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Post by dickvanswype on Jan 5, 2014 12:51:43 GMT -5
Pretty straightforward, what are the games that you just couldn't help but play over and over and over again?
In no particular order...
Hitman: Absolution Max Payne 3 L.A. Noire GTA IV GTA V Red Dead Redemption Batman: Arkham Asylum Batman: Arkham City Assassin's Creed II/Brotherhood/Revelations The Walking Dead Bioshock (& Infinite)
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Post by tonio31 on Jan 5, 2014 12:57:28 GMT -5
Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy
Memories...
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Post by HaikenEdge on Jan 5, 2014 13:28:57 GMT -5
Final Fantasy VIII - Think I'm on my 15th playthrough now. Favorite game ever. Recettear - One of my favorite games ever (top 5 all time), and with New Game+ and survival modes, there's always something to do. Zafehouse: Diaries - Despite every survivor being super-biased, I still find myself drawn to the game. Mass Effect 3 - Horrible ending and Leviathan DLC aside, one of the best games the year it came out, and the MP still lots of fun. Hitman: Absolution - For when I feel like sneaking around, stealing people's clothes and shooting people from close range with a silenced pistol. Assassin's Creed IV - For when I feel like sneaking around and shanking them with knife, or when I want to run up to somebody, club them with two pistols and blast them in the face. Splinter Cell: Blacklist - For when I feel like hiding in shadows, shooting out lights, or dropping down and shanking somebody The Last Remnant - Interesting combat system. Story is kinda iffy tho Sleeping Dogs - For when I feel like just running around in third person in Hong Kong and starting shit with random Triad members. Shadowrun Returns - Not the base game so much, as the community-created content.
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Post by lama on Jan 5, 2014 13:48:08 GMT -5
Left 4 Dead 1 & 2. Star Fox 64. Spiderman 2.
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Post by minasa on Jan 5, 2014 15:06:49 GMT -5
I'm with Haiken on VIII, I've played that game so many times in so many different ways, PS1 ver, emulated version, PC version, PSN version and soon it'll be Steam version. I've really lost count on how many times I've played this game.
I fucking hate this game so much, but Oblivion. I've wasted way too many hours of my life both playing and modding the shit out of it.
Max Payne 1/2, two of my favorite shooters ever, and the story of both is absolutely solid, always enjoy every second out of them.
Mirror's Edge, I may not be as good as I wish I was at this game, but I just love installing it every year and completing it all the way to the end, a concept that I never thought I'd enjoy so much, couple that with an awesome soundtrack and a gorgeous art-style and you have one of the best games previous-gen offered.
Splinter Cell Conviction, every longtime fan hates this game and I can totally understand why, but it really nails my love for the spy genre. This is what I wished the Bourne game would become.
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Post by HaikenEdge on Jan 5, 2014 17:03:55 GMT -5
I fucking hate this game so much, but Oblivion. I've wasted way too many hours of my life both playing and modding the shit out of it. I have a similar relationship with Skyrim, though since I nuked my computer last time, I haven't touched it, because modding it would just take too much time. Honestly, I hope the Bourne film is closer to Alpha Protocol than Splinter Cell; I feel the social aspect of Alpha Protocol (the divergent conversation trees, the way your actions change how other characters in-game look at you) are closer to what the original Bourne books (the trilogy, not the Von Lustbader garbage) portrayed.
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Post by woundedcycad on Jan 5, 2014 18:44:15 GMT -5
Diablo 2 is probobly my biggest I have been playing on and off since 2001 my last character was only like a year ago.
