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Post by Deleted on Jul 19, 2014 0:28:33 GMT -5
For comics fans, the best comic game I have ever played, hands down, bar none, was Marvel Ultimate Alliance. It's 8 years old now, so the graphics are probably a bit outdated, but this game was so incredibly awesome. It was everything a classic Marvel fan could hope for. MUA is a great game, I played that for days when it came out. The most recent Marvel game I bought was Marvel Lego Superheroes. I'm not usually into lego games but I thought it would be a fun game to play with my 6-year old. Turns out, this game is pretty awesome and we're having a lot of fun with it. The trailer is worth watching just to see lego Galactus at the end: I played many of the original Tomb Raider games, but I've been hesitant to play the one you posted Jez. Part of me wants to play it, the other part is I'm not sure I want to watch Lara Croft die in all of those horrible deaths! |
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Post by BigPapaJoe on Jul 19, 2014 1:58:30 GMT -5
Video games are another favorite hobby of mine. I wish I had more time to play them, but with two little girls and a wife to please that's not going to happen any time soon. Most recently I bought and have been playing The Last of Us. Wow. Amazing experience. Probably the best game I've played in a long, long time. It feels like a mixture of the Walking Dead series and the Silent Hill games, but the story is the star of the show. I can't recommend this game enough.  Damn. I need to play that. I have a PS3 and don't have it. I've heard nothing but great things. I actually forgot to mention that I'm currently playing a game. I forgot because it's been a little over a week. I've actually been playing Secret of Mana 3 or Seiken Densetsu 3 which was never released in America. Thanks to modern day technology of course there has been a great English translation via emulated rom that has floated around for a few years now. Great action RPG so far. A few months ago I splurged and bought three games: Metal Gear Solid Legacy Collection, Grand Theft Auto V, and Batman Arkham City. I've played most of the Metal Gear Solid games and it's one of my favorite franchises. I didn't get a chance to play Peace Walker though and I thought that it would be nice to have all the key games in one collection remastered in HD. Great set. I had Batman Arkham Asylum sitting on my shelf for a while and I hadn't played it. Being a comic book fan and all the good things I heard about the franchise, I finally got around to playing it and it was great. So I went and got Arkham City and that was awesome too. Still need to play Origins and Blackgate, if time permits which it usually doesn't. Finished Grand Theft Auto V. That was fun. First GTA I had played in years. Just wish I had more time to play these titles. The new Arkham Knight game looks like it will be the best superhero game ever. |
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Jul 19, 2014 8:36:11 GMT -5
Haven't really had the time to play since my kids were born a couple years ago, but I have both an Xbox 360 and Nintendo Wii. I also enjoyed playing retro games every now and then. Being this is a comics board and all, I should mention that the two entries in the Batman Arkham series I played (Arkham Asylum and Arkham City) were phenomenal... two of the best games ever released on the XBox, and perhaps one of the few instances of a licensed game that actually was done well. I've only played Arkham Asylum but enjoyed what I've played so far. I've seen parts of City and Origins, as my son has played through all three (or at least is still playing origins). I rarely get to play one player games because part of the time I spend with my boys is playing games with them. So Halo, Army of Two, Borderlands, Left 4 Dead, and Resident Evil get played a lot. When my son did borrow Amazing Spiderman from his friend on the 360 I played some. The little bit I did get play was fun. The web swinging was awesome and fun and fighting is pretty solid and easy to pick up on. It plays like Spiderman 2 from the GameCube era in that you can free roam and do whatever you want in between missions. I never got to play a whole lot but I did get to battle Vermin which was cool. |
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Post by Action Ace on Jul 19, 2014 14:35:13 GMT -5
I'm also of the Atari 2600/ go to the arcade with a bunch of quarters era.
The only gaming system I've owned as an adult is the PC.
My all time favorite video game is Sid Meier's Civilization II.
My favorite comic book superhero related video game is Freedom Force.
