BioKraze wrote:

PLAYING RED AND BLUE POKEMON

I got Pokemon Gold myself on my old Gameboy Colour and thanks to the replicating glitch that I exploit, I been about to start with all three starter pokemon, have as many items and TMs as I want and I can rechallange a Gym leader as many times as I want with an increasingly stronger Pokemon to build it up faster.

I can choose any mix I want from a number of high level Pokemon I have built up.

lvl 87 Electrobuzz, Ursarling 84, lvl 76 Typhlosion, lvl 71 Sudowoodo, lvl 70 Octillery, lvl 65 Primeape plus about a dozen or so other Pokemon over lvl 50

There was Missingono and Mysteryno. One was level 0, and the other was level 120. If you caught them, they knew "Sky Attack," "Sky Attack," and "Water Gun." Their icon looked like an old man, and eventually they turn into a Nidoking. If you beat the Pokemon league with them in your party, when it showed you all of the Pokemon in your party, the game would become all glitchy and play weird noises.

I caught the level 0 one and it destroyed my game.

Frosty wrote:

Me, I just bought Okami from Game Stop. Anyone played this yet? It got really good reviews. I'll tell you guys what I think in a few days!

Oh, man.  This game is so pretty.  The game mechanics (by this I mean the Celestial Brush techniques) are so innovative and fun.  My only complaint is that the singsong babble which serves as the characters' speaking voices gets a little annoying at times.  I admit, I haven't gotten very far in it, due to the one-two punch of a rough semester and the release of Final Fantasy XII, but it's a worthwhile game for sure.

Okami is quite addicting! I agree that the way they recorded the voices (is that normal voice played backwards or just total electronically synthesized play?) is annoying. The mere fact that you can press a button, freeze the screen, and draw something which CHANGES the actual world you are playing in is divine. It's giving you partial creators license. Hard to see the details within the battles though, I just press the appropriate buttons and wait for a grave to pop up.

I'll finish Okami in a few days, and then I'm going to conquer Clocktower 3. I bought that, because someone mentioned it in the "Rule of Rose" thread as being similar. I thought it was another game about a girl and her big fluffy white dog that helped lead her around a creaky castle. As you all know, I was mistaken and Clock Tower is a game where you're chased by serial killers as you travel through time. After I finally beat Clock Tower, I do want to find the game that I wanted in the first place...the girl, and the white dog, stuck in a haunted castle together. A horror survival game like RoR. Anybody have a clue as to what that game is called?

So I finally booted up my PS2 today after an extended break, and accomplished the following...

Shadow of the Colossus - got myself un-lost after taking Aro on a joyride after defeating the first Colossus.  Now I'm back at the main shrine and ready to finally go after the second Colossus which I had already located, but felt like exploring the land a little more first.

Final Fantasy X - Rescued Yuna at the stadium where my first Blitzball match was to have been.




...but more importantly, I am awaiting Amazon to ship my copy of Final Fantasy VI Advance!  My video game life will be complete once I have this in my collection.  (Somehow, Final Fantasy Anthology isn't enough anymore where FFVI is concerned. )  I need to get the rest of the Final Fantasy Gameboy ports too... I have Dawn of Souls (FF I & II), but not FFIV or FFV yet... and the sole reason I want a DS is for FFIII.

Oh thank you - thank you - thank you Almaser, it was indeed, Haunting Ground!

So my gaming schedule looks like this:

Okami - beaten. Wins most unique game ever!
Finish Clocktower 3.
Wait for Xenogears to arrive.
Keep leveling in FF12.
Request Haunting Ground at Game Stop.
Play Xenogears.
Finish Xenogears.
(I hear the game is a life-altering experience, maybe I'll blog at this point)
Play Haunting Ground.

I am so totally lost in Baldur's Gate right now that it's not even funny. Ohhhhhhhhhhh fabulous graphics for the time period great story D&D oh god identifying items and collecting wealth critical hit on monster leaves GIBS EVERYWHERE

BG1. I have that and BG2, and I love them to pieces. NWN was all right, but nowhere near as cool as those two.

I still say you should try the X-COM series of games, Gio. They're tough, but ever so satisfying when you nail a Sectoid (they look just like the ones that mutilate cows) with his own heavy plasma cannon. Research, manufacturing, keeping your soldiers alive and the cash flowing...heavy micromanagement, but it's a real blast when you finally head for Cydonia (IT EXISTS!!) and destroy the controlling Brain once and for all...

