In the old Tendo City tradition I thought it would be nice to start a topic about what game is currently in your Gamecube (or any of your other systems); what have you been playing the most lately.
And we need some more casual video game topics, you know? Not everything has to be news-related.
GC: Mario Golf. I got the game at Circuit City for only $35 by using a $5 Best Buy coupon (they accepted it, much to my surprise) and getting that $10 gift certificate from them for buying Mario Golf (the deal expired today). Well anyhow, it's a very fun game and gets very tough. I haven't been this close to throwing my Wavebird up against a wall since... well since ever, actually. It's not so much that it's very tough than that the characters you compete against jump for joy when they win, which really gets on my nerves. If only there was lightgun support. :woo: The only dissapointing aspect of MG is that they took out the mini golf mode from MG 64, which was a ton of fun. But ah well, I guess I'll have to buy back that game to enjoy some mini.
X-Box: KOTOR. After playing it for 21 hours in just three days I kind of burned myself out so I took a little brake from it to enjoy Mario Golf. I'll beat this awesome RPG soon. I just don't want to finish it all so fast.
GBA: Four Swords. I've been playing a lot of this lately and I can't believe how much fun I'm still having with it. I know that the upcoming Gamecube version won't have online support, but if it did... damn. I'd never leave my room... so I guess that's kind of a good thing then, huh?
PS2: Onimusha 2. I picked it up at Circuit City a few weeks ago for a measly $10, and I was very surprised by how much fun it is. I didn't really care for the first game too much since the whole soul tug-of-war thing was really tough on my fingers (tap tap tap like mad!), but Oni 2 fixed that problem and the result is a much better experience.
PC: A whole lotta' Battlefield mods. From Eve of Destruction (best BF mod yet, IMO) to BF Pirates to the brand-new Star Wars BF mod, I've been playing a whole lot of Battlefield lately. Thank you, mod community.
N64: Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon. After having rented it a bunch of times several years ago, I finally found a used copy for real cheap at Blockbuster a few weeks ago so I immediately bought it. It's a very fun game, a great mix of Mario and Zelda with a great, insane feudal Japanese setting. IIIMPAAAAACTUUUUUUUU!
PS1: Parasite Eve. I started playing it a few months ago and have enjoyed it a good deal, but kinda stopped playing like I do with so many other games. I should really finish it before I move onto something else...
Gamecube: Wario World. My brother got it about a week ago, but I still haven't played it yet because of all the other games I'm playing.
Xbox: Knight of the Old Republic. A very awesome RPG, battles are fun, 25 hours from start to finish.
PC: Nothing, it's empty right now.
PS2: Breath of Fire 5. Got it a long time ago, but I haven't played it very much. Drastically different from past installments.
Sega CD: Popful Mail. Cool game, very funny.
Sega Saturn: Layer Section. Import shooter, also have domestic release called "Galactic Attack".
SNES: Mario Paint, complete with mouse peripheral.
N64: Unknown at this time.
Nothing in any of them, because when I'm done playing with my toys I put them away :D. Though I think I'm about to put FF1 for NES in that system... or play these unofficial remakes of King's Quest 1 and 2 I found online.
GBA: Advance Wars 2. Haven't played it in a week though.
GC: Capcom vs SNK 2. I think I played it once in the last week... which is more than the two weeks before that, when I didn't even plug in my Cube.
N64: right now... uh... Banjo-Tooie. I played it some yesterday. I've also been playing some of Rush 2049, Mace: The Dark Age, and Excitebike 64. :)
PC: nothing in CD tray now; what I last played (CD-based) was Screamer 2, last night.
Oh, and I always leave games in my consoles when I don't use them... my two GBs have Micro Machines and Pokemon in them, and the GBC has Final Fantasy Adventure.
But I seem to have ... misplaced ... my GBC somewhere in the house, so FFA is gone for now... :(
Emulation-wise, what I've been playing most would be Lunar 2 for Sega CD (great game!), Llamatron for Atari ST, and a couple of Neo-Geo fighting games. :)
GameCube: Hitman 2
PS2: Final Fantasy X
PC: Robot Arena 2: Design and Destroy
GBA: Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
N64: Empty, and on display with an NES atop my game shelf.
