The Collectors Experiment: Are you gamer enough to join in?

[dsheinem]

I am probably going to wait for Snickerdoodle's summer challenge 2011. I assume we'll be doing that again?

[alienjesus]

I would certainly be up for it, and it'd be better timed than this for me. I have a lot of final year uni work to do over the next 2 months

[AmishSamurai]

I'll be clearing my cube log definitely. So two of my three games will in fact be parts of a series.

1. Prince of Persia Sands of Time Trilogy (GCN, three games)
2. Baten Kaitos/Origins (GCN, two games)
3. Tales of Symphonia (GCN, one game)

[(-_-)]

This sounds interesting. I'll probably participate once this semester is over. Also try getting my own website up and start writing some articles about all the crap I've collected/played.

[Curlypaul]

Ok so I picked a game last night - it is GTA San Andreas. I'm probably about 3 hours in and so far its pretty good. I've been trying to stick to the missions rather than messing around because I know you generally need to finish a few missions before more interesting bits of the game open up.

First impressions are generally good - the bike riding was pretty cool and the cars seem to handle pretty well. The overall presentation is cool, although I've already noticed the framerate stuttering and the character models look pretty crude. Also, the police seem to be particularly stupid - at one point when I was being chased by a lone cop I jumped a fence, discovered it was a dead end, turned around and he was just stood there shouting at me - apparently unable to hop over the fence.

This is obviously going to be a long game to finish so I may pick the other 2 games from the pile of SMS games, to give myself half a chance.

[Xtincthed]

hmm...(looks at his collection and saw Super Man 64) ...... sorry i can't do it.

man up and show us what you got! :p

you have no idea what i went through with that game... rings, rings....and another one...it never ends.. m..u...s...t hit eject button.. that pretty much sum it up.

i can probably find a game from my collection. i have tons i haven't played yet..

eject button on your N64? :p

loving the great response to this topic by the way!

[(-_-)]

I decided to start Broken Sword: Sleeping Dragon on xbox. I've never played any real adventure games like this. The closest I can compare it to is some survival horror games from ps1. I found it really odd that the characters talk to themselves so awkwardly and a lot of the tasks are really tedious. The controls get monotonous really quickly as well. I'm enjoying examining the world and learning things though. I feel like I'm actually preparing to go on a great big adventure. I'm about an hour or two in so far.

[kgcarini]

I've actually been doing this since we bought our first house two years ago and will be doing this for the foreseeable future for home consoles since we had our first child three weeks ago. A year before we bought our house I made sure to increase my backlogs dramatically for the wii, ps2 and gamecube while I could still afford it.

On the handheld front, I plan to get a psp or ds within the next two weeks.

The most recent I started last week was was Baten Kaitos: Wings & the Lost Ocean on the gamecube. WOW, I'm about 25 hours into it and am very impressed. The card based rpg gameplay is actually very fun. I have never played a card based rpg before. I'm also blown away by how great the graphics are for a 2003 game. The story has been fun and interesting so far. The pacing is also done very well. I haven't got bored yet. The voice acting is hit or miss (usually miss) depending on the character. Overall, I would say the voice acting is bad. The puzzles are challenging and fun (except for one so far which was annoying).

Has anyone else played this game? Give your impressions!

[weaponepsilon]

I am gamer enough! but...what to choose from 900 titles.....

[Curlypaul]

I'm getting well into San Andreas now, I'm still in Los Santos but I've only a few missions left to do now. I'm starting to get the hang of the controls, and the game is pretty fun. I can see what all the fuss was about with these games now.

The only other GTA3 game that I have played was Bully, and similar to that this game seems to start hard and then get easier as your characters stats improve. Its an odd difficulty curve as obviously most games get harder the further you get.

I've still not picked the other 2 games to play, but I was thinking about The Two Towers for one and maybe Rastan for the other.