emwearz wrote:Thoughts on the Game(s) Half Life: Source, awhile ago I picked up HL on the PS2 for $5 and decided as I have never played it the whole way through I would try it on the PS2, the game is just garbage, the controls are shocking, even with a keyboard and mouse it was still shit, and I thought if I am using a Keyboard and mouse all ready I might as well swap over to the PC version, which I did, using the "Half-Life Source Enhanced" patch the game looks really good.
My biggest complaints about the game are 80% of it is indoors and how floaty it feels fighting the final boss was a pain in the ass.
I have finished HL2 and ep1 before, but I feel like playing them again before playing ep2, I might have to borrow The Orange Box on Xbox360 and play them through on that.
Good to know - Half Life is in my backlog, but I just never get into it when I give it a go. I have the original PC release and also have the PS2 version, so I thought the PS2 version might be better since it had updated visuals and some new co-op gameplay, but I also found it to have poor controls. I'll have to try the "Source Enhanced" mod, as I'd like to play the original before playing Half Life 2.
1. Lego Indiana Jones 2 (360) - 1000/1000 2. Star Wars The Force Unleashed II (360) - 1200/1200 3. Afterburner Climax (XBLA) - 200/200 4. Sonic & Sega All Stars Racing (360) - 1000/1000 5. Bully Scholarship Edition (360) - 1000/1000 6. Conan (360) - 1000/1000 7. Aegis Wing (XBLA) - 200/200 8. Harm's Way (XBLA) - 200/200 9. Lego Batman (360) - 1000/1000 10. Galaga (XBLA) - 200/200 11. Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix (XBLA) - 200/200
I finished all of the achievements in Galaga, but I didn't "beat" it in that I didn't make it to the 255th stage (after that the game loops back to level 1). I'm a decent player, but I know darn well that I'm not skilled enough to get that far anytime soon, so in this case I'm going to call the game completed as is. Galaga is a fun classic that almost everyone has experienced at some point, so I'm not going to go into much detail about it.
On SSFIITHD I beat the game with all players on default settings, beat Akuma, and did a lot of online matches, so I feel that I got the entire experience that the game had to offer. I was a teenager of the mid 90s, so Street Fighter was a big part of my youth. It's a game I always like to go back to, and I'm sure I'll continue playing this (along with all my other versions) no matter how many times I beat it. I know this - I used to think I was great at Street Fighter because I was better than all of my friends and could hold my own in arcades back in the day, but the online scene has been nothing but humbling, especially where SFIV is concerned. Some of those players are just phenomenal, and it shows me just how average I am at the game. Oh well - Street Fighter is always fun for me, even when someone is just beating the bejeezus out of me online. Since I don't rage quit, half the time online play is just an exercise in taking punishment gracefully.
Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin on NDS. I finished it and restarted immediately on Game+ in order to do all the quests as well. I couldn't do it on the first playthrough since I sold the Long Sword which I needed for one of the quests. After that it will be time to replay Aria and Dawn of Sorrow. After that Symphony of the Night once again...
emwearz wrote:Thoughts on the Game(s) Half Life: Source, awhile ago I picked up HL on the PS2 for $5 and decided as I have never played it the whole way through I would try it on the PS2, the game is just garbage, the controls are shocking, even with a keyboard and mouse it was still shit, and I thought if I am using a Keyboard and mouse all ready I might as well swap over to the PC version, which I did, using the "Half-Life Source Enhanced" patch the game looks really good.
My biggest complaints about the game are 80% of it is indoors and how floaty it feels fighting the final boss was a pain in the ass.
I have finished HL2 and ep1 before, but I feel like playing them again before playing ep2, I might have to borrow The Orange Box on Xbox360 and play them through on that.
Good to know - Half Life is in my backlog, but I just never get into it when I give it a go. I have the original PC release and also have the PS2 version, so I thought the PS2 version might be better since it had updated visuals and some new co-op gameplay, but I also found it to have poor controls. I'll have to try the "Source Enhanced" mod, as I'd like to play the original before playing Half Life 2.
I heard somewhere that the Dreamcast version of Half-Life, which was never officially released (only a a damn-near finished copy, which is also used to port Counter-Strike, Blue Shift and a few other HL mods), actually has better graphics than the PS2 port, when both compared to the PC version.
emwearz wrote:Thoughts on the Game(s) Half Life: Source, awhile ago I picked up HL on the PS2 for $5 and decided as I have never played it the whole way through I would try it on the PS2, the game is just garbage, the controls are shocking, even with a keyboard and mouse it was still shit, and I thought if I am using a Keyboard and mouse all ready I might as well swap over to the PC version, which I did, using the "Half-Life Source Enhanced" patch the game looks really good.
My biggest complaints about the game are 80% of it is indoors and how floaty it feels fighting the final boss was a pain in the ass.
I have finished HL2 and ep1 before, but I feel like playing them again before playing ep2, I might have to borrow The Orange Box on Xbox360 and play them through on that.
Good to know - Half Life is in my backlog, but I just never get into it when I give it a go. I have the original PC release and also have the PS2 version, so I thought the PS2 version might be better since it had updated visuals and some new co-op gameplay, but I also found it to have poor controls. I'll have to try the "Source Enhanced" mod, as I'd like to play the original before playing Half Life 2.
I heard somewhere that the Dreamcast version of Half-Life, which was never officially released (only a a damn-near finished copy, which is also used to port Counter-Strike, Blue Shift and a few other HL mods), actually has better graphics than the PS2 port, when both compared to the PC version.
It looks good on the Dreamcast, however the combination of load times and the fact there is only a left analog stick, makes playing the game unbearable for me.
Blue Shift was actually originally for the Dreamcast only (the same way Half-Life: Decay was for the PS2 only) however when the DC version was cancelled they ported it to the PC.
Trax for Gameboy Super Mario RPG for SNES Ikaruga for Gamecube Mercs for PSP A Space Shooter for Two Bucks! for PSP Psychonauts for PS2 Firemen for SFC Crash Bandicoot for PS1 Outrun SP for PSP Raiden II for PS1 Kirby's Adventure for NES After Burner: Black Falcon for PSP Yoshi's Story for N64 Metroid Fusion for GBA *new* I loved it. I had never played this one before but now I understand why people compared Other M to this one. It had all of the ingredients of a great Metroid game and controlled better than Super Metroid. From what I understand Zero Mission is even better which is exciting to say the least.
"There are two ways to get enough. One way is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less." G.K. Chesterton
noiseredux wrote:I think Fusion is one of the absolute BEST Metroids out there.
i need to pick this up. i love the metroid series, besides the gamecube ones. and i couldn't really get into II on the game boy. okay, maybe i don't LOVE the metroid series, but i have always heard good things about this one.
noiseredux wrote:I think Fusion is one of the absolute BEST Metroids out there.
i need to pick this up. i love the metroid series, besides the gamecube ones. and i couldn't really get into II on the game boy. okay, maybe i don't LOVE the metroid series, but i have always heard good things about this one.
haha.
I like Metroid II a lot, but that's because I got it when it came out and it just seemed so epic to me then. But yeah, I hate the Prime series personally. Fusion blew my mind though. Great stuff. Great.
