Video game recommendation and review!

[flew-da-coup]

sounds like a good game for my 8 year old.

[cobychuck]

    I finished Ratchet & Clank and now its back to Final Fantasy X.  Ratchet & Clank finished out nicely after about 35 hours of gameplay, a lot of that time towards the end was going around getting bolts so I could buy the R.Y.N.O (the most powerful weapon in the game) from some guy.  It takes a long frickin' time to get to 150,000 bolts!  Plus getting a little extra so I could still buy ammo.  Anyway, I would continue in the series, but the guy I borrowed the games from doesn't keep 'em in the cases, so #2 won't get past the company logo and #3 won't go to the first planet.  Then there's Ratchet : Deadlocked, but after playing the first game, Deadlocked is boring and gameplay isn't as smooth.  It's all arena combat and in order to unlock other planets, you have to get points, so it just gets so repetative that it's pointless.  So, back to good old Final Fantasy!

[MIRCS]

    I finished Ratchet & Clank and now its back to Final Fantasy X

You know XII comes ut this year right??

[cobychuck]

    Yeah.  I know I'm behind.  If you look back in this thread, you'll see that I beat Final Fantasy VII back in February/March.  Only took me seven years. (Bought it, played it, got my ass handed to me, quit, gave it away, put in add in the Bullseye classifieds)  I know I'm horrible.  Didn't have the same trouble this time that I had last time though.  Probably because I understood better how to play.

[cobychuck]

    I started playing Jade Empire for the XboX this last week.  It's made by Bioware, the same studio that made Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic and gameplay is fairly similar.  The story behind this one (so far) is that your character has been raised in a martial arts school on the edge of the empire.  During this first day in which the games start, while on the beach a raider ship pulls in and after defeating the raiders you come face to face with a Death's Hand assassin, which the school Master defeats.  After a few more trials, your teacher explains how he rescued you from a monastary while the emperor's army was attacking.  As the last in a line of "Spirit Monks", you must battle your way to the heart of the empire to defeat the evil and find a way to restore the path to the underworld so that the ghosts of the dead will no longer plauge the living.  The story has been well done so far and the mixture of swordplay, magic, and technology has been interesting.  I would recommend this game if you liked SW:KOTOR.

[cobychuck]

    Well I started another one.  I borrowed Gun from my one of my bay orderlies.  This is one hell of a game.  It's set back in the old west and you play Colton White, who seeks revenge after his father was killed on a river boat attack.  From there you get to join in the fight against Thomas Magruder, a wealthy ex-Confederate General (voiced by Lance Henrickson) who is obsessed with finding a lost city of gold.  He has in his employ a crazy minister named Reed who led the attack on the river boat.  You have to fight your way through the corruption to avenge your father.  Gameplay is fairly simple although it does take a little bit to get used to aiming.  The only problem with this game (and this is only from the reviews I've read, I haven't finished it yet) is that it is too short.  Even so, it's still a great game, especially for only $20.

       

[cobychuck]

    I finished Gun, and I am so glad that I just borrowed it.  I think I beat it in under 12 hours.  It was a lot of fun to play, the story moved along very smoothly and the final battle was a bitch (only because of how you have to fight the last guy)  Still, it was the most fun I'd had playing a video game in a while.
    Now I'm starting to go back to the PS One.  I'm borrowing Resident Evil from the housing manager and I was supposed to get Silent Hill, but it's MIA.  He thinks his son loaned it to one of his friends. 

[cobychuck]

    Well, no more XboX for me.  I sold it to one of the dorm residents for $100.  There just wasn't enough for me to hold onto it.  I have seen the 360 in action but I still plan to wait for the release of the PS3 despite the criticism it is receiving throughout the gaming and commercial worlds.  As long as they keep quality as #1 in their games, I think the PS3 will be an excellent platform.  There are a few problems I can see right off. The first is its size.  The thing is a friggin' monster.  Second, it appears to have a slot for the games much like a car stereo.  I don't really like that.  Hopefully the game companies will make full use of the increased disk space due to Blu-Ray being added to the PS3.  Oh yes, there is one more problem.  The price tag.  There are two versions available, the most notable difference being the hard drive size. (20GB and 60GB, $499 and $599)  Here's hoping the PS3 doesn't cause Sony's gaming side to fall off the map, much like Sega Saturn and Sega Dreamcast. (even though Dreamcast was a decent system)

