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[lazlo falconi]

/>3. Battle system isn't necessarily confusing, but tedious.

I've heard that this is a huge problem in most Ys games, which is sad because reading about the story and characters made me really want to play, but listening to everyone moan about the atrocious battle systems in all of the games turned me off...

[kspr]

playing From Dust. it's a really cool lemmings inspired game where you move elements of an environment to get your villagers to build towns and discover things

[Donkeymog]

/>playing From Dust. it's a really cool lemmings inspired game where you move elements of an environment to get your villagers to build towns and discover things

This game sounds kind of interesting but I've heard the PC port is terrible. What are you playing it on?

[Vicious Parker]

The wife and I just got a PS3. So far, the only game we've bought is Little Big Planet, which I like on paper, but have no actual interest in playing. I am at a loss for what to play. Nearly every game I would want to play, I probably already have on my PC. That's just timing, I suppose.

Today, though, I went out and rented Infamous, since it's a PS3 exclusive and all. And supposedly very good. So far, I remain unconvinced. The controls are a little too loose, and I hate the main characters. But whatever, I'm barely in to the game, and I have it for a few more days.

Now for some PC gamer snobbery. Only proceed if you are prepared for it.

The first thing that I noticed was the terribly inconsistent and often low framerate. It never made the game unplayable, but my first thought was, "what options can I tweak to improve performance?" The answer was none. You can't tweak anything. It's a console game.

Second, I never, ever play with anti-aliasing on in my PC games. It kills performance, and playing games at native resolution usually removes any need for it. This game needs it. I don't know if it's because the PS3 is running the game at 720p, and we have a 1080p tv, but it looks jagged. I have never wanted anti-aliasing so much in my life.

[kspr]

there is a display settingd option in the xmb and in there it will auto adjust video output to match up with your tv, the person who had it before may have set the native output to 720, but you can reset to 1080. are you using hdmi cables or the five color component cables?

reccomended games: 3D dot heroes, resident evil 5, demon's souls/dark souls, pixel junk shooter/monsters

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playing From Dust. it's a really cool lemmings inspired game where you move elements of an environment to get your villagers to build towns and discover things

This game sounds kind of interesting but I've heard the PC port is terrible. What are you playing it on?

PS3. it's the kind of game where a controller would make you feel more involved with the plot. for me, a mouse an keyboard are too disconnecting.

[Vicious Parker]

it's a new ps3, so i set up all of the settings myself. i come from the land of pc gaming afterall, so i am naturally a settings junkie. yes, we do have an hdmi cable (we forgot to buy one at first, and i wouldn't even hook it up until we had them).

i had just read somewhere that the current gen consoled run a max of 720p i n game, though i didn't look too much in to it. it wouldn't surprise me if it were wrong. just to put this out there, little big planet looks and runs just fine.

[Stars]

A lot of PS3 games only run at 720p, but some (like Modern Warfare and Prince of Persia 2008) do run at 1080p. It should specify on the back on the game case along with the memory requirements and such.

Also, seconding 3D Dot Game Heroes and suggesting Ratchet & Clank. Haven't played the others that Kasper mentioned. Oh, and there's the downloadable Scott Pilgrim game.

[kspr]

theyre in the network store, thats where a lot of the better games come from

[Vicious Parker]

I think I may try to pick up Red Dead Redemption for cheap. It's one that sadly never made its way to PC (though I'm sure it would have done spectacularly), and a game I would truly like to play more. I will also look in to the playstation store games later.

[Hyperlisk]

Been playing Yu-Gi-Oh! World Championship '11, BlazBlue: Continuum Shift II, and Star Fox 64 3D. Star Fox is awesome in 3D.

[kspr]

/>I think I may try to pick up Red Dead Redemption for cheap. It's one that sadly never made its way to PC (though I'm sure it would have done spectacularly), and a game I would truly like to play more. I will also look in to the playstation store games later.

it's pretty good, act 2 just drags though. did you set up a psn account yet? we can play coop missions online

[Kamau]

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3. Battle system isn't necessarily confusing, but tedious.

I've heard that this is a huge problem in most Ys games, which is sad because reading about the story and characters made me really want to play, but listening to everyone moan about the atrocious battle systems in all of the games turned me off...

Seven is actually the first Ys game to have a battle system that's annoyed me, and that's just because they've attempted to incorporate the concept of assigning specific skills to specific button combinations. Don't get me wrong; I like that battle system just fine in other games I've played that have it, but I just don't feel like it's for this game. (It's obviously not, because they nixed it in every game after it. ...Though, looking it up, it's apparently the newest game, which utterly confuses me because of how many things were way better in all the others...In that case, I revise my opinion to: please don't make this a reoccurring theme if/when you bring more Ys games over!) I think my issue with it in this game is that they don't explain it enough, or give you reason not to button mash. I'm not sure if it's because I'm still near the beginning of the game or what, but my "skills" don't seem to improve my damage count over regular skills by much.

