I adore Shadow Hearts. I played it on a fluke and my line of thoughts as I was playing it went something like this.
This is pretty ok, a pretty decent RPG with funny moments and alright graphics, and a good battle system...
Hey, this music is pretty great, and there's some wonderful character moments and that's an interesting mechanic...
wow, that's some creepy monster design, this is pretty awesome...Hang on, is one of my characters MATA HARI!? With a rocket launcher and a mobile phone in the 1900s!? WHAT!? And then there was a fencing vampire called Keith.
Ok. Fucking TimeSplitters. ************. Say hello to Goldeneye's hotter sister.
Fuck playing realistic shooters like a pussy.
In this game you travel across time to save the universe from things.
Why? Who gives a shit!
The important thing is it controls like jizz, and is funnier than fucking tutu wearing panda on a unicycle.
The weapons range from pistols, submachine guns, to fucking double wielding flare guns and tools that shoot lightning.
You want story? Well fuck story. There is one, but sexy people shouldn't care. It's all the about the multiplayer. No, no 360 no scoping online raging bullshit. The sweetest fucking splitscreen ever. You also unlock a pant tightenly good arcade mode full of challenges and unlockables.
You can kill a monkey in a brick in a chinese restaraunt whilst playing as a snowman that walks by sitting on a magic carpet!
It's got monkeys zombies, robots, and aliens.
And all this without even jump button.
Jump buttons are for pussies.
You can find any of the 3 games for about TWO MEASELY QUID.
Pick up the last one, Future Perfect, if you don't think you're man enough to handle games that didn't even give aiming reticules.
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OT: Well, I think I've talked a lot about Bloodlines on these forums. Oh, if anyone didn't catch it, I love the game. But let's try something different for a change - my other major passion in video games:
Oh yeah, baby! Consider this, "balancing of the scales of fanboy blabbing" - I have to make up for all the Bloodlines talk I've done.
So, why play any LoK game? The story is fucking amazing, that's why. An interesting, well thought out narrative that is full of plot twists. And they don't get old, so you wouldn't be rolling your eyes saying "What, again? *sigh*". Also, be prepared, since the story includes time travel, you would might need to lie down before trying to get the bigger picture. Oh, if you just play the game it's fine, trying to make a deeper analysis of what's happening may give you a slight headache. A good headache, though - it comes from having to actually think and understand stuff. But as for the story itself - without going into the bigger picture (it would take too much text to make an explanation that does it justice) it starts off with Kain - a nobleman who gets murdered in Blood Omen 1. He is brought back as a vampire, so he can have revenge. But is soon dragged into trying to save all of Nosgoth (i.e. the world). Which he does, to a degree.
Then comes Soul Reaver, here - have an intro
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Nosgoth is damned and is a blighted wasteland. Over the whole Soul Reaver arc (that is: Soul Reaver 1 and 2, plus Defiance), things work similar as with BO - a quest for revenge that grows into the struggle to save the world - undamn it on an even grander scale than before. Invisible puppeteers, however, want to make sure everything falls. It comes with loads of revelations, unmaskings and mystique. A chase through time to fulfil one's destiny.
Now, it should be noted that there exists a game, called Blood Omen 2. It is...the lowest point in the series. If you want good story, skip BO2, you could read the plot synopsis online, but playing the game is awful. OK, to be fair, the stealth kills are fun and brutal and the boss fights are interesting. Also, has Simon Templeman there to voice Kain. But other than those, the game is a waste of time - frustrating, tedious and boring. That's before mentioning the many glitches it comes with. Oh, and the plotholes, too - LoK has always been about the tight strong plot - destroying that was...not well received.
But other than that, the games offer an amazing story, so it's well worth getting them. And, hey, GOG recently added the whole Soul [https://secure.gog.com/gamecard/legacy_of_kain_soul_reaver] Reaver [https://secure.gog.com/gamecard/legacy_of_kain_soul_reaver_2] saga [http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/legacy_of_kain_defiance] on their site! BO, you can find on PSN also on an abandonware website for PC. And here [http://www.gamefaqs.com/ps2/914777-legacy-of-kain-defiance/faqs/25247] is an awesome plot guide for all the games. To be fair, you don't really need to play them - since the story is told in the cutscenes, you could just watch those (easy to find) and you'd have missed very little. However, you should totally buy the games, in case that proves to Square-Enix (who bought Eidos - the previous publisher) that they should finally greenlight another game to finish the series. There was one in the works, but it got shut down by Eidos.
