Haven't started...hoping to plow through Fri-Sun if possible...working on Forza Horizon 2 this week first.Stark wrote:How are you liking Mordor? Been seeing nothing but positive reviews.dsheinem wrote:If I can get it squeezed in between Mordor and DA:I I plan to play TWD finally too...
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52. Borderlands 2 - Digistruct Peak Challenge (PC)(FPS/RPG)
53. Street Racer (SNES)(Racing)
54. The Combatribes (SNES)(Beat 'Em Up)
The Combatribes is an old school brawler in which your choice of one of three titans(seriously, the shortest is 6'9") beat the tar out of various gangs throughout New York in a bid to take down a criminal organization called Ground Zero. It's one part Warriors and one part September 11(seriously, repeated shots of the World Trade Center, a gang named Ground Zero...this proves Bush did it). The gangs are named crap like the Motorcycle Nuclear Warheads or some such nonsense, but there are some things I genuinely like about the game that make it challenging.
First, there is no jump button in the beat 'em up mode. One of the three characters, the fastest, named Blitz, has a running jump kick, but that's it. So moving around the battlefield must be deliberate, as there are no quick escapes. Second, the game always starts each level with you at full health, and you can take a huge beating, especially if you play Bullova, the heaviest hitter. But you always begin the stage surrounded. So you have to pummel your way through hordes of fellas until the boss appears.
But that is where the game gets fun. You play a muscular giant, and your attacks act accordingly. The Combatribes features a reasonably elaborate set of throws and ground pounds. You can grab guys and chuck them at each other, grab a guy behind you and smash his head into the guy you're wailing on, jump on guys that you have knocked to the floor, bash their skulls into the pavement repeatedly with your bare hands, grab them by their ankles and swing them around as a weapon, etc...the list is pretty impressive for a game that came out in arcades about six months after Final Fight.
Of course it looks goofy and oozes late '80s early '90s "cool," so the main hero has a mullet, the story is ridiculous, and there is a racist caricature of a Native American as a boss(though there is also a boss who is a punk rocker wielding a sledgehammer...that is cool), but the final boss is a woman! And she will kick your butt! She's really a killer cyborg, sure, but still...that lady beats the tar outta dudes twice her size.
Eh, I enjoyed it. And there is a two-player battle mode which allows you to unlock enemies from the game by inputting passwords you get by playing through the beat 'em up, so that's pretty cool. It's not one of the best beat 'em ups on the SNES, but it's a lot better than I was expecting, and I found myself having a lot of fun.
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A couple of days ago beat the arcade version of Gaiapolis, a beat-em-up from Konami based on the same hardware as Mystic Warriors (coincidentally I've recently played another game built on the same hardware called Metamorphic Force). Unlike most beat-em-up titles it uses a vertical screen instead of the standard horizontal.
I've been playing it on my Ouya (via MAME4Droid), but the graphics are kinda screwed up in places.
I've been playing it on my Ouya (via MAME4Droid), but the graphics are kinda screwed up in places.
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I made the mistake of beating Arkham City. Now I have to wait 6 months or so until Arkham Knight comes out.
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Since IDK if I've said this already but some time ago I also beat Klonoa for the Wii, but haven't played any of the bonus stuff yet. But I did get all those little villagers.
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You could always play Arkham Origins, if you already haven't. It's really not as bad as people make out.MrPopo wrote:I made the mistake of beating Arkham City. Now I have to wait 6 months or so until Arkham Knight comes out.
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This^ It is really good with a dark story. I rate it higher than the first, but lower than Arkham City.Sload Soap wrote:You could always play Arkham Origins, if you already haven't. It's really not as bad as people make out.MrPopo wrote:I made the mistake of beating Arkham City. Now I have to wait 6 months or so until Arkham Knight comes out.
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Asylum > City > Origins is the only correct answer.emwearz wrote: This^ It is really good with a dark story. I rate it higher than the first, but lower than Arkham City.
I kid. Origins isn't bad by any means but it doesn't really add on to city in any meaningful way. The story is really good though and the game sold itself to me the second I fought Deathstroke. Still have yet to beat it though.
Mordor didn't really grab me at first but once you unlock a few things and get a feel for how the Nemesis system works (they don't let you really exploit it till maybe two hours in) the game really shines. Lots of replay value there. It also plays a bit like Arkham City meets Assassin's Creed in all the right ways.Stark wrote:How are you liking Mordor? Been seeing nothing but positive reviews.dsheinem wrote:If I can get it squeezed in between Mordor and DA:I I plan to play TWD finally too...
Also if you're familiar at all with LOTR, and even if you're not, having wraith powers is just freaking cool.
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This. I honestly felt like Mordor was going to be one of the biggest let downs this year and I am very happy to be wrong. The game is one of the few games that I feel were genuinely, "next-gen," with the dynamic style of play. Very happy this one got made and they did all the things right they should have by trying to really separate themselves from the Lord of the Rings to make their own identity and it worked.RyaNtheSlayA wrote:
Mordor didn't really grab me at first but once you unlock a few things and get a feel for how the Nemesis system works (they don't let you really exploit it till maybe two hours in) the game really shines. Lots of replay value there. It also plays a bit like Arkham City meets Assassin's Creed in all the right ways.
Also if you're familiar at all with LOTR, and even if you're not, having wraith powers is just freaking cool.
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I'm something of a Tolkien fanatic (of J.R.R. and Christopher's books, not as much of the films - though I like them just fine), but I have really never found a LOTR game I enjoyed. I have low expectations for Mordor, but also wouldn't be shocked to find out I really enjoy it.
Hopefully I can dig in this weekend...
Ryan, do you have an Xbox One? I feel like you'd love FH2.
Hopefully I can dig in this weekend...
Ryan, do you have an Xbox One? I feel like you'd love FH2.