Archangel3371 said:

Meh Retro are ok but I certainly wouldn't call them gaming gods. Platinum, Epic, Capcom, Bioware, Bungie, and Rockstar now those are gaming gods.

Meh, most of those companies have plenty shortcomings and just happen to be enjoying a streak of popularity for one reason or another. Capcom is probably the closest to one but they have a fair share of duds.

phantom_leo said:

Ah yes their song about me, always brings back memories of our amazing night together. I took Abba and her lady friend to my appartment to make sweet love to them. It was funny cause while I was humping Abba she wanted to role play, she was like Fernando my name is Frida and I was like ok Abba if that is what you want to be called.

Lady Gaga also wrote a song about me, for some reason she calls me Alejandro, Fernando and Roberto, silly women.

Archangel3371 said:

Oh I can't believe I forgot to mention Blizzard, they are definitely gaming gods.

what about koei? they have been around for over 25 years and the kings of strategy games

or konami they were powerhouses even making one of the first"horror" games with castlevania, and been around much longer then a lot of other companies

or nis sure in america they have only been around for maybe  a few years but in japan for over 20 years and every game they released has been over 8.5

So just got back from playing some Epic Mickey.

Real nice. Looks great (really do love the dark style the game's going for), plays rather interestingly and looks to have plenty of stuff for the old school Disney nuts.

darthhomer said:

So just got back from playing some Epic Mickey.

Real nice. Looks great (really do love the dark style the game's going for), plays rather interestingly and looks to have plenty of stuff for the old school Disney nuts.

"interestingly"?

I'm just a few concerts away from completing the career mode of RB3. I wouldn't have been able to stomach it if it wasn't because my wife and daughter hopped in and out of my game constantly throughout these days I've been playing it. It's a pretty solid rental, especially if you're going to have people around. As a solo endeavor, I don't find it as fun anymore save for a couple songs here and there. In the impossible task of trying to offer something for everyone, the song selection ends up being hit and miss, with more misses than hits in my case.

I've never played Peggle.  I always think of the character in King of the Hill, Peggy, and her love of Boggle.

aspro said:

Notice no-one can answer that?  There are no gaming gods developer-wise.  Even my favorites have feet of clay.

Gaming golems, then? Kojima's one...poor man just can't stop making MGS.

I've bumped my Goldeneye review score up to a 9.5 as this is everything I could want in a single player campaign.



I was replaying some levels last night and experimenting. I could play this for the next 6 months and I haven't even got into the multiplayer yet.

So I played the outpost (snow level) on 007 mode, did all the objectives, loved it. Then I should have gone onto the bunker but I just saw all these different ways I would have played outpost. So the next day I started it again and took a completely different approach. First I snuck up and choked a guy to death. Then under the bridge instead of creeping about stealthily and picking them off, I started a firefight. So the enemies started flooding in. They rarely just spawn from nowhere or anything, I turn around and right next to me 3 guys start sliding down the edge of the snowy cliff. I pop these guys and fall back to a safe cover point.

Of course, they try and shoot me from a distance and eventually throw grenades, forcing me to run forward towards them and pick a new cover spot. Then there are guys on the top of the bridge shooting down on me. I run under the bridge so they can't hit me. But the underside of the bridge is clouded in smoke from a prior explosion. The radar in this game only shows the enemy position when you have line of sight, so if you are tracking a guy on a radar and you hide behind an object, you will momentarily lose his position and not be able to predict where he will go next. Very clever, very cool.

So amid this smoke filled under bridge, I was ducked and sweeping around, not being able to see the enemy or having to watch for muzzle flare or shadows. It was frigging tense and because of the radar I kept having to try and check and predict where they would go next.

So cool.

Next up I reached the 2nd mountain assault where they set you up with sniper rifle. Hell no I said, you know what, I am going to assault this cliff filled with snipers and other goons with a freaking shotgun that only works in close quarters. Cue me dodging and weaving, taking heavy fire and trying to make my way up the cliff, being flanked by bad guys. It felt like Saving Private Ryan. And I would sweep out of corners and shotgun fools in the face or run up and melee them with the best melee move in gaming today (IMO).

Then I should have gone to bed, but instead decided to just toy around with the Construction level. I could not stop playing and then switched to the archives. Wow. 2nd time through the archives when you had an inkling of the layout, it was so much more enjoyably. It's closed quarters combat, action packed at every turn, it's a style of shooter you don't really see anymore where FPS try and give you huge vistas or large battlefields. There was so much variety in the combat, I could shoot out glass windows and melee them out, then hop over walls or objects like in RE4.

And guys start crashing in through the windows on ropes. It was freaking intense. I am so happy with this game.

robio said:

Man if I had the money I would throw down for an AC: Brotherhood Collector's Edition even if I don't have anything to play it on. I want this!!!!

I'm sure you could find it on ebay and not have to fork out for the game.

More Sonic Colours impressions from me. It's a good game, like for real.