@ThanosReXXX Yeah, the explodey stuff was a good bit of fun while testing it out last night I didn't know about the lights though, that's cool! Stealth.....wasn't my strong suit in that second mission, I admit....
@NEStalgia I am happy that you still like me in spite of Thanos and Darth insinuating that I am evil and you needed to be saved.
Now serious stuff. Crash Team Racing remake is the biggest rumour related to the Games Awards at the moment, I hope that it's true and 60 fps. I would prefer Diddy Kong Racing but I really wanted the only good Crash racing game to be remade. Are you guys excited about it?
Gameplay is strange....it's pretty retro, and reminds me a lot of Golden Eye 64.
Thay was exactly my reply when Thanos posted the trailer. I used the term "cinematographic" but I was actually thinking of Rare's Goldeneye 007.
@NEStalgia Perhaps needless to say, but I forgot to mention that when sneaking up on people, you need to be crouching.
Nice find on that PS classic Rogue Galaxy. I remember having seen it on a friend's PS2 back in the day, and wanting it, except I obviously wasn't going to buy a Sony console for that game, so I kinda hoped it was either coming to PC or to the GameCube, but that never happened, far as I know.
Those Dark Cloud games also look kinda interesting. But still not enough to pull me to the Dark Side...
Also kinda disappointing that there isn't any voice acting in there. You'd think that would be included in a Sony RPG...
@NEStalgia About me liking Blue Dragon: I don't necessarily look who has created any game, so I'm not really one of those "developer groupies", and the aesthetics and the story of Blue Dragon are SO vastly different to anything FF, that it wasn't that hard to get into it.
The main protagonist actually reminded me a bit of Dragon Ball's Goku, looks-wise.
@DarthNocturnal Damn, yet another free game that I missed. It seems to be the story of my life, what with being a late adopter of practically any and all consoles and handhelds that I own...
'The console wars are like boobs: Sony and Microsoft fight over which ones look the nicest and Nintendo's are the most fun to play with.'
@BlueOcean I'll make a mental note of not calling you out on "coming across as angry" again, might bite me in the backside in a semi-funny way several pages later...
'The console wars are like boobs: Sony and Microsoft fight over which ones look the nicest and Nintendo's are the most fun to play with.'
@BlueOcean Levels are 6 - 10 minutes on average, depending on your play style and if you're one of those OCD-ish "have-to-find-any-and-every-item-in-a-level" kinda person...
'The console wars are like boobs: Sony and Microsoft fight over which ones look the nicest and Nintendo's are the most fun to play with.'
@DarthNocturnal Well that explains a lot. The game's cover image is what immediately grabbed me back then,
so I bought it. Was also a MASSIVE Dragon Ball fan in those days, so the image must almost certainly have triggered me to pick the game up.
@BlueOcean Me neither (browsing 24/7. More like two or three times a day, to check on updates). But insistent? Man, I'm the most social person you'll never meet. People that know me in real life always feel that there's some kind of disconnect going on, when I communicate online, because in real life, I'm hardly ever misunderstood, let alone get myself caught in heated arguments, intended or not.
@BlueOcean Well, caring is a big word, but I liked the game on GameCube, so if a remake is anything like that, then I'd welcome it to whatever console it's coming to.
'The console wars are like boobs: Sony and Microsoft fight over which ones look the nicest and Nintendo's are the most fun to play with.'
I haven't played any of the Crash racers. At first when I read that I got a mental image of Jak X Combat Racing and gagged a bit. Anything that isn't that has to be something better than terrible It could be fun, especially if it's in the new Crash engine....at better frame rate.
