The "Currently Playing" Game Thread-Discuss Your Games, Vent, Give Props, etc.

[ReggieHadoken]

Well I've played through New Super Mario Bros. two times now. Once as Mario, and again as Luigi. I'd like to get all the star coins and find every alternate exit but I need to be moving on to other games.

I'm going to get back into Soul Blazer and Castlevania: Circle of the Moon. IMO Soul Blazer is one of the best games that Enix ever published. As for CoM, the game is great but my fav 'Vania game is still SCIV on the SNES.

[Biggzy]

Well I've played through New Super Mario Bros. two times now. Once as Mario, and again as Luigi. I'd like to get all the star coins and find every alternate exit but I need to be moving on to other games.

I'm going to get back into Soul Blazer and Castlevania: Circle of the Moon. IMO Soul Blazer is one of the best games that Enix ever published. As for CoM, the game is great but my fav 'Vania game is still SCIV on the SNES.

Yeah Soulblazer was an awesome game. I don't understand why they can't make games like this anymore. Everything now has to be amazing story, graphics, sound, etc. But they seem to forget about the fun factor. Most games are just to complicated nowadays.

[GRITZ]

FFXI on 360

If anybody has some newbie this on this game, for the sweet love of all that is gaming help me out.

-PA


I'm on the server Asura. If you're on it, let me know and I'll help with what I can.

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Been playing NSMB and am halfway through World 7. This game is too fun. Its almost impossible to regret this purchase because its such a classic formula of fun. Also been playing Brain Age. Game is fun too and its nice to see an actual improvement in certain tasks over time.

[orka]

woo woo!!

i just bought a brand new "time crisis 3" bundle (comes with two guncon 2 light guns) for just $25 (!!!). it's apparently on sale at eb/gamestop until tomorrow. so pick them up if you can find them cus they're originally $60 and apparently flying off the shelves fast.

[ReggieHadoken]

Well I beat all race classes on Mario Kart DS. Unlocked a new title screen. Better than the original one. I was gonna finish up the rest of the missions in Mission mode but decided I should move on to other DS games like my copy of Phoenix Wright. I also need to finish Circle of the Moon.

[X-Death]

Beat Suikoden and got all 108 stars for the first time.
Now I'm not sure what to do. Maybe the Zelda Oracles on gbc.

[Biggzy]

Beat MGS2, not bad. But not as great as everyone made it out to be.

[Mark Beast]

still playing paper mario. i'm on the 6th chapter...its not necessarily fun but its addicting. i can't explain it. i feel like i *must* get stronger. i must dominate the enemies and bosses in this game. i currently have on the jumpman badge, and two power plus badges, spike shield, ice power, tornado jump, basically all the jump badges you can get (don't feel like listening them all)...i wish that i could make my hits stronger though. i'm only hitting for 5 points a jump. =/ thats like 10 from mario. my partners are weak. does anybody hit for as much damage or more and how do i get them to?

i use yoshi as my partner. i'm at level 20 right now by the way, about to be at 21. i just killed an amazin daisy. leveling up in this game is damn near impossible with old enemies. you can't even level up in the pit of trials unless its the later levels that you haven't been through because 99% of the enemies give you 1 star point. i've made it to level 60 easy, but decided not to risk my luck going any more. after this, i might go back and go to 70 and if i made it there easy then i'll go to 80 then leave. i know the last 20 floors are real tough.

[FighterX]

woo woo!!

i just bought a brand new "time crisis 3" bundle (comes with two guncon 2 light guns) for just $25 (!!!). it's apparently on sale at eb/gamestop until tomorrow. so pick them up if you can find them cus they're originally $60 and apparently flying off the shelves fast.

What what WHAT?!![/SheilaBroflowski]

FUCK! *has more work to do tomorrow during lunch break*

[Bare Knuckle 2]

woo woo!!

i just bought a brand new "time crisis 3" bundle (comes with two guncon 2 light guns) for just $25 (!!!). it's apparently on sale at eb/gamestop until tomorrow. so pick them up if you can find them cus they're originally $60 and apparently flying off the shelves fast.

I got the exact same bundle this past friday. I haven't played a ligh gun game in a while so i'ts pretty damn fun.Now that I've actually got 2 guncons I can play Vampire Night the way it's meant to be played.

[orka]

yea it's pretty damn fun. too bad i get headache after about half hour of play. :(

there's something about squinting while having to constantly scanning the entire screen with bullets and explosions and shit. dunno. maybe it's just me. and have you unlocked the mission modes yet? you gotta beat the arcade mode first i presume?

i'll play more once my housemate comes back in town later this week.

[Bare Knuckle 2]

yea it's pretty damn fun. too bad i get headache after about half hour of play. :(

there's something about squinting while having to constantly scanning the entire screen with bullets and explosions and shit. dunno. maybe it's just me. and have you unlocked the mission modes yet? you gotta beat the arcade mode first i presume?

i'll play more once my housemate comes back in town later this week.

I haven't played much of it because of work so I haven't really unlocked anything,but it's good to know that there are unlockables. I'ts too bad you get headaches playing it,maybe you'll get used to it after a couple of sessions.

[orka]

there are 2 unlockable modes, i think. from what i know, in one of them you get to play as the girl and use a sniper rifle.

[FighterX]

I got the exact same bundle this past friday. I haven't played a ligh gun game in a while so i'ts pretty damn fun.Now that I've actually got 2 guncons I can play Vampire Night the way it's meant to be played.

Making me want to spend more money! You guys aren't helping me here! :rofl:

[void216]

xmen legend was fun until i got to the boss and then it was like fuck im screwed. master mold is a pain in the ass, so are the various sentinels he sends out at you.

started playing baten kaitos i have no idea what i am doing in that game its pretty confusing for me. and after a long break i finally got to playing super mario world so many exits. i have a feeling mi might be playing this gam efor a long time to come

[Kusanagi02]

I finally took a crack at DBZ Budakai 3 and let me tell u this game is a lesson in patience. I swear i was cussing every curse word in the book when i was fighting Kid Buu in Dragon Universe and it doesn't help that the special condition in order beat him and obtain Uub is to finish him off with the Super Spirit Bomb.
I finally did it so now i'm gonna go back through again with Goku and get Omega Shenron and then start with Gohan.

[VruS]

beatmania was made to destroy egos

[Geese Pants]

I ordered NFS: Most Wanted Black and God of War...............what am I to expect from these two games?

[KidZero]

I ordered NFS: Most Wanted Black and God of War...............what am I to expect from these two games?
NFS: MW is a disappointment & thats all I have to say about that.
God of War on the other hand is the shits. Great game it be.

[FighterX]

God Of War: Regarding ANY extra activities you have been planning after work/school.....FORGET ABOUT THEM.

[Biggzy]

God of War is awesome
NFS:MW is ehh alright.

I started playing Viewtiful Joe last night, and Marc Ecko's Getting Up. Both games are hot garbage. Terrible, terrible buys.

[Gasaraki]

beatmania was made to destroy egos
I concur, IIDX10 is kicking my ass =(

[ReggieHadoken]

I finally took a crack at DBZ Budakai 3 and let me tell u this game is a lesson in patience. I swear i was cussing every curse word in the book when i was fighting Kid Buu in Dragon Universe and it doesn't help that the special condition in order beat him and obtain Uub is to finish him off with the Super Spirit Bomb.
I finally did it so now i'm gonna go back through again with Goku and get Omega Shenron and then start with Gohan.

DBZB3 is still my fav DBZ game. I liked Budokai Tenkichi but the flaws kept me from liking it as much as I enjoyed B3. And yes, beating Kid Buu to unlock Uub was a lesson in patience. It took me some time to unlock him as well but I felt it was worth it.

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I played some GTA: SA last night. I stopped playing the game because missions were becoming frustrating. But it is fun to beat people for money. Still, I need A LOT of green to do the things I really want to do in the game.

Started Super Mario World again. I beat the first world, now I'm on to World 2. Don't know when this huge Mario kick will die off.

Played some Mortal Kombat Deception at my friend's place on his Xbox Monday. Screw the haters, I had fun. Though, some of the stage fatalities are cheap. In two very short mathces, I hit my opponet only once and he feel off into a spike pit. The very next match, he did the same to me. Original arcade perfect MK was tight. Oh, and Puzzle Kombat owns my soul. Its enough to make me break out Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo on the GBA.

[lseelba]

I concur, IIDX10 is kicking my ass =(

I'm playing IIDX Red right now. Best console beatmania yet. You can change the High Speed setting during the middle of a song! No more resetting a song because it's too fast or too slow :tup:

[DA GAME]

DA GAME has been playing Devil May Cry 3 & the twins that you have to fight are a fucking pain in the ass.DA GAME is sick of that attack they have where one jumps down with the sword,you move out of the way,then the other homes in your location & hits you.If anyone knows what DA GAME is talking about,how do you beat them?

[Kyoujin]

Playing Metal Gear Solid 3 - Snake Eater; loving it.

It took me awhile to figure out the best way to beat The Fear, but after I got it, he was a pussy; no compatition.

[Kool-Aid Ryu]

God of War is awesome
NFS:MW is ehh alright.

I started playing Viewtiful Joe last night, and Marc Ecko's Getting Up. Both games are hot garbage. Terrible, terrible buys.



:wtf:


I'm sorry, did you say Viewtiful Joe was a horriable game?

Wow...only on SRK


Currently playing more Time Crisis 3, my new high score is 2.46 million something.

[Kool-Aid Ryu]

DA GAME has been playing Devil May Cry 3 & the twins that you have to fight are a fucking pain in the ass.DA GAME is sick of that attack they have where one jumps down with the sword,you move out of the way,then the other homes in your location & hits you.If anyone knows what DA GAME is talking about,how do you beat them?


Trust me, they are REALLY easy when you use the Cerebrus Revolver level 2. Too easy in fact. That attack completly destroys them.


Just dont spam it...have patience and counterattack or your gonna get knocked into the air with ease.

[McGeezer]

been playing the new Hitman, Oblivion, FEAR, and The Movies

[The Damned]

I've playing a lot of Super Smash Brothers: Melee since I've back home. Quite a lot of has been playing on Event 51, "The Showdown", again. I played it so much that finally just beat my old record with Link of 1:37 33 with Ganondorf...twice...in the span of twenty mintues; Ganondorf is so damned lucky so times. I first it down to 1:37 03, and then I got it down to 1:31 13.

I've been playing it so much that I wanted to ask a question of those that I've played the event for "fun"--that in quotations because like any game that goes the wrong way, it can piss me the hell off at times: Of the three characters, whom do you think is most annoying? I should say that I think it's actually just between Mewtwo and Ganondorf because Giga Bowser is only really annoying when he gets hold of weapons, especially that accursed Paper Fan, and is literally more of a moving obstatcle that prevents you from killing the other two a lot of time.

