Help me spend my MS points

[RadarScope1]

D-toid has a pretty good Omega 5 vid. It does look pretty cool.

http://www.destructoid.com/omega-5-on-x ... 2452.phtml

[ZenLogikos]

IMO, Omega Five looks like nothing more than eye candy. Gameplay looks incredibly shallow. Game is too short, and plays too slow in an attempt to try and cover up that fact. Control method looks ill-conceived. "Rotating" my weapon in a shmup? I'll pass.

I vote for Prince of Persia. Great classic updated very well. Bomberman is great, but I wouldn't get it unless you're Gold. Otherwise, wait for Castlecrashers, SSF2THDR, Shred Nebula, Schizoid, and the awesomely awesome Bionic Commando. I'll see you in any of those games.

[RadarScope1]

Just got Undertow for free. I'll be going gold soon so I'll be looking for some fellow racketboy members to play that and other games with.

I'm getting Rez next week - no doubt about it.

Only thing I've bought since I last posted in this thread is Doom. Man, I love Doom. There are a few games that just "feel" right when you play them and little else matters. Those games are always different for everyone depending on which games you've spent the most time with, but there are a few touchstones that just always feel right no matter how long it's been since you've played them. Super Mario Bros and Mario 3 are on that list, and I think Doom is, too. Playing it with a 360 controller is like cutting butter with a hot knife.

[Gamerforlife]

Just got Undertow for free. I'll be going gold soon so I'll be looking for some fellow racketboy members to play that and other games with.

I'm getting Rez next week - no doubt about it.

Only thing I've bought since I last posted in this thread is Doom. Man, I love Doom. There are a few games that just "feel" right when you play them and little else matters. Those games are always different for everyone depending on which games you've spent the most time with, but there are a few touchstones that just always feel right no matter how long it's been since you've played them. Super Mario Bros and Mario 3 are on that list, and I think Doom is, too. Playing it with a 360 controller is like cutting butter with a hot knife.

I think a lot of Nintendo games fall into that category, like the Punch Out games and the Starfox titles. Sadly, Mario lost that in the transition to 3-d. Mario 64 never feels right to me, but the older ones do

[ZenLogikos]

Just got Undertow for free. I'll be going gold soon so I'll be looking for some fellow racketboy members to play that and other games with.

I'm getting Rez next week - no doubt about it.

Only thing I've bought since I last posted in this thread is Doom. Man, I love Doom. There are a few games that just "feel" right when you play them and little else matters. Those games are always different for everyone depending on which games you've spent the most time with, but there are a few touchstones that just always feel right no matter how long it's been since you've played them. Super Mario Bros and Mario 3 are on that list, and I think Doom is, too. Playing it with a 360 controller is like cutting butter with a hot knife.

I'm up for Undertow.

Rez - one of my many sealed ps2 games that I haven't gotten to yet. I probably should get it for XBLA...then I might actually play it.

And while I am a huge Doom fan (still have the original mail-order only small box and 3.5" disks), and did originally play it with a gamepad, I've long moved on to keyboard+mouse. I just don't think it would feel right anymore, despite Doom not having the ability to look up/down.

EDIT: Just youtubed some Doom XBLA action, and as I thought, without the ability to look around I feel like I'm in a straight-jacket.

[RadarScope1]

It's funny, but I don't much miss looking up and down. It does happen on occasion -- like when you're standing on a ledge or something. But the game's not designed for it so to me it's not a huge deal.

I realized on playing through it again in 2008 that Doom is really just an arcade game in the purest sense. That's ironic to me because it really popularized the PC FPS genre, and that genre today is very much what we would classify as "hard core" gaming.

But Doom just feels like a big, dumb, twitchy blast-fest now. I just turn it on after coming home from work and blow the shit out of some demon assholes without much thought going into it. It's relaxing actually!

[Bev]

Otherwise, wait for Castlecrashers

I was thinking this too - but there hasn't been many updates, so it's impossible to know how long you'd be waiting.

Anyway, I would say TMNT for the co-op.

[ZenLogikos]

Castlecrashers section is up at the xbox.com forums now, and the dev posted that the game should be out within the next four months.