UNIVERSAL VIDEO GAME THREAD

[Glorious Leader Luna]

Woo Fable 2 this week (if the shop with the guy who does not give a dam about release dates has it )  

[Caleidah]

http://kotaku.com/5061418/new-resident-evil-5-tgs-trailer

Resident Evil 5 trailer from the Tokyo Games Show.

I personally am saddened. Less "survival horror," more blase action.

-=Edit=-
Wesker is there. That means crazy s**t is bound to go down.  

[DarkElf27]

Caleidah

http://kotaku.com/5061418/new-resident-evil-5-tgs-trailer

Resident Evil 5 trailer from the Tokyo Games Show.

I personally am saddened. Less "survival horror," more blase action.

-=Edit=-
Wesker is there. That means crazy s**t is bound to go down.

I think survival horror is horribly overdone. Not only are the graphics on this epic, but it looks more appealing from a non-horror point of view.  

[Caleidah]

I'll agree with you on a few things. Yes, survival horror is overly done. And yes, the graphics here are flipping amazing. Resident Evil used to stand as the pinnacle of survival horror. There are things in the older games that -still- make me jump.

Something that I'm a bit upset with is that there appears to be a strafe command now. Oh well, though. Perhaps I'm just frustrated that they're changing up a series that I love.  

[Caleidah]

For the sake of giving this thread "Ye Olde Kick in the a**..."

Dead Space. I plan on buying this ASAP, but there's plenty for it to chew on currently. If you haven't watched them, I fully suggest that you start out by watching these.

Dead Space Animated Comic (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6)

These make for a very gritty intro to what's going on, and there's soon to be an animated tie in to the game.

Dead Space: Downfall

Don't know how much you guys have been following this game, but I've had my eyes open for it since the article first popped up in Game Informer last year at some point (I have the issue, I just don't know where it is).  

[Commissar Hark]

Sorry about the absence the past week, but FALLOUT 3 came out. That came is straight up electric crack. Did I say came? That's cuz I did.

HOT DAMN that game is fun. I've fallen behind on exercise, showers, shaving and toothbrushing. My shopping list has changed from three healthy squares to mountain dew, frozen 'za and cheetos. I even forgot to call in to my Recruiting Officer. He did the favor of calling me to tell me the DEP meet changed days again, which is good, because I'm going to be engrossed in post-apolalyptia that day. I almost forgot to vote, but I was at the part where everyone in the Republic of Dave votes for their new president, and I realized that it was election day in real life too. Just finished the main quest a few days ago with my good guy, so I started a second file, for my evil guy. Evil is much funner, BTW.  

[Vikki Stardust]

Is it true that there's a giant nuke throwing super patriotic robot in the game that claims to rather be dead than red? confused  

[Commissar Hark]

Kaori Kapoigne

Is it true that there's a giant nuke throwing super patriotic robot in the game that claims to rather be dead than red? confused

SPOILER ALERT!

You are of course reffering to Liberty Prime, the salvaged war machine and secret weapon of the brotherhood of steel. Yes, he is my hero. I just love watching five enclave soldiers try to bring him down with sustained plasma bolts, only to me instantly vaporized by his giant blue eye-laser. "I WILL DESTROY ALL COMMUNISTS" he bellows, war cries that could be heard from miles away. Yes, the last mission on the main quest is quite fun, even if you do only kinda follow the robot all the way across downtown DC.  

[Necro Fusion]

Come and die with the zombies in the moonlight
They become alive when you die, you cannot fool them
You got to slam with the dead and let it go now
See a thousand hallowed eyes stare into the night


YAR, LEFT 4 DEAD DEMO. It promises me a good game to come on the 18th, though I'm wondering whether I should get it on Xbox (Where I have more friends playing) or the PC (Where I can get mods and make new friends) O.o

Does anyone else have the demo? biggrin

It's getting dark so prepare to die
They're coming after you
It's getting dark and you can't get away
They're coming after you

}{Pain - Zombie Slam}{

 

[General Awesome]

I noticed the demo, but I decided to download the Mirror's Edge one instead just to see if it's as boring as I figured it would be.  

[Xenos Mortium]

I have the Left 4 Dead demo. ninja I've not gotten a chance to play it yet though.



And Fallout 3. Holy s**t, awesome game. It does suffer a bit though ofbeing part of a series. Should it not have been named Fallout, the game would have been a lot better. I've no real right to criticize it on that note however, as Fallout Tactics will always hold a warm spot in my heart.  

[A.R.G.U.S Mykal]

Xenos Mortium

It does suffer a bit though ofbeing part of a series. Should it not have been named Fallout, the game would have been a lot better.

The game is the same, even if it was named GTA Apocalypse or Tomb Raider 14: Fallout DC  

[Commissar Hark]

I find it odd that they couldn't think of any better storylines than a rehash of the first two games. Sure, there's the "gotta find my father" part, but it pretty much dwindles down to: "we need pure water, and kill super mutants" (fallout 1's search for the water chip, and the fight against the master's army) as well as "We need to find a G.E.C.K. and defeat the enclave" (fallout 2's quest for the G.E.C.K. and the fight against the enclave)

Really. Couldn't think of anything else. Why not a search for a mythic computer system that controled legions of robots, or the race to find a medical facility in order to save the wastes from a great plague, or stop a madman who feels that we must finish the job and exterminate the rest of all life, or anything else.  

[Vikki Stardust]

I decided to give it a whirl and well, meh. I slept with the town whore and got nothing! The game is also very lacking in its gore. This is one of those games I'll watch someone else play.

I did find a ripper, which feels a lot like a my first chainsword.  

[Commissar Hark]

Did you say it was lacking in gore? Stand over a corpse with your sledgehammer and give it a couple good whacks and tell me that isn't satisfying.