Quote:Originally posted by A Black Falcon
GBA: Advance Wars 2. Haven't played it in a week though.
GC: Capcom vs SNK 2. I think I played it once in the last week... which is more than the two weeks before that, when I didn't even plug in my Cube.
N64: right now... uh... Banjo-Tooie. I played it some yesterday. I've also been playing some of Rush 2049, Mace: The Dark Age, and Excitebike 64. :)
PC: nothing in CD tray now; what I last played (CD-based) was Screamer 2, last night.
Oh, and I always leave games in my consoles when I don't use them... my two GBs have Micro Machines and Pokemon in them, and the GBC has Final Fantasy Adventure.
But I seem to have ... misplaced ... my GBC somewhere in the house, so FFA is gone for now... :(
Emulation-wise, what I've been playing most would be Lunar 2 for Sega CD (great game!), Llamatron for Atari ST, and a couple of Neo-Geo fighting games. :)
I've been playing a lot of Capcom vs. SNK 2 (the superior Dreamcast version) with my friends. What a fun game.
And you won't be needing FFA anymore once Sword of Mana comes out. :D It's coming out in September, last I heard. Might have been delayed though.
My CD based systems don't have any disks in them at the moment because I don't usually leave them in, I usually put them away, but I'll pretend whatever I've been playing lately is in it
PS2: Metal Gear Solid 2
Game Cube: Enter The Matrix
N64: I haven't played it for months but Goldeneye is sitting in it right now
Sega Genesis: Aladin
NES: Ghosts and Goblins
GBA: Zelda: Four Swords
PC: CD Rom Drive -Roller Coaster Tycoon 2(my brother left it there)
DVD Rom Drive - Star Craft: Brood War(hadn't played it in a long time so I went on bnet last night)
PSX: Silent Hill. It was the last video game I played a little under a week ago.
GC: Uhh... if I remember correctly, Super Smash Bros.
N64: Either Quest 64 or Bomberman 64.
Dreamcast: Ecco the Dolphin... or maybe Sonic Adventure? Nahh, it's probably the former.
GBA: Metroid Fusion, last played months ago.
PC: Morrowind was the last game in there, but right now, it's Offspring's album "Americana".
Laptop: Warcraft II, the game that's perpetually in its CD-ROM drive... although since its battery pack is broken (the laptop is old and second-hand), I have to play while it's plugged in, so I usually reserve it for when I sit on the can and don't have a book to read.
You play Warcraft on the crapper?
Quote:I've been playing a lot of Capcom vs. SNK 2 (the superior Dreamcast version) with my friends. What a fun game.
Yes, its a lot of fun... and I honestly think the Cube version is fine. I don't mind the size of the d-pad.
Quote:And you won't be needing FFA anymore once Sword of Mana comes out. It's coming out in September, last I heard. Might have been delayed though.
SoM sounds good, but I want to know more. My main concern is the story. I hope they don't change it too much... the story in FFA is VERY sad, sure, but I like it that way... I wouldn't want them changing it to be happier. Why am I worried about that? Because one thing I've heard is that Willy lives and comes out of the castle with you... not a good precident.
But I'll wait to hear more. And it'll still be great either way... playing from the girl's point of view should be interesting too, given that that would require some major story additons/rewrites (how about all that time she's captured?). I'm looking forward to seeing how it turns out, when compared to the original that I like so much...
Oh, and as I said, I've mostly been playing N64 for the past three weeks. Sure, I have plenty of unfinished Cube games, but for some reason when I go to play console games I'd rather play some of my N64 ones and not Mario, Metroid, or Zelda... I don't know...
Today I played some more Banjo-Tooie. I got it last December, but really didn't play it much... just a few hours. Today I unlocked the second level (the mine). It still plays VERY, VERY similar to Rare's previous platformers, though... which is alright, but after a while you wish for more variety. Oh well, its still fun.
