Sektor
Unicron
The OTHER Big Red Machine.
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Post by Sektor on Mar 5, 2014 23:19:50 GMT -5
That feeling when I find someone else on the planet who played Hunter. I wish they'd make another one, that universe is so ripe for video game adaptations. This might be a weird one, but Mass Effect 3 is a little underrated. The ending is absolutely disgusting in how terrible and unsatisfying it is, but I think people were really unfair towards the other 99.9% of the game because of how upset they were. And that's a shame, because the game is really, really good. Terraria should have the mainstream appeal that Minecraft has, in my opinion. It has the same draw of building whatever you want, but it's also a great videogame. Me and my friends played hunter all the time. There was a second one wasn't there? I know there was at least a rerelease with a new character... It got two sequels, Hunter The Reckoning: Wayward, and HTR: Redeemer. All three of them are really good and make awesome party games (the second one less so, since it's exclusive to the PS2 and only has two player co-op). They're also the only good games High Voltage Software ever made before they became a licensed game/port house.
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Malcolm
Grimlock
Wanted something done about the color of his ring.
May contain ADHD
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Post by Malcolm on Mar 6, 2014 0:30:36 GMT -5
The GameCube WWE games(sans Wrestlemanis X8). They always got trashed in comparison to the PS2 Smackdown games.
007: Nightfire.
Crash Twinsanity(glitchy, but still fun)
And I have a soft spot for Sonic Shuffle.
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Post by The Trashman on Mar 6, 2014 0:32:28 GMT -5
Im surprised to hear so many mentions of New Vegas, as I thought it was fairly highly regarded. 3 seems to get a lot more love than New Vegas in my experience. I am all for people saying good things about New Vegas regardless though. My vote is for Nier. No one ever talks about it, but it is one hell of an emotional rollercoaster with a memorable cast of characters and an amazing score. First game that came to mind
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Post by The Man They Call Asher on Mar 6, 2014 1:38:11 GMT -5
One of the first two PS2 games I ever played. So much fun.
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Post by BayleyTiffyCodyCenaJudyHopps on Mar 6, 2014 11:28:51 GMT -5
Also, Pulseman. Fun platformer, and a lot of hints towards what would eventually become Pikachu in the title character (I think it was Game Freak's truly big hit prior to Pokémon, at least in Japan)
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Mar 6, 2014 15:54:15 GMT -5
Fallout New Vegas is underrated?
as for the topic at hand:
Wild Arms: beautiful soundtrack. great 2-D graphics (though the 3D combat graphics need work). a story with memorable characters that manages to avoid cliches, even if it does skirt a little close at times. each of your 3 party members have defined roles, but are still good enough at the rest that you aren't screwed if one of them dies. and once again, MAN that soundtrack is beautiful. it got overshadowed big-time because it as released at the same time as FF7, but it's a gem of a game.
Mass Effect 3: hear me out, the ending was rushed and lazy and should've been done better. that said, people were so mad about the ending that they ignored the fact that the rest of the game was pretty great, and if they stopped focusing on the ending so much they'd have realized that everything else was already resolved and the choices they made in previous games did matter.
Dragon Age 2: the plot is a bit messy and unfocused, and yes, those re-useable dungeons are the hallmark of rushed game design, but I found the cast of memorable characters and more streamlined, less micro-managy combat to be an improvement over the first game.
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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on Mar 6, 2014 16:01:58 GMT -5
Fallout New Vegas is underrated? as for the topic at hand: Wild Arms: beautiful soundtrack. great 2-D graphics (though the 3D combat graphics need work). a story with memorable characters that manages to avoid cliches, even if it does skirt a little close at times. each of your 3 party members have defined roles, but are still good enough at the rest that you aren't screwed if one of them dies. and once again, MAN that soundtrack is beautiful. it got overshadowed big-time because it as released at the same time as FF7, but it's a gem of a game. Mass Effect 3: hear me out, the ending was rushed and lazy and should've been done better. that said, people were so mad about the ending that they ignored the fact that the rest of the game was pretty great, and if they stopped focusing on the ending so much they'd have realized that everything else was already resolved and the choices they made in previous games did matter. Dragon Age 2: the plot is a bit messy and unfocused, and yes, those re-useable dungeons are the hallmark of rushed game design, but I found the cast of memorable characters and more streamlined, less micro-managy combat to be an improvement over the first game. one of my problems with Mass Effect 3 non ending related is it seemed to disregard all of your people from Mass Effect 2. I mean you do roughly one mission for all of them and never see them... I mean I get it they couldn't put them in major roles otherwise people who got them killed would miss large portions of the game... but still it seemed that they kinda got the shaft. Also the ending did make some of your choices not matter... and the stuff with the Rachni kinda invalidated that particular choice... so basically some of your choices mattered I will agree about you with Dragon Age 2, though I'm one of the people that kinda prefers DA2 to 1... as repetitive as the dungeons were in DA2... I felt like the majority of DA 1 I wasn't getting anything accomplished and then the combat system was a bit of a chore. Never played Wild Arms 1 but I thought Wild Arms 2 was pretty good, and add me to the list of people that never heard a bad word against New Vegas other than it being a buggy as hell on release.
