MGuy wrote:I have 30 free floating dollars and I wanna get a nintendo DS game. I have and like final fantasy tactics, fire emblem, and chrono trigger. What would be a good game to add to my collection?
As mentioned earlier in the thread, Bowser's Inside Story is rather good. Though timed attacks/defenses are super important, so if you want pure tactics, this ain't it.
The Final Fantasy IV remake may be worth considering.
If you want to branch into the adventure genre, Phantom Hourglass is a very solid Zelda game. You probably already know whether you like Zelda games or not. There's some 2D Castlevania available on DS as well.
Other recommendations are possible if you want to try something radically different.
A video store near my house is closing and the stuff is massively discounted. Can anyone recommend some PS2 games to grab if they're there?
He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.
--The horror of Mario
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A video store near my house is closing and the stuff is massively discounted. Can anyone recommend some PS2 games to grab if they're there?
That you haven't played yet? Hrm...
All of the Shadow Hearts games, Beyond Good and Evil, any of the Grandias, Xenosaga 1 and 3 (if you can stomach learning about the 2nd one from text in game 3, because I can't recommend it unless they're paying you). If memory serves Disgaea originally came out on the PS2, and that's a fantastic turn-based strat. Platformer wise I'd recommend any of the the Ratchet and Clank games, God of War 1 or 2 (though I think you've played them, not certain) and Sly Cooper 2 and above. If you just want some shooters to pass the time, Deus Ex (not the 2nd one, didn't play it so can't recommend it) and Red Faction (1, 2 was kinda meh) are worth a look. Oh, and We Love Katamari, because making piles of shit is entertaining.
Seconding Grandias, and throwing in Wild Arms 3 (one of my favorite RPGs).
Lago, you mentioned liking the Valkyria Chronicles video game. Have you seen the anime? I'm up to episode 18, and so far it's... well, it's good that I'm watching it with friends so I could MST3K it. And the second opening gives out gargantuan fucking spoilers about a major plot twist they're only starting to foreshadow, which is kinda stupid. But still, curious if you've seen it and how its story is in relation to the game.
If you haven't picked up Shadow of the Colossus, I cry for you. Also, if you want a fun Shooter, the Timesplitters series. Off the top of my head, I can't think of anything else that hasn't been mentioned here.
A friend just dropped of Shadow of Colossus so we finally get to play through it ourselves. We have StarOcean mocking us, so that'll (hopefully) get knocked off tonight.
Oh, Grandia, yes! And Suikoden 5 (was it 5? I think it was) is awesome too, maybe even Suikoden Tactics (especially good: it encourages you NOT to go "I lost? Fuck this, RESET!" by still giving you XP and stuff for losing, so you can just try again at your new higher level).
Maybe Godhand - it's kind of funny, good for a laugh, but can get insanely difficult. Mostly I liked it for the suggestive pictures of the female deuteragonist that you can unlock, and the combo-grab moves (repeatedly kneeing them in the face before delivering a DDT, or for the females, putting them over your knee and spanking them. HA! If I were a guy, that'd be totally sexist!)
Still, it's really more of a rental.
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I picked up a copy of StarOcean and never played it. Maybe I'll get around to it someday.
EDIT: I can't believe Godhand slipped my mind. That game is possibly the best experience I've ever had. Nintendo Hard, completely nonsensical plot, and just all around fun.
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Swordslinger wrote:Or fuck it... I'm just going to get weapon specialization in my cock and whip people to death with it. Given all the enemies are total pussies, it seems like the appropriate thing to do.
Lewis Black wrote:If the people of New Zealand want to be part of our world, I believe they should hop off their islands, and push 'em closer.
good read (Note to self Maxus sucks a barrel of cocks.)
It is pretty good. When you get cussed out it is funny.
Play the game, not the rules.
Swordslinger wrote:Or fuck it... I'm just going to get weapon specialization in my cock and whip people to death with it. Given all the enemies are total pussies, it seems like the appropriate thing to do.
Lewis Black wrote:If the people of New Zealand want to be part of our world, I believe they should hop off their islands, and push 'em closer.
good read (Note to self Maxus sucks a barrel of cocks.)