Finally, last few times I mentioned LoK on this site, I got people telling me about a rumour that a reboot is in the works. So, I'll say this now - I know that. I was one of the people who propagated it here. But E3 came and went and there is still no other info, like the countless other rumours I've seen.
Damn it!
Both Persona 4 and Ace Attorney have been taken, guess I'll go with Ghost Trick.
Its what I consider a perfect game, I can't think of a single thing wrong with it, brilliant characters, intriguing and well told story along with its own unique and extremely entertaining gameplay.
Its also the only game I game where I can't tell which aspect of it is better, the story or the gameplay, in every other game you would have one that was definitively better but in this case both aspects of the game are so well done and do such a good job of complementing each other I honestly can't tell.
I like Too Human. I think it has a a lot of great ideas that should be in more games.
.The salvage system was brilliant. instead of hauling everything to a merchant, you could turn items into money. You could even set the game to auto-salvage all the loot that's not up to your standards.
.There are so many opportunities to make your enemies hurt each other, it's not even funny. You can hurl a fierce attack at the elemental in the middle of a crowd or watch the enemies friendly fire themselves to death. it never gets old.
.Human characters have high customization with runes and can make characters insanely powerful in just about any area.
you could roll a commando with maxed ranged stats to mulch everything from half a mile away and kill bosses in seconds
Roll a Berserker with maxed melee stats to shred through enemies even faster.
Roll a champion and spec damage, HP, armor, and fire rate/attack speed to become omnipotent as fuck.
.up to 4 different tricks up your sleeve
1. robot spider that can be spec'd to do anything from gun down enemies to giving you an invulshield.
2. send the spirit of your melee weapon out to demolish enemies and give you free combos.
3. battle cries that act as superbuffs
4. AOE attacks that can nuke entire rooms full of enemies
.And even with all that, the game maintains it's challenge becuase many enemies still pose a threat in their own way. Even Dark Souls gets piss easy by the time you're a mid level with high resistance to everything and using overpowered pyro spells.
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Finally, last few times I mentioned LoK on this site, I got people telling me about a rumour that a reboot is in the works. So, I'll say this now - I know that. I was one of the people who propagated it here. But E3 came and went and there is still no other info, like the countless other rumours I've seen.
Great series, LoK, I've gushed about it before, and if my Avatar isn't telling enough, have a sweet spot for the series Title Character. But the original writer (Amy Hennig), I think, is done with the series (pure rumour mill shit, I can't locate the article I heard it in but it was her own words if I recall). If another game comes out it could very well feel off, much like Blood Omen 2 felt off (gone off) as it was penned by someone who really couldn't get the feeling right...
Did you know that Blood Omen 2 is considered by some, not sure if it is canon, to be an alternative time line created by the events in Defiance? Seems like a clever way to eliminate the influence without ignoring the presence of that shitty game
That said, if the stars align and they greenlight another game with Amy Hennig at the helm, my wallet is ready for it.
As an aside, you know what I liked about Soul Reaver... well one thing in particular? It was a vampiric post apocalyptic high fantasy action/adventure game. How many games can say that line and STILL be taken seriously.
No one ever reads these threads. They just rush to post their own thing. So I read ALL the posts. Even the really long ones.
But what the hell! You're all console players! There are like, 2 PC games here. I am not well pleased. These choices are meaningless! Meaningless, I say!
Great series, LoK, I've gushed about it before, and if my Avatar isn't telling enough, have a sweet spot for the series Title Character. But the original writer (Amy Hennig), I think, is done with the series (pure rumour mill shit, I can't locate the article I heard it in but it was her own words if I recall).
She left Crystal Dynamics and made Uncharted. I don't think she's "done" with the series, as much as she just can't work on them any more, being part of another game studio. Then again, she might have mentioned something I missed.
