Console games

[jag]

I got an Xbox 360 for xmas and there are a couple of great games I'm playing; Fight night 3, Gears of war and farcry2.
I also got Jodie Mario Kart for her Wii which, to be honest, is a pile of crap.

[RedKing]

Jodie Mario Kart? Is that Kidd vs Marsh? :eek:

[Champagne Socialist]

I like Mario Kart.
Though Fable 2 for xbox is awesome.
I have 2 wives in one town who are constantly fighting in the street, another wife in a different town which I also own a pub in. Trueley inspired.

[RedKing]

I have 2 wives in one town who are constantly fighting in the street, another wife in a different town which I also own a pub in. Truely inspired.

And what's the game like? :D

[Champagne Socialist]

:p

Fun

[jag]

I just don't have the time to sit and play these open rpg type games:(.

[rac]

I'm enjoying playing The Club on the 360- which is a brainless shooter of the old stylee.

I also spend waaaaay too much time on WoW.

[armchairanarchist]

I have 2 wives in one town who are constantly fighting in the street, another wife in a different town which I also own a pub in. Trueley inspired.

Some socialist. ;)

[the blondini gang]

Hi, I've gone all old skool, trying to finish ghosts n goblins and goind mad in the process!

[Champagne Socialist]

Some socialist. ;)

:eek: Hence the champers ;)


Mirrors Edge is also awsome

[198505]

Was doing Lego Batman, but it just doesn't push the same buttons as Lego Star Wars or Indiana Jones.
Currently back on the old war horse Star Wars BattleFronts 2

[Hilarity Unit]

We got a Wii for the little 'uns Xmas & quite like the golf & Mario kart. Lined up a Wii Fit for her birthday next week & I'm already looking forward to the snowboarding :D

[GSV Not Really Listening]

Wish I could get hold of a Wii Fit. I refuse to pay more than RRP so I might be in for a long wait.

Loved Mario Kart personally. Got bored after I'd golded everything though. Going for all the stars is a bigger time investment that I can manage. Enjoying Metroid Prime Corruption at the moment and still trying to finish Super Mario Galaxy.

[rac]

Was doing Lego Batman, but it just doesn't push the same buttons as Lego Star Wars or Indiana Jones.
Currently back on the old war horse Star Wars BattleFronts 2

Ah! I'm playing Lego Star Wars for the third or fourth time at the moment.
It truely is a brilliant game.

[jag]

Believe me guys the Wii soon loses its novelty value. The Wii fit was great for 2 weeks until you get bored and now the unit sits gathering dust.
On the Xbox I'm playing virtua tennis 3 and Flatout. I got Bioshock but it's rubbish.

[Champagne Socialist]

I have to disagree with Jag.
I have an xbox for the 'core gamer' games that don't get released on the wii, but if anything is released on both systems I get it on the wii, it may not be as pretty, but it's a hell of a lot more fun to play.

[jag]

It's not that I don't like the Wii, it's great for family etc, but for playing games like FPS and driving games it does get a bit tiring pointing at the screen all the time.
And now with my dodgy right shoulder I don't think I'll be playing Mario and Sonic at the olympics anymore;).
I enjoy playing console games and have all systems and I'm sure I'll be on the Wii when the next Metroid comes out.

[Conscious Bob]

jag;818
And now with my dodgy right shoulder I don't think I'll be playing Mario and Sonic at the olympics anymore;).

Har, too unfit too play a console, there's a sign of the times!

[jag]

I'll be fine, just put a tartan rug over my legs.

[jag]

You know, it does my head in.....you pay £35 or more for a game like Call of Duty, Gears of war etc that have amazing, 'this is the best game ever', write ups in the fanboy magazines only to find that they are a real dissappointment full of glitches and general shite gameplay, and, better stuff can be found on miniclips.
And another thing....games like Fallout 3, Bioshock, Farcry 2, demand at least 40 hours gameplay:eek:.
Give me Asteroids, Bombjack and Galaxian anytime.

[Hagbard Celine]

I only play on the PC, but I believe Call of Duty 4 is available on the xbox, if you haven't played it yet I'd highly recommend it.

Also The Orange Box, five great games in one lovely package, you'd love Portal.

[GSV Not Really Listening]

Portal is one of the best games I've played in years. Short and sweet with some brilliantly twisted humour.
Mmmmmm, cake...

[Deep Black]

Give me Asteroids, Bombjack and Galaxian anytime.

Damn right man, old school games were way better.

