aspro said:

Check out this storm heading my way:

Is that a plane flying into it?

Either way.  That is a glorious looking storm.  I envy you

So the aliens from Independence Day finally arrived. Get away from the city now!

Since it's the holiday period it's the perfect time to play Merry Gear Solid 1 and Merry Gear Solid 2, whoever hasn't. Seriously, it's good shit, especially the second, which is best played after the first for all the references.

ASK_Story said:

I know my last post got erased, but I wanted to ask again, has anyone here played FF Crystal Chronicles Crystal Bearers?

I found it at hobo prices for $10 and I'm looking forward to try it out.

I know the game got ripped apart by critics and didn't set the Wii on fire (like we all hoped it would) but the game doesn't look too bad. I guess I'll find out for myself and see how it is.

Me and Leo played it, our impressions start here in the thread. Leo hated it. I went from liking it to hating it in the middle to generally getting by and liking it. It has some stuff worth playing but you have to get past the bullshit. If you can reconcile yourself with the manual camera and try to avoid most combat it can be a fun game. Also the biggest problem is that there is NO map so you need a good sense of direction. It's not hard to navigate but there will be odd stretches of gameplay where you try to figure out where you should be going. Also there is a difficulty spike in one particular area where you have to take on two super robots at once which will have you getting Viewtiful Joe like rage. If you know what you are doing it isn't that hard - actually you only have to destroy one robot to open the door which you can then escape from.

My review is here, I gave it a 7.5

A snippet:

"Once you make your peace with this game. It's quite enjoyable. Sure it has its flaws, no map, a camera that is fine for exploring, inadequate for battling. But they only force you to battle on three occasions and only once has it been anywhere near game breaking.



The music is sometimes sublime, sometimes horrendous. But the game has a fun vibe about it, great cutscenes, some grin moments, some funny and touching moments. And it does a great job of empowering you with super power like abilities.



Like the way you can bounce about environments jumping and hookshotting about.



And being a dick in this game is fun. See a bucket of water? Pick it up with telekinesis and drop it on someones head. See someone sitting on a bench? Remove the bench.



Grab a balloon and it acts like grabbing a chicken in zelda for a slow mo descent.


There is stupid stuff that is just funny. You're on a tram for instance and a crazy old grandma just starts running up and down the aisle, knocking everyone down like bowling balls. You get pissed and just pick her up and throw her into a window."

aspro said:

So Aggie, going off topic for a bit. In watching the news, things don't look so hot in Greece right now.  Is that stuff effecting you (the proposed austerity measures or the riots)?

Things are very hot in Greece.  Too hot

It's like Fallout

bugsonglass said:

Resistance 3 trailer looks like more of the same, which I guess for me is good.  I don't consider myself a big fan of shooters but I've completed and enjoyed the first two games (as well as the PSP one which is also great).  It's the kind of first party sony game which goes platinum in less than a year so I get great value out of these.

Speaking purely from a single player campaign perspective as I don't bother with multiplayer, I enjoyed the Resistance games a lot more than Killzone 2 (which I didn't finish)

Conduit 2, I can't say I feel much of a draw there.  I regret buying the first one so unless this gets an outstanding reception or gg pimps it like mad, then i most probably won't be getting it.

Goldeneye, fuckhead!

gamingeek said:

Goldeneye, fuckhead!

Eee, no.

Well the X-men Destiny Trailer was crap.  Is asking to see some gameplay really that much?

And 1-Up's Worst Cosplay gallery really was kind of lame too.  A lot of those were meant to be jokes. The guys dressed as Zangief and the Flash for instance were not making any attempts at being serious.  And hell a couple of them like the Mike Hagger and Brain Age costume were actually pretty good. Always makes me shake my head why people make fun of something when they don't really understand it. The irony of it coming from a game site is rather rich. That's the nutritional kind of irony!

bugsonglass said:

Eee, no.

I suggest you and everyone else watches this.