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2012/08/08 22:41:52
Subject: Games that you like...that no-one else seems to like or have even heard of.
Melissia wrote:Only people who haven't ever played a horror game before think that Dead Space is a horror game.
Considering I've played everything from resident evil, to blair witch chronicles (which I liked very much, never tried the third game), to fatal frame, I can say that dead space is very much a horror game. Unless there's some game out there you deem spookier than fatal frame.
Never played Fatal Frame, but Amnesia is damned disturbing.
I've never feared Death or Dying. I've only feared never Trying.
2012/08/08 23:37:19
Subject: Re:Games that you like...that no-one else seems to like or have even heard of.
Lost in Shadow on the Wii. One of the best and rather original games Ive played in years. No one EVER knows what Im talking about when I talk about it.
2012/08/08 23:43:37
Subject: Games that you like...that no-one else seems to like or have even heard of.
I just remembered another game from my days as a wee lad and I can't remember the name of it. It was a mech game, and the plot was...unique. The idea was to travel back in time to replace a faulty vacuum tube on Eniac so that something bad doesn't happen. And there's someone who doesn't want you to accomplish this and tries to stop you. It gets a little foggy from there. I do know that it was primarily available in Japan, hard as all get-out to find in the States, and was on the PS1.
Whoever can identify the game for me gets protection from Frazzled's legions when the world ends.
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2012/08/08 23:53:51
Subject: Games that you like...that no-one else seems to like or have even heard of.
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2012/08/09 00:00:41
Subject: Games that you like...that no-one else seems to like or have even heard of.
Melissia wrote:Only people who haven't ever played a horror game before think that Dead Space is a horror game.
Considering I've played everything from resident evil, to blair witch chronicles (which I liked very much, never tried the third game), to fatal frame, I can say that dead space is very much a horror game. Unless there's some game out there you deem spookier than fatal frame.
Never played Fatal Frame, but Amnesia is damned disturbing.
I liked it up until the elevator part. I mean, the water part was BRILLIANT, but once I got to that lame puzzle, I simply stopped playing. I mean, it wasn't hard, but if I'm playing a horror game, the last thing I want to be doing is fixing elevators by means of long and drawn out fetching. Sad that it died like that, it was great up until that point.
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2012/08/09 00:32:43
Subject: Re:Games that you like...that no-one else seems to like or have even heard of.
Melissia wrote:Only people who haven't ever played a horror game before think that Dead Space is a horror game.
I suppose games like Silent Hill that have you fighting giant enemies with your bear hands (In the case of Downpour) is a true horror game?
Several of the later Silent hill games have slipped from horror to action, yes.
So did Resident Evil, too. RE4 isn't really survival horror anymore, it's a shooter set in a pseudo-zombie apocalypse.
If you're going around gunning enemies down far more than you are running away from them, it's not really horror any more.
The people in the past who convinced themselves to do unspeakable things were no less human than you or I. They made their decisions; the only thing that prevents history from repeating itself is making different ones.
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2012/08/09 00:47:13
Subject: Games that you like...that no-one else seems to like or have even heard of.
Metro 2033. It is shocking how many people have not even heard of that game. I bought it for 5 dollars on a STEAM sale (its also simply idiotic how many people have not heard of STEAM ) expecting it to be just another shooter, but wow, what an amazing game.
If I had known the game was that awesome, I would have bought it on release day for the full 60 dollars. It had such a wonderful setting and atmosphere. The sneak mechanic was a bit annoying, but other than that, I give it a 100%. Fething morons at IGN just gave it a 6.5 or something. And they gave it a low rating for graphics too. Apparently they never played the PC version and just put the same rating across everything. Idiots.
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2012/08/09 01:43:39
Subject: Games that you like...that no-one else seems to like or have even heard of.
GalacticDefender wrote:Metro 2033. It is shocking how many people have not even heard of that game. I bought it for 5 dollars on a STEAM sale (its also simply idiotic how many people have not heard of STEAM ) expecting it to be just another shooter, but wow, what an amazing game.
