Beat very hard, doing missions mode now.

i think it is you that is getting harder the more you level up

JUST KIDDING YES VANILLA OBLIVION'S LEVELING IS SERIOUSLY BROKEN

Persona 4... yet again. For a while (18 hours, to be exact) I played an undubbed version that has the original Japanese voices with English text, but I seem to be having some technical issues with that because the music likes to cut out at random moments (not very fun when it happens during a lengthy boss battle). I guess I'll just go back to playing the regular US version for now.

Ugh. The dubbed voices were fine, save for Chie. I thought everyone was really spot on. The only problem is that Atlus wanted to make it extra wapanese, so they actually added more honorifics.

Well, I also thought the English voice acting was very good for the most part and it really didn't need to be replaced with the Japanese audio track, but I figured that if I'm going to play through Persona 4 for the third time I might as well try out the undub.

Christ, and I thought I powered through the game enough as it was. You guys are crazy.

I think I'll start up P3FES. I didn't try the new Journey yet, so that'd be a good excuse to replay the main story.

Soo...after finishing Persona 4 last week...or was it the week before, playing through Fatal Frame 2 too and finishing Digital Devil Saga 1 this morning, I went on to play DDS2. And wonder oh wonder, the second part has the 60hz-Mode the first one was missing (meaning we Europeans get punished by squeezed image-size and 20% slower games, I HATE that, it´s the way we had to play FF10, listening to the english Dub while reading german subtitels that were based off the original japanese Dub. Disgusting).

i reinstaled ut 2004 and still love it i think the only rpg i have played more than once is mario rpg i have beat it like 9 times is addictive and only beaten culex once

Castle Crashers, and it's fun as hell :D

What's your gamertag, we'll beat up some guys

Does the European version of Persona 4 have the 60 Hz mode? The lack of that was the one thing that bothered me about the PAL release of P3 FES, it felt like you were moving in slow motion compared to the US version (and with good reason, because you actually are moving in slow motion in 50 Hz mode). As for FFX, I tried the undubbed version of that as well (it's based on the Japanese FFX International and has English text, and of course my old saves from the PAL version don't work)... and Tidus is just as much of an asshat in Japanese as he is in the English dub.

Star Fox: Command. Three years old but this game is pretty fun! I've never laughed at video game dialogue that much until playing this. Especially all the Falco hate and everything he yammers out.

Mainly waiting for Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks and a couple other DS games. Considering GTA: Chinatown Wars.

I don´t think it has a 60hz Mode, no...I don´t remember switching to it, but I DO remember comparing Chie´s hopping-speed (her idle animation in battle) and it looked quite a lot faster in all those Youtube videos...about 20% faster and there we go: Bad Pal-ization.
BUT they didn´t touch the text and the voices. If there´s one thing that´s even worse than crappy Regionalization (is that a word by the way?), it´s german dubs. Augh, do we do a bad job dubbing things. If you want an example just look for the Halo 3-intro in german on youtube...it´s just utter Bullshit. Just leave english things in english dammit. It´s not atlantean or something complicated, anybody can (orshould) understand english.

And concerning Tidus...that Surfballguy is still about 3 Universes better than Vaan from FF12...stupid half-naked 4-year-old Shitkid.

It's on a friend's Xbox. I'm mooching :(

Well, crud. I can't believe it's still that hard to include the freaking 60 Hz mode in PS2 games in the year 2009. Even the Dreamcast had 60 Hz mode in pretty much every game (at least all the ones I've got have it) and that system has been dead since 2001, so why do we still have to suffer from poor PAL conversions of PS2 games? Perhaps they think it's not worth the extra effort or something...

Halo 3 in German? That sounds like it might have quite a bit of unintentional comedy potential... thankfully most games don't get dubbed here in Finland. I've only really seen it with Disney games and some other casual/family titles as well as some PS3 games that wouldn't need it at all (Resistance 2 in Finnish sounds... well, embarrassing, thankfully you can at least change the system language to English to get the original voices).

That goes without saying. Apparently Basch was supposed to be the playable main character in FF XII, but Square-Enix decided that the series needed more annoying teenage protagonists.

Apparently they think flickering slowmotion-games are good enough for those 20 or MAYBE 30 gamers here in the old world. ;)

And almost anything can be quite...comedic in german, but that´s because we have a stupid dubbing-situation here. You either take one of those 20 really good voice-actors, like the german voices of Bruce Willis or Johnny Depp for example. Problem there is that they voice SO many people it get´s annoying to hear them. Also, they don´t dub games very often to begin with. The other way is to use one of the other 40 VOs we have.
And they all suck. They suck ass. Through a straw. They don´t know what voice-acting is about, how to work with your voice, hell even I could do that a lot better, simply because I can emulate certain emotions in my voice. Even that simple task seems to be too much for those guys. That´s why I´m really, really glad that they don´t dub too many games here and if they do, they keep the original voices on the disc in many cases.