Now days it's all about the graphics

They consentrated on the game-play back in the 80's because they couldn't do the graphics

[GSV Not Really Listening]

What?? Where's the depth of gameplay in Asteroids and Galaxians? You've basically got three buttons and you just clear sheet after sheet and nothing changes. It just gets faster/busier until you die. You're looking at it through a fog of nostalgia, man. There's a reason no-one plays those games today.

There is far too much attention paid to graphics today - I'll give you that - but gameplay has come a long way.

[RedKing]

Been playing Spore. A lot. Too much, actually, or maybe not enough...

[Deep Black]

There's a reason no-one plays those games today
I still play games like that now.

Actually I reckon the game-play/graphics balance peaked with the Commodore Amiga

[edash]

I only play on the PC, but I believe Call of Duty 4 is available on the xbox, if you haven't played it yet I'd highly recommend it.



I got a lend of the PC version of CoD4 and played the whole thing through over a weekend, so quite short. Not sure about playing it on a console though, I'm not much good at FPS games and need the mouse. The CoD games are very good though, even novices can complete them on the easy difficulty.

[GSV Not Really Listening]

I still play games like that now.

Actually I reckon the game-play/graphics balance peaked with the Commodore Amiga

Well, OK...Not 'no-one', but only die-hard ex-arcade dwellers. I mean I used to think the Star Wars arcade game (the one with the vector graphics) was the pinnacle of gaming but it's to basic and so repetitive that it just look silly compared to todays games. (For the record, I had an Amiga and loved it).

I think there's a lot of rubbish about but the top games of today are much better in terms of gameplay than the top games of ten years ago, certainly twenty years ago. Portal is one good example, Civilisation, Super Mario Galaxy and the Zelda games, New Super Mario Bros etc. I'm sure there's great gameplay on the 360 and PS3 too but I haven't got my hands on either of those.

And I just managed to order a Wii Fit for RRP. Woohoo! Forget the graphics, those balance games are just great.

[Champagne Socialist]

Think I'll grab Mirrors Edge and Fallout 3 tomorrow on the way home.
I've completed Fable 2, Now own everything that can be owned, have 8 wives and 10 children. I'm thinking about seeing if I can every female npc pregnant.

[Deep Black]

Civilisation, Super Mario Galaxy and the Zelda games, New Super Mario Bros etc.
Didn't those all start years ago?

[GSV Not Really Listening]

Didn't those all start years ago?

Well, yeah. But I don't think anyone can seriously suggest that the orignals can hold much of a candle to the most recent versions in terms of gameplay. Do you remember the original Zelda?

[boberick2]

What?? Where's the depth of gameplay in Asteroids and Galaxians? You've basically got three buttons and you just clear sheet after sheet and nothing changes. It just gets faster/busier until you die. You're looking at it through a fog of nostalgia, man. There's a reason no-one plays those games today.

There is far too much attention paid to graphics today - I'll give you that - but gameplay has come a long way.

asteroids and space invaders have a better storyline than crysis


OH NO SHE DI'NT

[Deep Black]

Do you remember the original Zelda?
I certainly remember playing Zelda many years ago. As for "original" I'm not sure, where did it 1st start?

[RedKing]

The Legend Of Zelda was released in 1987, Deep.

[Hagbard Celine]

There have always been good games and bad, even back in the olden days.
You can still play those old games if that's what you want.

Me, I like good games that use the tech of the day to it's best advantage, games like the Halflife series, COD's, Fallout 3, Bioshock, GRID and so on.

Crysis was a bad game, both in terms of graphics, it was so poorly optimised that even a 10 grand rig couldn't run it with all it's bells and whistles turned up to the max, and in terms of gameplay, it just wasn't very good.

[GSV Not Really Listening]

I'm not saying that there's not rubbish about now. It's just that I can't get misty-eyed about 'vintage' games with hundreds of levels, all indistinguishable from the first and gameplay design that was obviously and cripplingly restricted by the hardware on which they were running. I think some of what those programmers achieved with limited resources was just amazing but I still don't think I'd want to play those games now.

[RedKing]

I just watched a film called A Fistful Of Quarters: The King Of Kong about the obsessive quest to get the highest score at Donkey Kong and to get to the legendary 'Kill Screen'. Now, it's not a very good game at the best of times and the two guys featured in the film out in a lot of time trying to get that perfect game, but will anybody be doing the same for Crysis / Bioshock / Halflife?

I doubt it as the move from 'scores' to an 'experience' in games has killed much of the replayability, which may or may not be a good thing. Once a games is done, it's done - I played Mass Effect through a few times, doing all the quests and playing as good / bad characters but that's it, now. However, I still play a bunch of games just to see if I can get further, some of them using ASCII characters as the cutting edge of graphics.