If I had known the game was that awesome, I would have bought it on release day for the full 60 dollars. It had such a wonderful setting and atmosphere. The sneak mechanic was a bit annoying, but other than that, I give it a 100%. Fething morons at IGN just gave it a 6.5 or something. And they gave it a low rating for graphics too. Apparently they never played the PC version and just put the same rating across everything. Idiots.
IGN are nothing but idiots, and everyone knows they only hand out decent ratings if they are payed well for them.
But yeah, Metro was awesome.
I've never feared Death or Dying. I've only feared never Trying.
2012/08/09 01:56:01
Subject: Re:Games that you like...that no-one else seems to like or have even heard of.
I've been trying to remember the name of this next game for freaking years - I played it when I was a kid, so I may be a little hazy ...
You were in charge of a central keep, with areas around it, and different groups of monsters invaded from the map edges. You would go in and battle the groups of monsters, who you could kill or capture, and when you captured them you would mutate them together with others in your dungeons or whatever to make new, bigger monsters which you would deploy. It really tickled my sadistic little kid brain.
Had a lot of fun way back playing Dungeons And Dragons : Stronghold.
Oddworld : Stranger's Wrath. Fething loved that game, until the twist. But the first 2/3rds is AMAZING.
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2012/08/09 02:03:23
Subject: Games that you like...that no-one else seems to like or have even heard of.
The centre of a massive brood chamber, heaving and pulsating.
I must admit I really like Final Fantasy XIII. I reckon most of the hatred was down to it just being different from the previous titles, in typical fandumb style. But then I don't mind linear games.
Also, Rage. Criminally underrated game.
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2012/08/09 12:14:30
Subject: Games that you like...that no-one else seems to like or have even heard of.
CrashUSAR wrote:I just remembered another game from my days as a wee lad and I can't remember the name of it. It was a mech game, and the plot was...unique. The idea was to travel back in time to replace a faulty vacuum tube on Eniac so that something bad doesn't happen. And there's someone who doesn't want you to accomplish this and tries to stop you. It gets a little foggy from there. I do know that it was primarily available in Japan, hard as all get-out to find in the States, and was on the PS1.
Whoever can identify the game for me gets protection from Frazzled's legions when the world ends.
Hmm... sounds a bit like Omega Boost.
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2012/08/09 12:19:08
Subject: Games that you like...that no-one else seems to like or have even heard of.
Though pop rockets broke any semblence of difficulty.
Forget pop-rockets, wingsticks were crazy OP.
I mean, most of the time you could 1 hit kill authority soldiers, who are clad in full powered armor.
And there was no ending...not even a boss fight.
However, I do admit that the game did have a lot of potential. Hopefully the sequel will be better.
I mean, there has to be a sequel, right?
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2012/08/09 14:08:12
Subject: Games that you like...that no-one else seems to like or have even heard of.
Though pop rockets broke any semblence of difficulty.
Rage was awesome.
Right up until they give you the minigun with special ammo called BFG rounds and then don't give you some totally badass monster to kill with it, just hordes of ordinary soldiers and mutants.
More disappointing end than Doom 3, where an epic battle against the Cyberdemon was reduced to running around in circles using all the BFG ammo you'd been saving since you got it, just for this one battle, on Imps and other weak enemies to charge up the Soul Cube.
Rage's ending annoyed me more than the Mass Effect 3 ending (which I actually liked).
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2012/08/09 17:09:28
Subject: Games that you like...that no-one else seems to like or have even heard of.
Though pop rockets broke any semblence of difficulty.
Rage was awesome.
Right up until they give you the minigun with special ammo called BFG rounds and then don't give you some totally badass monster to kill with it, just hordes of ordinary soldiers and mutants.
Rage's ending annoyed me more than the Mass Effect 3 ending (which I actually liked).
