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[raphael_is_cool]

The main story has lots of great moments, and it is a good story. But don't expect loads of massive battles. There are generally more small-scale encounters.

The universe is opened up for you to explore at your own pace. You can continue with the plot stuff or you can do (mostly dull, repetitive) side missions. There are also some interesting scenarios that pop up when you visit certain systems. It's usually worth going around finding materials and such just to give you an experience boost.

It can take a while getting your head around the different abilities and how to do certain things but you'll get the hang of it.

[rav4ge]

I bought COD4 and Guild Wars this weekend - both are excellent so far. I've only played the online component of COD4 so far, and it is great fun. Lots of explosions and gunfights. It can get a tad annoying with all the spawnkilling/perks/helicopters/airstrikes but most of the time it's good fun.

Guild Wars I've only played briefly, very similar to Diablo/Dungeon Runners. Also, no monthly subscription fees

If you're into online FPSs, you should definately give Team Fortress 2 a look, it's a great game and is on sale until friday for 10 bucks.

[rav4ge]

Fusion seemed like something new and different, and Zero mission was just, well, metroid.

I still can't seem to find my copy of either games >_<

[GK Punk]

Originally Posted by Peanut

I'm guessing I'm around halfway through Super Metroid, and it's still awesome. I gotta say, I was kinda into Zero Mission more, though. I got a friend to grab me a copy of Prime (again) so I can start on that once I'm finished. I've got a copy of Fusion waiting for me, as well.

I've never met a Metroid game I didn't like, I even like the second one which is easily the worse of the series. Super Metroid for it's time was amazing, but I think going back to it and playing it for your first time AFTER playing Zero Mission, which had updated graphics and new mechanics it feels like a step backwards. Fusion is closer in feel to ZM.

Originally Posted by Barkworm

I could never really get into Super Metroid. I guess there's not enough handholding for my taste. I always liked the GBA ones more, especially Fusion which is probably one of my favourite games ever.

Fusion is the most un-Metroid like Metroid game in the series. Not to say it's bad, because it isn't. But the feel of Metroid isn't really there in it. On it's own it's a great game though. I break it out at least once a year to play through it.

[ThirdMarioBro]

Originally Posted by Barkworm

I could never really get into Super Metroid. I guess there's not enough handholding for my taste. I always liked the GBA ones more, especially Fusion which is probably one of my favourite games ever.

I just pray that Sakamoto will drag together a team at Intelligent Systems and continue the story from where Fusion left off. There's so much potential there because the ending changed so much. But after that, they chose to go back and do all the 3D games as fill-in prequels so we could see Samus in 3D in her classic form. Admittedly, a good call since Metroid skipped the whole N64 generation, but now would be the time to go forward with the story, except Nintendo clearly has no desire to do that now with their current agenda. A real shame.

Originally Posted by Peanut

I heard Fusion was pretty objective based, so that seems like it'll be just what I'm looking for.

Yeah, Fusion is really linear in design. I barely had to look at the map while playing. Still, it was outstanding in a different way. While Super Metroid perfected the feeling of isolation and fear mixed with the wonderment of exploration, Fusion was the first in the series to let Samus get some real dialog in while mixing in a great narrative, the fear of being hunted, and a twist ending.

Originally Posted by Peanut

Hey, if I've learned anything about being a truly "hardcore gamer", it's that you not only have to be deprived of the knowledge of where to go and what to do at all times, but you've got to do it on "Trying to make off for having a small penis" difficulty. You know, the one where you've got replay the same sequence 30 times in a row until you're either super "skilled" or you get a lucky break and the cheap AI gets stuck in the level geometry?

Congratulations, you just described every other game made before 1993...which is why most of them suck now. I just don't have the patience for that sh1t anymore.

[ThirdMarioBro]

Frankly, I gave online FPS because of--well...

Originally Posted by Zubby

the spawnkilling/perks/helicopters/airstrikes

I bought COD4 for the campaign (which was the best ever). Touched the multiplayer one time then forgot about it. It's the same thing with every shooter. Either you wind up with a fleet of 350lb. virgin snipers with no life who are 10x better than you, or a bunch of douchebags who behave like a kid who found his dad's gun and coke stash under the bed and mixed the two together.

[rav4ge]

It's not something I would play everyday, but it's fun to pull it out occasionally and just play a few quick rounds.

Price is a little much though, 60 dollars for an (almost) 2 year old game? Eh.

[Peanut]

$60 was too much for it when it first released. A 3-hour campaign just doesn't cut it for me.

If you're into online FPSs, you should definately give Team Fortress 2 a look, it's a great game and is on sale until friday for 10 bucks.

Probably the last thing you need to do around here is bring up uber-popular titles, chances are most of us have already played it. Just a heads up. It's nice to see a new face in the VG section, though.

[Peanut]

I finished Super Metroid earlier today, and it was a lot of fun. I still liked Zero Mission better, but I enjoyed myself. The ending was fantastic. I started into Prime again, and immediately I'm noticing the controls feel extremely limiting.

I've been play the Resident Evil GCN remake for the last couple of days now, too, and I really got into it. Once I got a good handle for the controls, I found myself being sucked in. In fact, I'd say I prefer them to the semi-workable controls in RE4, which gives you just enough proper control to feel like it's genuinely broken in some aspects.

I'm going fairly slow, as I can't really play for more than 40 minutes at a time without starting to feel uncomfortable and depressed, so I just made it out to the courtyard section. My sister and girlfriend are watching me play through every step of the game, which is something I really enjoy, despite the backseat playing.