By the way, wasn´t Finnish one of the hardest and most complicated languages on the planet? ;) I guess, you´re lucky to be Finnish then :).
But as I always say, it´s good not to be a native english-speaker since it grants you an additional language - your own. Nothing against english, it´s a great language, but I think it´s a waste if you´re a native english-speaking person since it´s so easy to learn and then you´re one language short...I guess the chinese have it best. Those or any native spanish-speaker. *shrugs*

Yeah, pretty much. There is a whole lot of complicated grammar-related stuff and other interesting nuances to remember, making it especially tough to learn for foreigners, and a lot of it isn't clear to native speakers either (although I'm quite sure that last bit applies to just about every language).

Back on topic for a while... I downloaded OutRun Online Arcade from Xbox Live last night. Simply awesome, totally worth 800 MS points. I especially like the 15 minute OutRun Mode where you go through every single stage... put on "Magical Sound Shower", hop into the Testarossa (just like the old days) and go on a beautiful journey (and watch out for Sega cameos such as the dragon from Panzer Dragoon). I love OutRun.

Oh, just 800? Gotta check it out then :) AFTER I play through DDS2 *put on Audiobooks and gets back to the grind*

Too Human.

Who thought it would be a good idea to have a range-oriented class have to deal with scores of enemies that are immune to ranged attacks?

STALKER: Clear Sky and Mirror's Edge. Clear Sky is my favourite - I'd forgotten how much I like the STALKER world. Mirror's Edge isn't bad either.

I've also started Killzone 2 but aside from it's brilliant graphics and scripted events it has done little to grab my attention. I think my main beef with it is that it feels really horrible to play. The controls are so unresponsive and difficult to use. Why would anyone play FPSs on a console?

I suggest upping the sensitivity, and I've never had the problem you had but in multiplayer, they had a patch for the control problems some people had, not in sp though.

i just finished the simpsons game for ds new super mario bros and gta chinatown wars all good game specially gta, for some reason someone removed grand theft scratchy and medal of homer parodies from the ds version :(

Installed Braid awhile ago. 'sall right. Graphics and music are nice, but the actual platforming engine bugs me (wall collision is annoying as fuck, jumping felt kinda off, etc.).

Stuck in worlds 5 and 6 right now.

EDIT: Just beat it. Pretty fun, but it's got to be the most pretentious game I've ever played in my entire life. Oh well.

Just got my DSi and I've been playing Chrono Trigger and Final Fantasy Tactics whatever the fuck it's called A2.

Okay, DDS2´s finished (great Story by the way) - onward to Shadow Hearts 1, 2 and maybe even 3. Can´t play another SMT-Game right now...

has anyone found a good fucking xbox game lately. It seems as though the releases are just terrible as of late.

I think the next interesting things come around in June...May´s pretty empty concerning the 360. Hence my PS2-Marathon.

well I'm looking forward to Red Faction and Damnation, but it feels like forever and a day since a release has come out that's worth the 75$

NO game is worth 75$ ;)

$75? Where the fuck do you buy your games? Not even gamestop sticks it to you that hard.

Look at his location, jerk.

I am playing God of War: Chains of Olympus and Vagrant Story

I have never bought games in Germany, ass. Perhaps it wasnt so simple as a regional thing.

I meant Stevetothepast actually.

Useless fact #425: Videogames in Germany cost about 60-70€, that would be about 78-90 $. But since you can get your games a lot cheaper from GB, around 57 - 65$ I´d say, no one should buy them here. Not to mention the censoring of almost any game that has some violence in it, but hey, we´re an anxious bunch of people apparently :D

75 Canadian dollars (which, if stevetothepast's location is any indication, we're talking about here) is about 46.60 euros, which doesn't sound so horrible for a new 360 game when you're used to paying 60-70 euros for them (I buy all my games online nowadays as well, though).

Depends on where you buy games, but yeah, it's not out of the ordinary for some of the bigger chains to sell them for that price.

I am currently playing Super Mario 64 DS. I am doing alright. I don't understand how little kids can play Mario games. It takes me a while to figure out what to do next.

so you never played it on the 64?

I bought Quantum of Solace even though i got it gifted to me on the PC, it's a good game, not just a shitty release, and has a decent multiplayer, 10 bucks at Best Buy on sunday, buy it now and then get a price adjust on sunday.

