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  On 10/26/2010 at 4:53 PM, ZeroHour said:

EA MMA

Best simulation of mixed martial arts there is

 

That may be true but I played the demo for two hours and it really didn't seem very intuitive. After playing it for a long while do you really feel like the controls are accurately extending out what your brain wants to do yet? The controls felt pretty loose and I just cant imagine it would get to the point where its like ohh shit I made a good conscious decision going to an arm bar instead of a barracuda onion roll (lol I have no idea of the names for MMA grappling

 

  On 10/24/2010 at 6:11 PM, Dropp said:

Limbo is probably the best game I've played this year.

 

God damnt I think Ima buy it right now.. even though I should be working on music/getting good sleep right now.

Limbo is great, but really short. Make sure to take breaks because it's much too easy to complete it in a few hours.

I've been playing The Force Unleashed 2 since Tuesday. It's pretty cool so far. Some nice boss battles. Good story line. Graphics are great. Sound is great. Gameplay is awesome. Not as good as God Of War 3. But whose comparing them anyways.

 

Hey Joy Rex, how is the Killzone 3 beta going. I saw you were playing it earlier today. I saw some of the beta footage during the games Alpha phase. Whats been improved since K2?

bought fable 3 the day it was released... it's pretty good. not worth sixty dollars though, i think.

  On 10/28/2010 at 4:14 PM, Hoodie said:

bought fable 3 the day it was released... it's pretty good. not worth sixty dollars though, i think.

 

Did you play Fable II? I was a bit hesitant to buy Fable III because of the semi-good reviews it received the first couple of days but Gametrailers finally uploaded their review of Fable III yesterday and gave it 8,9 and said that if you loved Fable II then you would without a doubt love Fable III - and that's good enough for me. I loved Fable II's simplicity. As much as I love complex RPGs I will always love the simple mash up of RPG/Action/Adventure that is Fable. Also, the music is some of the best to have ever appeared in a game. It's haunting and fits the universe of Fable perfectly!

  On 10/28/2010 at 4:14 PM, Hoodie said:

bought fable 3 the day it was released... it's pretty good. not worth sixty dollars though, i think.

 

Please explain.

 

Was it was too short? I loved Fable II, but my biggest problem with it, was I thought it was a little too short for an RPG.

 

Thinking of bying III, but it hasn't got as good reviews as i expected.

  On 10/28/2010 at 7:32 AM, 747Music said:

I've been playing The Force Unleashed 2 since Tuesday. It's pretty cool so far. Some nice boss battles. Good story line. Graphics are great. Sound is great. Gameplay is awesome. Not as good as God Of War 3. But whose comparing them anyways.

 

Hey Joy Rex, how is the Killzone 3 beta going. I saw you were playing it earlier today. I saw some of the beta footage during the games Alpha phase. Whats been improved since K2?

 

The beta's fucking awesome - way better than any of that Alpha footage. All the details, it's incredible. Very similar to 2 in gameplay style (so far), but with some minor enhancements. So far, only 3 maps, but they are all new maps and one is really badass with an EMP that occasionally goes off, disabling all tech and radar in the area.

 

The single player should be fucking mindblowing if the MP is this good at this point.

 

Jesus, man - you've gotten more games??? You must be some college student or something with all that money/free time. Wish I had both!

Squee, if you're in it for the simplicity and button mashing, Fable III is leaps and bounds better than II. The 'humour' has much improved as well IMO, and a few points had me loling IRL, which games tend never to do. There are also a few recurring characters in Fable III as well beyond the main ones; at least one Demon Door which the Hero encountered in the previous game and a certain pair of mischievous brothers as well. Also, if you do get it, I highly advise investing in property over buying items. It's worth every penny once you're making 124,000 gold every five minutes (and I'm not even finished with the first half of the game yet).

  On 10/28/2010 at 7:00 PM, Dropp said:

  On 10/28/2010 at 4:14 PM, Hoodie said:

bought fable 3 the day it was released... it's pretty good. not worth sixty dollars though, i think.

 

Please explain.

