What Video Games Have you Been Playing?

[wil]

Yup, I'm stuck in the past..no video games, no x 3iii boxes. Me and the kids play foosball, ping pong, canasta, gin, euchre, wist, cashflow, wits and wagers, boggle, cranium, chess, darts... of course at Mom's house...they have 7 TVs and play it all.... its a balance.

I have to admit, the reason I've stayed away from v-games is my awareness of my totally addictive personality...CR is vice enough for me.

[Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine]

Originally Posted by dauer

Phyllis,

You mean in the future? If you're really stuck in CT, for classic rpgs, I've found this website very helpful (not to mention nostalgic.) This is their CT shrine:

RPGClassics - Chrono Trigger

But they would also have separate shrines for the other classic rpgs you're playing.

Dauer

Dauer,

I was finally able to catch the rat, after trying for six months (I just had to "train" my fingers to react faster, which is a pain in the rump roast.) I'm "back" in "the present" and have to face off against the first, if not only, boss in the cave to the west.

Anyway, I have had the main site bookmarked for several months (it helped a bit with some of the maps they have on some of the sites, since I tend to get lost rather easily. )

Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine

[17th Angel]

Originally Posted by China Cat Sunflower

How's Bully?

Nice avatar Bully... Could be better, They made it more "soft" because of some ... "people" whining and complaining about how games corrupt youth! It was to be an 18!! youth shouldn't freaking have it!! Parents are to blame not games... lol... But yeah the 'time clock' that keeps track of days could be slowed down to make the gameplay longer as there is so much to do... Help fellow students cause mayhem or help them get girls or help them not to be picked on. Go chill out at a take away place or fun fair or mess around in the mental asylum or old folkes home... Can get jobs such as paper round and so on.. play in the arcades.... tons of good stuff. Go out shopping for new clothes or bikes. Loads of classes English (You can learn how to sweet talk girls and appologise more effectiveley to bullies/teachers), Science (can learn to make weapons, cherry bombs/stink bombs/so on), Sports (learn more fighting moves and become faster stronger, also playing dodge ball increases your accuracy with your catapult.) Shop (learn to repair bikes and are awarded bikes for completing the classes.) Art (increase your sweet talking even more and can win extra clothes.) Photography (can take more shots, can zoom and final award is a digital camera.)

Originally Posted by flowperson

Pacman ?

Pacman is dead, get over it.

Originally Posted by China Cat Sunflower

I was wondering how Scarface compares to GTA?

Haven't played GTA:SA for years... Good game obviously the best out of the series... Alas I await the next one this coming November... should be the bomb...

Compared to Scarface? Obviously there is a lot more to do... With games such as Scarface or the Godfather... Your simply playing out the movie.. with SMALL amounts of extra story... Game play then is predictable and limited....


Word.

[dauer]

Well, I completed Final Fantasy IX and the ending was great. I was a little disappointed with one part of it, where I think they essentially gave the audience what they wanted, instead of being a little edgier (although giving the audience what they wanted also meant fitting more closely to an additional mythos, so I guess it was a trade-off.) Overall though, great ending, tear-jerker. And just beautiful, really. I don't want to give anything away so I won't say more, but the whole game was very well done.

I still have to finish FFVII and I've finally gotten my first final fantasy game for the ps2, FFX, due in the mail by the end of the week. It's actually my first ps2 rpg. It's only selling for about 19.99 now, and I heard good things. I'll see how it goes.

Dauer

[Faithfulservant]

i like RP games.. Everquest since June of 99...I really like Morrowind Im dying to try Oblivion out.. Fable is great.. Dark alliance 1 and 2.. theres really too many to count lol Zelda on super nintendo is still one of my all time faves

[Dor]

Everquest, Everquest and Everquest.
Then in spare time Final Fantasy, Neverwinter Nights, Pirates, Elder Scrolls.

[dauer]

faith,

The snes zelda blew me away when it came out, and I think that despite its dated graphics and sound it's still a good play. That one I think probably surpassed the original, but of course the original was a milestone in its own right. I also really liked ocarina of time, but not as much at the one that was for snes (even though that's the one whose name continues to escape me.) If I ever get a wii I'm looking forward to seeing how they've grafted zelda onto that interface.

I never got into everquest. A year or two ago I tried runescape and found the gameplay to be pretty repetitive and it seemed like it was mostly populated with children. Occasionally I play adventurequest. I enjoy the quirky sense of humor the game seems to have, although it's really not an mmorpg in the traditional sense.

