New Games Thread
 

So, I know we have a few gamers out here, and I'm bored, so I'm going to start a new thread on video games.

Stuff I picked up recently:

Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks.
Very simple beatemup platformer, but also quite entertaining. My thumbs hurt, and I think I'm almost done after only a little bit of playing. But, it really brings me back to my MKII roots (which was the last and only MK I seriously got in to). I was also basically looking for a game where I got to mash buttons and beat shit up and have it look cool without much brain involvement. For that, it was perfect.

F.E.A.R.
Pretty damn cool FPS. So far I really like the single player, haven't tried multiplayer. My main gripe, though, is that I have a widescreen monitor, and it doesn't have my native resolution supported. Oh well. Nice and creepy. You know, a military style shooter where there is a creepy little possesed girl that haunts you.

Burnout Revenge:
Very unrealistic driving, but so what, its fun. Crashing, racing, blowing stuff up. Man, I'm sensing a theme in my recent game purchase. No thinking, just blow shit up.

Here's my review of those games, from the perspective of a housemate to the guy that plays 'em:

Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks.
Hiyah!! Hiyah!! Oooh!.... Hiyah!! Oooh!..... Hiyah!! Hiyah!! Oooh! <cut scene music> Hiyah!! Oooh!.... Hiyah!! Oooh!.....

F.E.A.R.
"Dude, that looks like the original half-life at 1280x960."

Burnout Revenge:
...wait, so the crowd cheers when you crash into stuff? That's pretty fucked up. ...lemme borrow it when you're done, okay?

Howabout Call of Duty 2? I have it on PC, its takes up far too much of my time.

Star Wars Battlefront 2, Shadow of the Colossus, and Castlevania: Curse of Darkness are my recent picks.

I also have Fable: The Lost Chapters, Jak X Combat Racing, We Love Katamari, and Soul Calibur 3 sitting stacked on my console stand, waiting to be played more.

November is "ambivalence month." I dig having new games to play, but I really wish publishers would save a few of them for the slower months of the year instead of dumping them all on us right before Thanksgiving.

I also just found that Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion may be delayed until spring, so while I'm seething at being denied what was to be my most anticipated holiday title, I'm glad that I may now be able to skip dropping $400 on the Xbox 360 right away. I don't want one without Oblivion. :mad:

OOh, how is Shadow of the Colossus?

I also just heard about the Oblivion thing too :mad: I think I'll wait a little for an 360 now.

Shadow of the Colossus rocks. I just finished my first play-through on normal mode the other day, and I'm working on hard mode and the time attack levels to unlock some extra stuff. The overworld is quite unique - their artists created genuinely breathtaking landscapes, with sweeping plains, windy deserts, dark forests, towering seaside cliffs, and lots of nooks and crannies to explore. The Colossi themselves are a blast to combat. Some are big and slow, others are smaller and quicker, and there are a couple of airborne types that take you for crazy roller coaster rides.

The ending kinda twists your mind, too. I found it to be well worth playing.

Haven't played it. I liked the first one, but there are so many WW2 shooters out there now, I've kinda lost interest.

I was thinking about picking up that one too. I played the demo, though, and unfortunately on my TV the game doesn't look so good. Its fully the TVs fault though, as everything just ended up looking too washed out. Still, the concept of "only boss battles" is pretty cool.

I think the game is designed to look a bit washed out. The final version has a decent gamma control, but a good chunk of the game is just kind of misty throughout. The final version also has proper 480p and 16:9 support, as well as improved draw-distance, LOD blending, texture clarity, and general detail over the demo, so it is capable of looking comparably attractive for a PS2 title. Since the PS2 blows at bilinear filtering and mipmapping, though, it still sometimes becomes a big shimmering mess. Ultimately, I was fairly impressed by the way it looked on my 32" HD.

On a game related note, a guy at work forwarded this link to me:

http://hlcomic.com/view.php?date=2005-05-01

A satirical comic based on Half Life 2

Great way to end a work day.

"Quick question. Explosive Barrels, should we cluster around them?"
"Excelent question. Yes, yes and yes"

Wow, that just wasted 30 minutes of my life! At least it was funny! :lol:

The guy is constantly working on it, make sure you check back!

The CS scenes are so true it is scary :lol:

"OMG!!! (fag)"

FEAR is coming to the 360 :) That's the only 360 game I think I'm looking forward to. The gaming horizon seems very bleek.

It's not so bad. . .

let's take a look at my wish list (that I probably won't be able to afford). . .

September: Okami (PS2), Valkyrie Profile 2 (PS2), Loco Roco (PSP)
October: Splinter Cell (X360), Children of Mana (DS)
November: Metroid Prime 3 (Wii), Zelda Twilight Princess (Wii), Forza Motorsport 2 (X360), FEAR (X360)
December: Metal Gear Solid Portable Ops (PSP), Super Paper Mario (GCN), Castlevania SotN (XBLA)

And of course God of War 2 (PS2), Bioshock (X360), Mass Effect (X360), Assassin's Creed (X360 or PS3), and Metal Gear Solid 4 (PS3) next year. . .