Others: Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines Jet Set Radio Future Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee Counterstrike Dark Forces 2: Jedi Knight Jazz Jackrabbit The Void To The Moon Thief: The Dark Project Heroes of Might and Magic 3 Disciples 2
I would also add Dark Souls but I really haven't stopped playing since it came out so I don't think that counts
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Post by arcticdouche on Jan 5, 2014 20:13:47 GMT -5
Ratchet and Clank 1-3 Sly Cooper 1-3 (4 is actually tied for best in the series but I don't replay games very much anymore) Metal Gear Solid 2 and 3 Resident Evil 4 Gears of War God of War Dead Space Uncharted 2 Star Wars Battlefront 1 and 2 There was an online Spongebob game where you had to drive some car down a road and avoid obstacles that I played religiously in grade school The Lord of The Rings Two Towers/Return of The King Splinter Cell Chaos Theory Call of Duty 4 Journey (One of the few games I own that I actually replay now and again. So relaxing. Easily the prettiest game I've ever seen) Fallout 3 GTA IV
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Post by Dominick on Jan 5, 2014 21:12:56 GMT -5
Fallout 3 and Ocarina of Time
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Post by PoopaPapaPalpatine on Jan 6, 2014 0:13:20 GMT -5
...Mass Effect 3 - Horrible ending and Leviathan DLC aside, one of the best games the year it came out, and the MP still lots of fun.... I dunno if I agree with that but I do like revisiting the multiplayer every once and a while. I only have one game that I make sure I play every year (and maybe more than once): Knights of the Old Republic. You can stretch that game out to maybe 30-40 hours at most, if you're slow, and if you know how to do everything and get everything, you can beat it in less than 20. To date, I've logged 500+ hours into it that spanned both the original release on the first Xbox and on my 360. Honorable mention: if I'm up for it, I like to revisit the first (and only right) Mass Effect now and again. It showed so much promise and introduced such an active and wonderful world, especially on a console, that I couldn't wait to see how nuts they'd go in the second one. Say what you will about it, but I miss the long treks from point 'a' to 'b' and the elevator rides; that really built, subconsciously, the scale of the world. Then they turned the Citadel into an office.
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Post by arcticdouche on Jan 6, 2014 0:45:54 GMT -5
I totally forgot to add the first Mass Effect. I beat that shit like 10 times. Dat music.
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Post by George Knight on Jan 6, 2014 12:31:20 GMT -5
Starfox 64.
One of the best arcade shooters of all time. I can play it time and time again and never get bored.
Great game, lots of fun, aged REALLY well.
I also still really enjoy playing Digimon World on the original Playstation. Game has aged like milk, and it's probably nostalgia talking, but that game is fun as fuck. (And hard as fuck. Fire up an emulator if you don't believe me.)
A few other honorable mentions off the top of my head would be Mega Man X and X4, Super Castlevania IV, Left 4 Dead, Ragnarok Online, and more recently the Wonderful 101.
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Post by slendermaschine on Jan 7, 2014 11:12:17 GMT -5
I'll start by saying I haven't even played Skyrim yet, I literally still in the "downloading tons of mods" phase of pre-play, but that said:
Morrowind + Oblivion + Skyrim. It all started though with of all things Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask. As I grew older, however, I wanted more. I wanted to grow my character and explore beyond one distant farmhouse or mountain. I wanted a world of treasures to uncover. So came the fateful decision that led me down the Elder Scrolls path...
Legend of Zelda Twilight Princes: $59.99 New Morrowind Game of the Year Edition: $9.99 New - $10 Blockbuster gift card
Holy fuck that was easy math!
I still remember laying out the paper map and tracing my next adventure of the day because the world was so immersive, exotic, and foreign, yet all the more enrapturing.
Even Oblivion 360, flawed as HELL as it is yet again trapped me for hundreds of hours. Most of all, though, the Elder Scrolls were the peak of my life. Literally. Because then suddenly in senior year of high school I got brain cancer, so yeah. To this day the series never fails to bring me back to a time of innocence, imagination, and hope. And not having two holes drilled into my fucking skull. Or having my brain fluid leak into my mouth. Or having a tube lodged up my pisser. God damn do I love The Elder Scrolls. FOS RO DAH!!!