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Post by shaxper on Jul 19, 2014 14:37:30 GMT -5
My all time favorite video game is Sid Meier's Civilization II. Civ II, Rollercoaster Tycoon, The Sims, and X-Com: UFO Defense. Every PC game any kid in the '90s ever needed. |
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Post by wildfire2099 on Jul 19, 2014 14:50:17 GMT -5
For comics fans, the best comic game I have ever played, hands down, bar none, was Marvel Ultimate Alliance. It's 8 years old now, so the graphics are probably a bit outdated, but this game was so incredibly awesome. It was everything a classic Marvel fan could hope for. Agreed. X-Men: legends (which uses a very similar engine) was really good, too. I used to be a big gamer, mostly of Sim games... Civ, Railroad Tycoon that stuff... I also like RTS.. I remember when Dune: Battle for Arrakis came out... I spent a LOT of my college days on that game. I'll do Japanese RPGs some, too, and of course sports games. The last game I got into was Assassins Creed 3. (PS3). |
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Post by wildfire2099 on Jul 19, 2014 15:00:10 GMT -5
My all time favorite video game is Sid Meier's Civilization II. Civ II, Rollercoaster Tycoon, The Sims, and X-Com: UFO Defense. Every PC game any kid in the '90s ever needed. You need a RTS game in there... Dune or Command and Conquer.. then I'd agree (though I'd of course prefer Railroad Tycoon) I was never a big Sims fan, but I appreciate it's importance and popularity... I'm more a SimCity fan. X-Com is indeed a must! I was extremely impressed with the recent remake. |
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Post by shaxper on Jul 19, 2014 15:01:36 GMT -5
Civ II, Rollercoaster Tycoon, The Sims, and X-Com: UFO Defense. Every PC game any kid in the '90s ever needed. You need a RTS game in there... Dune or Command and Conquer.. then I'd agree (though I'd of course prefer Railroad Tycoon) I was never a big Sims fan, but I appreciate it's importance and popularity... I'm more a SimCity fan. X-Com is indeed a must! I was extremely impressed with the recent remake. I hooked an old PC up to our living room HD TV, purchased a wireless mouse and keyboard, and we now play a lot of these old games with our friends when they come over. We just broke out the Sims last night, in fact. |
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Post by Action Ace on Jul 19, 2014 15:03:31 GMT -5
My all time favorite video game is Sid Meier's Civilization II. Civ II, Rollercoaster Tycoon, The Sims, and X-Com: UFO Defense. Every PC game any kid in the '90s ever needed. I never played X-Com, but the other three are still on the desktop. |
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Post by hondobrode on Jul 19, 2014 15:09:10 GMT -5
Don't know what possessed my parents to get it, but we had the Mattel Intellivision. Two of my aunts, with cousins my age, got the same system, probably so we could share games, which we did. ![]()  and before that the system we had was the Monteverdi, which had Tennis, Hockey, Squash, Shooting Gallery, Trap Shooting and Practice.  |
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Post by Action Ace on Jul 19, 2014 15:12:07 GMT -5
Yes, my brother and I pumped $$ into the arcade games : Space Invaders, Asteroids, Spy Hunter, Galaga and pinball before that. I spent two dollars trying to jump one of those stupid barrels in Donkey Kong. I haven't played a Nintendo game since.  |
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Post by The Captain on Jul 19, 2014 15:20:20 GMT -5
I started out with an Atari 2600 back in '83 or so, then graduated to the Atari 7800, then Nintendo, then Sega Genesis, and finally Playstation 1 before feeling like I'd outgrown video games.
We have a Wii, but that is mostly for our daughters (the only game that is solely mine is Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2, which my wife gave me for my birthday two years ago, but I am looking to get MUA 1 used at some point), and I play Age of Mythology on my laptop now and then, usually when I am traveling for work and stuck in a hotel room somewhere.
I used to like games like Pac-Man or Centipede, where you dropped your quarter in the machine, got three lives, and within 10 minutes, you were feeding the beast another $.25. These "epic" games that they make now are too involved and take too long for me to enjoy, as I don't have hours to sit around playing games.
Now get off my lawn, you damn kids with your Call of Halo or whatever the hell it is you play.
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Post by hondobrode on Jul 19, 2014 15:25:05 GMT -5
Hey Richard, I've still got MUA, which is one of my all-time favorite games, for sale, along with the entire Wii, the rest of the games, and the fitness board. I've been meaning to sell them for awhile but haven't gotten around to it. Also have Hulk and Iron Man games too.
Let me know if you're interested.
7800 - Wow. I missed that somehow.
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Post by shaxper on Jul 19, 2014 15:25:52 GMT -5
When home video gaming first took off, an older friend of mine tried to convince me I had to insert a dollar bill into his disk drive in order to play California Games.
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Post by hondobrode on Jul 19, 2014 15:33:19 GMT -5
That sounds like an uncle thing, or my older cousins.
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