What Made you Smile/What Ticked you off Today?

[gtmtnbiker]

: That DSi XL I snagged off Ebay came today. Turns out, the guy who was selling it made it out to be in much worse condition than it really was, it's great. I love the DSi's extra features.

Glad you're liking it. You should get yourself some points and buy some DSiware. I bought quite a few games that I have enjoyed and gotten my money's worth from.

[BoringSupreez]

: That DSi XL I snagged off Ebay came today. Turns out, the guy who was selling it made it out to be in much worse condition than it really was, it's great. I love the DSi's extra features.

Glad you're liking it. You should get yourself some points and buy some DSiware. I bought quite a few games that I have enjoyed and gotten my money's worth from.

What do you recommend? I don't know of any good DSi games except Rayman. I plan to get the Bit Trip collection, so I won't be buying those.

[alienjesus]

: That DSi XL I snagged off Ebay came today. Turns out, the guy who was selling it made it out to be in much worse condition than it really was, it's great. I love the DSi's extra features.

Glad you're liking it. You should get yourself some points and buy some DSiware. I bought quite a few games that I have enjoyed and gotten my money's worth from.

What do you recommend? I don't know of any good DSi games except Rayman. I plan to get the Bit Trip collection, so I won't be buying those.

I highly recommend the entire art style series and X-Scape. there are plenty of other decent ones too. You can see what I thought of the DSWare I have on my backloggery here: http://www.backloggery.com/games.php?us ... nsole=DSiW

[Croooow!]

Ticked: bought Lumines off of eBay and the case is in horrible shape. I double checked the pictures and the lighting must have been just right to hide it.

Smiled: also bought a sealed PS2 Mega Man X Collection from a seller who had 10 for ~$13. I thought it might be a laminate job when I bought it but it arrived and definitley is brand new

[CFFJR]

There's been a handful of argumentative and insulting topics lately.

This shit seems to go in cycles.

[alienjesus]

Smile: After months of applying, I finally got an interview with a media company for next week. I'm unlikely to get it, but it's worth a shot and it's nice to finally get some sort of response (it was getting to the point where even rejections were heartening because it meant someone had bothered to acknowledge my application). I also have a temporary warehouse job lined up if that doesn't work out, so at least I'd have money coming in.

Ticked: Gotta practice up on Visual Basic ready for my interview, haven't used it in 3 years or so. Hope it's like riding a bike and you never forget

[Flake]

Smile: Good day at work and got a Fitocracy invite. It looks like fun!

Frown: Tried to play Metal Gear Solid 4 today. I gave it a scathing review when I tried it a year ago - I hoped that maybe I'd have a different opinion of it this time around. I'm thirty minutes in and that's enough. I still hate this game. I wish I didn't. I love the rest of the series so much.

[brunoafh]

Frown: Tried to play Metal Gear Solid 4 today. I gave it a scathing review when I tried it a year ago - I hoped that maybe I'd have a different opinion of it this time around. I'm thirty minutes in and that's enough. I still hate this game. I wish I didn't. I love the rest of the series so much.

Explain further?

I'm sure you'll have the same complaints most players do, and I fully understand and agree with them, but it just seems to me that most MGS fans would just roll with the negatives, and just enjoy the over-the-top grand finale we got, and appreciate the artistic value the game provided. If you crunch the numbers, the elongated cinematic sections aren't really that much more distracting than what we're already used to in comparison to the gameplay depth/replayability, which was on a completely different level.

To me, MGS 4 bridged the gap between a "movie game" and "game game", which is damn remarkable, and hasn't been done that well again (hopefully someone gets that).

[Flake]

Explain further?

I'll give you my top three issues - if I were to go into complete details I'd have more posts than Noise.

Firstly - I want to play the damn game. Ignoring the mandatory first time install, just starting a new game you have to wait nearly 5 minutes before you get to do anything. And then all you get to do is walk for 10 feet before a cutscene begins. And then you get another 5 feet before the next cut scene.

We are talking 30 minutes before you get to interact with the game in any meaningful way. Even if you skip the cut scenes it leaves the game a disjointed mess.

Second - The story is stupid. I can suspend my disbelief pretty far but at some point there has to be some logical tether to keep me connected to what is going on in the game. MGS4 is a hodgepodge of pseudo-intellectual half-thoughts about trans-humanism, globalization, the military industrial complex, and genetics. The result is a plot that is schizophrenic at best and down right insulting if you have ANY knowledge of any of the above topics. I don't understand how the same premise and plot devices could be used so well in MGS, MGS2, MGS3, and Peace Walker but it was so bungled here.

Lastly - The game is designed so linearly. MGS and MGS2 left me with the perception that I had more freedom than this game does, and that is inexcusable as they were set in the interiors of sterile buildings for the most part. MGS4 is gorgeous but I can only have so many conveniently placed dumpsters or random pieces of rubble that somehow form the perfect bridge to where I am obviously supposed to go before I start to yawn. I understand this was done to compliment the PS3's ability to crunch numbers and produce interesting combat scenarios around you but it came off as terribly forced. I hate when a game is compromised to accommodate a game mechanic that isn't really necessary.

Like I said, I could go on. These aren't the words of a hater, either. I wanted to like this game the first time. I wanted to like it tonight. It's just not meant to be.

[BoringSupreez]

There's been a handful of argumentative and insulting topics lately.

This shit seems to go in cycles.

I remember that back in '09, there were a lot of people saying the forums were trash lately, after that Game Informer atricle; so I guess it does come and go.