Ragsnstitches said:
Did you know that Blood Omen 2 is considered by some, not sure if it is canon, to be an alternative time line created by the events in Defiance? Seems like a clever way to eliminate the influence without ignoring the presence of that shitty game
It is an alternate history - influenced by the end of SR2. Well, and Defiance, to a point - the temporal distortion at the end of SR2 did create BO2, Defiance just traced the events that led to it. And it did that because of BO2's plot holes. In effect Amy Henning and co had to go and fix everything. They didn't manage, though (Vorador being not decapitated) but it managed to do what they can.
In essence...I don't think it needs a spoiler: Raziel was meant to kill Kain and the history would just go and repeat itself in an infinite loop - everything leading to that outcome (remember, history in LoK is not linear - it merely has always been that way, if there was a a "beginning", the whole thing would have been impossible). However, Kain and Raziel managed to change everything. Twice. Each time, history reshaped itself to accommodate the changes. The second time, it went too far, sjust as Raz says "Behind Kain?s eyes, I could see new memories blooming and dying, as history labored to reshuffle itself around this monumental obstruction... And I could see by the dawning horror on his face that perhaps we had strained history too far this time... ". The new memories mentioned are what happened in BO2. Hence why Kain suddenly knows about the Hylden, during the course of history changing, they managed to escape and he met them. In the original timeline, he probably figured that there were other things that influenced the world behind the scenes but since BO2 hadn't happened, he didn't get to do meet the Hylden first hand. Or at least, not until way later he probably didn't learn their name.
By the way, here [http://www.dcabdesign.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=143] is a Q&A with one of the guys behind LoK who talks about BO2. He wasn't part of the team, he only consulted them...and yeah, he sheds some light about why BO2 is...what it is. Also briefly skims over Dark Prophecy, and if you haven't seen it [http://nosgoth.yuku.com/topic/5561#.UDecq6PPzPo], that's the cancelled game I talked about.
Ragsnstitches said:
As an aside, you know what I liked about Soul Reaver... well one thing in particular? It was a vampiric post apocalyptic high fantasy action/adventure game. How many games can say that line and STILL be taken seriously.
Fuck that, I can't think of another good game with vampires in. Where you play as vampires, even, and they have a rich history and stuff. Well, aside from Bloodlines and Redemption but those aren't in the same league as LoK. And now let's try to think of another post apocalyptic high fantasy that's good...yeah, I don't think there are many. I'm pretty sure there aren't any others that combine both elements.
BloatedGuppy said:
But what the hell! You're all console players! There are like, 2 PC games here. I am not well pleased. These choices are meaningless! Meaningless, I say!
Well, LoK is on the PC. Also, consoles, yes, but I only have PC and I've played everything - all 5 games. And I saw 3 other games on PC for sure - Portal, Borderlands and Total War (the poster mentioned Rome and Medieval, actually), so there are at least 4 PC games, if you count them as series, rather than titles.
Well, LoK is on the PC. Also, consoles, yes, but I only have PC and I've played everything - all 5 games. And I saw 3 other games on PC for sure - Portal, Borderlands and Total War (the poster mentioned Rome and Medieval, actually), so there are at least 4 PC games, if you count them as series, rather than titles.
I'm not the best at describing, but I'll give it a shot.
This game is nothing short of brilliance. The campaign is brilliant; every individual mission is awesome. The multiplayer is addicting, the music is awesome, and the graphics were great -- for the time, at least... one of the best, if not, THE best FPS I've ever played.
Like I said, not the best at describing. I do not do the game justice with my poor description.
Banjo Kazooie. That series is by far my favorite series of all time. If you haven't played it you owe it to yourself to buy a Nintendo 64 and play it the way it was meant to be played. After you beat or play a few hundred hours of it without beating it, get Banjo Tooie, because that game is even better.
Because I'm an indecisive prick I'm going to talk about a couple of games.
First is a game I've only started playing recently and still haven't quite finished but I feel the need to talk about it anyway. Thief 2 is a game with a very self explanatory title and is just simply really good. The stealth actually works well although the guards do seem a bit short sighted, and there's nothing quite like listening in to conversations or reading through people's diaries, finding out their dirty secrets without them ever knowing you were there.
