What are you playing?

[Bebpo]

Noitu Love 2 - Just finished my first run.  Game is pretty much flawless.  Level design, combat, pacing, it's all just right and there's all kinds of meaningful unlockables and higher difficulty modes.  This deserves its classic moniker.  It's nice when you play classic indie games that you've heard so much about and when you play them, they actually live up to their name and are fantastic titles.  If this had come out during the SNES/PS1 era, people would still be clamoring for it like they do with Guardian/Gunstar Heroes.

[The Sceneman]

is it on steam?

[Bebpo]

Yeah, and in the indie bundle here:

http://www.indieroyale.com/

[The Sceneman]

fucken sweet, comes with that Goat game too. Bought

[etiolate]

Yah grabbing that indie bundle

[MrAngryFace]

[iconoclast]

Just hit 400 million in Akai Katana.

I can do better though. I'm sure I can take the #2 spot (419m) if I have a borderline perfect run, but who knows if that will ever happen.

[cool breeze]

I tried going back to Outland after Bebpo hyped it up and the fucking map sucks so much ffs you tell me where the door is and then say I can't enter without a key and don't mention the key location and it's a metroid game and I run around the entire goddamn map which is connected how ?? don't show it on the map and and everything is called "forest _____" and looks the exact same silhouette art style.

that said, if I wasn't stupid and started from scratch I might've enjoyed it more.  I spend roughly 1/3rd of my existing playtime trying to find where I was.

[Bebpo]

The game is pretty linear, how are you getting lost?  There is a little thing of light that guides you through the levels.

[The Sceneman]

Outland is awesome. I still to grind out the million bucks for my 200/200

[archnemesis]

Not only is there the light thingy, but you can also see your destination on the map.

[The Sceneman]

yep, sorry but getting lost in Outland = fail

[Bebpo]

I can see how it could be confusing if you're mid game and you drop the game for a half-year and go back.  It's very linear but if you get off path and forget where you were going it can be confusing.

[Himu]

I've played like 1 hour of Outland and it is boring. Whoever sold the game as Metroidvania needs a kick in the nuts. In fact, I have bought far too many games where someone compared it to Metroidvania and it ended up being nothing LIKE Metroidvania.

[Bebpo]

You need to keep playing.  But yeah, it's not Metroidvania.

It's Ikaruga x Devil May Cry x Flashback with Metroidvania secret hunting as the map opens up and you backtrack for goods.  The main game itself is a linear traversal of a non-linear map.

[cool breeze]

Breakdown for Xbox

I decided to replay this, so I am.  It's awesome than you can run ahead of Trinity and she yells "STOP! WAIT!" trying to catch up.  And if you punch her, it's game over 'cause she doesn't trust you anymore.

I can see how it could be confusing if you're mid game and you drop the game for a half-year and go back.  It's very linear but if you get off path and forget where you were going it can be confusing.

That's what I did.  My save is even more off track now.  On the bright side I increased my health as I was running around.

Not only is there the light thingy, but you can also see your destination on the map.

again, it showed the destination, but I needed something to open the door at the destination.  That's what it wouldn't tell or show me.

[Bebpo]

Finished Botanicula

Gotta say, a little disappointing in the very, very final moments.  The game is great throughout however and I thought it was going to top Machinarium as my favorite game from these guys, but the last 30 seconds are a bit of a rushed ending out of nowhere. 

spoiler (click to show/hide)

The big mother red spider chases your group into a tree, you go to the core of the tree, all your buddies get captured and you become THE ONE (tm) [I'm ok with it at this point], then you go into the very center and there's a single small little black spider and you vanquish him and plant your tree and SUDDENLY YOU WON AND EVERYTHING IS HAPPY AND ALL YOUR FRIENDS ARE BACK SINGING THE END.

...would have liked to see a little more resolution with the EVIL GLOWING RED SPIDER outside and they could have added a bit more playtime if you actually went around freeing your buddies and then you all work together as a team to win in the end.