Any of the Phoenix Wright saga. The second and third games are the best, though you'll get kind of lost if you haven't played the first. The fourth one is the weakest as an entry in the series but as a stand-alone game it's pretty good. However, they pull a pretty nasty Chrono Cross-ish move. It's not total Chrono Cross-ish because it doesn't subvert its own message but they fuck over two major characters really badly.
Henry Hatsworth and the Puzzling Adventure is a great game if you want a challenging 2D platformer. Henry controls like a dream and has a huge array of moves, which is good, because this game is actually pretty dang hard. I'd say it's somewhere between the difficulty of Contra 30-lives code and Contra no-codes.
Professor Layton and the Curious Village is a nice little edutainment/mystery game, more emphasis on the edutainment part. How important are matchstick and gallon jug problems? Very important, as you'll find out. I have the second one, haven't played it and don't plan to until I beat the first game.
Endless Frontier is a great game if you like oodles of anime fanservice and hilarious, sociopathic character antics. The combat system is pretty fun, too. It is a very simple game however and despite being an RPG it's probably one of the most linear, railroading things I've ever played. But like I said, if you like anime fanservice and deep character interaction it's a fun ride.
LUX-Pain is a very well-written visual novel game about a empath who infiltrates a high school in order to find and cure infectuous supernatural brain parasites. Like Professor Layton, while it's set up like a mystery there's more emphasis on the game mechanics (in this case, character interaction as opposed to puzzle) than the actual mystery-solving. Very creepy, haunting atmosphere. While the game is linear, like most games, there is a lot of freedom in particulars--deciding how to react to people, who to spend time with, so-on.
Puzzle Quest is a combination heroic fantasy RPG and puzzle in the vein of Panel de Pon. Has a surprisingly robust plot about halfway into the game, also apparently based on the Warhammer universe. Nowhere near as much grimdark if that's the case. Puzzle Quest for the DS is pretty much the best version I think. The stylus really helps. The game is fun but at around 9/10ths of the way into the game it kind of breaks, especially if you know what you're doing. Still, I had a lot of fun building up my character's abilities and customizing their aspects.
If you've never played Kirby's Super Star for the SNES I strenuously recommend you pick it up for the DS. It's seriously one of the best platformer/variety games ever. It's as good as Super Mario 64, that's how good it is. The DS re-release assumes that you played the SNES version to 100% completion so there's about, oh, 30% new content. It's also several degrees more difficult than the regular quest, but the regular quest is easy enough to be beaten by even beginners to platformers.
Advance Wars: Days of Ruin is a 2D modern-war strategy game set after the apocalypse. You're basically a dwindling band of a collapsed army who goes around the wasteland trying to avoid raiders, mad scientists, and a genocidal army bent on your destruction. It does dark and angsty without being pretentious, grimdark, and/or soul-crushing. I'd say it's the best game out of the series--and not just because the previous entries are so cartoonish that even G.I. Joe wants them to get a little dignity.
New Super Mario Bros.: Everyone has already said how cool and awesome this series is. So I won't rave about it.
Josh Kablack wrote:Your freedom to make rulings up on the fly is in direct conflict with my freedom to interact with an internally consistent narrative. Your freedom to run/play a game without needing to understand a complex rule system is in direct conflict with my freedom to play a character whose abilities and flaws function as I intended within that ruleset. Your freedom to add and change rules in the middle of the game is in direct conflict with my ability to understand that rules system before I decided whether or not to join your game.
In short, your entire post is dismissive of not merely my intelligence, but my agency. And I don't mean agency as a player within one of your games, I mean my agency as a person. You do not want me to be informed when I make the fundamental decisions of deciding whether to join your game or buying your rules system.
I'll have to check some of those myself Lago. I loved Kirby's Super Star, and would rate it better that Super Mario 64. Kirby's Golf Course is another awesome one, but you can only pick that up on the Wii as far as I know.
Advance Wars, eh, I love it, but some of those battles are ridiculously hard, even for a Nintendo game. I prefer to play co-op missions where the difficulty is toned down most of the time.
Wait, just clicked from the 'good week' thread. You're in Austin, Lago? Did you notice the 'looking for gaming in Austin' thread?
