April 14 to 20th
Over a year after Clover Studios was dissolved into Capcom, their final opus is seeing new life on the Nintendo Wii. Often mentioned in the same breath as Psychonauts, Okami could be fairly considered a Zelda clone that never got its due. More than a clone, Okami is very much its own game and if you can survive the first 20 minutes of trilling fairy speak, you might be pleasantly surprised. Also notable this week is the vastly overpriced Gran Turismo 5 Prologue for the PS3 and Rainbow Six Vegas 2 for the PC.
On DVD this week we have Juno, Lars and the Real Girl and the one no one has been waiting for: In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale. More movies here.
PC:
- Final Fantasy XI Online Vana'diel Collection 2008
- Jack Keane
- Sherlock Holmes: Nemesis
- The Sims 2 Double Deluxe (The Sims 2, Nightlife Expansion Pack and Celebration Stuff Pack)
- The Sims 2 Kitchen & Bath Interior Design Stuff
- Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas 2
PS3:
- Gran Turismo 5 Prologue
Wii:
- Dream Pinball
- Emergency Mayhem
- Summer Sports
Nintendo DS:
- Cory In The House
- High School Musical 2
- Fantasy All Stars
- Rondo of Swords
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The last 3 posts have all been by Certis. This is different. Still top quality though.
I really wish I had a DS.
Pharacon wrote:
Another week of absolutely freakin' nothing.
Oh yeah, another Gran Turismo game. Please, hold me back. I can't wait for another "realistic" racer that has cars go out of control when you try to steer them and don't crumple up into little balls of plastic, steel, and glass when you hit something at 100mph. (or 1256 kph if I got the conversion right)
Distributors do know that people play games throughout the year, right?
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X-Box Live Gamertag - CrazedJava
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GT5 Prologue, if Sony lowers the price... I'll pick it up but for $40, I'll pass. Besides, I fired up Forza 2 recently, and I'm still having fun with it.
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iRacing could be the cure for what ails you. Saw a preview/writeup in PCGamer this month. Looks like a neat idea, but I'm not enough of a simmer for this level of detail, I don't think.
"And my son, too, thinks everything is a launchpad, every bug a meal, and every sunny day a reason to take all your clothes off and roll around in the grass." - rabbit
3 cups of coffee later and re-reading my remarks I've noticed I am one cranky bastard on Monday morning.
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X-Box Live Gamertag - CrazedJava
Less chatter more splatter!
Metal Gear Online beta it is, then!
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Guess I'm blowing cash on more stogies this week. Good thing the Baldur's Gate series is so freaking long. Butt-kicking for goodness!
"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
It is. I'm up to, what, 60+ hours now? And I haven't even been inside the damn town the series is named for!
Fedaykin98 wrote:
Thank the Flying Spaghetti Monster I'm remodeling this month, or the release schedule would really depress me.
On a side note, I've taken up MUDding again. Plain text FTW!
Hoi, chummers!
For some reason I flew through BG1 fairly quickly. BG2:SoA's been what's dragging me down. I've only now just finished with Athkatla and have moved on to Spellhold after 40 days of game time.
"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
I don't know yet if the game's any good, but Sherlock Holmes: Nemesis is an adventure game where Holmes takes on Arsene Lupin. It's a fun idea at least. I believe it's a sequel to Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened, in which he took on Cthulhu. Sherlock Holmes, literature's biggest nemeslut, will take on pretty much anyone and anything. Ah, the beauty of public domain!
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Favorite puzzle: Grim Fandango -- the metal detector
I just woke up.
*Legion* wrote:
I think my 60 hours was a gross overestimation. Still, I've put in quite a few hours now and I still haven't made it into Baldur's Gate. I feel a need to explore every map completely though.
Fedaykin98 wrote:
No mention of EU:Rome? Or has Paradox and it's strategy titles dropped off the radar?
Well, it is pretty difficult to drive a car with a gaming controller... but I can't help but argue that it's a driving simulator, not a crashing sim. While it's certainly beneficial to have damage for the overall "life-like" experience, damage is not necessary to make the act of driving that much more realistic. Besides, if we were able to wreck cars in a driving game, I wonder how much the game's popularity would drop due to people who can't really drive a race car at 100+ mph being unable to play...?
dhelor wrote:
Well, my point was that the cars don't really handle "realistic" and there is a totally lack of reality in most of those games.
Although the REAL point is that I shouldn't be perusing GWJ before my morning coffee.
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X-Box Live Gamertag - CrazedJava
Less chatter more splatter!
Yeah, where's the Europa Universalis love...
Sturgeon's Law: 90% of everything is crud.