[close]

It's a bit short.  Machinarium was about 5 hours+ and I went in assuming this would be around the same length, but Botanicula was barely 3 hours long, so I was surprised when it ended.  But then again, it's hard to fault it when the pacing is definitely faster than Machinarium and almost every screen was basically it's own little story & puzzle.  The main characters and the characters of the world have so much charm.  The music and art are wonderful and there are a lot of really amazing moments.  It's a fantastic game, and overall I probably liked it about as much as Machinarium and I still think that Amnita Design are friggen awesome since I really enjoyed both Samarost games, Machinarium, this, and their weird drug fueled interactive music video.  Looking forward to whatever they do next.

[The Sceneman]

Breakdown for Xbox

I decided to replay this, so I am.  It's awesome than you can run ahead of Trinity and she yells "STOP! WAIT!" trying to catch up.  And if you punch her, it's game over 'cause she doesn't trust you anymore.

I can see how it could be confusing if you're mid game and you drop the game for a half-year and go back.  It's very linear but if you get off path and forget where you were going it can be confusing.

That's what I did.  My save is even more off track now.  On the bright side I increased my health as I was running around.

Not only is there the light thingy, but you can also see your destination on the map.

again, it showed the destination, but I needed something to open the door at the destination.  That's what it wouldn't tell or show me.

the majority of the doors are opened by a nearby switch so have a look around. Only the boss doors use keys iirc

[demi]

Breakdown is such a fucking cool game.  So sad we never got to see that team build on it.

<3

[iconoclast]

I've played like 1 hour of Outland and it is boring. Whoever sold the game as Metroidvania needs a kick in the nuts. In fact, I have bought far too many games where someone compared it to Metroidvania and it ended up being nothing LIKE Metroidvania.

I played through the first 2 or 3 bosses in Outland and thought it was pretty boring too. I thought it was going to be a classic action game like the old Castlevanias/Ninja Gaidens, but the non-linear level structure and focus on exploration over challenging enemy/stage design makes it lean closer to the Metroidvania games.

[Himu]

What I played was not non-linear at all. It was extremely linear with no branching paths. It's just that you'd backtrack a lot. Metroidvania has a lot of backtracking, but also branching paths. You can also do some things out of order. Doesn't remind me of metroidvania at all. And when you past that, all you've got going for it is the Ikaruga like system, which is admittedly cool, but not enough to save the game from boredom.

[magus]

i've been playing pokemon conquest,yes,that's right,no shame at all and you know what? i sort of dig it...

the story goes that in the magical land of raisei (also know as not-japan) 17 kingdoms are at war with each other,each kingdom represent a type of pokemon so you have the fire kingdom,the water kingdom,the psychic kingdom and so on,you start as the new warlord of the lame normal type kingdom (paired with an eevee) and then with the help of Oichi (she comes with jigglypuff,also she act as uguu as possible) go conquer the other kingdom,up to the point where you go kick oda nobunaga ass (he's the owner of the dragon kingdom)

as you conquer the other kingdom,you get the ability to recruit more officers,officers get recruited by defeating them in battle either in the first 4 turn of battle or by killing them with a super effective move or if you defeat them before recieving any sort of damage and each officer comes with it's own pokemon,but here's the catch,each officer has a certain compatibility with pokemons and this compatibility is what ultimately dictates how strong that pokemon can be,but the pokemon the officer starts with is never the one he's the most compatible with so for example you might get an officer that starts with a grass pokemon when he's actualy specialized in electric pokemons so it's your job to search the right pokemon for the right officer by having them scouting for wild pokemons,when you do so,you have to play a simple rhythm game before the pokemon joins you

mmm what else,there are no level so instead as you clear battles each pokemon gains a better link with the officer he's paired off (and as i explained only pokemon and officer that have a good compatibility with each other can reach a high level of link and get to a high level of strenght so you want to pay attention to that) each pokemon only comes with a single move and they don't learn any other attack other than the one they come with (altough their single attack gets more powerfull as your link increase) each pokemon also come with a passive skills (there are quite a lot of them) while the officers come with active skills that you can only activate once for battle (usualy some stat boost for the turn you trigger them) each move also has different range,so for example most water move hits 2 space in front of the pokemon like OXX while psychic move hits from 3 space away like O--X,pokemon also evolve when they reach a certain level of link