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Post by George Knight on Jan 7, 2014 11:44:39 GMT -5
Legend of Zelda Twilight Princes: $59.99 New Morrowind Game of the Year Edition: $9.99 New - $10 Blockbuster gift card It's really not fair to compare the Elder Scrolls to Zelda just because they both have a fantasy setting. One is a WRPG, the other is an action adventure game. Zelda has always been more about dungeon crawling and puzzle solving than it was creating a large and detailed world. (While, granted, that was part of the experience.) It's like comparing Metroid to Halo because they both star people in Robotic suits that shoot things. While some would prefer the freedom of an open world experience, I generally prefer a linear and more thought out approach if executed well. Zelda is ALWAYS a much more tight and polished (albeit different) experience than anything to come out of the Elder Scrolls series (or any Bethesda game in general). For that reason alone, I take the exact opposite stance that you do. I think a 30-60 hour game that's great out of the box is far more deserving of my money than a game of about the same length that requires extensive modding/patching to make it good. That being said, I've probably logged 100's of hours into both series so who am I to talk? Also, I don't mean to be insensitive but I laughed a little at the way you worded/the way I read the last part of your post... "I played Oblivion for hundreds of hours, and then I got brain cancer."I'm sorry, I couldn't help it. That being said, I genuinely hope things are looking better for you and continue to do so in the future.
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Post by slendermaschine on Jan 7, 2014 17:15:41 GMT -5
I wasn't comparing them, I made a better choice for myself. Although I don't hate Twilight Princess (but I hate the stupid name and asinine continuation of Nintendo's Dark World/Light World bullshit), I felt like they mishandled art direction, and how much of a re-tread it felt like was the final nail in the coffin. I lost a save file early on and to this day can't bring myself to finish the stupid forest-for-the-80th-time temple. Really I couldn't care less about Zelda until they break the mold and I'd honestly play about any fantasy title at this point over another one. And considering that I got Morrowind literally for free, that is a damn good comparison for how I value the gameplay; dollar for dollar Twilight Princess screwed me over bloody well for next to zero return on fun.
That's not to say that I don't like Legend of Zelda, or at least have fondness for it, but that's pretty much OoT and Majora's Mask because those two together, to me anyway, are almost like the pinnacle of the series' 3D gameplay, art, story, characters, and world-building but only from a jumping off, "for the time" respect. The following games just never seemed to hit the sweet spot AND improve upon the past or really innovate enough to catch my interest - they even got rid of the blood that made Ocarina of Time such a treat as a child!
I think what appeals to me about The Elder Scrolls is the freedom and the actual incentive to find things and explore. They are definitely less polished, but more than make up for it because of the depth and just the lore itself. And I suppose part of it is that in the end Zelda is pretty restricted in terms of what you can do overall, they still lack voice acting, and with that latter point in mind they still haven't bothered to hire either A) A writer that isn't so cringe-wrothy or B) Moan-Actors who don't creep you the hell out. If you didn't hit the continue button during a conversation in Twilight Princess, the disturbing undulating motions characters would repeat and awkward sex grunts would be enough to scar someone ha ha! With Zelda I have always hit a point where I think "this is amazing! But I want more" whereas with Elder Scrolls I'm still looking at mods and somehow having more fun just window shopping, essentially, than if I were staring at a bunch of pixelized water cursing the sick son of a bitch that insists on combining Legend of Zelda and Water in the most inhumane fashions possible.
Looking back, I will never forget how disappointing Ocarina of Time's Hyrule ultimately was because it was mostly just field (pretty much the same with MM, sadly), and this has been the series' downfall to me. You can't even get off collecting treasure because money literally grows in grass and I've gotten enough bloody boomerangs in my time that my apathy might just cause a singularity if I ever do have to go through that again. And thinking about these last few sentences is a real gas because the latest game I haven't played, the Skysword one, literally removes the damn field for a void of emptiness because "flying!"
tl;dr 1) I like being able to be a badass orc and put an axe in a bandits skull, loot his corpse, and make tons of gold because I'm greedy. 2) To me, Zelda feels like reading a book in the k-8 range while Elder Scrolls is like a bloody Encylopedia, especially because mods (which sadly Zelda games will never get under Ninty)
3)Dammit Nintendo, FUCK THE WATER TEMPLE ALREADY.
*Edit* Oh, and because the cancer was the type that likely started from very early on in life, I have 17 years to pick who or what I want to blame plus 17 years of much less accountability because "Of course I was an asshole who made stupid decisions, I had a tumor in the middle of my brain!!!" Ha ha!
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