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11/25/09
And for you cheapos who haven't yet played it, No More Heroes is a must play that can be found easy and cheap anywhere.
11/25/09
If you are considering a game for the Wii, look at the list, read the review, then make up your mind.
What you shouldn't do is break our commenting rules and get off topic or start talking about whether this is news.
I've got a ban hammer, and I need to swing it.
11/25/09
Just off this list: Dead Space, Muramasa, New SMB, Contra ReBirth, A Boy and His Blob and Little King's Story. They all look really good.
*sigh*
11/25/09
Also I am depressed, as I am just getting a PS3 for Christmas, and not much else, and I want half the things on this list as well...
.... Maybe I should start trying to do Commissions again? Maybe I should do some painting, FULL STOP!
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*cries*
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And I don't really have much money to buy the games myself now.
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Its been said a thousand times before, but everyone that has the means to, should play that game through at least once.
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the second is a rollercoaster ride of pure balls to the wall action!
well, not pure action, there are like, 3 puzzles, and they take the whole of 30 seconds to complete, THEN ITS BACK TO ACTION FASTER THAN A MOTHERFUCKER!
11/25/09
If trading on that site isn't your thing, there's always used games at Gamestop and/or trading in games.
11/25/09
But won't that make the first seem even worse by comparison when I do eventually get round to playing it?
11/25/09
This is true... I just dont want you getting bored of Uncharted 1 and not getting round to playing through 2.
You must play it!
...I'll be watching
11/25/09
The same real men can also afford the Wii to get in touch with their inner child. Also because they can afford a Wii, along with the PC.
360s and PS3s are for teenagers who still depend on their parents' money.
11/26/09
*Rips off shirt, to reveal hairy chest*
"Wait a sec, your PC is a Laptop! And not even a Gaming one!"
Well duh, I use my Work PC for video games...
"Your Work PC Doesn't Count!"
...
*Goes to sit in the corner*
11/27/09
lol
10/21/09
10/21/09
I think it's a case of potaytoe potahtoe.
I like how you can shoot EVERYTHING in a RE on rails shooter, in dead space none of the environment responds to your weapons fire. Also you have to constantly spam that "telekenisis" button which gets really repetitive.
The weapons in Extraction were pretty uninspiring also.
It was an ok game but I really wouldn't put it above the RE games in any sense of the word except maybe that it had 1 long story. Even with that, I love the RE lore and secrets even if they are in little snippets, it makes it feel like more than one game.
Extractions story I didn't care about as much, the characters were pretty typical and sounded like they were trying to swear to be cool.
RE characters leave more to your imagination and don't try to act as much so don't fail as much with switching accents etc.
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10/22/09
But yeah, that water... looks like the monster hunter mud again #residentevilthedarksidechronic...
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You can make a point that all light gun games are scripted to some extent, but it's sort of a backwards step as far as cooperative play goes. #residentevilthedarksidechronic...
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This looks a lot like RE5... I'm amazed. #residentevilthedarksidechronic...
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But seriously, THIS. #residentevilthedarksidechronic...
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10/06/09
If you enjoy the genre, and it's a good game, doesn't that give it replayability (sp?) right there? Tastes differ from person to person, and what's worth 50-60 bucks to one person might not even be a rental for someone else. Personally I've put far more play time into games like Castle of Shikigami 3 and Ikaruga (Both games are under an hour long!) than some games like Call of Duty 5 (Outside of the odd round of Nazi Zombies, it's practically rotting on my shelf, ha ha). But that's because I personally enjoy a good shmup over a FPS, and as such (in my opinion, can't stress this enough) Ikaruga was easily worth the seventy bucks I laid down for it, whilst CoD 5 doesn't seem like the forty bucks I spent in a pawn shop for it.
10/06/09
Why ANYONE would pay $50 for this game is beyond me. It is unacceptable to charge that much and it is unacceptable to make a game that short with zero replayability, rail shooter or not. That is one night of gaming and you are done.
I don't know why the Wii gets a free pass for mediocrity. It puzzles the puzzler.
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It wasn't a problem with people in the last years, where i mourned cause of he shorter and shorter length of single player and kampaigns, and now suddenly it is?
If a game os really good at what it does why is a short legth such a Problem.
Just wait a few moths and you will get it cheaper.
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The only complain I have with this game is that there are times where there is nothing happening (you are getting form point A to point B). I suppose that it's meant to give you a false sense of security or whatever, but still I think they are a bit longer than they need to.
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Besides, $50 for 5 hours is still pretty good if you compare it to a play. Or a concert. Or a lap dance. (Which is also repetitive grinding, but in an entirely different way.)
10/06/09
5 hours for some people you have heard of doesn't mean it is 5 hours for everybody. I've spent at least that long on the first level of HOD Overkill.
5 hours to get through it once doesn't mean that's the only 5 hours fun you can get with it. Rail shooters can get a lot of replay, at least in my house.
And 5 hours doesn't mean that 5 hours is mediocre.
What was your point again?
10/06/09
The recent Prince of Persia can be completed in about 5-6 hours, and it's a solid experience by itself. The downloadable Epilogue adds about 2 extra hours of play but offers very little other than a bit more insight into the main characters. There's little to go back to unless you're working on trophies and achievements.
Resident Evil 5's main story can take at least 5 hours on your first play but gets shorter with each subsequent playthrough. I've clocked in over 120 hours on it, and some people probably have more.
Final Fantasy XII takes hours getting from objective to objective, and it's easy to lose sight of the bigger story because of its pacing. I only have 60 hours on my file, and I doubt I'm even halfway through the game.
10/06/09
Bioshock wasn't all that long, and it essentially had little in terms of traditional extras, but I still played that game through three times. I feel like replayability is quite a case-by-case term these days.
Case in point, if I tend to like a game enough to want to play through it more than once, the developers have succeeded without needing to add on much at all. This conversation can actually get a bit existential, and is really open to debate eternally, i believe.
PS- Movies never change, or add variety, and I still come back to them time and time again. Just more food for thought.
10/06/09
Also, keep the game in mind for the buy 2 get 1 free Toys R Us sale next week. So you can get Uncharted 2 plus Brutal Legend and get Deadspace Extraction for free.
10/06/09
But i do not regret buying it at all. It looks great, it plays great and it has a very decen story... and being about 8 hours is really good for this kind of game. But we'll see. I replay a lot house of the dead: overkill because it's just a joy in multiplayer. I'll se how this goes when someone else plays with me.