what i like about the game is that every battle has it's own gimmick,so for example the fire kingdom is on top of a volcano and on random turn rock falls out and damage pokemon at random,in the lightining kingdom there are buttons around which can trigger traps you can use to zap the opponent (or viceversa),in the bug kingdom there are balls you can throw around to damage pokemon from far away,in the fighting kingdom the battle takes place on top of a sumo ring and you actualy win by holding the borders of a sumo ring for 5 turns under your control,the catch is that any pokemon that gets hit while standing near the border fall below and then has to spend several turns climbing his way up (unless it's a flying pokemon) and so on

i'm also surprised that while the game starts out rather tame it's got to the point where i have to fight date masamune and he's so freaking strong! even if i throw pokemon that are strong against his type,his stat are so big that he'll still would come on top,so i actualy have to rely on the fact that the game just handled to me Shingen and Kenshin which too have super inflated stat (tough coincidentaly shingen type is strong against date type) so it feels less brainless than the actual pokemon game where you can put all your effort on the first pokemon you get and then steamroll the opposition

there are also no filler battles,you know how strategy game insist on making you fight bandits and stuff like that,not this one,you are always progressing with conquering more land and advancing the plot,as your troops start getting into 2 digit numbers and managing them start's to become annoying,you can also give them order like "gather gold" or "train" it's simplistic but it gets the jobs done into making you feel like you are managing a big army

[MrAngryFace]

According to GB this was ORIGINALLY going to be a Dynasty Warriors/Pokemon game- the lost potential!

That said, I may pick this up- been getting good reviews.

[cool breeze]

Breakdown is such a fucking cool game.  So sad we never got to see that team build on it.

It is.  The only part that really feels dated/off today is the shooting, but after a point you can just block bullets until you're close enough to slide kick>uppercut soldiers.  Also great is how each power up makes you twice as strong.

It's nearly perfect on the 360, other than lights (and Solus' whole body) shining through the environmental objects.

[demi]

The 1v1 fight against the main bad guy is pretty hard though. It's like 3/4 in the game.

[Himu]

Bring back non-Pokemon Nobunaga's Ambition plz

[iconoclast]

What I played was not non-linear at all. It was extremely linear with no branching paths. It's just that you'd backtrack a lot. Metroidvania has a lot of backtracking, but also branching paths. You can also do some things out of order. Doesn't remind me of metroidvania at all. And when you past that, all you've got going for it is the Ikaruga like system, which is admittedly cool, but not enough to save the game from boredom.

I don't remember any branching paths, but it has a hub type world IIRC. You go to one area of the map, get a key/press a switch, a door opens somewhere else, you backtrack to it and fight a boss, etc. It would've been better if they cut out the filler and made it an hour long stage based game.

[Himu]

i actually agree

[tiesto]

Thought I was getting near the end of TITS but then  stealth section

Stealth in games is something I hoped fell out of favor last gen. MGS is really the only "stealth" games I like but I usually just go through those games shooting shit.

[demi]

I got NeverDead from GameFly.

This game is great so far. Graphics look nice, and the whole "immortal / dismemberment" stuff is different.

[Bebpo]

Thought I was getting near the end of TITS but then  stealth section

Stealth in games is something I hoped fell out of favor last gen. MGS is really the only "stealth" games I like but I usually just go through those games shooting shit.

I hate stealth sections just like I hate plankwalking in games.

But I don't remember the stealth section in TITS FC being too bad or too hard.  Didn't get frustrated like I do sometimes.

[cool breeze]

Breakdown is still so awesome outside of the obtuse platforming sections.  The ultra accelerator scene is up there with getting zero shift or the super gravity gun in making you feel incredibly powerful. 

[Fifstar]

That fucking 9/10 room from Escape Goat, I keep pressing the sumon button after I've dashed through the last key 

[Himu]

The Sims 2 - Past hour of play was better than the entirety of my Sims 3 runs recently. Fuck, Sims 3 can be such a bore.

Final Fantasy V - halfway through the game, doing the Four Job Fesitval.

[Momo]

Final Fantasy V - halfway through the game, doing the Four Job Fesitval.

Factually the best final fantasy ever.

[Bebpo]

It's a fun FF and that's something a lot of FF's forget to include in their games.