At first, I thought it was Ganondorf when I unlocked the event about two years ago (or probably even earlier than that; it's difficult to believe the game is five years old). Those damned u+B anti-air, while predictable, are damned good. They often get you anyway, unless you air dodge, which gets you air raped, or have enough priority to knock him out, which is rare, especially since you can get knocked out of the move by Giga Bowser. That, and he is usually that ones that kills me since the walking wall that is Giga Bowser shields both of them and Ganondorf can get off those stupid, ultra-deadly lag moves that would never work unless you're idiotic/angry enough to run into them otherwise (like I have when I shouldn't lately). Also, Ganondorf is usually the last one left alive if I'm not spiking him into Hell with my own Ganondorf.

Then, I come back, and Mewtwo's randomness starts annoying the hell of me. It's not just the charged Shadow Balls' erratic arcs, since even the uncharged ones that get in the way, leaving me open for Ganondorf rape. It's that fact he easily has the most range of all the characters for his size due to that damned tail and his smash f+A. His neutral air A is just really fucking annoying, especially since only the computer seems like it can use it that way, and it just leaves you open effortless Triple Tech rape from the CPU.

And...then, I'm now thinking it's back to Ganondorf, if only because I run into more smash f+A then I should and everyone who's name isn't Samus or Ness has to deal with him eventually when trying to get in.

So...yeah. Any thoughts. Similarly, anyone else that has played that event a lot think that it would be a lot easier most of the time if all items were off?

That aside, I haven't been playing much. I haven't even been playing Netbattle that much. I've been meaning to play a lot games that I haven't really played since summer is such a boring season--I can't believe hasn't officially started yet--and I don't have blasted job. Still have to play Kingdom Hearts 2. Still have to get into Megaman Powered-up now that I finally asked my sister to me a memory card. Still have to play Ratchet N' Clank. Still have to Sonic Mega Collection.

Etcerta etcerta.

[Gasaraki]

I'm playing IIDX Red right now. Best console beatmania yet. You can change the High Speed setting during the middle of a song! No more resetting a song because it's too fast or too slow :tup:
Yeah, I heard about that, that's pretty sweet. I'm still not anyhwere near good enough at the game to bother buying an even harder version though.

[PingPong]

started playing Suikoden 5. honestly, it's my first attempt at the suikoden series and imo i like it. from the looks of it, i'll be spending close to 60 hrs beating it...

[Stabby]

Ping, use a fucking guide. Follow that shit to the letter, or you'll have to play through the entire thing again to get a good ending.

[#reload]

STILL playing shadow hearts 3, and playing the fuck out of warcraft 3: the frozen throne to the point where i'm already better than my friends who got me into it (who've been playing for a year+, me only like 2 months)

[Kool-Aid Ryu]

Of the three characters, whom do you think is most annoying?


Definately Ganon


Nothing beats trying to get back on a level to get Up+B'ed to the face.

[rsigley]

been playing the new tomb raider

it's pretty good but falls apart at the end

anyone else play it?

[Mark Beast]

i beat paper mario yesterday...now i'm about to handle gloomtail. the last boss was easy. i'm at level 31.

[Infested Jester]

GTA LS on PS2...easiest GTA game EVER!....:bluu:

[SirFritzalot]

GTA LS on PS2...easiest GTA game EVER!....:bluu:

Somebody beat VC in 3.5 hours...

Just sayin

I'm playing Star Ocean for SNES and Breath of Fire 2

-Fritz

[Kool-Aid Ryu]

^Have you beat the dojo master yet? Directed to Mark Beast

[Mark Beast]

who's that? i've beaten everyone in the game except gloomtail (the shadow queen, grodus, etc. were simple). when i get home i'm going down all 100 levels of the pit and beating the ish out of him to get my badge and save, then turn the game off. tomorrow i'm going to attempt to cop an snes controller from gamestop and play my snes and mario rpg.

also, how is star ocean on the snes? i need a new rpg to play.

[Jr7891]

I just got my NGBC in the mail. I copied it it to my computer hard disk. Right after I took it out the drive, I dropped the disk, and it got scratched and won't load.

So, now I have to send it back and get another copy. And, I am out of blank DVDS, so I have to go to the store and get some.

Everyone says NGBC is great, and I think I can at least get my 10 dollars of enjoyment back out of it.

Anyone think that this game is worrth keeping? Otherwise, I may just make them send me a KOF XI in a few weeks.

[The Damned]

I've finally been playing the Sonic Mega Collection on Gamecube that my mother bought about a year ago before I went off to college, and, ye gods, half of the zones in the first Sonic the Hedgehog are complete pains the ass.

I can't believe I forgot the stupid Spring Yard Zone with its fucking anti-gravity maces, especially since it seems like the prototype model for all those Casino zones in the later games.

Labrynith Zone may still be the single most annoying Zone, especially since I don't ever remember getting past it, except maybe once, when I was younger. My general hatred and fear of underwater zones doesn't help, especially since rings don't mean shit to drowning (which has only happened thrice far in the nine or more times I've had to replay through an Act or two). And I really wish I had remembered that you don't actually need to beat Robotnik in the Labrynith Zone to pass it. I swear, it's not like I would have been so hastily getting myself killed after I respawned if I knew that I all I had to was avoid everything and slightly outrace the water.

Scrap Brain Zone may be slightly more annoying, but that's only because way more actively deadly. I died twice before getting a quarter of the way before I figured things out...then proceeded to die two more because of all those instant-death drops--I never got crushed there though, unlike like in Spring Yard Zone and Labrynith Zone.

Speaking of crushed, I got utterly screwed endgame. I finally made it to the Final Zone, but since I got hit and lost all my rings at the end of Scrap Brain Zone, Act 3, which was underwater (and thus quite irksome), I had to respawn at nine without rings or a shield before the game finally ended on me. I just let myself get crushed on the last run, because it was pissing me off.

I swear, I'm going to beat Robotnik ass the next time I play it.

[SirFritzalot]

I've finally been playing the Sonic Mega Collection on Gamecube that my mother bought about a year ago before I went off to college, and, ye gods, half of the zones in the first Sonic the Hedgehog are complete pains the ass.

I can't believe I forgot the stupid Spring Yard Zone with its fucking anti-gravity maces, especially since it seems like the prototype model for all those Casino zones in the later games.

Labrynith Zone may still be the single most annoying Zone, especially since I don't ever remember getting past it, except maybe once, when I was younger. My general hatred and fear of underwater zones doesn't help, especially since rings don't mean shit to drowning (which has only happened thrice far in the nine or more times I've had to replay through an Act or two). And I really wish I had remembered that you don't actually need to beat Robotnik in the Labrynith Zone to pass it. I swear, it's not like I would have been so hastily getting myself killed after I respawned if I knew that I all I had to was avoid everything and slightly outrace the water.

Scrap Brain Zone may be slightly more annoying, but that's only because way more actively deadly. I died twice before getting a quarter of the way before I figured things out...then proceeded to die two more because of all those instant-death drops--I never got crushed there though, unlike like in Spring Yard Zone and Labrynith Zone.

Speaking of crushed, I got utterly screwed endgame. I finally made it to the Final Zone, but since I got hit and lost all my rings at the end of Scrap Brain Zone, Act 3, which was underwater (and thus quite irksome), I had to respawn at nine without rings or a shield before the game finally ended on me. I just let myself get crushed on the last run, because it was pissing me off.

I swear, I'm going to beat Robotnik ass the next time I play it.

:lovin: I'm sorry, but I've been playing sonic incarnations since they first released, and I just haven't been able to imagine Sonic being a hard game, but that's probably because I STILL play the game after, what 12 years? I have the original carts for all of them, and on sonic 3 and knuckles, I have 4000 lives and 750 continues with every character combination (No joke).I hate the stupid GC version, because it won't let you go above 100 of anything, but I guess going about 100 would be a little excessive. Plus the D-pad sucks. When you get that many lives, your life counter looks like it's in Debug mode, just to let you know.

And Star Ocean one, I have the english translation in Rom form. If you want a copy, PM me and I'll hook you up when my laptop's charged up. It's a good game, and I just started. I leveled up pretty quickly, and I only have like 2 hours in the game, and MAD shit happened already.

Also, I played through Streets of Rage 2 recently. Classic. I'm surprised Sega didn't even ATTEMPT to make a remake, or a collection...anybody happen to know why?

-Fritz

[FallingEdge]

SF:AA and SM:All-Stars.

Heh, what I have been doing lately is playing World 6 over and over again. I get to the toad house, get the Hammer Bros. Suit, save and quit. Open up the same game, start on World 6, head to the toad house, get the Hammer Bros. Suit, save and quit. Open up the same game...

It's great cause I have like 15+ Hammer Bros. Suits. Eventually, I'll try to see if I can take down Bowser or one of the Koopa kids with the suit >_<

SirFritzalot: In regards to the Streets of Rage comments, I believe that one of the Sonic Collections for GC that came out in Japan actually had SoR1-3 as a unlockable. When it was released in the US, they took it out cause they wanted a lower ESRB rating.

[The Damned]

:lovin: I'm sorry, but I've been playing sonic incarnations since they first released, and I just haven't been able to imagine Sonic being a hard game, but that's probably because I STILL play the game after, what 12 years? *snip*

-Fritz

I'm pretty sure that I have all of the original ones for the Sega Genesis as well, but that I rarely beat games as kid. I think that genre that I finished most was RPG, and I still haven't finished half of the ones that I own even now.

Anyway, I finally beat the damned game. However, I think that I got the "bad" ending since I only got 6 of the 7 Chaos Emeralds--that amount was the most that I've gotten thus far though. I was wondering why I couldn't find any more giant rings at the end. It is because you have to set amount and I kept getting hit out near the end of zones?

Also, Star Lit Zone is semi-annoying, at least enemy-wise. All the enemies there are invincible, and even when you're invincible, you can only destroy that damned spiky-shield thing. Ugh.

Ah, and I kind of laughed when I realized that having rings before you go into the Final Zone doesn't matter since you start at zero anyway. It was remarkably easier when I realized that it was me that was fucking up.

I guess I have to play it through again, since I haven't unlocked anything yet. Hmmm...or I could try Sonic Pinball, but I was always horrible at the game. Same goes for Bean Machine, but that's because the CPU was tougher than usual when it comes to "puzzle" games, at least as I remember it.

Oh, and speaking of games I didn't finish, you just remembered that I haven't beat Star Ocean 2 because Indalecio, even with Limiter on the easiest mode (Earth), is so damned godly.

