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Post by Cali on Sept 6, 2013 2:33:03 GMT 1
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Post by Clint Johnston on Sept 6, 2013 2:34:07 GMT 1
Loving Alpha Protocol. Lost interest in the Saboteur. Don't know any of the others.
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Post by Tillian Panthesis on Sept 6, 2013 4:22:31 GMT 1
I hate to say, but I'm starting to forgive FFXIII, despite it's glaring flaws. I will play the game and give it another chance when I'm done my fill in NV and Skyrim.
Also Alex Kidd and the Seven Stars. Known for being the electronic embodiment of an LSD session, but I still have fond memories regardless.
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Post by Warhammer Gorvar on Sept 6, 2013 12:46:47 GMT 1
Warcraft II.
A lot of folk hate this game now because of its outdated graphics and such, but hey i love it for nostalgia.
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Post by jklinders on Sept 6, 2013 14:41:39 GMT 1
Warcraft II. A lot of folk hate this game now because of its outdated graphics and such, but hey i love it for nostalgia. Really? More evidence that the gaming community is getting shallower than the gene pool of a hillbilly family reunion. I guess I should say that the Mona Lisa is crap because the paint is old and faded or Michelangelo's David is garbage because there are a couple of chips out of it. Old doesn't mean crap. Neither does new. People suck.
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Post by Clint Johnston on Sept 6, 2013 18:38:55 GMT 1
Some Christians sometimes idealize the past with the false imagination that the Good Old Days were a period of high morals (though Ecclesiastes is quite clear that the habit is foolish). On this note, I was browsing at a Christian bookstore (Gift certificate? Ride for somebody? All I remember is that I was there) and I found the old Bing Crosby Bob Hope "Road To" movies on their shelves. Given the content of those films (the boys are hounds in the worst way) I was highly amused to see them on the shelf!
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Post by jklinders on Sept 6, 2013 19:45:25 GMT 1
Nostalgia is always a dangerous mind trap. But the old blizzard games are pure gold. Having said that, the voice acting In Warcraft II is adorably cheesy. But it a great game. Hating on it because of graphics is silly. Hating on it because it lacks a truly diverse set of factions or UI issues or you don't like RTS games is valid.
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Post by Warhammer Gorvar on Sept 6, 2013 20:11:29 GMT 1
This is coming from the same crowd who hate SC because of the graphics....so yeah.
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Post by TerrorK on Oct 9, 2013 7:40:28 GMT 1
I agree with Alpha Protocol and The Saboteur. I also love WarCraft II, and actually think it's better than the third one for the most part.
Codemasters made a racing game a few years back called Fuel that I really enjoyed, but didn't review or get received particularly well. In some ways I can see why, but I really enjoyed it. The overall map was massive and extremely varied and there were plenty of varied vehicles and races, not to mention the ability to create your own races.
In the latter days of the Amiga era there was a platformer called Mr. Nutz Hoppin Mad that I thought was awesome. It was like a half-way clone of Sonic and Super Mario Bros. 3, and it didn't review that well or take off, but it was one of my favourite platformers of the era and I played it to death. So many of the issues that people had with it I simply didn't. I could understand some of them, but they weren't problems for me, and some aspects noted as being cons by reviewers and players I personally found to be pros.
While not hated, I definitely feel that Psychonauts and Beyond Good and Evil are under-appreciated classics that should have been given more kudos and been more successful than they were. Similarly, I think the more recent game Sleeping Dogs was under-appreciated, much like The Saboteur was. The Lord of the Rings: War in the North was also a fun game.
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Post by Cali on Oct 9, 2013 8:10:16 GMT 1
WarCraft II is a classic for me. I actually bought it after I beat WarCraft III: Reign of Chaos, and played it while I was eagerly awaiting the release of The Frozen Throne (one of the best expansion packs ever created, IMHO). I wasn't spoiled by WC3's graphics, and I still loved WC2 to bits (yes, I even like WarCraft: Orcs and Humans, the original despite its shitty flaws), especially for the naval combat and the orc campaigns music. I still think, however that the unit pathing was an abomination and that your infantry and cavalry were dumb as shit. Also the Alliance and the Horde literally had the same exact units, although reskinned and renamed. The only thing that set them apart were the spells (which were fucking awesome and pretty brilliant) the paladins, wizards, ogre magi, and death knights could cast.
And FUCK YES TerrorK, Sleeping Dogs was probably my favorite game of 2012. Or one of them, anyways. It was essentially Grand Theft Auto meets Hong Kong cinema, particularly drawing influence from Infernal Affairs, Police Story, and Hard Boiled.
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Post by Warhammer Gorvar on Oct 9, 2013 11:28:28 GMT 1
Gotta admit, the resource gathering and the road system was weird...
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Post by CAPT Issac R. Madden on Oct 9, 2013 12:49:15 GMT 1
Now I have to snag a copy of Sleeping Dogs because that just sounds awesome.
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Post by A Normal Pathfinder on Oct 9, 2013 14:30:29 GMT 1
halo 4.
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Post by A Normal Pathfinder on Oct 9, 2013 14:30:44 GMT 1
halo 4.
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Post by A Normal Pathfinder on Oct 9, 2013 14:32:43 GMT 1
damn double post.
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