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Eel O'Brian

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360 Demo Home-Style Impressions From Uncle Eel
« on: September 28, 2006, 11:53:28 PM »
F.E.A.R. - I get a distinct HL2 feeling from the controls.  The atmosphere is appropriate enough, but it's hard to say anything about storyline when the demo drops you right in the middle without any explanation.  The little running Ring girl was kinda creepy, I guess. Sort of gives off a Condemned vibe, but with heavy weaponry.  I like the clouds of blood you walk through when you kill someone up close.  It didn't sell me a full-price copy.

SONIC THE HEDGEHOG - Hahahahahahahahahahahahawhatapieceofshit.  Every second of my life I wasted playing this janky munge is a second I will regret and will never regain, no matter how much begging I do on my deathbed.  Who thought up this control scheme?  The only thing that would have made it worse would've been some sort of plastic breather controller attachment you'd have to blow into to make Sonic move left or right.  Pretty?  Yes, certainly.  I bet if you drank a whole bottle of blue food coloring you'd squeeze out some pretty turds - but they'd still just be colorful shit, much like Sonic The Hedgehog.

RAW VS. SMACKDOWN - Port-up as far as the animations go.  Nice texturing.  The actual wrestling in most wrestling games is ass, and this is no exception.  No, the fun part is creating a wrestler and humiliating your friends with it.  When the first RAW came out for PS1, a bunch of us chipped in and bought it.  We played it every day at lunch, making drink bets on the winner, etc.  I made The Incredible Hulk (we had a "loser has to make his wrestler wear bra and panties" match, and Hulk lost, little mental image for you), Lex Luthor (in his 80s green and purple costume), and various other freakish "wrestlers."  We must have played that game nearly a full year.  I got on a losing streak once that made me so mad I created a wrestler called Fucking Loser, who was pretty much just me in a T-shirt and jeans.  I was undefeated for a couple of months.  Good times.  So, the selling point for me will be how deep and weird the Create-A-Wrestler is in Raw VS. Smackdown.  This was not present in the demo, so I can't make a final judgement yet.  You only get to choose from Lemmy - I mean, HHH - or The Wrestler Playing Kane Needs Dental Work.  I got my ass handed to me in about thirty seconds because I was too impatient to sit through the "training" videos.  Fuck training videos, by the way.  For wrestling games you should really only need a couple of active buttons.  Anyway, if I can make Fucking Loser 2007 in the Create-A-Wrestler feature, then SOLD.  If not, eat a plate of dickheads, Raw Vs. Smackdown.
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brawndolicious

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Re: 360 Demo Home-Style Impressions From Uncle Eel
« Reply #1 on: September 28, 2006, 11:59:23 PM »
I want Half-Life 2.

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Re: 360 Demo Home-Style Impressions From Uncle Eel
« Reply #2 on: September 29, 2006, 12:00:32 AM »
Man, I need to get my 360's wireless adapter working again. I'm not surprised at Sonic's wretchedness; has there EVER been a good 3D Sonic? Still, how does Sega keep getting this wrong? I suppose after the success of Shadow, they have no incenstive to get it right.

Why FEAR is such a sad port is beyond me.
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Re: 360 Demo Home-Style Impressions From Uncle Eel
« Reply #3 on: September 29, 2006, 12:06:27 AM »
Why FEAR is such a sad port is beyond me.
What more would you want?

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« Reply #4 on: September 29, 2006, 12:07:17 AM »
I have no idea what you're talking about.
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brawndolicious

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Re: 360 Demo Home-Style Impressions From Uncle Eel
« Reply #5 on: September 29, 2006, 12:11:49 AM »
I have no idea what you're talking about.
I thought you were being sarcastic.

Eel O'Brian

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Re: 360 Demo Home-Style Impressions From Uncle Eel
« Reply #6 on: September 29, 2006, 12:21:52 AM »
Man, I need to get my 360's wireless adapter working again. I'm not surprised at Sonic's wretchedness; has there EVER been a good 3D Sonic? Still, how does Sega keep getting this wrong? I suppose after the success of Shadow, they have no incenstive to get it right.

Why FEAR is such a sad port is beyond me.

Is it anything special on PC?  I heard all this raving about it when it first came out, but it seemed pretty standard fare to me.  I mean, it's okay, certainly not crap, but no more than decent.

I want Half-Life 2.

I paid $10 for Half-Life 2 on Xbox, and it was the best money I ever spent on that system.  I will pay the $60 for the HL2 360 package, especially considering all you get.  Damn, what a deal.  I hope they offer Day of Defeat for download at some point - I suspect there will be a separate release of Counterstrike/DOD on one disc, though.
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brawndolicious

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Re: 360 Demo Home-Style Impressions From Uncle Eel
« Reply #7 on: September 29, 2006, 12:48:00 AM »
I paid $10 for Half-Life 2 on Xbox, and it was the best money I ever spent on that system.  I will pay the $60 for the HL2 360 package, especially considering all you get.  Damn, what a deal.  I hope they offer Day of Defeat for download at some point - I suspect there will be a separate release of Counterstrike/DOD on one disc, though.
So much time in one game (set).  I wouldn't care for Counterstrike though.

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Re: 360 Demo Home-Style Impressions From Uncle Eel
« Reply #8 on: September 29, 2006, 12:58:35 AM »
Gaming threads for the god damned win.
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« Reply #9 on: September 29, 2006, 01:17:27 AM »
Gaming threads for the god damned win.
god damn it yes.

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« Reply #10 on: September 29, 2006, 10:40:07 AM »
eel:

FEAR on PC was one of the better FPS games this last year. It just performs a lot better than the port, which is held back in a bunch of ways just because the game simply runs and looks like poo by comparison. I havent tried the demo but from the shots ive seen its pretty clear the port is half-assed.

As for Sonic, well there hasnt been an OMG Sonic since the Genesis era. The Nintendo DS' Sonic Rush is fun, but the second character is lame so that leaves you with just Sonic which leaves you with just half the game.

Not a fan of wrasslin, ill let someone else talk about it with you ;)
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Re: 360 Demo Home-Style Impressions From Uncle Eel
« Reply #11 on: September 29, 2006, 11:33:03 AM »
i want fear but its hard to justify paying full price when it could be had for 5 bucks on pc. HL2 is a little different considering they are gonna include all the extra games, plus its HL2....id gladly pay full price again for it

oh and MAF, sonic adventure on dreamcast was badass
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« Reply #12 on: September 29, 2006, 11:55:56 AM »
Is it anything special on PC?  I heard all this raving about it when it first came out, but it seemed pretty standard fare to me.  I mean, it's okay, certainly not crap, but no more than decent.

To be fair, it was a love it or hate it game on the PC.  Oddly enough, all the reviewers loved it.

I like the game, but the levels are rather uninspired, and even worse, repetetive.
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Re: 360 Demo Home-Style Impressions From Uncle Eel
« Reply #13 on: September 29, 2006, 12:19:07 PM »
Sonic Adventure on Dreamcast was NOT badass. I have never wandered around so much in a game which is supposedly about speed and action in all my life. Wtf was with the hotel? Nothing was in context of the Sonic universe/mythos. Its like Furries wanted Sonic in real life settings so they could more easily imagine him in their furpile dreams.

Why the fuck am I wandering around and theres cops n shit and fucking casino? What happened to genesis sonic? Why did sonic need to get all metrosexual?
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