What video games have you recently bought?

[criterionmaster]

Which ones have you bought?

[PTAhole]

Nothing till the new Zelda.

[captainofbeef]

EA SPORTS RUGBY!!!!!!!!

[mixed]

Ninja gaiden black. Tough but amazing. Gotta love those decapitations, phenomenal combat system. Just wow!

[slapshot63]

The Warriors, Black and MGS3: Subsistence (in that order).

[comicbookgeek]

Blazing Angels SOWWII for xbox...pretty good flying game

[mixed]

I rented tomb raider legend and after playing ninja gaiden couldn't play this tacky crap. Very boring, seen it all before type thing I cant even be bothered with it.

[heretic]

If you haven't played God Of War, thats a game you need to check out.

Not only is it one of the best action games ever made, the storyline that is presented as you play through really feels like you're watching an epic film.



Trailer :

youtube.com/watch?v=hA78ySYIkfs&search=god%20of%20war

[cineaste25]

Kingdom Hearts II

The wait is finally over!!!!!

[nonfiction]

FF12 about a month ago.

[slapshot63]

Hitman: Blood Money
Resistance: Fall of Man
HULK Ultimate Destruction
Lego Star Wars

[ie]

A month ago as well:

Double Dragon (NES) for $1 with a great label.


For those who don't know any what that means exactly... it would have still been a decent find at $5.

[slapshot63]

For X-Mas I got:

Guitar Hero
Guitar Hero II (w/ Guitar)
Scarface: The World Is Yours CE
MGS: Portable Ops (PSP)
GTA: VCS (PSP)
NHL 2K7 (PS3)

[eatawiiner]

I didn't buy it buy my cuz gave me his old original xbox plus 2 copys of halo2 and an original controller. I hooked up Live last night and figured i'd post my tag in case anyone else wants to throw down

Gametag: f3arwhit3y

Im not that good but definitely will be playing every second I can.

[eatawiiner]

C'mon people, no one here wants to play some 1 v 1 Slayer.

[captainofbeef]

Once I can reconnect my XBL, I may take up your offer.

[eatawiiner]

Great Success!

[malicious32dll]

rainbow six vegas, hitman blood money, downloaded gta san andreas, swat 4, FEAR, an yes I have "procured" these quite recently.

[captainofbeef]

I rented Kingdom Under Fire and Tiger Woods 07 for the Xbox.

[malicious32dll]

I just bought S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyle. Fucking amazing game! Its loosly inspired from a movie that was released in the sixties sometime called "Stalker" and it also draws a lot of inspiration from a novel called "The Roadside Picnic" here is a link to the game page on a website: www.gamespot.com/pc/action/stalker/index.html Its a really really atmospheric amazing game... Its got a fair amount of bugs but the atmosphere, mutatants, guns, and AI make up for it.


and beef.... why in God's good name would you even rent nevertheless touch a golf game?!??!?!

[captainofbeef]

It was two for ten dollars and I didn't see anything better.

[malicious32dll]

Must've been a lousy rental store...

[captainofbeef]

Blockbuster blows when it comes to Xbox games...

[criterionmaster]

I think I saw that video game, and said to my dad: "I wonder if that is based on the Tarkovsky film." I can't believe it is, if you like the game, you will have to check out the film. I haven't seen it myself, but I do love Tarkovsky.

[malicious32dll]

criterionmaster said:

I think I saw that video game, and said to my dad: "I wonder if that is based on the Tarkovsky film." I can't believe it is, if you like the game, you will have to check out the film. I haven't seen it myself, but I do love Tarkovsky.

Yes! In fact that is who made it! I just couldnt remember the name directly. Yea, I love the game... Its such a refreshing feeling to not have to keep invading the beaches of Normandy and shooting nazi's all over the place... The game is so incredibly atmospheric, the gunplay is solid and the mutants that roam and stalk you in this "Zone" area are incredibly lifelike and intelligent. Its spooky just standing in the wastlands of the Chernobyle exclusion zone in the middle of an abandoned rotting, decrepit city built during the height of soviet power and prosperity. and just hearing the howling of distant packs of dogs and rustle of blowing leaves all around you... Its really neat. If you ever get a half way decent PC pick this one up... Its not on xbox or anything due to the fact that it would probably die if they tried putting it on it.