Iji - Pretty great freeware title. The person who made this obviously had limited drawing skills though. It really shows in the cinema-scenes but isn't as obvious in the in-game graphics because everything moves so fluidly.

The UFC Undisputed demo. :O

We pay $AUD100 for games here, which is $US72.

Halo Wars

Went on to Shadow Hearts 2. The list is getting shorter...um...booya?

I started Secret Of Mana again, might actually play through this time.

As well as more Banjo-Tooie, Goldeneye and Resident Evil 4.

I'm playing WOW III with DOTA patch. New heroes in new map came. But bugs still there. why agility heroes came so strong.....

50 Cent: Blood on the Sand


"Bitch took ma skull!" :o

One of the most hillarious games in terms of "story".

10 Million Dollars!
-We don´t have them!
Taste my fucking shotgun!
-Here, take this ancient Pseudocool Skull instead!
Ooooh! Shiny!

Great stuff.

When he gets going, 50 Cent sounds a lot like Charlie Murphy.

harvest moon - god i love this game. only this original one, the 64 one, and i think one of the DS ones are any good though

and still powering through fallout 3 every chance i get. i think i'm around level 12, in lamplight caverns. these little motherfucking kids are rude as hell!!!

Nah.... really? This sounds great.

Well, he doesn´t talk that...sophisticated ;)

But yes, that´s the story. 50cent chases his stupid skull and kills bosses in helicopters (and they ALL have a helicopter, it´s what makes you know it´s a boss :lol:)

It´s totally grand in a VERY strange way. Someone even calls him "Mr. Cent" sometimes which it think is pretty funny somehow.

Yeah i heard the 50 cent game is pretty fun despite its ridiculous concept which probaly ends up adding to the fun

:posh

I just purchased joe and mac 2 for snes. it looks pretty fun. didn't really get started yet though.

That sums it up pretty well, yeah. I´d say rent for a funny evening or two.

I had a dream where I was playing Quackshot and really want to play it now.

Fuck 50 cents game, cant even put trophies in it, lazy....
When the day comes that it gets a patch, ill rent it

:rolleyes

THICK FCUK

raaaaaaaaaaage!

In my day when you played games you were lucky enough to get points.

Do you seriously play for trophies and not fun? Really? My heart feels sad for you. :tear

MICROSHOCK'S FAVORITE PART OF PLAYING A GAME ISN'T PLAYING IT, IT'S SHOWING EVERYONE ELSE ONLINE THAT HE DID. :rolleyes

:lol

Blood on the Sand was the best game I played in a while.

Still got Left 4 Dead, Sam? I don't have a mic, but I renewed my Gold.

50 Cent stole all Microshock's bling. :(

well I might as well say it, Microshock blows dogs for trophies

he has trophies for blowing dogs.

:rolleyes

Gamestop broke the launch date for Klonoa Wii, so I bought that. Good shit. Only $30 too, which is a fucking bargain.

FEAR 2 >: Bought is Saturday and beat it in one night. I feel ripped off. Multiplayer is shit. Man I miss CoD.

CoD is still where it's at for multiplayer I agree, most of the time that is all I play

Do you play modern warfare or world at war? I think they are both great games and they each have their own awesome features. I cant decide which one I should pick up again. I sold my modern warfare to get world at war back when it came out. Then I loaned it to a friend to get him hooked so he would buy his own copy but before I got it back his house got robbed. >: Now I cant decide which one I want again.

I have both and I love them both actually. I'd go with WaW myself but different strokes for different folks.

if you get it private message me and I'll give you my gamerid

Aaaand we start up the last part of the Shadow Hearts Series, let´s see...

Dividing myself between the new Prince of Persia and replaying Final Fantasy VIII.

new prince of persia sucks ass

New Klonoa kicks ass.

Also emulating MvC2. Dunno why they had to have two seperate versions of Wolverine, but whatever.

How in the hell are you emulating MvC2? I thought it was unemulatable (word?).

Uhm, by that, you mean Marvel vs Capcom, right? If not, boy do I feel like a douche.

MvC2 on the Dreamcast. Runs at 100% on my computer. Only problem is the sound fucks up when I do a Hyper Combo. Other than that, it's flawless.

What a Dreamcast emulator on you computer? :hypno Do you have a good one?

I've been using NullDC, though I also have Chankast, which had some problems setting up properly. I hear it's reliable, so I'm sure it's just a matter of me being too lazy to sit down and sort that shit.