 

Was it was too short? I loved Fable II, but my biggest problem with it, was I thought it was a little too short for an RPG.

 

Thinking of bying III, but it hasn't got as good reviews as i expected.

 

 

Fable 3 is:

 

1. Very short. I have about 12 hours invested right now and I'm at the endgame, which I hear isn't long (one of the complaints across most of the reviews). I did all the side quests I could find too, except for the evil ones. The main quest is also pretty crappy.

 

 

 

 

2. Anticlimactic. There's a transition that takes place during the game (It's probably obvious if you've heard anything about the plot, but I won't spoil it) and when everything goes down, it's more "meh" than anything else.

 

3. Difficult. Not the combat, but the moral choices. The endgame is fucked up, let's just say that much. I looked it up ahead of time because I don't mind spoilers and... it sucks. Basically:

 

 

 

 

Well, ok, I lied partially:

 

 

 

 

I could write some more about how the end really boggles the mind and how I think it is poorly designed, but that'd take up a page, so lemme just tell you that players with the intention of saving Albion through kindness and love will be... dismayed.

 

I liked Fable 2 but I feel this one is a step back. Also, whenever I enter my "sanctuary," my butler won't shut the fuck up about DLC. "OH WE HAVE SOMETHING NEW IN THE SHOP WHY DON'T YOU BUY SOME MS POINTS." Kinda random complaint but that shit REALLY takes me out of the game.

 

The voice acting is solid though

  On 10/23/2010 at 11:49 PM, chris moss acid said:

NBA2k11 what a sports game!! i dont even liek basketball but its AWesome. I got drafted to The celtics as a point gard. the be a player is soo tuff..very diffrent from what im used to, its a hardgame coz the Ai is just unreal and you have to work to get your player amazing or youll get F's in team play and i cant even slam dunk :(, though i did assist shaq with a massive allyoop lay up pass, but once i master the controls it's going to be awesome

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAIhWEmn79M

 

Ok, I wasn't going to post about this game 'cause I figured no one on this board would even like it, but HELL EFFIN' YES THIS GAME ROCKS!!!

 

Rarely do I like sports games but this one has really been a great/fun purchase - I could spend hours with the Jordan challenges alone. Playing a season now with the 91' Bulls - great fun, as the game is hard but fair. Controls are intuitive but take skill to use correctly. AI is phenomenal - both challenging and realistic.

 

Of course, I'm a massive Jordan fan, so that helps my enjoyment, but the overall quality of the game is pretty through the roof.

  On 10/28/2010 at 10:51 PM, T35513R said:

  On 10/23/2010 at 11:49 PM, chris moss acid said:

NBA2k11 what a sports game!! i dont even liek basketball but its AWesome. I got drafted to The celtics as a point gard. the be a player is soo tuff..very diffrent from what im used to, its a hardgame coz the Ai is just unreal and you have to work to get your player amazing or youll get F's in team play and i cant even slam dunk :(, though i did assist shaq with a massive allyoop lay up pass, but once i master the controls it's going to be awesome

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAIhWEmn79M

 

Ok, I wasn't going to post about this game 'cause I figured no one on this board would even like it, but HELL EFFIN' YES THIS GAME ROCKS!!!

 

Rarely do I like sports games but this one has really been a great/fun purchase - I could spend hours with the Jordan challenges alone. Playing a season now with the 91' Bulls - great fun, as the game is hard but fair. Controls are intuitive but take skill to use correctly. AI is phenomenal - both challenging and realistic.

 

Of course, I'm a massive Jordan fan, so that helps my enjoyment, but the overall quality of the game is pretty through the roof.

 

 

You know if 2k did NHL games as good as this, i think i'd die. as much as i love EA NHL something got to give sometime.. the VIP menu in nbaa21kk is just phenomenal it takes account of every game ive played in the association and tells me whats going wrong

  On 10/28/2010 at 10:45 PM, Hoodie said:

  On 10/28/2010 at 7:00 PM, Dropp said:

  On 10/28/2010 at 4:14 PM, Hoodie said:

bought fable 3 the day it was released... it's pretty good. not worth sixty dollars though, i think.