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Post by Red Impact on Mar 6, 2014 16:16:00 GMT -5
Fallout New Vegas is underrated? as for the topic at hand: Wild Arms: beautiful soundtrack. great 2-D graphics (though the 3D combat graphics need work). a story with memorable characters that manages to avoid cliches, even if it does skirt a little close at times. each of your 3 party members have defined roles, but are still good enough at the rest that you aren't screwed if one of them dies. and once again, MAN that soundtrack is beautiful. it got overshadowed big-time because it as released at the same time as FF7, but it's a gem of a game. Mass Effect 3: hear me out, the ending was rushed and lazy and should've been done better. that said, people were so mad about the ending that they ignored the fact that the rest of the game was pretty great, and if they stopped focusing on the ending so much they'd have realized that everything else was already resolved and the choices they made in previous games did matter. Dragon Age 2: the plot is a bit messy and unfocused, and yes, those re-useable dungeons are the hallmark of rushed game design, but I found the cast of memorable characters and more streamlined, less micro-managy combat to be an improvement over the first game. Everything here I agree with. Maybe a little less so with DA2, but it's still all right.
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J is Justice
Patti Mayonnaise
Will now be grateful.
Hi.
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Post by J is Justice on Mar 6, 2014 16:27:30 GMT -5
I thought DA2 was pretty good, just no where near as good as Origins.
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agent817
Fry's dog Seymour
Doesn't Know Whose Ring It Is
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Post by agent817 on Mar 6, 2014 20:26:58 GMT -5
That feeling when I find someone else on the planet who played Hunter. I wish they'd make another one, that universe is so ripe for video game adaptations. This might be a weird one, but Mass Effect 3 is a little underrated. The ending is absolutely disgusting in how terrible and unsatisfying it is, but I think people were really unfair towards the other 99.9% of the game because of how upset they were. And that's a shame, because the game is really, really good. Terraria should have the mainstream appeal that Minecraft has, in my opinion. It has the same draw of building whatever you want, but it's also a great videogame. Me and my friends played hunter all the time. There was a second one wasn't there? I know there was at least a rerelease with a new character... There were actually two sequels that came out around the same time oddly enough. One was set like maybe a year or two after the events of the first game, which was "Hunter: The Reckoning- Wayward" and that was a PS2 game. The other was "Hunter: The Reckoning- Redeemer" which was on Xbox and it was set a decade after the events of the first game as the new character was the little girl from the first game.
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Post by ThereIsNoAbsurdistOnlyZuul on Mar 6, 2014 23:56:22 GMT -5
Alpha Protocol was an imperfect game. But it's strengths and little details made it just flat out fun experience. Plus, you were an asshole, all the time. There was a delightful moral muddy waters aspect to the game that suits espionage, and that one of the endings {Spoiler}{Spoiler}Let you flat out just join the 'bad guy.' However, whoever says FF7 and FF8 are underrated you need to review that word. I hear very few people criticism FF7 (apart from myself), and I would firmly relegate both to being criminally OVERRATED. I would argue on a commercial level that Planescape: Torment is underrated (critically loved, but how many of you people actually bought it?). Also Lunar: The Silver Star, and Lunar 2: Eternal Blue, are both underrated. If just for them being the blueprints for a large portion of future JRPGs.
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Demented
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Puddin'
Quinn in a box.
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Post by Demented on Mar 7, 2014 0:10:38 GMT -5
Dark Cloud 2 Dragon Age 2 Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning
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MrBRulzOK
Wade Wilson
Mr No-Pants Heathen
Something Witty Here.
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Post by MrBRulzOK on Mar 7, 2014 0:42:48 GMT -5
Agreed about Alpha Protocol. That was an awesome game, bugs aside. It's a shame they botched the technical aspect up so badly that we'll likely never see a sequel.