I'm running it on my 3 year old Dell Inspiron laptop. It's not as taxing a job as you'd think, since the game's just 2D sprites with low poly backdrops. There's a bit of lag when you're using Hypers, but when hypers are on screen, you're not really doing anything besides blocking, and even then, it's only knocked down to 80%.

MvC2 on my PS2. ;)

The PC version of Bully.

The game crashes every single time I get into gym class; something that was not fixed in the one patch for the game. So I'm not exactly impressed.

Is that one of those Japanese dating games?

chrono fucking trigger! this is by far the most exciting RPG i've ever played. the battle system is fucking beautiful

PATAPON

i was playin RE5...got around to buyin it finally....and then the 360 tanked on the rrod so now i downgraded to a ps2 and re4 bleh and yeah chrono trigger fuckn rocks

'Bout fucking time

I could never get all the endings for CT it kept pissin me off but maybe I'll try it again

In the DS version, they keep track of the endings you got, so it's a little more feasible. They even added a whole new ending and three mini dungeons to tie CT with CC.

Which can be a bad thing depending on how you look at it.

yea all i go is the PS1 version...and the old snes cart soemwhere amid the mess that is my closet....but i'll break out the PS1 and play it......then again that might be the reason for me to buy a ds. and as far as tyeing CT and CC i thought they did that in the endings where the cats step into the time machine? or does that kinda expandf and make more apparent?

PS1 version has load times before battles. Icky :( The DS is definitely the difinitive version, since it's basically the SNES build with the PSX extras, plus its own unique additions, and the sound's been 100% preserved (instead of totally fucked like a lot of ports on handhelds). The optional touch interface also makes chosing commands faster if you play on Active.

The cats and the time machine didn't have anything to do with CC, unless there's some cat ending in CC that's supposed to allude to CT. I know there's a few mentions of Robo and Lucca in CC, and that Crono, Marle, and Lucca make cameos as child ghosts or...something. Plus Schala was a huge focus at the end of the game.

But since Chrono Trigger was pretty much complete, the sequel kinda fell into dis continuity among most fans.

yeah the loadf times suck i had forgotten bout them, guess I'll just break out the snes and play the original, and i thought that the main enmy, i forget his name, in CC was a cat person and thats where the cats goin in the time machine had me confused. and i had random musings about square remaking CT into 3-D, which would ultimately suck ofcourse

I need to play CT. I got halfway through Chrono Cross and noticed someone ganked my 2nd disc. >:

I was thinking about getting a DS sometime soon but I might wait until winter now that it's getting nice out.

I tried the DS but idk i just didnt like it for some reason...course there really hasnt been any games on it that i stood up and said I HAVE TO HAVE THAT CT MIGHT make me get one but i doubt it since i got it for both SNES and PS1

you might like the DSi. It's pretty fucking sweet. I love mine.

Been playing Mike Tyson's Punch Out on my laptop to get ready for Monday. I never made it past the second Bald Bull fight, but over the past two days, I made it to Super Macho Man. My dad beat this game years ago, so I'm kinda embarrassed by the fact that I never could.

been playin my PS2 since i Decided to send my 360 in and found Red faction used to love thsi game...cant see why now tho, altough the new one comin looks like it'll be a hell of a lot better

Since Shadow Hearts 3 is not as entertaining as 1 and 2, switching back and forth between Dino Crisis 2 and Vagrant Story for the PS1...and maybe some Parasite Eve 2...great games.

NHL 09. I don't play many sports games these days, but this one is great. The "Be A Pro" mode is damn addicting, although it's slowly but surely starting to piss me off...

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Colorado Avalanche coach: "All right, you've proven yourself in the second offensive line, so I'm moving you up to the first one where you play with Joe Sakic and Peter Forsberg. Don't disappoint me"

*I play three games on the first line, scoring three goals and god knows how many assists in the first two games, while the third one is disappointing as everyone on the team including Sakic and Forsberg seem to have forgotten how to play, I almost score an empty net goal but some asshole trips me at the blue line eight seconds before the end*

Coach: "We demand the absolute best from you in EVERY MATCH, not just on occasion. We're demoting you to the second line as of now. I hope you have learned something from this. Blah blah blah. I'm a dick. Blah blah blah."

*I score two goals in the next game*

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Yeah, let's blame the new guy for the team's sudden drop in performance, even though he's scored something like 25 points in his first 15 games! I bet they'll send me back to the Lake Erie Monsters next, as the team's playing efforts don't seem to be getting any better and I can't seem to be able to score any goals any more either.

I just started playing Fracture for the 360, some people say it's generic, and the reviews have been pretty well shit for it, but I think it's as fun or more than GoW and other 3PS's