The Bill's Now Playing Video Game Thread (Now with Bames)

[Wang Mandu]

Is anyone picking up a WiiU?

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Might want to skip Mass Effect 3...sounds like it performs worse than the PS3/360 versions.

[james]

Yeah I never see any reason to buy something for $300 when it will be $75 in five years. It's not made out of beef. It will stay the same and wait patiently for me.

[riley-o]

It will actually be a lot better in some respects; patches that make the system run better, new controllers, and a shitload deeper game catalogue.


On the other hand if you are playing any multiplayer type games, the online will likely have dried up, which definitely sucks.

[The Bill]

Yeah I never see any reason to buy something for $300 when it will be $75 in five years. It's not made out of beef. It will stay the same and wait patiently for me.

I have never, ever bought a console at launch. I do admit that I'll probably end up getting the next gen Xbox or Playstation quicker than I may have with other consoles. We'll see though.

I think the only console I got at launch was the original XBOX, and that was a birthday gift. I might have gotten the N64 at launch for my birthday as well, but I was living away from home and didn't get it till later. As for me buying one, I guess the fastest I ever bought one was the 360, but that had to be near a year after it's release... no, I think it was the Gamecube, actually. I might have bought that super spur of the moment a few weeks after release.

[Krieg]

Yeah I never see any reason to buy something for $300 when it will be $75 in five years. It's not made out of beef. It will stay the same and wait patiently for me.

[james]

I guess I can't really blame them for trying to go cross-appeal, but it would never occur to me to buy a Nintendo product for games like Mass Effect and Arkham City. Nintendo to me is where you go for the fun, cartoony games, some RPGs and Mario and Zelda franchises.

I imagine they hope to shake that perception for at least a few years. I'm sure the technology gap will widen again, when the competitions next systems are released, and the library will wind up being just as sparse as it has been for this past generation.

Nintendo's first-party franchises are maintained ferociously well, and every iteration is meaningful. It's almost as though Valve released their games on their own, proprietary format. You simply have to own a Nintendo system to play them. It's an exchange that's always worked for me so far. It's always been easy for me to shrug off bullshit like Tomb Raider or Halo or Modern Warfare, but I do think I missed out on a bit more this past generation as the console experience matured to rival the quality of PC games.

I don't really find any of the stuff that's out for the WiiU interesting at all so far. Not like that means a whole lot, but I figure the well does have to dry up eventually. I don't plan on continuing to buy Zelda or Mario games if they genuinely do start to suck dick.

On the other hand if you are playing any multiplayer type games, the online will likely have dried up, which definitely sucks.

I've never been a part of any of this. I'm definitely a bit worse off for it. I never had any real interest in paying for an Xbox Live account so that I could play FPS games that aren't Half-Life against pubescent cholesterol demons from the midwest, but it would've been nice to yell at my friends playing some PS3 game or something.

[Wang Mandu]

If any PC guys are going to get the new Hitman, use this 35% off code: GMG35-FGR37-COY0B here

They give you a Steam key just before or on release day.

[guardianoftheblind]

man, the more i see of far cry 3 the more i love it, but the same thing happened before 2 came out and that game was an unbearable mess.

[guardianoftheblind]

also;

http://techland.time.com/2012/11/15/all ... -the-best/

EDIT: each game has a voting option for whether or not it should be on the list. pretty fun going through the whole thing

[The Schwartz]

fuck off man

Far Cry looks so fucking good though

[Wang Mandu]

man, the more i see of far cry 3 the more i love it, but the same thing happened before 2 came out and that game was an unbearable mess.

They're saying all the right things like guard posts can be permanently taken over and will benefit the player...kind of like unlocking a safe zone or maybe a merchant moving into that area or something. No malaria!

[guardianoftheblind]

one of the major problems with 2 though was it's awful gunplay. it wasn't really apparent in single player, but jesus christ, go online and you'll know exactly what i'm talking about. whata fucking joke.

which sucked because on paper the game was stunning

[riley-o]

On the other hand if you are playing any multiplayer type games, the online will likely have dried up, which definitely sucks.

I've never been a part of any of this. I'm definitely a bit worse off for it. I never had any real interest in paying for an Xbox Live account so that I could play FPS games that aren't Half-Life against pubescent cholesterol demons from the midwest, but it would've been nice to yell at my friends playing some PS3 game or something.

That's exactly what I use it for. Playing Borderlands 2 with my brother and pals from here and from IRL was fucking awesome and a pretty big part of social life in my circles as totally unsurprising as that may be. It's cool to just talk shit with friends and shoot things and not have to leave my place to do so.

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[guardianoftheblind]

HEY I KNOW THAT PICTURE

[fallbacktostone]

HEY I KNOW THAT FEEL

[The Schwartz]

that's why I'm always at home playing video games

[riley-o]

also;

http://techland.time.com/2012/11/15/all ... -the-best/

EDIT: each game has a voting option for whether or not it should be on the list. pretty fun going through the whole thing

Should Leisure Suit Larry be on the list?
Definitely 50.53%
No Way 49.47%

Fuck I hate elitist video game nerds

[Wang Mandu]

These top whatever lists always suck but the 2000s and beyond list has some awful choices. ME3 but no Baldur's Gate II or Planescape: Torment? Splinter Cell over Chaos Theory? Gears of War but no Resident Evil 4? No Ocarina of Time? Angry Birds? Come on man...

[riley-o]

I expect to be mad at the list, but fully half of voters think Leisure Suit Larry isn't a cornerstone in gaming ?!

[Wang Mandu]

I hope I never meet anyone who's above Leisure Suit Larry.

[guardianoftheblind]

i've made a list of ps2 games i wanna get to start a collection.

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Okami
Agent Under Fire
Max Payne
Colin McRae 3
Manhunt
Odin Sphere
Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow
Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory
Star War: Battlefront II
Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance
Twisted Metal Black
Gitaroo-Man
Suikoden III
Dragon Quest VIII
God of War
God of War II
PoP: Sands of Time
Gran Turismo 4
SotC

what else do i add? oh and there's a bunch of titles i didn't add because i've played them 1000 times over

[Krieg]

I gave up when I saw 85% thought Nethack should not be in the list.

[james]

what else do i add? oh and there's a bunch of titles i didn't add because i've played them 1000 times over

indispensable:

http://vsrecommendedgames.wikia.com/wiki/PlayStation_2

[The Bill]

GODDamnit! Where the fuck is the artist's studio in the Golden Cat level? I've search everywhere & I can't find it & it's pissing me off. Don't care if its in a half head right in front of you you're stupid and you have a smelly butt with AIDS and you're gay with AiDS and I have AIDs but one if you NEED to tell me.

[The Bill]

With that being said I want go back in time and write and aides vs A.I.D.S. style "whose on first" that I think only Laurel & Hardy could deliver.