March 24 - March 29
A little something for everyone this week unless you're one of the eighteen apparently remaining PC devotees in which case it's another week of self-enforced isolation peeking over the privacy fence at all the console players reveling in their endless decadent delights. So, like normal then.
The DS interrupts its usually robust list of hastily slapped together cash-in tripe for some Harvest Moon and Ninja Gaiden action, while the PS3 and 360 offer up Dark Sector. Universe at War also makes its console appearance on the 360 continuing to boggle my mind that the RTS genre is trying jump ship from the computer desk to the living room. But, the big winner this week is the PSP which gets to revisit the world of Shinra and Sephiroth with Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core. Paving the way for the events that lead up to the original Final Fantasy VII, Crisis Core reunites you with numerous beloved characters from the series, and gives us all the opportunity to shed yet another mournful tear for Aerith's certain fate giving DeviantArt another year's worth of uncomfortable and disturbing content in the process.
The Kite Runner, Walk The Line and The Mist are available this week on DVD. More here.
PC:
- Australia Zoo Quest (3/24)
- Escape From Paradise City (3/24)
PSP:
- Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core (3/24)
- Warriors Orochi (3/25)
DS
- Backyard Baseball 2009 (3/24)
- Harvest Moon DS Cute (3/25)
- Ninja Gaiden Dragon Sword (3/25)
Xbox 360:
- Dark Sector (3/24)
- Universe At War (3/25)
- Viking: Battle For Asgard (3/25)
PS3:
- Dark Sector (3/24)
- Viking: Battle For Asgard (3/25)
Wii:
- Obscure: The Aftermath (3/25)
- Octomania (3/25)
- Opoona (3/25)
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In my most decadent fantasies Dark Sector is awesome. I think the reality is that it will be disappointing and forgettable.
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A game designer wrote:
Bah. Speaking as one of the eighteen remaining PC devotees who has more deep gaming experiences left from the Christmas rush than I have time to play, you console types are welcome to your button-mashing, auto-aiming, deep-as-a-puddle, 1990's UI-having, interactive movies.
"Triscuits - Nice little crackers that just want to be liked. They want me to put festively colored toppings on them and serve them to my friends at parties. They're made from wheat, I should like them. F Triscuits." --Dr_Awkward
Word.
I'm still ok with Team Fortress 2.
The man wears a bucket of KFC on his head. I wouldn't expect anything less. - Pred
I've got plenty of gaming goodness to experience with my mouse and keyboard and not some multi-button, mini-joystick, d-pad abomination that cramps my thumbs.
With 1980's Seattle safe from the Russians and Chinese (World in Conflict) I now have room for LOTRO. So its back to Middle Earth for me as I level a brand new dwarf guardian on Landroval. I'll be looking for you GWJers so we can party in Moria when the expansion comes out.
Between slaying orcs and goblins I can always Orange Box it with some TF2 at Stan's and finish up HL2 and the episodes. So many games, so little time.
"Do. Or do not. There is no try." - Yoda
PC gaming is dead. The war is over. Didn't you get the memo?
Doesn't Kane's Wrath (Amazon.com) come out tomorrow?
Was just about to post the same Old Man.
It got to count for something, whether you liked the game or not, C&C3 seemed to sell pretty well.
Being an old C&C fan I'm surely going to buy it at release at least.
I wonder how many times they're going to revist FFVII until they finally just give up and realize they need to do a full-blown sequel.
Or remake it and release it for current generation machines.
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Anyone picking up Crisis Core? Since I just kinda jumped into the PSP bandwagon (even though I had one since release), I was looking for something else to play since I finished Jeanne D'Arc and God of War. It has a good score on Metacritic, but I'm waiting for Goodjer enablers before I pick that one up.
XBL/PSN Gamertag: KillTrash
Well, I'm off to see what the hell Escape from Paradise City is. I like that title. I also like Obscure: The Aftermath, but I know about Obscure already. Way to go Wii, that sounds like a real good third party title.
edit: And I'm back. Wow, Escape from Paradise City suuuuuucks.
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Favorite puzzle: Grim Fandango -- the metal detector
I think I played a demo for the Paradise City game. It's didn't seem awful ... just really bad. Scary bad.
Yeah, it's scary. I'm staring into the abyss right now, and it's staring into me, which I think is kind of a dick move on the abyss's part. - Nyles
The original concept of Dark Sector (on space station) had so much cool promise...
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I'm a little scared that someone thought the gang fights from San Andreas would make a good standalone game. I'd rather play a game where all you do is lift weights.
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Favorite puzzle: Grim Fandango -- the metal detector
I preordered Ninja Gaiden a week ago in a continuous attempt to support developers who actually use 3D acceleration on the DS. Same goes for Nanostray 2, which should arrive today.
Shelter: a post-nuclear RPG.
I want to play crisis core a lot, but after Hironobu left and dirge of cerberus I'm not certain that I do.
Oh crap! I've become one of those people.
In retrospect, I should have seen this coming when I was at last year's Slap and Tickle and everyone stared at me blankly when I said I didn't have an XBox 360.
I'm not really a girl. I just play one in video games.
That Crisis Core box art is so out of proportion it is ridiculous.
Kane really needs a Mini-Him.
"Men like sex, thus boobies! Oogaba!" - dejanzie
"If ads put your sanity to the test
come on down to Rat Boy's nest!
light up a stogie, and soon you'll see
how rock can be commercial-free!
'I'd hit it!'" - HP Lovesauce
This is too bad.
I was having some moderate fun reading GWJ too. I didn't realize you had to be a member of the Mario Kart Klub to enjoy it.
Aw, you guys are taking it too seriously. I'm one of those eighteen. I do ninety percent of my gaming on my PC. It's like being in the club lets me make fun of it.
- Elysium
Yeah, that sword should be as high as he is tall. That's nutty that it's only about waist high. How unrealistic!
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You should have known from all the PC-vs-Consoles threads spawning lately that it's a touchy subject.
Fedaykin98 wrote:
Psh, I'm still upset that Elysium has given no props to C&C3 expansion.
I'm not really a girl. I just play one in video games.
FFVII: Crisis Core. The reason I might get a psp. maybe. The cinematics are beautiful and that tickles me being a fan boy of the series. The ingame visuals don't look to be either. Controls are something I think could have been a bit better but they're playable. I'm glad I had a friend who bought it first so i could play his copy. hehe.