I went into RAGE after having read the novel, and I guess that left me feeling as though there should have been more. I mean I liked the game, even though it did come up short compared to others of the genre....and was way too short, but its story lagged compared to the book. I know novels kind of have to carry the plot over action, but still, where was the dark tone where everyone was out to sell Raine (yeah, the main character's called Nicholas Raine, an Afghanistan veteran) to the Authority, instead of just the off handed comments? The atmosphere that the Ark survivors were the best of humanity, but had been perverted by the Authority wasn't really there either (spoiler, the mutants are what happen to Ark survivors if they don't get the nanytes taken out =P). Meh, the last bit of the game was just walking through corridors slewing down everything in sight with a minigun, then pressing a big red shiny button, instead of an epic escape scene. Cut to sequel I guess.=/
2012/08/09 18:38:40
Subject: Games that you like...that no-one else seems to like or have even heard of.
Melissia wrote:Only people who haven't ever played a horror game before think that Dead Space is a horror game.
Considering I've played everything from resident evil, to blair witch chronicles (which I liked very much, never tried the third game), to fatal frame, I can say that dead space is very much a horror game. Unless there's some game out there you deem spookier than fatal frame.
Never played Fatal Frame, but Amnesia is damned disturbing.
Fatal Frame's pretty rad. I liked the original a bit more than the second one (not sure if there were more after that, though).
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2012/08/09 19:32:02
Subject: Games that you like...that no-one else seems to like or have even heard of.
As an aside, everyone seems to know of Amnesia, but persoanlly, I think that the predecessor-- Penumbra-- was better.
The people in the past who convinced themselves to do unspeakable things were no less human than you or I. They made their decisions; the only thing that prevents history from repeating itself is making different ones.
-- Adam Serwer
My blog
2012/08/09 19:44:07
Subject: Games that you like...that no-one else seems to like or have even heard of.
Melissia wrote:As an aside, everyone seems to know of Amnesia, but persoanlly, I think that the predecessor-- Penumbra-- was better.
The first Penumbra was insanely hard until I found out that you can stand outside of reach of the deamon dogs and smack on them with tools. The bit with the spiders that chase after you was probably one of the most stressful encounters I've had with a video game.
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For newer games, I would have said Demon's Souls until Dark Souls took off. Now I think most of the games I enjoyed recently have been heard of at least somewhat regularly.
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2012/08/09 19:58:14
Subject: Games that you like...that no-one else seems to like or have even heard of.
I never met someone IRL that knew or heard of Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth.
Also, Hidden & Dangerous 1 and 2.
Fade to Black was a good game as well (Sequel to Flashback: The Quest for Identity)
Vietcong is a rahter unknown title, depsite being an excelletn Vietnam War game (Yes, patrols are freakishly long, enemies are hidden everywhere, can barely see 30 feet in front of you sometimes....but one of your troops dies..mission failed)
And people spoke of the game Oni: I actually have a physical copy of it at home. The box's in French AND English to boot!
2012/08/09 20:04:20
Subject: Games that you like...that no-one else seems to like or have even heard of.
That series of isometric chopper games on genesis/SNES was fun. I think the first one was set the first US-Iraq war, the second one was set in a South American jungle, while the last one was set in an urban area.
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The people in the past who convinced themselves to do unspeakable things were no less human than you or I. They made their decisions; the only thing that prevents history from repeating itself is making different ones.
-- Adam Serwer
My blog
2012/08/09 20:08:27
Subject: Games that you like...that no-one else seems to like or have even heard of.
RegalPhantom wrote: If your fluff doesn't fit, change your fluff until it does
The prefect example of someone missing the point.
Do not underestimate the Squats. They survived for millenia cut off from the Imperium and assailed on all sides. Their determination and resilience is an example to us all.
-Leman Russ, Meditations on Imperial Command book XVI (AKA the RT era White Dwarf Commpendium).
Its just a shame that they couldn't fight off Andy Chambers.
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2012/08/10 12:17:47
Subject: Games that you like...that no-one else seems to like or have even heard of.
Melissia wrote:That series of isometric chopper games on genesis/SNES was fun. I think the first one was set the first US-Iraq war, the second one was set in a South American jungle, while the last one was set in an urban area.
The Strike series were enjoyable; I think I only played Desert Strike out of the 16bit era games.
Future Cop LAPD on the PS1 was of the same line of games in all but name, had a good two player mode as well.
) expecting it to be just another shooter, but wow, what an amazing game.
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