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[Digital Ghost]

Just pre-ordered Rage for the PC at Best Buy for 49.99 and the pre-order bonus. Tomorrow!
I also picked up the ICO & SotC HD collection a couple days ago... great to play these classics once again with great quality.

[愛]

Originally Posted by Digital Ghost

Just pre-ordered Rage for the PC at Best Buy for 49.99 and the pre-order bonus. Tomorrow!
I also picked up the ICO & SotC HD collection a couple days ago... great to play these classics once again with great quality.

Rage looks really great, but ever since the horror that was Dead Island, I have a sort of fear of buying PC games before hearing an initial report from consumers. If things go smoothly, I may buy it later this week.

[Powder]

Pre-ordered Kirby's Return To Dreamland, TLOZ Skyward Sword, Pokemon Rumble Blast, & Super Mario 3D Land.
Add a new DK title to that list & I'd be in heaven.

[Slap-Happy]

Paid off Arkham City today from Gamestop. Best Pre-Order bonuses in the US, IMO:

- Joker's Carnival Challenge Map
- B:TAS Skin
- Gotham Knight movie (Yeah, I already have it, but who cares)

[Brodie]

Picked up my CE of Dark Souls.

The tin is pretty slick, but the included items are slimmed way down. Its kind of ridiculous. The art book is poorly condensed, killing the presentation. The UK release has a larger format book, seemingly, which also holds both the making of DVD and the soundtrack. This release has no tangible DVD or soundtrack. The original plan was to have the mini guide be a physical book, but that was abandoned to get a digital copy. Well, this went further in the US, with the digital copy voucher being for the soundtrack, making of, and the guide.

[Spitfire]

Originally Posted by The Chicken Whisperer

Paid off Arkham City today from Gamestop. Best Pre-Order bonuses in the US, IMO:

- Joker's Carnival Challenge Map
- B:TAS Skin
- Gotham Knight movie (Yeah, I already have it, but who cares)

Awesome! I pre-ordered this as well but from Best Buy. I'd say their pre-order is better. It comes with Robin. Last I checked the Gamestop one only has the Joker map and a digital copy of the movie. The TAS skin is awesome though, I hope it's unlockable in the game. The CE comes with the Dark Knight Returns skin and hopefully a Bluray copy of the movie but it'll probably just end up being a DVD. I kind of wish it was Under the Red Hood instead.

[Spitfire]

I bought and beat L.A. Noire over the past few days. It was fun to play and had some good storylines. It has almost zero replay value though. Once you know the cases there's no point in playing them again. Some of the action stuff was annoying but given the chance to skip them was nice. The ending was bad in my opinion. I also thought it was cheap having us play as a another character for the last part of the game. A character that up until that point had basically been a background character you interact with maybe once.

Overall not a bad game. Odd it's on so many disks though. GTA 4 and RDR were both way longer then this game. I know it has some nice facial animation and rendering but you can tell that's what they paid the most attention to. The reflections look horrible and people off in the distance look like 2D pixel cut outs walking around.

[Slap-Happy]

Originally Posted by Spitfire

Awesome! I pre-ordered this as well but from Best Buy. I'd say their pre-order is better. It comes with Robin. Last I checked the Gamestop one only has the Joker map and a digital copy of the movie. The TAS skin is awesome though, I hope it's unlockable in the game. The CE comes with the Dark Knight Returns skin and hopefully a Bluray copy of the movie but it'll probably just end up being a DVD. I kind of wish it was Under the Red Hood instead.

The CE should come with Batman Year One. It comes out the same day as the game, and for $30 extra dollars, should have it in there rather than Gotham Knight.

I beleive the Best Buy bonus is a few extra maps and costumes for Robin. I'm pretty sure he's playable in the maps that don't come in that pack.

[Spitfire]

That would be cool as well. The Robin bonus is a pack. You get him, a skin, and the maps. BB claims he is exclusive to people who pre-ordered the game from them. He's useable in challenge mode so I wonder if his maps can be played as other characters as well.

Nightwing has also just been announced as a DLC pack too.

[The Stryker]

Know what was the best part of Arkham Asylum? The challenge maps.

Wait. No.

[Spitfire]

It's a reason to come back. Plus adding new characters might make them more interesting. I'm wondering if the maps have changed and if some of them are more like timed mini missions instead of just hunt guys or beat up guys.

[AquaParade]

Originally Posted by Spitfire

I bought and beat L.A. Noire over the past few days. It was fun to play and had some good storylines. It has almost zero replay value though. Once you know the cases there's no point in playing them again. Some of the action stuff was annoying but given the chance to skip them was nice. The ending was bad in my opinion. I also thought it was cheap having us play as a another character for the last part of the game. A character that up until that point had basically been a background character you interact with maybe once.

Overall not a bad game. Odd it's on so many disks though. GTA 4 and RDR were both way longer then this game. I know it has some nice facial animation and rendering but you can tell that's what they paid the most attention to. The reflections look horrible and people off in the distance look like 2D pixel cut outs walking around.

