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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Jul 19, 2014 17:16:09 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 It's 8 years old now, so the graphics are probably a bit outdated, but this game was so incredibly awesome.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). I liked the AoA costumes in X-Men Legends but those types of games never appealed to me. I thought true turned based RPGs took on the strategy element better. Have you played any other of the Assassins Creed games? I enjoyed it but was wondering what kind of differences there are. I know it's a different character in each game but are most of the game play elements still similar? |
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Post by BigPapaJoe on Jul 19, 2014 17:37:01 GMT -5
I have and played the first X-Men Legends. I need to play X-Men Legends 2 and the Marvel Alliance games. Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker comes first though.  |
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Jul 19, 2014 17:42:41 GMT -5
I have yet to play a Metal Gear game. It's nothing against them, just like Halo it's mostly because of an almost exclusive Njntendo gaming lifetime. I have little to no knowledge of them other than espionage shooter game. I might play it at some time but there always seems to interest me better.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 19, 2014 18:59:40 GMT -5
On the old Nintendo I had, I and a game called Baseball All Stars I think, where you could buy and develop players, using $$ to improve attributes of the players (speed, power, hitting, defense, throwing for fielders/hitters, speed, control, curve, stamina, etc. for pitchers). You could also trade players for a cost etc. There were a handful of computer generated teams, and you could set up leagues, combining computer and player owned teams. You could also designate player created teams to be computer run in said leagues. This and Tecmo Bowl were the games my college buddies and I played all the time (and we'd mold/name rosters after our fantasy baseball rosters), but when home on breaks, I would set up baseball teams based on my favorite super-hero teams and there were epic JLA/ Avengers baseball games, with X-Men, Defenders, and a few other teams thrown in for good measure. I'd so things like buy a player, name him Flash and max his speed out of the gate, so he was my leadoff hitter and center fielder for the JLA team. I'd buy and develop a player I'd name Thor and max his power out of the gate and he would be my clean up hitter and first baseman for the Avengers squad. Plastic Man played short with max defense etc. etc. As you won games, you got more money to develop players. Ultimate geek out I know, but it was one of the few times I could combine my passion for baseball and super-heroes.
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Post by wildfire2099 on Jul 19, 2014 19:11:19 GMT -5
I never got the Atari 7800.. I had the rare (and commerically unsuccessful) Atari 5200... which was actually a great system. It had most of the classic atari games (Pac-Man, Q-Bert, Berserk, etc) with arcade perfect graphics. The only downside was the joysticks broke really easily.
I played TONS of Q-Bert, Defender, and Berserk on that.
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Post by The Captain on Jul 19, 2014 19:23:58 GMT -5
The two best games for the 7800, IMO, were Robotron 2084 and Xevious. My best friend and I spent a ridiculous amount of hours killing robots in Robotron, and Xevious was cool because you had to deal with both flying threats as well as ground threats.
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Post by thecolortechnic on Jul 19, 2014 20:18:26 GMT -5
Games are very absent from my life these days. That sense of curiosity, exploration and experimentation are too few and far in between. Now if I'm playing a game it's typically a fighter (Street Fighter, Marvel vs. Capcom etc.), which I play competitively.
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Post by berkley on Jul 19, 2014 22:46:53 GMT -5
I never have gotten into games but I keep thinking I should give them a try some time. Anyone have any suggestions for something that can be played on linux?
But wait a second - back in the days when video games used to be in pubs, there was one game I liked: Juno First. It was a spaceship shooter-type, a bit like Space Invaders except your ship was moving forward in space and the enemy ships were coming at you faster and faster the longer you lasted. Anyone remember this? I only ever saw it in this one place I used to go to back in the early 80s in my home town in Nfld, but if there were a downloadable version I'd love to try it again.
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Post by BigPapaJoe on Jul 20, 2014 0:50:34 GMT -5
We randomly got a Wii U today with two games that come with it. Also got Mario Kart 8 which looks fun. The lady wanted something that would entertain guests that are casual gamers. Although I wanted a PS4. I thought that it would be a good idea to wait a little longer until Batman Arkham Knight is released.