I do wish it didn't have framerate issues, though... but on large-scale scenes it definitely tends to slow down. Oh well.
Well, I did think it was kinda early to have a death for that character. It may just be a rumor for one. Second, if that's actually accurate, think about it. He escapes with you, but the second you are out of the castle, he dies from a fatal arrow. Stereotypical yes, but it's better than the first way.
I don't think the overall mood of the game, or the overall story will change. I think it will just be heavily expanded upon. Look at Resident Evil Rebirth, or the unofficial Tierra remake of King's Quest 2, which I just recently got, as an example of how such a thing is best done.
"Kinda early"? He barely IS a character... he dies in your first conversation... :)
And its best that way.
GameCube: Eternal Darkness.
N64: Last game played with Mario Kart...
PC: Still playing lots and lots of Cossacks!
Oops... *deletes two of them*
Gamecube: Skies of Arcadia Legends (2nd time through is better than the first)
N64: Conker's Bad Fur Day (Multiplayer Beach: "Huzzah!")
GBA: Metroid Fusion (finished before replaying Prime w/ Fusion suit)
SNES: Crono Trigger (?)
N64: Bust-A-Move '99
GBA: Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones (I've also played some Fire Emblem and Golden Sun)
my lost GBC: Bionic Commando: Elite Forces, permanantly
GB: Nothing, but the last original GB game I played was either Wario Land 1 or Kirby Pinball.
GC: Capcom vs SNK 2: EO (but I haven't used my N64 or GC in over two weeks)
PC: Morrowind, but Guild Wars doesn't need a CD so I don't need to remove disks to play it...
Gamecube - Second Sight
PS2 - Final Fantasy 9
NES - Castlevania II
SNES - Ms. Pacman
N64 - Perfect Dark
GC - Beyond Good and Evil
GB - Tetris
GBA - Final Fantasy Tactics Advance
DS - Yoshi's Touch and Go
VB - Wario Land
PSX - Final Fantasy Tactics
PS2 - Fatal Frame 2
Genny - Nuthin
DC - Crazy Taxi (...if my RCA plug worked...)
PC - I dont play PC games becuase unlike some people I have a considerably large penis
I was just playing the GC version of Tony Hawk Underground 2 the other day. F-Zero GX too.
You know if we just keep bumping old OB1 topics it'll be like he never left! :D
Yup!
... two years without posts isn't too long for it not to be okay to bring the thread back, right? :)
At the moment...
N64: Pokemon Puzzle League (Tetris Attack is still good, even with an unfortunate theme)
GC: R Racing Revolution (not exactly a great game, but one of the games in its category on GC)
SNES: Super The Empire Strikes Back (overly difficult platforming! Fun, but... so, so hard...)
GBA: Golden Sun: The Lost Age (finally decided to get back to Golden Sun, after not playing it much for several months, and I got hooked... and finished Golden Sun in a few days (from like halfway)... and now am 5 hours into TLA and just got through Air's Rock. :))
PC: Hmm... Guild Wars! ... I know, it doesn't need a CD... Tribes: Vengeance then, but that was just for an hour a few days ago...the DVD drive has been used a lot less since I got GW. :D
GBC: Nothing, since the screen is broken (since I found it again and removed the still-functional copy of Bionic Commando: Elite Forces from it)
GB: Pokemon Red, picked to fill the GB cartslot with a game I don't ever play, leaving the other games there to be picked through for use in my GBA. :) (because I like to leave a game in the system all the time... to keep dust out or something? :))
I usually take my games out of the system when I'm done, but a few systems have games in them:
XBox: Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (Been playing it on and off for a while now. Not sure if this game is ever going to end, which isn't really a bad thing.)
GBA: Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones (Haven't played it in a while since I beat it, but it was classic Fire Emblem.)
DS: Advance Wars: Dual Strike (Currently playing. Doesn't really take advantage of the DS too much, but the stylus is perfect for the map creation mode.)
