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What are you playing? - 20/2/2007 8:47:23 AM

Markboy

Posts: 5626
From: Across the ditch

There were various threads for consoles, and threads for what you have bought, but nothing for general discussions about games which don't warrant their own thread. So, What are you playing? What do you think of it?

Recently, I've racked up a couple of hours of Destroy All Humans 2, which whilst fun, can feel a little same-y after a while. I'm not sure how often I'll come back to it.

In honour of the cricket, I've gone back to Brian Lara 2005, probably the best cricket sim made. It still falls victim a little to the "Six or Out" style of play, but the range of bowling options etc, and good and sensible variations in difficulty levels make it a fine way to kill a few hours.

And soon I will be returning to Tony Hawk's Project 8 - having opened up all the levels, I now need to just work through finishing off all the goals to get it fully clocked. I have done the same with basically every Tony Hawk game to date.

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RE: What are you playing? - 20/2/2007 2:24:41 PM

Aliens_fan

Posts: 4889

Buffy: Chaos Bleeds
GTA: San andreas
and soon Silent Hill 4.
I've discovered the backwards compatability on my xbox 360.

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RE: What are you playing? - 20/2/2007 3:22:44 PM

tarzapam

Posts: 147
From: Hunter Valley

currently playing GTA Vice City Stories
and am about half way through the family guy game,but the repetitive nature of the levels has forced me to take a month long time out

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RE: What are you playing? - 20/2/2007 5:16:44 PM

Baphomet

Posts: 4209
From: In The House Of Next Tuesday

quote:

ORIGINAL: tarzapam

currently playing GTA Vice City Stories

That'll be out on the PS2 soon

Been playing

Drakengard
Sega Mega Drive collection
The Punisher

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RE: What are you playing? - 20/2/2007 5:34:24 PM

kyne

Posts: 1284
Joined: 9/2/2007
From: Cairns

Final Fantasy 7 - Again
Dark Messiah Of Might And Magic

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RE: What are you playing? - 20/2/2007 9:21:02 PM

tabularasa

Posts: 1076

guitar hero
Tony Hawk underground 2, but i can;t get past the autralia level cause it keeps screwing up and deleting my save game
matrix path of neo - replaying cause of bordem

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RE: What are you playing? - 20/2/2007 9:30:58 PM

dark-shadow

Posts: 1227
From: surrounded by naked squirrels

i was playing a random game before. Oni i think it was. gave up cause it was just to ****ing easy

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RE: What are you playing? - 20/2/2007 10:11:11 PM

elvis

Posts: 2401
From: Your mum's bedroom..

I only bought the wife a PS2 for Chrissy so I'm only just getting back into gaming. Aside from all her Singstar games I have From Russia With Love, GTA3, and Gran Turismo 3 A-spec. Also spend a fair chunk o'time bashing out Gutair Hero 2. Can only get past medium on a few songs though..

Looking to get more games, but haven't been paying enough attention to whats out there now.

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RE: What are you playing? - 20/2/2007 11:39:02 PM

edotherocket

Posts: 2737
From: Brisbane

There is so much awesome gaming on the PS2 its pretty hard to go wrong.

In the past year I heartily recommend any of the following:

Bully/Canis Canim Edit
Yakuza
Okami
Shadow of the Colossus
Guitar Heroes 1
God of War
Katamari Damacy/We Love Katamari

Myself, I still haven't gotten around to playing Black which I know is very popular around these parts and I wouldn't mind playing the GTA PSP ports either.

Right now, I'm playing Super Mario World on Wii Virtual Console. That's about it actually. It was the first console game I owned so I'm having plenty of memories of when I first played the game. The fact that it was sixteen years ago is a little depressing.

< Message edited by edotherocket -- 20/2/2007 11:44:00 PM >

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RE: What are you playing? - 21/2/2007 2:16:25 PM

Baphomet

Posts: 4209
From: In The House Of Next Tuesday

quote:

ORIGINAL: edotherocket

In the past year I heartily recommend any of the following:

Yakuza

You consider that a recommendation

That game is shocking it did'nt impress me that much even from the demo

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RE: What are you playing? - 21/2/2007 3:45:17 PM

tabularasa

Posts: 1076

I can;t find shadow od the collossus anymore, i am beginnign to think i dreamt it.

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RE: What are you playing? - 21/2/2007 4:02:14 PM

Baphomet

Posts: 4209
From: In The House Of Next Tuesday

I've got a feeling they've discontinued it like what they did with Ico twice

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What are you playing? - 21/2/2007 8:07:14 PM

tabularasa

Posts: 1076

Bastards, well looks like i'll be Ebaying it.

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RE: What are you playing? - 21/2/2007 8:18:18 PM

edotherocket

Posts: 2737
From: Brisbane

quote:

ORIGINAL: Baphomet

quote:

ORIGINAL: edotherocket

In the past year I heartily recommend any of the following:

Yakuza

You consider that a recommendation

That game is shocking it did'nt impress me that much even from the demo

I'll be the first to admit the game has its flaws. The combat is pretty repetetive and the amount of swearing in the game is a bit much but I did enjoy the story and I know it got rave reviews in Japan for its portrayal of Yakuza crime syndicates. It's a good game to play after watching something like Infernal Affairs. I like it because its something different and plays a bit like a spiritual successor to Shenmue.

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RE: What are you playing? - 23/2/2007 4:31:15 PM

tarzapam

Posts: 147
From: Hunter Valley

quote:

ORIGINAL: Baphomet
Been playing

Sega Mega Drive collection

whats in the sega mega drive collection?

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RE: What are you playing? - 23/2/2007 9:39:04 PM

tabularasa

Posts: 1076

umm sonic 1 and 2, alec the kid, ecco the doplhin 1 and 2, columns, they are the only ones i remember.

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RE: What are you playing? - 24/2/2007 12:12:40 PM

D43M0N

Posts: 2274
From: Brisbane

Abnormal amounts of Supreme Commander. I love this game.

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RE: What are you playing? - 25/2/2007 9:47:05 AM

Markboy

Posts: 5626
From: Across the ditch

quote:

ORIGINAL: edotherocket

Katamari Damacy/We Love Katamari

I was late to the party on these, but sweet jesus are they addictive and good fun. The kind of gaming I like, a little silly, no really relevance to reality, and able to see their own silliness.

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if you wanna kill yourself remember that I love you
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RE: What are you playing? - 25/2/2007 10:04:50 AM

Uncle_Reco

Posts: 266

Call of Juarez
online poker
cricket 07
counter strike source
battle field 2/2142

i mostly stay with pc games, but the 2 guitar heros have been keeping my ps2 turning over now and then also

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RE: What are you playing? - 26/2/2007 8:47:25 PM

edotherocket

Posts: 2737
From: Brisbane

This could almost be a seperate discussion in itself but have you ever had fond memories of an old game, gone back to it now and found it was unplayably shit? On Wii Virtual Console, I found that I still can really enjoy Donkey Kong Country and Super Mario World and that the gameplay in those titles still held up.

However, on Sunday, I downloaded Sim Tower off The Underdogs on a whim and found that the game is totally balls. I used to play this game for hours back in 97 or whenever it was when it first came out but now...its horrifically bad.

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