I have beat Streets of Rage 2, then again, who hasn't? I think the Streets of Rage games are the only games where I finished all the games in the series.

...That's kind of pathetic.

[SirFritzalot]

In Sonic 1, there are only 6 chaos emeralds. Thus the reason you can't turn into Super sonic in sonic 1 (storyline wise) is because the green one is missing.

Just a useless fact

-Fritz

[RaishinX]

It's a well known fact that Sonic the Hedgehog's difficulty gets ramped up at an unreasonable rate. You'll notice it on the boss portion of Zone 4 (Labyrinth Zone). The entire game's pretty much downhill from there. It's fun but not like the start of it.

Hmmm...or I could try Sonic Pinball

You'd better not. Pinball is addictive and the final zone of that game is torture. So much to do, and you're forced to start over on most of it. Mean Bean Machine is okay if you can deal with getting your ass handed to you in a sling.

[BornAgainCommunist]

King Kong for 360.

I was sure this would be a pile of shit but I wanted to play as Kong. That turned out not to be fun at all when I finnally got there. First you have to play a bunch of levels as a FPS. and that It became the best part of the game for me, throwing the spears at shit, unloading the Thommy gun into bitch ass dinosaurs, lighting shrubs on fire. Playing as Kong was a fucking dissapointment. I have only seen the 33 version of the film and ah fuck the explanation

[The Damned]

In Sonic 1, there are only 6 chaos emeralds. Thus the reason you can't turn into Super sonic in sonic 1 (storyline wise) is because the green one is missing.

Just a useless fact

-Fritz

Actually, that's quite useful for me. I don't have redo Sonic the Hedgehog since beating it completely didn't unlock anything. Maybe I have to beat other games...or maybe I have to redo it in a certain time limit; I'd rather find out on my own, but I certainly prefer the former.

I'll probably do Sonic 3 and Sonic & Knuckles then; I don't remember ever beating Sonic 2.

It's a well known fact that Sonic the Hedgehog's difficulty gets ramped up at an unreasonable rate. You'll notice it on the boss portion of Zone 4 (Labyrinth Zone). The entire game's pretty much downhill from there. It's fun but not like the start of it.

Yeah, it's kind of noticable from even starting from the Marble Zone. Green Hill Zone is immensely easily, it's almost impossible to die there, at least instantly. Marble Zone...there's so many instant-death crush hazards, I actually finally got killed by one yesterday in my winning run; then again, all my deaths in yesterday's run were instant deaths.

As for difficulty, I wouldn't say that it increases so unreasonably. The slow-down aspect, however, seems to increase extremely rapidly or even more unreasonably in comparison. I swear, everything from the Marble Zone on is very slow, especially if you want to die because haven't been somewhere before. Even some instances where you know where stuff is, you still have to take it slow, like with the Labrynith Zone because water slows you down.

You'd better not. Pinball is addictive and the final zone of that game is torture. So much to do, and you're forced to start over on most of it. Mean Bean Machine is okay if you can deal with getting your ass handed to you in a sling.

Yeah...I tried yesterday, and as always, I only got the first emerald before dying after wasting about 25 minutes of time.

I probably still get raped by Mean Bean Machine, though it's nice to know that I'm not the only one. The only thing that comes close to difficulty is Intelligent Qube and that's (usually) only because I strive for perfection. That and maybe Mr. Driller on Turbo or Hard or whatever makes it hellishly fast.

[YellowS4]

King Kong for 360.

I was sure this would be a pile of shit but I wanted to play as Kong. That turned out not to be fun at all when I finnally got there. First you have to play a bunch of levels as a FPS. and that It became the best part of the game for me, throwing the spears at shit, unloading the Thommy gun into bitch ass dinosaurs, lighting shrubs on fire. Playing as Kong was a fucking dissapointment. I have only seen the 33 version of the film and ah fuck the explanation

iirc, even Ubisoft? or whoever made the game warned ppl not to buy the 360 version bc it either had problems or wasn't coded properly to take advantage of the system.

Horrible game, regardless of what system you're playing it on.

[RaishinX]

As for difficulty, I wouldn't say that it increases so unreasonably. The slow-down aspect, however, seems to increase extremely rapidly or even more unreasonably in comparison. I swear, everything from the Marble Zone on is very slow, especially if you want to die because haven't been somewhere before. Even some instances where you know where stuff is, you still have to take it slow, like with the Labrynith Zone because water slows you down.

Now that I think about it, you're right. It's not so unreasonable, but kinda sudden. I feel like just as I'm getting the hang of Star Light Zone I get slapped in the face with Scrap Brain and it's like playing some dungeon from a Mario game.

I'll probably do Sonic 3 and Sonic & Knuckles then; I don't remember ever beating Sonic 2.

Be careful with that Sonic 2, the difficulty will sneak up on you. I hardly played it myself thanks to Sonic 3 and Knuckles but the end of the game is nothing to fuck with. Not to ruin it but: One slip? You die and then start back over. Sonic 3 & Knuckles rarely has any moments of such difficulty as I can beat it without dying.

[Mark Beast]

sonic 2 is better than sonic and knuckles IMHO. well, i won't say better. just different. you could have fun with either. make sure to get all the emeralds in sonic 3 and knuckles. super tails, hyper sonic and knuckles (or whatever they were called) are pretty fun to play as. being the shit at that mini game is a good feeling too. ah, that mini game was fun as hell...i was a beast in that. as far as sonic 2...
the difficulty is nowhere to be seen until late in the game. you should have a lot of fun playing it until the end lol. i'd say around metropolis zone is where the difficulty kicks in (IMO). i didn't like the zone when you're on the airship or whatever. other than that, the rest of the zones were hot.

[The Damned]

Now that I think about it, you're right. It's not so unreasonable, but kinda sudden. I feel like just as I'm getting the hang of Star Light Zone I get slapped in the face with Scrap Brain and it's like playing some dungeon from a Mario game.

Yeah, I know. Scrap Brain Zone is rape, even when you do know what's going on. I also hated that the slowness of the post-Green Hill game made me not want to take detours and explore, especially when I'm underwater. Even if I didn't drown but twice, once which was unavoidable, it's still very annoying for me to underwater.

Be careful with that Sonic 2, the difficulty will sneak up on you. I hardly played it myself thanks to Sonic 3 and Knuckles but the end of the game is nothing to fuck with. Not to ruin it but: One slip? You die and then start back over. Sonic 3 & Knuckles rarely has any moments of such difficulty as I can beat it without dying.

Thanks. I thought that first two zones seemed way too easy; I mean, even when idling, I complete thhem in the time that would probably take for me to get to the end of Marble Zone, Act 1 without dying.

As for the difficult sneaking up on me, it probably will, even though I'm currently having more trouble than I should with the Aquatic Ruin Zone. I'm Act 2 and Act 1 of this zone was the first zone that I didn't get an extra life on.

Then again, it's probably because I'm psyching myself out, as well as getting distracted. I mean, I see the word "Aquatic" in the title, and while I somehow vaguely remembering falling into the water in the Chemical Plant Zone more often, I remember drowning more in Aquatic Ruin Zone more. Maybe it's just the psych out thing...since I also instantly remembered that they were bobby traps here too.

As for being distracted, I keep recognizing that stupid drilling robot that's a new enemy here because it was in that old Sonic cartoon that used to air on UPN, where Robotnik was more idiotic than devious; I think that was oldest Sonic cartoon now that I think about it--it wasn't the one with the resistance or the one with twins that came after and it's definitely not Sonic X. (You probably know what I'm talking about by now, so I'll stop with the possible condescending elaboration.)

Anyway, thanks for the warning, though I'll get raped regardless.

sonic 2 is better than sonic and knuckles IMHO. well, i won't say better. just different. you could have fun with either. make sure to get all the emeralds in sonic 3 and knuckles. super tails, hyper sonic and knuckles (or whatever they were called) are pretty fun to play as. being the shit at that mini game is a good feeling too. ah, that mini game was fun as hell...i was a beast in that.

Yeah, I know. I've beaten Sonic 3 and Sonic & Knuckles many times, and I remember getting all the super forms; I can't quite remember that if I beat Sonic 3 individually though. I think I did, and yet I can't remember anything besides that blasted Ice Cap Zone.

Uh...and thanks for the Sonic 2 warning, though, as aforementioned, you and RashinX are making feel like there's an impending rape coming up.

[Mr. Bastos]

Been playing SF: AA and I just picked up Astonishia Story for PSP. I'll let you guys know what I think after I play it some more.

[The Damned]

Well...I beat Sonic 2 about half an hour ago. Although, I have to say that it gets somewhat more difficult from Hill Top Zone on, at least because for me Tails was incompetent and kept setting off those moving platforms.

All of the last forms of Robotnik were pitifully easy, including the last one. The only except was the Metropolis, which easily the most difficult one. I only managed to defeat because Tails was actually useful for once and Robotnik and I traded hits until he was at last three "balloon clones". The only other rather difficult one was the Casino Night boss, which figures since I had the most fun in that zone.

A pity that I forgot about the Chaos Emeralds until the Hill Top Zone, forgetting that you access them though the save points when you have 50 rings or more.

I still have managed to get four Emeralds, but it took me three tries.

Oh well. I guess, I might as well see if getting all seven unlocks anything.

I so look forward to going through the Metropolis Zone again...stupid fucking edge-guarding crabs and mantises.

[Stabby]

I loved the music for Metropolis Zone.

Also, you did not just hate on Ice Cap. Take it back or I'll kill you.

[Kyoujin]

I'm playing Final Fantasy 8 again in quite some time; I can't remember the last time I played it, in fact.
I'm loving it a whole lot more than I used to; the card game was always fun, and I'm enjoying the junction system more. The other times I played FF8 I rushed through it, but now I'm taking my time and levelling up. You can demolish this game if you know what you're doing. For instance, alot of people over-look the Gf's abilities to make magic out of items; bad choice.
Anyway, it's good stuff; not my favorite FF, but still fun anyway.

[Mark Beast]

I loved the music for Metropolis Zone.

Also, you did not just hate on Ice Cap. Take it back or I'll kill you.
icecap and carnival night (i think thats the name of the level) were the best in the whole game...
metropolis in part 2...eh...the concept and layout was cool, but i hated that level. the music was ok but coulda used more scratching. nothing fucks with mystic cave, chemical plant, oil ocean, and casino night zone.

[The Damned]

I loved the music for Metropolis Zone.

Also, you did not just hate on Ice Cap. Take it back or I'll kill you.

Please, please, please. Do kill me.

