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Anyone play Tales of Vesperia yet? I tried the demo but wasn't too impressed with what was there. I'd be interested in hearing some impressions of the full game.
I've busily been trekking through Castle Crashers, it's soo addictive, despite being slightly repetitive. With a ton of unlockable characters, you could play this game for a really long time if you wanted to.
Originally Posted by QQQ
Streets of rage 2 9/10.
Easily the best of the series, and the music is so awesome.
Originally Posted by dvessel
Arcades? They still exist? :P
As in the Xbox Live downloading service (Live Arcade games)
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I'm currently playing the heck out of Fable II. The game has an addictive quality that prevents me from getting up out of my chair for hours at a time. If you're not familiar with the series, the best comparison I can make is that it's a simplified Oblivion. You explore various areas, carrying out objectives, and things are fairly open-ended, so you can wander around doing side quests before progressing in the main story.
There's a heavy-handed good and evil system in play that will move a personality slider around based on the choices you make. Be warned that if you fall to the evil side, you will be endlessly annoyed by the residents chattering at you whenever you enter towns. Residents can be interacted with via selections on a social wheel that you discover over time, each having different affects on their feelings toward you.
While the quests and achievements are enjoyable to pull off, the challenge may be slightly lacking. There hasn't been a moment yet where I can't figure out what to do next, as the game holds your hand and gives you a path to follow when you select a quest. Fighting (which includes melee, ranged and magic) is very simply to pull off and rarely will you find yourself in difficult predicament. Experience from the fights is distributed via multicolored orbs that you have to collect after you fell a foe (or chattering villager). The different colors are good for different types of skills (again melee, ranged and magic).
The thing that I find most intriguing about the game is the purchasing of property. You can buy houses to either live in or rent, and businesses. Depending on the economy of the town, you'll make certain amounts of money every so often from these purchases. I wish the system was a little deeper and would allow you to adjust stock in the shops, but it's quite interesting none-the-less.
Finally, it has to be said that the game does appear to have been rushed. There are numerous annoying glitches, including disappearing people, stores losing their stock and, according to gamefaqs posters, game breaking glitches not allowing you to progress to the ending.
Overall I'd give the game an 8/10 (would have been a 9/10 without the glitches).
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Must....keep....video game thread... alive! I guess everyone's too busy with the new releases to write about them. :P
I just finished Fable II. Even with doing all the side quests and screwing around as much as possible, it went by pretty quick. The bonus dungeon that comes with the special edition can be cleared in about 15 minutes and the weapon you get at the end isn't too amazing, so it's a tough sell imho unless you really want that Halo armor
Moving on to Castlevania: Order of the Ecclesia, which is surprisingly a little more difficult than the past games of the series. So far I've really been enjoying it. Rather than collect weapons, this time you collect glyphs from enemies that are magical weapons. It's an interesting new system, and the usual minor tweak on a good formula that you can expect from Konami.
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Just finished the singleplayer of Far Cry 2. I'd give it a 7/10. The 100+ hours of gameplay as advertised is very exaggerated. I've played 25 hours, got all the main missions and buddy missions, found around half of the diamond cases and did about half of the sidequests and bought almost all weapons. Completely finishing everything shouldn't take more than 40 hours.
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I went back to Final Fantasy XI four years after I stopped playing the first time.
I've played a lot of MMORPGs since I first played FFXI in 2004. Most of which turned out to be shallow grindfests with a paper-thin plot. FFXI is none of these things, though it can get grindy at times, but there's a lot of depth and thought that went into this game that World of Warcraft and contemporaries just don't have.
My new character's currently in the process of leveling Blue Mage to 75 (at 52 now). The job is simply awesome. There's just something infinitely satisfying about using a monster's special attacks back on them.
Also working on leveling Thief to 37 for use as a support job under BLU. If I can round up five gullible fools--er, willing volunteers, I will likely do the first three Promyvion this weekend, at least as many as I can. Need access to the Tavnazian Archipelago... must learn more blue magic!
If any of you play on the Ramuh server, hit me up. My character's name is "Aislin."
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I'm playing Warhammer Online (lvl 30) but I think i'm about to cancel my account. I don't have time for the MMO genre anymore.
Back to WC3 for me...
Warhammer = 8/10
After two months I have to say, I like the WoW PvE gameplay style better. The bad part about that is, you have to play 30+ hours a week to get anything out of it. There is no way in hell I have that much time anymore.
I'll probably go back and finish Bioshock (finally) or finally play through HL2 / ep.1 / ep.2
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I recently finished The World Ends With You (DS). It was the most fun I've had playing a game in some time. With the exception of certain voice samples that got old really fast (*zetta slow*), I have nothing negative to say about it. 9/10
I recently finished The World Ends With You (DS). It was the most fun I've had playing a game in some time. With the exception of certain voice samples that got old really fast (*zetta slow*), I have nothing negative to say about it. 9/10
+1.
Awesome game that.
Playing Far Cry 2 atm and really enjoying it. Only about 10% through.
8/10 so far. Just a few issues that can be easily fixed with a patch.
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Warcraft III, Dota. Been playing for the last 4 years or so, and I give it a 8.5/10. It's also the game that ruined my life for a period of time sometime ago, but now I just play it casually instead of professional ._.
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