My Blog: 366 Games To Play Before You Die

[BoneSnapDeez]

Final Fantasy VI never gets old. My favorite game ever.

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DOA5's story mode is great.

But for arcade playing... it's all about 2.

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DOA5's story mode is great.

But for arcade playing... it's all about 2.

Playing DOA5 now (or was, rather. I just turned it off). I agree the story mode is fun. I still haven't completed it, it seems to have a decent length to it.

You know what I dislike? The counter system. Did they change it in 4 or was it changed in 5? Why over complicate it? I know people abused it in 2 (and to a lesser extent, 3), but it didn't really matter because both players could abuse it.

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What do you all make of The Last of Us?

#47 The Last of Us - https://366gamestoplay.wordpress.com/20 ... ast-of-us/

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#48 Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic - https://366gamestoplay.wordpress.com/20 ... -republic/

[touchofkiel]

I'm not even gaga over anything with the SW name on it, but damn, KOTOR is a classic I'd like to revisit. I have a PC copy, but no controller support... bleh. Trying to play games with KB/M reminds me of my young nephew, who would hold the PS3 controller upside down... it's just not for me (though I intend on exploring the slower CRPGs eventually... surely I can handle those). So I'm definitely intending to pick up a copy of the original XB release the next time I visit the US.. you know, along with a 360 and so many RPGs I've been missing out on. (Which is a strange thing to say about the 360, but it had plenty of exclusives)

I just got around to reading your Shenmue review. I adore that series, nice reviews. I just ordered a Japanese Dreamcast, and I'm thinking my next purchase will be a copy of "US Shenmue" - literally the English version, subs and dubs and menus, re-packaged for JPM audiences. It's a bit rare, but I figure it's better than waiting til my next vacation and trying to hunt down a US console with cables and controller and VMU and a US copy of the game, with all 4 discs and CiB.

And thanks to you, I had started playing Battlefront again... but I finally hit rank 50 and now I have to call it quits. I'm enough of a sucker that I might even buy the DLC... except even though I'm using my US PSN with a US copy of the game... the servers still seem to match me with local Japanese players. As you can imagine, there are a lot less playing this game! So I'd be worried about being able to find a game regularly by the time the DLC rolls out. And besides, screw EA and their money-grubbin ways.

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I used to think the same as you about keyboard/mouse until I decided to play Dragon Age Origins (also a Bioware game). The keyboard/mouse controls felt so natural, that by the time I was done playing it (~30 hrs) I found myself choosing kb/m for pretty much any PC game in 3D.

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The keyboard and mouse controls are great in KOTOR. I used to dislike keyboard and mouse controls, even with FPSs. Then eventually, I realised how great they are for FPS games and well, I then realised they can work well for other genres, notably KOTOR.

I played KOTOR on the Xbox when the game was first released. It was really buggy, although never massively game breaking. Eventually I bought the PC version, which is better, as expected.

Last year I bought the Android version and I'm shocked at how great the game is on a tablet. I'm only about 30 or 40% through, but so far it seems to be identical to the PC game.

Regarding Battlefront, I've played a ton of the game over the last week. I'm sorry, but the game really is awesome. I'm glad I managed to get you into it and yep, I'm going to be a sucker for the DLC too

[touchofkiel]

I used to think the same as you about keyboard/mouse until I decided to play Dragon Age Origins (also a Bioware game). The keyboard/mouse controls felt so natural, that by the time I was done playing it (~30 hrs) I found myself choosing kb/m for pretty much any PC game in 3D.

I think the PC version has the advantage because the console (or PS3, at least) port is really shoddy. Stuttering, long-loading, low FPS mess of a game. I loved it so much I stuck with it, but still... the same thing happened with the ME trilogy. Bioware had some major trouble with the PS3, it would seem. And didn't the PC version have a more traditional isometric camera option? I can see how that would be more natural, but KOTOR doesn't have that, and I thought it felt natural enough with a controller back in the day.

I think the only games, really, I have any extensive kb/m experience with are The Sims, Marvel Heroes, and League of Legends. Really.

Regarding Battlefront, I've played a ton of the game over the last week. I'm sorry, but the game really is awesome. I'm glad I managed to get you into it and yep, I'm going to be a sucker for the DLC too

Hmm, "awesome" is not the word I would use. I think it could be great fun, but the game has severe balancing issues (not to mention the damn spawn placements) so the fun was really inconsistent. Or maybe it's just my style of play... I found I could own pretty much anything in a rebel ship - easily racking up the highest score in a game on Supremacy. But then we'd switch sides, and I'd be smack in the middle of the list. It's basically a Battlefield game, so it makes sense that the vehicles are the most fun to play. But they're really not balanced well.

But I can't complain. I feel now I got my money's worth and I can move on to better things.

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Eh, can't argue with you there. Awesome is perhaps being too kind. As you just said and I have said before too, there are balancing issues, inconsistencies and the respawn points can be borderline ridiculous (I respawn slap bang in the middle of enemy fire between the two teams once and instantly died).

But then when it's good... God damn is it good. It's just a lot of fun in my opinion and the whole game just oozes Star Wars-ness.