But the story is pretty weak.  However, because the gameplay is so fun it's probably the most enjoyable to replay FF.

[magus]

finished pokemon conquest,it's a really short game,my clock said something like 8 hours but i have an habit of randomly leaving the thing on so i'd say it's probably actualy 5-6 hours,maybe even less if you don't spend time dicking around trying to recruit more officers

but don't think the game is that short,after you finish the game you unlock 33 other scenario's where you can play as the other warlords,right now i'm playing one as ginchiyo and she has to beat every other female warlord to prove that she's the prettiest of them all

these scenario also introduce a new element where you can spend money to improve facilities in your kingdom,i guess doing so get you more item at the shop/better pokemon to catch

the last two stage were awesome,the first one it had a bunch of traps that hit pokemon with specific element attack,one of my pokemon got stronger everytime it got hit by a fire attack so i purposely stepped on the fire trap over and over to boost his attack,the cpu was smart enough to manuveur around the trap but one of my pokemon was able to push pokemon around,so i pushed the final boss into a fire trap and watched him literaly burn to his death

the second one is just a really big brawl,but here's the thing,i won this battle with a single pokemon standing and that pokemon had like 10 HP remaining out of 300 so it was very satisfying (tough i guess i'm also partly to blame for bringing some shitty character) altough i wouldn't call the game hard,sure i had some close fight and sometimes i lost important members but in the end i never lost a battle so it's probably harder than your average pokemon game but still not that hard (unless there is some extra scenario that prove otherwise)

[Momo]

It's a fun FF and that's something a lot of FF's forget to include in their games.

But the story is pretty weak.  However, because the gameplay is so fun it's probably the most enjoyable to replay FF.

I like JRPGS for battle systems and largely ignore plots so FFV and FFX are the most enjoyable to me. FFVIII and FVII is just a step down on the second tier.

[tiesto]

FF5 is definitely the best in the series... still waiting on that remake SE!

[Rahxephon91]

I saw that the FPS Syndicate has now dropped in price at Gamestop, well I've always been interested in the game if only because of the sci-fi angle. So I decided to get it and well it seems decent. Kind of like a more fast and less weighty killzone 3, at least thats what the cover system reminds me of. It does feel a bit faster in it's movements over that game. So far it's been pretty fun and it looks pretty good. Hacking things is kind of cool, but it doesn't seem to add much beyond just another way to kill things, but I guess it helps keep up the speed of the game, since your ability to use it is based on how much your are killing. I don't know, pretty good game so far. The voice acting is nice and the game has a pretty brutal scene during I think chapter 5 or 4, probably one of the most brutal scenes I've seen this gen.

[fistfulofmetal]

IMO Syndicate is the best shooter so far this year. I loved the way it played, the way it looked, loved the fact that there was a story but it didnt shove your face in it. Great soundtrack as well. It just never seemed to get dull, the game is always changing things up. great pacing.

[Himu]

It's a fun FF and that's something a lot of FF's forget to include in their games.

But the story is pretty weak.  However, because the gameplay is so fun it's probably the most enjoyable to replay FF.

I like JRPGS for battle systems and largely ignore plots so FFV and FFX are the most enjoyable to me. FFVIII and FVII is just a step down on the second tier.

X? X sucks for gameplay. You mean X-2?

Also FFV's story rocks because it's DQ in FF.

FFV isn't what I consider the best FF but it's factually the best 2d FF. FFXII, VIII, and V are my favorite FF's.

[magus]

FFX has awesome bosses so nothing wrong with saying that and personaly i don't see the appeal of games with job system,the job are never balanced and it always end up as a grindfest,see FFV and his blue mage that hits for 1000 way earlier than any other classes or the end game where everybody is dual wielding and attacking 8 times per turn

but ehy at least it's not dragon quest 7

[Himu]

Job systems aren't balanced because you always go for the most broken way to play the game, dimwit.

You should play FFVFJF hard mode. Say that and then get a party of white mages, berserker and a beastmaster.

And great boss battles do not a great battle system make. FFX has the ability to have a great battle system, but you end up doing some shitty rock paper scissors shit the entire game. Oh hey, there's a wolf! Guess I better bring out Tidus! Repeat THE ENTIRE FUCKING GAME.