The game, to me, is more than graphics or a semi-linear 'storyline' but in the game itself. It might just be me being old and boring, as well as being an old wargamer / RPG'er where imagination was mandatory.

[Hagbard Celine]

I don't get the gripes, if you don't like action games don't play em, if you want to play puzzlers, rpg's, rts's and so on there are tons of them.

Same goes for old games, they are all still around, if you want.

What's to complain about?

[Adamus]

I'm a PC gamer at heart, and I sincerely believe some games require the PC's keyboard and mouse to be played properly. First Person Shooters are fine on consoles, but on a PC the speed and accuracy of the controls are MUCH better. There's a good reason PC and console FPS multiplayer are kept strictly separated. One experiment Microsoft did with halo 2, allowing PC gamers to join Xbox live games, was quickly aborted when it became apparent that the average PC Halo player could beat the best Xbox player nearly effortlessly.

Strategy games and complex MMO's also require more input options than a console controller can provide. Perhaps consoles need to invest more in controller-alternatives. Not only will this endear more PC gamers, it also opens up gaming genres previously left mostly unexplored by consoles.

I also own an Xbox 360, but I got it primarily to play Fable 2 and Star Wars: The Force Unleashed.

[GSV Not Really Listening]

I agree with you about strategy games and such.

Having played Metroid Prime: Corruption on the Wii though I think that the Wiimote (for aim) and the nunchuk (for movement) combo makes for the best control scheme on a console FPS yet. It's nearly (not quite, but nearly) as good as mouse/keys. Had Halo on the Xbox mk1 and never had much love for the controls.

[Deep Black]

I loved games where you had to be pixel perfect on every screen, or you'd die & have to start from the beginning again. Now that needed skill :)

[Conscious Bob]

I've got Asteroids...

[GSV Not Really Listening]

They sell some very good creams these days.

[Deep Black]

http://smileys.on-my-web.com/repository/Laughing/laughing-006.gif ha ha ha

[Conscious Bob]

Hee hee, the Asteroids joke is as old as the game itself.

[jag]

Street fighter 4 arrives on Feb 20th.

[Champagne Socialist]

have finished fable 2
I may log on to it again in a year to see how many hundreds of millions I have acrued in the meantime, and if any of my 11 wives are still talking to me.

what next

[jag]

I got Street fighter 4 which is great fun on the 360. Now I remember playing that on the SNES 15 years ago and all that's changed are the graphics, sound, speed and some extra moves and characters, the gameplay is essentially the same.
Finished CoD 5 which has a neat Nazi Zombie game at the end to blast away with.

[Champagne Socialist]

I got Street Fighter 4 as well, got home and realised I can't play it for another 8 weeks!

thud.

[RedKing]

I got Street Fighter 4 as well, got home and realised I can't play it for another 8 weeks!

thud.

Why? Are you re-growing an arm or something? :confused:

[Champagne Socialist]

Why? Are you re-growing an arm or something? :confused:

Pretty close, yes.
I've broken my left arm and it's in a cast.

Although I've been back to the fracture clinic today and they've fitted a more flexible one that looks kind of like fiber glass and feels kind of like rubber, so I might be able to have a go.

[Deep Black]

I only know the original.

Can you still go "Sonic Boom"?

[Champagne Socialist]

me personally?

[Deep Black]

Sure, why not ;)

[jag]

'Sonic boom!', 'Hadoken!' there all still there.

[The Hundredth Idiot]

I'm guessing you've seen some of the brouhaha regarding Killzone 2 on the PS3? Well I started playing last night and, as far as I'm concerned (and I'm a gamer from teh ZX Spectrum days), it really does rock. The graphics are unlike anything I've seen before and look amazing on a large HD screen. It definitely owes a bit to Aliens and Starship Troopers but that's not really a bad thing.

The gameplay is excellent and feeling of the organised chaos of war is very well choreographed. So far I've made a little headway in the 1 player campaign and I've played a couple of bot populated multiplayer games but the multiplayer levels are huuuuge!

For me, I love games that immerse you fully in a world to such a degree that after playing it you actually feel as though you've physically been there. Half-Life, Deus Ex, Max Payne are some examples.

Just out of interest has anyone played Eve Online? That sounds quite interesting (especially if you played Elite back in the day ;)

[Champagne Socialist]

'Sonic boom!', 'Hadoken!' there all still there.

and you can still pause the game to see chun li's knickers........ mot that I ever, you know, did that.