I'm on a mac, non-intel, so my choices for pc gaming are limited. I also don't really have an interest in paying monthly subscription fees for a game.


Dauer

[moseslmpg]

Okami. Nuff said.

I just recently started playing games again after getting out of college, but prior to that I was a pretty hardcore gamer. One of my favorite series is Devil May Cry, in fact, I'd say it was one of the catalysts for my interest in religion.

[17th Angel]

Just completed 'Call of Duty 3' In HiDef mode on the Xbox360...... Was very good....

[wil]

Originally Posted by moseslmpg

Okami. Nuff said.

I just recently started playing games again after getting out of college, but prior to that I was a pretty hardcore gamer. One of my favorite series is Devil May Cry, in fact, I'd say it was one of the catalysts for my interest in religion.

Can you expound on that? I'm a non gamer...occasionally put a quarter in a machine or play for a bit at someones house, but never got into any of them to any extent. (fond memories of pinball, and love to play board games and card games...)

My son plays some SimCity at my house, but I wouldn't mind getting him a game that was well regarded and rated highly among gamers but made one think and grow...vs. shoot and maim...

[17th Angel]

Originally Posted by wil

Can you expound on that? I'm a non gamer...occasionally put a quarter in a machine or play for a bit at someones house, but never got into any of them to any extent. (fond memories of pinball, and love to play board games and card games...)

My son plays some SimCity at my house, but I wouldn't mind getting him a game that was well regarded and rated highly among gamers but made one think and grow...vs. shoot and maim...

lol shoot and maime is "in" baby! Thats what the people want. How old is the young blood? And what console does he use... or is it a CPU? And I will ponder and come back with an educational and FUN title...

[dauer]

wil,

I have to disagree with 17th. Not all games are about violence, although may do contain some element of action, as is also common in movies.

**Warning: Mild Spoilers about Final Fantasy X**

FFX came in the mail. Really awesome game. It's about a young girl who's a summoner. She's going on a pilgrimage to various temples. At each temple she has to pray so that she will be granted a new aeon (one of the summonable creatures.) One she completes her pilgrimage she'll be granted some sort of ultimate summon which is supposed to allow her to defeat Sin. something she knows she's destined to do from the start, but doesn't seem ready for. The game is just beautiful, and the plot has been pretty neat. The name of the enemy in this game is Sin. There is one group that is attempting to fight it all costs, called the Crusaders, including via the use of forbidden, advanced machina. Sin came as a punishment to the world because of something the people of the world did in the past, and it will not leave until all is atoned for. Currently there are summoners who rise to defeat Sin. This is followed by a period of peace called Calm, and then Sin returns again, the cycle continues. This seems to have been the way it's been for the past 1000 years, since the event that created Sin to punish the people.

The world contains many races and deals with issues of racism and also the sort of ideas of superiority that can sometimes develop among groups. It also weaves many different myths from world religions together into a beautiful tapestry, but as a backdrop and as some of the pieces of the plot.

I even found it taking the time to tackle issues like, 'How do we apply our codes of ethics? When do they apply, and what of it is subjective?' And other things.

I was watching one scene and halfway through I realized it was modelled after Freud's theories of early childhood development, which was neat.

The female characters in the party can be divided into "the blonde", "the goth", and "the innocent", but I've found so far that all of the characters have much more depth than this, even if on the surface they seem to be stereotypes (well, the blonde does mechanical things, so not entirely.)

So yeah, good game. Good time. And now it sells for only US$19.99 on the PS2.

Dauer

[Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine]

I was given Front Mission 3 and Final Fantasy Tactics (along with a copy of the first edition The Dragon-Blooded form Exalted) for the holidays (the couple who gave them to me got baked goods in microwave-safe, reusable containers with the recipes for the treats. ) The gentleman is coming over later this week to configure something so I can play them (and to make sure I go the "easier route" in Front Mission, seeing as I've never played anything like it before [I think].) He's also going to transfer all of the games they gave me before onto the "new"/secondhand computer I got so I can start playing them again (before any of you get "uppity", I don't have a television, so I have to play any video games I get on the computer.)

I'm also on Dofus, an MMORPG that my friends got me on (I don't recall if I mentioned it before or not. )


Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine

[17th Angel]

Originally Posted by dauer

wil,

I have to disagree with 17th. Not all games are about violence, although may do contain some element of action, as is also common in movies.

Did I say ALL games? Or, did I say that, that is what the people want in games.

Awesome!! Six hundred and sixty six posts... Sweet.

[dauer]

17th,

Either way. There are certainly people who are not looking for violence in games.

Dauer