After last night, I'm afraid I just can't go on.

I played Sonic 2 for another three hours, having to start over about five times before I got three of the seven Chaos Emeralds in Act 1 of Emerald Hill; those damned monkeys are immensely annoying when you don't just mander past them and I backtracked a lot solely because of them--I needed the shield at the start so that I wouldn't have to start over the like first four times.

Tails is, as I feared, useless for the Emerald endeavor. In fact, he may be an even greater hinderance there than in Hill Top. I swear, I have to stop him from getting any rings, otherwise I'm fucked because he takes so long to jump, even when he's in front of you. For some reason, he got in front of me twice or thrice when I went for the third emerald in Act 1, which prompted me to have to start those over when he inevitably fucked me up.

And then, the real rape began after I got the fourth emerald in Act 2 in Emerald Hill.

Did you know that if you take the "upper path" at the beginning of Chemical Zone--speaking of music, I think everyone loves the music in this zone--in Act 1 that there are no saving posts? I have to remember exploring the "lower" path again to see what's down or up there...wherever the hell it goes.

Anyway, after the fourth Emerald, everything went to hell. It took me, I think, about three tries to get the fifth Emerald. I had to backtrack so much to get it in Aquatic Ruin Zone, Act 2 that actually died against Robotnik due to time out.

Losing to Robotnik was a sign that I was getting too frustrated. The only one that I should ever have difficulty with is Metropolis Zone and Casino Night Zone, and the latter is only because I suck at pinball.

And, of course, after several attempts to get the sixth Emerald failing, with Tails helping to fuck me up every time, I stopped in Mystic Cave Zone when I failed by 2 rings. Two rings.

I didn't even think that I would get fucking 218, but noooo, Tails doesn't want to jump until about 2 seconds after you. Furthermore, he doesn't seem to jump at all if you're on a wall.

I hate Tails. :annoy:[/melodrama]

Music EDIT: I have to agree with Mark Beast about the music choices. I found some awesome remixes of the Oil Ocean, Chemical Plant, and I think Boss Theme from Sonic 2 last night.

[ReggieHadoken]

Ah, 2D console Sonic games. Great stuff. The Damned, if Tails is screwing you up during races for the Chaos Emeralds, I recommend this: go into the options in the Sonic 2 game and set it to Sonic Only. This way Tails will be nowhere in site when you're playing the game.

BTW, my fav Sonic game is Sonic 3. Levels and the music owned all.

------

I've been playing different games here and there like......

Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo (GBA ver.): Probably one of my fav puzzle games. I just wish every single CPU opponent in Street Puzzle wasn't a jerk. Then again, I'm not nearly as good at this game as I am other puzzlers like Puzzle League/Tetris Attack. But even if I were more skilled, I still don't think it'd be cake to beat the CPU in Street Puzzle Mode. Unless you have God-like skills, there is no way you're going to unlock all those extras. And I want Donivan's music so badly.:sad:

WarioWare: Mega Microgame$: Still one of the best GBA games. I love the quick randomness of it all. I'm still unearthging some of the 200+ mini-games in here. 9-Volt should be in Super Smash Bros. Brawl. He's my hero *Salutes*. I wonder if I'll like WarioWare: Touched! as much as I do this game.

DBZ: Supersonic Warriors 2: When I heard about the upcoming Super DBZ for the PS2, I'd gotten the urge to play a DBZ game again. Million, when you get your DS, you have to get this game. You'll love it. You can get some uber broken characters and asists. And SS3 Gotenks has no time limit. Oh and the Hercule assist along with Super Buu is awesome.

[RaishinX]

Oh hell, Tails with rings is an accident begging to happen. Gotta go solo.

[Biggzy]

Started playing Dragon Quest VIII yesterday, I'm about 4 hours into it. So far so good.

[Kool-Aid Ryu]

Tip: Sonic 2, options, Sonic alone. NO MORE "HEY WAIT FOR ME SONIC!" TAILS!

I always play my Sonic Genesis games like that.

Just started playing GTA3 for the first time ever, and I got to admit, I see where the hype comes from. Its so damn fun, almost too damn fun. Lots of things to do: I spend hours blowing up cars and running from cops. Pretty fun missions, although I wish they had a bit more variety than "Drive here, pickup girl there". I have heard that Vice City spices that up. I not even that far into the game right now, just reached the boat to travel some island or something.

Besides the doggy combat, this game delievers on all fronts, even graphically because I'm playing on the Xbox. 9/10 right now.

Its no RE4, GoW, VJ, etc., but I'm definately a GTA fan now. Gotta check out Vice City after I'm done with this game story mode.

[The Damned]

Ah, 2D console Sonic games. Great stuff. The Damned, if Tails is screwing you up during races for the Chaos Emeralds, I recommend this: go into the options in the Sonic 2 game and set it to Sonic Only. This way Tails will be nowhere in site when you're playing the game.

BTW, my fav Sonic game is Sonic 3. Levels and the music owned all.

Oh hell, Tails with rings is an accident begging to happen. Gotta go solo.

Ah, thanks. I'm going to try that out right now since it was driving me crazy on the fifth Emerald, though perhaps I'm fucked past that one anyway.

As for my favorite Sonic game, I think it's Sonic & Knuckles. Although, that could perhaps be seen as an expanded version of Sonic 3.

Also, I'm wondering, what happens if you get all seven Emerald with Tails only in Sonic 2? Nothing I'm guessing, correct?

P.S. I think I'm going to get raped at Metropolis though, since Tails was actually useful there, at least when it came to Robotnik.

***

On the Smash Brothers front, I managed to beat Event 51 with Kirby for the first time ever (at least that I remember) after only three tries.

I also beat Event 48 slightly quicker with Ganondort apparently.

...Yeah, nothing much. Netbattle seems to be down, at least for me.

[RaishinX]

Also, I'm wondering, what happens if you get all seven Emerald with Tails only in Sonic 2? Nothing I'm guessing, correct?

Correctamundo. I've had a bit of fun with some of the hacked Sonic games. There was one that took the Hidden Palace Zone that was removed from Sonic 2 and recolored it to look like some type of lava zone. There's one game starring Shadow (a sprite edit of course) and several recolorings of Sonic The Hedgehog 1. A lot of the hackers get too caught up in loop-de-loops and recoloring and forget to make the stages any good, though. I saw most of them from EmuAsylum.

[Mark Beast]

thats a good question...i've never played through sonic 2 as only tails. what DOES happen if you get all 7 emeralds in sonic 2 with tails?

[RaishinX]

Nothin'

[The Damned]

...I think I finally found the reason to kill myself.

I finally get all seven Chaos Emeralds by Act 2 of the chemical Zone; it only surprisingly takes me two tries to get the seventh Emerald, despite having never done it before.

And then, I apparently let the powers of a Super Saiyan go to my head as, when I finally get the end of the game, I get owned until it's Game Over at the Death Egg Zone. Of all the places to fuck up, I should have known something was wrong when I easily got killed by Metal Sonic thrice in a row this time around.

...I hate myself so much, especially since I have to waste another hour and a half doing that. That's assuming that I actually get the fucking gems as soon next time around.

...I'm tempted to play Bean Machine or even Pinball so that I may punish myself....

[Stabby]

Damned,

Sound Test -- Use the B button to play the music - 19 65 9 17

Exit, then hold A and press start. Yay, stage select!

Go to the sound-test on the stage select. Play the songs 4 1 2 6.

Amazing, Super Sonic!

Now just beat the damn game, because Sonic 2 was mostly a piece of shit.

Also-- get AIM. I want to talk to you~

[The Damned]

Damned,

Sound Test -- Use the B button to play the music - 19 65 9 17

Exit, then hold A and press start. Yay, stage select!

Go to the sound-test on the stage select. Play the songs 4 1 2 6.

Amazing, Super Sonic!

Now just beat the damn game, because Sonic 2 was mostly a piece of shit.

Also-- get AIM. I want to talk to you~

Thank you for helping me maintain the farce that is my sanity.

I finally beat the damned thing with Sonic today....

Then I realized that it would as if the Super Sonic thing has to put in every time you select a stage. So I had to beat it again to get the Super Sonic ending.

Then I beat it with Tails alone for the Hell of it.

As for how I feel about Sonic 2, overall, I liked it better than Sonic 1. The music and the zones better and faster for the most part. The only thing that I had greviance with is that Sonic 2 seems to have way more glitches than Sonic 1. I mean being able to go through things that you shouldn't...like the last form of Robotnik, which in that instance means instant death; the same could be said of Metal Sonic should be you be stupid enough to ground roll at him, but I can't say that's a glitch.

As for AIM, I'll think about it.

P.S. I still suck at Mean Bean Machine. However, my mother still kicks its ass.

[Gasaraki]

Neither of them can compare to Sonic 3 & Knuckles. Doomsday Zone(and Hyper sonic/Hyper Knux/Super, AKA BROKEN Tails) for the complete win :rock:

[The Damned]

Neither of them can compare to Sonic 3 & Knuckles. Doomsday Zone(and Hyper sonic/Hyper Knux/Super, AKA BROKEN Tails) for the complete win :rock:

The Truth. Although, unfortunately IIRC, you could only play the very final zone as Hyper Sonic, no?

I just tried playing Sonic 3, and, whoa, I got owned. While I got the first three Emeralds relatively quickly, the second Act of Hydrocity Zone owned my ass hard. Stupid moving wall.

Still, Hydrocity Zone is one of the better underwater zones; the Labrynith Zone can still go to Hell.

I think I'm to finally hook my PS2 back up tomorrow since I haven't played much of Kingdom Hearts 2 yet.

*****

Off-topic: Gasaraki, may I ask you something?

If so, then may I ask: "What's with the Eureka Seven avatar and the "Renton FTW!" in your title?"

I've caught snippets of that show, and what little I've seen makes me think that Renton's an extremely gullible dolt (and most of his shipmates are bastards, especially considering how much of that dare episode I saw); I also thought for the longest time that he kept misprouncing Eureka's name, but that just proves how much I've forgotten my Japanese (and the fact that I wanted to pronounce like the English word).

Anyway, I'm merely asking since I've seen at least three people, including you, with the same thing; Master Chibi was one of them.

[Calcal]

Started playing FFT again. Let my friend borrow it and we just switch off using 2-3 characters for each of us to finish the game.

Finally stole all the Genji armor from one boss. Which is all the 2nd best items in the whole game. He also carries a Samurai sword that when you use Draw out it gives regen and haste to members around you. But after that we didnt advance the story anymore. It took alot of tries to get the strategy down.

Oh and Monk with 2 sword equipped=crazy damage.