Gamecube- NHL 2004
And nothing else. The only time that I play videogames is at friends houses, and it's usually the latest instalment of the NHL or NFL series. The last time I played my Gamecube at home was when NHL 2004 was considered new...which was 2003. The system is hooked up and ready for me to play at any time but it's just been picking up dust. I wish that I missed it. :(
Gamecube - Eternal Darkness
Playstation 2 - Xenosaga 2
Playstation Portable - Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories
Nintendo 64 - Sin and Punishment
Sega Saturn - Burning Rangers
GameCube - Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance, before that, Paper Mario.
PlayStation 2 - Soul Calibur III, before that, Final Fantasy VII.
GBA - Classic NES Series: Dr. Mario, before that, Fire Emblem: Sacred Stones.
DS - Nintendogs, before that, Meteos.
That's it...
PC: Bejeweled 2. I love this game.
PS2: Ah....... I don't remember. Silent Hill 3, I think.
GameCube: Resident Evil 4.
SNES: FFIII
Dreamcast: Crazy Taxi (this is what I've been most recently playing. I love CT)
Ryan Wrote:PC: Bejeweled 2. I love this game.
Holy crap, I play that too. What's your high score in Action? I believe mine is just a hair above 500,000.
From what I understand, Bejeweled is a puzzle game. That in mind, if I get the second, will I simply not need to get the first in the series?
I hit 800,000 once.
We should have a tourney.
DJ: Dunno. I never played 1. Except for the cellphone version I have.
Bejeweled... I played the web version once, it was okay... nothing special though.
GC: Supaarrrr... Smaaaasshhh... Brothaaaarrrrrsss!!!!
And to a lesser extent, REmake, Skies of Arcadia, Super Monkey Ball, and Metroid Prime 2: Echoes. All of those (except SMB) I bought pretty recently, and wish I had more time to play... :(
I'm just surprised you can keep track of all that... I tend to play one game at a time, excluding multiplayer games.
I'm currently playing Metroid Prime 2.
I sure hope <a href="http://www.metroidhunters.com">Metroid Prime: Hunters</a> doesn't suck... I mean, from that site it seems like it will be interesting, well in the way every character has a backstory and now Samus is, apparently, no longer the most powerful being in the universe as she once was portrayed (thus making the story the equivalant of what you might expect from a fighting game's story). However, I keep hearing that there is pretty much no single player except for training missions and it's just multiplayer. Is there any story mode to speak of? Any standard Metroid play involving exploration?
Quote:I'm just surprised you can keep track of all that... I tend to play one game at a time, excluding multiplayer games.
What, you don't leave games unfinished, leaving a mountain of games that at any given time you could play and try to finish but don't? That's what I do... :) It's the rare game that I focus on for a long enough period of time to finish it before stopping playing for an extended period of time...
That's actually accurate too. I'll get a game, start a new game file, and then some shiny object will show up (in the form of a NEW game) that will distract me. This happens until I stop getting new games one after the other, and then I fianlly start working in reverse until I clean up the pile.
At least, hypothetically that should be the case. So far, testing has shown I need to revise or throw out that hypothesis....
The main issue is there are too many really good games coming out. Even my own internal "quality filter" which only lets me get what I percieve as the best currently available isn't enough to stop the horde. So, I have unfinished games spanning back to the ol' Playstation. Actually, I have beaten all of them, but not perfected. Back in the day when I could only get what I got as a gift, I had a decent gaming drought that meant I actually got bored with what I already had not because of base insatiability (which is my only real excuse to buy new games these days, and I really can't rationally come up with any other reason when I have so many other games I already own that I can enjoy the unexperienced content of) but rather because I had already turned all the games I own completely inside out and DEFEATED them, as a game should be defeated. Currently, if selling games was outlawed in the US (and it really seems like that just won't ever happen), I'm pretty sure I'd have more than enough incomplete games right now to last me for like 4 or 5 years.
However, then I think about all those games being released right now, like Shadow of the Collosus and Zelda: TP and Kingdom Hearts 2 and so on, plus the intuited knowledge that Nintendo is eventually going to make "Nintencats"... Our hobby is now not just unfeasible from a monetary perspective. It is now a completely untenneble position to play "all the best there is, even with exclusions of low quality games" on the basis that our TIME is limited.