Boss fights in general in this game are a pain in the butt due to this battle system. The fight starts and I kind of just start wailing away on the boss, doing what feels like no damage at all while it beats on me with each hit. My "skills" aren't anything refreshing or awesome, they're just combo attacks that I'd much rather have come into play by me hitting it repeatedly on my own, and my "special skill" doesn't seem to want to come into play no matter what buttons I hit (I'm going to have to look into that, and see if I'm just not hitting the right combination at the right time or something...). While I can "roll out of the way" of an attack by pressing a button, I also can't jump, which is a personal irritation because every other game had me jumping there. It's just a personal issue because I press the button intending to jump out of the way, and then I get hit by the attack because I didn't specify which way I wanted to roll...

They've given me the opportunity to use more than one type of healing item per battle, which is nice, but at the same time they've eliminated the ability for me to pick up healing items from battle spoils, instead forcing me to go to town and buy them like most other RPGs. (Then again, every Ys game has done this differently. In Ark of Napishtim, I could stock up on all of the healing items, but only equip and use one type for each battle. In Oath of Felghana, I could purchase certain types of more powerful healing items to equip for boss battles, but enemies still dropped smaller healing items, though rather than letting me keep them they just healed me instantly and I moved on. It was kind of nice.)

I do find it interesting that the game allows me to switch between characters in-battle, and that each character has a different type of attack that works better on a different type of monster. However, this feels choppy to me at times, and I've never liked not being able to fully control the character I'm not focused on (I hate when they die because I'm not fully paying attention). However, I've discovered that, for the most part, the character I'm not currently utilizing won't die in a boss fight. Or at least, not as quickly. That's at least a little nice of them, considering I can't make the second character get out of the way of an attack.

I'm sure I've missed a few things that I wanted to say, but it's time to head to class.


Also: Fluffy, I am jealous of your PS3.

[kspr]

playing a psn game called critter crunch. it's a falling puzzle game wheremyou feed things to other things til they pop and drop gems for you to collect. plus, if you get a big combo, the character can barf a rainbow to feed its child. it's fun to play when you're just awake enough to be in between delirious and passed out.

[lazlo falconi]

Tried playing MegaMan Network Transmission again... This game had so much potential, but it was ruined by making MegaMan's buster super weak, dealing almost no damage (While the enemies just keep firing at you, not even fazed by your attacks), making MegaMan slow like he's wading through water--Wait, that doesn't work. Mega Man does excellent in water, but MegaMan.exe must be running on dialup or something. He is so very slow to react, he runs slower than any enemies, and when you get hit, there's no couple seconds' invincibility.

Oh yeah, and the bosses are so huge it's impossible to jump over them, and you can't walk through them, so you end up just cornered, and they don't even have to attack because you don't have enough MPs to keep healing yourself while they just stand on top of you. Add to that no way to sell extra battle chips and the fact that power ups have to be bought at the shop, and you've got yourself a very poor game.

[Stars]

Just beat Odin Sphere, but everybody died, so...going to do the ending again to try for improved results. xp
(Even one of the characters commented that it was "a terrible ending"...)

[Stars]

Got all of the endings for Odin Sphere. I've started on Muramasa (which apparently I last played in March) and the copy of Little Big Planet I got in a trade with Kasper. My Wii and PS3 are in different rooms, so which game I play depends somewhat on where I want to be at the time.

[Septerra]

Decided to re-install Oblivion together with a whole bunch of mods added.

I have virtually finished all available quests in stock game over the years, but never did anything with mods, so now I do.

[kspr]

Elemental Monster Online Card Game.......i get the feeling this isn't really intended for my age demographic, but easy trophies. it's a very simplified version of Magic/Pokemon

[Icey-kun]

Tales of Vesperia- Just challenged one of the hardest bosses in the game and well cant beat it on the play through me and my friend are on x.x

The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords- it was a free download on my 3DS so why not only about half way done tho

[toysintheattic]

Gears of War 3. This series has always been big and dumb and loud and for the most part that's worked pretty well for it. Not too far in campaign mode (might wait to go through that with a friend) and I haven't even touched versus, but horde mode is SO FUN. There are still a couple things that bug me, (why is there randomly iron sight aiming on one gun in a 3rd person shooter?) but I feel like I'll get used to them as I play more.