[Geese Pants]

I don't know what the hate is for Need For Speed: Most Wanted...........but I like the game so far. I'm currently #13 on the blacklist, and I've been oursmartting cops left and right.

gripe I have is when doing the pursuit milestones.............I have to force cops to get me to rank in evades and busts.....only to have cops on my ass after the fact.

Oh.....and Drag races FTL........:mad:

[FighterX]

I've been playing Street Fighter Alpha Anthology on PS almost daily since the day I got it. It's great to have all these games on one disc.

NOW, hopefully by Friday, I'll be playing KOF XI.

[Gasaraki]

The Truth. Although, unfortunately IIRC, you could only play the very final zone as Hyper Sonic, no?

I just tried playing Sonic 3, and, whoa, I got owned. While I got the first three Emeralds relatively quickly, the second Act of Hydrocity Zone owned my ass hard. Stupid moving wall.

Still, Hydrocity Zone is one of the better underwater zones; the Labrynith Zone can still go to Hell.

I think I'm to finally hook my PS2 back up tomorrow since I haven't played much of Kingdom Hearts 2 yet.

*****

Off-topic: Gasaraki, may I ask you something?

If so, then may I ask: "What's with the Eureka Seven avatar and the "Renton FTW!" in your title?"

I've caught snippets of that show, and what little I've seen makes me think that Renton's an extremely gullible dolt (and most of his shipmates are bastards, especially considering how much of that dare episode I saw); I also thought for the longest time that he kept misprouncing Eureka's name, but that just proves how much I've forgotten my Japanese (and the fact that I wanted to pronounce like the English word).

Anyway, I'm merely asking since I've seen at least three people, including you, with the same thing; Master Chibi was one of them.
Hyper sonic is avilable only in the Sonic3+Knux game, and only after you get all 7 chaos emeralds and all 7 super emeralds. Because if requires those super emeralds you can only use it in the later half of the game, the S&K portion. Same thing applies to Hyper Knux, and in Super Tails case, you can only get that with all 14. There's no super and hyper for him, just Super with all 14.

OT:
As for E7, the development of the characters is astoundingly good. They start out the way you've seen them sure, but by the end of the series they're much different. When I first started watching it, I thought the same thing you did, that Renton's and idiot and Eureka is just really weird. Then we are shown reasons for Eureka's behavior and we see Renton grow up as man, so-to-speak. Eureka and Renton specifically both grow leaps and bounds.

About the crew, most of it is just messing around with him because in the early parts of the show, obviously he's an easy target. It gets to be less and less as time goes on. If you care at all I suggest trying to watch the series form the beginning and finishing it, it's very rewarding and easily one of my favorite shows ever.

[YellowS4]

I'm not surprised but holy fuck, NFL Head Coach is probably the most tedious and mundane game I've ever played in quite some time.

[Geese Pants]

I'm not surprised but holy fuck, NFL Head Coach is probably the most tedious and mundane game I've ever played in quite some time.

I would've told you that............just by playing the demo.

[9999]

Just started Star Ocean: TTEOT today, seems decent so far. What did you guys who played it think of it?

[Angry Black]

ive been playing baiten kaitos (gamecube)im bout 5 hours into the game i just wanna know some other peoples opinions on the game, like is it even worth finishing ,does it get shitty in the middle and so forth

[Gasaraki]

Just started Star Ocean: TTEOT today, seems decent so far. What did you guys who played it think of it?
Very fun main game because of a pretty good battle system, horrible plot twist at the end, mediocre story overall, and a couple of good extras(new after-game dungeons, new difficulties) when you beat the game.

...And then you have the battle trophies, a GIGANTIC waste of time better spent commiting suicide or anything less tedious and torturous.

[ReggieHadoken]

Man, The Damned is making me want to break out Sonic Mega Collection +. So Tails can become a Super/Hyper something but only once all 14 emeralds are collection in Sonic 3 & Knuckles? I never could get all the Emeralds in S3&K.:annoy: So Hyper Sonic is even more broken than Super Sonic? That I've gotta see. I just may take out SMC+ after all.

I finally started playing Soul Blazer again. I stopped playing for weeks after I caught Mario fever, which I think has finally worn off. I got to the boss of the snow dungeon. May have to hit Game Faqs again fro more help.

I also got back into Virtua Fighter 4: Evo. On the VF !0th Anniversary, I played as Aoi for the first time. Girl has moves. I like her. She's no Pai but she's still impressive. Anyone else think Lou looks like Tao Papi from Dragon Ball? All he needs is "KILL YOU" on the back of his gi and he'll be set.:rofl:

BTW, my model 1 Sega Saturn came in the mail on Saturday. It came with a firtst party controller, a 3rd party controller, and a third party arcade stick. Now All I need are some games for it. I got all of this for $35!

[The Damned]

Ah, thanks for the correction on "Sonic 3 & Knuckles" and information about Eureka Seven; I'll try to watch the later from now on, especially with Venture Brothers coming back on this weekend.

And, yeah, ReggieHadoken, for what I vaguely remember of it, Hyper forms of the character were even more broken; Tails doesn't get Hyper form, but those birds were more than enough IIRC.

However, I haven't playing Sonic 3 since the last time I posted. I've finally been playing Mega Man: Powered Up! again since I finally have a memory card for my PSP; I have to remember to get around to playing my Ghost in the Shell game now.

Anyway, I beat the game again with regular Mega Man, but I finally got all the Robot Masters; Elec Man was such a bitch to beat with just the Buster and Guts Man & Fire Man have never been pleasant.

Besides that, I've beaten 51 of the 100 challenges. Although, I've only beaten Mega Man (whose surprising easy; I can't believe I got stuck on the bomb walking one this time), Fire Man (who is a beast), and Ice Man (who probably has the easiest challenges of all since he can attack in all of them). I only need one more for Oil Man, but that third one seems impossible even when I dont fuck up at the beginning.

I need to start playing Kingdom Hearts II again, but I also need to get my shit together outside of games. I can't believe it's almost July 1st already.

Virtual EDIT: Lou does totally look like Mercernary Tao now that I look back on it in my memory.

...Wow, how the hell did I miss that?

[Gasaraki]

Man, The Damned is making me want to break out Sonic Mega Collection +. So Tails can become a Super/Hyper something but only once all 14 emeralds are collection in Sonic 3 & Knuckles? I never could get all the Emeralds in S3&K.:annoy: So Hyper Sonic is even more broken than Super Sonic? That I've gotta see. I just may take out SMC+ after all.

Broken isn't even the word.

Super Sonic:
Faster acceleration
Higher top speed
Invinicibility

Graphically:
Yellow glowing fur
Spark trails

Hyper Sonic
FASTER acceleration
Double jump that can/does:
Instantly max accelerates
Can travel in ANY direction on the d-pad
Screen flashes when double jump activates, kills all enemies on your screen

Graphically:
Flashes all 7 emerald colors
4 spark trails that come from his center and trail outward constantly


Super Knux:
Faster acceleration
Higher top speed, both count for gliding
Inviniciblity

Graphically:
Shines white and red

Hyper Knux:
Glide acceleration increases further
After a certain distance, latching on to walls with glide causes an earthquake that kills all enemies on screen

Graphically:
Gains the awesome shadows =)


Super Tails:
Faster acceleration
Higher top speed
Invinicibility
4 bird "bits", imagine Gradius with self homing invincible bits. Essentially Tails never has to attack, including vs bosses
Infinite flight, I think.

Graphically:
Shines orange and white
Yellow glowing flickies surround him


I'm a little sketchy on the details of Knux and Tails, but the main things like the screen quake and the birds are what matter. So yeah, I'd say Super Tails>Hyper Sonic>Hyper Knux in usefulness.

[X-Death]

Playing some SaGa Frontier. Going through as Lute. Man is this guy a slow starter. It took 3 hours to learn his first tech.

[YellowS4]

I would've told you that............just by playing the demo.
:sad: The game is going in the trash.

Anyways, playing Valkyrie Profile 2 and struggling just like I did w/FF12; just couldn't wait for the domestic rls'.

Gonna give KOFXI a chance and waiting for Titan Quest to finish. Who else is getting TQ? MP sessions!

[9999]

:sad: The game is going in the trash.

Anyways, playing Valkyrie Profile 2 and struggling just like I did w/FF12; just couldn't wait for the domestic rls'.

Gonna give KOFXI a chance and waiting for Titan Quest to finish. Who else is getting TQ? MP sessions!
That reminded me that I need to buy the first one, but Ill be damned if I can find a used copy on ebay for under 100 bucks!

[YellowS4]

Lol yeah I gotta finish and find my copy of VP1. I have to say though, VP2 is pretty fucken slick eventhough I can't understand the story and half the menu.

Cutscene wise, it's right up there w/ff12, graphically it's just as good. Still retains the side-scrolling parts and the Grandia / Suikoden type battle system (don't remember if VP1 had the same thing or the right games to compare it to haha)

Definite thumbs up though!

edit - Ah thanks Stabby, SO rather than Suikoden.

[Stabby]

Vp was completely original in battle.

Except for maybe Star Ocean or something.

Anyway,

Super Tails does not have infinite flight. And it pissed me the fuck off.

[Gasaraki]

ah, well, it's not that big of a problem really. Super Tails is still crazy broken

[Calcal]

Found SFA3 and Final Fantasy 8. Havent played these games in years. Tried Alpha 3 and realize im not very good at it. It seems V-ism damage is always higher compared to A-ism. And V-ism bar fills up faster in my opinion. But I cant crouch cancel cause when I first got the game I didnt even know about things like that.

Final Fantasy 8. Loaded up an old save and was kinda lost trying to remember what to do. At the end of the game before you can fight the boss it seals all your abilities. Like Limit breaks,Items,Ressurection,GF are all sealed till you fight a boss. Well I didnt unlock them all and tried to fight the boss and died. Then checked up on gamefaqs trying to find the missing summons. But soon after my memory card crashed and there goes all my data cause its one of those PS1 memory cards that holds 12x the normal amount. So im trying to decide should I start over or just look up online for the ending.

[9999]

Found SFA3 and Final Fantasy 8. Havent played these games in years. Tried Alpha 3 and realize im not very good at it. It seems V-ism damage is always higher compared to A-ism. And V-ism bar fills up faster in my opinion. But I cant crouch cancel cause when I first got the game I didnt even know about things like that.

Final Fantasy 8. Loaded up an old save and was kinda lost trying to remember what to do. At the end of the game before you can fight the boss it seals all your abilities. Like Limit breaks,Items,Ressurection,GF are all sealed till you fight a boss. Well I didnt unlock them all and tried to fight the boss and died. Then checked up on gamefaqs trying to find the missing summons. But soon after my memory card crashed and there goes all my data cause its one of those PS1 memory cards that holds 12x the normal amount. So im trying to decide should I start over or just look up online for the ending.
Start over man. Its a great game, Ive gone through it many times myself.

