Alpha here, using my bro’s name since we’re waiting for Naruto 80 to d/l.
Yeah, I bet there’s a lot of guys who played NG on Xbox, thought it was really hard…and then died after playing the originals, where no matter how many lives you have if you die fighting a boss they start you back at the beginning… :lol:
For me, Super Castlevania IV is easy as hell for the most part. But the “RPG only” CV players would probably have convulsions at the difficulty after five minutes of old-school. At least Xbox NG and Viewtiful Joe try to actually make you work for your win, though. That’s rare nowadays, in the era where the “casual gamer” (i.e. graphic spoiled bitch who whines a lot) rules the game industry.
The 7.75 that GI gave SS: NE is actually a good review in my eyes. Makes me feel more positive about picking it up. BTW, what was up with EGM giving the Xbox version of SS a 3.5/10? GI gave it a 9 and GameSpot gave it a 8.5
Anyway, I’m still playing Vice City. I say screw Tommy’s missions for the time being. Right now I’m just driving around town knock punks off their bikes and doing random killings. Got on a room top where the cops couldn’t reach me by foot and just went nuts with my rocket launcher. Oh man, you guys hada be there. :lol:
I’ve been playing a hell of a lot of beatmania IIDX recently. I can actually see progress. I can actually pass 7 star songs now, which I never thought I would ever do.
I also have been playing a lot of pso also, I would be on right now but I have to let others use the tv sometime.
Doesn’t it feel good to pass a song that two months ago you looked at and said “Fuck that shit, I can’t even read the bars!”? I felt that when I passed my first 7. Felt to good. Hell, even passing my first 5 and 6 felt great. Good ol’ Rottel the Mercury!
Same with DDR. Passing my first 9 was an amazing feeling. It was Dead End on DDRUSA. Damn near almost went into cardiac arrest, but it’s all good.
Hmm…Finished kingdom hearts last week…Now im playing Final Fantasy tactics Advance, man, what the hell is squenix thinking?
Yes its fun, and I like the amount of classes, but learning abilities is annoying, if you want to learn something like “cure” or even “fire” you have to equip a weak(er) weapon, how is that fair? And why did the put in laws? Nothing beats the hyper-realism of a judge appearing out of nowhere and decided that you can use techniques. FFT was so much better…But Im still going to finish it…
And Im playing…PUZZLE FIGHTER…Now if only i “got” it. So many times am i left in the position of "Wow, i got all these giant blocks…now when i drop this type of block, they should all explodedrops it …hmm nothing happend…hey look! Im dead!"
Oh well…
Oddly enough I like FFTA a lot more then FFT. Sure, I still play FFT a fucking lot, but in the long run, FFTA is simply better. First and formost the game has a MUCH better menu system, no fucking joke. Also, adding judges forces you to be, oh yeah, MORE TACTICAL. But enough ranting.
Currently I’m going to be playing an ass of Pokemon Ruby. Anybody who says that game doesn’t fucking rock is a damn fool. god it’s so fun. Plus the Jirachi I got with the Pokemon Coloseum bonus disk is major cool.
Also, I picked up both the Pokemon TCG and Yu-Gi-Oh TCG. Granted, nothing will beat Magic the Gathering, but fun is fun. I still need to pick up versions 3.5 of all the current main D&D manuals. I seriously need to find a good DM, other wise I’m gonna get screwed into takeing the job. And noboy wants to have to battle a ogre homsexual rapist.
d00d! I play D&D off and on, depending on when I can get a group together. It’s so hard to find a reliable DM, though. These days, it’s hard to even find other players, unless you live in a heavily populated area. Fucking New Hicksville, where the nearest village is 58956073y840598 miles away, and the nearest real city is 5 itmes that!
I was jumping into the way-back machine again the other day; I started playing Wild ARMs again. Man, that game was RPG gold…which brings me to my beef:
WTF is Sony doing with Wild ARMs: Alter Code: F?
I was looking up stuff for the Japanese version, and was shocked, to say the least. The WA crew doesn’t look so good in the WA3 art style (Cecilia looks alright though)…dungeons are now slow-paced (the original WA allowed you to breeze through some areas) and worst of all…they changed special/Force attacks, and the damage those moves inflict.
From what I’m gathering, my boy Jack went from being the ultimate badass like he was in WA to scrubby, 3000 HP “WA2 damage”…and if anyone here has played 2nd Ignition, they know that unless you’re Ashley or Brad, you=teh suck. :mad: At least Rudy got pumped up like crazy, he’s hitting for 10,000 HP a turn, kinda reminds me of Knight Blazer from 2, which was a concept I hated. It’ll be one thing if all the characters can hit as hard, but if it’s only Rudy (like it was only Ashley in WA2), that would bite.
So yeah, I’m seriously thinking Jack and Cessy got nerfed hardcore. I miss the “Trump Card” attack already, and Alter Code: F isn’t ever overseas yet. :bluu: Please, Sony…do not screw this up for me…I don’t want to spend hours fighting bosses because the guy brushes off your attacks like mosquitos, like in WA3.
But at least you can get Calamity Jane and Zed, that’s badass.
Yep, he does. But only in the end, same goes for the other “extra” characters. Works for me, because I hated the fact that they added characters. WA was badass as it was, with the classic OG 3: Rudy, Jack and Cecilia. No one else is needed.
And also, I like the fact that the main character is the strongest now, Rudy was a little bitch before unless you used Fury Shot (which took too damn long) or multi-hit Twin Orbs (Which also took too damn long). Now he’s like my boy Ashley, who to this day kicks more ass damage-wise than anybody in the whole series (due to uber-cheap Knight Blazer).
BTW, check the quote. Wild Arms 3 = the truth. WA2 was bad as hell, up until the end. Then it all went downhill…
Ah Wild Arms, I used to whore out the 255 item duplication trick. I ended up duplicating the highest selling weapon I had and getting 9999999999 gella, and my Jack, Rudy and Cecilia was soooo broken I had Zeik Tuvai killed in under 5 minutes.
Yeah, I love the duplication trick. I used to duplicate Sheriff Stars, Secret Signs, Bullet Clips, Crest Graphs…hell, I duplicated Duplicators. But the one most important thing to duplicate in the whole game…GOAT DOLLS! You’re frickin’ invincible if you’ve got 255 of those, not even Angol Moa or that bitch Ragu O Ragula can touch you. :evil:
On Zeik: Yeah, Tuvai gets whooped if you’ve got a full power Arch Smash and the Trump Card Fast Draw. Almost as bad as Mother does.
So, what’s your favorite WA moment? Mine would have to be Rudy right-hooking that fat kid who keeps screwing with Marielle (English name was Mariel, but her Jpn one’s better IMO).
EDIT: Oh damn, how could I have forgot the #1 WTF of Alter Code: F…they CHANGED THE INTRO!!! NOOOO…but at least they kept the music. :mad:
