I used to be. Right before the gamecube was released (i REALLY wanted one) i realised that it was either videogames or music. I chose music, and i don't regret that for one second. It would have been cool to get that gamecube, but i can't have everything. I'm perfectly happy with my guitar [:D]
I am a hard core PC gamer.
And I am not afriad to admit it.
That being here....alone....in my room.....where its safe......I think.
..........
Can not wait for HL2!!! Used to be an avid Counter-Strike player, now I mostly play Americas Army and Desert Combat when I have the time.
I am a serious gamer. You speak to me about Nintendo and I can tell you just about anything. In about a month I will be starting college where I will be majoring in Computer Engineering. I want to get a job with Nintendo and design a new console system, but if Nintendo is not hiring I might consider working for some other video game company. This gives you an idea of just how much I love video games.
Yes, I went through a period where I couldn't stop playing Unreal and Unreal Tournament also Half-Life. Had to keep it quiet though. Enjoyed it a lot but had to move on because it's so addictive and time consuming although loads of fun.
Very best,
I am a gamer. I laid off the PC a lot more than last year heh. So the time that I am on the PC, I play games when I am free from PC work.
I play MOHAA I use to play Half LIfe Single Player but I got it done!
The only HL I play is HL mods. I play Counter-Strike more than anything. I look forward to HL2
Oh I forgott to mention that I am only a PC gamer. I can not stand PS2, XBOX, Gamecube and what not. I do not like the controlls, because I play FPS games and playing them on the PC is better because of the mouse and its accuracy.
Hello,
I'm a gamer too. However, it's been awhile since I really got into a game, as I can't afford to keep buying the new systems.
The last game I beat was Zelda 64: The Ocarina of Time. I really wish I had the money to buy the Gamecube, as I would love to play the new Zelda. [:)]
Take care,
I applied for a job at Nintendo, too. It was a graphic designer position. Needless to say I never got a callback. I fathom they get more applicants than Microsoft. (I subscribed to Fortune magazine last year, and they had an article on top companies to work at. I think Microsoft had one of the highest rates of applicants to available jobs)
BTW, don't feel ashamed to be a gamer. Just be yourself and happy with who you are. It's those who are young at heart who live the fullest lives, in my opinion. [:)]
Heh, I'm hardcore gaming as well, although I really cannot stand Xbox or PS2. The best 128-bit systems have been and always will be GameCube and Dreamcast. You have no idea how much it annoys me when someone says that Gamecube is kiddie games. DO I LOOK LIKE A KIDDIE?! :p
Sure, I'll give you that Halo is awesome, but it gets old fast. The GCN equivolent (Metroid Prime) is ACES! And even though I am 17, I have a knack for thems lil party games. Seriously when it comes down to it, Super Monkey Ball 2 is AWESOME!!! Those lil monkeys play tennis, soccer, baseball, bowling, golf, pool, you name it!! And then there's Mario Party 4 (and 5!!) OH MAN! So much fun. And can you even have a CHANCE against Super Smash Brothers: Melee?!?!
Now i sound like a kiddie :p... Well we have Resident Evil 0.
You're lucky that Soul Calibur 2 is coming out for all the systems because if not, it'd've been GCN only. We have sega on our side, meaning we get kickin games like Sonic Adventure 2 Battle and Monkey Ball.... And nintendo has Zelda!! Wind Waker was SO cool! Starfox, mario, kirby, samus, link, sonic... We have video game legends on our side. You get Master Chief. (chuckles). Follow the Gamefaqs tournament closely, because kirby and the sonic team is goin ALL The WAYYY!
Well, I'm gonna give you Half-Life 2. I am NOT a pc gamer, but I saw the 30-minute preview of the game. I'm gonna buy it just for the amazing physics capabilities within :p
PICTURES!
Super Monkey Ball 2
(http://www.gamesdomain.com/gamecube/reviews/monkey09.jpg)
(http://www.kenston.k12.oh.us/khs/video_games/screenshots/smb2_3.jpg)
Sonic Adventure 2 Battle
(http://www.sonicteam.com/sonic2b/shots/btl_030.jpg)(http://shop.himeya.com/products/gamecube/sonic_adv2/sonic_adv21.jpg)(http://shop.himeya.com/products/gamecube/sonic_adv2/sonic_adv22.jpg)(http://www.sonicteam.com/sonic2b/shots/btl_16.jpg)
Golden Sun 2 (For Gameboy Advance!!)
(http://members.aol.com/animemaster6500/images/eclipse.bmp)(http://members.aol.com/animemaster6500/images/magaera2.bmp)(http://members.aol.com/animemaster6500/images/catastrophe.bmp)(http://members.aol.com/animemaster6500/images/iris.bmp)
That last set is off a Hand-Held game!!! I love that game. SOO Much. It's the one i talked about in the other topic... Whoooo... Some of the screens are big, like the last 4 GS2's because they're bitmaps. The total isnt bigger than peacefuls' :p
Thanks for listening, and looking at my favorite games :D
~Squeek
Squeek you named several of my favorite games. That is just the tip of the iceberg there are many more great games to come specifically Final Fantasy games which will be a pleasant surprise considering there has not been a Final Fantasy game on a nintendo system in nearly a decade. Then there is Star Wars: Rogue Squadron 3 "Rebel Strike" which continues one of the greatest starwars series to date. The list continues on and I will not continue to list more games but there are many more to come. Nintendo is not kiddie if you don't believe me check out "Conker's Bad Fur Day" for Nintendo 64. I warn you though this IS inappropriate for childern.
Respectfully,
Links Shadow
Are those pictures 3d rendered in realtime, or a video? I would think that top picture is real if I wasnt told otherwise.
Yea although I hate Final Fantasy :p
and beavis - that's a realtime screenshot. Probably taken after a win, because she looks happy. That's 128-bit systems for ya.
Comment on the monkeys. Not just the monkeys (and the perfectly roundness of the ball they're in :D) but the backgrounds that arent fixed! Whooo...
~Squeek
I use to be a big gamer but not really any more. I still enjoy playing a game but it seems to take me forever to complete them now. I barely have time for much of anything. I am still working on completing Vampire:TM Redemption and the first Resident Evil on PS. I have completed Resident Evil 2 & 3 though. [:)] This sort of works out for the best though because I can get those really cool games from a few years ago pretty cheap now. Oh yeah, I played Everquest for awhile too.
Geez, I feel like I'm in the stone age and I'm only 14, we have a super nintendo and a PS2 but the PS2 collects dust because I can't stand it. On the other hand, my friends and I are hard core super nintendo freaks. Donkey Kong and Mario [^]
I knew I wasn't the only gamer in here! We're taking over![;)]
Anyway, I wanted to comment on what you said Nick. You have no idea how many people tell me what you said, which is that they had to give it all up because it was too time consuming, like a drug or something! I think, however, you can find a happy medium which allows you to enjoy gaming without going overboard...it's just hard to do! I am usually ok, but when I get a new game and get compelled, I'll often play for hours.
I think the other posts show just how much variance there is between gamers and the kind of gaming they do. There are so many different genres of games: sports, action, role playing, educational, racing, and the list goes on. There truly is something for everyone.
I really love the Xbox simply because it has unparalleled hardware capabilities, although the gamecube and PS2 offer an amzing array of high end gaming experiences as well...especially the Gamecube. Xbox rules the realm though...at least for now. When PS3 comes out though it will be top dog...but then the Xbox 2 will come out and so on and so forth. PS3 is due out sometime in 2005 with and so is the Xbox 2. Someday we'll be in real VR I suppose.
Anyway, I would like to see someone here post a little history of video games, it would be interesting. I am going to try to, but I vowed to myself to get some work done today so it'll have to wait.
Until then!
Dan
1972: (Magnavox Odyssey First home video game console)
(http://www.pong-story.com/pics/odyssey/magnavoxpic72.jpg)
I think we've all seen and been amused by Pong at one time or another. It was invented in 1972 by Nolan Bushnell at Atari. Once this game arrived in arcades, nothing would ever be the same. "AVOID MISSING BALL FOR HIGH SCORE", they said.
Most of us haven't seen the arcade Pong, however. Home Pong was released for the consumers in 1974, made possible with a drop in price of microchips. This is the system most of us remember--later, an extended Super Pong was released. And don't forget Video Olympics on Atari 2600!
Atari Pong was the original "hit a ball back and forth" game. Since this was so popular, a company by the name of General Instruments created a chip that held the essence of the game. With this chip, almost 100 companies made Pong clones, including Coleco, Radio Shack, and Magnavox. But nothing compares to the real thing.
Keep your eye on this page, I plan on including some technical information here for those who have no lives.
1976: Fairchild Channel F
(http://www.videogames.org/html/images/ChannelFPlayers_trans.gif)
1977:
Atari 2600
(http://www.videogames.org/html/images/2600Kids.gif)
The magical year of 1985 the beginning of the modern video gaming era:
THE NINTENDO ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM (NES):
(http://www.i-m.de/home/compmuseum/detailbilder/nintendo_nes_gr.jpg)
(http://www.kontek.net/pp/reviews/smb2j_ss.gif)
Heh, I have 3 of those NES's PW :P
I still have my atari!!! Too bad it's broken. Anyone wanna buy pong off me for 40 bucks?
~Squeek
1987, Legend of Zelda is released for the NES in the US!!! The amazing start to the greatest series in video game history, atleast in my opinion and I know there are many others out there that agree with me.
-Link's Shadow
I have to agree with you, Links Shadow, Zelda is definitely the best game in Nintendo history!![:D]
But my favorite game is Shinobi for the PS2(before Final Fantasy X-2 comes out)
Right now I have a ps2 and a gamecube, but I focus on my ps2.
Unfortunately, I usually beat my games in about a week (during school. I've got hebrew school too. Not anymore though.), so it's quite a strain on my wallet.
I like video games too. Specialy ps2 and Pc. PS2 for its great games and huge library of games. No one console has any rpgs that compare to what the ps2 has. and pc for all my online games and first person shooters.
also got an xbox, dont play it much, not very many good games except halo and star wars: knights of the old republic, also i lost the power cord[|)]... and dont want a gamecube though, all cel-shadded kiddie games or rehashed remakes of snes classics. plus virtualy no 3rd party support, and nintendos only good exclusive 3rd party developer, rareware was bought by microsoft, gonna have perfect dark 0 and conker bad fur day on my xbox. i see no point for a gamecube
I too am a gamer! Going to school and working full time, and having a three year old doesn't leave me much time to play though[:(]. But in a way it's not so bad because I get much more done.
The last console game I played, I think, was either Mario Kart for 64, or Tekken Tag Team. I love that game!
The pc games that I played are Everquest (very addicting!) and Dark Age of Camelot.
I prefer RPG's.
I also play online games... wich I do almost everyday! Most of them are from Yahoo! games.
Tippa
I am a GAMER.
Always.
^_^
Games have something in them that other media just.. doesn't.
Think about this:
Games have EVERY other media combines - and best yet they're interactive!
Movies, books, music, art - video games have got it all!
Thank you.
-Alezunde ^_^
P.S. I will play ANY game that I think is good. I like to stay open minded about things. ^_^
From the Gamecube:
(http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/2003/screen3/914734_20030730_screen001.jpg)
(http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/2003/screen3/914734_20030730_screen002.jpg)
(http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/2003/screen3/914734_20030730_screen003.jpg)
(http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/2003/screen3/914734_20030730_screen011.jpg)
PC:
(http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/2003/screen3/914574_20030730_screen001.jpg)
PS2:
(http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/2003/news/07/25/thefast/thefurious_screen001.jpg)
And XBOX:
From Ninja Gaiden:
(http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/2003/screen3/561532_20030724_screen009.jpg)
(http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/2003/screen3/561532_20030724_screen004.jpg)
(http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/2003/screen3/561532_20030724_screen005.jpg)
Hi Dan,
The happy medium became elusive for me, although I'd like to start another game. My computer has a high end graphics card (I replaced the old one myself) so that makes it more fun. Even though I'm a very peaceful guy, I do love those shooter games! [8D]
Thanks for starting this nice 'fun' [:D] thread!
Very best,
*drooooool*
Thanks for the eye candy!! ^^ I'm a Gamer too, as is my bf. Yay for magic glowing boxes!!
Nick,
This is a fun topic, isn't it!? You know when I read your post it reminded me of one more reason I play, it's a very effective form of escapism... and it's much less dangerous than other forms of escapism I employed in the past as a reckless youth. Nevertheless, it is worth mentioning that many people, especially children, waste dangerous amounts of time playing games and watching t.v. and suffer physical, emotional and mental consequences. Setting limits in all things is a must.
You mean like a frag limit, right? [;)]
Yeah it can be at times too easy for an individual to get "sucked in" to a game, or just games in general. I think the biggest
responsability for parents is to make sure that thier kids
realize that it is just a game, it's not real life, and there
are other tings to do.
However I also look at gaming as an good way for people to
let go of thier more "socially unaceptable" thoughts and
behaviors. That is one of the reasons I like games like
Grand Theft Auto, Carmageddon, Postal, and a slew of others
that have been attacked for being "too violent". I see very
little harm in games like that as long as the person knows
where the line is. And it is not up to the gaming industry
to teach that. That's the parents job.
I am not a violent person either but I like games where I
can hurt, maim, destroy, steal, lie, cheat, and do all those
other things I would never do or can not do in real life.
Hello! I´m a gamer too, and i´m starting to get crazy if i don´t see in the nest weeks "UFO: Aftermath". I´m a XCOManiac[:P]. That´s the best game ever!
The song "Too Much Time on my Hands" is running through my head now. Where do you guys/gals find the TIME for all this? Ah, youth.
But then again, I think of all that time I spend shoe shopping. Over 100 pair, and fancy italian ones at that. All in their own fancy boxes with little labels on them. In other words, I guess everyone needs a hobby!
I have to agree that Zelda is a great game. It is my favorite NES game. I wish I knew where my original NES is. I am in the mood to play it. I guess I will have to settle for the game boy Zelda.
I wish I had time, Tisha. I rarely get to play any games. I barely have any time for meditation and energy work.
Fond memories:
(http://www.existent.org/writings/images/zelda_nes.jpg)
(http://www.planetnintendo.com/thewarpzone/boxes/exite1.jpg)
(http://www.nesplayer.com/reviews/KungFu/snap001.jpg)
Takin' it back a bit further:
(http://members.aol.com/pbjurman/pitfall.jpg)
Anyone here ever a Castlevania fan like I was?:
(http://orbita.starmedia.com/~irado2/vipersite/gif/nes_castlevania.GIF)
(http://www.nesplayer.com/reviews/castlevania/titl.gif)
CONTRA (how could have I forgotten!?)
(http://www.nesplayer.com/reviews/contra/contrashot1.gif)
(http://www.nesplayer.com/reviews/contra/contrashot2.gif)
Check out this review from http://www.nesplayer.com/reviews/contra.htm
that I found on the web:
CONTRA
NES
2 Player
Shooter/Platformer
Everyone has played Contra; it turned out to be the kind of game that was permanently attached to the NES name. Contra was the kind of game that did everything right, or close to it. This is the game that set a standard that hasn't been fully matched to this day.
Aliens are invading the Earth, and it's up to two soldiers to infiltrate their base and destroy the alien heart. What this translates into is unadulterated action where quick thinking and an itchy trigger finger are the skills you'll need to survive.
The Contra plays like any other side-scrolling game with bullets, expect here the bullet count reaches Robotron portions. In Contra, there really isn't a reason to stop shooting (especially with turbo fire). Kill enemies, overcome obstacles, collector power-ups, and beat the level boss; that's really all there is to it. In looking back, that's all there needed to be to it.
The power-ups provide great assistance throughout the game. You start with a standard rifle, and can acquire machine guns, flamethrowers, and lasers. The weapons all have their own distinct advantages to match the player's style. Smart bombs and invincibility power-ups are also available.
In between side-scrolling levels, players will have to shoot there way through enemy bases from a behind-the-character view. This mode is an interesting diversion from the rest of the game, though is arguably not as enthralling as the side-scrolling portions. Players must hit certain targets to blow open security doors while avoiding enemy fire, bombs, and rolling canisters. This mode involves ducking fire, waiting for the right moment, and attacking. It's unique, but not as mindless as the rest of Contra.
Contra's graphics are definitely top-notch. The beautifully rendered surroundings breath personality, and characters and enemies animate well. Save for some flicker and the occasional plain boss, the graphics are perfect.
The game's sound is everything a game should strive for. Weapon effects are all unique and sound great, and all of the other effects (explosions, mostly) bring the game together. The music is highly memorable, with every track well composed and appropriate for each situation. This is the pinnacle of NES music.
The controls perform very well. Shooting and jumping are all has to be worried about. The heroes can shoot in seven directions while standing, six while running, and eight while jumping; the options are vast and flexible. The only hiccup is the base levels, where more deaths result than necessary due to the sometimes-finicky controls.
Deaths, of course, are common in any case. Contra is a challenging game, with three lives, a handful of continues, and one-hit kills on your side, guarantee ample resistance. Unless you use the Konami Code, this Contra will put up a tough fight.
Like all NES children of the eighties, I played Contra whenever I got the chance. I purchased a copy of my own a few years back for six dollars, a price that still holds today. I can't imagine all of the hours this game would have eaten up if I owned it when I was younger.
......BOTTOM LINE: Contra is phenomenal fun that can't be overestimated. It's one of the best NES games and a testament to the NES library. A must-have masterpiece.
-The Collector
Hey Peaceful...
UP UP DOWN DOWN LEFT RIGHT LEFT RIGHT B A B A START!!!
Know what that is? :D I OWN contra. I RULE the game. YAAAAAAAA!!!
Thanks for the nostalgia :D
~Squeek
Anyone ever played the old Infocom text adventure games such as Zork I-III, Planetfall, Infidel etc? No graphics, only the description of a room and your imagination and memory.
Now that I've thought about them, I'll have to dig them up and see if I can still complete them.
2cents & L&L
jouni
Dear PeacefulWarrior,
I agree Contra is an awesome game. I don't own the original Castlevania but I do have the second one called Simon's Quest. I still have to say Duck Hunt is my favorite game. I love that stupid dog that fetchs the birds. Especially when he cries when you fail.
Hey Squeek,
They make T-shirts with that on there with the caption,
"The Ultimate Code"
Actually they are starting to make a lot of shirts with various old school gamer stuff on them. There pretty cool.
My favourite games are all DIABLO games, all ZELDA games, Final Fantasy 3, Final Fight, Street Fighter, then Dark Age of Camelot (MMORPG), Max Payne, Counter-Strike.
But my favourite virtual world is my own made [;)]
SQUEEK- you know what's funny, everybody says "BABA select start" but I always did ABAB select start...so I wonder if you can do it either way or just bb or aa[?]
And for you LINKS SHADOW:
(http://www.planetnintendo.com/thewarpzone/boxes/duckhunt.jpg)
(http://www.watershedonline.ca/community/personal/Joel/IMAGES/NES-Pages/Duck-Hunt/DH-2-L.gif)
(http://www.nesplayer.com/duckhunt/dog/snoopdoggydogg.gif)
A king. A legend. A god. A dog. One of the most famous figures from the NES era, 'the hunting dog', is both beloved and notoriously annoying. Bullets can't hurt him, oh no, nothing can kill this dog. Go ahead, try it, he still springs up from behind the tall grass like always. Well, what would you expect from a Nintendo-made game? Did you think that by shooting the dog with a large orange plastic gun would then lead to it quietly falling to the ground in less death? Nope, you can only do that to the birds (silly!).
Context tells us that this dog is on our side, and happily holds up recently killed birds by their necks, then burrows below the grass again. But what exactly does this hunting dog do with all of these dead birds? Some NES experts say he saves your hunt for later, potential trophy displays. However, skeptics disagree, saying that the hunting trip never ends because the dog has another use of these ducks.. that of an evil use. These Nintendo cults believe that the dog is really associated with a witchcraft,devil figure that uses the infinite amount of ducks for sacrifical ways thus granting it IMMORTALITY!!!! Which
From:
http://www.nesplayer.com/duckhunt/dog.htm
MAN SHOOTS DUCK HUNTING DOG!
from: http://www.themushroom.com/mush0114/duckhuntdog.html
by Ryan Fulton and Josh Byra
(http://www.themushroom.com/mush0114/images/duckhuntdog0114p.gif)
The last known photo of "that damn dog."
SHREVEPORT, LOUISIANA--Bruce Shamson was questioned today about the fatal shooting of a dog near a duck pond. He had told his friends that he had "finally shot that gosh darn dog." The body was never found, however.
Actually, Shamson had not shot a real dog, rather, he had cracked a code in his Game Genie that allowed him to shoot the laughing dog in the NES game, Duck Hunt.
"I been playin' that game fer nearly 14 years now, and I finally had enough of its friggin' laughin' every time I missed. I figgered out the code last week, when I started mixin' up the letters in my Game Genie. I didn't think anything was gonna happen, but when I missed that last time, and he popped up from them bushes, I put a bullet right between his friggin' eyes," Shamson boasted. "Now that I got the code, the damn dog don't laugh so friggin' hard anymore, cause it know I mean bidness."
We asked him what the code was, so that other players could finally take out their aggressions on "that gosh darn dog," but he refused to tell us, saying, "I figgered it out, and I ain't givin' it to nobody! If you wants it, you gonna have to pay for it just like everbody else. I kin make up to $200 dollars a day lettin' my friends pick that sumbitch off when he laughs at em'. They willin' to pay 75 cents for every round they get to shoot his butt."
"Next week, I am gonna try to get the code that will let me tie his fuzzy butt up and load him into that clay pigeon machine. That way, not only can I blow him to bits as he is howlin' through the air at 50 miles an hour, but if I miss then he's gonna be some busted up. Guess who gonna be laughin now!"
Animal rights activist Laura Spitzer, Shamson's neighbor, says that she thinks that it is cruel and inhumane for him to shoot the dog repeatedly.
"Even though it is not a real dog, electronic pets need love and care too! That's why I went and bought out the entire shelf of Gigapets at our local Toys R' Us. They looked lonely and hungry on the shelf there, and I couldn't bear to see them hurt no more," Spitzer said.
When asked about Ms. Spitzer, Shamson remarked, "Stupid grump."
The Mushroom is still looking into the possibility of inbreeding in both the Spitzer and Shamson bloodlines.
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I had no idea this dog is so popular!:
http://www.rytrix.com/c0r3y/killtheduckhuntdog.html
PLAY THE GAME AT:
http://starterupsteve.servepics.com:60000/swf/duck_hunt.html
That is hilarious PeacefulWarrior, I have never seen that before. God I wish I had that code. Oh well, I can still kill him in my lucid dreams. Hehe, that'll show him.
LOL!!! I Have 5 copies of Super Mario Bros / Duck Hunt :D
The ultimate code? how sad is that? :p Remember those little boxes? The "S", "L", "M", "F", "B"? Spread, Laser, Machine Gun, Flamethrower, ???? what did the B stand for?!! LoL
Ohh put peaceful, I'm afraid you forgot the best game of all time. It's a shame. They're gonna put this thing on the GBA. Are you ready? READY???!!
(http://sin.paconline.net/images/logo.gif)
:D :D :D
(http://www.lysator.liu.se/~wizkid/arcade/pics/bubble1.jpg)
(http://www.lysator.liu.se/~wizkid/arcade/pics/bubble2.jpg)
MAN GOOD TIMES :D
~Squeek
Oh man how could I ever forget about Bubble Bobble. Such a great game, and it goes on forever, almost. I love the fat final boss. Oh man this topic has caused me to put my gamecube on the shelf and pull out my NES. I have been playing my NES for the last 3 days, good times.
hehe now i remeber Bubble Bobble, i played it on my first computer - Commodore 128 [:D]
Hello
I'm gonna make this short,
Neverwinter Nights FOREVER!
Malvina
Oh man....yeah I am a gamer....and PROUD of it!!!
....must....play....more....action quake 2.....
I've done some mapping too in the last year, which is pretty sweet. If there are any quakers out there:
http://www.zen8492.zen.co.uk/newmap.zip (no weapons there, cos we always play action all weaps)
and (bwahahahaha)
http://www.zen8492.zen.co.uk/flyjumpboy.bsp
http://www.zen8492.zen.co.uk/leetman2.bsp
the last two....lol.....huge leet jump maps. Like tony hawkes 2 only with all the action weapons, bigger and MUCH cooler.
Here's some shots from the first, more serious map,
(http://www.zen8492.zen.co.uk/Image1.jpg)
(http://www.zen8492.zen.co.uk/Image2.jpg)
getting air time (love leet jumping.....maps built around being l337!!)
(http://www.zen8492.zen.co.uk/airtime.jpg)
damn you x-boxers......stealing Halo off the PC!!! And I am STILL waiting for it.....grrrrrrr.......
So yeah, love gaming, but its mildly worrying when I'm sniping people in my dreams, and its like real life....hmmm....
How about Return to Castle Wolfenstein?
This game kept me busy for a while. I had to get rid of all those bad Nazis.
(//forums/uploaded/Nick/Wolfenstein.jpg)
BubbleBobble was/is an amazing game, I remember staying up till all hours of the night and day playing that thing...and then, of course, came Bust-a-Move from the same company and with the same little dino characters, it was the game in which you shot bubbles and if you line up three they burst, that is also a great game.
Attention all you gamers, go to:
www.gametrailers.com
All the upcoming games...
By the way, scroll down to Vivendi's titles and click on "Half-Life 2 E3 2k3" and let me know what you think (those of you with 56k are in for a wait, but it's WELL worth it!)
15 - DAY WARNING!!!!
The best game of the year, SOUL CALIBUR 2, Comes out in America on August 27th... 15 days from today. PICS!!!
(http://209.196.49.115/soulcalibur2/downloads/screens/spawn/005.jpg)
IT'S FRIGGIN SPAWN!!!
(http://209.196.49.115/soulcalibur2/downloads/screens/spawn/006.jpg)
**Drools**
(http://209.196.49.115/soulcalibur2/downloads/screens/link/007.jpg)
(http://209.196.49.115/soulcalibur2/downloads/screens/link/012.jpg)
LOOK! It's KILIK!! Whoooooooooooooooooo..
(http://209.196.49.115/soulcalibur2/downloads/screens/link/017.jpg)
FRIGGIN AMAZING!!!
Buy this game. For any system, it's on all 3.
~Squeek
Hardcore HALO fan here.[^] Easily the best FPS yet. Halo 2 will no doubt annihilate the competition.
big time but don't have much time for it....used to have one of the mmost massive "classic" game collections too (ebayed it last year for 12k) i love Halo and the older games that were repetitive and required skills and reflexes (centipede, gyruss...those kinds) also a huge MK player.....many lucid dreams have begun playing videogames (and entering them ;)
Is that Link in Soul Calibur??? Whoa...I didn't know he was making appearances outside the world of Nintendo. That game looks great, but could you explain to me exactly what the allure of S.C. is?
Technically Link is staying in the Nintendo Universe because he only appears in the Gamecube version.
HAve you played the original soul calibur? Then you'd understand :P
Soul calibur is the best 3-d fighting game of all time. They had so much you could do in the game, and there's so much more in 2. The appeal of the game is all in the graphics.
Here's the breakdown for ya.
X-box - Your secret character is SPAWN. The comic book character (seen in my previous post.) Spawn has many good features, like his friggin HUGE axe, and spiked glove and boot. He's not TOO fast, but he's immensely strong.
PS2 - Your secret character is HEIHACHI (Hi-yat-chi). He's from Tekken or something, I don't know, I don't care :P Heihachi is your combo king. He's not strong, but he can link together enough stuff to drop your health a considerable amount. He's ugly.
GCN - Our secret character is LINK. We all know Link. He gets ALL his stuff, sword, shield, boomerang, bow and arrows... even some weaponry you probably don't know of. Like some stuff from OLLLD zelda games. (Cane of byrna?) (MIRROR SHIELD!)
Here's the 3 peoples. The first is how the creators wanted the character to look, the second is how the character really looks.
Heihachi -
(http://209.196.49.115/soulcalibur2/downloads/screens/heihachi/000.jpg)(http://209.196.49.115/soulcalibur2/downloads/screens/heihachi/001.jpg)
Spawn -
(http://209.196.49.115/soulcalibur2/downloads/screens/spawn/000.jpg)(http://209.196.49.115/soulcalibur2/downloads/screens/spawn/001.jpg)
Link -
(http://209.196.49.115/soulcalibur2/downloads/screens/link/000.jpg)(http://209.196.49.115/soulcalibur2/downloads/screens/link/001.jpg)
Check out that last one :p AWESOME!!!
That's the appeal.
~Squeek
Inguma,
Did you create those levels yourself? If so I am impressed.
Squeek:I actually played the original Soul Calibur and I thought it was a good game, but nothing to get too excited over. I will definetly rent the new one though because those screenshots do look great.
Dan - yeah! The one shown, it flows really well, good for sniping and handcannons.....which is lucky since those weapons ROCK, my favourites (as shown)! Big but *very* fast map, me and my mate have spend maaaaaany hours "testing" ([;)]) it.
Slowly, we're moving to rq3 (reaction quake 3), q2 is so 80's lol....
Inguma,
As soon as you have some new screens, throw them up, I am anxious to see. Have you seen the trailer for Half_Life 2? They are actually going to package editing tools with the game, at least the PC version, as I am sure you are aware, the mods for half-life 1 are far more popular than the actual game. The half-life 2 engine is supposed to be amazing. The E3 trailer for the game (aval at www.gametrailers.com) shows off the new engine and you can actually hear a guy commenting on the physics engine, etc. Check it out and let me know what you think.
Dan
PlayStation: Evolve, Multiply, Conquer
Rob Fahey 16:25 30/05/2003
This week's announcement of Sony's sleek new PSX home entertainment device caused ripples in both financial circles and in the electronic entertainment media, along with much speculation about what this means for PS3 and the future of the PlayStation brand. Rob Fahey looks at PSX, PSP and PS3, and the evolution of Sony's gaming ambitions.
Anyone who has been watching Sony's ambitions in the games market, since the death of its SNES CD drive collaboration with Nintendo spawned the PlayStation project, will know one thing - this is no idle dabbling in a new marketplace for the Japanese giant, and never was. Sony clearly sees the games market as a stepping stone to dominance of the home entertainment sector, and in keeping with the approach of many Japanese companies, it has a long-term gameplan for its PlayStation brand and technology.
Another Japanese corporate trait which Sony displays very clearly - and frustratingly for commentators - is that of playing its cards close to its chest, and peering into the company's future plans is a task that involves a lot of educated guessing (and judging from some of the commentary on the web, uneducated guessing) and, where that fails, simple speculation.
This week, however, Sony chose to show us a few of its cards at a press conference in Tokyo, where the company announced a new consumer product - the PSX - and gave us further insight into plans for its upcoming handheld platform, the PlayStation Portable. The recently promoted SCE boss, Ken Kutaragi, unveiled the most solid indicator yet of where Sony's business as a whole is going over the next decade, as the company's plans gradually focus in on the PlayStation brand, and various technology strands - ranging from minidisks, PDAs and microprocessors to Blu-Ray media technology and Memory Stick solid state storage - converge.
It says a lot about Sony that Ken Kutaragi is considered by many to be an obvious future candidate for the top job at the company. Sony's ambitious vision of the future is all about electronic entertainment and gaming is the core part of that vision - and, ironically enough, may be the catalyst which drives Sony to become the Microsoft of the early 21st century.
PSX - Sony's Stealth Console
"The 'X' in PSX refers to the 'crossover' of games and electronics," explained Kutaragi at this week's unveiling of the new device, "but it also stands for 'extraordinary'". The man certainly has a flair for hyperbole (remember when playing on a PS2 was going to be just like jacking into the Matrix?), but considering what he was announcing, we're actually in agreement. PSX is extraordinary, not because of the hardware itself, but because of its importance to the PlayStation "roadmap" and because of the ambition it reveals.
It's tempting, though, to write PSX off as being not a lot more than the PlayStation 2 equivalent of Panasonic's Q - a games console in a shiny silver box with some added media functionality. After all, there's nothing in this device which isn't available on the shelves of electronics retailers in Akihabara already - TiVo style hard drive video recorders are hardly rare, standalone DVD burners are gradually dropping in price and becoming more widely available, and the PlayStation 2 is practically ubiquitous.
However, the integration of all of those devices into a single box is an important step for Sony, and the fact that the company has chosen to stick with a variation of the PlayStation brand for the product is a clear indication of where the brand is being led. Over a quarter of a century ago, Bill Gates stated that Microsoft's aim was to put "a PC on every desktop and in every home"; Sony's aim now is to put a PlayStation at the heart of every living room and in every pocket.
A key element of that aim is making PlayStation more acceptable to the world at large. The PlayStation 2 is hardly a thing of beauty ("Darth Vader's toaster" remains our favourite description of the hardware) but it's fine in the context of a bachelor pad, a teenager's bedroom or hidden away in a cupboard under the television of a family living room. In order to achieve mass market acceptance, though, that's not enough. The design conscious must be on board - and crucially, that includes the female sector.
You can be sure that that's a core part of the reasoning behind PSX - and it's why it's already been dubbed as a "stealth console" in gaming circles. With an understated silver finish, a sleek front panel, a slot loading mechanism and all the ugly ports hidden away around the back (including even the joypad ports), it doesn't look like a console - it looks like the best looking DVD player that money can buy.
PSX will bring the PlayStation out of the bedroom or the den, and into the living room - right where Sony wants it. With the installed base of the PlayStation 2 hovering in the 50 million range at the moment, the "serious" gaming credentials of the platform are firmly established; Sony is free to start bringing the words "PlayStation" to the lips of the vital mass market sector that PSX aims squarely for, secure in the knowledge that its reputation among the core gaming demographic is unassailable.
Of course, that's not all there is to PSX. "The PSX will be more than just a PS2 compatible," Kutaragi told the audience in Tokyo earlier this week. "I think it has the power to change the way you see all digital appliances."
Hyperbole at work again, naturally, but there's no doubt that the media centre capabilities of the system easily match any other selection of devices you might care to wire up under your television. It's a world-class product which will be high on many wishlists both in Japan and overseas this Christmas, and it's a clever move to associate the PlayStation name with it.
It's also a step in the direction of making PlayStation into more than just a gaming device. The SCPH-50000 revision of the PS2, announced earlier this month, added more advanced DVD playback to the console, but the PSX elevates this approach to a whole new level, confirming completely the conclusions of commentators who have seen the PlayStation as a pitch into the general home entertainment market from the outset.
With a PSX under your television, the PlayStation isn't just something you turn on to play a game any more; it's what you turn on to watch TV or look at TV listings, to record your favourite programmes, to watch movies, to listen to music or - potentially - to download new media over a broadband connection. That's a compelling proposition, and a vision of exactly where Sony plans to go with the PS3 - or at least, with PS3 compatible devices, if not with the core console itself.
Microsoft, of course, has the same plan - and it could be argued that Microsoft was only spurred into entering the console market in the first place because it realised where Sony's gameplan was leading, and recognised the threat posed to its own plans to dominate the home media space. However, the PSX completely leapfrogs the media capabilities of the Xbox, even if it is a device aimed at quite a different market - and more importantly, it shows just how good Sony are at that particular part of the game, sending a clear shot over Microsoft's bows ahead of the inevitable showdown between Xbox 2 and PS3.
Sony is reminding us that it was making incredibly desirable pieces of consumer electronics which people paid through the nose to put into their living rooms when Bill Gates was still thinking it might not be a bad idea to learn how to program computers. The game isn't quite that simple, but it's a powerful message nonetheless.
PlayStation Portable - The New Walkman?
The PlayStation Portable is gradually being revealed as a far more complex and interesting beast than the handheld console we all took it for at E3. If the PSX is a stealth device designed to bring the PlayStation brand into living rooms it has previously been unable to penetrate, the PSP is no less a stealth console - designed to sit neatly in the pockets of people who wouldn't even consider carrying a GBA SP or an N-Gage.
Originally introduced by Ken Kutaragi as the "Walkman for the 21st century", the PSP appears to be exactly that - not so much a portable games console, as a media centre in your pocket, and perhaps more importantly, a satellite of the main PlayStation media centre which resides in your living room.
Like the PSX, the PSP integrates a selection of technologies drawn from across Sony's consumer electronics division into a single device. Technology, and experience developed over years of working on portable music players, solid state memory, miniature optical media, PDA devices and secure digital distribution systems, are being combined in a single product which, if not exactly a culmination of those efforts, is certainly a major milestone on the roadmap.
The PSP is a music player, a movie player and a game player - with Sony seemingly keen to emphasise that it's all three of those things simultaneously, rather than a games console that happens to play back music and video files. Once again, we see the same approach being adopted here as with the PSX - your PlayStation Portable isn't just the system you turn on to play a videogame on the move, it's what you carry around to listen to music or watch video on the train, and possibly even to perform basic PDA functions. PlayStation becomes synonymous with all kinds of electronic media, rather than just games - exactly where Sony wants to position the name.
A lot of things about the PSP remain unclear, though. The exact specifications of the system with regard to gaming haven't been revealed yet, although it's obvious from Kutaragi's statements both yesterday and at E3 that the console has been designed to provide high quality 3D graphics, easily surpassing the performance of the PSone.
Whether the system will play PSone games in some form remains open to speculation, though. Some have suggested that it may be possible to upload your PSone titles to the system, either using Memory Sticks or rewritable UMD discs (the 1.8GB Minidisc style storage media used by the device); however, sadly for the consumer, it's much more likely that Sony will opt to repackage select parts of the PSone back catalogue and sell them as PSP titles, in much the same way as Nintendo has done with SNES titles and the GBA.
What little we know about the design so far is promising, however, and shows how much Sony have learned about portable device design since the introduction of the original Walkman. The system will have a USB 2.0 port as standard, presumably enabling connection to your PC (or PS2/PSX/PS3...) so that you can upload ATRAC music files sourced from your own CD collection or from an online digital music store. A lithium-ion battery rather than awkward AA batteries (like the GBA SP) is sure to be a popular move, as is the inclusion of Memory Stick solid state storage as well as UMD optical discs.
The Memory Stick slot is made particularly interesting by the fact that the PSX also boasts one, and we expect the PS3 to replace proprietary memory cards entirely in favour of Memory Stick. Indeed, it's expected that Sony will shortly bring out an adapter enabling Memory Sticks to be used as memory devices on the PS2 (similar to Nintendo's forthcoming SD Card adapter for the Cube) - a logical move, since both devices use the MagicGate security and encryption system. The gameplay potential for moving data files between PSP and living room PlayStation devices is huge, and we'll be interested to see what developers come up with given this new ability.
Perhaps wisely, Sony have chosen not to follow down Nokia's path of integrating a mobile phone into the mix. Fundamentally, mobile phones and media players lie at opposite ends of the portable device spectrum in terms of design and ergonomics, and some of the criticism of the design of Nokia's N-Gage is entirely on the money - it's very hard to make a good game console that is also a good phone, so you generally end up with a product that is only average in both departments.
However, would anyone be surprised if the generation of Sony Ericsson phones which appears around the same time as the PSP supports a range of link-up functionality with the device? An end-to-end chain of connectivity, from Sony's online media servers to the media centre in your living room to the media player in your bag to the phone in your pocket - it's a wet dream for technologists, media companies and consumers alike, and Sony may be closer to realising it than anyone imagines.
The real loser here, it seems, is Nintendo - whose share price fell over 10 per cent in the hours after Sony announced the PSP at its press conference the day before E3, despite the fact that the Japanese launch of the device is over 18 months off and the specifications are entirely up in the air. "Sony only needs to clear its throat and Nintendo shakes in its boots these days," one analyst commented to us in Los Angeles - but despite the utter dominance of the Japanese sales charts enjoyed by GBA software and the massive unit sales of the console, given the option of a well designed and powerful music, movie and game player in your pocket, who will really have space for a GBA SP in their daily load-out?
PlayStation 3 - The Next Really Big Thing
As interesting as the PSX and PSP announcements and the thinking behind them may be, the real meat of Sony's plans is still a relatively well-kept secret. We know what will power the PlayStation 3, and we have a rough idea of just how powerful the system will be - but the release date, design and functionality of the device remain matters of pure speculation.
One thing that is clear is that PlayStation 3 is going to be the culmination of Sony's plans in this space to date. PSone was a stellar debut in the games market, PS2 built on that success and experimented with new technologies, PSX and PSP will expand the market into new spaces - but PlayStation 3 will be the real deal, standing on the shoulders of those giants and making a serious bid to own the space underneath the world's televisions.
So, what do we know about PS3 from a technical perspective? Well, for a start, it will be based on the Cell microprocessor, which is described as a "supercomputer on a chip" and has been co-developed by IBM, Toshiba and Sony as a next-generation chip for consumer devices. Manufacturing of Cell processors is expected to start seriously over the coming 18 months, although Sony's new fabrication plant for the chip, located in the Nagasaki Prefecture of Japan, probably won't come online until 2006 at the earliest.
Cell is expected to power a range of devices, from mobile devices (PSP 2?) to home entertainment systems and set-top boxes. Although the hyperbole which SCE is wont to spin around all of its new technologies has led to a certain level of suspicion about Cell (and occasionally, cynical if somewhat unfounded accusations that the "mythical" processor is a red herring), the fact is that it's a fairly well understood piece of technology - no more mysterious than the PS2's "Emotion Engine" core, which for all the marketing spin surrounding it pre-launch, was little more than a relatively normal MIPS CPU with some extra instructions tacked on.
Cell, similarly, is a speedy piece of silicon which marks not so much a revolution as an evolution from the types of chip that the companies involved in its development have previously created. The really interesting thing about the chip is that it's been designed to operate in a cluster of similar devices, with an architecture that scales up to accomodate multiple Cell CPUs working in tandem. Of course, you can do that with standard PC chips - many large servers have multiple CPUs, and dual-processor PCs are becoming more popular in the enthusiast market (having been a core part of Apple's line-up for some time), but all the evidence suggests that Cell is uniquely capable in this respect.
PlayStation 3 is expected to sport multiple Cell chips - at least four, and perhaps as many as eight of the devices, quite possibly all nestled on the same piece of silicon. From a development perspective, the transition to writing PS3 code from PS2 code will be a huge one; this isn't a continuation of the same sort of architecture that the PS2 used at all, but like PS2, is a completely new platform for developers to learn. However, it should be noted that parallel processing is a fairly well understood branch of computer science, so while developers may struggle to get to grips with the system initially, it is unlikely to continue the PS2's reputation for being an incredibly tricky machine to develop on.
In terms of the marketing of the device, two different approaches exist for Sony. The company must decide whether the platform is going to be a single integrated device, bringing together both the media centre capabilities of the PSX and the hardcore games console sensibilities of the PS2. This seems the most likely outcome - a single PlayStation media centre device which plays games, movies and music, accesses broadband content and interfaces with portable devices (like PSP), mobile phones and any other relevant gadgets.
However, the company could equally decide to produce a family of PlayStation products, all inter-compatible and based on the same Cell architecture. A stripped down console-only version, similar to the PS2, would appeal to hardcore gamers; a fully specced media centre version would appeal to the same market that PSX targets. Other versions of the console might offer different subsets of the available functionality, depending on where Sony recognises demand for specific types of PlayStation device. In an ideal world for Sony executives, the question asked when you go to buy a new piece of consumer electronics will not be whether you want a PlayStation, but which PlayStation you want.
The question most people really want an answer to regards the launch date of the device, but this is one card Sony is playing very close to its chest indeed. A number of factors will affect this date, not least the availability of Cell - the processor is not expected to be manufactured in high volumes until 2006, although reasonable volumes (perhaps enough for a launch in Japan) may well be available in 2005.
Sony will almost certainly be beaten to market by Nintendo, but Nintendo has no aspirations to creating media centre devices, and as such can probably co-exist happily with its Japanese rival. Microsoft's position, on the other hand, is more difficult. Basing the Xbox on PC technology makes it very developer friendly, but it also cripples the company's options in terms of hardware and makes the manufacturing costs of the console extremely high throughout its lifespan. A difficult balancing act faces Microsoft with the Xbox 2. The PlayStation 3, like its predecessors, will inevitably be ahead of the PC hardware available at the time, so if Microsoft launches ahead of the PS3, it may well find itself underpowered compared with Sony's offering - but if it allows Sony to gain a headstart, then as with the current generation of console wars, more powerful hardware may not be enough to catch up.
Have you tried knights of the old republic yet PeacefulWarrior? I was going to buy an XBox just for that game but I'll wait for the pc version.
Oh and...
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I´m a gamer too!
I´ve got Xbox, PS2 and GC.
Recently bought Tomb Raider: A of D.
/Flummox
[8D]Duuuuuuuude, what game is that last screenshot from?
...and unfortunately I have not tried Knights of the Old R. yet, although I am going to rent it ASAP...I have only heard amazing reviews.
That screenshot is from Silent Hill 2, one of my favorite games. It was a PS2 game but you can get it on Xbox and Pc.
That screenshot has to be from Silent Hill 2 or 3, right?
I can´t play games like that. Not alone anyway ;)
/Flummox
Nerezza: Sorry, didn´t see your reply. :)
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Originally posted by PeacefulWarrior
Inguma,
As soon as you have some new screens, throw them up, I am anxious to see. Have you seen the trailer for Half_Life 2? They are actually going to package editing tools with the game, at least the PC version, as I am sure you are aware, the mods for half-life 1 are far more popular than the actual game. The half-life 2 engine is supposed to be amazing. The E3 trailer for the game (aval at www.gametrailers.com) shows off the new engine and you can actually hear a guy commenting on the physics engine, etc. Check it out and let me know what you think.
Dan
Hey!!! My friend started moving the map on to rq3, but we never got very far. Will do! You play q3 much? I might try and put some bots lines in it, have to learn HOW first of course. If you like I'll mail it to you when its finished.....
OH YEAH the half life 2 trailer does like very cool! Hehehe to be honest though I have a pet hate of counterstrike - its sooo slooooowww!!! And (lol) I think it annoys me so many people play it LOL. Some people like tactics but I just like speed and big, cool guns [:D] hehehehe...
Silent Hill 2 is a really cool game. I liked the simpsons road rage too.
I dont play much but we live with another couple that has an X box. There are some cool games out there.
You know, I don't play Q3, although I'd like to! I am really more of a console gamer, although if I had the money and a high speed connection to the net, I would be a big time PC gamer.
I am still interested in what you're doing with Quake though, so keep us posted in this thread!
Dan
ps- here are some screens from the upcoming Xbox title "Crimson Skies" It is going to be a marvelous game both in single player nad multi player format:
(http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/2003/e3/0513/xb_crimsonskies05131200_screen012.jpg)
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to learn more about this game:
http://www.gamespot.com/xbox/action/crimsonskieshighroadtr/preview_6072442.html
CNN ARTICLE: The shifting culture of video games
More women, families attend video game conference
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/fun.games/08/17/videogame.culture.ap/index.html
I know someone who's brother is on the Crimson Skies team. ;)
But damn, those screens looks like the game is shaping up really nicely.
-Alezunde
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I'm a gamer too. I am currently playing Morrowind, I like RPGs, advantures and strategies. Jedi Knight II was also good, but I'm not a big fan of FPS (unless I have to unleash my rage somewhere [:D]).
i'm a video game junkie... i get hopelessly addicted to any video game i touch, pretty much, but my hugest weakness is the FINAL FANTASY games... i get so sucked into the worlds, so involved with the characters, so addicted to collecting every hidden item, so obsessed with defeating every outrageously difficult monster, so hopelessly entrenched in the entire thing, that i give up all activities here in the "real world" and sit in front of my playstation (1 or 2) for hours on end every day, pausing only for sleep, food, and bathroom trips.... oh and going to work. [:I][8)]
heehee... devil may cry was oodles of fun... and blowing the heads off of zombies is fun... think that was resident evil (there's so many creepy zombie games). anyway, i've had to avoid my consoles in order to get some projects done here in the real world, 'cause i get way too addicted.
Alezunde- "on the team" as in part of the development team?
Yeah, this game looks AMAZING so far, I think I am going to buy it as soon as it's released because it looks like a dynamic, fun game with a great multiplayer potential.
Hi,
This might sound stupid to some of you, but I actually had a PC game stimulate a string of several astral projections that I would probably not have had otherwise. This is what happened:
I had some spare time on my hands and had just bought a new game to enjoy some of it with: Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. Because it was new and I had a lot of spare time that day, I spent several hours racing around the city in the game right before bed. When I closed my eyes to go to sleep that night, I could vividly see myself racing through the city almost as if I was still playing. I kind of watched this image as I went to sleep and it stimulated an OBE. After I came back to my body and reflected for a while on my OBE so I would remember it, I closed my eyes to go back to sleep. The same thing happened over and over again. Atfer the 4th time, I was too tired to keep waking up all the way and reflect on the OBEs to remember them, but I know I had at least 2-3 more the same way (for a total of at least 6-7 in one night). I have not put enough time into a similar game to cause that to happen again, so I am not sure whether it is "repeatable" or if it was just a lucky one time experience.
I'm convinced that it was the sense of motion and the 3D nature of that game that was the stimulus. Because I played for a long enough duration to cause me to see it in my head when I closed my eyes after I quit playing, that probably functioned just like a conscious exit technique would.
Has anybody else had anything like this happen?
--Soulfire
Project Gotham Racing for the Xbox...if you are in to racing games, this is going to be BIG
http://www.xboxgamers.com/?temp_view=view_news.php&viewid=747
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A game that´s looking really interesting is "Killer 7". It´s exclusive for Gamecube. Very special design. Like nothing seen before(in videogames that is).
Flummox.
WELL lookie here! It's the 25th of August! Soul Calibur II comes out in TWO DAYS!!!!
I finally got to test play it. In the demo disc you can only play as Nightmare and Cassandra (Sophitia's little sister.) Cassandra is fast, but she only carries a short sword and shield, so she has very limited range of attacks. Nightmare is even slower than he was before I think... But his attacks hurt the same... It's like 17% damage just getting hit by the sword.
The game comes closer to release.... And I grow more insane.
~Squeek
Flummox- post some screenshots of that game man![:)]
Squeek- give us the low down on S.C.![:P]
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All right, here's my little update (and then I GOTS TA' get to bed!) on the video game scene:
1. CHeck out the new console due to be released. What the ____ going on? It's either going to be AWESOME[8D] or totally WHACK[V]. Seems like a gussied up PC. Supposedly it's to be connected via broadband 24/7/365. Here's the link:
http://www.phantom.net/
Click on the PDF icon in the corner to see the info on it and let me know what you think
2. XIII for all consoles and I think PC...a cell-shaded cartoon/comic book style first person shooter. Here are a few screens:
(http://www.whoisxiii.com/screenshots/launch4_2.jpg)
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(http://www.whoisxiii.com/screenshots/launch4_6.jpg)
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3. I am playing HALO on the net (without Xbox Live)! Although my wife hates it, I drive all the way over where I can get high speed access (cable) and I hook my Xbox up to the PC via ethernet cable and play through GameSpy arcade. FRAGGIN' all night long!
4. TOns of good games coming out soon for every console.
Check:
WWW.GAMESPOT.COM
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Classic gaming conference:
http://www.gamespy.com/articles/august03/classicgamingexpo/
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Let the College Games Begin
Gaming technology and entertainment among college students, courtesy of Pew Internet.
By Pew Internet Project | August 7, 2003
The Pew Internet & American Life Project recently conducted a study on video games and college students. According to their Web site, the Pew Project does "academic-quality research that explores the impact of the Internet on children, families, communities, the work place, schools, health care and civic/political life. The Project aims to be an authoritative source for timely information on the Internet's growth and societal impact, through research that is scrupulously impartial."
In their report on college life and games, they began: "While the last few years have seen tremendous growth in gaming, for one segment of the population, college students, gaming is virtually a commonplace. Computer, video and online games are woven into the fabric of everyday life for college students. And, they are more of a social/socializing activity than most suspected."
Below is a copy of the original PEW report, its findings, and commentary (reprinted with permission). See how life is changing on campuses across the country!
Summary of Findings
All of those surveyed reported to have played a video, computer or online game at one time or another. Seventy percent (70%) of college students reported playing video, computer or online games at least once in a while. Some 65% of college students reported being regular or occasional game players.
Students cited gaming as a way to spend more time with friends. One out of every five (20%) gaming students felt moderately or strongly that gaming helped them make new friends as well as improve existing friendships.
Gaming also appears to play a surrogate role for some gamers when friends are unavailable. Nearly two-thirds (60%) of students surveyed agreed that gaming, either moderately or strongly, helped them spend time when friends were not available.
Two-thirds of respondents (65%) said gaming has little to no influence in taking away time they might spend with friends and family,
Students integrate gaming into their day, taking time between classes to play a game, play a game while visiting with friends or instant messaging, or play games as a brief distraction from writing papers or doing other work.
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Gaming is integrated into leisure time and placed alongside other entertainment forms in their residence, and that it forms part of a larger multitasking setting in which college students play games, listen to music and interact with others in the room.
Most college student gamers seem to associate positive feelings with gaming, such as "pleasant" (36%), "exciting"(34%), and "challenging" (45%). Fewer students reported feeling frustrated (12%), bored (11%), or stressed (6%) by gaming.
Close to half (48%) of college student gamers agreed that gaming keeps them from studying "some" or "a lot." In addition, about one in ten (9%) admitted that their main motivation for playing games was to avoid studying.
College student gamers' reported hours studying per week match up closely with those reported by college students in general, with about two-thirds (62%) reporting that they study for classes no more than 7 hours per week, and 15% reported studying 12 or more hours per week.
One third (32%) of students surveyed admitted playing games that were not part of the instructional activities during classes.
Gaming Comes of Age
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College students are often considered a bellwether of Internet use, but the Internet is not the only technology they have incorporated into everyday life. Thanks to a plethora of technologies (video game consoles, computers, handheld devices, Internet) a range of entertainment options is at their disposal, a range that is much wider than was available to their predecessors. Furthermore, today's college students are using technologies like cell phones, mp3 players and other devices to entertain themselves wherever they may be.
The goal of this study was to learn about college students' use of video, computer and online games, and to determine the impact of that use on their everyday life. To meet those goals the researchers used three approaches. First, surveys were randomly distributed to college students at a wide range of two-year and four-year public and private colleges and universities in the continental United States. Students from 27 colleges and universities participated and the surveys were collected between March 2002 and June 2002, and September 2002 and October 2002. This sample was intended to produce results that would correspond to the demographics for all U.S. college students as reported in The Chronicle of Higher Education's annual almanac issue. The sample was tested against known population parameters (gender, race, age) and found to be reflective of the national population of college students. In all, 1,162 surveys were returned. For results based on the total sample, one can say with 95% confidence that the error attributable to sampling and other random effects is plus or minus 3 percentage points. This study focused on traditional college students, ones who are seeking a college degree and who devote much or all of their time to their studies.
Second, a team of graduate student researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago was recruited to observe the behaviors of college students at 10 Chicago area institutions of higher education. The researchers were trained in ethnographic methods of observation and data collecting, and rotated the times of the day and days of the week they spent in various public settings where college students could be found using computers and the Internet. Third, additional material was based on a previous study of college students' Internet use conducted by this research team for the Pew Internet & American Life Project and on the findings of surveys of Americans about their use of the Internet conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates in 2001 and 2002 for the Pew Internet & American Life Project.
The Context for Games
The 1980s were a boom time for video games. Beginning with Pong, progressing to Space Invaders, and following on to the PC boom with computer-based games, the gaming industry evolved its grip on entertainment slowly but surely. By the late 1990s the Internet's growth and popularity seemed a logical match for video games, but bandwidth, computer processor speed, and the gaming industry's investment in its own devices (Nintendo, PlayStation, etc.) postponed the inevitable merger of interactive games and Internet.
The last few years have been another boom time for the gaming industry. Internet-ready game consoles from Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft (among others), increasing bandwidth, and computers primed for multimedia, have made gaming an increasingly popular form of entertainment. Research conducted in 2002 showed that 60% of U.S. residents age six and older play computer games, and that over 221 million computer and video games were sold in the U.S. Earlier research found that 35% of U.S. residents surveyed said that video games were the most entertaining media activity, while television came in second with 18% saying it was most entertaining. The gaming industry reported sales of over $6.5 billion that same year. Datamonitor estimates online gaming revenues will reach $2.9 billion by 2005. Additional research has claimed that 90% of U.S. households with children rented or owned a video or computer game and that U.S. children spend an average of 20 minutes a day playing video games.
Research conducted by the Pew Internet and American Life Project showed that 66 percent of U.S. teenagers play or download games online. While 57 percent of girls play online, 75 percent of boys reported that they play Internet-games. Although teenagers are reported to play video and computer games for nearly 4 hours a week, some researchers have found that college aged men report playing these games over 15 hours per week.
see rest of article @:
http://www.gamespy.com/articles/july03/pewreport/index3.shtml
The only game that I felt bad about while playing was Everquest. I loved it, but the time needed(early on, now leveling is fast) was insane for someone going to university and a job. Every moment I played it I asked the question, "Couldn't I be doing something better with my time?".
I couldn't stop until I threw out the cd's, all five or six of them.
PC games triggering OBE I am jealous...
I am gamer I am hooked on desert combat... A battle field 1942 mod, and have been ever since I left counter strike behind.
http://www.desertcombat.com. I prefer online multiplayer games than single players. Playing against some other consciousness is good :)
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Are you talking about the game kid icarus for the NES?
Nope, Deus Ex.
My favorite games are Halo and Halflife. I'm looking forward to both sequels around the end of 2003. I would have to say that Halo's plot and scenic aspects are astounding. I believe that Halo 2 involves the Covenant arriving at Earth's doorstep.
AAAAAAARGH
The game of the year... Is still not in my possession... It's September THIRD!!! Something is awry here... hmmm..
GIMME THE GAME!!!!
~Squeek.
I just rented "The Matrix" for the Xbox and, despite some amazing visuals, was very let down by the overall game play and graphics. I think hardcore fans of the film will enjoy it, but overall it really lacks polish and in depth gameplay.
Anyone else played it (it's out for PC and all the major consoles).
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I am looking forward to an amazing fall lineup: Half-Life 2 for the PC and eventually the Xbox...here is a list of upcoming games for the 3rd gen consoles and pc:
Spawn (gc)
Spawn (ps2)
Spawn (xbox)
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2004 (pc)
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Oblivion Lost (pc)
Full Spectrum Warrior (xbox)
Massive Assault (pc)
Ratchet & Clank 2: Going Commando (ps2)
Wallace & Gromit (ps2)
Wallace & Gromit (gc)
Wallace & Gromit (xbox)
Ghosthunter (ps2)
Star Wars Rogue Squadron III: Rebel Strike (gc)
Final Fantasy XI (ps2)
SWAT: Global Strike Team (xbox)
Colin McRae Rally 04 (xbox)
Colin McRae Rally 04 (ps2)
Tony Hawk's Underground (xbox)
Tony Hawk's Underground (ps2)
Siren (Working Title) (ps2)
Games coming out or that have already been released:
WWE SmackDown! Here Comes the Pain (ps2)
Dragon Ball Z: Budokai 2 (ps2)
Call of Duty (pc)
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I have to agree with you PeacefulWarrior on "The Matrix." I played it on Gamecube and was not very impressed with it. I am a fan of the movies and even so I had a hard time getting into the storyline of the game. It had decent graphics but definitely not the best I have ever seen. This is a game that I would recommend renting but not buying as it just does not hold my attention very well.
Yeah..there are definetly games that are great to rent but would only make you depressed if you spent good money on it.
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Here are some more screenshots from various games I thought many of you might enjoy (as you can see I am spending more time in this thread now that the AstralChat has been overrun with infighting and religous zealots.
From "Chaser" (PC)
(http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/chaser/screens.html?page=110)
(http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/chaser/screens.html?page=108)
(http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/2003/pc/chaser/0826/chaser_screen005.jpg)
Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic (xbox)
(http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/2003/xbox/kotor/0715/k_screen011.jpg)
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(http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/2003/xbox/kotor/0715/k_screen005.jpg)
(http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/2003/xbox/kotor/0715/k_screen008.jpg)
(http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/2003/xbox/kotor/0715/k_screen009.jpg)
(http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/2003/xbox/kotor/0715/k_screen002.jpg)
(http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/2003/xbox/kotor/0715/k_screen006.jpg)
(http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/2003/xbox/kotor/0715/k_screen007.jpg)
(http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/2002/xbox/kotor/kotor_screen011.jpg)
(http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/2002/xbox/kotor/kotor_screen013.jpg)
(http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/2002/news/11/06/kotor_screen014.jpg)
(http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/2002/vgnews/051402/knightsoftheoldrepublic/knights_screen013)
You should rename the thread, "The refuge of the damned"/
More screenshots from KOTOR (Knights of the Old Rep.) as per requests from certain people...I can't wait to rent this game! Have any of you played this? I have heard of people going out and buying the Xbox ($179) just to be able to play this game (which might soiund silly but in the next 6 months a number of AMAZING games are being released for the Xbox (Ninja Gaiden, Halo 2, Half-Life 2, Crimson Skies, etc.)
now more from KOTOR (some of these images are concept art for the game):
(http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/2002/vgnews/022802/starwarsknights/knights_screen001.jpg)
(http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/2002/xbox/kotor/kotor_screen019.jpg)
(http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/2002/vgnews/022802/starwarsknights/knights_screen002.jpg)
(http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/2002/xbox/kotor/kotor_screen021.jpg)
(http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/2002/vgnews/022802/starwarsknights/knights_screen003.jpg)
(http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/2002/xbox/kotor/kotor_screen016.jpg)
(http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/2002/vgnews/040902/knightsoftheoldrepublic/knights_screen007.jpg)
(http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/2002/vgnews/051402/knightsoftheoldrepublic/knights_screen005.jpg)
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(http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/2002/vgnews/051402/knightsoftheoldrepublic/knights_screen006.jpg)
(http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/2002/vgnews/051402/knightsoftheoldrepublic/knights_screen016.jpg)
(http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/2002/vgnews/051402/knightsoftheoldrepublic/knights_screen017.jpg)
(http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/2002/vgnews/040902/knightsoftheoldrepublic/knights_screen004.jpg)
(http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/2002/vgnews/040902/knightsoftheoldrepublic/knights_screen001.jpg)
(http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/2002/vgnews/040902/knightsoftheoldrepublic/knights_screen012.jpg)
(http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/2002/vgnews/040902/knightsoftheoldrepublic/knights_screen008.jpg)
"Enter the Matrix"... man this was a waste of my money. It's a great rental game, but WHY did I buy it?! I beat it in a day! The only thing it has over anything else is the preview to The Matrix : Revolution. That will be obselete in a few months. Crap...
Oh well. I still don't have Soul Calibur II. But I'm on edge here because everyone around me in school has it... And if they blurt anything out about the game.... grrr....
~Squeek
Squeek,
What do you think of KOTOR and the those screenshots from it that I put up? Are `you a star wars fan/rpg fan?
-Dan
Actually... I never liked star wars. Rogue Squadron was a great game... Rouge Leader is much too hard.
I love RPGS, but.... I've heard much bad things about this game :)
Got SCII yet? :D
~Squeek
Is anyone else having trouble seeing the pictures? All im getting is red x's.
I am able to see the pictures posted by PeacefulWarrior fine but on one of the earlier pages there are some pictures that weren't uploaded correctly so they appear as the infamous red X.
Damn, everytime I try and look at gamespot, the images never show up.
Almost every image in this thread has been linked or uploaded correctly. COnnection speed, having your browser up-to-date among other things can affect how the images are displayed.
Squeek, you said you "Have heard much bad things about this game..." about Knights of the Old Republic??? It has recieved raving reviews from almost every critic and, like I mentioned before, people are going out to get the Xbox just to play it. Although some people have surely found legitimate reasons not to like it, it seems obvious that by and far this is a very well made game with amazing graphics and solid gameplay.
Here is some info about it:
Reviews from gamers themsleves:
Finally after 2 years it has arrived. This is a truly rich RPG the xbox needed.
Job well done. BioWare has done it again. They have made another RPG that has caught the appeal of the public. Lucas arts made a good choice in letting them develop this game.
With their new game " Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic". A game set four thousand years before Episode 1 you will have the force to command. In either following the path of the lightside, or the path of the darkside is up to you, the player and the creator of your character. Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic gives you hours upon hours of game play, which seems like a never-ending struggle between good and evil. There is a lot of character dialogue in which you choose what your are going to converse in with the A.I. characters and other members of your party. This also determines how the characters will respond to you during the conversations
So lets get started.
When you first pop in the disc. You can now create your character of 3 classes and either male of female. The classes are scoundrel, (which usually relies on their stealth and persuasive skills to get through.) the second one is scout, (people who are good with knowing their surroundings and have good awareness.) and lastly you have the soldier,
(They claim he has no equal in combat.) Then you can make your character male or female.
You start of on a capital cruiser that has been bombarded and attacked by the sith. You have to escape the ship and aid one key character in this whole plot. Once you have left the ship via escape pod, you crash land on a planet called Taris, which has a planet wide quarantined and there is no way to get off the planet with out being melified in to a million pieces by the sith capital ships orbiting the planet.
You wake up and it seems you are just another republic soldier who was on that ship and swore an oath to protect and girl named Bastilia. She is a Jedi and is key to helping the republic in their battle againsed the sith. Later on you team up with her and 8 other party members to find star maps that lead to the star forge. Which is key to supplying the sith with their unlimited arsenal of weapons, ships and supplies.
After teaming up with the other party members, you embark on your journey to become a Jedi and either save the galaxy or dominate it. Like creating your character with 3 classes, when you become a jedi there are three classes again to chose from, there is the jedi guardian, jedi sentinel, and the jedi councilor. Chose between any one of the classes and the effect will be slightly different in the game. Again, this game lets you customize your characters and your party members to the maximum, which is a good option to have I a game of this caliber.
Knights of the old republic is easily a good 40-50 hours long and you will be visiting planets and key locations of the star wars locals like Kashyyyh home planet of the wookies, the desert world of Tatooine, Dantooine where a jedi academy is rumored to be on this planet, Then there is some newly added planets like the water world of Mamman, and the sith planet of Korriban where there is a sith academy.
On each of these planets there is the main quests and there are side quest. For example you can be and arbiter for a murder case to finding a cure for a deadly disease, or even helping other characters out wile on the planets. But you probably wont even do all of the side quests because you mostly will be concentrating on finding the star maps.
Inevitably along the way you will face your grand foe and his henchmen in different location and the occasional Dark Jedi.
Well its pretty obvious that you will have to asses force powers later on in the game, if you are a jedi following the light path, if you want darkside powers like force lightening and force grip, they will cost more force points than lightside powers like cure and valor. Then it goes for the people following the dark path except it's backwards.
In this game there are a lot of mini games. There is swoop racing which is similar to pod racing except you are using swoop bikes instead of pod's, then there is a game called Pazzak. This is basically a card game similar to 21 and blackjack. The first person to 21 wins or you can bust you deck by going over. Then there is a mini game where you set a destination to another planet and along the flight you get attacked by sith fighters and you have to defend your ship from them by blasting 6 of them out of the air before you can make the jump to hyper speed.
The game has good game play and its long. The combat system could be better but I like it like this its turn based. But real-time would have been better.
The sound is a bit glitchy at times but hardly noticeable. the graphics indeed is the best part of the game and the cut scenes in the game are outstanding. The only minor thing is the lip sync is a bit off. But all in all the value of the game is good. The cost of the game is regular price and they even throw in a strategy guide and you get the bundle 20% off and this is at EB. I tilt the game towards a ten cause I think I think this game is amazing i played both ends of the game, The light path and the dark path.
This game has come a long way. From being announced 2 years ago at E3 2001, I was watching the live xbox conference and when I saw the clip of this game I was in aw. I put my money aside for this game right away and I got my money's worth it. From the quality of the game you can see the there was a lot of work and effort put into it and all I can say is if you love RPG's get this game. Of your love Star Wars, get this game. You don't have to be a fan of either to appreciate it but if you like one of the themes that's its either rpg's, or star wars get this game. It is a must buy.
And may the force be with you.
By: Bernard Lorde
By Jedi_Master_Bernard [POSTED: 2003-08-29 11:16:30]
This is a truely great RPG. The fighting is the best I've ever seen in my life! This best part is when you use a lightsabre against another lightsabre, it's flawless! But the other thing is the cast of characters in this game. They are all so unique in their own way. My favorite character is the droid who enjoys killing things. It's just plain fun to hear the characters reactions to what you say. You can also have complete control over what alignment your character is. It's really fun to just goof around and mess with people than being a goody-goody, but it's totally up to you. This is one of the best games I've ever played next to the Final Fantasy games for the Playstaion!
By Wyatt963 [POSTED: 2003-08-21 20:22:23]
For a console lacking in the RPG department, Star Wars: Knights of The old Republic (KOTOR) couldn't come at a better time. BioWare (Developer of Everquest fame) pulls through for Microsoft's console with a hit to Star War's fans and other Xbox owners alike. KOTOR certainly gives the Xbox another "AAA" game. Its story, gameplay and graphics are all something to be desired in other games. And gives Western RPGs a decent shot at competing with the likes of Final Fantasy.
KOTOR was announced with a very interesting gameplay element, the ability to make your character follow the Light Side (Good) or the Dark Side (Bad). This is what attracted gamers (Such as myself) to KOTOR. This element gives the player much more freedom in the game, rather than following a set story line. That this element exists however, might not be the best part of the deal, but rather how it is implemented.
Throughout the game, the player is given options, whether to do or say something good or bad. For example, on the first world, a civilian is being harassed by a group of thugs, you can either help him for free, or help him, then threaten to kill him unless he gives you all his money. Obviously, one leads to the Light Side, the other to the Dark Side. It is also emphasized that doing things the way of the Light Side will be harder than the Dark Side way. Like, in your quest to find an item, a large monster blocks your way, you can poison the water, which will ruin the planets water supply forever, or you can find another way around. Choices like these even lead up to which ending you get, or even what kind of clothing, powers you can use.
But this isn't limited to your main character, all of the people in your party (You can choose up to three from a total of nine.) have the Light/Dark side meter. Some characters are dark, light or neutral when you pick them up on your quest. Your relationship with these characters depends on how you react to their stories, or whether you are on the Dark/Light side.
You are also given the option to pick what type of class you want your character to be (Scoundrel, Scout or Soldier) whether you want it to be a him or a her and what type of stats it should have. There about ten different faces to choose from, however, as you progress through the game, your characters complexion will change depending on which path you choose. Also, the game generates Star Wars type names, so that the player isn't limited to having a name related to a character in one of the Movies.
The gameplay is extremely solid, the difficulty never gets too hard, and rarely gets too easy. If the player listens to the instructions given, they shouldn't have too much of a problem grasping what do to. However, it might be a bit confusing to most people. Up until the end, I found no problems with the game, however I felt the last level was a bit weak, and I experienced some type of bug where my character had no head. It didn't affect the gameplay itself, but just looked a little funky.
There are more than a few weapons and armor to choose from. And you might want to specialize your characters for melee or ranged combat. However, the lightsabers are certainly the best weapon (No surprise there). You can even customize your lightsaber, such as changing the color, or adding different affects (Stunning your enemies, deflects blaster bullets better, does more damage, is more focused). You can also get everything from heavy battle armor, to Jedi Robes (Sorry guys, no Darth Maul-like robes). I did not really come by any guns that made me want to pocket my lightsaber however. Some of the higher-grade weapons and armor are upgradeable, which saves you from having to buy new ones that often.
Of course, being a Jedi and all, your character will get the ability to use Force Powers. Some of these are Dark/Light side specific, like Darth Vader's famous "Choke" ability. You can also throw your lightsaber for ranged attacks. How many and how powerful these Force Powers are depends on your character's type and level.
The graphics are solid as well, though not top-notch for the Xbox. Everything from character models, to environments, to particle effects are nicely done. The sound fits a Star Wars game very nicely, but isn't something your going to remember down the road, probably because you've heard the various Star Wars themes already.
The game was certainly worth the fifty or so bucks you'll be investing in it. I am currently working through it a second time on the Dark Side. I beat it in about 54 hours, though that could be the product of leaving my Xbox on all night once or twice. I'd say it will take 30+ hours to beat the first time through for most people. Also remember to save often, as I have died and lost more than an hours worth of work more than once, but, a neat feature to fix that, is if you go into a different area (Where it has to load.) after fifteen minutes of being in that area, it will automatically save for you. All in all, BioWare did a very nice job for this stellar Star Wars RPG.
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GameSpot Review
Canadian developer BioWare is well known for producing high-quality role-playing games, thanks to its successful Baldur's Gate series, and offers up what is in many ways its finest such game to date in Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. LucasArts wisely delegated the task of producing a deep and involving Star Wars-themed RPG to BioWare, which has done a remarkable job of making Knights live up to the Star Wars name. In fact, Knights arguably lives up to the Star Wars name better than any other Star Wars property in years, including the last two theatrical films. The game's greatest accomplishment is its focused yet open-ended plot progression, which gives you the freedom to play as either a morally good or evil character, or shades in between. The struggle between good and evil is of course central to Star Wars and manifests itself extremely well throughout this outstanding game. For good measure, Knights features hours and hours of top-notch voice-over (all the dialogue is spoken), so you'll certainly be impressed by how different characters respond differently to you but also by the sheer size of the game.
Knights takes place thousands of years before the Star Wars films, but you'll recognize a lot of the technology.
The Xbox needed another great RPG--one that was more accessible than last year's great but sometimes-bewildering Morrowind--and it's finally here. Those who've played BioWare's computer RPGs--either the Baldur's Gate series or last year's Neverwinter Nights--will recognize the influence of those games on Knights of the Old Republic. In fact, the main difference between the gameplay of Knights and BioWare's previous games is superficial. This one is played from a third-person perspective and thus resembles a 3D action adventure game rather than one of BioWare's older isometric RPGs.
Other than that, gameplay is similar. You create a main character and then explore many different areas, interact with many different characters, settle many different disputes, solve many different puzzles, and engage in plenty of combat. Combat appears to be real-time but actually uses a turn-based system "under the hood" just like Neverwinter Nights, which means your character's statistics and attributes (and your strategy) make all the difference, and your personal reflexes and hand-eye coordination have no bearing on the outcome. Most importantly, Knights is very different from the typical console RPG in that you'll always be an active participant in the storyline, rather than a passive observer. You don't just read, watch, and listen to a lot of text, cutscenes, and dialogue--your character is constantly invited and required to make difficult decisions, and that's ultimately the most entertaining, impressive, and rewarding aspect of the game.
You'll meet a wide variety of interesting characters in the game, a number of whom will join you in your journey.
Knights of the Old Republic actually takes place thousands of years before Star Wars Episode I, though you'll still see many of the same sorts of alien creatures and technology in the game that you probably associate with Star Wars. The story begins in the midst of a power struggle between the Republic and the Sith, an evil imperial power that's encroaching on Republic space. Your character seems to be just another Republic trooper, and at the beginning of the game, you manage to avoid certain death as your spaceship is attacked and destroyed. Your escape pod lands on a world that's been put under quarantine by the Sith, so your first order of business is to find a means of escape, and also to find out what happened to Bastila, a gifted young Jedi who is key to the Republic's war efforts and who also managed to flee your doomed ship. Later, you'll be charged with uncovering the secrets of an ancient relic called the star forge, apparently the key to the Sith's seemingly limitless supply of weaponry.
You'll end up visiting a number of key Star Wars locations, including the wookiee homeworld of Kashyyyk and the desert planet Tatooine, in what's by all means an adventure of epic proportions. The game's main storyline isn't remarkable and eventually boils down to squaring off against your standard bad guy, and the main plot twists along the way don't really seem plausible. But you'll encounter so many great little subplots and characters along the way that this really won't matter. You'll investigate murders, become a bounty hunter, resolve cultural disputes, find a cure for a deadly disease, take sides or play both sides against each other in various ambiguous conflicts, and find out how life really treats both citizens of the Republic and followers of the Sith. There's just a lot to see and do in this game, and it'll last you a good 40 hours or so from start to finish, yet you'll never see all that the game has to offer if you finish it only once.
GameSpot Review
It may seem strange, but Knights of the Old Republic actually uses a slightly simplified version of 3rd Edition Dungeons & Dragons rules both for combat and for character generation. So despite the obviously different setting, fans of BioWare's D&D-themed games will be in relatively familiar territory here. Your main character starts off as a male or female soldier, scout, or scoundrel. These three basic classes roughly correspond to D&D's fighter, ranger, and rogue. The soldier is straightforward but very strong and begins with proficiency with various types of weapons and armor and gains the most vitality points per experience level. The scout is slightly less tough than the soldier but gains more skill points per level, allowing him or her to do such things as repair droids, pick locks, and disarm land mines. The scoundrel is physically the weakest class but can disappear from sight using special cloaking devices and can then inflict great damage if he or she catches a foe unaware. The scoundrel is also best suited to talking his or her way out of situations where the other character classes might have to resort to violence. Your choice of gender also has a bearing on some of the situations.
Will you choose the light or the dark side?
It's not spoiling anything to point out that you eventually gain access to Jedi powers. In turn, there are three different Jedi classes available, which emphasize either the Jedi's prowess with a lightsaber or his or her Force powers--or a balance of the two. Force powers are basically like magic spells, allowing you to do such things as stun opponents, knock them down, and choke them, as well as heal yourself and use the Force to persuade characters to see things your way. Some powers are inherently light-inclined, while others are dark-inclined, and though Jedi characters may gain access to any Force power as they gain experience levels, powers that match a Jedi's moral alignment can be used at a lower cost in Force points (which steadily recharge, allowing you to use your powers continuously).
The game does a fine job of letting you customize your character and his or her companions. Nine different characters will join you over the course of the adventure, and you'll be able to travel with up to two of them at a time. Most every character has an interesting story to tell that unfolds as you converse with him, her, or it over the course of the game, though some are developed better than others. The most entertaining of the bunch is probably HK-47, who's like a homicidal and slightly insubordinate C-3PO. As you and the others gain levels, you develop your abilities by choosing from a wide variety of skills (repair, stealth, persuasion, and so on) and combat feats (critical strike, two-weapon fighting, toughness, and so on).
Ultimately, the 3rd Edition rule system works quite well for the game and makes for an experience that seems consistent with the Star Wars mythos, namely that Jedi are extremely powerful, and conventional weapons are practically useless against their lightsabers and their Force powers. However, a few things don't quite make sense, such as how your strength statistic (as opposed to your dexterity) is tied to your proficiency with a lightsaber, and how ranged weapons generally seem too weak, offering practically no advantages over melee weapons since it's easy to close the distance with a gun-toting opponent. Also, much like in 3rd Edition D&D, fighter-type characters in Knights of the Old Republic can become overpowered to the point where they're virtually unstoppable. If you focus on building up such a character, you'll find that most of the combat in the game will be rather easy at the default difficulty setting, though you can crank it up to make your enemies stronger.
Blasters, grenades, and melee weapons are available--but nothing beats a good old double-bladed lightsaber.
Combat looks dynamic, and at a glance, you could mistake Knights of the Old Republic for an action game. You'll see characters firing away with their blasters, while those armed with melee weapons such as lightsabers will perform a variety of close-combat moves. Characters dueling with such weapons will block and feint, looking for openings in their opponents' defenses. It's all clearly inspired by the dramatic lightsaber battle at the end of Episode I and also resembles the outstanding lightsaber battles in last year's shooter, Jedi Knight II.
Despite appearances, though, the combat is really just a series of statistical checks, just like D&D. Your character's "to hit" rating, determined by his or her class, level, and weapon, is added to a random 1-20 dice roll and compared against the opponent's defense rating. If the to-hit roll is greater, you connect and deal damage. Your characters will automatically attack any foes nearby until either you or they are all dead, so in some cases, you end up simply watching the fight unfold. You'll only need to intervene to use healing kits or stimulants that boost your combat abilities, as well as Force powers and such, or maybe to prioritize targets. You can pause the action at any time and easily queue up specific orders for all your characters, but you can usually get away with just looking after your main character and will rarely need to micromanage things (your party members will lag behind once in a while as you're running around, but it's not a big deal). Generally, the combat is exciting to watch and paced nice and fast. You needn't worry if one of your characters falls in battle--he or she will simply get up once the fighting is over, though you're tossed back to the title screen if your entire party goes down.
The combat and the dialogue are the two main elements of Knights of the Old Republic. Other than those activities, you'll find yourself running from place to place, but you'll have little interaction with the environment other than being able to open footlockers and other objects containing goodies. You can sometimes hack into certain computer systems, but this is all done in text and isn't very interesting. Loading times between areas can feel a little long, especially when you have to backtrack--fortunately there's an option to instantly return to your hideout or ship if you're not in a dangerous area. Some of the environments are pretty big, but most aren't, and a mapping system clearly shows where you can and can't go and what the points of interest are in each area. There's also a very clear record of all the quests you have pending (and all the quests you've completed). As such, you'll probably never get lost in the game, though at the same time, you might feel a bit confined by where you can and can't go. Fortunately, the game opens up later on, allowing you to freely travel between planets and accomplish numerous tasks in whichever order you please.
Hours of expertly done voice-over help make character interaction incredibly engaging throughout Knights of the Old Republic.
Knights of the Old Republic also contains several minigames: You can gamble by playing a fairly entertaining card game that's similar to poker, you can compete in simple drag races on swoop bikes, and you can man the turrets of a spaceship to shoot down enemy fighters from a first-person perspective. These are all simple diversions, however.
As mentioned, character interaction really is the best thing about Knights of the Old Republic. There's a lot of dialogue in the game, all in full speech, and if you listen to all of it rather than read it (you can turn subtitles off), the game will probably last hours longer than it could otherwise. The dialogue is well done, and many of the game's characters are well defined. Most all of the numerous subquests in the game are suitably justified and present you with more than one viable solution. You'll constantly be able to choose between good and not-so-good solutions--early on, for instance, you can rescue a man who's being hassled by bounty hunters. Do you then offer to pay the dues he owes so that the poor man may live without fear, or do you threaten to mug him for his last remaining credits?
Knights lets you play as a really nasty character if you so choose, and that's certainly part of the fun. It's also an interesting aspect of gameplay, considering a big part of the theme is how Jedi constantly run the risk of falling to the dark side--indeed, you'll probably often be tempted to see what happens if you pick the evil dialogue options rather than the good ones, if only because most RPGs simply don't let you make these types of decisions. Certain key points in the game will play out very differently depending on the decisions you make, creating lots of replay value. LucasArts also promises that downloadable content in the form of new weapons and other items will be made available via Xbox Live later this year.
The graphics in Knights of the Old Republic aren't the game's strong suit. Some important aspects of the visuals are handled very well--specifically, the lightsaber combat looks dead-on, though you won't see any forearms getting chopped off or anything. Effective use of bump mapping and environment mapping can be seen on some of the aliens and their shiny armor or slick, oily skins. Many of the environments also look quite good, though some of the others are plain and lacking in detail. Character models are relatively simple, and their lip-synching and facial expressions don't always look quite right. You'll also notice that some character models will repeat often throughout the game--you'll encounter a number of different characters who all share the same face. The frame rate of Knights of the Old Republic also doesn't hold up, and it can frequently bog down in combat or whenever a lot of characters are around. Furthermore, the occasional cutscenes using the game's 3D engine tend to look downright crude, which is disappointing considering how impressive some of the game's production values are. Knights is a good-looking game overall, but it's easy to find fault in its visuals when the other aspects of the game are so well done.
Knights is both an outstanding RPG in its own right and an excellent tribute to the Star Wars source material.
Some of the audio is what you'd expect from a Star Wars game, though Knights deserves credit for featuring a mostly original (yet very subdued) soundtrack, which is a nice change of pace from the ubiquitous John Williams score. But the high quality and sheer quantity of the voice acting are exceptional. Alien characters even speak in convincing alien languages, though you'll pick up on the fact that the alien voice-over actually repeats often. Overall, though, the professional voice cast does an excellent job with the material, delivering believable performances, and this really enriches the gameplay experience. Not only does Knights of the Old Republic have some of the most voice-over of any game to date, but it also has some of the best.
It's apparent from playing Knights of the Old Republic that a remarkable amount of effort, work, and talent went into this game. It's one of the only Star Wars games to truly make you feel at times as though you're a key player in and a part of this unique and beloved sci-fi setting. You'll get to do all the sorts of stuff that you've seen and enjoyed in the Star Wars movies, and you'll get to emulate any of your favorite characters' personalities and actions over the course of the game. You'll also experience a much more morally complex version of Star Wars than what you get from the movies. Along the way, you'll find a few aspects of the game that you'll wish were better, but that's mostly because the vast majority of Knights of the Old Republic is so exceptionally good. You don't need to be a fan of Star Wars or of RPGs to appreciate all the impressive qualities of this game--but if you are, all the better.
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By Greg Kasavin, GameSpot [POSTED: 07/15/03 06:07 PM]
Video Review
There is a small error concerning Gamespot that affects a few people. I knew the solution but being captain procrastination, I waited until now to fix it, when I've all but forgetten how to.
A few more screenshots from KOTOR:
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Hardcore's Hardcorner:
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
By Hardcore
Are you hardcore?
When Hardcore asks "Are you hardcore?" Hardcore wants to know if you're ready to take the hardest path to victory. If you're looking to get the most kills in any given game, be it Soldier of Fortune II or WWE RAW 2 or Fairly-freakin'-Oddparents. If you never take the easy way out of any situation. If you've never used a cheat code unless it meant smaller bikinis, flying kidneys, or maybe both. If you know that there's really only one difficulty setting—difficult as all hell.
If that's you, you came to the right place. Here in Hardcore's Hardcorner, we're going to show you the most challenging—and if at all possible, carnage-inducing—ways to play the best Xbox games.
If You Only Knew the Power ...
Right. First up, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (if you already figured that out from the title, give yourself a peanut). Of all the games on Xbox right now, there are few if any that give you these kind of hardcore choices.
First, you've got the choice between light side and dark side—are you going to help the Jedi save the galaxy, or side up with the Sith? From what you've read, you probably think Hardcore's going to recommend dark side. And you're right. But you don't necessarily have to follow that path, the light side can be just as challenging as the dark side in its way. Maybe more so—in a galaxy at war, folks are always suspicious and spoiling for a fight, which makes it a little easier to slide into evil. But we're going dark here simply to rack up the body count.
Oh, and there might be some minor spoilers ahead for the game. Deal with it.
Am I Evil?
KotOR's storyline is pretty involving whichever way you go, so if you haven't got the stomach for some of the following, go running back to the Council and let them send you out for Force donuts.
Wipe them out. All of them. There's usually a dialog-based way to attack (or prompt an attack from) many quest-spouting NPCs, especially those you would normally befriend when playing a soft and cuddly light-sider. Insults lead to injuring. You'll be missing out on a few heroic quests that net XP, and a few items those characters might have given you won't get given. As a servant of evil, you'll need to make up the difference with slaughter, prying the items and experience from their cold, dead appendages. See? Balance to the Force, baby.
If they could be turned ... So you say you've racked up the dark side points with abandon, but your Jedi pals are still all up in your face about protecting the innocent and not eating them and stuff like that? Bring 'em over to the quick and easy path (or so that lying Obi-Wan said) by giving them as many Dark Side powers as you can.
Walk away from the light. When it comes to you, "give in" to the Dark Side. Dark side force powers are going to be violent and aggressive by their very nature. So, even though light side powers are often the ones that enhance your fighting skills and restore health, don't chicken out! Resist the desire to take the Cure power or Force Valor; those will only slow your slide into darkness. Wait for Drain Life, a higher-level dark side power that restores your health while Lestat-ing those points away from your enemies. Until then, rely on equipment for defense and healing. You'll have more credits as a dark-sider from all the corpses you'll be picking over, so stock up on energy shields, battle stimulants (you're going to become a stim junkie, accept it) and medpacs.
Keep one hand free. Yeah, Darth Maul had a double-bladed lightsaber, and ooh, ah, wasn't that cool, Johnny Fanboy? Sure, but it's a little tired. Hardcore dark siders specialize in the Dueling feats and leave the Two-Weapon fighting to Bastila and Carth. You'll have better attack and defense scores, but miss out on the extra attack per round. That means longer, more satisfying one-on-one fights, but it also means you'll have to be a lot more choosy when it comes to saber crystals.
Play dress up. Early on, you'll have a chance to nab some Sith armor. To see how everyday folks react to the silvery Sith (and spook 'em a little, maybe even into attacking you) keep wearing the armor or put it on Carth, just to give the "haircut" the heebie-jeebies. People on Taris can be the most gullible people in the galaxy.
Quick and Easy, My Butt
As Hardcore has repeated over and over, the difficulty setting can only do so much in terms of ratcheting up the challenge. Keep the following in mind if you want to be not just evil, but hardcore evil.
Choose a strength and stick with it. Don't take the default attribute settings when building your character, that's for unimaginative suckers. In KotOR, your stats are divvied up into physical stats (Strength, Dexterity, Constitution) and mental stats (Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma). Strength affects melee and lightsaber attacks, Dex will give you better defense and skill with ranged weapons—guns and grenades. If you try to raise both evenly, you're not likely to reach your maximum deadly potential. As a rule of thumb, soldiers should max out Strength and keep Dex low (Dexterity-reducing armor will make up for it) and scoundrels should do the opposite. Scouts can go either way. And whatever class you choose, no dark-sider should start with a Con below 12, you'll need the VP for all the fights you're going to start.
There's hardcore, and there's stupid. Don't be stupid. Only an idiot goes into a vibroblade duel with a hold-out blaster. There's challenging, and there's suicidal. Remember, hardcore players meet challenges and succeed.
Auto-pause, or not-a-pause? There's two schools of though on this one—setting the auto-pause options to stop at the end of each combat rounds gives you amazing fine control in combat and the chance to change your mind in mid-fight, especially when the Wookiee fur starts flying. It's a very direct and, yeah, hardcore way to play. But Hardcore prefers the added chaos and difficulty—remember, this is about challenge, junior—of the free-flowing game. And if you get in a really tight spot, it ain't like the white button's fallen off the controller. Just pause already and stop whining.
A load of poodoo. Finally, and this is almost as controversial as the auto-pause issue—do you save after every fight and before each challenge? Or do you bull through and accept the consequences, even if it means missing a quest. Well, yes and no. Personally, Hardcore saves and reloads for two and only two things in KotOR—duels and swoop races. These are special cases that are more like athletic competitions. And if you ain't competitive, you ain't hardcore. On the other hand, Hardcore never reloads a "botched" conversation. For one, ain't no such thing, all conversations in KotOR have some result (even if it's not the result you're looking for, to coin a phrase) and two, there's just no challenge if you can go back and make things turn out another way. What're you, Marty Mc-freakin-Fly?
You Got a Problem with That?
You probably have your own opinions on what's hardcore and what ain't. This is more than turning the difficulty to eleven, Johnny. Hardcore's a method, not a setting, and what Hardcore tells you ain't always the only way. If you think you're so smart, Hardcore wants to hear from you, if only to make fun of you or steal your ideas. Send you hardcore tips to hccorner@hotmail.com. Hardcore might even credit you, but don't count on it.
Hate mail's also welcome. Hardcore can always use a good laugh.
Yours in gaming,
Hardcore
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There are little original and creative games now. But i think that that it´s starting to change. Ghos Master and Ufo aftermath (not particulary original but certainly different) are some games that will change that.
Since i don´t have any good game to play, i started again playing Deus Ex. Great game! The story it´s amazing, very deep and atractive. It seems that i´m really living in that cyberpunk like world!
What about system shock 2? I´m trying to get that one. I heard that it´s very good too....and scares!
BTW: Can you give me some advice about good terror games? Games that have a good story and can really scare you?
I get soul calibur II tomorrow. I'm gonna just melt when I see it there on the shelf and just glare at it for hours before even buying it.
Really, this has to be the most supreme of video games I have ever seen. I thought Soul calibur I for Dreamcast was good. In this one, they've chosen to animate EVERYTHING on the character seperately. Previously, the wind always blew on the character from wherever they were facing, that has changed. Their hair used to be bundled up, that has changed. Their scars, their weapons, the background... EVERYTHING is better now.
Not to mention the fact that I get to play as Link. Link is just... supreme. I hope that Kilik has been made better... He's so cool.
~Squeek (I'm done ranting, gimme the friggin game!)
BTW: Can you give me some advice about good terror games? Games that have a good story and can really scare you?
I assume you want PC games. Try:
Clive Barkers Undying
Silent Hill 2
American Mcgee's Alice
Sanitarium
Aliens Vs Predator 2(Marine Campaign)
System Shock 2
Greetings Kazbadan,
First of all, if you liked Deus Ex, here are some screenshots from the new version of Deus Ex for the Xbox: Dues Ex Invisible War:
(by the way, some of the pixels look jagged because the images have been resized)
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Although I don't play them myself, here are some good horror games coming up (and some that are already released):
Silent Hill 3 (ps2):
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THE SUFFERING (PS2 Action Horror):
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Shade: Wrath of Angels (xbox):
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I recommend Silent Hill 3, only if you've played Silent Hill 1. Unless you don't mind missing half the story.
WELL NOW. I seem to have gone to Circuit City today. Lo and behold, I spotted a game on the shelf that I had read about, and just had to make the purchase.
Screw that talk.
I BOUGHT SOUL CALIBUR II
Anybody that rates this game ANY less than 10/10 or 5/5 or WHATEVER should seriously just give the game back. They don't deserve it. This game is everything I thought it would be AND MORE.
First of all, the 3 "secret" characters are not secrets. That was a great little add-on for me, as I hate unlocking stuff.
Second... wow. The opening FMV was IN-FREAKIN-CREDIBLE. I've had this game for like 2 hours now... WOW.
Seriously, this is a must buy, if you are looking for sweet looking graphics and animation. I would have bought it just for the intro, it is that astounding.
This is the GREATEST fighting game of ALL TIME. It may have even won some other crap too, but for sure, this is the one.
~Squeek
PS - Link is so much better than Spawn :D
Congrats Squeek!
I know how it feels to buy something that you've really wanted for a while.
Soul Cal II does look incredible and I have only heard wonderful things about it. Many had said that it would have been difficult to improve on an already amazing title but it appears they have done just that. I have only played the demo on a Gamecube but I did thoroughly enjoy that, even though I was a but frustrated because I didn't know any moves other than the simple hack, slash and block. The animation looks great, such as the flowing hair and the fact that the character animation looked flawless...and I did notice that the backgrounds were rendered with great detail and gave the game a certain level of depth that is often lacking in fighting games. The only other fighting game with such amazing visuals is DOA3 for the Xbox, that game, just like SCII, has very tight graphics (have you seen it).
I am planning on renting it for my Xbox, so I will let you know how it goes...
Hey, for those of you interested, GTA3 and GTA Vice City will be released for the Xbox as a bundle...I know I shouldn't play the game because it really is dispicable, but I am excited to rent it and play the #&*# out of it. Despite all of the gratuituous violence, etc. it is a very fun game to play. I just think it's terrible that kids play these games, I mean young ones, it really does corrupt their minds and sends the message that violence is ok. Anyway, I sound like a total hypocrite so I should just keep mum, but I think I have a point...
Also, I recently read that the third-gen consoles are likely to be released between fall of 2005 and into 2006... and for the PC users, direct X 9 games are going to start coming out very soon and they are going to be amazing (e.g., Half-Life 2)
Until next time!
Hi peacefullwarrior, thanks for the tips. About deus ex, if haven´t play it you don´t know what you are loosing! It´s a little old but it remains an important reference in the video games world.
The new deus ex for xbox it´s beatiful! Unfortunatly i don´t have xbox, only play pc. But i heard something on a new deus ex on the forge! And besides, i will have a better (would it be?) between sept-october: ufo aftermath. NOt now, but latter i will try to put some images here.
DIsney skating? Yes siree!:
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Xbox news:
Xbox 2 May Come in 2006?
Third-party execs say console makers are still mum on exact release period.
September 05, 2003 - During a presentation at a Credit Suisse First Boston conference in New York, Activision President Ron Doornink told reporters the next generation of consoles may come as late as early 2006.
The systems are two to two-and-half years away (late 2005 to early 2006), he explained, adding that all three console manufacturers, Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony, have yet to reveal concrete data to third-party publishers.
"There's very little information that we've received thus far from the first parties," he said. "It's still awfully early and we're getting very little confirmed through (console manufacturers)."
That said, if Sony Computer Entertainment America remains consistent with its previous launch dates -- which occurred in September 1995 and October 2000 -- then gamers should expect to see PlayStation 3 in fall 2005. Given SCE's problems with its ambitious "cell" chip design for PS3, however, the date could be pushed back.
Recently, Nintendo has said it is working on a successor to the GameCube and that it doesn't plan on giving its competition a headstart in the upcoming console wars. Which would be a change for Nintendo, given its safe-but-not-so-smart strategy of being last to get out the gate.
Microsoft officially has not revealed its cards, but it's become clear the company's long-haul strategy is to use the first Xbox as a testing ground for a better future console (presumably called Xbox 2). All three manufacturers are expected to deliver more powerful machines pushing extensive online features.
Chief executive of Electronic Arts Larry Probst said he expected by year's end to know whether the new systems will appear in 2005 or 2006.
We'll have more on the looming console wars in the near future.
GTA for THE box:
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PC stuff:
Empires: Dawn of the Modern World:
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MAN... If you're just gonna rent Soul Calibur II, good luck. I've been at it like 5 days straight... I cannot make much of any progress in Extra Weapon Master mode. Crap... It's so impossible... Like... take the most impossible scenario you can think of. Now multiply that by 10. That's level 1.
Gosh... I'm never gonna finish this game. Argh.
~Squeek
PS - If you DO rent the game, DO NOT just mash the start button or whatever at the beginning. Sit there, and marvel at the GLORY of the intro FMV.
Geez, I've waited awhile to respond to this. I'm a gamer fanatic here. Been playing for....can't remember how long, but I knew I wasn't more than three feet tall [:D]. Anyways...
Today, I play mostly PC games, although this is due in part to my lack of a PS2, Gamecube, or X-box (evil). I play mostly FPS and RPGs, but every once in a while I play the good 'ole action/adventure games.
I'm not sure if these have been mentioned before, but Tribes 2 is a great FPS to go play on-line. Sure, in the classic version, there's not a whole ton of weapons and vehicle (there's only six), but the real action comes in the different mods available. Makes it a great game.
And, if you're looking for what is so far a very intriguing storyline, I suggest the Legacy of Kain series of games. One should really start with Blood Omen, then Soul Reaver, then Soul Reaver 2. And the soon to be released, Legacy of Kain: Defiance.
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Ok, I think I got the images in there correctly (thanks Squeek [;)])
From the upcoming game "Chrome" for the pC:
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XVIII for PC and ALL consoles (taking cartoon violence to a whole 'nother level...):
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Wow, I've heard about XIII for some time now but that's the first time I actually saw pictures. It sort of reminds me of the old sega game comix zone.
Beyond Good and Evil is the upcoming multiplatform third-person action game from Ubi Soft. The game has been in development for the past few years in the French developer's studio in Montpellier, France, under the watchful eye of Michel Ancel, whose work on the Rayman franchise provided Ubi Soft with one of its first bona fide hits. We recently had the opportunity to visit Ancel and his team to get a look at the game's development firsthand and have come away impressed. Beyond Good and Evil is shaping up to present a compelling experience that offers a complete package of impressive graphics, strong audio, and solid gameplay, all anchored by a unique story.
Jade is the star of Beyond Good and Evil.
Although the preliminary bits of story information that have trickled out on Beyond Good and Evil's plot have seemed to be fairly standard, there's quite a bit more to the game's tale. The title follows the adventures of Jade, a young woman from the planet Hyllis, who becomes involved in a rebel movement to expose a conspiracy within Hyllis' government that's tied to attacks on the planet by a mysterious alien force. At the start of the game you're thrown into things, as you take control of Jade while she attempts to fight off an attacking horde of aliens. However, in the wake of the attack, Jade is contacted by a rebel group, after being declared a hero by Hyllis' government. According to the rebels, all is not as it seems in the government. The rebels tell Jade stories of mysterious shipments of humans being, sent by the government, to parts unknown. They ask Jade for her help in discovering just what is going on. Although skeptical of the seemingly tall tales of conspiracy, Jade eventually sets out to investigate the odd goings-on in her planet's government and ends up getting considerably more than she bargained for. Fortunately, she won't be taking on her quest alone, as the game features a quirky extended cast of characters who offer support over the course of the adventure. You'll meet the first of such character's in the game's opening battle, when Jade is assisted by her "uncle" Pey'j, a pig-man. The other key member of her support network is Secundo, a virtual assistant in her PDA, who offers information and attitude on her adventure. As you progress through the game, you'll find even more colorful folk who will help and hinder Jade on her quest to solve the mysteries of Hyllis.
The planet Hyllis is a vast, detailed world.
The twists and turns in Beyond Good and Evil's story are reflected in its gameplay, which starts out simple but ends up being something else altogether. At its core, Beyond Good and Evil is a story-driven, mission-based action game. Your first fight, at the start of the game, and the subsequent exploration segments that follow offer a good, albeit partial, idea of what to expect. Your time in the game will eventually be divided between exploration, combat, stealth, and vehicle sequences--with some minigames thrown in for good measure--that all blend together pretty well. You're eased into the various types of gameplay slowly, which should keep players from being overwhelmed when they start the game. (This is a good thing.) Beyond Good and Evil features a good measure of GTA III-style freedom that encourages you to explore Hyllis. Following your introduction to combat in the game's opening, you'll spend some time exploring and interacting with the people and creatures that inhabit Hyllis. This intro sequence also introduces you to one of the game's more unusual gameplay elements: Jade's camera. You're asked to help collect information on the wildlife of Hyllis, for a local museum, by snapping shots of the animals and insects that you come across in your travels. As you collect shots, you'll digitally transmit them back to the museum, and they'll wire you cash for your troubles. However, later in the game the camera takes on an entirely new use in the stealth sequences. You'll be able to use it to fire discs that can be used to trigger unreachable switches, or you can use it to make noise to distract guards so you can sneak past them.
Another, less portable, gameplay element is Jade's hovercraft, which serves as her primary means of transport around the waterways of Hyllis. You'll be able to upgrade the ship's propulsion and weapons systems by using your hard-earned cash. Then you can access more areas of the large planet. The hovercraft sequences range from basic travel segments, where you perform simple tasks like navigating to different locations, to combat sequences that find you facing off against some fairly large sea creatures. Finally, you'll be able to play assorted minigames, over the course of your travels, by talking to various locals who offer a change of pace from the main game. While you're pretty free to tackle Jade's adventure at your own pace, the game will help keep you on track by providing you with prompts from Segundo and by showing you newscasts from the local news that will bring you up to speed on current events and point you in the right direction.
Beyond Good and Evil features a variety of gameplay styles.
While the various elements of gameplay may sound pretty involved, given the variety of things to do, Beyond Good and Evil's control mechanics are shaping up to be quite user-friendly. The same basic set of context-sensitive controls that you'll use when exploring will transfer to combat and the piloting of Jade's hovercraft. Combat is especially nice, thanks to a fluid and smoothly animated battle system that offers a great deal of freedom when taking on multiple enemies.
The graphics in the ambitious game are shaping up very nicely, thanks to the team's decision to devote a large chunk of the game's budget strictly to research and development of technology. As work on BG&E's technology progressed, some of its core elements were sent to Montreal to serve as the foundation for Ubi Montreal's upcoming, stunning new entry in the Prince of Persia series. The technology used in both games, called the Jade engine, is flexible and very powerful. It allows the development team to let their imaginations run wild. Artistic freedom is being put to good use by a team that has drawn inspiration from a variety of different media outside of games. The end result is a striking, detailed world that is quite immersive. You'll notice Hyllis has its own day and night cycle, as well as its own weather system, as you go about your business. Your exploration will also let you take in the richly detailed environments that are teeming with life. You'll find very little about Hyllis is static in Beyond Good and Evil. Just about any area you'll find yourself in will have people or animals going about their daily business--which goes a long way toward bringing Hyllis to life. The game's assured sense of style and place manages to sell you on a world where humanoid animals and people live together in relative harmony, alien attacks notwithstanding.
You'll find an eclectic variety of characters in the game.
From a technical standpoint, Beyond Good and Evil brings Hyllis to life by making use of a generous polygon budget that's complemented by striking visual effects. While the game's unique art style is a bit cartoony, Jade's character model makes use of a good number of polygons and offers an impressive amount of expression in her face. The other characters in the game aren't quite as well done, although their animation manages to convey an equal amount of personality. The environments in the game are stunning and offer broad vistas that are paced with little details. The cities in the game follow suit, with the aforementioned activity and slick designs that show off their unique architecture. The game's impressive lighting and particle effects system do an excellent job of enhancing the visuals on display, offering a host of little touches that add a nice layer of visual polish. In addition, filters on the camera give certain sequences in the game a very surreal, dreamy look that complements the action.
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Speaking specifically on each console, the powerful graphics engine was made to take advantage of each platform's strengths and to offer the best visuals possible. As a result, the game looks quite outstanding, across the board. The PlayStation 2 version, which presented the greatest performance challenges to the team, is shaping up very well. The game features a generally high frame rate with just a few inconsistencies that are currently being optimized to ensure solid performance. The GameCube, Xbox, and PC versions are shaping up just as well and feature a few more technical bells and whistles, due to the unique strengths of each platform.
Beyond Good and Evil is looking impressive across all platforms.
The audio in the game is still being fine-tuned, but we were able to get a taste of what to expect in the final game. Jade, Pay'j, and the rest of the game's cast all feature capable voice acting that suits the visuals very well. The voice in the game will also be used to provide audio cues--prompting you with hints and tips on what to do and where to go if you spend too much time doing nothing. The sound effects are still shaping up but should offer a rich experience. Aside from your standard assortment of sound effects for gunfire and characters running, the audio in BG&E will feature ambient sound, to bring the gameworld to life, as well as a dynamic soundtrack to complement the action and cutscenes. In terms of exactly how the audio will fare on each platform, the team is currently aiming to make the most of what each platform has to offer, so GameCube and PlayStation 2 owners can look forward to Dolby Pro Logic II support, while Xbox owners can get their receivers ready to pump out 5.1 sound.
Beyond Good and Evil is shaping up to be a strong original title.
From what we've seen so far, Beyond Good and Evil is shaping up to be a strong original title in Ubi Soft's fall lineup. While we're suitably impressed with the game's striking visuals and tight gameplay, we have to say it's the rich story that has us most pleased. Beyond Good and Evil is currently slated to ship this fall for the GameCube, PC, PlayStation 2, and Xbox. Look for more on the game in the coming months.
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SQUEEK HERE AGAIN!
I'm here to give you MORE Screenshots of Soul Calibur II!! Who'd've thunk it!
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This is Astaroth charging a huge attack against Sophitia (Yes, she is in this one, despite the fact that her sister is too.)
Now we focus JUST on my favorite character.... KILIK! Kilik is way too cool for this game. He's 23 now, and still rockin. His Rising Pheonix move (characterized by his "standing" on top of his staff) has been replaced, but you can still perform it, just not in a throw move.
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Crappy camera, cool screenie. This would be before the fight, when the combatants say a few words to each other...to agitate each other. After the fight, the winner gets to say a few things to the downed enemy.
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Aww he's getting hit... But it's by his best friend. That makes it OK.
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Just for the ladies. Us guys will just marvel at the amount of time it took to code all of that.
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One of his throw moves. This would progress into the person on the staff (taki) being slammed to the ground with the staff up right next to her, then Kilik spinning 360 degrees on the staff and ending up kicking her with both feet at once. It only hurts for a little while. [:P]
If I could take screenshots, I would take better ones than these. Particularly the intro, which is the coolest thing ever.
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Too bad he got blocked. That looks sweet. I wish I knew how to do that [|)]
~Squeek
Thanks for the shots, good stuff!
I am excited to play it!
-Dan
As you should be....
Who did you play as in the first one? Just saying because they eliminated Edge Master, Inferno, and Siegfried as playable characters. So if it was one of them, it isn't anymore! [:P]
~Squeek
Nightmare. Because it's so easy to be cheap with Nightmare. I even beat a friend who knew almost all the special moves for all the characters with Nightmare, using only basic moves. It's THAT easy to be cheap.
Ehh... Sure. I know you can be cheap with him... But he's slow as anything. If I block just one of your attacks, or Guard Break it, you're screwed. One attack from me and you're gone for the whole match.
I memorized everyone's moves, so I know when one of them is going to sweep low and when one will cut high.... So I can pretty much know when to block every move.
GO KILIK!
~Squeek
I like Kilik too.
This is what i do at my free hours :D
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What game are those screens from LogoRat? (Counter strike? Socom?)
Its from a game called Americas Army.
www.americasarmy.com
As far as I can tell Half-Life 2 will be the most graphically advanced video game EVER when it comes out (within a month or so for Pc, then Xbox). Here are some more screenshots:
(these screens have been resized and therefore have not retained their graphic integrity...in other words, these screens look bad comapred to how the game will really look when viewed in it's full-size splendor)
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Games rule, end of story [:P].
I'll always be a kid and I'll always love my games, especially my new obsession with trading card games like Magic The Gathering. I don't have an Xbox but it would be nice, Gamecube was kind of overrated (however I did get it for a few good reasons - ZELDA!! METROID!! SONIC!!! SSBM!!!)
Later
~FT
Peaceful - I love that scene in the demo video :D
There are these spider-looking creatures... They have 4 legs, and it's near impossible to see them in the picture. The guy playing whips out his gravity gun. This gun will pull objects to the gun, then reverse the polarity to fire them at the enemy.
So the guy turns around to a sign and pulls off the letter F. He flings it at the enemy. He turns around and grabs the U. He fires that one at the enemy. Get the joke? [:D]
My friend told me this game isn't delayed at all, and that was a rumor. In which case, it's only 2-3 weeks away. SOO glad I just got a 19" monitor [8D]
The best part of Half-Life 2 is that things are NOT coded to happen. The guy in the video says that about 10% of the game is on a set path. The rest is up to you. That means that monsters, earthquakes, people, everything is random [:)]
And the AI has been upped beyond feasible means. The guy in the video gets a table and pushes it in front of the door, then he grabs a jar and puts it on top of the table to weigh it down so the approaching enemy cannot get in. The enemy knocks on the door a ew times, trying to open it, to no avail. Then, he slides over to the window and busts that in. Once inside, he slides away the blockade over the door to allow his friend easy access to the room. That is freakin amazing.
~Squeek
I'm a gamer, I got a mac...
But theres lots o fun games for mac! Baldur's gate II, Warcraft III....
Um...
photoshop...[:D]
Ok Squeek here again (uh-oh!) With an UPDATE of SCII!!!
Ok, that part of the game I told you about (called Weapon Master) was very very hard. They will give you about 50 missions, all varying in difficulty. You beat it, and shout for JOY that you won! Uh-oh, what's this... YOU GOTTA DO THEM ALL AGAIN! This time the difficulty of the opponent increases, and there's always a catch to the levels. And they always add more levels to the total of the previous one.
Take for example, the level where you cannot be knocked down. There's a bomb on your body, and if you fall down, or basically touch the floor at all, you DIE. You have to kill 3 opponents with this handicap, and, oh yea, your health will increase by just a bit when you win battles.
Or, of course, the dungeons. One enemy per room, 50 rooms in this dungeon. Twice. There's a CATCH of course... Every room is different. There will be an added feature that will be unknown until something happens to give it away. It could be the level is made of Ice, which would make you just slide everywhere... or the level is ringed with fire, which burns you when you get to the edges, or it's a level made of Quicksand. And if it isn't the level, it will be that the floor is set to explode if you fall down, or the random earthquakes, or knockbacks are increased... Or the enemy is invisible, or part of him is visible, or the weapon is invisible, or...The enemy's speed is increased, the enemy has an automatic healer, you are poisoned...
Crazy. Utterly insane. And of course I beat it all.
~Squeek
Thanks for the update Squeek... I let a friend borrow my xbox (ain't I a nice guy?) so I still haven't had the chance to rent and play your game, but from everything I have read and from what you have said, it sounds like one of those rare gems that ups the ante on an entire genre.
Now it's time for me to bring up a game that with have hithertofore not mentioned in this thread, it's an upcoming role playing game for the Xbox (I am sorry to always focus so much on the XBox, but as of now it's the only console I own and it is the most powerful console on the market).
The game is called "FABLE" and I believe it will revolutionize the genre because of the AI and the fact that..well, here, read about it yourself:
Fable » Preview
Developer: Big Blue Box
Publisher: Microsoft
System: XBox
Previewer: Jarrid Stacy
Estimated ESRB: TBA
It's always been a gamer's dream to have almost full and total control over a character's appearance, life style, and so forth. It is also a gamer's dream to affect the environment, and how the character reacts with the computer players in the game. Dream no further folks. Fable is coming, and it will change the way RPGs are today and will affect the future of RPGs to come.
Two words may be used to describe Fable so far, and those words are "Holy crap". Exclusively on the Xbox, Fable plans on bringing some of the most hardcore role-playing any gamer has never experienced before. Like most role-playing games, the story is basically what is most focused on, but in Fable, pretty much everything is required.
The story for Fable actually starts out quite simple. The world of Fable is called Albion, and is composed of several mountains, caves, and cities that the character will venture through. It all starts out one day when the young main character (at the age of fifteen) is sent out to get some things for his mother and father. Later that day, he comes back to find both his parents missing and his dog dead. So what does he do? He sets on a journey to find his parents and avenge his dog's death! Later, the story of course evolves into an even bigger crisis and so forth, but little has been released on that.
Pretty much everything done in the game affects the surroundings of the player. For instance, if the player (you) decides to destroy a tree or kill the player's next-door neighbor's sister, it will most likely not be there in a few years (years going by in the game), and the neighbor will not be that pleased with the character next time they meet. Even the character's skin and body structure will change over time depending on what the player does with his or her character. For example, if the player decides to keep his or her character in the dark most of the time, the character will turn out pale and week over time, but if the character is out in the sun most of the time doing some hard work, he'll turn out nice looking with a dark tan. Also, if the character gets a cut in battle, it may turn into a battle scar. Players can also have their character's get a haircut, buy them new clothes, and so on. Cool thing is that if the player's character is quite popular in town, some of the kids will dress and act-like the character.
There is an aging system in Fable and it is totally unique. Though, Big Blue Box (the developer) made it to where the only sex is male, and the character doesn't grow old and die! It is kind of like real-life but in a balanced way. If the character experiences a lot of mental stress, he will become weak and obtain baggy eyes, while if the character is feeling well, he'll live and act well. Also, there really is no point in growing old by thy self! In Fable, the character can go off and marry a woman and settle down in a nice house and produce some children to have in the house. However, the player just can't sit back and relax forever because he'll have other heroes and in game players competing with him which will lower his rank.
The battle system really hasn't been revealed a whole lot, but there's enough to get a good taste of what gamer's will have in store. Fable will include numerous amounts of weapons and of course like most role-playing games, magic will be added. However, enemies are not very simple when it comes to fighting them. The enemies actually learn from their mistakes and pack a harder punch next time the player fights them. It has also been said that enemies can actually hide and then attack one-by-one or team up on the character. It can get pretty in detail, like how it depends on how strong the character is when it comes to pulling out weapons. If the character is a weakling, he'll grunt like a wimp, while if the character is strong, he'll whip it out and do some cool moves. Some players like the whole fantasy magic style, but beware, the more magic used means the older the character will look and the more wrinkles he'll have!
Big Blue Box and Microsoft both plan on releasing the game sometime later this year in Q4 or early next year in Q1. Fable is expected to have at least twenty hours of gameplay if the player doesn't do any of the side quests and just sticks to the story. If the player choices to actually live a life and do other things, it is expected to be close to hundreds. Stay tuned with AllRPG for more coverage and media on Fable.
-- Jarrid Stacy
Q: How do you know the Playstation II you just bought is a fake?
A: It's got a big green X on the top! [:D]
Just heard today the official release of Halflife 2 is next week. But then this is the third official release date its had so hopefully this latest date is more official than the other two.[8]
Has anybody heard any more about the rlease of Doom 3? It was "supposed" to be released late last year.
James.
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"Doom III is currently scheduled for release in 2004." I recently read an article about DOOM 3 which basically states that the game will be unmatched in some aspects of it's graphics engine, etc. The shadows and shading are going to be groundbreaking. Here are some early shots and models:
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Look at those shadows!
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I'm sorry, but this next screen from DOOM3 is just demonic. I guess they make you really want to waste these things when you're playing the game.
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Early graphic models for the engine:
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HALO 2- the game for the REAL men...
Elite guards for the Covenant:
They carry "plasma" swords and often times are found armed with plasma rifles. These sentires are agile, powerful and heavily armored with electromagnetic body armor. Approach them very tactifully and keep your distance while assaulting with long range weapons.
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Preparing to fight the Elites:
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P.O.ed elite:
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Reminiscent of the Predator, no?
Forgive the choppy resolution (damn, I sound like a marketing agent for Bungie Studios and Microsoft), but this is just an early model of one of the variations of Marines that will be fighting along with you to defend earth from the covenant onslaught. The soldiers have upgraded AI and will be able to drive vehicles and form their own assaults whether or not you play alongside them or scout enemy territory by yourself. These Marines of the future carry a number of weapons including pistols, assault rifles with optical sights, fragmentation grenades, should fired rocket launchers. They also use various vehicles including armored assault jeeps (with 50mm chain gun), small tanks and ATV's.
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The Master Chief (you, the cyborg soldier duh!) driving through the mean streets of 2050 or something.
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Falling to the earth...
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MC strapped and ready.
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You Halo gamers learn to play an rpg or rts or tbs.
Your gaming life will have more depth.
Actually Varner, I see your point...unfortunately I don't have a lot of time and therefore I like a great game that I can jump right into and enjoy myself.
Halo 2:
Halo 2 (Microsoft Game Studios)
Exclusive preview by Gavin Wright, contributing editor
We all knew it was inevitable, but now that the most hotly anticipated game in the world is official: Halo 2 is coming. The released trailer provided little more than a setting for the game and a glimpse into the revamped graphics engine, but now we've got a bit more information to keep Xbox owners going a bit longer as the wait until 2004 treads dreadfully closer. Bungie has always felt that Halo could have been better, so they'll be going all-out with Halo 2. While still keeping close to the basic ideas set forth in Halo, the sequel will address the game's major criticisms and expand on the team's original vision. Although the sequel to the Xbox's best-selling game will indeed bring us new weapons, vehicles, and enemies, Halo 2 is also going to be a whole lot more.
The story for Halo 2 picks up right where the ending of Halo left off. Somehow, the Covenant have located and destroyed all of the human colony worlds, and have now focused in on our last hope for survival – Earth. The Master Chief, now donning an all-new impressively detailed battlesuit, returns to earth in the Covenant ship he used to escape from Halo, only to find a planet scarred by Covenant attack. Unable to land, he instead braces himself up against a wall and opens the ship's cargo bay, jumping out into space and directly onto a Covenant dropship orbiting the planet. With Cortana's help, the Master Chief must defend the earth, then take the fight back to the Covenant's home world in hopes of ending the war once and for all.
Halo 2 reveals a lot of the story behind the Covenant, as well as their motivations for attempting to eliminate the human race. The Covenant is comprised of two alien races - the Elites and the Prophets, the latter of which had not been introduced to us in Halo. The Prophets are a species that look similar in size and posture to the Grunts, but are actually the religious and spiritual leaders of the Covenant troops. The Prophets control the other alien forces in combat, but are probably very weak on their own. Halo 2 will also introduce yet another alien race into the mix, currently known as Brutes. The Brutes, much like the Flood in Halo, are hostile to both humans and Covenant. Though their true identity is still unknown, it is possible that they are actually the Forerunners, the race responsible for building Halo and containing the Flood.
Bungie is completely re-writing the enemy A.I. routines for Halo 2. Instead of focusing squarely on attacking and hiding, enemies will be able to adapt and interact to their environment in ways never possible before. They will also formulate group-oriented attacks, something that Halo touched on but didn't have fully in place. Storming a base will alert every single enemy to your location, so they will already have a plan of attack in place once the Master Chief arrives. Bungie has always placed a higher emphasis on artificial intelligence, and Halo 2 is looking to be no different.
The A.I. of your marine allies has been beefed up as well. Whereas in Halo 1, in which each marine functioned primarily as a separate entity, in Halo 2 they are programmed to rely on one another and coordinate advanced attack strategies in combat. Soldiers toting assault rifles and shotguns will advance to the front lines, covering each other's backs and warning one another of any potential hazards. Snipers will typically seek out a good vantage point up on a hill somewhere, then proceed to let loose on their unassuming targets from a safe distance. Marines may request backup fire in tight situations (not only from their buddies, but from yourself as well) or call upon one of their comrades to lob a grenade into a pack of enemies. Marines even have the ability to flip over objects and use them for cover as they see fit. As was the case in the original, the marines often have some important (and at times amusing) things to say, but you'll have to be in the right place at the right time if you want to hear them. In fact, it has been said that at least 70% of the story will be communicated through in-game interactions such as these. And with all of the improvements geared towards smartening up the marine's A.I., it's safe to say that we'll be seeing a lot more of them in Halo 2.
A large part of what made Halo's combat such an intense, strategic experience was the weapon selection. Since the Master Chief could carry only two weapons at a time, the player was forced to decide which weapons to hold on to based on the enemies and the battlefield that lies ahead. If there's a room full of jackals with plasma shields, you won't want to run in blasting them with a needler, since the projectiles will simply bounce right back. That's why the introduction of new weapons must be done carefully, with regards to retaining the delicate balance found in the original. We now know of two new weapons so far that have made the cut for Halo 2, one of which was showcased in the aforementioned trailer. The weapon from the trailer is a combination of the sniper rifle and assault rifle, which has come to be known as the battle rifle. The other is an automatic machine gun that fires caseless ammunition, and closely resembles a tentative model of the assault rifle that was seen in some of the pre-release screenshots for Halo. Of course, there are many more that have yet to be revealed, but the old standards are sure to be there as well.
To go along with his new look, the Chief will also have a handful of new tools at his disposal. First off, he now has the ability to peer around corners and check out a scene before entering it. Although he can't shoot or toss grenades from this position, it allows him to keep tabs on nearby Covenant soldiers without getting tangled up into battle, and it may even provide him with an opportunity to eavesdrop on the enemy. And if that were not enough for you, then perhaps you'd prefer the idea of combo melee attacks. If you time your button presses properly, you'll be able to string together up to three melee attacks into one skull-crunching combo. Lastly, the Master Chief will have the ability to pull down his weapon and break into a full sprint. While sprinting, any action or digressive movement will automatically throw you back into combat mode, so you needn't worry about dashing headstrong into an alien nest unarmed, as you're weapon is always just a touch away.
According to Bungie, Halo 2 will more than double the amount of vehicles from the original. New to the game is the Shadow, a Covenant equivalent of the Warthog that can carry up to four and comes equipped with a plasma cannon on the back. There's also an ATV, which basically looks like a slimmed-down Warthog. The vehicle has no weapons, but can carry a single passenger faster than any other vehicle. Halo 2 also has three different models of the Warthog, each suited for different environments. The Jungle Hog has modified wheels, a chaingun, and camouflage cover; the Snow Hog comes with snow treads and an enclosed interior, yet appears to be unarmed; and the Transporter Hog has seating for up to 6 Marines, but also comes with no attached weaponry. Again, this is only a small taste of what's to come.
The level design in Halo has long been a topic of debate. Many areas were startlingly similar in design, and some even relied on arrows painted onto the ground to keep players from getting lost. A lot of this was forced upon them – Bungie had to work under a very tight development schedule to get the game out in time for the Xbox's launch. But with Halo 2, which they've already been working on for nearly a year, the team has a lot more time to work on the level design. Of course, since a good deal of the game will take place on Earth, many of the environments are going to be quite different from those in Halo. Man-made buildings will replace the alien architecture, and interior levels may even take us to well-known landmarks such as the White House or the Pentagon. It will be an entirely different experience, and the new setting will likely hit some of us a lot closer to home.
We all know the levels in Halo 2 are going to look a whole lot better, but Bungie isn't content to stop there with the improvements. For starters, certain fragile objects in the game - things like columns, doorframes, and thin wooden structures, can be crushed, shattered, and otherwise blown to bits through repeated gunfire or explosions. And this isn't strictly a cosmetic detail either, since the enemies are well aware of which surfaces can or cannot be destroyed. Certain sequences will also allow you to shoot out lights and hide in the shadows to take out the Covenant. Enemies may even come equipped with flashlights for low-light situations such as these. But keep in mind that the designers have no intention of turning the game into a stealth-based affair. This is still the same old Halo, only in a delightful, smartly refined form.
The multiplayer aspect of Halo 2 will be expanded to support multiplayer games over Xbox Live. There will be plenty of original maps, with a stronger focus on outdoor, vehicle-based levels like the ever-popular Blood Gulch map from Halo. Allegedly, the game will not include multiplayer bots, as Bungie would rather have people playing online or via split-screen. The developers envision large-scale, squad-based online games, something that will be made possible only through XBL.
As I've already hinted at, Halo 2 is not simply an add-on to Halo, nor is it Halo 1.5. It's a full-on sequel in every way we could have ever dreamt it to be, and with it will come drastic improvements to what still remains one of the greatest games ever made. The expectations for Halo 2 are undoubtedly high, but from what we've seen so far the game could very well surpass the original, which in itself is a lofty proposition. We all have to wait until 2004 though to see hiw it turns out.
