General Gaming Megathread: What are you playing?

[Phil the Nuka-Cola Dude]

100% (or 101) completed Psychonauts. Even with the Meat Circus, that was the most fun I've ever had with a platformer. If anyone here hasn't played it yet, you really really should.

Playing through Resident Evil 1/2/3/4/5. Gonna have to go nuts with mods to make 4 playable, but I'll cross that bridge when I get to it.

About 80% through RE1. It was pure nightmare fuel when I was 8, but it's just comical now. The best the game can do to create tension is to hide enemies with the crappy camera angles, or sandwich you between two monsters in a hallway, so you're battling the tank controls more than the monsters themselves.

Well played sir. I never cared for the new versions personally. The old version is the way to go in my book. Don't take my word for it though. A lot of people loved the new ones. I had it on PSP. It was too cutesy for me though.

The PSP version (The War of The Lions) is the PSX version with various enhancements: new secret characters/items/cutscenes/jobs/etc.

You're thinking of the GBA/NDS versions. Pic related.

 

[mobucks]

REvisiting REsident evil is always awesome. I had a lot of fun last year doing the same. Nemesis was a standout hit, since I had never completed it before. I love Jill.

 

[Alphadrop]

Krater, pretty cool game and I have a rubber ducky at the end of my regulators gun. Life is good.

 

[.Pixote.]

That's pretty hideous, what were they thinking. Why do the Japanese have this fetish for little animals?

 

[generalissimofurioso]

Because some people like cute things.

 

[.Pixote.]

I'm yet to see one of these as a player character in a Japanese game.

 

[TorontoReign]

100% (or 101) completed Psychonauts. Even with the Meat Circus, that was the most fun I've ever had with a platformer. If anyone here hasn't played it yet, you really really should.

Playing through Resident Evil 1/2/3/4/5. Gonna have to go nuts with mods to make 4 playable, but I'll cross that bridge when I get to it.

About 80% through RE1. It was pure nightmare fuel when I was 8, but it's just comical now. The best the game can do to create tension is to hide enemies with the crappy camera angles, or sandwich you between two monsters in a hallway, so you're battling the tank controls more than the monsters themselves.

Well played sir. I never cared for the new versions personally. The old version is the way to go in my book. Don't take my word for it though. A lot of people loved the new ones. I had it on PSP. It was too cutesy for me though.

The PSP version (The War of The Lions) is the PSX version with various enhancements: new secret characters/items/cutscenes/jobs/etc.

You're thinking of the GBA/NDS versions. Pic related.

Yeah you are right. I'm not sure why I remembered playing that one on PSP. I remember playing it on the Ds now. I really hated it. Too bad I don't have my PSP anymore. I didn't know they added all that extra stuff to it.

 

[Sub-Human]

Decided to take up Call of Pripyat right after (Max Payne 3, actually) Clear Sky. What a change for the better - there's far better optimization. And then the best part are the sidequests... I haven't even touched the main quest line, because of how interesting the little jobs are from that barge city.

The emissions and sleeping also add reality to Chernobyl. Plus the recoil and bullet drop on the guns has been changed to fit more realism. Gotta play this game through and through.

 

[maximaz]

Playing through Resident Evil 1/2/3/4/5. Gonna have to go nuts with mods to make 4 playable, but I'll cross that bridge when I get to it.

Did that a few years back. I highly recommend that you pick up a gamecube just for the REmake, and you can play Zero while you're at it. REmake is probably the best RE game and a used GC with all the junk, along with a used copy of the game, will run you less than 60 bucks, if you look well enough. Well worth it, even if you toss the GC in the dumpster right after.

 

[TorontoReign]

Playing through Resident Evil 1/2/3/4/5. Gonna have to go nuts with mods to make 4 playable, but I'll cross that bridge when I get to it.

Did that a few years back. I highly recommend that you pick up a gamecube just for the REmake, and you can play Zero while you're at it. REmake is probably the best RE game and a used GC with all the junk, along with a used copy of the game, will run you less than 60 bucks, if you look well enough. Well worth it, even if you toss the GC in the dumpster right after.

The Gamecube had quite a few good games on it, so I wouldn't toss it eider. REmake is the definitive Resident Evil game IMO. I have been playing Marvel Avengers Alliance on Facebook. God forgive me. I love it. I hate the fact that I have to use Facebook to play it though.

 

[maximaz]

The Gamecube had quite a few good games on it, so I wouldn't toss it eider. REmake is the definitive Resident Evil game IMO.

No doubt about that. Metroid Prime is one of my favorite games of all time and I say that veeeery rarely about a game. Twilight Princess and Wind Waker were both very decent Zelda games as well. I'm sure there were a few more I'm forgetting.

 

[Surf Solar]

The metroid series died for me when it switched from a cool 2d platformer to some FPS game. :S

 

[TorontoReign]

The metroid series died for me when it switched from a cool 2d platformer to some FPS game. :S

Seems like many would agree with you, but I believe the first one was alright. I was never a huge Metroid fan though.

 

[Phil the Nuka-Cola Dude]

Finished 1/2/3.

RE: Overall a positive experience, though the game did not age well. I'm fine with cheesy voice acting, but man, RE takes it to another level.

RE2: Unlike the original, RE2 has aged quite gracefully. The graphics are better, the controls are tighter, and the voice acting is delightfully cheesy instead of gratingly awful. I played the hell out of this one more than any other in the series as a kid, so I was able to burn through Claire's path A in 2:57 and Leon's path B in 2:05. It was all fairly easy, as I resisted my usual compulsion to horde the fuck out of everything and only swap out the pistol for bosses. Because of that, not a single first aid spray/herb was needed as I just outgunned everything.

RE3: This was a lot harder than I remembered. The normal enemies aren't too bad, but Nemesis fucked my shit up every time he decided to drop in (which was often). I never quite got the hang of dodging, which meant a lot of healing and a lot of deaths. Also, whoever designed the final fight is an asshole. Just sayin'.


Getting 4 modded enough to be playable proved to be quite the endeavor, but the textures no longer look like a muddy mess and I've got those fancy button skins; so it's about as good as it's gonna get since you can't remove that awful 30fps cap without breaking the QTEs/Cutscenes.

Did that a few years back. I highly recommend that you pick up a gamecube just for the REmake, and you can play Zero while you're at it. REmake is probably the best RE game and a used GC with all the junk, along with a used copy of the game, will run you less than 60 bucks, if you look well enough. Well worth it, even if you toss the GC in the dumpster right after.

Good idea. Just checked craigslist and there's several Gamecubes for sale in my area, so I'll see if I can pick one up on the cheap, along with WW/TP and RE/RE0.

 

[Walpknut]

Don't bother playing Twilight Princess, is a huge turd. Just saying.

 

[Alphadrop]

Twilight Princess does give you a lot of geek rep if you have the GC version of it though.

Just picked up RE: Outbreak from the charity shop I volunteer at. Servers have been closed since '08 ish but it's a nice curiosity to have.

 

[Walpknut]

Is the GC version rare or something? It's the one I have.

 

[Buxbaum666]

Finished 1/2/3.

In three days? Dude.

Getting 4 modded enough to be playable proved to be quite the endeavor

Worst port ever. No mouse support! In 2006!

 

[Alphadrop]

Is the GC version rare or something? It's the one I have.

Very rare, they only made a coupla lots of thousand for the GC as the Wii was coming out at the same time. Link in the GC version is his traditional left handed self while in the Wii version he's right handed and everyone else is left handed to suit the wiimote.

 

[maximaz]

The metroid series died for me when it switched from a cool 2d platformer to some FPS game. :S

I normally agree with something like that but in this case, I must urge you to give the first one a shot, even if you hate FPS because it isn't even one in a sense. It's the same old Metroid, with as much shooting (or possibly less) and an amazingly crafted world. I'd say that it's more of an exploration game and it actually feels like you are on a living and breathing alien planet, with more random creatures that will only attack to defend themselves, than actual aggressive enemies.

It's the one and only game I can think of that actually benefited from going first person in terms of atmosphere and... immersion.
I didn't even like the second one, as similar as it was, (didn't even finish it) but the first one was unique and just shockingly good.

Don't bother playing Twilight Princess, is a huge turd. Just saying.

Don't know where all the hate comes from. It's basically a refresh of OoT, which was a rather decent adventure game, with some Okami added in, which was a solid game as well.