[The Damned]

I've only played Mega Man: Powered Up! today, but then again, I woke up at 1:00 P.M. today--it's probably because I went to sleep at 3:00 A.M. after getting "only" five hours yesterday; I'm so damned lazy.

Anyway, I tried fooling around with Fire Man and I found some interesting things. The bosses still retain their strengths and weaknesses, so I raped Oil Man, but then Ice Man destroyed me twelve times straight; I'm almost killed him three times, but then he killed me with that damned three on ground pattern, I swear....

Otherwise, nothing new here.

P.S. Saga Frontier-wise, Lute's last boss seems the easiest, probably because you have so much freedom when it comes to training for him since that's really the only mandatory thing you need to do for Lute. As for the learning thing, yeah, he's sort of slow, at least initially. I remember getting quite a lot with him, though, by the end battle with Mondo.

Note to self: Finish other three scenarios. Should probably do Asellus next.

[orka]

Growlanser IV

Trying to beat it with all the endings before Growlanser V comes out in August

Satoshi Urushihara art is awesome as usual <3

[Stabby]

Started up beatmania again.

My timing sucks, as always, and I'm slower than anyone I know on physical coordination shit.

But I still enjoy the game because I find it so challenging-- and it is a fair challenging. All the shit is possible, so any shortcoming is my own damn fault.

What a wonderful feeling. <3

Also,

I want to learn to play piano.

[RaishinX]

Streets of Rage 3 is fucking ass compared to the Japanese version. It practically forces you to use continues. This shit is sad. Shiva is awesome. His infinite combo is hella broken (Z, Z, Z, Z...) That is all.

[The Damned]

I stayed up all night again, playing more Mega Man: Powered Up!

Since Ice Man raped me as Fire Man, and I figured that Bomb Man would be easier as Ice Man, I decided to go with the psycho eskimo; I was correct in my beliefs, even though Bomb Man managed to kill me at least thrice in succession before I bested him.

I beat the game with Ice Man. He has to be the easiest Robot Master to be the game with, besides maybe Fire Man if I just don't fuck up against Ice Man...which seems impossible. For the record, I don't look for too playing as either of the two newer robots, since they have weaknesses two of the more irksome bosses--Elec Man for Time Man and Fire Man for Oil Man. Similarly, Cut Man will probably be quite problematic, since Guts Man is always an ass; at least I can bypass those fucking platforms for once.

So, yeah, not much trouble with Ice Man surprisingly. Other than Bomb Man and the borefest of battling the Yellow Devil with an attack does one bar of damage, I pretty much raped everything. He's surprisingly tough for something so...cute; it must be the insanity.

I think I'll try Guts Man next, since I spent most of this morning doing his challenges before I left. Like Oil Man, I only have one to do. However, at least with Guts Man, I know how to do the damned thing--it's the last Challenge for Guts Man, meaning it's difficulty makes sense unlike Oil Man's fucking third challenge.

[X-Death]

Finished SaGa Frontier as Lute. I went to Mondo's base as a scouting mission just to check it out, I didn't expect to actually win the battle. Earth Dragon at the Bio Research Lab was actually the hardest fight this time around. I think Emilia or Asellus will be next.

Also re-acquired Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory and Heroes of Might & Magic III, both of which kick ass.

[Million]

So, is anyone working on an IGPX game? That show is perfect source material....it would be a great battle/racing game.

Destroy All Humans 2 is coming soon. Of course, since I happen to like it...this means only 3 or 4 other people in the world will care.

[ShinRyuBen]

Super Robot Taisen MX Portable...





God I love robots...

[Shade]

^I got the iso for the ps2 of that. Cant even run that shit. ;_; Screen caps of RahXephon plz? =)

[Weta]

I'm playing Jill of the Jungle 3: Jill Saves the Prince... the second one was so surreal (especially in terms of audio!) but the third one seems to be a concession to regular gaming, with an overworld and more natural level structures. Next in line: Rise of the Triad.

[Mixah]

chrono trigger and marvel as usual.

[V4MPIRO]

castlevania SOTN.

[Mixah]

castlevania SOTN.
best game ever. no joke.

[Gasaraki]

GITAROO MAN, Finally playing it after years. Good shit, can't believe I waited this long to play it

[The Damned]

Finished SaGa Frontier as Lute. I went to Mondo's base as a scouting mission just to check it out, I didn't expect to actually win the battle. Earth Dragon at the Bio Research Lab was actually the hardest fight this time around. I think Emilia or Asellus will be next.

Nice. Told you that Mondo was easy. I think the same thing happened to me; I was on a de facto scouting mission.

And, yeah, the Earth Dragon is a bitch if you're name isn't Blue or Time Lord. Even then though....

Still, the Abyss Bat that only Blue seems to face in Shingrow is even worse. I've never beaten that fucking thing and I don't think that Time Leap works on it either....

Stupid giants.

SaGa EDIT: Oh, yeah. I also meant to suggest that you go with Emelia. She's easier than Asellus in IMO, but then again I haven't done Asellus either and Emelia was the first of the seven that I beat the game with.

So, is anyone working on an IGPX game? That show is perfect source material....it would be a great battle/racing game.

Not as far I've heard. However, I've not been keeping with games nearly as much as I used to.

I mostly just wanted to comment that I believe you're correct that it would make a great game if done given that I've been watching the show lately, and it's rather interesting.


Speaking of shows, I watched Eureka Seven yesterday, Garasaki. However, I'm going to have to admit that this was probably one of the worst episodes to try to come in since they're setting stuff up and the like.

*****

On-topic: I've beaten Mega Man: Powered Up! with Elec Man and Fire Man now. Elec Man was surprisingly easier against everyone not named Yellow Devil and Oil Man.

Funny that Fire Man, probably being the most powerful robot in terms of sheer firepower--yes, the puns burn--can't really catch break from anyone besides those two. He gets screwed over at all the last four bosses, even Yellow Devil, whom he just makes quicker and not "easier". He has to fight CPU-W08 (sp?) underwater, which probably makes him the worst one to fight that thing with, besides maybe Oil Man, who just seems to suck. Ice Man is still not fun as a Copy Robot and Mega Man? filling in for Fire Man is one of the harder version considering how aggressive you have to be to keep him sliding and not shooting his nigh-unavoidable shots at you.

Speaking of Oil Man, unfortunately, since I finally got to the end of Time Man's stage with Guts Man and then proceeded to get raped, I'm think I'm going to try to beat the game with him since that itself is a Challenge; I still haven't completed that damned underwater one for Oil Man, for the record.

So far, I tried to Fire Man's stage to just get the weakness-boss, specific stage Scenery Pack.

What I learned is that missing with his weak ass weapon makes him both vulnerable and a danger to himself.

...I hate Oil Man.

[Gasaraki]

Speaking of shows, I watched Eureka Seven yesterday, Garasaki. However, I'm going to have to admit that this was probably one of the worst episodes to try to come in since they're setting stuff up and the like.
Well, obviously nothing can appeal to everyone, but still, if you don't mind watching fansubs, you can probably just watch episodes 1-38 on youtube. I'm pretty sure that's how many they have anyway.

on a sidenote, it never fails for people to spell my name Garasaki the first time they spell it out :rofl:

[The Damned]

Well, obviously nothing can appeal to everyone, but still, if you don't mind watching fansubs, you can probably just watch episodes 1-38 on youtube. I'm pretty sure that's how many they have anyway.

I didn't mean that I didn't like it. I just have no idea where this is going with that Anamine (sp?) girl or why Eureka has "children". Weird things like that got introduced yesterday; well, the children have apparently been around for a while since I've gleaned other episodes, but still....

on a sidenote, it never fails for people to spell my name Garasaki the first time they spell it out :rofl:

Damn it. That's yet another typo of something I can actually pronounce correctly in my head.

My apologizes.

On topic, I've been briefly playing Smash Brothers: Melee's Event 51 as always and, yeah, I pretty much certain that Ganondorf is the most annoying.

In other news, I still hate Oil Man, but I'm about to start playing again.

[Gasaraki]

Yeah, sorry I misunderstood a bit, but yes, that would be a bad place to start haha. Though those things make more sense later on, especially why Eureka supposedly has kids.

[9999]

Oil Man and Time man, is MMPU their first appearance? And its only for the DS right?

[Gasaraki]

It's only for PSP, and yes Powered Up is their first appearance.

[ezekial45]

I just got my hands on the Prey demo, i'm really loving it. I love the Portals and the "pathways" that take you upside down. I'm definatly gonna check it out once it's released.

[YellowS4]

Level 18 Spellbreaker in Titan Quest. Some of the bosses are frustrating as fuck! Just made it to Egypt.

Gave up on ValkPro2 after 2 hrs, not being to enjoy the story or battle system is reason enough to wait until US rls -_-

[Calcal]

GITAROO MAN, Finally playing it after years. Good shit, can't believe I waited this long to play it

Probably the best 20 dollars spent on a game. Maybe it will become more popular when its released on PSP. Oh and I read somewhere that Osu Tatake Ouendan is coming to the US just dont know when. But all the songs and story will be different.

Playing FFVIII due to 9999 kinda motivating me to play it. I forgot alot of the story and enjoying it so far.

And has anyone played worms armageddon? I let a friend borrow it but his house got broken into and it got stolen as well as some of his other games.

[FallingEdge]

Wave Race 64. Still kicking ass at Drake Lake.

[Gasaraki]

Probably the best 20 dollars spent on a game. Maybe it will become more popular when its released on PSP. Oh and I read somewhere that Osu Tatake Ouendan is coming to the US just dont know when. But all the songs and story will be different.

I think it's only coming out in the UK. That's what I heard anyway.

[Biggzy]

I'm looking to buy a basketball game for 360.

Which do you guys recommend? NBA Live '06 or NBA 2K6?

[FallingEdge]

I'm looking to buy a basketball game for 360.

Which do you guys recommend? NBA Live '06 or NBA 2K6?

College Hoops 2K6 was the best hoops game for the 360 IMO. But outta the two you listed, NBA 2K6 is much better. Live is just horrible.

http://forums.operationsports.com/ - This is kinda like the SRK of sports gaming. Tons of info there for sliders, gameplay, and all sorts of good stuff.

[RaishinX]

I also got back into Virtua Fighter 4: Evo. On the VF !0th Anniversary

You and me both, man. I've been playing Sarah non-stop recently. Finally started using some of those colors that I've never worn (Gold, Metallic Blue, etc.). I used to find them ugly and was all self-conscious. I suddenly stopped caring for one reason or another.

