What Games Have Kept You Guys Busy?

Cyrus · Post by **Cyrus** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 8:11 am

I'm bored as shit right now and I don't feel like playing any of the current games I have.

I'm looking for some plain game which requires no brain power (or at least no complex problem solving) whatsoever like an MMO or a Fighting game or something along the lines of that.

Have there been any games recently which have caught your attention or seem worth a shot?

sweener2001 · Post by **sweener2001** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 8:47 am

Ys: Oath of Felghana

and my 360. i think i'm going to buy crackdown.

Cyrus · Post by **Cyrus** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 9:19 am

sweener2001 wrote:Ys: Oath of Felghana

and my 360. i think i'm going to buy crackdown.

I've heard of the Ys series, is it for PC or is it scattered over consoles and just happens to have PC versions?

sweener2001 · Post by **sweener2001** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 10:09 am

i think it just happens to have pc versions. although i'm not sure. this is my first one of these games.

it's great. japanese rpg style, with simple action combat. boss battles are just patter memorizations. haven't run into any puzzles yet, but i'm not really that far.

whattheboat has details

Post by **Agozer** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 1:05 pm

Ys: The Oath of Felghana.
Final Fantasy XII
Resident Evil 4 PC

Joe Camacho · Post by **Joe Camacho** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 6:59 pm

Eternal Darkness, although the WWI scenario is bullshit, so I placed it on the shelf for some Megaman X Command Mission, not the most brilliant of RPGs, but fun.

In the GBA front, Super Robot Taisen: Original Generation and Original Generation 2 have kept me busy for months.

darkbenny · Post by **darkbenny** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 7:02 pm

Agozer wrote: Resident Evil 4 PC

I didn't even know this was available yet. How would you rate it on a PC? (and would you let me know your compy specs as well?)

Cyrus · Post by **Cyrus** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 9:27 pm

Agozer wrote:Ys: The Oath of Felghana.
Final Fantasy XII
Resident Evil 4 PC

I would imagine FF12 and RE4 would require a lot more thinking than a fighting game, I was looking for something that would be plain and simple, to relax.

adventure_of_link · Post by **adventure_of_link** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 10:00 pm

final fantasy 9

Cyrus · Post by **Cyrus** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 10:06 pm

adventure_of_link wrote:final fantasy 9

I beat that a long time ago...

sweener2001 · Post by **sweener2001** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 10:56 pm

diablo ii is fairly mindless, if you ever wanted to jump back into that. morrowind is as mindless as you want it to be, since you can do whatever you please.

maybe some casual games? there are some really good ones. i rather enjoy the mystery case files series. it's basically i spy, except you solve mysteries. pretty fun stuff.

Cyrus · Post by **Cyrus** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 11:24 pm

sweener2001 wrote:diablo ii is fairly mindless, if you ever wanted to jump back into that. morrowind is as mindless as you want it to be, since you can do whatever you please.

maybe some casual games? there are some really good ones. i rather enjoy the mystery case files series. it's basically i spy, except you solve mysteries. pretty fun stuff.

I used to play Diablo 2 endlessly with a bunch of my friends but we all ended up quitting the game because it became boring after it got horribly corrupted with hacked items. I've never heard of the other one though.

Panzer88 · Post by **Panzer88** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 11:24 pm

does RE4 PC have the extras in the PS2 version, also it would be nice if they used the gamecube models as they are better. Any info?

Firon · Post by **Firon** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 11:27 pm

RE4 PC is the same as RE4 PS2 in every way. Crappier graphics, FMVs for the cutscenes, and the extras.

Panzer88 · Post by **Panzer88** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 11:39 pm

BOO! who was the genius who thought of that! Honestly they could have done SO MUCH better by porting the GC version and adding the few extra features in.

They suck!

SonGoku1905 · Post by **SonGoku1905** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 11:45 pm

For no brain usage but serious action your best bet is MAME games ; especially shooters ı'd say.
Get Dimahoo, Guwange, Vasara,Gunbird,Battle Circuit,Sengoku,Cadillac&Dinasours,...

MisterJones · Post by **MisterJones** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 12:45 am

Throne of Darkness
Doom 1 & 2
Contra 3
Metal Slug series
DnD: Shadows over Mystara
Diablo 1 (needs moar <3)
What a Fart
Clean Asia
Cortex Command
Which way adventure

Panzer88 · Post by **Panzer88** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 1:06 am

SonGoku1905 wrote:For no brain usage but serious action your best bet is MAME games ; especially shooters ı'd say.
Get Dimahoo, Guwange, Vasara,Gunbird,Battle Circuit,Sengoku,Cadillac&Dinasours,...

don't forget the 1940 games especially 19xx

also

aero fighters/sonic wings
viper phase
raiden
strikers 1945

there are TONS of great addictive arcade games, but you can find em yourself on MAWS, it's really helpful

Cyrus · Post by **Cyrus** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 1:09 am

MisterJones wrote:Throne of Darkness
Doom 1 & 2
Contra 3
Metal Slug series
DnD: Shadows over Mystara
Diablo 1 (needs moar <3)
What a Fart
Clean Asia
Cortex Command
Which way adventure

Some of those are... quite unusual.

Panzer88 wrote:
SonGoku1905 wrote:For no brain usage but serious action your best bet is MAME games ; especially shooters ı'd say.
Get Dimahoo, Guwange, Vasara,Gunbird,Battle Circuit,Sengoku,Cadillac&Dinasours,...
don't forget the 1940 games especially 19xx

also

aero fighters/sonic wings
viper phase
raiden
strikers 1945

there are TONS of great addictive arcade games, but you can find em yourself on MAWS, it's really helpful

I've actually never tried MAME, I'll have to give it a shot sometime. But I was wondering what generation of games does it emulate up to?

smkdan · Post by **smkdan** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 2:50 am

Depends on whatever info the devs can get on the hardware. I suppose it's the custom GPUs that have virtually zero documentation (why would they?) that's holding back alot of games from being emulated. NFL Blitz is a good example of a game that's correctly emulated but is several years newer than Daytona USA which won't even get past the initial test screen. If you see a game released past 2000, chances are it's just a 2D game on ageing hardware i.e. NeoGeo.

Even then, the more recent 3D games (1995~+) won't run on anything on the market today. What was it...'10Ghz' for NFL Blitz?

Panzer88 · Post by **Panzer88** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 3:39 am

yeah there are select commercial releases up to the year 2003, going all the way back to the first arcade games.

of course there are gaps on arcade boards still not emulated but they are making great strides.

it's not just the emulator either, I'm sure there are many recent games, such as music games, that could run on MAME but haven't been dumped yet. E.G. the latest beatmania or drum master.

Still, there are hundreds of gems already available to play

Joe Camacho · Post by **Joe Camacho** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 4:10 am

Hey! I have a Throne of Darkness Cd, we should get together and play sometime.

Neo Kaiser · Post by **Neo Kaiser** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 4:16 am

Ar Tornelico.

corronchilejano · Post by **corronchilejano** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 5:14 am

Final Fantasy VI Advance

MisterJones · Post by **MisterJones** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 7:33 am

Joe Camacho wrote:Hey! I have a Throne of Darkness Cd, we should get together and play sometime.

I need to find/download it again (which is why I just play diablo 2 with wtb)