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How the hell you going to take a PS2 on deployment. Wouldn't you need a TV, and wouldn't they both be considered contraband?
Play the game, not the rules.
Swordslinger wrote:Or fuck it... I'm just going to get weapon specialization in my cock and whip people to death with it. Given all the enemies are total pussies, it seems like the appropriate thing to do.
Lewis Black wrote:If the people of New Zealand want to be part of our world, I believe they should hop off their islands, and push 'em closer.
good read (Note to self Maxus sucks a barrel of cocks.)
Not at all. Basically the only things we're not supposed to have over here is pornography and alcohol. And of course people have them anyway. Personal weapons is the other big one. There are other minor BS things too, but no one cares about trying to bring those.
TVs, game systems, personal computers, it's all fair game. Hell, the post exchange gets plenty of them in to take care of the captive market. Now of course, depending on your mission and where you're based, it might not be practical, but everyone has at least an MP3 player.
So you can't have porn, but you can go out and fuck the local chicks?
Draco_Argentum wrote:
Mister_Sinister wrote:Clearly, your cock is part of the big barrel the server's busy sucking on.
Can someone tell it to stop using its teeth please?
Juton wrote:Damn, I thought [Pathfailure] accidentally created a feat worth taking, my mistake.
Koumei wrote:Shad, please just punch yourself in the face until you are too dizzy to type. I would greatly appreciate that.
Kaelik wrote:No, bad liar. Stop lying.
Standard Paizil Fare/Fail (SPF) Type I - doing exactly the opposite of what they said they would do.
Standard Paizil Fare/Fail (SPF) Type II - change for the sake of change.
Standard Paizil Fare/Fail (SPF) Type III - the illusion of change.
Now, while you can take a PS2 with you, you can't mail one to yourself, because then it would be leaving the US... And then you have to deal with exporting software/hardware that has artificial limits.
Shadow of the Colossus was awesome (I had to return it to the person who loaned it to me, but, still). Crissa, you and your spouse are in for a treat. You may want to look up about the fruit and the lizards, though.
He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
Koumei wrote:Maybe Godhand - it's kind of funny, good for a laugh, but can get insanely difficult. Mostly I liked it for the suggestive pictures of the female deuteragonist that you can unlock, and the combo-grab moves (repeatedly kneeing them in the face before delivering a DDT, or for the females, putting them over your knee and spanking them. HA! If I were a guy, that'd be totally sexist!)
Godhand is one of the best games for the PS2 ever. It's pure awesome.
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But then again, Let's Plays in general are awesome.
Josh Kablack wrote:Your freedom to make rulings up on the fly is in direct conflict with my freedom to interact with an internally consistent narrative. Your freedom to run/play a game without needing to understand a complex rule system is in direct conflict with my freedom to play a character whose abilities and flaws function as I intended within that ruleset. Your freedom to add and change rules in the middle of the game is in direct conflict with my ability to understand that rules system before I decided whether or not to join your game.
In short, your entire post is dismissive of not merely my intelligence, but my agency. And I don't mean agency as a player within one of your games, I mean my agency as a person. You do not want me to be informed when I make the fundamental decisions of deciding whether to join your game or buying your rules system.
TOZ wrote:Not at all. Basically the only things we're not supposed to have over here is pornography and alcohol.
So that means you couldn't have that Grand Theft Auto because of the hot-coffee thing, and you couldn't have God of War games because the sex scenes.
There are a LOT of games with porn in them....which means you can only have things like Mario? I would kill myself if only stuck with kiddie games.
Play the game, not the rules.
Swordslinger wrote:Or fuck it... I'm just going to get weapon specialization in my cock and whip people to death with it. Given all the enemies are total pussies, it seems like the appropriate thing to do.
Lewis Black wrote:If the people of New Zealand want to be part of our world, I believe they should hop off their islands, and push 'em closer.
good read (Note to self Maxus sucks a barrel of cocks.)
I can't believe Godhand slipped my mind. That game is possibly the best experience I've ever had. Nintendo Hard, completely nonsensical plot, and just all around fun.
Something just hit me.....
