Declare Your Independence from Something New by Playing Something Old

Finished Retro Gaming Challenge. While I get the novelty and cute quirkiness of quasi-retro nostalgia I have to say I'm glad it's done. I don't think I'll be going back to it anytime soon, so off to Gamestop with it.

I finished Fairway Solitaire a few days ago. It was a casual game that was a lot of fun to just pick up occasionally. I think I would have become sick of it if I'd powered through the game, but it was a great one to pick up and put down over a span of a few months.

Finished Mirror's Edge. Overall it wasn't a terrible game but the fighting mechanics were pretty poor (no blocking etc) and towards the end of the game a lot of level design became 'muddy' and indistinct making it difficult to find the way forward even with the hint sytem because that would just point towards the goal. The areas that were 90% darkness and 10% light/reflection really annoyed me.

I think my experience 'mirrored' pneuman's pretty accurately.

I finished Operation Anchorage the other night and after leading Liberty Prime to the purifier again, I find myself freshly arrived in The Pitt. I love Fallout 3.

I'm done with Oddworld. That game is still awesome, even if the backwards compatibility mode's audio is borked beyond repair.

Company of Heroes (vanilla) campaign is finally done after three months. I wonder how long it'll take for me to finish CoH: Opposing Front's campaigns. I doubt they'll be done by the end of the month, but put me down for them anyway.

Star Wars:The Force Unleashed has fallen to the might of my Unstable Purple Lightsaber!

I'd like to rename this game Star Wars:Pick Things Up And Throw Them At Other Things. Would that fit on the box art? I had trouble with the depth of jumps, which I'm usually pretty good at. The control scheme was ridiculously convoluted and wouldn't target the right enemy half the time (if it targeted an enemy at all). There were essentially 4 different levels, even though the game tries to trick you into thinking there are more by making you return to them. And the main character looked like a white rapper-type that you'd see hanging out at the shoe store in the mall.

All in all, I had a good time.

I picked up the PC version of Brothers In Arms - Road to Hill 30 last weekend during the Steam sale. This is my 1st BIA game and I'm enjoying it very much. I'm on the 4th day post D-day -about 1/2 way through- so I'll definitely be finishing it before months end.

Well, I'm on the final stretch now. I'm sure I'll have it finished in the next few days.

All right, I'm going to throw another game on the pile for me this month. I also picked up BIA: Road to Hill 30 during the Steam sale. I'm going to try and knock it out in a week.

Unfortunately, I don't think I'm going to have either of my titles done for this month, even though I was already most of the way through Dawn of War II. Between business stuff, getting prepped to move in a week and a couple of good rental games I got, these got sadly neglected. I might put them back on the pile next month but I'll wait and see how much time I have first.

And I've finished. It was an okay game. Kept me busy, at least!
Now to choose my next victim..

I didn't have it on my pile, but I finished playing through Penny Arcade Episode 1 last night. I went out of town on business last week which involved spending one very quiet night at an airport hotel, and luckily I had the good sense to throw it on my laptop before I went. Good times! I've never really been one to play games on my laptop, but it worked pretty well, so I think I'll pick up Ep 2, and perhaps Plants vs Zombies, when I have some spare cash.

I, inadvertantly, beat another game this month: Monkey Island: SE.

I don't dare tell my thoughts for fear of retaliation.

pneuman wrote:

I didn't have it on my pile, but I finished playing through Penny Arcade Episode 1 last night. I went out of town on business last week which involved spending one very quiet night at an airport hotel, and luckily I had the good sense to throw it on my laptop before I went. Good times! I've never really been one to play games on my laptop, but it worked pretty well, so I think I'll pick up Ep 2, and perhaps Plants vs Zombies, when I have some spare cash.

I really enjoyed PA ep. 1 and 2. It wasn't anything "revolutionary" but I liked the setting, writing and the combat in the second one got a decent revamp for the "special" attacks. I just want the 3rd one to come out.

Not sure I'll finish BIA this month or not. It's reminding me of Full Spectrum Warrior with WWII weapons, which is cool because I liked FSW, but not because I hate WWII weapons.

Probably shouldn't have picked up both on Steam, but $5 is my weak spot.

PA Ep. 1 was indeed surprisingly fun. I was a little suspicious at first because the production values aren't great and there are some weird movement/clipping issues in lots of areas, but once I got the timing down for counter-attacks everything was gravy.