I also got copies of both FFX2 (which the girls love) and FFXIII, deciding that my limited amount of time with XIII really wasn't enough to warrant any kind of real opinion. On the FF front, I've also continued on with IX, which continues to be my absolute favourite FF game, and over the last night or so I've been playing a lot of Crisis Core on my PSP. I've had to start wearing headphones so as not to wake up the missus.

Lots of games, gentlemen!

[ThirdMarioBro]

I've got so much work to do lately, I don't have time for hardly anything, but I'm trying to get decent with some of the other regulars in Street Fighter IV now that Chun Li is a complete gimp. Cammy and Viper seem to be my most comfortable favorites, though good ole' Sagat makes for a good fallback in a crunch.

[愛]

Originally Posted by Peanut

I finished Super Metroid earlier today, and it was a lot of fun. I still liked Zero Mission better, but I enjoyed myself. The ending was fantastic. I started into Prime again, and immediately I'm noticing the controls feel extremely limiting.

I've been play the Resident Evil GCN remake for the last couple of days now, too, and I really got into it. Once I got a good handle for the controls, I found myself being sucked in. In fact, I'd say I prefer them to the semi-workable controls in RE4, which gives you just enough proper control to feel like it's genuinely broken in some aspects.

I'm going fairly slow, as I can't really play for more than 40 minutes at a time without starting to feel uncomfortable and depressed, so I just made it out to the courtyard section. My sister and girlfriend are watching me play through every step of the game, which is something I really enjoy, despite the backseat playing.

I also got copies of both FFX2 (which the girls love) and FFXIII, deciding that my limited amount of time with XIII really wasn't enough to warrant any kind of real opinion. On the FF front, I've also continued on with IX, which continues to be my absolute favourite FF game, and over the last night or so I've been playing a lot of Crisis Core on my PSP. I've had to start wearing headphones so as not to wake up the missus.

Lots of games, gentlemen!

I'm glad that you're enjoying all of these games that you once shunned. I knew that you would love Resident Evil if you just gave it a real shot. You never told me that you got FFXII, though. I hope you hate it so we can talk about how bad it is.

As for me, I'm still working on my FF marathon. My exams are pretty much over, so I can get back into doing them. Also, Spring break is coming up, and my brother has Last Remnant and Lost Odyssey back home, so I'm hoping to play them soon. Other than that, not much going on. I'm at school, and I have a LOT of time to kill. Maybe I'll break out the PS emulator and beat a RE or two.

[Dr. Doom]

That doesn't change the fact that's it's just about the best $10 you can spend on a game. If anyone here HASN'T played TF2 and they have a passable computer, they should totally buy it, it's a phenomenal multiplayer experience.

[rav4ge]

Originally Posted by Peanut

$60 was too much for it when it first released. A 3-hour campaign just doesn't cut it for me.



Probably the last thing you need to do around here is bring up uber-popular titles, chances are most of us have already played it. Just a heads up. It's nice to see a new face in the VG section, though.

Well, I'm not sure TF2 is exactly "uber" popular. It is popular, but not as popular as other online FPSs like COD4. At least that's how it seems to me.

And again, as Doom stated, it's only 10 bucks :/

[Peanut]

Originally Posted by Dr. Doom

That doesn't change the fact that's it's just about the best $10 you can spend on a game. If anyone here HASN'T played TF2 and they have a passable computer, they should totally buy it, it's a phenomenal multiplayer experience.

Pretty much all of us own it, except on 360 with the Orange Box. And how long have you been barking up the TF2 tree here now? Since release? rofl!

Well, I'm not sure TF2 is exactly "uber" popular.

Maybe not outside of the actual gaming population, but anyone who's into games knows about TF2.

[Peanut]

I think I'm done with RE. On two separate occasions, on the way to a typewriter, I've been waylaid by two hunters in a hallway and killed, losing progress through almost the entire residence/aqua ring area, past the fight with Plant 42, which I repeated, and then again through a lot of the post residence stuff in the mansion.

If there's one thing that can make me quit a game almost immediately, it's unexpected and cheap game over's leading to a ton of replaying. It happened to me most recently in both Lost Odyssey and Tales of Vesperia, two games I've avoided since.

Save points are the biggest piece of sh*t design still around in games. Die, please!

[rav4ge]

Originally Posted by Peanut

I think I'm done with RE. On two separate occasions, on the way to a typewriter, I've been waylaid by two hunters in a hallway and killed, losing progress through almost the entire residence/aqua ring area, past the fight with Plant 42, which I repeated, and then again through a lot of the post residence stuff in the mansion.

If there's one thing that can make me quit a game almost immediately, it's unexpected and cheap game over's leading to a ton of replaying. It happened to me most recently in both Lost Odyssey and Tales of Vesperia, two games I've avoided since.

Save points are the biggest piece of sh*t design still around in games. Die, please!

No kidding. Remember passcodes? I literally had a notepad FULL of 24-digit codes for all the games I played. The sad thing is, developers continued to use this method until like 2005 or so, then it just pretty much stopped altogether.

[Dr. Doom]

I'd say that if you want to enjoy TF2 to its full potential, you need the PC version, though again, that also requires a PC that can run it decently enough. My PC runs it at minimum settings and I get the occasional hiccup that results in my death, but I don't regret getting it for PC at all, regardless of whether or not anyone here has it. After all, it's owning Valve games on PC that lead to awesome stuff like this.

[Peanut]

You have to platy TF2 on minimum? Damn. I wouldn't even attempt to play any PC games if I couldn't run them on high.

[Dr. Doom]

A good game will still be enjoyable even if the graphics aren't perfect. I agree that I'm missing out, but I don't think it's any reason to deprive myself. I do the best with what I have.

[Brodie]

I got Killzone 2, rofl