As for me, Sky Blazer: a lesser-known action platformer from the SNES days. It was far from a perfect game and a little on the short side, but it had a pretty good soundtrack and aside from a few ridiculously difficult levels was a pretty enjoyable game.
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Mar 7, 2014 6:13:58 GMT -5
Bioshock 2 - loads of people seem to think this game sucks, but anything would seem like it's shitty compared to the first one, which might be the greatest game ever made. ANYTHING would be a step down. In its own right, it's a very, very good game, just not a classic.
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Post by Hurbster on Mar 7, 2014 6:28:37 GMT -5
Get rid of the annoying escort quest bits and the mechanics of Bioshock 2 are so much better than 1. It just feels like an expansion pack though.
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Post by Kayfabe FAN don't want none on Mar 7, 2014 7:29:00 GMT -5
World's Scariest Police Chases (PSX). Shitload of fun.
Destruction Derby Raw (PSX). Shitload of fun.
Rampage (PSX) and Rampage Total Destruction (PS2). Also shitload of fun.
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Mar 7, 2014 8:07:14 GMT -5
Get rid of the annoying escort quest bits and the mechanics of Bioshock 2 are so much better than 1. It just feels like an expansion pack though. I got rid of the annoying escort bits by just playing evil instead. Much less irritating.
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Post by Freddy BooJangles on Sept 6, 2014 8:13:30 GMT -5
Dragon's Dogma (IMO one of Capcom's most enjoyable games & I find it to be extremely fun to play)
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Goldenbane
Hank Scorpio
THE G.D. Goldenbane
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Post by Goldenbane on Sept 6, 2014 9:56:54 GMT -5
Fallout New Vegas is underrated? as for the topic at hand: Wild Arms: beautiful soundtrack. great 2-D graphics (though the 3D combat graphics need work). a story with memorable characters that manages to avoid cliches, even if it does skirt a little close at times. each of your 3 party members have defined roles, but are still good enough at the rest that you aren't screwed if one of them dies. and once again, MAN that soundtrack is beautiful. it got overshadowed big-time because it as released at the same time as FF7, but it's a gem of a game. Mass Effect 3: hear me out, the ending was rushed and lazy and should've been done better. that said, people were so mad about the ending that they ignored the fact that the rest of the game was pretty great, and if they stopped focusing on the ending so much they'd have realized that everything else was already resolved and the choices they made in previous games did matter. Dragon Age 2: the plot is a bit messy and unfocused, and yes, those re-useable dungeons are the hallmark of rushed game design, but I found the cast of memorable characters and more streamlined, less micro-managy combat to be an improvement over the first game. one of my problems with Mass Effect 3 non ending related is it seemed to disregard all of your people from Mass Effect 2. I mean you do roughly one mission for all of them and never see them... I mean I get it they couldn't put them in major roles otherwise people who got them killed would miss large portions of the game... but still it seemed that they kinda got the shaft. Also the ending did make some of your choices not matter... and the stuff with the Rachni kinda invalidated that particular choice... so basically some of your choices mattered I will agree about you with Dragon Age 2, though I'm one of the people that kinda prefers DA2 to 1... as repetitive as the dungeons were in DA2... I felt like the majority of DA 1 I wasn't getting anything accomplished and then the combat system was a bit of a chore. Never played Wild Arms 1 but I thought Wild Arms 2 was pretty good, and add me to the list of people that never heard a bad word against New Vegas other than it being a buggy as hell on release. Having just recently played all the Dragon Age games to date, in preparation for Inquisition, I will say that Dragon Age 2 is a perfectly fun game, and the characters are rather engaging. I love all the voice acting, and have no problems with that either. My biggest complaint is that it seems nothing I do or choose in the game affects anything in the plot. In Origins, if I chose NOT to kill the high dragon or chose to side with a certain character near the end of the game instead of Alistair...there was a different ending for those! It actually mattered! If I told Anders to f*** off, or refused to help Merril repair her stupid mirror...nope, sorry, they still accomplish what they want and the plot moves on without me. If I save all the mages, they turn evil and try to f*** me over. If I condemn all the mages, they remain evil and try to f*** me over. I think the only real change to the game is if you hand over a certain character to the Q'unari...and all that really does is handicap you by one character near the end of the game (they don't give you a replacement as far as I can tell, unlike Origins and the thing with Alistair). That's really my only complaint with Dragon Age 2. Fun game otherwise.
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Post by BayleyTiffyCodyCenaJudyHopps on Sept 6, 2014 10:05:30 GMT -5
I'll also add Sonic Generations.
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