The useless what-I-am-playing thread

[schild]

Etrian Odyssey was printed in very, very small numbers. Good luck.

[Yegolev]

The JP one is available on play-asia.com, but that might be nonoptimal.

[Rasix]

GameQuestDirect seems to have it.. or at least they're not saying it's sold out. 

Persona 3 continues to own me.  Bioshock as well.

[Strazos]

Persona 3 makes me sad, because I know that it will eventually end.

I have not been this hooked on a game in a Long Time.


And I mean, come on, that intro is Pure Unadulterated Awesome. I watch the damn thing every time I go to play the game. What was the last game to even come close with to having such a great intro? I just wish the soundtrack had an extended version of that intro song.

[Fabricated]

I would say I'm playing Bioshock but I haven't touched it in 3 days at this point. My gaming ennui continues.

[Trippy]

Persona 3 makes me sad, because I know that it will eventually end.

I have not been this hooked on a game in a Long Time.


And I mean, come on, that intro is Pure Unadulterated Awesome. I watch the damn thing every time I go to play the game. What was the last game to even come close with to having such a great intro? I just wish the soundtrack had an extended version of that intro song.

Is this the intro?:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzHpCOPsVbo

If so it's not that good.

[Yegolev]

I'm not arguing, but do you have an example of a better one?  I am sure I have seen a better intro, I just can't recall what it was.  Comparing this particular medium is going to be full of apples, oranges and star fruit.

[Trippy]

Onimusha 3. Dawn of War was cool too.

[schild]

Onimusha 3. Dawn of War was cool too.

I lolled.

[Yegolev]

Onimusha 3 was pretty cool.  I still get a kick out of the StarCraft intro.

[schild]

Onimusha 3 was completely ridiculous. Sure, the quality of the animation was high. But meh, I thought it was just damned silly.

[Yegolev]

Where is your love of JP fantasy and ninja?  Do you have anything to add?  Maybe this should be its own thread.  I will try to come up with something myself.

[schild]

Onimusha's intro (and really everything about it) was schlocky historical sci-fi. Just absolutely silly while taking itself completely seriously.

[HaemishM]

Is this the intro?:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzHpCOPsVbo

If so it's not that good.

I have to concur. There's some interesting design tricks going on in there, but nothing that makes me go OMFG BESTEST!

[Amaron]

That Persona 3 has some interesting things, but it's creepy.

NWN2 intro was probably the only high point of the game.

[MisterNoisy]

Has anyone else played the Skate demo?  The control scheme and gameplay are light-years ahead of the Tony Hawk setup.  I might very well break my 'No EA games at retail' rule for this one.

[schild]

Has anyone else played the Skate demo?  The control scheme and gameplay are light-years ahead of the Tony Hawk setup.  I might very well break my 'No EA games at retail' rule for this one.

Hellgate London is published by EA now :(

[Yegolev]

In the future, all restaurants are EA.

[Strazos]

I'm not saying it has the bestest ever graphics, I just really dug the (musical and graphical) style of it. And then, thinking on it, I could not recall an intro (offhand) I could compare to it.

To me, that's more creative than what some games do with crazy FMV and graphics and whathaveyou.

Yeah, not of big fan of any of Blizzards stuff; big-time graphics and they try So Fucking Hard to make a fanservice joke half the time.


I mean, seriously, now that we're on the subject, people might as well start posting their favorites if possible.


Also, you automatically lose if you post something from Metal Gear Solid. FFS, who wants to watch a 15 minute intro to a game that you want to Play?

[schild]

People want to play Metal Gear Solid? I've played it. I can't see why you'd play for any reason other than the cutscenes. The gameplay is dick.

[Strazos]

I never played past the first MGS, and most of the gameplay annoyed me.

[Sky]

It seems like a great game, I've got the xbox version (Substance or whatever). Between the retarded controls and ZOMGTHUMBSTICK, I couldn't get past the first level. I made it pretty far into and really wanted to enjoy it. Great game except the controls imo. And the non-gameplay parts go on for a bit too long.

As for the music from Persona3...there's no accounting for taste :P

[schild]

As for the music from Persona3...there's no accounting for taste :P

It's got nothing to do with taste. Compared to me and Straz, you're an old guy with rock roots who wouldn't know good japanese music if it kicked him right in the teeth.

