Fall/Winter Games 2008 - what have you loved/liked/regretted so far

[littlemathletics]

Braid (XBLA) - Wish I could play this game but I refuse to support Jonathan Blow.

Eh?

[cool breeze]

He does have a point there, Jonathan Blow is a huge douchebag, but even so it's worth playing Braid because it is a good gmae.

[demi]

Braid (XBLA) - Wish I could play this game but I refuse to support Jonathan Blow.

Eh?

Jonathan Blow is a douchebag.

[littlemathletics]

But the game transcends douchetardiness.

[demi]

Nah, he's a d-bag. bu bu bu i'll have to get a job  :'(

fuckin cunt

[littlemathletics]

Meh. I just wanted an excuse to say "transcends douchetardiness".

[demi]

There was a whole thread about Blow a long while back. It was mostly me calling him an asswipe. Everyone else was like "Braid! I just beat it! I just spent money on that?"

[littlemathletics]

I got given a copy, so I guess I don't really have that problem. I'd probably have been happy spending the money on it.

Still, I can see why people wouldn't like it. It's hugely pretentious at times, but I'm kind of a dick, so I appreciate that.

[demi]

I was interested in the game until he made that comment about "bu bu i'll have to work ". It was just so assholery, prude, snide, snobby, all that. It was David Jaffe level of self-fellatio. I did a complete 180 after that. Who says that?

[littlemathletics]

I have something of a soft spot for whiney auteur developers, to be honest. The more Jeff Minter whinges about...well, everything...the more I want to dress up as a sheep and go to his house.

[demi]

I kind of assume Minter is senile at this point. It would explain why the only thing he can make is his own game. Which is a copy of someone else's game?

[littlemathletics]

He's still responsible for the greatest comeback to a review ever, though. That takes some kind of sharpness.

[cool breeze]

The game wasn't that Braid was pretentious, it was that Blow's remarks after the release showed how much of a douchbag he was.  Shit like saying no one got the purpose of the game when it was a disjointed art school drop out mess that people had to salvage to make decent.  He really is the biggest douchebag in the industry.

[Jansen]

Kestatrophy - there is a demo on both consoles... play it

the demo is highly misleading. mirror's edge is just terribly uneven. when it's good (like in the demo), it's OMG SO AWESOME, but unfortunately the game consists of mostly low points.

slowing the player down in game thats main strength is momentum and fluidity was a poor choice on dices part. oh and let us not forget the shit combat and the fact that you're forced into combat situations. if you must play it - rent it. at most it'll take you 6 hours to complete.

hopefully they get it right in the sequel (if there is one) because the main concept behind the game is solid.

it definitely shouldn't be anyones game of the year in a year with so many good games.

[littlemathletics]

The game wasn't that Braid was pretentious, it was that Blow's remarks after the release showed how much of a douchbag he was.  Shit like saying no one got the purpose of the game when it was a disjointed art school drop out mess that people had to salvage to make decent.  He really is the biggest douchebag in the industry.

He's nowhere near that bad. I can think of plenty of people who are worse, though probably not as high profile.

And you say disjointed, I say postmodern...let's call the whole thing off, do doo.

[drew]

Braid is Boring^TM

[Joe Molotov]

He really is the biggest douchebag in the industry.

That's more of a compliment than he deserves because it implies that he's actually in the industry, and not just some douche that got his little indie game published by Microsoft.

[cool breeze]

I dunno, it's kind of a double sided claim.  I'm sure he would take offense to thinking he's part of something resembling a job.

[Van Cruncheon]

Fall games I bought, loved and fully recommend:

Far Cry 2 -- Simply the greatest single-player FPS of this gen.  If you don't agree, you're an impatient fool that didn't give it enough time.  The more you play, the better it gets.  It's an absolute masterpiece in every sense of the word.

for once i agree with a (former) opa-ager

[Grecco]

Alot of people seem to love Mirror's Edge on here. I have heard mixed reports, so please tell me what is great about this game? I have yet to play it.

Its Portal in a futuristic world without the portal gun and with parkour

[drohne]

the genius of mirror's edge is in its time trials, which necessarily show the game at its fluid complex best, and any one of which can take hours. the story mode is just -- just! -- a deeper platformer in the tomb raider or prince of persia style, stripped of the automations that once seemed necessary in such games -- and relative to its peers, even its combat isn't bad

[Greatness Gone]

Tomb Raider is pretty hott, so far. Rented it from Blockbuster because they didn't have The Last Remnant or Dead Space.

[Jansen]

lucky you considering how bad last remnant seems to be

[recursivelyenumerable]

stripped of the automations that once seemed necessary in such games

sold.  uh, what is this game again?

re topic: I don't really buy new games when they come out.  here are the games I played recently

loved: Shiren the Wanderer, World Ends with You
liked: FF4DS, Etrian Odyssey II

[demi]

drohne is talking about Mirror's Edge

[Hitler Stole My Potato]

There's still some stuff out there I need to play but so far.....

Loved
Gears of War 2
Fallout 3
Vesperia

Liked
Fable 2
Banjo Nuts N Bolts
Far Cry 2

Really could've done without
Mercenaries 2
Little Big Planet
Spore


Still gotta play -

Mirror's Edge
Motorstorm 2
Dead Space
Tomb Raider
Left 4 Dead
Last Remnant
Saints Row 2
Call of Duty World at War
Resistance 2.....not excited about playing it one bit but I feel I should give it a shot anyway.

[Bebpo]

Kestatrophy - there is a demo on both consoles... play it

the demo is highly misleading. mirror's edge is just terribly uneven. when it's good (like in the demo), it's OMG SO AWESOME, but unfortunately the game consists of mostly low points.

slowing the player down in game thats main strength is momentum and fluidity was a poor choice on dices part. oh and let us not forget the shit combat and the fact that you're forced into combat situations. if you must play it - rent it. at most it'll take you 6 hours to complete.

hopefully they get it right in the sequel (if there is one) because the main concept behind the game is solid.

it definitely shouldn't be anyones game of the year in a year with so many good games.

In time trials there are no enemies right?  So the quality of the combat shouldn't matter as you'll get your smooth flowing runs there.

[drew]

loved

Saints Row 2
Gears of War 2

liked

Call of Duty W@W

regret

Megaman 9

[tiesto]

regret

Megaman 9

Whaaa...?