Odd. I never considered that L.A. Noire would have little replay value, due to the nature of it's mystery-solving gameplay. I've still been meaning to give it a go. I usually find that I love games that receive mixed feedback across the board.

I've been going back and fourth between Dark Souls and Crysis, both for PS3. Honestly, I feel a little spoiled.

Crysis is just the kind of fps action I dig. It's sandbox design offers plenty of choice for the player, it has great graphics, and the soundtrack is one of it's best assets, as with Crysis 2. The action is exciting, and it's easy to get lost in the atmosphere of the game, which is a big plus for me. I am interested to see how I feel about the game once I reach the infamous last third of the campaign. Most people seem to really knock it, but I have a feeling I'm going to enjoy it

Dark souls is hard for me to sum up. I feel like the whole difficulty aspect almost overshadows other aspects that the game has to offer. Yes, the game is pretty damn hard. Moving on...As if exploring gothic castles and mysterious swamps, taking control of a refined combat system, and collecting souls to upgrade armor, items, and statistics wasn't addicting enough, the new open-world design of the map makes it even harder to quit. It's incredibly easy to both explore new area's at every turn, but make your way back to a semi-central hub in Fire-lake Shrine (or something like that) with little difficulty, if things get too heated. Amazing game, but yes...it's hard. Not for everyone. (Only complaint with Dark Souls for far, is the way the servers are set up. It's much harder to play with a friend than it was in Demons Souls. Here's hoping its changed)

[Redeemer]

currently playing through assassin's creed 1 again nuff said I love this game, trying to get all the achievements for, time consuming but do able

[BAXTER STOCKMAN 19]

I am currnetly playing RAGE . I finished Alice Madnes return in Friday and i started RAGE. So far i am very dissapointed with this. It dosent have enough action like the previous ID games. I was hoping for a FPS full of action and violence like all id games. But unlike this this game has lot of exploration and talking and little action! Also the graphic: I have

CORE I5 2500K 3,3GHZ
4 GB DDR3 1600MHZ
8800GT 512 MB.
And even DOOM3 on max settings has lot better graphic than it and it is a 7 years old game
And ID has said LOT of lies to us about RAGE. They claimed it will have the best graphic ever, and very good gameplay but both gameplay and graphic it sucks!

[rav4ge]

Mega Man II on my iPod touch. It's great. The touch controls are so much better than using an NES gamepad or something similar.













...In all seriousness, I finished up the Medal of Honor campaign last night. It was short, but not necessarily sweet, just average at best. The stealth missions were pretty bad, but for five bucks on Direct2Drive I enjoyed it.

[愛]

Originally Posted by BAXTER STOCKMAN 19

I am currnetly playing RAGE . I finished Alice Madnes return in Friday and i started RAGE. So far i am very dissapointed with this. It dosent have enough action like the previous ID games. I was hoping for a FPS full of action and violence like all id games. But unlike this this game has lot of exploration and talking and little action! Also the graphic: I have

CORE I5 2500K 3,3GHZ
4 GB DDR3 1600MHZ
8800GT 512 MB.
And even DOOM3 on max settings has lot better graphic than it and it is a 7 years old game
And ID has said LOT of lies to us about RAGE. They claimed it will have the best graphic ever, and very good gameplay but both gameplay and graphic it sucks!

Did you stop to think that maybe your video card is horribly outdated and can't support the shaders that make the game looks as good as it is? The first 8800GT came out in 2007. Guess what year it is now?

[Peanut]

Rage looks amazing, but the PC version is also f*cked, so there's that. It's easily the best looking console game I've ever played, despite the terrible texture load.

The game itself is not good. The shooting mechanics and everything have a real weight and feel great, but everything surrounding that is absolutely awful. Why am I sitting through 5 minutes of dialogue, running around towns and an open-ish world getting "quests" when there's absolutely ZERO RPG elements involved?

Why am I going to do lame side-quests when the rewards are completely negligible? They really f*cked up by going far enough to make the game more than a straightforward level to level shooter, but not far enough to make any of that other stuff interesting or worthwhile in the least. I really can't even stand to play it anymore.

[rav4ge]

Originally Posted by Peanut

Why am I sitting through 5 minutes of dialogue, running around towns and an open-ish world getting "quests" when there's absolutely ZERO RPG elements involved?

Why am I going to do lame side-quests when the rewards are completely negligible? They really f*cked up by going far enough to make the game more than a straightforward level to level shooter, but not far enough to make any of that other stuff interesting or worthwhile in the least. I really can't even stand to play it anymore.

I agree completely with you here - without that lure that most RPGs have like a leveling system or some other device, there is just no pull for me to do missions, especially when they are (at least early on) quite short and frankly, uneventful.

[Redeemer]

Jst got a perfect GS for assassins creed baby!!! Next Batman Arkym Asylum!!!!

So now I have a perfect gamer score for assassins creed 1&2 and brotherhood!!!

[Ninjinister]

Finally completed Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Heroes.