What are you playing?

[Luke]

Crash Team Racing and Crash Nitro Cart. Fun stuff.

[Xeogred]

Super Mario Galaxy 2.

It's been growing on me. I loved the first one, but these bigger open kind of adventure games sometimes take me awhile to slug through. I think with this game however, you can kind of see them going in the direction 3D World went. It's a bit more spaced out with the levels (less stars per place) and the unique mechanics per level are all over the place, and awesome at that. It's just awesome to go in each level wondering what crazy idea is next. Some bosses are a pain though.

So in a sense it seems a bit simplified compared to the first, which is cool with me. I like my platformers simple.

[Ack]

Super Mario Galaxy 2.

It's been growing on me. I loved the first one, but these bigger open kind of adventure games sometimes take me awhile to slug through. I think with this game however, you can kind of see them going in the direction 3D World went. It's a bit more spaced out with the levels (less stars per place) and the unique mechanics per level are all over the place, and awesome at that. It's just awesome to go in each level wondering what crazy idea is next. Some bosses are a pain though.

So in a sense it seems a bit simplified compared to the first, which is cool with me. I like my platformers simple.

So are you done with horror games for a while, or will you start back up once October rolls around?

[Xeogred]

Super Mario Galaxy 2.

It's been growing on me. I loved the first one, but these bigger open kind of adventure games sometimes take me awhile to slug through. I think with this game however, you can kind of see them going in the direction 3D World went. It's a bit more spaced out with the levels (less stars per place) and the unique mechanics per level are all over the place, and awesome at that. It's just awesome to go in each level wondering what crazy idea is next. Some bosses are a pain though.

So in a sense it seems a bit simplified compared to the first, which is cool with me. I like my platformers simple.

So are you done with horror games for a while, or will you start back up once October rolls around?

Nah, I started up Resident Evil Zero last night, the one I still have never beaten.

I am honestly feeling like I'm ready to replay one of the good Silent Hill's again too. I don't know what came over me! Still unsure about Fatal Frame 3 though.

I try to balance these out with some light hearted stuff haha, what better way than to go with Mario.

So in total what I'm rotating:
- Super Mario Galaxy 2
- Fatal Frame 3 (slow progress)
- Yakuza 3 (slow progress)
- Resident Evil Zero
- Castlevania Lords of Shadow, briefly started it, not sure if I'm hooked or not. Wanted a game to beat things up

[Ack]

I'm thinking I'll sit down with The Haunted Mansion on PS2 soon, and then maybe something like Martian Gothic: Unification, X-Files: Resist or Serve, ObsCure: The Aftermath, or maybe figure out how the hell one plays Galerians: Ash...

[Exhuminator]

Martian Gothic: Unification, ObsCure: The Aftermath

I can tell you from personal experience both of those games are pretty terrible. Why not Haunting Ground or Siren instead? Or even Kuon or Clock Tower 3? You might like this site if you've never seen it.

[Ack]

Martian Gothic: Unification, ObsCure: The Aftermath

I can tell you from personal experience both of those games are pretty terrible. Why not Haunting Ground or Siren instead? Or even Kuon or Clock Tower 3? You might like this site if you've never seen it.

Because I've beaten Kuon and Clock Tower 3, and though I own Siren and Haunting Ground, Siren frustrates the hell out of me, particularly with its babysitting levels, and I actually watched someone else play through Haunting Ground a few years ago. Maybe I'll give it a shot instead.

And it's been a while since I looked at the horror quest...

[Exhuminator]

Well Ack, if you're looking for a great survival horror road less traveled, I suggest this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellnight

I did manage to finish ObsCure: The Aftermath. It's not amazing but it's a lot better than the first game... it's worth a try.

[Ack]

Well Ack, if you're looking for a great survival horror road less traveled, I suggest this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellnight

I did manage to finish ObsCure: The Aftermath. It's not amazing but it's a lot better than the first game... it's worth a try.

Haha, yeah, I know Hellnight. I always wished it had come out over here, like Clocktower: The First Fear and Enemy Zero(I don't count the obscenely limited NTSC-U release of Enemy Zero as a real release. 20 copies for $2000 a pop? That's a load of crap).

I really didn't care for what I played of the first ObsCure, but I would like to finally get through one of those games one day, and I still own a copy of the second, so I figured I would give it a shot. What I played of it made it feel better than some of the other bottom-of-the-barrel types like Run Like Hell, though that isn't saying much.

Do you have any experience with The Suffering series? Were either of those worth checking out?

[Exhuminator]

Do you have any experience with The Suffering series? Were either of those worth checking out?

I played and finished the first The Suffering. I thought it was a lot of fun, very violent gameplay and genuinely creepy at times. Granted these memories are from 2004, I don't know how well it has aged. One last recommendation, Condemned: Criminal Origins is genuinely worth playing, if you haven't yet.