...dammit, I just gave out the ending.

And the sequel focuses on serious Lovecraft and eldritch terrors from the depths of the Gulf of Mexico. Who knew the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs was a spaceship?

...dammit, I blew it again!

EDIT: Oh, yes, I finally beat Robotrek for the SNES. Take that, stupid Hacker Army! You have NOTHING on my robots! NOTHING!!

Last edited by BioKraze (02-15-2007 05:40:24 PM)

There's also Kuon & The Suffering (a bit more action intense) if you're interested in horror games. Also Silent Hill and Resisdant Evil. Also, another unknown game is Siren which has a second game coming out soon from what I know.

Lightice wrote:

Rebel Prince wrote:

Survival horror games are definitely the best, but I think I've exhausted all the titles in its genre. Please tell me if I'm missing any, my brain craves the frustration of watching a panicked main character tripping over herself every eight minutes (Goddamn it, Fiona).

Call of Cthulhu: The Dark Corners of the Earth. It's certainly survival horror, but not quite Resident Evil in style - for one thing, it's 1st person. Thanks to that it has some terrific sanity-loss effects, though. I play it on PC and it's great, for most part, but I've been told it's dreadful with a console pad. Still, despite of a bit old-fashioned graphics, it's style and mood are near-perfect even for a Lovecraft-nitpicker like myself. The voices of the citizens of Innsmouth...cool...

OMG I've heard of that one! I've wanted to play it but it's hard to find . . . like Fahrenheit! I was looking for that cuz, as Rebel Prince said, good survival horror games are few and far between and ended up buying it on amazon. I'll have to look for Call of Cthulu there too.

What am I playing? I'm just finished up Skies of Arcadia for the first time and then I'm going to replay FF8. I'm not normally an RPG gamer. I like action/adventure/horror games myself, but sometimes you gotta play a good RPG. I also started replaying MGS: Twin Snakes.

Frosty wrote:

(I hear the game is a life-altering experience, maybe I'll blog at this point)

I'm surprised a lot of people here like this game as much as I do. I've been such a fanatic about it ever since it was released. It was the first RPG I've ever finished through ... and played through ten times. Believe me, once you play this game, you'll never look at other RPGs in the same way. It's superb. I can understand why Utena fans love this love. It just ... has everything we love, so to speak. Great soundtrack too. It's definately Yasunori Mitsuda's best ... in my opinion. Then again, I've always preferred Mistuda over Uematsu. I love the Celtic tunes better. I even still treasure the strategy guide even though it's falling apart. I had so much fun finding all the stuff it failed to mention (like obtaining Alice's wedding dress). Geez! I love you all for giving this game the respect it deserves!

Oh, and once you play Xenogears, don't bother to play the Xenosaga series. It doesn't even compare.

Though I'm not a Final Fantasy fan as much as I used to be, my favorites still are: FFVI and FFIX. FFVI had the best music and best characters. I loved FFIX because it was just so enlightening and I love the Zidane/Garnet pairing. They're my favorite couple. I just can't bring myself to love the new stuff my SquareEnix. It's not the same. I'm currently playing the GBA version of FFVI. Though it's still censored minimally, I love how they enhanced the sound and some other new additions. Best of all, the characters sound more real  and not like robots! I also love how they maintained the original names of the enemies/weapons/techniques from the Japanese version. If you ever play FFVI though, the best version is the PSX version ... which the story is uncut.

Wow. That turned out longer than I expected.

I'm still playing UFO: Enemy Unknown.

It's great because you can play it for as long as you want. Just don't lose all your bases to the Aliens, stay financially afloat and research until you can go to Mars. Then just beat back the Alien forces as much as possible. You can get up to (I think) UFO number 32767 before the game presumably crashes. I'm only on 1050 or so. Boo hoo.

Then again, I've hacked the game so badly my laser pistols can burn holes through rock.

Then there's the sequel, Terror From the Deep. Half the story and the Aliens are inspired by Lovecraft, and sonic weapons, Molecular Control, harvesting humans and the mysterious Synonium Device give eldritch an entirely new meaning! I'm doing pretty good on that game.

I do admit to cheating as much as possible. I will save state using an emulator every chance I think I might lose. I feel there should be no shame in cheating.