I just cannot let Sean go in 3rd Strike. I've even improved on my execution with him. Luckily I play enough Gouki and Ryu to make up for it. And is it just me or is Sean's cr. lk,lp,lk harder to cancel into a super than it is with other shotos? I'm forced to do it even faster, but if nothing else, it helps my execution with Ryu and Gouki.

Anyone else think Lou looks like Tao Papi from Dragon Ball? All he needs is "KILL YOU" on the back of his gi and he'll be set.:rofl:

Definitely.

[L1qu1d]

whatsgood everyone, i just got a fixed computer so i re-installed CS. i use to play cs/COD. but i don't know where my COD is and that game is prolly dead. in CS i was cal-o/im/ and main for 2 seasons. ive been to 7 or 8 w2z NYC LAN tournaments and one fatpipe tournament out on the island. i have no idea whatsgood with the community anymore, so whatsgood, what are some of the top teams now(i stopped playing like 3 weeks after steam came out) what are some good pugs? can i play with any of you i want a solid team to scrim with etc....let me know whatsgood

[ReggieHadoken]

Destroy All Humans 2 is in the works? Sweet. The demo I played of the first game was so much fun. I still need to pick that one up. Now that it's bargain priced there's no reason not to own it.

There are soooooo mnay different moves in VF4: Evo. Fighters ahve like entire pages of movelists. Its sick I tell you, sick! I'm still learning Pai despite the fact that my Quest mode game with her is still going. Makes me wonder how long it could truly take to master the fighters in this game.

[Geese Pants]

Currently playing DBZ: Supersonic Warriors 2 for DS.

Got it last Thursday.......unlocked all but 4 characters.
Goku's Ultimate KO looks beastly.
Facing Broli in Mania mode..........he's totally broken.

I think it's a fun fighter for the DS.

[ChairHome]

I'm playing DBZ 2, too, CC clearance sale, baby. The game is fun, but I think once everything is unlocked, I won't be playing it too much anymore. Doesn't have the depth of games like Bleach DS...

Playing Tales of Phantasia for GBA. I didn't like it at first, but its pretty fun. Story is picking up and I think I'll actually be trying to finish it.

[PingPong]

hey Chair, here's some tips for Tales of Phantasia(ToP).

use runebottles on emerald rings(?) to upgrade them, or whatever ring it was that reduces TP consumption. you can also use rune bottles on other items as well.

and in one of the later dungeons you will notice that you are taking damage by just spending time on certain floors, that's because of the heat in the room and you will need that accessory that reduces fire damage to actually walk around safely. i don't remember the item name but the monsters on the first floor of the Fire Tower drop that item.

when i played this game this was stuff i didn't find out until i've got to the end of the game. thought you should know since i found out the hard way...

[ChairHome]

Thanks PingPong. Threw some rep your way for that!

[#reload]

anyone play monster hunter? i'm thinking of picking that up for ps2

[lseelba]

anyone play monster hunter? i'm thinking of picking that up for ps2

Be sure to buy it at circuit city (http://www.shoryuken.com/forums/showthread.php?t=115642)...

[PingPong]

Thanks PingPong. Threw some rep your way for that!

hey cool thanks much, btw i forgot to add that it is possible to miss to miss secret skills for cless/cress.

[GRITZ]

MY DS has been my most played system as of late. Been playing Brain Age and Mario Kart DS. I havent played Mario kart in months and I gotta say, I did not receive a very warm welcoming. Its a fucking Drop fest from everyone! If you beat someone in the first race, good luck keeping them around for the next 3. No one wants a loss on their record. Its pretty pathetic. I spent an hour playing and wasnt able to get one win or loss on my record because people drop like flies on a whim. Pretty damn annoying. Sorry for the bitching, but I had to vent.

[FighterX]

KOF XI
KOF Collection
SF Anthology

[RaishinX]

I was thinking about what The Damned said the other day about Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine. I played it and yeah, you'll get owned. I got past, I shit you not, one guy. The cpu moves the pieces incredibly fast and it feels really cheap when they start making a comeback.

[moeller61]

I've been playing a lot of alpha anthology lately, as well as xmen legends 2 and ultimate spiderman. I may take a break from those to finally finish xenogears though, since I just got xenosaga, and want to play all three of those. Having a fulltime job and a wife sure does take a lot of time away from your game playing habit, especially when you still try to have a normal life otherwise..

[ReggieHadoken]

Currently playing DBZ: Supersonic Warriors 2 for DS.

Got it last Thursday.......unlocked all but 4 characters.
Goku's Ultimate KO looks beastly.
Facing Broli in Mania mode..........he's totally broken.

I think it's a fun fighter for the DS.

I've also been playing this game lately. No one is more broken in Maximum mode than SS Goku on the Mania setting on level 20. He's the last fighter you go up against and he will rape you many a times before you actually succeed in defeating him. They should have just called Mania setting "You're so screwed."

Virtua Fighter 4: Evolution. Won some prize money in Quest mode as my SPIDEYGOKU Pai. (I'm at the Veteran rank, BTW). I come across this dude that named hiself Sega Saturn. I had to beat that guy out of respect for his name and the fact that I wanted it on my list of defeated opponents.:rofl: I cam across this beastly Pai player that owned me so hard it was sick. I think it was one of the top players in the arcade cuz they had a Sonic emblem under their name and a gold trophy. In order to get into the next tourney, I have to beat 3 of the top ranked players. But I think I need to better myself with Pai.

Sonic Mega Collection +. The Damned kept talking about it so I just had to get my Sonic fix. I enjoyed the first Sonic Adventure, but Sonic really was at his finest in 2D on the consoles. I should have had 4 of the Chaos Emeralds on Sonic 3 but I screwed up on two of the stages. It irked me so much that I decided to start over. I just may pop in Sonic Gems Collection so I can play some Sonic CD, which could very well be my second fav Sonic game.

[The Damned]

Sonic Mega Collection +. The Damned kept talking about it so I just had to get my Sonic fix. I enjoyed the first Sonic Adventure, but Sonic really was at his finest in 2D on the consoles. I should have had 4 of the Chaos Emeralds on Sonic 3 but I screwed up on two of the stages. It irked me so much that I decided to start over. I just may pop in Sonic Gems Collection so I can play some Sonic CD, which could very well be my second fav Sonic game.

Nice to see I've inspired people.

Too bad I haven't been playing Sonic Mega Collection since last time I posted I was, which was more than a week ago. Hell, I haven't even gotten around to playing Kingdom Hearts 2 yet and now that I have a new job....

Meh.

I've still been playing the hell out of Mega Man: Powered Up!

I gave up on trying to beat the game with Oil Man rather quickly. Then I went on to decide to just get every visible screen pack in-game, and considering the ones that I obtained earlier, I think I have all of them. Now I just have to learn how to make a stage....

Anyway, I'm currently in the process of beating the game with Guts Man, whose ability to make a Guts Blocks would be even more godly if he throw them at different angles like Bomb Man. Oh well. I guess they didn't want him to be too good.

Right now, I'm playing through that stupid Copy Robot area because I fucked up immensely last night and lost all four of my lives, so I decided to just restart the game. I've beaten Oil Man, Bomb Man, and Cut Man so far, but I think I'm going to die against the next person.

Oh, and I discovered a rather abusable glitch against Elecman. If you create another Guts Block the area of the room that isn't occupied by one of the two initial Guts Blocks (which you're probably going to use anyway, really) and it doesn't get destroyed by his "super move" lightning attack, then it seems that he will keep running into and do nothing else. This allows you to kill him at your leisure.

This works on Normal Elec Man, and probably Hard Elec Man. I doubt if it works on Easy Elec Man though.

Other than that, I finally beat all of Elec Man challenges. The three ones that I hadn't managed to do were pain in the ass, with his last one being the easier than I thought for some reason. The one with disappearing blocks was a pain in the ass and perhaps the most difficult if you don't realize it's much better to jump and fire than not. The other one with the Elec Blocks and spikes was just a pain in ass because of the slow pace and the fact that I kept dying so close to the end.

Time Man's remaining three look to be the most difficult though, though Cut Man's last one doesn't exactly look doable IMO. Also, I still haven't managed to beat the one where Oil Man starts underwater.

And the remaining ones are simply a bitch because the Yellow Devil is a noisome whore.

[Million]

There is a new Rampage game out. Does anyone know the details of that huge cast of monsters? I'm curious, but egm and a lot of magazines these days never seem to go in-depth about anything anydamn more....they just show 4 pictures from a game and give a general synopsis and call it a day. Gone are the character charts with stats and move-lists, background info sections, etc....but that's a rant for another day.

I finally experienced DS Lite in person today. I don't think I can resist the lure of that system much longer. I might finally get it tomorrow...maybe even tonight...however, the unfortunate thing about being "grown" is that there's not nearly enough interesting situations to play a cool portable system anymore. The most likely scenarios for me playing any portable these days is on the toilet, or on lunchbreak at work. Those situations simply don't hold the same "magic" as sneaking in a few games while the teacher is out of the room, or at the back of the class while a boring video is being shown, or during graduation, etc. etc. (*college graduation = I was playing Wario Blast while the governor gave his incredibly dull speech.)

Childhood SO owns adulthood. The only thing we have that kinda balances it is a regular cash flow.

[Stabby]

Playing System Shock 2, and beatmania still.

SS2 is fun, but I hate the ammo system.

I fucking hate the ammo system.

I'll just run into a room, and a fucking gun-turrent will be sitting there in the middle, so I have to change ammo from standard to armor piercing to kill it. Then I run a bit more and run into this thing, so I have to switch to anti-personel.

I also think I'm going to mod the game to turn off weapon degredation.

[The Damned]

I beat Powered Up! with Guts Man about an hour ago. Normal Wily was pathetically easy compared to the whole "face every robot again" scenario, but I could probably say that in general. I actually tried Hard Wily for the first time and beat him after three tries. His second form gets even more annoying and seems to whore Thunder Beam; I'm so screwed when I play Time Man.

Speaking of screwed, I've decided try to play as Cut Man now, and Guts Man is being such a bitch after having beaten Oil Man, Elec Man, and Bomb Man. It was always so damned difficult for me avoid getting hit by tremors, just like with Hard Man. Now when get like a fifth my life taken off of me and wall jumping doesn't help as much as it should, since CPU Guts Man unlike Player Guts Man can of course throw an angle.

Additionally, I also realized that I have no idea to work the Network connection for the PSP. I read the manual part for it and did everything, but it wouldn't connect. Any help there?

