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Well, in terms of maturity, most of the contributors have a solid set of game experience, and tend not to over hype games. The cool part, however, is the fresh way they review games in what they call "progressive reviews". The reviewer immerses you into his first crack at the game and you follow his narrative as he guides you through his experiences and impressions from start to finish. I find that this technique best captures the (sometimes emotional, sometimes adrenaline filled) journey one takes when playing a great game.
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What games would make your list of "memorable experiences" or "just add friends"?
Am I the only one with "ninja fantasies"?
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posted by Blight @ 12:18 PM
23 Comments:
That's awesome. That's a good list of games, here's some of mine:
Master Blaster
Castlevania
Mario Cart
Ultima VI
Space Quest
Manhunter
Descent 2
Half-Life
Street Fighter 2
etc.
I saw someone reviewed Descent 2. Man, playing that game multiplayer was sweet. Pretty innovative. Those guided missiles were cool, and of course those big slow bombs that took out everything in the room.
That's cool, Blight... let us know when you post a review.
Of course, you play a lot of games, but do you ever finish any of them?
I think I've already mentioned games that I've loved (and lost):
Grim Fandango
Star Control 2
Planescape: Torment
Rampage
Leisure Suit Larry
Fallout
And I'm still loving Knights of the Old Republic. It's not a hard-core RPG, but it's more like a tag-along movie. I'm thinking about falling to the dark side, but I want this hot Jedi babe to fall for me and get it on.
Actually I recently played and finished "Indigo Prophecy" aka "Fahrenheit". That game was amazing... very unique. It will be the subject of my first review.
And how could I have neglected to include "Fallout" on my game list? That game was so great in so many ways. The crazy optional traits were pretty fun.
yeah, how could you?
I'm also a big Morrowind fan. BIG fan. Me and this other guy at McGill would talk about it like a vacation. 'Man, I saw this beautiful Telvanni palace on Sadith Mora. Shit!'
Blight, can you put some Love Psychedelico tracks somewhere? I want to have a listen before trying to buy the album.
I uploaded some love to share with you guys.
It is definitely one of my favorites right now, listen to it on my iPod nano regularly.
Gotta love the guitar, and fusion twang accent.
I only play racing (car, motorbike, etc.) games. My son likes the Star Wars games and some others that I can't remember right now.
Racing games are my favorite these days as well. That and fighting games. Something that only sucks up about 15 minutes of your life at a time.
I used to love RPGs, but I can't afford to spend the hours and hours it requires to get through one of those.
Oh yeah, do any of you guys know how to find Playstation ROMs?
My all time most memorable games.
Dune (orignal, for PC)
TMNT (original, for NES)
Final Fantasy I
Dune II (PC)
Darklands (PC)
Alone in the Dark (PC)
Lands of Lore
Maelstrom
Quarentine (PC)
Herzog Zwei (Genesis)
Privateer
Doom 2
Ico
Animal Crossing
These are games that inspired experience that I wish I could relive (the experience, not necessarily the game). That’s kind of a long list, but I swear I've thought about all of them recently.
Is it just my revisionist memory or were there proportionately a lot more good games 10 years ago?
Oh! I missed a couple:
Syndicate
Out of this world
A-train
Oh I loved Alone in the Dark! I played 1, 2 and 3. I remember those being the "original" series of horror survival games.
And I can't believe no-one has mentioned X-Com yet, that game was so great, I know a ton of people would buy a remake. Especially one that kept the GAMEPLAY exactly the same. C'mon, just a face-lift and Windows (DirectX) compatibility please.
oh, yeah, xcom rocked the spot. After a while, some parts got a little repetitive, but it had this great creepy style, and the alien research was outta sight.
I never played Alone in the Dark - but Out of this World was fantastic. I sucked hardcore at it, though...
Thanks, Blight. If we ever catch up, I'll buy you some chicken wings. Or a lap dance.
Or a lap dance WHILE eating chicken wings.
Hey Sirdar, when your kids play Star Wars games, are they good Jedi or evil Jedi?
Ahh X-COM, how many hours did I while away on that game? That game is perfection personified. How could I forget it? That game was so immersive -- the music always creeped me out -- and the clanking of your troops' boots on the floor of a downed UFO!
Come to think of it I think the immersive quality is something most of my memorable games have in common: Dune, Alone in the Dark, Privateer, Syndicate and Ico are all about construction of a believable immersive environment/universe.
I think Resident Evil is acutally a rip-off of Alone in the Dark. Remember the first scene in Alone in the Dark where you're alone in the attic and a dog breaks through the window and attacks you. Almost identical to an early Resident Evil scene. I also like Alone's 1920 motif.
I'd like to play Alone in the Dark, but I'm not sure I could sit through something that horrific.
Damn my yellow belly!
Blight - excellent work on the Psychedelic Love, I'm diggin' it..
Not only am I digging it, but I'm going off the rails on a crazy train.
Great find!
Cibby,
My daughter says she plays good and she says my son plays good too.
Another game my son plays is Thief Gold.
Glad you like it Cibbuano, even Lobo commented on how he liked it (although at the time he had no idea it was Japanese) as we listened to it on our recent trip down to the Rockies.
Blight, you just mentioned that they should re-release old games to work for Windows.
OK!
Target will sell old Sierra games for Windows XP
Space Quest Games = $19.99
Yeah!
It's a little more (49.99) but at Futureshop you can now get the full series of Command and Conquer games!
Also I don't think you ever gave me back my Ultima collection CD... I think it got passed on to Derelict and then to Lobo. He still has it.
But it was perhaps a decent trade for that ripped Alpha Centauri CD you gave me. That wasted SO many hours of my life, but it was awesome.
really? Alpha Centauri was good? Man, I was happy to give it to you...
And I'm sure I told Lobo-tomy to give it back to you. He just probably never got around to it, since he had to, y'know, watch TV and stuff.
Man, I hope they re-release more games to work for windows...
they should overhaul those games with improved graphics, too...
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