave from a city near you is reading constantly February 21, 2012 - 3:37pm

Panda, you have to check it out.  No spoilers but I was blown away by the opening.  It's really great.

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aliensoul77 from a cold distant star is reading the writing on the wall. February 21, 2012 - 3:41pm

I think I am one of the few people who actually liked the StarWars: Force Unleashed games because I always wanted to kill a planet of Chewbaccas.

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Dave from a city near you is reading constantly February 21, 2012 - 3:46pm

I played the first, I enjoyed it. 

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PandaMask from Los Angeles is reading More Than Human February 21, 2012 - 3:54pm

Supposedly casual gamers, who didn't know much about Star Wars, didn't like it.

The fans of the series did.

But this is just in general.

Yeah I keep getting told that Dave. I need to pick it up soon. Especially since the 3rd is just a few weeks from being released.

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Dave from a city near you is reading constantly February 21, 2012 - 4:02pm

Yeah...I can't wait for it...but I didn't like the ending I got in 2, I want to replay it before 3

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Jose F. Diaz from Boston is reading Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel February 21, 2012 - 4:12pm

RTS? 

I started playing the new Star Wars game for a bit and was enthralled until everyone is in hunt of the next level or cooler item and completely forgets about the game. So I quit.

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PandaMask from Los Angeles is reading More Than Human February 21, 2012 - 4:14pm

Real-Time Strategy

Starcraft

Warcraft

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Jose F. Diaz from Boston is reading Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel February 21, 2012 - 4:20pm

Those I like, but I like to be able to think my way through, not be bullied by some 12 year old with no life other than that game. 

As for playing against the computer I lose interest real quick.

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PandaMask from Los Angeles is reading More Than Human February 21, 2012 - 4:23pm

Online Poker?

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Jose F. Diaz from Boston is reading Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel February 21, 2012 - 4:27pm

I actually just gave up on games realizing that I get bored too easily and decided that I would write and read to fill my time. That and watch TV and sleep. 

At least for now until the Summer when I start going to school again. Nervous as shit about going to school full time for English Writing. Should be a giant slap in the face.

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aliensoul77 from a cold distant star is reading the writing on the wall. February 21, 2012 - 4:35pm

Joseph, are you having a midlife crisis?

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Flaminia Ferina from Umbria is reading stuff February 22, 2012 - 2:46pm

guess whose favorite videogame this be

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PandaMask from Los Angeles is reading More Than Human February 24, 2012 - 12:48pm

How is it?

I played the demo first one and liked it a lot.

Have you played Dead Space?