Super Fucking EDIT: Okay. I call bullshit. I'm probably going to have to play the rest of the "We're your weakness" bosses on easy, especially they pull this bs.

Guts Man just killed me in three hits. Apparently, even if you avoid his damned "super" digging moving, the block that gets from that move still takes half your life like all other supers. Also, considering that he's usually closer to you and hops forward....

[#reload]

FINALLY at the end of shadow hearts 3, just walked into the gate.

bought to get monster hunter shipped to me also off ebay. there's no circuit city around here unfortunately.

alpha anthology is always fun.

thinkin of actually beating shin megami tensei nocturne also. got so far into that game and never finished it.

also thinking of playing through atilier iris. got 5 hours into that game and quit, but i'm thinking of picking up where i left off and play number 2.

last but not least, getting into starcraft again. currently getting my ass handed to me while steadily recovering the major skill that i lost (from b- on pgt season 1 to losing to random pubs on west)

[Million]

Anyone who was a fan of Rampage, I highly recommend the new Rampage: Total Destruction. There's a lot of unlockable monsters this time, and the graphics look surprisingly good and up to date. Also, the original Rampage and Rampage: World Tour are included.

Super late edit--not that it's a popular mega franchise to begin with...but the fact that I bought it and love this game only guarantee that no one else will. Special Jinx Jutsu™ claims another victim.

[Mr Mort]

Anyone who was a fan of Rampage, I highly recommend the new Rampage: Total Destruction. There's a lot of unlockable monsters this time, and the graphics look surprisingly good and up to date. Also, the original Rampage and Rampage: World Tour are included.

Super late edit--not that it's a popular mega franchise to begin with...but the fact that I bought it and love this game only guarantee that no one else will. Special Jinx Jutsu™ claims another victim.

Well, I've always been a fan of the series, so I baught it, and I think it's fucking great. World Tour included FTW.
I do have a beef with the controls in Total Destruction though. They feel too "loose" and sloppy, but it's manageable. I like how they added extra objectives in each stage, makes things more interesting. Turns out the PS2 version only supports 2 players, while the GC version supports 4. Odd.

Anyways, the only thing I have been playing is Alpha Anthology since it came out, with the exception of a little drunken 3S last night...

[Stabby]

I had a lot of fun with SH3.

At least, I did once I got Hilda. Kept that bitch slim, and nuked the shit out of everything. I don't think I even used her masked form once.

[ReggieHadoken]

Guess I'm officially on a Sonic kick. I'm playing the Sonic Mega Collection +. Through Sega's gay method of unlocking, I finally have Sonic 3 & Knuckles. Now I'm gonna get the 7 Chaos Emeralds and the 7 Super Emeralds to get Super/Hyper Sonic/Knuckles/Tails. Though my skills on the special stages are rusty. I kept messing up early on while I was still in Angel Island Zone and couldn't get the third emerald when I was playing Sonic 3.

I'm also thinking of breaking out the Sonic Gems Collection so I can go through Conic CD again. I never did beat that game with all the Time Stones.

DBZ: Super Sonic Warriors 2. SS3 Gotenks is so broken it's sick. I got like a 83 hit Rush wih his Galatic Super Donuts attack. That's usally only a 30 or so hit rush but I kept hammering away on the buttons. Freaking great.:rofl:

[Geese Pants]

DBZ: Super Sonic Warriors 2. SS3 Gotenks is so broken it's sick. I got like a 83 hit Rush wih his Galatic Super Donuts attack. That's usally only a 30 or so hit rush but I kept hammering away on the buttons. Freaking great.:rofl:

Hmmm..............I'm gonna put SSJ3 Gotenks on my crew. Hopefully, I can beat Broly and finish mania mode.

Recently I've been playing NFS: Most Wanted Black Edition. I have no quarrels with it, possibly because I never played Underground 2.

Before I started off with the Fiat Punto........got my ass trounced.
Then restarted with the Chevy Cobalt SS.........dusted everyone!
Police chases are fun until Heat 3..........glad I turned off autosave.

[RaishinX]

Started playing Ace combat 4: Shattered Skies for the first time in years. Awesome game with graphics that hold up even by today's (PS2) standards.

EDIT: Shit! Mobius 1 crashed!

[GRITZ]

Still playing Mario Kart DS and ppl still dropping like flies. I am anxiously looking forward to Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles on the DS. I had so much fun beating the shit out of that game with my friends on the Cube.

Played some FFXI today too.

Also last night, played some Smash Bros. for the 64. Too classic and addictive.

[rsigley]

all these people talking about sonic made me wanna load up sonic mega collections plus

anyone got any tips for beating the final boss in sonic 2?

i can beat metal sonic easy, robotnik is impossible in that game

[CrouchingTiger]

Speaking of Robotnik, why did they change his name to Eggman?

I'm currently playing:
Sonic Rush
Sim City 4
Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

[The Damned]

all these people talking about sonic made me wanna load up sonic mega collections plus

anyone got any tips for beating the final boss in sonic 2?

i can beat metal sonic easy, robotnik is impossible in that game

Robotnik is kind of easy, just that he grates on your patience since he takes like twelve hits, meaning that you have to go through at least six repeats of that damned slow pattern. Oh well. I'd easily take that over the Yellow Devil on Hard.

Just stick near the corners and then move when lock-on target starts beeping. Hit him and then run to the other corner when he touches down first time. Make sure to run this first time since this when he fires his damned spiked fists. The second time he touches down before walking again do the same thing, except that you don't have to run away as fast since he just start his slow as walk again.

Oh, and make sure to try not to hit him too early when he's touching down and upper half is leaning forward. For me, sometimes Sonic 2 of Sonic Mega Collection glitched and I hit Robotnik but proceeded to go through him and collide with his fists, dying, instead of bouncing off to safety. And, of course, try to get a running start before jumping or at least not him to late, since sometimes you'll jump into his fists as he stands back up, which will kill you.

You'll figure out.

As for myself, I still haven't been playing Sonic again. I finally my PS2 back into the TV and I've been playing around with Vanessa in KOF 2002 since I'm going to try her out in KOF XI tomorrow.

Also, I've been playing more Mega Man: Powered Up! I beat the game with Cut Man. I finally beat that Oil Man Challenge I was beating about yesterday after learning from gamefaqs.com that you can jump off the stupid oil slick by pressing Up and X simultaneously. So now I only have four more Challenges to go before I get Protoman. However, two of them seem impossible (the two remaining ones for Time Man) and two are just going to be annoying and difficult (the two remaining Wily Challenges, before Hard Gauntlets).

Oh, and I still haven't figured out how to get my PSP online. Any help there? Anyone? ...Bueller?

Other than that, I've being playing some Big Brain Academy on my mother's DS. I seem to only be particularly good at the Math ones....

[Mr. Bastos]

Been playing Wow and Alpha Anthology.

I'm probably gonna start playing GGXX Slash soon I'm trying to learn Millia or Baiken, but it sucks having no1 to play it against.

thinkin of actually beating shin megami tensei nocturne also. got so far into that game and never finished it.


I need to finish Nocturne also, I got to the Obelisk and stopped because I was tired of having to create new monters all the time. I was going for the "True Demon" or "Maniacs" Ending. I fused a couple of the fiends you need to fight to get it, Daisoujou and a Hell Biker. I think as far as the fiends go I got up to the Red Rider I think I beat him but I don't remember since it has been so long.

Oh and I have Shadow Hearts 2. and I was wondering if I need to play the first Shadow Hearts to understand it, because I can't find that game anywhere.

and same thing goes for Shadow Hearts 3 do I need to have played Shadow Hearts 2 to understand it?

[YellowS4]

Metal Slug 3d is... fucken trash -_-.

[FighterX]

You've played it?

What makes it so bad?

[Stabby]

Shadow Hearts 1 makes Shadow Hearts 2 badass, since the main character carries over.

There might be a few important things that don't make sense immediately, but it should be explained in-game eventually.

Shadow Hearts 3 is a completely different monster. You don't need to play any of the other games to get into that one.

And SH1 was pretty shitty. The best part were the enemy designs-- which were the best of any game I've ever played. Combat was mostly boring, and the random encounter rate was waaaaaaaay too high.

[The Damned]

The best part were the enemy designs-- which were the best of any game I've ever played.

I haven't played any Shadow Hearts game unfortunately, so I want to know if what I've heard about an enemy in Shadow Hearts 1 is true:

Are there really "penis" monsters?


Oh, for the record, I keep translating "SH" as Silent Hill in my mind, despite not having played any of those games either.

[RoninChaos]

I keep having trouble deciding between picking Suikoden II, FFTactics, or Kingdom Hearts II back up. I'm like 15 hours into Suikoden II, 12 in Tactics, and like 2 in kingdom hearts.

[The Damned]

I keep having trouble deciding between picking Suikoden II, FFTactics, or Kingdom Hearts II back up. I'm like 15 hours into Suikoden II, 12 in Tactics, and like 2 in kingdom hearts.

Final Fantasy Tactics all the way. I'm admittedly extremely biased towards FFT, especially since its the only game of the three that I've finished thus far; I don't even think I have Suikoden II, just Suikoden...which I never finished.

Anyway, Kingdom Hearts 2-wise, you're still about an hour away from getting to play as Sora. So, you're close to actually starting the game. :looney:

[Mr. Bastos]

Shadow Hearts 1 makes Shadow Hearts 2 badass, since the main character carries over.

There might be a few important things that don't make sense immediately, but it should be explained in-game eventually.

Shadow Hearts 3 is a completely different monster. You don't need to play any of the other games to get into that one.

And SH1 was pretty shitty. The best part were the enemy designs-- which were the best of any game I've ever played. Combat was mostly boring, and the random encounter rate was waaaaaaaay too high.

Hmm, ok I guess I'll try and find the first Shadow Hearts, just so I can get a feel for the story.

Oh, for the record, I keep translating "SH" as Silent Hill in my mind, despite not having played any of those games either.

Yeah I was thinking that too, thats why I typed it out so other people might not get confused. Cuz I could have easily been asking about Silent Hill.

[Stabby]

Bastos, I recommend burning it if possible. The game is rare, and honestly isn't worth the cash.

[Mr. Bastos]

Bastos, I recommend burning it if possible. The game is rare, and honestly isn't worth the cash.

Yeah I was planning on checking to see if it's compatible with the PS2HD hack and if so I'll borrow it from my friend. The lucky fuck works at a gamestop and someone traded in the game and he bought it right after.

I would like to own the game just so I can try and own the whole series, but I don't wanna pay out the ass for it. Though I still need to buy Shadow Hearts 3 and if I wanna get technical I need to get Koudelka too.