Haven't been into a Nintendo console since SNES. At least I can play the new Smash Bros. now I guess. Yay more time I don't have to spend.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 20, 2014 17:15:03 GMT -5
The only games I play anymore are NBA 2K14 (because it was free on PSN), GTA5 (very rarely), Reckoning (my favorite RPG) and the LEGO LOTR/Hobbit games.
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Post by Nowhere Man on Jul 22, 2014 1:14:50 GMT -5
After many stops and starts I've finally settled in to playing Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. At first I didn't like the leveling system, or rather how unforgiving the game is if you don't level perfectly, but I discovered turning the difficulty down a bit offsets the wacky leveling. I bought Skyrim off XBox Live a few months back and the way my mind works, I'd never be able to get into it if I didn't play Oblivion first.
Some of favorite games include: Chrono Trigger, Fable 1 & 2, Knights of the Old Republic 1 & 2, Mass Effect Trilogy (I had no problem with the endings!), Red Dead Redemption, Batman Arkham Asylum/City, Marvel Ultimate Alliance, Neverwinter Nights 1 & 2, etc.
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Post by Crimebuster on Jul 22, 2014 2:25:45 GMT -5
I'm currently trying out Eve Dust 514. It's... well, it's basically Battlefield, only the battles take place inside the Eve Online universe. It's a very interesting experiment, having one game (a first person shooter) take place inside the structure of an entirely different game (an MMO). Factions in the MMO can put out contracts that spawn battles in the FPS, and the results of the battle then determine who in the MMO controls the planet. Or something like that.
The actual game itself, in terms of an FPS, has the same problems Eve does. It's wildly unbalanced - it's not even intended to be balanced - and there's really no way to catch up to people ahead of you on the curve. You can get closer to them due to the nature of a curve, but you'll never really catch up. For people who have played games like Call of Duty, just imagine if you come around the corner and the enemy you run into has three times as much health and does three times as much damage as you. Or, the opposite happens. It's pretty much like that. It's not fair, nor is it intended to be fair. It's basically capitalism as the structure of a First person Shooter. For example, I just played a game where I was driving a tank and almost all of my enemies were newb players on foot, trying to shoot me with hand guns. The slaughter only stopped when I ran out of ammo.
Interesting, but only until I find something else to play.
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Post by BigPapaJoe on Jul 22, 2014 2:52:05 GMT -5
Mario Kart 8 is ridiculously awesome. I've played it a few time already and the level of detail is astounding. Nintendo really hit it out of the park with that title. Can't wait for Smash Bros.
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Post by dupersuper on Jul 22, 2014 20:37:53 GMT -5
The two best games for the 7800, IMO, were Robotron 2084 and Xevious. My best friend and I spent a ridiculous amount of hours killing robots in Robotron, and Xevious was cool because you had to deal with both flying threats as well as ground threats. My friend had a 7800 and got crazy good at Xevious, to the point it was really annoying waiting for your turn. |
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Post by Crimebuster on Jul 22, 2014 21:25:04 GMT -5
The two best games for the 7800, IMO, were Robotron 2084 and Xevious. My best friend and I spent a ridiculous amount of hours killing robots in Robotron, and Xevious was cool because you had to deal with both flying threats as well as ground threats. My friend had a 7800 and got crazy good at Xevious, to the point it was really annoying waiting for your turn. The game that we had issues with for the 2600 was Defender. We were all good at it - I think my best was getting to Level 105 - but my friend Larry was some kind of savant. The game would reach a certain level of difficulty and wouldn't get any harder, so if you could beat that difficulty and keep your concentration, you could theoretically play forever. Larry tested that one memorable day, when we watched him play literally for hours. When he reached Level 700, his mother finally turned the system off and made us all leave so their family could have supper. |
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