P4: Gritty Reboot

Can we do stuff like this? I thought because it has been reported/leaked all over the place that it wouldn't be allowed.

Isle of Avalon is excellent. I love pretty much that entire album, though the second half is arguably stronger what with all its epics. ---

Again, this isn't necessarily a list of groundbreaking games, or even of the 50-ish best games in existence, but merely the games that members of this board enjoy the most. I loved Bioshock when I played it, but honestly the enjoyment faded pretty quickly after the (awful) ending cinematic rolled. I'm slogging my way through the second game now. As for Super Mario Bros, I believe SMB3 and World made the list, games which stood on the shoulders of the first and ended up, whether because of our respective ages at the time or their superiority I don't know, capturing the imaginations and memories of more members of TAY than the first game did, as earth-shattering as it was at the time of its release.

The link says it will be $30.

Apparently a lot of people had trouble with this boss. I never understood it, I always just breezed past him. There were a few other bosses that gave me trouble, though. Just focus all your attacks on the Beast itself, and if you've upgraded your steel sword abilities, you should be fine. Throw an Aard sign in there occasionally, too. What specifically are you having trouble with? I only tried it a few times but I was overwhelmed by all those doggies. I'll try again tonight with your advice, and I do have a good number of steel sword upgrades.

Just slammed into a brick wall named "The Beast" in The (first) Witcher. Arrrrrg.

Just bought these for $2 each at a local thrift store. Someone had donated about 15 SNES titles. I skipped out on a bunch, including Donkey Kong Country 3 and a few other gems. Now if only I could acquire an SNES on the cheap...

I'm weird like that. I like to play through from beginning to end. I'm like that with comics. Never open them up from the middle, always start reading from the beginning, over and over and over again... On-L.A. Noire: Pretty fucking sweet. I just finished the Traffic Desk. Those faces, man. It really makes such a difference when you're playing a character who behaves and speaks like a real person, it makes it that much more satisfying playing them out. Also, the characters and writing are goddamn sublime. One thing that still irritates me- I have all hints turned off (the way I like it), but when I'm interrogating people the game STILL tells you if you do a line of questioning right or wrong. I wish it wouldn't do this. I thought of turning the music down so you couldn't here the "correct" music or the "incorrect" music- but the game still puts a tick or a cross next to the questioning in your notebook anyway. If it didn't have this, you'd be able to play through it and get a result and not know what/ where/ if you went wrong. It would be like Heavy Rain. It would be much more streamlined and consistent. Especially considering how differently some of the cases can pan out (I just found out that in a case where I got to an apartment to find it ransacked by thugs and had to search it for clues, if I had reached the apartment faster I would have been able to fight and interrogate the thugs! Amazing! I had no idea, and it would have completely changed my line of investigation.) I've literally restarted a case or two from the beginning because the game's told me I've interrogated incorrectly- sometimes I've done it wrong by bad judgement, but sometimes just from the lack of clarity towards which evidence means what, that others have mentioned. Which is the only big problem in my book. My only big problem is the "Doubt" function. When you hit X, you never know if Cole will say something like "I find that hard to believe" or "YOU MURDERED HER YOU ASSHOLE! GIVE IT UP!" This is becoming a trend in games, though I'm not sure why. I hated it in Mass Effect when I'd click a dialog option and Shepard would say something that wasn't even remotely related to what I'd chosen.

Maybe if it were actually explained in the game in such a concise and straightforward manner, many of us wouldn't be confused about it. The way a game tells a story is just as important as the strength of the plot itself. Yes, this exactly. The surprisingly awesome pistol in 1 became crap in 2, and I was never really satisfied firing most of the weapons in the second game.

I didn't like Halo 2 much at all, but I didn't get into the multiplayer beyond a little bit of co-op. Halo 1 was a lot of fun for what it was.

Video of the PC version too, for comparison's sake

If Sony pulled off $249, Nintendo would be in trouble. I don't think they will though.

Half-Life 3, or whatever the next installment will be called, has already been confirmed. It's just a matter of when. I think even $300 is a long shot for the NGP to be honest. It's got more powerful hardware and a bigger screen than Apple's iPhone, which retails for $599 for the smaller version. I know Sony's willing to take loss on hardware, but it just seems like that would be cutting too deep even for them.

1.) Dean's Mystery Pool of Death - Bungie's Activision game announced 2.) The Darkness II dated for November 2011 3.) Borderworlds (Borderlands sequel) announced 4.) Super Smash Bros. 3D announced for 3DS 5.) Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles announced for Wii successor 6.) NGP priced at $349 7.) GTAV announced 7a.) No PC version 8.) Xenoblade and The Last Story to be localized for US release in 2011 9.) TimeSplitters 4 announced to be taken off hold and to be released for 360, PS3, and Wii successor in 2012 10.) Tony Hawk's Pro Skater remake announced 11.) Half-Life 3 dated for Sep. 30, 2003 2011

I'll take it if it's still available Dean. I'm a good home for it

Also, I think it would be really cool to do a breakdown of platform/developer/genre etc. for those of us who like numbers. Maybe one of us could take it on so Nexus doesn't implode.

Awesome list, Nexus; this was fun. Yeah, most of us wouldn't put down KOTOR as our personal favorite, but it obviously struck a chord with a lot of different gamers here.

Saw you got unstarred today. Bummer deal. Rock Paper Shotgun for PC news, PC Gamer also. I check Joystiq for general gaming news, but their comments are terrible.

Probably Left 4 Dead or Super Smash Bros. Melee.

I was pulling for first place for HL2; ah well, KOTOR was excellent too.

Exactly this. Saw an interesting review, posted it on this thread for everyone's information. Nothing to do with the combat discussion. Even I posted the link to the review in my original post here Totally missed that. I did read your comment, though I sheepishly admit, not every word.

When does that go live?

Exactly this. Saw an interesting review, posted it on this thread for everyone's information. Nothing to do with the combat discussion.

...and it's combat. You left that part out. The reviewer writes as if he never really connected with what the developers were trying to do with the combat system, but ultimately states that the combat is OK. The real loss of "review points" was due to the issue I stated earlier in spoiler tags; the reviewer even states it is "the only reason you’re not looking at a 90+ game." I have no vested interest in trying to hide the purported flaws in the combat system; I don't even own the game yet.