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CASTLEVANIA RONDO OF BLOOD
Original platform: TurboGrafx16 CD-ROM
Publisher: Konami
Players: 1
ESRB Rating: T (Teen) – Animated Blood, Fantasy Violence
Price: 900 Wii Points
Description: This is the 10th action-packed installment in the ever-popular CASTLEVANIA series, which depicts the epic struggle between the Belmont clan and the dark forces of Count Dracula. An instant classic, this title is recognized far and wide for its beautifully rendered world, outstanding game balance and haunting CD-quality music. The player takes control of RICHTER, the clan's ultimate Vampire Killer, guiding him through a total of nine stages filled with treacherous traps and hidden secrets. Using your legendary whip – passed on from generations of Belmonts – and a powerful selection of Item Crash attacks, it's up to you to destroy Dracula and his evil horde. What's more, rescuing MARIA at some juncture in the game allows you to use her as a playable character for even more vampire-slaying fun.

I have that ROB for the PSP. That game isa He-Man tough.

43°29′28″N 83°23′49″W wrote:I have that ROB for the PSP. That game isa He-Man tough.

this is the true version, not the false one

Hypnagogia wrote:How do game saves work in Heavy Rain?

I tend to only play through these types of games once, but reload after every decision point, and experience every scenario along the way.

I could see getting extremely annoyed having to play through the game multiple times just to experience the different endings...or fucking up one of the action events, and having to start all the way over again.

They actually designed it to avoid that. You never save anything yourself, everything is with autosaving. The game has 3 savings slots and you can't even copy savings from one slot to another one, not even outside of the game.

But you can replay any chapter with "saving" or "not saving" option, the first one if you plan to replay the game from there, the second one if you do it just to hunt for trophies or to see different chapter out-comings.

christ mallard, did you real all the CYOA books cover-to-cover?

playing GOWII again before tomorrow, riding Pegasus through the night while slaying Gryphons by dismembering their wings is still one of the best moments ever

Necrometer wrote:christ mallard, did you real all the CYOA books cover-to-cover?

fuck no, I just cheated. Those books sucked anyway.

And I was including games like Fallout 3 & KOTOR in that sweeping categorization...
Although games like KOTOR & Infamous that are meant to be played aligned to "good" or "evil", and give you different skills depending on your alignment usually merit a 2nd play through.

Infamous doesn't even deserve a full playthrough. That game got tedious as hell about 2/3 of the way through. Loads of potential and lazy execution.

My GOW III is backordered.... Good thing I'll have a censored version of Yakuza 3 to tide me over.

i thought infamous was pretty fun for what it was. it definitely was repeating itself too much in the missions by the end, no doubt, but the climbing controls were great and grinding on powerlines while blasting haters was a blast.

More bosses, one less neighborhood to clear out, less shitty characters, and more ambiguous moral choices and I'd like the game a lot more.

Not sure if it has been discussed in here, but if you have XBLA, get Toy Soldiers. Game fucking rules!

Perfect Dark on N64. I still live in 1999

zombiehead wrote:

43°29′28″N 83°23′49″W wrote:I have that ROB for the PSP. That game isa He-Man tough.

this is the true version, not the false one

nahh, the psp version has the original game as well.

and skyclad is right. that game is hard as hell.

Also going to stick up for Infamous. Never got tired of tooling across the city, clearing shit out. And compared to what I'm slogging through now (FF13), the characters are fucking amazing.

Comrade Slinky wrote: (FF13)

Don't worry, an old friend'll be back soon.

infamous was extremely overrated.

controls were average at best and a lot of it seemed pretty janky.

Thank christ for that, plus I have Return to Ostagar to check out.

...the expansion is being released on the ps3 the same day as the 360/pc right?

I believe so. Bioware's really been dropping the ball with DA on the PS3.

I get out of work a little early, my kid is with my parents for the week, and my wife doesn't get home till after 8pm for once, so I've got a solid four hours or so to myself to play games on a Tuesday evening, a very rare rarity of rareness.

More Mass Effect 2?
FEAR 2?
Bad Company 2?
God of War 3?

What a web of intrigue. I think the best bet is to try and finish Bad Company 2 like I said I would. I would have said fuck all that shit and continued on my ME2 way, but the planet mining is becoming a bit of a chore. MUST I mine these planets?

Pretty sure I'll throw that God of War III in for a spin.... never finished GOW I nor played any of GOW II, but I guess story wise I can fill in the blanks myself, let me guess, Kratos very angry at Gods, want kill Gods, Kratos SMASH puny Gods.

I played through Infamous twice back to back to get the good and bad ending. The copy/paste side missions got pretty repetitive after a while, but it's not like you had to do them, and they were a nice diversion every now and then. It seemed to have higher ambitions than just being a fun action game with a cool story, but that's all it was to me and it did that just fine and dandy.

spacehamster wrote:I played through Infamous twice back to back to get the good and bad ending. The copy/paste side missions got pretty repetitive after a while, but it's not like you had to do them, and they were a nice diversion every now and then. It seemed to have higher ambitions than just being a fun action game with a cool story, but that's all it was to me and it did that just fine and dandy.

What's the general census on it's rival Prototype?

zombiehead wrote:Virtual Console

CASTLEVANIA RONDO OF BLOOD
Original platform: TurboGrafx16 CD-ROM
Publisher: Konami
Players: 1
ESRB Rating: T (Teen) – Animated Blood, Fantasy Violence
Price: 900 Wii Points
Description: This is the 10th action-packed installment in the ever-popular CASTLEVANIA series, which depicts the epic struggle between the Belmont clan and the dark forces of Count Dracula. An instant classic, this title is recognized far and wide for its beautifully rendered world, outstanding game balance and haunting CD-quality music. The player takes control of RICHTER, the clan's ultimate Vampire Killer, guiding him through a total of nine stages filled with treacherous traps and hidden secrets. Using your legendary whip – passed on from generations of Belmonts – and a powerful selection of Item Crash attacks, it's up to you to destroy Dracula and his evil horde. What's more, rescuing MARIA at some juncture in the game allows you to use her as a playable character for even more vampire-slaying fun.

Fuck. I've been wanting to play this for 15 years, even tried to compile the games ISO files to play on my computer (which, I found I don't have enough geek knowledge in me to do). Too bad XBLA didn't snag this one up .....

The Bill wrote:

spacehamster wrote:I played through Infamous twice back to back to get the good and bad ending. The copy/paste side missions got pretty repetitive after a while, but it's not like you had to do them, and they were a nice diversion every now and then. It seemed to have higher ambitions than just being a fun action game with a cool story, but that's all it was to me and it did that just fine and dandy.

What's the general census on it's rival Prototype?

Never played it, reviews made it look severely flawed.

The Bill wrote:What's the general census on it's rival Prototype?

Prototype has faster, crazier action and cooler weapons. Infamous has a better presentation and a slightly better plot. Both games have bland, gruff voiced heroes and terrible side characters. I'd rate them about even, probably 6-7/10. Blood and gore = Prototype, superhero = Infamous.

Picked up the Awakening expansion, 45 dollars seems awfully steep. After that, the game and the add ons...pricey business.