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Post by runinruder on Jul 4, 2011 13:56:20 GMT -5
Yeah, but the thing is, I mean zero challenge. Like, if Shinobi 3 and Shubi 3 are 0, then Kirby's Yarn is...-11. Oh, I get it--like Space Megaforce! Nah, I know what you mean. Yeah, I can't think of any truly zero-challenge games right now that I loved to return to except for, like, digital comics, but that's a totally different realm of gaming. The last zero-challenge game I played was The Manhole, and I sure as hell won't be rushing back to that one any time soon.
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Post by ECM on Jul 4, 2011 14:16:30 GMT -5
No, even easier than that, if you can believe it! ;D
(For those that don't understand, you can literally, w/ very little skill in shooters, 1cc Space Megaforce. And probably on the first try.)
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Post by ECM on Jul 5, 2011 21:20:54 GMT -5
Geeze, me w/ my anti-MS pledge and you w/ your anti-Sony pledge...will there ever be peace!
(The bad news is I'm also working, hard, on an anti-Sony pledge.)
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AllenSmithee
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Post by AllenSmithee on Jul 5, 2011 23:17:52 GMT -5
Wait, how could anybody on here not have heard of EDF: IA? I mean, we're all pretty geeky, so I figure most of us know it.
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Post by elchevalier on Jul 10, 2011 13:08:00 GMT -5
Valkyria Chronicles 2, finally got it and....sigh, what a crushing dissapointment. Sure, i wasn't expecting much, i was aware that the game was just not going to be the same, being on a smaller console and such. Neverless, there is no excuse for all the stuff the game does wrong:
-Recycling maps -So far more tutorial battles than actual battles -Another high school setting, will vg companies get the memo that most of the people who buy games are not in high school anymore? -Erratic AI -Way too easy so far (yes, i am really complaining about this one, which is rare for me) -No sniper class?
Seriously, sega, i am dissapoint. The core gameplay is still there, and if you just want more VC gameplay, well, get this one for cheap. Otherwise don't bother.
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Post by ECM on Jul 10, 2011 13:41:51 GMT -5
I hear ya on VC2. Moving it over to PSP really just sucked all the life out of it and really, I felt, stunted the scope (the fact that all those stupid maps, that would be one map on PS3, are diced up due to mem constraints so it's less like fighitng a war and more like small, squad-based, skirmishes).
Boo SEGA, boo!
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Post by ECM on Jul 10, 2011 19:30:25 GMT -5
Super Mario Bros.: I figue I can beat this again before Zig or Smithee beat it. Hell, my stepmom (who has crippling arthritis) could probably manage it before these two.
/throws down gauntlet
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Post by elchevalier on Jul 10, 2011 22:45:34 GMT -5
EARTH DEFENSE FORCE IS NOT THE ISSUE ZIG! We're talking about un-finished classics here.
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Post by ECM on Jul 10, 2011 22:57:19 GMT -5
Why would you be playing Super Mario Bros when you should instead be playing EARTH DEFENSE FORCE: INSECT ARMAGEDDON ? /attempts to deflect personal sense of gamer shame Alas! I do not yet have my copy of EDF:IA, the best game ever released on July 5th 2011, so I'll have to make do w/ the classics which are more classic to some, than others! Even fei has beaten SMB! Think on that, my friend! Even feiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii....! /fades to black
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Post by feilong80 on Jul 10, 2011 23:27:50 GMT -5
By the time you get it, I'll have all my armors leveled to 8 (the max level) and all 300 weapons unlocked and purchased! Of course, that doesn't matter much, because you'll have that knocked out in about 30 hours
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Post by ECM on Jul 10, 2011 23:30:47 GMT -5
I'll have also beaten SMB...again.
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Post by ECM on Jul 11, 2011 17:04:53 GMT -5
And now I have beaten it again (granted, I warped through most of it, but at least I did it!).
Now it's onto Thunder Force III and Gaiares to see if time has been kinder to the former than my memory and to enjoy the latter once more.
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Post by kog3100edw on Jul 13, 2011 11:49:15 GMT -5
Was lingering around with Mortal Kombat (2011) for some time picking away at the Challenge Tower and some of the achievements but I'm done with it now. It was definitely a way better game than any old iteration of MK, but I still find myself turning to SSSIV (now :AE) when I want to be 'serious' about a fighting game. I'll give Netherealm its props for putting so much into the game. After a few months I may download the DLC characters and see if they infuse new fun into the game for me, but it was A LOT of time spent seeing and doing everything on MK, I'm burned out. I've spent far more time in the various modern incarnations of Street Fighter but it never gets old to me.
Currently working away at a 1CC in Akai Katana Shin. I'm up to the level five boss (out of six full levels, and one additional boss-only seventh level). This may be my game of the year. Almost everything about it is first-rate. A large ECM-repelling write up sure to be on the Ramble soon.
Shadow of the Beast on the Genesis. I've always been intrigued by this game, but never owned a copy despite selling it to people in a retail computer store when it first came out. It has the most basic mechanics imaginable, and a lot of abrupt questionable design decisions, but I've always found it's look and sound compelling. It came up in some article I was reading several weeks ago, so I poked around until I found a version for a console I owned, and was considered a decent port, the one for the Japanese Mega Drive. I can see the potential for frustration, but for some reason it isn't bothering me. It is more a memory test than anything else. And the bizarre game world is STILL pretty cool.
Dracula X (Castlevania): Rondo of Blood. A PC-Engine (of whatever type) is not a console I've ever owned but I'm taking advantage of the Virtual Console to play the Castlevania game I always wanted to. But WOW! My chops for Castlevania are rusty and weak! It is taking me forever to run through this for my first time... and I'm not even finding all the hidden shit. I don't remember having this hard a time on any game in the series before and I don't believe this is one of the harder entries! I'd chalk it up to age, but my reflexes are up to Akai Katana! What the...?
Epic Mickey on Wii. Probably one of the last games I really try to work on for this console. My kid has been sitting halfway through it since Christmas, but my starting a game has galvanized him to complete it himself... which he just did. He is on a second run to see if he can change the events and outcome.
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Post by ECM on Jul 13, 2011 11:54:55 GMT -5
Your review doesn't need to repel me--the fact that it's a Cave game does that quite nicely by itself.
/sick of Cave
(The brutal irony is, of course, that I bought an import 360 to play (mostly) their games--too bad I hadn't realized, at that point, that I was already pretty tired of them.)
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Post by kog3100edw on Jul 13, 2011 12:06:19 GMT -5
Well, the return irony for THAT statement of yours is that there are no new shooters, or much of any games for that matter, from Cave for the foreseeable future.
I'll admit to them having a little more hype and exposure over the last couple of years than is probably good. I like 'em but everywhere I turn in the online areas I travel it is 'Cave this, and Cave that'. I could stand a break probably.
But I'll never actually tire of their stuff altogether. And Akai Katana is horribly addicting to me currently. Sorry you're burnt out on 'em. This game rocks.
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