The only possible recourse is to eliminate SLEEP. The only way for THAT to work is to pass laws forbidding work places from taking advantage of this lack of a need for sleep by drastically increasing work hours (currently the only reason companies like EA eventually send their employees home is due to sleep, so a legal safeguard is needed, after all the only reason to eliminate sleep is to get more free time otherwise there's no real point).
Quote:Currently, if selling games was outlawed in the US (and it really seems like that just won't ever happen), I'm pretty sure I'd have more than enough incomplete games right now to last me for like 4 or 5 years.
Yeah, I've got more than enough unfinished games to last me a long time, and even if we ignore online multiplayer PC games the PC is by far leading the pack...
I've definitely noticed the 'as time goes on I finish fewer games' thing, certainly in part because I get more games. I finished most of my original GB games... and many of my GBC games... and some of my GBA games... for instance. :) On PC... hmm. I think I used to finish more, but I've always had lots of either unfinished or unfinishable PC games (you know, like SimCity and stuff). And what about games where you say 'what is finishing it'... did I finish Civilization II if I beat it once on any difficulty, or is that also 'unfinishable', or do I need to win on Deity...
But I also think that part of it is just that I don't try as hard to finish most games as I could. I mean, sure, sometimes I can say 'it's too hard to be worth it' or 'too boring to be worth it' but that's certainly not always true... I just don't usually focus on trying ot beat a game quickly (that is, within a period of weeks to a few months) that often anymore (and haven't for some time), except in the rarer occasions...
Of course, I certainly still beat games sometimes, but not as often as I buy new ones I don't think...
Quote:The only possible recourse is to eliminate SLEEP. The only way for THAT to work is to pass laws forbidding work places from taking advantage of this lack of a need for sleep by drastically increasing work hours (currently the only reason companies like EA eventually send their employees home is due to sleep, so a legal safeguard is needed, after all the only reason to eliminate sleep is to get more free time otherwise there's no real point).
Heh... good idea, but getting rid of the need for sleep might be tough... :)
We just need one of those energizer pods from the future time period in Chrono Trigger. You are fully refreshed! (But you are still hungry...)
I had a professor in college who rarely slept. He would maybe get 5 hours of sleep a week. I kind of envied him for the fact that he had so much free time, but I'm sure it's not good for his health. I try to finish games, but it takes me so long nowadays that I have a huge backlog of games I haven't even touched. I've had Pikmin 2 for over a year and it hasn't even been out of the case.
Free time to what? Fall asleep at the wheel? I can't imagine actually doing something like that. Exactly what was this person a prof. of?
He was a computer science professor, and he spent his free time coding and playing videogames. :) For some reason he could function with that little sleep.
Interesting... He should be STUDIED!
Well, he did drink a lot of Mountain Dew. That might have something to do with it.
*looks*
NES - Castlevania II
SNES - Yoshi's Island
N64 - Perfect Dark, Excitebike 64
GC - Animal Crossing, Pikmin 2
GBA SP - Super Monkey Ball Jr., Final Fantasy Tactics Advance
DS - Nintendogs, Wario Ware
Virtual Boy - Red Alarm
PS2 - Final Fantasy Tactics
Renting - Battalion Wars (GC)
Mountain Dew is for vagina faces.
Well, the sheer number of games currently in ALL your systems suggest either extreme multitasking abilities or a huge mess. The fact that you apparently went about a misguided attempt to jam more than one game into some of those systems shows a lack of respect for REALITY.
However, your selection of games shows good aesthetic judgement, and for that I grant the title of GENIUS.
My Virtual Boy has Wario Land in it. At least, it did last time I knew where it WAS!
Is there any console in existence with a smaller total number of releases than the Virtual Boy?
Probably. The Virtual Boy had... Wario Land, Red Alarm, Mario Tennis, Mario Clash, Nester's Funky Bowling, and um... that's all I can think of.
I imagine there are, but probably nothing we've ever heard of before.