Next is Dungeons of Dredmor, a more recent indie dungeon crawler roguelike thing. The gameplay sounds pretty standard on paper but it's extremely funny and almost worth it solely to see the variety of skills on offer (for example, you can play as a Communist Vegan Pirate Vampire). There's also quite a lot of fun to be had trying different skill combinations and seeing what works best because I assure you, you will die a lot!
I WUV Metroid! Especially Prime.
I love the solitude, I love the exploration, and I REALLY love that sense of power every time you pick up a new ability!
OK legitimately that instant I saw this thread I thought of Psychonauts.
Im not really good at describing games I like but this is a fucking masterpiece
Maybe it's because I picked it up for like $10 at a game store when I had some spare change and was blown the fuck away by everything, its humor, its creative premise, its characters, its story, its levels are just perfect. If you think this game is bad I will fight you
Even when the game got something wrong I didn't care, fuck that I'm in some dude's mind dicking about with his sanity.
Every level was unique, every level had a story behind it, a theme, and every level was amazing. Every character had their own personality, things they were doing at every point of the game, relationships with other characters and reacted to everything you did realistically.
Seriously, a Godzilla level, the Milkman Conspiracy, suicidal cheer squads, The schizophrenic camp guardian, everything fits together perfectly.
Fuck
I am going to post again on 2 games I thought were made to perfection and the music included in both games are something I would kill to get ahold of:
Super Metroid(SNES) - the boss fights rocked, the end fight rocked the items rocked and the music was forged out of pure awesome.
Extreme G(N64) - love it, the techno songs played in this game made it more badass. The loops, turns, and death rate made this game forged out of pure adrenalin.
Metroid Prime. Many games and movies are praised for being executed well, not so many for avoiding the disasters they potentially could have been. Prime not only successfully transplanted one of my favourite franchises into the world of 3D at long last, but avoided the dreaded 'polygon ceiling' we saw so often when other franchises like Earthworm Jim and Castlevania went 3D, gaining enough of a positive reception that sequels were planned out far quicker than the original 3 games.
There is a detailed story in Prime delivered mainly through scans. If you don't care and just want to blast creatures into globs of green blood running down your visor, you can completely ignore it if you wish. As Yahtzee mentioned in his review of Resident Evil Revelations, scan an enemy in Prime and you will learn its name, how best to kill it, and a few other details. And this is only half the detail from a field scan- you can go to the logbook once you've scanned and get the entire story.
All the beams and visors have uses. All the movement systems are more than mere window dressing. While I'm only good enough to use a handful of them, the first Prime had offered as many opportunities for sequence breaking as the classic Super Metroid with dedicated players. The Space Pirates have finally evolved into a truly dangerous menace beyond their vicious space-dragon commander Ridley, now possessing cloaking fields, jet packs, beam-resistant armour, arm scythes and EMP grenades as well as their own theme music. And they have been mining a strange glowing blue substance that apparently makes stuff stronger and crazier.
I loved the whole trilogy, but this is Samus at her Prime.
While I can't honestly repeat the story to you (Last time I did a whole playthrough of it, I didn't know english that well, and the game's not in Swedish) I can describe the gameplay. It's got excellent platforming, amazing shooting combat and soul-crushingly difficult races.
I think platforming though is what I love about it the most. While it's not entierly a platformer, the ones it's got is some of the best I've ever played. The best thing about it, and something I don't get why no modern games have anymore, is that your jumps aren't locked. When you jump, you can still move around in the air. That's a problem I had with Uncharted 2. If you miss at the beginning of the jump, you're fucked.
The jumping in that game's also too damn scripted, so if you don't land on that pin-point location, you fail. Jak 2 is more dynamic and open with it's platforming. It's also fun how you can combine fighting moves into the jumps to actually aid you at times. The best thing about that though is that it's not something you're actually intended to do, but if you figure it out, you're free to go nuts with it.
Why I love the shooting combat is that, like the jumping, it can integrate fighting moves. They are not "combos" per-say, but they are speciall attacks you can preform if you time your punches to your shots right.
I don't think I wrote this very well, and unless I'm given, like... 2 days, I don't think I can. It's such a great game on everu level, that I really need to be super structured in order to present it with the respect it deserves.
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