[jag]

Now this is the kind of thing that annoys me, not you personally Champers, but all this 'wee geeky seedy lights of no mates' kinda thang. I'm not a sadact with no sex life that I have to pause games to get my thrills. In the back of most game magazines are all those stoopid adverts for hot sex phone lines!, what do they think gamers are, a bunch of w&nkers?
Anyway bought The Hulk game for some macho mindless violence.

[Champagne Socialist]

Get Mad World for Macho mindless violence.

It's been a long long time since I ever read a games mag.
It is annoying, the perception of gamers being a group of socially inept loners.
That's true sci-fi & fantasy fans, et al, as well.

I was always very popular at school, but felt I had to keep my geeky side hidden in order to be so.

It wasn't until uni that even a modicum of geekines was permissible.

However, speaking as one who spans many different sub cultures, the console loyalty wars, sega v nintendo, gamecube v ps2, ps3 v xbox, young males declaring their loyalty to a profit making organisation and decrying all others who would choose to spend their money on the competitor, to an almost religious intensity, really didn't help.

[rac]

Get Mad World for Macho mindless violence.

The Club is pretty good for this too.

[Deep Black]

but felt I had to keep my geeky side hidden in order to be so
Traitor

[Champagne Socialist]

Traitor

Yeah, I know, it was a high school survival tactic

[Conscious Bob]

I dunno prior to the Playstation console games were for geeks and saddos. Post Playstation it seems every guy has a console jammed in the flat somewhere.

[Champagne Socialist]

yup.
clever marketing meant everyone could come out of the gaming closet.

now have bioshock and mirrors edge.

will get Mario smash tennis for wii next month.
Looks like it'll be mentalist fun.

[Conscious Bob]

yup.
clever marketing meant everyone could come out of the gaming closet.

now have bioshock and mirrors edge.

will get Mario smash tennis for wii next month.
Looks like it'll be mentalist fun.

It surprises me you can find the time to play them. A mate of mine's been playing Fallout since he got it a fortnight ago.

[Champagne Socialist]

I'm currently off work with a broken arm.

I can play wii games that don't require to much left arm movement, and xbox games are fine as there's no motion.

I have another 2 weeks to complete them all.

Also picked up the orange box, loving portal.

[Conscious Bob]

I'm currently off work with a broken arm.

I can play wii games that don't require to much left arm movement, and xbox games are fine as there's no motion.

I have another 2 weeks to complete them all.

Also picked up the orange box, loving portal.

Oh ho, you'll need to pull out the stops to get through that little lot during your recovery.

'His arm's okay now but his eyes are helter skelter'.

[Adamus]

Also picked up the orange box, loving portal.

Portal is awesomeness incarnate. Best game I ever played where no one gets shot in the face.

[rac]

Got Halo 3 cheap on play.com, so I'm playing that at the moment.

[Champagne Socialist]

Portal is awesomeness incarnate. Best game I ever played where no one gets shot in the face.

Except by the automated singsong sentry bots.

No hard feelings. I see yoooou. Are you still there?
damnit, need links to sound file!

Now if you want a voice for a drone, that's the one.

[Adamus]

Except by the automated singsong sentry bots.

Yeah, what I meant to say was "where I don't get to shoot anyone else in the face". Those blasted sentry guns with their synthesized girly voices... creepy and funny at the same time.

Until they shoot me in the face.

[jag]

The club as recommened.:)Shoot:)Kill:)Combo points:).

[RedKing]

Have been sinking rather too much time into a free MMORPG called Runes of Magic...

[jag]

Took some games back to game for a trade in and got 'Red Faction, Guerrilla' & 'Wolverine'
Wolverine is the most violent game I've ever played, with some amazing cut scenes, and RFG is gonna take a long time to finish but it's great fun to play, as everything can be smashed, blown up or driven through, which is a vital part of the game.:D

[Champagne Socialist]

Have been sinking rather too much time into a free MMORPG called Runes of Magic...

I've heard of runes of magic.
Took one look at the home page, with it's stereotypical warrior women in nothing but metal bikini and rejected it.
I keep hearing good things though.

I may try it after having completed a few other games I've got hanging arouns still.

[mahoney]

Best game on 360 so far has been Oblivion. Thought Fallout 3 was too close to Oblivion but with guns. Fable 2 was ok, not as good as 1. Halo 3 was really good. Bungie says Banks was one of their main influences.

[Champagne Socialist]

what are you on about?
Fable 2 is brilliant.
I have 18 wives!

(and welcome also)

[jag]

Got [Prototype] for my XBox and it's pretty gash.:(

[rac]

Got [Prototype] for my XBox and it's pretty gash.:(

Heard moxed reports about this one.
I've the new Riddick game winging it's way to me at the moment.