The Video Game thread

[bobloblah]

also red dead redemption looks awesome. i quit games till that comes out

[Gunner Recall]

Yep I beat it...working on scoring a few remaining trophies before I send it back later today.
The killer makes a bit of sense when you play back many of the scenes.

Have you seen the DLC? I'm not wasting $5 for such little content, but it's pretty intense. I watched the youtube videos of playthroughs...should have been part of the game.

[sevenSHARPnine]

Sorry to venture off topic, but did anybody have tons of fun playing:

[bobloblah]

the killer makes sense
except for one scene
for the scene to work you would have to not be in control of the character you are in control of...
i'm not sure if that makes sense but i felt like it was just beyond fucking lazy, and a complete misunderstanding of the medium of the story telling. you can't have an interactive story and just say "oh by the way it happened this way, even though you clearly saw it happen this way."

[Gunner Recall]

The typewriter scene? It was slightly lazy, but not totally out there.
The camera pans on Lauren with the other characters off screen and there is a loud banging noise from the grandfather clock as a clue.

[Nychthemeron]

Who else here likes humor based adventure games and platformers?

Psychonauts anyone?
Maybe a little bit o' the ol' Grim Fandango?
The monkey island series?
Torin's passage?

Tim Schaffer is great game designer. Too bad Brütal Metal wasn't as amazing as his past work.

Looking forward to Ron Gilbert's Deathspank though. Also loved his recent blog entry countering Roger Ebert's claim that videogames are not and will never be art. I would say Grim Fandango would qualify, though a high majority of games are really not art in the highest sense.

[Gunner Recall]

I heard great things about psychonauts but never got around to playing it for one reason or another.

Ebert has never played a video game, save for pong, so his opinion on the matter is irrelevent.
Yes, they can be art.

[Inertia]

Video games are more a collective of art than art itself.
A composition made up of music, plot, and moving pictures.


Either way I am really really into The curse of monkey island right now.
Such a great game.

I also like tetris

[aen]

DUDES I GOT LIKE 23K ON INTENSIVE TREATMENT CHALLENGE ROOM IN BATMAN ARKHAM ASYLUM!!!!! It took like two nights of furious dedication. I also got a 40 hit combo in the "totally insane" challenge room. Pretty glad.

[futuresailors]

DUDES I GOT LIKE 23K ON INTENSIVE TREATMENT CHALLENGE ROOM IN BATMAN ARKHAM ASYLUM!!!!! It took like two nights of furious dedication. I also got a 40 hit combo in the "totally insane" challenge room. Pretty glad.

Anyone seen the trailer/gameplay clips for Singularity. Shittt loookkksss gooooooodddddd.

[magiclawnchair]

Sorry to venture off topic, but did anybody have tons of fun playing:

super monkey ball!!!

[htsamurai]

Marvel vs. Capcom 3 announced
looks meh...
linkage
http://ps3.ign.com/articles/108/1084617p1.html

[sevenSHARPnine]

My girlfriend bought me a NES for my birthday today. Coolest chick EVAR.

[Gunner Recall]

Taking a ff13 break and playing through Bayonetta. Odd sense of humor, plays a bit like devil may cry mixed with dead or alive's fighting system.

and if you haven't seen this:
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/534416

The entire super mario bros 1, now playable with characters from other classic games (mario, samus, simon belmont, link, megaman, and the dude from contra)

[Nychthemeron]

Did someone say... Metal Gear?