Anyone get the achievement for killing off the last boss without using any healing items? It's fairly challenging.

pneuman wrote:

I finally started Dead Space on the weekend; got a couple of chapters in, and I'm finding it very enjoyable so far. Might be a stretch to get it done before the end of the month, but I'll give it a go anyway :)

I actually started playing Dead Space this weekend as well. It is definitely an enjoyable game. I'd almost describe it as Bioshock, but just not as good. Really it's the same gameplay, just without the great story and a little less of the polish. I've only got 3 chapters left, so hopefully I can finish it before the end of the month.

I just started Shadow of the Colossus on PS2. I defeated the first 4 with the third one being the hardest and the fourth the easiest. It looks like the Colossi really hurt when I plunge my sword in their big heads. I kind of feel sorry for them. But what the heck am I suppose to do? I can't just let the girl die because of a little blood can I? Besides there is no way a voice that I can only hear telling me to kill things save the girl can be bad. Oh boy if I'm releasing some kind of ultimate evil on the land I'm going to feel really bad.

Professor Layton falls over vacation! I thoroughly enjoyed that little game. I expected it to just be a bunch of puzzles with some silly reason for stringing them together, but the story was actually reasonably compelling. And the puzzles were great.

Baron Of Hell wrote:

I just started Shadow of the Colossus on PS2. I defeated the first 4 with the third one being the hardest and the fourth the easiest. It looks like the Colossi really hurt when I plunge my sword in their big heads. I kind of feel sorry for them. But what the heck am I suppose to do? I can't just let the girl die because of a little blood can I? Besides there is no way a voice that I can only hear telling me to kill things save the girl can be bad. Oh boy if I'm releasing some kind of ultimate evil on the land I'm going to feel really bad.

You have just described why I love that game. I felt the same way.

BTW: I also beat Undertow this month. Forgot about that game.

skeletonframes wrote:

BTW: I also beat Undertow this month. Forgot about that game.

I'm pretty sure we all did...

Thank you! I'm here until Friday!

Hemidal wrote:
pneuman wrote:

I didn't have it on my pile, but I finished playing through Penny Arcade Episode 1 last night. I went out of town on business last week which involved spending one very quiet night at an airport hotel, and luckily I had the good sense to throw it on my laptop before I went. Good times! I've never really been one to play games on my laptop, but it worked pretty well, so I think I'll pick up Ep 2, and perhaps Plants vs Zombies, when I have some spare cash.

I really enjoyed PA ep. 1 and 2. It wasn't anything "revolutionary" but I liked the setting, writing and the combat in the second one got a decent revamp for the "special" attacks. I just want the 3rd one to come out.

That's about what I thought of Ep 1 as well -- fun little game with a great setting and great writing, and enough to the combat that it remains interesting enough to see you through it. I have another overnight stay coming up next week, so I may well pick up Ep 2 to play then!

Far Cry 2 and Jeanne D'Arc have not been touched in months, but I think I'll be able to finish out Fable II if I keep chugging along at it like I am.

BIA is not going to happen. I've got company until Thursday, and my game room is now a guest bedroom.

Hemidal wrote:

BIA is not going to happen. I've got company until Thursday, and my game room is now a guest bedroom.

Did you consider killing your guest?

Games before guests, bro...

Duoae wrote:
Hemidal wrote:

BIA is not going to happen. I've got company until Thursday, and my game room is now a guest bedroom.

Did you consider killing your guest?

Games before guests, bro...

It's my wife's cousin, and my wife is 7+ months pregnant. I'd never make it downstairs alive, much less out of the house.

Hemidal wrote:
Duoae wrote:
Hemidal wrote:

BIA is not going to happen. I've got company until Thursday, and my game room is now a guest bedroom.

Did you consider killing your guest?

Games before guests, bro...

It's my wife's cousin, and my wife is 7+ months pregnant. I'd never make it downstairs alive, much less out of the house. :)

Hmmm. That is a doozy. What about sleeping drugs? You could drug the guest's dinner and then just play the game while they sleep?

Hemidal wrote:

It's my wife's cousin, and my wife is 7+ months pregnant. I'd never make it downstairs alive, much less out of the house. :)

...how fast could she possibly run at 7+ months?

AUs_TBirD wrote:
Hemidal wrote:

It's my wife's cousin, and my wife is 7+ months pregnant. I'd never make it downstairs alive, much less out of the house. :)

...how fast could she possibly run at 7+ months? ;)

She's vicious in close range.

X3:TC isn't going to happen. I realize it isn't really a game with an "end", but I barely got a couple hours into it. Instead, I did manage to finish both The New Super Mario Bros for the DS and I've nearly finished Dead Space. So at least my pile is slightly shorter, even if they weren't the games I originally planned.