 

Please explain.

 

Was it was too short? I loved Fable II, but my biggest problem with it, was I thought it was a little too short for an RPG.

 

Thinking of bying III, but it hasn't got as good reviews as i expected.

 

 

Fable 3 is:

 

1. Very short. I have about 12 hours invested right now and I'm at the endgame, which I hear isn't long (one of the complaints across most of the reviews). I did all the side quests I could find too, except for the evil ones. The main quest is also pretty crappy.

 

 

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You have to amass a revolutionary army. So you talk to like five groups of people and there's your army. It's stupid, very limited in scope. It would have been cooler if there were quite a few villages you could recruit. The bandits I saved in the beginning of the game didn't even show up to help, even though the game said they were my allies. Oh well.

 

 

2. Anticlimactic. There's a transition that takes place during the game (It's probably obvious if you've heard anything about the plot, but I won't spoil it) and when everything goes down, it's more "meh" than anything else.

 

3. Difficult. Not the combat, but the moral choices. The endgame is fucked up, let's just say that much. I looked it up ahead of time because I don't mind spoilers and... it sucks. Basically:

 

 

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There is no way to keep the promises you made if you want your people to live. There is no way to play as "good" if you want your people to live. If you play as "good," at the game's end, all your people are dead. And this isn't like Fable 2 where if you chose to save your family, it doesn't affect the game. Nope, all your cities are empty. Now, doesn't that destroy the entire purpose of the promise system? Shouldn't there be "grey" areas where you kinda keep your promise but also help your kingdom out? Oh wait, this is Fable, lol.

 

 

Well, ok, I lied partially:

 

 

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There is one way to be a good monarch and save your people too: bake pies and buy real estate. That's right, you have to raise the money you need for an army by yourself by gathering money through jobs (playing the lute, baking pies, or making swords) and then using that to buy real estate. LOL. You're a king/queen and you have to make pies to fund your army. WOW, REALISM.

 

 

I could write some more about how the end really boggles the mind and how I think it is poorly designed, but that'd take up a page, so lemme just tell you that players with the intention of saving Albion through kindness and love will be... dismayed.

 

I liked Fable 2 but I feel this one is a step back. Also, whenever I enter my "sanctuary," my butler won't shut the fuck up about DLC. "OH WE HAVE SOMETHING NEW IN THE SHOP WHY DON'T YOU BUY SOME MS POINTS." Kinda random complaint but that shit REALLY takes me out of the game.

 

The voice acting is solid though

 

sounds like molyneux and his crew played a lot of dragon age.... thats the exact premise basically, except the king youre trying to overthrow with your revolutionary army and teammates in DA is called 'loghain'.. its two letters off.

 

and i heard that inventory system is pretty messed up.. having to go to a hub world just to equip armor /weapons /change settings/see the map? thats just silly..

and how you cant see how many potions you have until youre in combat, and how you cant see how much money you have until youre buying something.. and how you cant just quickly pull up the map..

their reasoning for doing all this was to get rid of the hud interface, but there is still a hud, you just have no control over it and it pops up when it wants to.

Edited October 28, 2010 by MAXIMUS MISCHIEF

  On 10/28/2010 at 11:07 PM, chris moss acid said:

  On 10/28/2010 at 10:51 PM, T35513R said:

  On 10/23/2010 at 11:49 PM, chris moss acid said:

NBA2k11 what a sports game!! i dont even liek basketball but its AWesome. I got drafted to The celtics as a point gard. the be a player is soo tuff..very diffrent from what im used to, its a hardgame coz the Ai is just unreal and you have to work to get your player amazing or youll get F's in team play and i cant even slam dunk :(, though i did assist shaq with a massive allyoop lay up pass, but once i master the controls it's going to be awesome

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAIhWEmn79M

 

Ok, I wasn't going to post about this game 'cause I figured no one on this board would even like it, but HELL EFFIN' YES THIS GAME ROCKS!!!