There is a good amount of stuff due for the 360 this year. The first year is always slow for a new console. It was the same (worse, even) for the Xbox, GCN, and PS2. So far the 360 has had a pretty strong lineup.

Oh, and Dead or Alive Xtreme 2 in November. :D

So the Wiizy (pronounced weezy) is really really coming out in November?

Hmm, and here I've been wasting all my time on Titan Quest (PC) and Sudoku (DS). I haven't been keeping up lately, actually, so I don't really know whats coming out soon.

I am looking forward to Mass Effect though. Even though I don't yet have a 360, I'm thinking of getting one if that game is any good.

Well if it sucks buy one for Forza 2. I bought an Xbox for Forza and did not regret it.

We'll see. Forza was alright I guess, but I didn't play a lot of it. Besides, Forza 2 just got delayed from what I'm seeing, probably not till 2007.

These days I'm usually quite pleased when an anticipated game gets delayed a bit. There are often too many to buy at once.

I still don't have a 360, so.. no Oblivion for me.

And I'm not playing it on PC, unfortunately..

Oblivion is a silly game. Neat, but I just can't play it.

Also, Jerimiah, is the release date for Forza still November? Or is it gonna be pushed back as Nick has stated? I hope not...

Yeah, here is my source, from another forum I read (but don't post on a lot)

Till '07 according to the offical Forza forums. (Link to forum announcement)

Oblivion is kinda fun, but I got bored. But its one of those games you need to spend a ton of time in, and I just don't want to get sucked in again.

FACK! Oh well. At least they are making the right decision in not preemptively releasing it. I'd rather have the best version late than a mediocre version early.

Yeah, it looks like the game will have more polish on it, which is good. I remember this happening with the original Forza as well. Slated for a holiday release, but didn't come out till the following March or April.

I'm gonna try to attempt to see if it's possible if I can rent Chromehounds today. Only last time I was at Blockbuster I couldn't rent a game because I didn't have a credit card for the pre-approval of a dollar, which sounds like a crock of shit to me but whatev.

Ha, Blockbuster can suck my preauthorized weiner, I'm just gonna go to Hollywood.

Is this game cool ? :

http://www.testdriveunlimited.com/

I like concept.

Mike and Ryan T. may have an unfair advantage.:lol:

Test Drive has always been too arcadey for me - like Ridge Racer or any iteration of Need for Speed from the last six years. Blech.

The persistent online stuff sounds kinda neat, but I'd rather have something like that in Gran Turismo.

Gears of War and Call of Duty 3 come out today.

You can read a review of GoW here:
http://reviews.teamxbox.com/xbox-360...ars-of-War/p1/

9.6 outta 10 and they said graphically the best game they have ever seen.


Not that anyone besides Jerimiah and I care... and he's got a little man in the house now.

Link is borked

Fixed. Imma copy/paste noob.

never Winter nights 2 should be crazy sick if you are a DnD RPGer .

They release tomorrow. :P

Hey, quick question, have you played that new DS game called Contact? Is it any good?

Yeah that's bullshit!

I haven't but one of the guys at my store has. He says it's pretty good. I've been meaning to try it, but I just don't have time to play much these days. :(

Oh man Gears of War is freakin bad ass.

woooooooooooow
http://reno.craigslist.org/ele/235736374.html

I am gonna rush right out and get this :?:

I wasn't Impressed.

you must have a shitty tv then because we played it on my friends 1080p and it was freaking awesome.

He played it on my 27 in tube. Bobby is just lame like that and has super high standards for a lot of shit. He said it would be better if it was a first person shooter. :lol:

There was like 5 people camping out at Wal-Mart by my house last night. I had no idea why at the time, but know it makes more sense. When's the PS3 come out anyways?

Analysts predict PS3 will be ebaying for 5-7k and I agree. In all honesty that spot in line is well worth 450 dollars.

How many can you buy at once?

Anyone hear Adam Carolla this morning? A single guy turned down a free trip to the Bunny Ranch offered by Ron Jeremy himself...all expenses paid (airfare, food, etc) with his pick from any of the girls . :lol: All he had to do was give up his spot in line.

The Bestbuy he was standing in front of was only guaranteed 20 systems but may be getting as many as 200 in the first shipment. :roll:

I saw one on ebay for 3k already.

The TV had nothing to do with it, it was just really repetitive, at least I thought so. I only played for a hour then got bored with it. Afterwards I watched Futurama for 5 hours.
I would probably do the same, not because I want a PS3, but because I've been to the Bunnyranch and that place sucked.

I saw a whole line of people standing outside of Best Buy tonight. It was just sick IMO. I almost wanted to lean out of my car and yell "NERDS!" at all of them.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I had a long day as a computer programmer and I need to go play some Dungeons & Dragons.