@ThanosReXXX Not sure about Rogue Galaxy or Dark Cloud 1, but Dark Cloud 2 does have voice acting. Level 5 often doesn't use voice acting though, even in current games, so it wouldn't be so weird if the others don't have it. I actually had Dark Cloud 1 in the stack of PS2 games I wanted to catch up on when I bought a battered PS2 to go with my 3 (because I bought the PS3 model that first stripped out PS2 back compat..... not to justify your anti-Sony thinking but, only Sony would stealth REMOVE launch features from console revisions.... The PS3 era was a really painful time to be a PS fan.) But I only played the first area. It was kind of a Zelda-meets-RPG kind of thing with that Level 5 charm. 2 is a lot more refined in presentation. That stuff is definitely the holdovers of back when Playstation was special and not just an XBox clone. I'm surprised Level 5 hasn't ported it to Nintendo yet, though. Not XBox, Level 5 is too Japanese for that. But even Blue Dragon apparently got DS spinoffs. Dark Cloud and Rogue were published by SCE so I don't know what rights they had behind the scenes. FF is now out, but apparently Sony was a partial stakeholder in Square until sometime this year which explains the situation a bit. I think Level 5 has realigned behind their "multimedia franchise" stuff too much to care about those older series, or even Fantasy Life
@DarthNocturnal Ahh, Duke Nukem Forever.....I always found it funny that "DNF" is the value given to ski racers who crash/miss gates and never get to the end......(Did Not Finish)
Titanfall2 is from one of the CoD creators, huh? Interesting. That's weird because it's actually good.....
Ahh, I probably wasn't an XBL subscriber back then. I last paid sometime in 2011, until this year. And I didn't grab free games because my internet at the time couldn't handle it anyway. I guess $25 is a smaller fee to pay than $60 though...
If "find all the things" breaks you, you must hate Fable and Elder Scrolls, huh?
@ThanosReXXX Yeah, you actually hit the nail on the head! The art style is Toriyama (Dragon Ball creator, and main artist of Dragon Quest series, and Chrono Trigger), so it's pretty different than Nomura's art style you'd associate with FF (also, Torna, and KH) and explains similarities to Goku - same artist. FF has a few main artists, Amano and Itahana are more subdued, but Nomura's the one you'd associate the most with FF (and anything with a belt/zipper/leather fetish in that series, as well as KH including KH3, as you can tell from the abundance of zippers demoed at XO18 )
So far from what I've seen of Black...yeah...levels are pretty darned long. It was the style of the time in shooters, to have to complete these huge missions in one go. Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter drove me crazy with that. It had checkpoints, like once an hour. On one hand you can say it encourages you to be efficient and breeze through, but the sheer number of hidden items that you get credit for finding all of means it encourages taking tons of time. Golden Eye definitely kept the mission lengths down comparatively.
I haven't started up Blue Dragon yet, so I'm curious how far apart save points are as well. JRPGs are usually forgiving with that.
@DarthNocturnal
I have played the Crash kart games on GameCube but they aren't very good. The original one developed by ND for PS is considered much better. Similarly, the original Crash trilogy is considered better than the GameCube/PS2/XB games developed by other studios.
I didn't know that games were announced at the Games Awards, people are talking about Crash Team Racing, The Last Story II, Metroid Prime Trilogy, Mortal Kombat... From now on E3 has no business, everything is leaked by retailers or announced elsewhere. Spoilers everywhere.
@DarthNocturnal I don't know, the old FF games I tend to just grind and grind and plod from sidequest to sidequest. I do have to talk to EVERYONE in town though, and explore ever open door.....
@NEStalgia Each revision of PS3 removed something but removing backwards compatibility in such way was bad. Wii Family (this is a stupid thing to add to the "interactive non-gaming Nintendo experiences in white living rooms") also removed backwards compatibility but it was quite clear.
I loved Goldeneye 007, it was the first shooter that I played. The level length is perfectly fine (for better replays), the difficulty in 00 Agent is crazy though and the frame rate is terrible but the visuals and sound amazing. The gameplay is so good (much better than in the Wii game) that I'm hoping that a remake can be done eventually. There is a guy that wants to make an unofficial remake and he has made part of the first level already.
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