 

Rarely do I like sports games but this one has really been a great/fun purchase - I could spend hours with the Jordan challenges alone. Playing a season now with the 91' Bulls - great fun, as the game is hard but fair. Controls are intuitive but take skill to use correctly. AI is phenomenal - both challenging and realistic.

 

Of course, I'm a massive Jordan fan, so that helps my enjoyment, but the overall quality of the game is pretty through the roof.

 

 

You know if 2k did NHL games as good as this, i think i'd die. as much as i love EA NHL something got to give sometime.. the VIP menu in nbaa21kk is just phenomenal it takes account of every game ive played in the association and tells me whats going wrong

 

 

I hear great things about this game. I think I'll rent it after I finish The Force Unleashed 2 (which is awesome).

got bored and went on steam. ended up buying "amnesia - the dark descent."

 

it's a survival horror game in first person. it got tons of rave reviews and people saying it's the scariest thing ever.

 

i don't know yet. so far it's pretty fucking tense.

  On 10/29/2010 at 8:42 AM, vamos scorcho said:

got bored and went on steam. ended up buying "amnesia - the dark descent."

 

Dead Space is the scariest thing ever.

 

i don't know yet. so far it's pretty fucking tense.

 

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I liked dead space, but it didn't scare me.

  On 10/29/2010 at 12:12 PM, chris moss acid said:

  On 10/29/2010 at 8:42 AM, vamos scorcho said:

got bored and went on steam. ended up buying "amnesia - the dark descent."

 

Dead Space is the scariest thing ever.

 

i don't know yet. so far it's pretty fucking tense.

 

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amnesia is far scarier than dead space. i might buy the whole thing for halloween. its the scariest i've played since silent hill

  On 10/29/2010 at 8:42 AM, vamos scorcho said:

got bored and went on steam. ended up buying "amnesia - the dark descent."

 

it's a survival horror game in first person. it got tons of rave reviews and people saying it's the scariest thing ever.

 

i don't know yet. so far it's pretty fucking tense.

 

i've never heard of this, but after watching the launch trailer i need to get it. for some reason it reminded me of "clive barker's undying", which is one of my favourite games of all time.

dead space scared the SHIT outta me a few times.

 

rented front mission: evolved which is actually really good so far! i am an absolute sucker for convoluted fictional geopolitics and it has that in spades, as any game with "front mission" in the title should. also it's gorgeous and the controls are great.

  On 10/27/2010 at 8:06 AM, Blanket Fort Collapse said:

  On 10/26/2010 at 4:53 PM, ZeroHour said:

EA MMA

Best simulation of mixed martial arts there is

 

That may be true but I played the demo for two hours and it really didn't seem very intuitive. After playing it for a long while do you really feel like the controls are accurately extending out what your brain wants to do yet? The controls felt pretty loose and I just cant imagine it would get to the point where its like ohh shit I made a good conscious decision going to an arm bar instead of a barracuda onion roll (lol I have no idea of the names for MMA grappling

 

Your trouble may be with the fact you're using Total Strike Control. I personally prefer classic controls much better, the striking with it is insane, some of the KO's I've delivered are beautiful :P. With Total Strike Control it is annoying, you sometimes do hooks instead of straights etc.

 

The demo was pretty terrible, the choices of fighters was retarded, but the full game really excels, really indepth.

not too keen on rolling around on the ground with other sweaty guys in short-shorts

 

been playing medal of honor multiplayer myself

again and again IRACING.com, the most advanced racing simulator by a friggin mile over everything else.. since yesterday it has now a FORMULA ONE!!!

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7kX-P4JsaQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYKgx2P8MwA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PqI5Mup4J4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzsb9czTvHs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyFYI085Its

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDdRmowTLx0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9r1c9IJXcvc

PES 11 Demo, trying to get into it but it's still so quirky feeling compared to FIFA. I might buy it though, it is kind of fun.

 

And Minecraft, which is great ofc.

Can someone recomend me a good, small (<100mb), free game? Thanks.

the worlds hardest game is fun.