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Soul Calibur II is better [8)]
So are all the nintendo-exclusive games [:)] If ANYBODY here can beat / has beaten Super Monkey Ball 2 (A.k.A. the most logically annoying game ever made) TELL ME HOW. I don't care about story mode, that was too easy. I'm talking EXPERT Mode, which would lead to MASTER Mode.
Mmmm... Metroid Prime is fun-yuns too... and Sonic Adventure 2 Battle, and Mario Party 4 (Mp 5 comes out soon!), Zelda: The Wind Waker...
I'm glad I made the decision to buy GameCube instead of Xbox [8D]
~Squeek
Hi guys, i'm very anticipated upon this upcoming game for the Xbox.
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Can you guess what game is it? It's NINJA GAIDEN. This game is gonna be awesome. Just from looking at it, i know it is!!!! The image you see there is the in-game graphics. WOWWIE[:O].... soooo beautiful. And guess what? The game has 3 other bonus games in it; the original ninja gaiden 1, 2, and 3. So basically you have 4 games on one cd. AWESOMES!!!!!
Here are more pictures:
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Enjoy.
Edit: I forgot to mention that this game has some online capabilities with Xbox live. I do not know what it is but something cool will happen. And about the date when it comes out, it's NOVEMBER 18 of this year!!! But then again, dates may change.
DONE!!!
Last night, at about Midnight, I finished Soul Calibur II.
I have every character, every level, every video, and every weapon in the whole game. Weapon Master is 100% now.
So then I moved on to Super Monkey Ball 2 again... I'm almost done with this one... I beat story mode, but challenge mode is much much harder. I've done beginner, beginner extra, advanced, and advanced extra. Only Expert, Expert Extra, Master, and Master extra left! [;)]
When I finish this game I have to go back and beat Metroid Prime. Then when I finish that I have to go back and beat Sonic Adventure 2 Battle 100%, then when I'm done with that I have to beat Mario Party 4 100%, then when I'm done with that I have to beat Zelda: The Wind Waker 100%, then when I'm done with that, I have to beat Sonic Advance 2 100%, then when I'm done with that, I have to beat Golden Sun 2 100%.
Odds are I'll have another game by the time I get to Metroid Prime [:P] I will never finish these games [:)]
Next up to buy is Mario Golf... if it goes on sale. If not (soon), then there are tons of old games that are now like 20 bucks. Whooooo
~Squeek
I insist that you really must try Deus Ex! The storyline it´s very deep for a game like this. You are always thinking in what is gonna happen next. You immerge so much in the game that you feel like part of it!
Cannot wait longer for Deus Ex 2 and Ufo Aftermath!
You just can't beat Gamecube. I'm 16 and I love it! My favorite games right now are Metroid Prime and Soul Calibur 2, but when Rebel Strike comes out...[:P] I even love to play my old NES! Zelda, mario, kirby, ice climers. Nintendo is NOT just for kids.[8D]
quote:
Odds are I'll have another game by the time I get to Metroid Prime I will never finish these games
I just bought "Agent Under Fire" at Wal-Mart for 20 bucks. [8D]
I've been waiting for an old game I liked to drop down for a long time, so finally, this one did! I'll be working on this game now for a long long time... instead of finishing old games of course!
~Squeek
I really loved Final Fantasy 3 on Super Nindendo. Now i started to play all FFseries from the very beginning (using emulators and PS2)
The graphics, the music and the story - ITS MIRACULOUS.
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I never really got into Final Fantasy. I have 7 and 8 for PS but I found them boring and iritating. The randomly occuring battles got me really ticked off. It cant have been just that though because i loved Grandia.
My favourite RPGs have got to be Ultima 3,4 and 7. and Baldurs Gate 2.
Ahh, those were the days. FF7 is what got me hooked on RPGs and was my first RPG to play. Quite possibly the greatest FF game Square has come out with. Good main characters and the evil villian, Sephiroth.
FF8's magic system was pretty bad. And the story wasn't great. Although, if it had come out before 7, it might have been better.
FF9 was the next best one. A return to four characters in a battle, and a good ability system to boot. Story was good, but nothing fantastic. Although, the main villian looked kinda.....fruity.
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FF10. My only real complaint here is Tidus. Horrible main character. Not only does he look AND sound like a pansy (by sound, look at his lines; not good) but his stats reflect that as well. All speed and little evasion (although with the sphere grid system, it's not too hard to manipulate it towards the end of the game). The story is so far interesting (haven't finished the game) and it had one plot twist I didn't see coming.
I think that's all that I have for now. Oh, if this means anything to anyone here, reply: DDR [;)][:P]
YAY... I'm almost done with Bond.
I've done 9 levels 100%. That means gold and platinum medals for each, which becomes very much difficult on levels 10-12. GO ME.
So Half-Life 2 comes out when? I wanna get it very much, but I'm just too lazy to go search on my own.
MK911- great images! Those are beautifully rendered.
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
(the resolution of these images isn't great, but you can see from these gameplay screens that this is going to be an amazing action game)
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Diary of the Designer:
Designer Diary #4--Gameplay
By Bret Robbins
Lead Designer
As lead designer I supervise the design, preproduction, and production of every level in The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. The process of producing each level is lengthy and involved. It starts when I meet with the other producers to figure out the overall ideas and themes for the level. Once we agree on these, we create a script for the level. Maps are drawn up, along with concept art, storyboards, and then animatics, which are like moving storyboards. This allows us to fully conceive a level before we start building.
Each level in the game falls into one of three categories and features distinctly different gameplay.
The levels in The Return of the King fall into three different categories: linear levels, where the player journeys from point A to point B, with occasionally divergent paths along the way; system levels, where the player has a specific mission to accomplish independent of the level's geometry; and arena levels, where players experience the game's major combat.
Designing levels in The Return of the King has been very challenging. For one, we wanted the levels to be much bigger and more complex than they were in The Two Towers. We've added elements like environmental interaction to the mix. Rather than just being pretty background, the environments are now an integral part of the gameplay, which demanded new ways of thinking in our level design. Designing cooperative gameplay has also been a new challenge. Cooperative play was probably the number one fan-requested addition, so being able to include it in The Return of the King is very satisfying for us.
Designing the levels to support co-op play provided a challenge for the team.
One of the biggest challenges we've faced has been accurately representing the scope of the movies in an entirely different medium. We feature all of the major locations from the upcoming movie in this game, including Minas Tirith, the Paths of the Dead, and the Black Gates of Mordor, to name just a few. What makes this even more amazing is that with all of the playable characters we''re introducing, you can play different characters as they follow their own respective paths. So now you can play not only Aragorn, Legolas, or Gimli, but also the hobbits on their journey to Mordor and even Gandalf as he defends Minas Tirith from Sauron's army.
Despite these challenges, The Return of the King has been a very rewarding project for me. Watching the levels go from ideas on paper to amazing game levels has been thrilling. Our art and engineering teams are brilliant and have fully realized our design goals. It has been really exciting.
Thanks for taking an interest in what I do, and enjoy The Return of the King. Stay tuned for next month's design diary!
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Updates..................................................
Super Monkey Ball 2 remains UNBEATEN! Soo not un anti easy it makes you cry.
Agent Under fire ... I'm finishing the last level. Somehow I don't think it's a good idea to have the gold medal only attainable with the hardest difficulty, the lowest health, and the strongest enemies.
Whatever.
STILL haven't beaten Mario Party 4! I have to beat Beach Folly Volly ONE TIME and I can't do it!
Sonic Adventure 2 Battle remains unbeaten... gotta 100% alot of things. I have 120-ish emblems...and it only gets harder X.x
Metroid Prime... I don't even wanna try.
Super Smash Brothers Melee - I can't even believe I haven't finished this. There are 290 trophies and I have 285.
Zelda: The Wind Waker - Haven't 100%'d this yet. It'll get done
Enter the matrix - DONE! Twas too easy.
THPS 3 and 4 - I beat them once and deleted the files to save space.
Starfox - Beaten 100%
Super Mario Sunshine - Got 60 more blue coins to get. Not even gonna TRY.
Spiderman - 100%'d.
Now I wanna play monkey ball alot. When I beat it...ever...I'll be ecstatic.
~Squeek
YAY for double posts.
Super Monkey Ball 2 is now DONE. I spent the entire weekend on this game. Oh man it's not even funny how hard some of the last few levels were.
From Expert mode you have to beat the original 50 levels, and then 10 more in Expert Extra, all without using a continue. This unlocks Master mode. Master is only 10 levels, and Master Extra is 10 more. But let me tell you... when they say MASTER they MEAN IT.
For example let's take the final level in the game... Master Extra level 10. The level is called "Nintendo". The surface you play on is a gamecube. Fully rendered, fully detailed. All the screws, holes, stickers, and grooves are present. Now you have to stay on it as it rotates. It rotates 5 times starting from the bottom to the sides, and around to the top. You can easily get stuck in the grooves if you were wondering. When you're on the top you have a few seconds before the lid opens and the goal pops out for you to shoot it. If I made this sound easy... I could add in the amount of frustration I spent on this level for you. I almost busted my controller when I got mad [:I]
But now that I beat it I'm still not done playing. I'm setting new high scores in the mini-games and everything. Maybe when I get bored of that I'll go finish the last level in Bond. Then maybe to Sonic.
Oh yea... I'm looking into buying Animal Crossing. The game that plays while you're not on it [|)] Only 25-30 bucks!
~Squeek
YAY for triple posts!
Nobody's talking anymore. It's very irritating.
Last Saturday my friend and I traded systems. I got his PS2, and he got my GCN. I only wanted it for Kingdom Hearts, of course.
And so I was playing that for a week. Now I'm not... because I finished it. Yea I completely completed Kingdom Hearts within a week [B)] I even got the Special Secret bonus at the end. Funyuns.
Now I want my GCN back [|)] And I want someone else to SAY SOMETHING!
~Squeek
I'm a gamer. I did have a PS1 and N64 but now I just have a GC, no other next-gen consoles. It has enough games to keep me occupied. I used to like RPGs, I had all the Playstation Final Fantasies, but now I don't play many RPGs, except some GBA ones. They don't take much skill to beat, you just fight and fight and fight, using menus, and at the end it's like "I spent hours of my life levelling! I'm incredible!" Not much into levelling games now. Right now I'm into Viewtiful Joe and F-Zero GX. Both amazing games. And hard. I found Soul Calibur 2 disappointing, considered selling it but decided not to eventually. It's just the same thing really, the game is completed way too quickly and there's no incentive to play it again. Got F-Zero on friday but haven't had much chance to play it, everyone's always watching TV and I can't have the GC in my room until my brother has got bored of F-Zero, because it's a shared game.
what was the secret bonus ending and i have ps1&2 n64 and gc and i am a gamer
batty - I can't just "tell" you the ending, it's much too complex for that. The secret ending takes place in the future of the world of Kingdom Hearts. The characters are unknown at this point. Stuff happens. Watch it yourself.
Speaking of which... I beat it then, yes, but I had left out a few things that were much too hard at the time. After a few more days with the game I have it 100% completed. I have the best weapons for all characters, I'm at level 100, I have all the dalmations, and even the Big 4 has felt my wrath. If you didn't know, the big 4 are:
Phantom - A phantom. He chills around the clock tower (big ben) and uses this clock as a device to kill one of your teammates until the end of battle. You can't just hit him with physical attacks, you have to use the corresponding magic with the color of his orb. It sucks.
Kurt Zisa - A robot in the desert. He has 6 swords and 2 arms. Odd. He uses these swords way too much... like becoming a disc (vertical AND horizontal) and spinning after you, which really hurts. He has two forms: Magical prevention and Physical prevention, which means in one mode you can't use magic, and the other you can't hit him without magic.
Ice Titan - A titan, made of ICE! He's featured in "Hercules" if you saw it. He has ice-based attacks like freezing and missles (icicles). Well, since he's about 200 feet tall, you have to actually deflect the missles back at him while dodging 50 other attacks. Funyuns.
SEPHIROTH - It's freakin sephiroth. Sephiroth, from FFVII. The dude with one wing. He sucks to fight against. He uses a 5-foot long masamune and his dirty little tricks, like teleporting behind you and slicing you up. He (OF COURSE) has to have an attack that will rid you of all your magic and leaves you with 1 hp. And OBVIOUSLY he has to have a multiple slash attack that is near impossible to avoid. And surely you know he has a meteor attack where he is invunerable and you feel pain!
I beat him 3 times now.
Kingdom Hearts, 100% Add it to the list.
~Squeek
is the secret ending where u see them running down a path cuz pluto has a letter w/ the kins sea on it
Nooo, that would be the normal ending. It's not really a second ending, but more of a preview of the next game.
srp about the speling errors damn i have to get that game when it comes out. i cant wait till mgs3 snake eater comes out soon and mgs twin snakes 4 gamecube comes out[:D]
I play Diablo 2 LOD and Counter Strike. They both are awesome games. If you enjoy medevil questing games you should get Diablo 2 LOD. If you enjoy gun games with terrorists and counter terrorists download steam.
www.steampowered.com for Counter Strike.
Go to store that sells games for Diabl 2 LOD
I know it's a bit sophmoric, but I love games and I wanted to revive this post by stating my deep dissapointment that Halo 2's release date has been delayed yet again and will not be released until fall of this year...Fans of the FSP genre still have Half-Life 2 and Doom 3 coming up, both of which will redefine the genre in their own way.
Wow, thanks for bringing this topic back to the front! I missed it.
I beat all my games with the excessive amount of time I have to play them. So I ended up buying several more.
Medal of Honor: Allied Assault (PC)
I'm working on this one... It's actually pretty hard.
Animal Crossing
Paid off all debt and currently working on a 100,000 HRA house. It's at 45,000. My 2nd floor consists of all nostalgic mario items and all the NES games you can have.
Super Monkey Ball
The original one. I finished it already. I only bought it because it was 20 bucks and I wanted Mini Golf.
Mario Kart: Double Dash!
Finished it in a week. Waay too easy, and way to fun with 3 friends to play battle mode with.
Crazy Taxi
Beat it in 2 days. I even got 1st place in arcade mode, with a license of "AWESOME". So the order is E, D, C, B, A, AWESOME. Wow.
SONIC HEROES!!!!!
Sonic Heroes RULED. I say ruled because I beat it in 10 days... But it was amazing. I have screenies for those who suck and don't own it. (Whee.)
I still haven't even tried to play Metroid Prime. It's just so darn hard. Maybe when I beat all my other stuff. I finally finished Mario Party 4's Beach Folly Volley, so that's taken care of... I have 288 trophies now in Melee, only 2 more, and I just don't care... Wind Waker is 100% completely done. My 5-year old cousin erased my Sonic Adventure 2: Battle files (even the backup file I had) so I had to start that all over. [xx(]
Let's just do screenshots.
Team Sonic
(http://www.cube-europe.com/games/sonichero/5.jpg)
Team Dark
(http://www.vgcity.com/media/sonicheroes/6.jpg)
Team Rose
(http://www.gamecubeland.com/images/screenshots/sonic_heroes_04.jpg)
Team Chaotix
(http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/2003/news/05/27/sonic/heroes_screen001.jpg)
Level 2.
(http://www.cube-europe.com/games/sonichero/2.jpg)
Hehe, the cart is pretty sweet... It's all like, sonic and knuckles are the wheels (Sonic is back, Knuckles is front to bust through stuff) and Tails steers & helps the cart jump. You use the cart like 3 times in the whole game, for about 10 seconds each time. How crazy. HOW VERY CRAZY.
~Squeek (Buy Sonic Heroes)
Yeah...I am seriously considering renting Sonic Heroes. I have read some good critical reviews of the game. I wish I had 1) more time 2) a gamecube. I would definetly purchase a gamecube before I would purchase a PS2. It's too bad the Gamecube doesn't get more respect because it really is a great machine and there are quite a few good titles. I think the PS2 is amazing too, but it's overrated. The Xbox and Gamecube are simply bettermachines because they are newer.
I am interested to see what Nintendo's next HandHeld is going to be like, did you hear that it has 2 screens? Check it out on the web. Just go to google.com/news and search "Nintendo handheld news"
I actually did hear about the new Gameboy thing, and I seriously cannot think of a worse idea for a handheld.. It just sounds so dumb. But, if they want to do it, let them.
Also, Sonic Heroes came out for all 3 systems. I don't entirely know WHY, but it did.
~Squeek
More platforms leads to a larger audience which leads to (possibly) more profit.
Anyone here play FFXI?
video games are like..my life...its so sad 0_o heh-- ever since my dad gave me my first gameboy when i was 4 i got addicted. expetually DDR--does anyone else play ddr (dance dance revolution)? its so much fun...i can finally play heavy mode ^_^ but yeah-- other favorites.. ssbm, soul calabur, mario kart, pretty much any mmorpg (UT, UO, earth and beyond,), neverwinter nights, of course the originals (super mario..tetris) wheee the list could go on forever ^_^ im so wierd for a girl...
Ooh, DDR is the best game I have ever seen [|)]. I only played twice so far, once when I had no idea what was happening, and once after I loved the game more and more. The second time though, it was on a pad that wasn't secure at all [:(]. I'm going to Busch Gardens this summer and spending an exorbitant amount of money on the DDR machine there. My friend just got a game similar to DDR called Frequency. It was like 12 bucks. It's for Ps2 only, but it's so very cool if you like DDR. The concept is to create music by playing notes on individual instruments.. It's basically like playing notes on a huge 3-d octagonal music sheet...like so.
As you can see, you can use the L1, R1, and R2, or the Square, Triangle, Circle buttons to hit the gems.
(http://www.ntsc-uk.com/MainContent/PS2/Frequency/05.jpg)
(http://www.gamesasylum.com/features/mostplayed/frequency.jpg)
(http://www.ntsc-uk.com/MainContent/PS2/Frequency/03.jpg)
Otherwise, my gaming has seriously decreased. There aren't any console games I really want to have right now (Waiting for DDR for Gamecube), and PC games are not my style. Soo, I downloaded "Stepmania", a take-off from the classic DDR games. It's basically the same thing, but you use fingers instead of feet. I'm getting really really good; like good enough that I can AAA rank Heavy songs and beat ONI difficulty songs. (//www.stepmania.com) You need songs/stepfiles downloaded to play them, and those are found here: //www.bemanistyle.com. (Bemani is down for a few weeks...the owner took a vacation.)
Also, I beat practically every song on this Flash version of DDR (//www.flashflashrevolution.com). I'm MreSqueek there... just wait until I'm in the Top 50! [|)][|)].
Also, mazdaaf, I see that you like Naruto... You gonna get any of the games? There's already one each for GBA and Gamecube, and by the end of the year there should be another for each. Personally, I'm not to big in the Cel-Shaded 2-d fighter games, but if the price is right, I'll buy it. I already beat the Naruto GBA game... not worth the download. (Cough).
~Squeek
I'm a gamer too.
I love my Xbox.
currently playing Otogi- Myth of Demons.
great game.
I'm also playing Rainbow Six 3 for Xbox. I love playing this on Xbox live.
My gamertag is Shedt
Currently looking forward too Halo 2 (duh!) Doom 3, Half-Life 2 and Ninja Gaiden which is right around the corner.
and Fable ! :D
Wow, I love Video games, but lately I have been simply waiting for a good game with good story to come out. Final Fantasy VII was one of my fav RPG's Chrono Cross and Chrono Trigger are also one of my favs. Silent Hill 3 was scary as H*** when I played it.
Kingdom hearts (wow I loved the seph fight) was awesome as well. I cannot wait for part 2 coming soon.
Probably up along with the SquareEnix games (FF and CT) is Xenosaga. That game is a really in-depth story RPG with awesome graphics. The voices seemed a bit odd to me but you get over that and the sequel (this will eventually have 9 parts) is supposed to be better when it comes out.
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ME!
Also, mazdaaf, I see that you like Naruto... You gonna get any of the games? There's already one each for GBA and Gamecube, and by the end of the year there should be another for each. Personally, I'm not too big in the Cel-Shaded 2-d fighter games, but if the price is right, I'll buy it. I already beat the Naruto GBA game... not worth the download. (Cough).
Well, once again I spoke before I knew anything of the game. Not only will I buy this game, but I will tell you how awesome it looks. This works much better if you know about the fights on the show.
First, it ain't 2-d. Second, it's FOUR PLAYER. Third, the Cel-Shading makes it look better. Here's the keypoints I noticed in the videos I got from IGN.
1 - Kawarimi is awesome. Basically, during the opponents combo, you can pull off a Kawarimi. You go POOF and there's a log there, and you're dashing in from behind them! WHOO!
2 - There is no cheap move. There is a way to dodge ANYTHING. If you're in the air, you can still do something, unlike other fighting games where an aired up opponent can be juggled forever.
3 - Shikamaru is in it. That alone makes it worth the 60 bucks you need to buy and have it shipped to your house, as they don't think it will get any support here in the US.
4 - It's a NINJA FIGHTING GAME. Ninjas. Ninjas rule. You don't have these crappy Cat-People like in Tekken, or Possessed Warriors with big swords like in Soul Calibur ([:(] Nightmare was so cool... as was Kilik), you have a bunch of ninjas! With Kunai and Shuriken and such! WHOA!
http://media.cube.ign.com/media/614/614639/vids_1.html
Overall, this game looks awesome. Problems: Neither of the videos has Lee or Shikamaru win. [:(] Those two are the best, and they both lose. Waah.
