Video Games

[Brian SD]

Weird, I thought of all places, this is where I'd run into the skeptics. I'd much, much rather have a Mega Man X style game, with some Odin Sphere-level sprites or something, instead of the hardcore NES style. I guess I'm in the minority in that it doesn't really excite me at all. Maybe it's just been too long for me.

 

[dusty]

I think it's just the idea of it that's so amazing. It's like a dorky fan project, but by a great developer. Inafune is so cool.

 

[James Gatz]

Originally Posted by dusty

I think it's just the idea of it that's so amazing. It's like a dorky fan project, but by a great developer. Inafune is so cool.

Agreed. I've no idea if this is what Nintendo was anticipating with the VC, but I couldn't be happier that Capcom is taking full advantage of that kind of service. Even if I wasn't excited about the game per se (I practically ate Mega Man 2 when I was a kid, and find that it still oozes charm today, but never really played past Mega Man 3), it's still a huge moment for gaming when someone like Keiji Inafune is willing to do something this cool.

 

[chronoaug]

brian- I think i'm going to download and give ff cc a try on my r4this weekend. I'll post back with results after a few hours logged on it. I heard that got rid of that god awful holding the statue thing from the first game, which caused me to not play more than 3 hours into it.

 

[Stazy]

The only video game I play is Halo 3.

 

[whnay.]

Diablo III just announced. Any fans of the series?

http://ve3d.ign.com/articles/news/39...ally-Announced

 

[Manny Calavera]

Originally Posted by whnay.

Diablo III just announced. Any fans of the series?

http://ve3d.ign.com/articles/news/39...ally-Announced

I remember a short bout of obsession, though I really don't remember anything about the game other than that it's an isometric ARPG. I'm anticipating it and I hope it's somewhat progressive, unlike StarCraft 2. I think Blizzard has been making the same three games for nearly 20 years now.

 

[dusty]

The last game Blizzard made worth playing was The Lost Vikings.

 

[Dekayte]

Originally Posted by whnay.

Diablo III just announced. Any fans of the series? http://ve3d.ign.com/articles/news/39...ally-Announced
So it's not an MMO? I know they wouldn't want to hurt their cashcow but the Diablo series could have been a much more successful MMO, in my opinion. Eastern Sun remake of Diablo 2 is 1000 times better than D2, it's actually fun to play still.

 

[Serg]

sc2 will be great. never got diablo... hack and slash = yawn.

 

[Contingency Plan]

It's all about Warcraft 3

 

[xchen]

I've never been into Strategy games but I did beat Diablo in like 4 or 5 hours with a group of 2 or 3 other folks one day. Don't think our PC then could have handled Diablo II.

 

[Manny Calavera]

Originally Posted by dusty

The last game Blizzard made worth playing was The Lost Vikings.

Sometimes...I want to fight you.

I played a heated game of Political Machine 2008 tonight. My friend, a fresh political science grad who has served as press secretary on a couple recent campaigns, is obsessed with the series. It was really, really fun, and I ended up defeating his Ron Paul with my Obama. A lot of criticism has been levied at the nature of the game and I think, rather than that being a fault of the game itself, it's an accurate satire of the current manufactured mess that is politics. Regardless, I don't think you can really beat it for $20. Awesome little strategy game.

It was also my introduction to Stardock's Steam alternative, Impulse. A bit of a system hog but it was nice to see my copy of Sins of a Solar Empire on there (woo-hoo, cardboard boxes go in the trash) and the interface seems pretty flexible.

 

[dusty]

Haha, Star/Warcraft were pretty good, I'm just not into RTSs. But I never got WoW or Diablo at all.

 

[Joffrey]

Originally Posted by jonglover

Sometimes...I want to fight you.

I played a heated game of Political Machine 2008 tonight. My friend, a fresh political science grad who has served as press secretary on a couple recent campaigns, is obsessed with the series. It was really, really fun, and I ended up defeating his Ron Paul with my Obama. A lot of criticism has been levied at the nature of the game and I think, rather than that being a fault of the game itself, it's an accurate satire of the current manufactured mess that is politics. Regardless, I don't think you can really beat it for $20. Awesome little strategy game.

It was also my introduction to Stardock's Steam alternative, Impulse. A bit of a system hog but it was nice to see my copy of Sins of a Solar Empire on there (woo-hoo, cardboard boxes go in the trash) and the interface seems pretty flexible.


Hm, maay have to check out Political Machine. I know a bunch of people who would be interested in giving it a shot