[malicious32dll]

* Gameplay

The player travels over immense world of the Zone, its all locations joined into one global map. He can choose any route and will not be limited in his traversing the Zone. The player will be offered free exploration full of generated and scenario-imposed tasks, participation in the eerie events of a murky world. The player will become a stalker, a guy who earns money from shoveling embers out of infernal oven of Chernobyl Zone. Returning from the radioactivity-blazing Zone, he will sell anomalous formations to underground dealers and scientists in research camps on the Zone border. With the money procured, the player will purchase equipment, weapons and protective suits allowing him to reach previously inaccessible areas. This is a role-playing game without growing experience of your character, without changing characteristics and levels. We want the player to develop his real mastery, moreover Stalker is an FPS/RPG game and much depends on his ability to fight. Changing characteristics, levels and player's experience, to our mind, would destroy the realism we try to create. As far as the rest is concerned, this is almost a normal PRG game where players travel the Zone, collect artifacts, weapons, reveal anomalous zones, communicate and trade with NPCs etc.


* Artificial Intelligence

We see AI in our game as a system of realistic character behaviour. Game characters live in a world the player can only drop into, they have their own joys and sorrows. We thoroughly work out artificial intelligence for the player never to feel artificiality of the happening. This principle basically refers to our approach in general, and not only to efforts on AI. We work out all the possible actions of the player and prepare natural reaction of characters to them. As character would react in life, so as he should react in the game. If the player attacks and kills one of the guards, the rest will go to seek hiding, radio their headquarters, and won't stand still, or what's worse, run out towards the player.


* Communication with NPCs

The Player's communication with the game characters will serve an essential part of the gameplay. By means of communication the player will find out important information, acquire tasks, trade or make deals to accomplish a task co-operatively. Apart from humans, the player will also be able to communicate with sapient mutant creatures.
The game will be strongly influenced by communication and NPCs' attitude towards the player. For example, under a bad attitude, trader will refuse to trade or will charge an exorbitant price, and stalkers will open fire as soon as they recognise the player.


* Trade

Trade will be realistic, as you are given a chance to purchase, exchange or sell everything: ammunition, equipment or artifacts. You can trade with the army, dealers, stalkers and scientists. To give you an idea how this will look in the game: the player comes across with a veteran stalker in the Zone, they greet each other, agree to remove weapons, then come closer to each other and start trading. They exchange phrases through a communication system. Soviet roubles will go in the game as the currency.

April 12, 2006, 02:33 p.m.
Chernobyl zone was lit by an intolerably bright light. The clouds were evaporating in the silver bright sky with a thunder and earthquake to follow. People fell on the ground facedown closing their bleeding eyes and ears. The glow spread over an immense territory which was subsequently called the Zone. People ran away saving their lives. It looked like a radioactive explosion at the nuclear plant occurred. The army sealed off the Zone...

The explosion epicenter was a kilometre away from the nuclear plant. Obviously, some tests had been held there and they caused the disaster. Presumably, the entire personnel died within seconds, but still there was a probability of survivals among the staff. It appeared impossible to arrange a rescue operation, as the Zone was characterized by strange energy disturbances posing mortal danger to the explorers. Attempts to use robots were unavailing. Several months after the accident the crisis situation peaked when the Zone abruptly grew five kilometres bigger. People from nearby towns and villages were urgently evacuated, and the peril of a difficult-to-imagine scope loomed over the world.

Year 2008
The Zone exploded, radioactive clouds covered vast territories. A dreadful amount of people, animals and forests perished. Thirty kilometres of the area got cordoned off by the army, scientists failed to explain what had happened. The Zone grew, various death-bearing anomalies were spotted inside. Some invisible force tore living beings apart, inflicted awful blood-sputtering wounds. Expeditions faced mutant animals, unlikely to have appeared in the Zone through natural course of evolution. The catastrophe, mutants, anomalies, contamination… Everything appeared to be a consequence of some eerie phenomenon…

Year 2010
First expeditions can enter the Zone several kilometers deep without mortal danger . Amateur researchers, marauders and poachers, called stalkers, show up. They move around the Zone searching for various anomalous formations, i.e. artifacts, they would sell to various organizations.

[captainofbeef]

Yes, that is loosely based on the movie with the concept of the Zone and other factors.

[slapshot63]

I was thinking about getting S.T.A.L.K.E.R. I'm not 100% though. Anyways, I recently (yesterday) got God of War II. I've only played it an hour and can only say WOW! The very first boss/level is bigger and better than anything found in the original. This is already an amazing game. Action around every turn, amazing graphics even after we've been spoiled by next-gen games (I guess the PS3, 360 and Wii are now current gen, but I'll still call them next-gen just to keep things simple). The cut scenes are simply stunning. The graphics are slightly better than GoW's, which is saying something considering how they were really the pinnacle of PS2 graphics right with MGS3. The game is bigger, better, bloodier and more explosive than the original. Amazing game, I can already tell.

[mixed]

I bought Dead or Alive 4 for the 360 a few days back. Its a really fun fighter and complex playing! Beautiful graphics too. I look forward to getting on xbox live when I'm connected later this month or so.

[eatawiiner]

Bought TMNT for the NES and Starfox 64 for my Wii's Virtual Console. TMNT is even harder than it was when I was 5.