~Squeek
Squeek: naruto is like one of my alltime favorite anime series ^___^ i didnt know they had a game!! dude i am so getting that now... :p yeah-= ddr is the best ever.. u'll probably like "o2jam" its kinda like the game u described. http://o2jam.e-games.com.my/ its free too :) WARNING: VERY ADDICTING! lol [:D]
haha i read ur second response right after i posted lol i must take this moment to say NINJAS RULE ALL!!!!!11 [8D] hehe-- yeah i hate it when theres one move that is unstoppable..it makes the game less fun :/ they dont have lee?? dude..he was like so stong..well until the match with gaara... do they have gaara in it? lol hes one of my fav. characters.. freaky but awesome [:D]
Ah, you misread my post. In the videos at the link I provided, they have Lee and Shikamaru more than once, but they never WIN their fights. Lee loses to Gaara and Kiba, and Shikamaru loses to Ino and Naruto.
Also, I checked out the link you provided.. I may have to check out the game later...after all my "work" [;)]
~Squeek
I'm not going to admit to being a gamer anymore, even though most of my free time is taken up with the most annoying thing ever designed by Korea! http://www.gunbound.net
The good thing about it is it's FREE and it's also one of the best concepts to ever come off of the original "gorilla.bas" or Worms type of games. The bad part is playing in the USA and connecting to an already bursting at the seams Korean server can cause major lag and downtime sometimes, thereby adding hatred to latency issues.
On the other hand I still do have my EQ account, but I don't use it because I get that wrenching feeling in my stomach to even think about logging on. When my stomach hates something, I usually do too.
As for consoles, and fighting games, Naruto sounds fun. I'm still partial to Tekken, even though it has the animal people (My Ling can kick your Lee's butt!). Also I own SC2, but I don't feel a burning need to beat it. I'm praying that the computer industry will revive this genre and add to it. I'd buy the first pc-based game like this to hit shelves whether or not it's good.
Lastly, racing games. Has anyone tried Project Gotham Racing 2 for X-Box? I'm in love with it's physics engine, but I don't play much anymore (however, there's always something to do if you have a Live account). I'd say it's one of the most expansive game to date (not car wise...no upgrades or modifications available to anything, but oh well). Another title that I used to play too much of is Burnout 2. I have that game 100%ed, and would continue to play if they had more to it. Also, anyone play NFS:Underground? Anyone hear any news regarding the WipeOut series?
There's my gaming habits for you [;)]
ah yes--gunbound..i was really addicted for a while too 0_o i forced myself to delete it off my computer because it was taking up all my free time [xx(]
Well, generally in those types of games, you don't really have a goal other than to be the best (skill or rank), have the best gear, or have ALL of the gear. My goal is to simply become a wand rank with my technique, and at the rate I'm going I have about another month before I get that. As for free time, I find this to be more entertaining specifically because it's fun to do what I'm doing, and it requires a crap load of skill (which I do seem to get better with every single day). Ok, well I'm gonna go see the movie "Big Fish" now because I liked the trailer (this movie looks like something you would experience in a dream where the realism goes haywire...). If this movie was crap, sorry I didn't hear much about it, but I'll provide a review here when I get done...out!
yeah--gunbound really had no point..it was just fun. i was gonna see that movie but then i didnt... lol wonder if it was good or not...
Shedt, Ninja Gaiden is out!!!! I can't wait to get my hands on them. i'm hoping that i have a chance to go to Bestbuy today to pick it up. I've been anticipating that game ever since it was talked about. Amazing game.[:)]
About Otogi, yea, great game. I beat it and got the ultimate sword last month.
I'm currently playing Beyond Good and Evil again. Another great game. The graphic, music, and story, all are very beautiful. I consider that game a piece of art.
You know what I figured out sitting here just now... We failed to mention some of the hottest releases to-be for 2004. I can easily give the list of games I will seriously consider purchasing that I have heard of as of yet.
Half-Life 2 (That's a given)
Naruto 2 (Yay for ninjas)
Kingdom Hearts 2? (I know it ain't gonna be out in 2004... but I can hope can't I?! Oh yea... I need to buy a Ps2 for that too. That's how much I WANT IT. [|)])
Super Monkey Ball 3??? (It's in consideration!)
Sonic Heroes 2 (It's in the making!)
Final Fantasy (All of them. I want to finally play at least one, if not the best one first.)
Mario Party 5
Mario Golf
Super Smash Brothers 3 (Rumor? Truth? Who knows.)
007: Everything or Nothing (This looks awesome)
DDR 10th Mix
Now for some well-deserved Screens.
(http://img.gamekult.com/photos/00/00/40/65/ME0000406553_2.jpg)
(http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/2002/news/12/19/naruto_screen001.jpg)
(really old ddr...sorry)
(http://www.kenston.k12.oh.us/khs/video_games/ddr/ddrkonamix4.jpg)
(http://www.linux-magazin.de/Artikel/ausgabe/2003/07/bgw/pyddr-0.6.0pre-1.jpg)
!!!
(http://www.disney.co.jp/interactive/kingdom/com/images/wallpaper02_01.jpg)
(http://www.techtv.com/graphics/xplay/3539173.jpg)
(http://www.doupe.cz/vaulty/finalfantasy/pictures/Kingdom%20Hearts%202%20Exlusiv.jpg)
More later!
~Squeek
Yeah Ninja Gaiden is a must buy. PGR2, i've only played the demo. #1 is tons of fun with a racing wheel and pedals. I'm stilling playing Otogi..... it's challenging.
Halo 2 is soooo far away !
can't wait for BC and Fable and True Fantasy live, esp when you talk about cell-shading and rpg's
whoo naruto and ddr pics :p-- ooh i forgot an old but alltime favorite--SNOOD! one of the most addicting computer puzzle games made... in my opinion neways
oooo! i love DDR! im real good at it!
........
It probably had a piece of toast shoved in the dvd tray? I don't think the Xbox gets hungry...who knows though?
i love vidoe games. one of my favs is Phantasy star online.
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ok how many of u ppl are final fansty well anyway there is a movie comming out for pst calles final fansty 7 advent childern
First of all: Gamecubes can't break down. You shouldn't throw things like that. [;)]
Sorry battousai, I am not a final fantasy, but I did enjoy playing the games, if that's what you were trying to ask [8)].
My FF7 obsessed friend told me a few months ago that Advent Children will work on making the game story into a movie using top of the line 3-d animation for the big screen instead of a PS1.
I only knew Cloud through Kingdom Hearts, but from what I hear from the FF7 friend, he was the coolest game hero of all time.
By the way, another one of my friends imported the Naruto Gekitou Ninja Taisen 2 game and allowed me to borrow it. I beat it in a week. It was a LOT of fun, just not challenging enough. True to the story of Naruto, though! [|)]
~Squeek
does the naruto game tell you teh end of the series? since in japan their only up to episode 76 (yeah im obsessed) and the mangas a lot farther but incredibly long.. theres gonna be like 200 episodes or something :p.
Well, the game kinda tells you what's going to happen with the battles that take place, but the last fight is the one about to begin by episode 77.
It didn't matter anyway, I knew what was going to happen a few months ago when I read all the manga [|)]
Sorry that this is a little off-topic from the gaming itself, it's just that Naruto is such a great anime about NINJAS! NINJAS I TELLS YA!
~Squeek
hey i have ff online
Halo 2 will be out later this year (september or November)
(http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/2004/screen0/562116_20040419_screen001.jpg)
This is an IN GAME screen!!!!!!!!!!!!
YES!!!, now that is a game, or it will be.
I cannot nor will I ever be able to find any draw to play Halo at all. It's a boring FPS with another knockoff idea for gameplay. There's no reason it's any better than any other FPS on the market today.
Metroid Prime is the best one I've found, followed closely by Unreal Tournament 2004, Half-life, and finally Timesplitters 2. Halo is last place. Boo.
Half-Life 2 is still in programming... I still can't wait for this to be released (if ever [xx(]). In the meantime I actually got around to playing Metroid Prime and found I actually did like it. I'm about 50% done with that now. Then I found Unreal Tournament 2004. This is what an MMOFPS should be for all those Halo fans. Massive array of playable characters, massive collection of weaponry, massive amount of maps and gameplay modes. Real vehicles that are actually fun to drive around to opposing vehicles. This is a true FPS.
No screens for you. Find out more about UT2k4 for yourself.
~Squeek
Here are some more new Halo 2 pics:
(http://bungie.net/images/Games/Halo2/screenshots/H2_e304_eliteoverlook.jpg)
(http://bungie.net/images/Games/Halo2/screenshots/H2_e304_swordduel.jpg)
(http://bungie.net/images/Games/Halo2/screenshots/H2_e304_gateassault.jpg)
(http://bungie.net/images/Games/Halo2/screenshots/H2_e304_flagrun.jpg)
(http://bungie.net/images/Games/Halo2/screenshots/H2_e304_ghostcharge.jpg)
(http://bungie.net/images/Games/Halo2/screenshots/H2_e304_hogslide.jpg)
Enjoy.
I am a gamer forever and forever more.
I don't know what I'd do if video games weren't invented.
[8D]Leon
I LOVE YOU NINTENDO!
At the E3 convention yesterday, Nintendo finally announced that a realistic Zelda game is to be released for the gamecube within a year's time (I guessed on the date).
This is what all Gamecube owners have been waiting for since the day Gamecube was first announced. This very game was demoed on the initial release of a gamecube, only to leave fans in awe that the new Zelda game was to be Cel-Shaded.
But that's over now.
(http://media.nintendo.com/mediaFiles/fb05d3dc-a792-4681-8dbe-d8db5df70d93.jpg)
(http://media.nintendo.com/mediaFiles/f4d8f436-e686-4e7a-b4d2-eb70f207b075.jpg)
(http://media.nintendo.com/mediaFiles/754292bf-4965-4191-969e-bfde241e14a3.jpg)
(http://cubemedia.ign.com/cube/image/article/513/513359/the-legend-of-zelda-gcn-200405110014455.jpg)
(http://cubemedia.ign.com/cube/image/article/513/513359/the-legend-of-zelda-gcn-200405110014362.jpg)
(http://cubemedia.ign.com/cube/image/article/513/513359/the-legend-of-zelda-gcn-200405110014549.jpg)
Other announced games were Starfox 2, Metroid Prime 2, Pikmin 2, Resident Evil 4, and many others. Full article here.
http://www.e3insider.com/index.htm
http://www.gametrailers.com
Enjoy.
~Squeek
I used to be a gamer... but.. things change.
Oh wow, Squeek, that Zelda game is almost enough to make me invest in a Gamecube ... almost. lol I love the Zelda games.
Mr Gamer, yep, that´s me... [}:)] Been away from the forum for a year or so, playing games [:I] ...all PC. ...had a PS2 but it had a tough time to cope with a 1½ meter free fall some time ago - damn wires!
PC it is, and the games at the moment; NHL2004 (best sport game ever, dare challenge me on a game? ...peer to peer [;)] - gotta hand out a warning though, can´t be beaten on this one), Tiger Woods 2004 (can be beaten on that one, but give me a week and I´ll be unbeatable here too [8D] - darn good golfing game!) and of course Star Wars; Jedi Knight II; JEDI OUTCAST (swinging a green lightsabre of course, just like Qui-Gon... [;)])
I´m with Leon, once a gamer, always a gamer - what to do without ´em games ey? [8)]
The TV has become a dust- gatherer....... [|)]
Good to see alof of folks from back in the days still here, active... Peaceful Warrior, Cainam, and the list goes on and on...
I'm a gamer. I've played Everquest since 2002. I did go through a period where I played it a lot. But, now I don't play all of the time. It's fun, but it isn't my whole life.
I am trying out City of Heroes right now. It's neat but it's too early to tell if I'll stick with it.
which zelda did thoes pics come form
YAY zelda rocks i cant wait till a new one comes out i have been waiting for it i beat all the rest its about time for a new one and those pics look great hopefully that is what the new game will look like while u are playing[:)][:D][8D]
Battousai:
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By Me in Zelda post:
At the E3 convention yesterday, Nintendo finally announced that a realistic Zelda game is to be released for the gamecube within a year's time (I guessed on the date).
This is what all Gamecube owners have been waiting for since the day Gamecube was first announced. This very game was demoed on the initial release of a gamecube, only to leave fans in awe that the new Zelda game was to be Cel-Shaded.
Well, it obviously isn't an N64 game because there were only two and it doesn't look anything like that. It's obviously not Wind Waker as that was cel-shaded. My post spoke of a new game coming out in the near future with a realistic look to it. Infer from here as to the system it shall be for (Underline: Shall be means the game is not currently existant. Hint: The system is currently existant and continues to produce new games on minidiscs).
~Squeek
squeek i have been hearing about the new zelda for a few years now so if it is taking nintendo this long to develope it then it must be one good game i must say i think nintendo was just waiting for a system that could run such a game[:)][:D][8D]
I juas
i ment what is the title of it gona be
-.-; Be more clear next time.
The working title is "The Legend of Zelda : The Wind Waker 2"
Many people have said this is it, others say this isn't it. Only time will tell.
~Squeek
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Originally posted by MJ-12
I just finished Halo on Legendary [8D]
Now that's something to be proud of !
Halo 2 ! November 9th 2004 !
(http://www.bungie.net/images/Games/Halo2/screenshots/H2_e304_swordduel.jpg)
YEah, i'm a gamer. But not like i was when i was a kid. At 31, i own an Xbox and i've been playing Halo for what, almost 3 YEARS now! The best game ever ever ever made. Halo 2 looks like it will blow away the original, especially from the E3 previews. Doom3...well, it looks good, i'll give it that, but i don't think it will be the best. Half Life 2...oh baby...talk about virtual reality. These games are sucking you into their world more and more.
Hey, how about this idea? Projecting into the world of Halo or Half Life or Doom? A lot of serious imagination went into those games, i bet they make a helluva astral story...
THE BEST GAME EVER COMING TO YOU GUYS SOONNNNN!!!!!!!!
==========METAL GEAR SOLID 3 SNAKE EATER==========
THE STORY IS AWSOME AND IS COMING OUT FOR THE PSP OR PLAY STATION PORTABLE TOO!!!
One of the cool things is that if you want to survive in the jungle, you have to eat raw animals like snakes, and fishes.
IF YOU GUYS WANT TO WATCH THE 10 MINUTE TRAILER GO TO //gametrailers.com/vault-m.html and look for metal gear solid 3
here are some pics hope you guys enjoy the best game for PS2 made by the one and only Hideo Kojima!!!!!!!!!!!!
(http://www.gamer.no/bilder/ps2/metal_gear_solid_3_snake_eater/20.jpg)
(http://entertainment-iuk.com/tgs2003-snakeeater/18.jpg)
LOOK HE IS EATING A SNAKE!!!
(http://www.planetps2.com/metalgear/i/series/ps2/mgs3se/screens/mgs3_007.jpg)
tell me what you guys think!
Mod Note - Deleted double post and double pictures
i no i caN WAIT until it comes out hehehhe i have been waiting for it to come out since mgs2 came out.
(http://www.astralpulse.com/forums/uploaded/battousai%20the%20man%20slayer/MGS3snakeEater_051303_08.jpg)
Combined 2 posts into one; removed link. Just keep the link in your profile.
Ok, any starcraft players??? Cmahhhn..I need a good partner
Sadly.... Im worse than a gamer. Im an overclocker. Not only do I binge on games. I do the same (if not more) for hardware.
If you are gonna push the limits of reality, why stop at the mind / soul alone?
zz
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Originally posted by narfellus
Hey, how about this idea? Projecting into the world of Halo or Half Life or Doom? A lot of serious imagination went into those games, i bet they make a helluva astral story...
I used to have dreams about being in the woods and I would hear the sound of a covie dropship above my head ! I'd look up and it would be there looking for a place to land and find me !
I've had alot of Halo 2 dreams as well. esp with all these new screens !
Yup, GAMES! Okay, perhaps I'm not really a Gamer, like most others, 'cause the only game I really play (to be more exact, the only series I play) is Legacy of Kain. Love it! LOVE IT! 'Course, in Defiance, got stuck in the graveyard for three hours, unsure of what the hark I was suppose to be doing, but that was FUN! FUN I SAY, FUN! Puzzle games are interesting, mind-boggling. I would have said Sphinx (and the Cursed Mummy) was a good game, but no game is fun if it's not challenging, or so I think. I mean, if you're able to beat the thing in six hours while everybody else is still stuck back at that skeletal bird thing . . . what's the fun? Maybe I'm just strange.
Favorite game of all time, though is an oldy, and something I still play all the time . . . TOEJAM AND EARL! Oh yeah, Toejam and Earl. Love that game, 'cause it lasts forever, and when you beat it you get to go back to their world and walk around and swim and everything! Of course, there's also Tetris, Columns, (lol) Clue, etc.
Board games are more fun, though . . . *sighs* Of subject perhaps, but role-playing games are great! Gotta play 'em, don't know why. I'll go insane if I don't.
Anybody ever play a PC game (perhaps on some console of some sort) called Heroes of Might and Magic. Gotta love that game. Great fun. How I miss the old days when my friends and I played that game. 'Course, before we ever beat it my computer broke and the game was lost forever.
Then there's the PC game Dust: A Tale of the Wired West. Yeah, yeah, I've heard a lot of bad reviews, but I use to play this game forever. Wonder what happened to it? Broke I think.
And, oh my garsh, how could I have forgotten . . . What's the name of that game? GRR! It's like the sequel to it. You've got the paddle and you move back and forth, making sure the ball doesn't fall down. When the ball hits the paddle, it shoots up and breaks the walls! And there's pills in it that falls down and gives you things, like double/triple/multiballs. Love that came, spent forever on it. It was about aliens . . . oh well. Wish that comp. hadn't broke!
Oooh, and Dr. Mario. And Mario 2. Gotta get out of here and play me some games . . . FUN! LOTS OF FUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Excuse me, I've gone insane!
Never forget Warren Robinett.
http://www.icwhen.com/book/index.shtml
I am a gamer. An interactive electronic gamer to be exact. Not a freak, I am so busy with school, work and family that I don't find nearly as much time (or money) required to be a hard core gamer, but I am a gamer nonetheless.
It's tough to admit this sometimes as an adult, even though I am a "young adult." Most people look at electronic gaming as childs play, I, however, think these people are out of touch. Gaming actually makes more revenue than the movies do these days. Furthermore, the new games are really interactive DVD's than merely "games." Take the new PC/Xbox game Half-Life 2 which is due to be released in a few months, it's been FIVE YEARS in production! It looks beautiful and will incorporate amazing lighting effects, real time physics and graphic engine that is going to stun everyone.
I myself own a PC as well as a console system (the XBOX). The following screens are from XBOX games, check 'em out (I think those of you who have not seen what contemporary games are looking like these days will find these screenshots to be amazing...mind you that the resolution is often less than it would normally be due to the fact that the images have been resized, also another thing to keep in mind is that games aren't always supposed to look "realistic," often times they are designed, like any work of art, to look as the artist intends, e.g., cartoony, surrealistic, etc.):
From the upcoming Xbox tennis game "Top Spin"
(http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/2003/screen1/562452_20030731_screen002.jpg)
(http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/2003/screen1/562452_20030731_screen004.jpg)
Half-Life 2: (this game has a built in program that allows the characters mouths match up excatly with the words they speak, no matter what language!)
(http://www.levelrating.com/articles/images/hl215_4gfsx5nxs6sgw.jpg)
(http://www.levelrating.com/articles/images/hl201_bpnw6kbn3ubra.jpg)
From the upcoming Xbox game HALO 2 (I cannot wait for this one!):
(http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/2003/e3/0512/xb_halo205121130_screen003.jpg)
(http://www.zeldaguide.com/xbox/_borders/halo2_3.jpg)
(http://www.gamespot.com/xbox/action/halo2/screens.html?page=33)
From "wiggles":
(http://www.xboxmagonline.com/xbox/downloads/screenshots/games_w/wiggles_02.jpg%3Cbr%20/%3E)
for more on Halo 2:
http://halo.bungie.net/site/halo/features/av.html
or
http://halo.bungie.net/site/halo/features/gallery.html
and
http://www.gamespot.com/xbox/action/halo2/screens.html?page=33
Not really a gamer, but occasionally I do play, when I get time....a bit of Skyrim, a bit of Fallout, Minecraft and Mount and Blade are my favorite.
August 2003 was the last post on this thread. The original posters may not see it. The thread may open up again though, it's a topic so many people know.
I read the first page quickly and remembered repairing many of the consoles years ago.
:-D
You have to test them too. Yay.
Yeah, there's lots of good topics that are forgotten....resurrecting them seems better than posting new ones.
It's all good. If ya'll wanna talk gaming again, this is the right thread to do it in.
I play Skyrim... Ni No Kuni... but mostly World of Warcraft with my fiance. :)
I'll have to try WOW....i also played Lineage....horrible game lol can't believe I used to like it.
I want 'Last of Us'. It sounds epic.
Love Skyrim also Xanth. The problem is my PS3 had a breakdown and I lost my game save. I will have to start all over again. :roll: