It's my understanding that Silent Hill 4 wasn't originally planned to be an SH game and that Konami tacked the franchise on to sell it better. (This could be completely wrong, but that's what I was told by a semi-rabid fan of the series.)

I'm currently replaying the first SH in preparation for going through two and three for the first time. (I broke down and bought them off of ebay.)

I thought everyone loved the second one most of all?


Also Katamari Damacy has been mentioned, but I want to throw in my support for it. More specifically, for We Katamari!

All the Silent Hill games have been pretty damn good. You just can't beat Pyramid Head. If they make a SH5, it's gonna look so damn fine on a PS3.

On a side note, i've been crying over how bad suikoden 5 is and how it will never measure up to the second game.

I'm looking forward to Resi 5 as well.

satyreyes wrote:

Both major Katamari games.  Neverwinter Nights.  Final Fantasy, particularly 6 and 10.  (I also liked X-2, making me one of the few people in the world who can say this.)

X-2 fans unite! And I like the dress spheres. xD We are indeed a minority.

A Sony girl right here (and has recently stumbled into trouble for her ultimate plan to acheive the PS3 but, that's another story). I like my roleplays which obviously includes Final Fantasy (8 is my favorite) but Xenosaga, Star Ocean, and various others sit in that genre. I'm an avid horror fanatic. I've played Silent Hill, Clock Tower (my personal favorite horror series), Haunting Ground, Rule of Rose, Siren, Fatal Frame, etc. Yet, I also enjoy unique games like Indigo Prophecy and the likes.

Recently, I've been into PC games which is completely unlike me (the only time I ever attempted to play on the computer was with Final Fantasy 11). Only beginning around this week have I jumped onto the Sims band-wagon (sadly); I always played it on console; however, it was never as... controlling of my life.

It's all about Tetris and Puzzle Fighter. Give me a puzzle game and I will be amused for hours on end.

Sanguine_Rose wrote:

All the Silent Hill games have been pretty damn good. You just can't beat Pyramid Head. If they make a SH5, it's gonna look so damn fine on a PS3.

On a side note, i've been crying over how bad suikoden 5 is and how it will never measure up to the second game.

I'm looking forward to Resi 5 as well.

Suikoden II, yes!
I was lucky to find a copy of it a few years back (it's incredibly hard to find Suikoden games in Australia), and fell in love with it. I've probably played through three or four times, and always enjoy it.
I'm rather disappointed to hear that 5 isn't any good, though

Other than Suikoden,
Onimusha series (awful story, but fun fighting system, and Takeshi Kaneshiro )
Final Fantasy series (especially V, VI and X... but not X-2)
Soul Calibur 3
Metal Gear Solid
Kingdom Hearts
A bunch of old, semi-obscure PS1 RPG titles

Unfortunately, university takes up too much time and I don't get to play so many games anymore, so I'm kind of out of the loop on new releases.

Suikoden II, yes!
I was lucky to find a copy of it a few years back (it's incredibly hard to find Suikoden games in Australia), and fell in love with it. I've probably played through three or four times, and always enjoy it.
I'm rather disappointed to hear that 5 isn't any good, though

Thank you! a Suikoden 2 fan!!! I think i wouldn't have been as disappointed about 5 if they hadn't hyped it up as 'THE SUCESSOR TO SUIKODEN 2' (which it wasn't).

Yeah the Thief games are so addictive. Love Garret's cheezy voice and shooting people in the back with broadhead arrows.

Can't believe they didn't release Katamari Damacy in the UK...

I totally love playing the Sakura Taisen series, which is about as obscure as you get over in Limey country.

I'm glad Kanashimi mentioned Haunting Ground which is a really damn good game. Rule of Rose hasn't come out yet here but i'm dying to play it.

Holy crap, adding to the Suikoden 2 love. Oh, Shu. I wish I hadn't sold my copy. (Or my copy of Final Fantasy Tactics, crap.)

I burned so so soooo many hours on Suikoden 2, and I never did get all the people. I loved the way they started with the maniac violent villain and went over to the cool manipulative one. (I loved the burning town where Luca was like BEG, SQUEAL LIKE A PIG AND YOU'LL LIVE so the villager does this and he kills them anyway. What a maniac. )

ah, Luca Blight. I love any man who's that insane. He could make me squeal like a pig anyday~

I'm a bit sad that in MGS4, Snake dies. Why would a man that fine shoot himself? He has a porno 'tache too...

Sanguine_Rose wrote:

I'm a bit sad that in MGS4, Snake dies. Why would a man that fine shoot himself? He has a porno 'tache too...

Even old he's hot, I don't understand how Snake can pull it off.

Ragnarok wrote:

Spoilers for a game that's not even out yet?

The trailers pretty much speak for themselves on whether or not he dies. You can find one of them here: http://youtube.com/watch?v=OgY_04bBXS0

I could spend hours designing characters after third world despots in SC3, but other than that I abandoned gaming after the dreamcast tanked.

Oh yeah, and I play Maple Story sometimes when I think I'm feeling too happy with humanity.

lol wut

My current gaming obsession is The Sims 2... I somehow managed to find a way to make my Utena obsession and The Sims obession come together as one by creating Utena sims of... Just about every single character. (Utena, Anthy, Juri, Shiori (of course,) Akio, Touga, Saionji, Miki, Nanami, Kozue, Wakaba, Kanae, Keiko, and Ruka.) I've put more hours than I can count into making them. I put 30 hours of failed attempts alone into Juri's hair before I managed to get it just right, and so by the time I finished I was about ready to kill her in sheer frustration. (Don't worry, I didn't.)

Anyone who has played any of The Sims games knows that the player is decides whether their sims live happily ever after, or suffer a fate worse than death shortly followed by death. So what's it like to have that kind of control over the lives of the character from Utena...?

Very, very fun.

I have a million stories about all the crazy things my Utena sims have done. Like the time Akio caught Anthy and Utena together on a date and decided to steal their newspaper for a week. (Actually, that happens a lot. Anthy and Utena can't keep their hands off each other for more than five minutes.) Or the time when Juri set the house on fire last week, scaring me half to death with the idea of seeing Shiori die. (Fires happen a lot... I swear, Kozue sets fires just to piss me off. And the very first thing that happened when I created Touga, Saionji, and Wakaba was that Touga set the house on fire, and Wakaba and Saionji were killed.) And just the other day, either caused by a glitch or something in the new expansion pack, Nanami and Juri started making out, despite having no history together, and they weren't even in love, just to piss Shiori off. (Fine! I hope they'll be very happy together! D:<)

Maybe I'll make a thread about my Utena sims when I get the chance. But there are so many stories that I can't possibly keep it a reasonable length. Oh, and I'll probably publish these sims so that other people can use them some time soon... But for now there are a few that are already made on thesims2.com.