[cobychuck]

    Well, it seems I'm the only one left here who really plays any games, but I'm going to keep this thread going.  I'm playing Resident Evil: Director's Cut from the PS1.  Yeah, I'm still trying to catch up on some of the older games.  This one I was kind of hesitant to play because I get into my games and I wasn't looking to be kept up all night.  However, I have been on one hell of a horror movie trip lately and it just doesn't get to me like it used to.  Anyway, I haven't gotten very far yet.  Puzzle games get on my nerves very easily and this game is chock full of 'em.  I mean, how many f*****g keys do you need for one f*****g house!?  Once there's nothing left to kill and all I have to do is find stuff, it gets rather irritating.  Okay, I'm done complaining.  So far I have been having fun, sometimes I just don't understand why programers do some of the things they do for these games. 

[cobychuck]

    Okay, back into the swing of things!  My wife bought me an XboX 360 with Halo 3 (No review necessary, I think)  Because the games are getting more expensive with each system, I have been borrowing games for the 360.
    First up is Mass Effect from Bioware.  As with Star Wars: KOTOR, you can choose to be good or bad.  The only problem with this game is there is not the same incentive to play through twice to see what happens.  Basically, you're going to save the universe, there's just two ways to go about it.  Either way, the game ends basically the same.
    Gameplay itself is excellent.  The HUD it easy to use and controls are fairly intuitive.  Combat is fairly simple, though sometimes it can be overwhelming.  There were several situation where the first time I went in, the team would be wiped out and I would do it again and be just fine.  The only real hold up to this game is that the 360 has trouble keeping up with the graphics, which are beautiful.  Overall, this is a great game with only minor problems.  Definetely something to pick up.

[cobychuck]

Well, I started Final Fantasy X about a week ago and it seems to be pretty good.  I like how they re-did the combat system so you can switch out characters throughout battle.  I do miss having Materia though.  This Ability Grid they came up with kinda gets on my nerves.  Insted of gaining character levels, there are these things called sphere levels and as you gain levels you can move your character around on the ability grid and they gain new abilities, highten HP and MP, etc.  Not sure if I really like that or not.  As far as the story goes, its been solid so far.  It begins in Zanarkind, with a blitzball player named Tidus.  During the game, this creature called Sin attacks the city and during Tidus' attempt to escape the city, we get sucked up by Sin and awakens 1000 years later.  Now he's on a quest to destory Sin and save the world.

I'm also waiting for one of the other dorm managers to bring in Ratchet and Clank so I can check that out.  More to come!

    I did finally finish FFX sometime last year.  I took my time to get as many of the ultimate weapons as I could.  By the time I was done with that, I owned on the final levels of the game.  Wasn't even a challenge at that point.  The end was pretty cool though.  Overall, it was a pretty decent game.

[cobychuck]

Coming Soon!!!  I'm currently playing Assasin's Creed, good game so far.  A little repetetive for the missions though.  We'll see how it pans out...

[ck454ss]

No mention of Crysis!!

Crysis rules, though you need a decent PC to play.

Crysis Warhead comes out Sept 16 with optimization of the Cryengine to allow for better gameplay on lesser rigs.  The graphics in this game are the best I have ever seen.  Warhead Multiplayer is also going to include TeamInstantAction.  Run and Gun baby!!  A must for hardcore PC gamers.

Dont forget Farcry2 coming soon.

[RedBones]

Pick up Bioshock for the 360- it's a first person shooter with no multiplayer, these guys put all their efforts into the story and it really shows.

When I'm not shooting Durkadurkas in the face on COD4 with my clan, I'm busting my hup to finish this....

[cobychuck]

No mention of Crysis!!

Crysis rules, though you need a decent PC to play.

Crysis Warhead comes out Sept 16 with optimization of the Cryengine to allow for better gameplay on lesser rigs.  The graphics in this game are the best I have ever seen.  Warhead Multiplayer is also going to include TeamInstantAction.  Run and Gun baby!!  A must for hardcore PC gamers.

Dont forget Farcry2 coming soon.

    I haven't played a game on the computer since Warcraft III.  If become too much of a pain to keep up with everything.  It is easier for me to keep up with consoles rather than PCs.