Now, granted, if I were you, I'd probably feel the same way. But I'll grant this - this is gaming, and I give more elbow room for music to be tolerable -> good -> great because of it.

[HaemishM]

MSG2 had some great gameplay in it. It just took way too much of Raiden's sandy pussy to get to. The swordfighting with the boss at the end was the shiznit. There was decent gameplay in 2. Now MSG 1 or any of the others? I've no idea.

[Sky]

It's got nothing to do with taste. Compared to me and Straz, you're an old guy with rock roots who wouldn't know good japanese music if it kicked him right in the teeth.

Please stop making assumptions about my musical taste. I've already listed a couple good Japanese bands elsewhere. It's got everything to do with taste, I simply didn't like the track.

I don't go around calling you a young trendy japanophile, I assume you have some other interests. Please give me the same respect in return.

I said it was a matter of taste, not that the music sucked. You do understand the difference between fact and opinion, yes?

[Phildo]

While we're talking intros... Wild Arms, anybody?

In Persona,  the intro to the game itself, not the music video, is very cool and stylish.

Also, Blue Dragon and Lair are currently disappointing me a great deal.

[Signe]

I should have Wild Arms 5 soon.  I put cheap shipping on it for some reason.  Maybe to teach myself a lesson.

[schild]

While we're talking intros... Wild Arms, anybody?

There is a contingent of people saying that they've finally gotten it right with Wild Arms 5. In fact, they're saying it's better than Wild Arms 1. I haven't booted up the game to confirm this. But most of them also say that most of the soundtrack is... whistling. I really need to start playing it.

Please stop making assumptions about my musical taste. I've already listed a couple good Japanese bands elsewhere. It's got everything to do with taste, I simply didn't like the track.

I don't go around calling you a young trendy japanophile, I assume you have some other interests. Please give me the same respect in return.

I said it was a matter of taste, not that the music sucked. You do understand the difference between fact and opinion, yes?

I think some of the problem here is that I've heard SO MUCH shitty Japanese music (and believe me, 99.9% of it is shit, it's probably more shit than most of the modern American music), that I've built up some kind of tolerance - much like I have for games themselves. That's to say, the jazzy techno jpop in Persona 3 is a goddamn breath of fresh air.

[Signe]

Played Wild Arms 5 for a couple of hours today and, so far, I like it.  It's early yet so who knows if I'll get tired of it.  The battles, even the couple of boss battles, I've had have been quick and relatively easy.  The ARMs are still cool... God, I still love guns the best... and I've always enjoyed their battle system.  It comes with a little art book but I don't enjoy this sort of art, really... just this style of Jrpgs.  I hope it's as good as 1, which was one of my favourite console rpgs so far.  Tonight Righ is going to go see Acid Temple Mother Guru Guru or something insane sounding like that.  Evidently, it's what happens when a Japanese psychedelic rock band falls into a vat of Kraut rock.  Sounds delicious.

[Signe]

Did the other Wild Arms games allow you to turn off both music and voices seperately?  I don't remember that.  It's a wonderful feature and more Jrpgs should implement it.  Now we just need to convince them to let us zip through the magic animations.  After seeing them for the thousandth time, it gets a wee bit frustrating.

Edit:  Oh, you CAN zip through the long battle animations and stuff! 

[Yegolev]

When my wife listened to the "nip-hop" song in the dorm lobby, with the Japanese guy rapping, she said "What the hell is that?"

Forced away from my consoles and PC, starting last Friday and continuing until Saturday evening.
Etrian Odyssey
Baten Kaitos

[Ironwood]

I always loved the Mechwarrior Intros.

Alas, not all the games were as good.

[lamaros]

I just finished playing through BG2 + Expansion again. Reminded how bad the expansion is (though I do like Watchers Keep), which left a sour note.

Playing BF2 from time to time, but not recently.

Thinking of playing ADOM again once I finish my current batch of essays.

[Strazos]

The BG2 expansion sucked? Really?

I haven't played it in years. I just remember my Cavalier and his pimped-out Carsomyr Holy Avenger just bent the game over and made it cry.

Also, did 99% damage to the final boss with 1 hit. That was funny.

[ArtificialKid]

I thought it was generally accepted that Fallout 2 has the best intro of any game ever.