[Himu]

Much more, your favorite Final Fantasy VII. It is impossible to get stuck on VII and it is factually one of the most broken games in the series. In fact, anyone who complains about x Final Fantasy being "broken" but liking the rest of the series is 1. a fucking idiot and 2. a really big fucking idiot because the entire series, past 4, is broken to hell and back with the exception of 13 and in some cases 12.

Meanwhile, you complain about FFV? For being broken? And your favorite FF is VII? Mime, 4x cut, KotR, and more and you complain about FFV? Which at least ALLOWS you some options to make the game as easy or hard as you want?

See that Magoose? That piece of paper flying in the wind, that's on FIRE? That's your shitty argument.

[demi]

Honestly FFV is very balanced. I'm doing the FFV Fiesta as well and I'm at the last boss of World 2 and I havent used a single magic spell.

[demi]

Even someone beat the game with 3 Berzerkers and a Knight

[Great Rumbler]

Stuck Final Fantasy XIII-2 into my 360 and played a bit. Well, "played" in a loose sense as those 45 minutes were basically all cutscenes and a couple of cinematic battles. Well, it really does make me appreciate Dragon's Dogma that much more. The story in XIII-2 is SNOOOOORE and the characters are the same hideously over-the-top caricatures that they were in the original, plus Noel's baggy skirt-pants are APPALLING. At least I don't have to deal with five hours of cutscenes and characters I actively hate in DD. But at least it's not one long corridor filled with cutscenes and battles, so hurray for that. I probably won't play it much more for now as Dragon's Dogma is going to be sucking up most of my time and I'll probably have to save a bit of time to grind for gear in Diablo 3.

[magus]

if there is a most broken way to play the game then it's broken,period,heck doesn't saying "but if you play with the shitty classes it's actualy hard" actualy proves my point? what do i know about pokemon games being easy? i should have played it this way

Meanwhile, you complain about FFV? For being broken? And your favorite FF is VII? Mime, 4x cut, KotR, and more and you complain about FFV?

by the time you get mime,4x cut and kotr there is nothing to break anymore in the first place! if there is a way to cheese FFVII is by learning beta on your first encounter with asp but it hardly compares to "i cut the boss level to half and then i instakilled it with L.5 death before he could even take an action"

even then i love FFVII for the plot,the character,the scenario all things that won't happen in final fantasy until VI,and i certainly wouldn't tell you that FFVII is an hard game or one where battles actualy matter much in my enjoyement out of it,so i don't see what's the fact that i like FFVII has to do with the fact that i think FFV (and job system in general) is broken other than "MY FF IS BETTER THAN YOUR FF NENENENENE"

See that Magoose? That piece of paper flying in the wind, that's on FIRE? That's your shitty argument.

NENENENENENENE

[Himu]

> Complains of FFV difficulty
> Uses the most broken classes with the most broken exploits
> Refuses to acknowledge any other way to play
> Worships the ground FFVII walks on, the game where it's impossible to die.

[magus]

http://www.wizards.com/magic/magazine/article.aspx?x=mtgcom/daily/mr11b

spoiler (click to show/hide)

spike kicks johnny ass
don't be a johnny or worse a timmy

[close]

[demi]

Magus, your argument was "job system are never balanced" when in fact FFV is the opposite, and I gave you examples. The fact you can win with the "broken" classes or the "who the fuck uses a Dancer" class means it is pretty well rounded in providing you options for any party configuration, even if it means chugging potions and hitting it enough times.

In Pokemon, you can give many pokemon different abilities and beef them / train them however you want. Pokemon is very balanced as well. The main game isn't the best example because it's designed that way to showcase the varying abilities and element types. As since the original game, the whole "thing" was playing other trainers. Real people with different tactics.

You very much come across as a "Timmy" - the power gamer, who just wants to bash his way through the game as quick as they can.

[brob]

when you don't pay for any of your games they lose all value and become a perfunctory activity for the afflicted individual.

Let this harrowing, self-evident discovery be a lesson to us all.

[magus]

Magus, your argument was "job system are never balanced" when in fact FFV is the opposite, and I gave you examples. The fact you can win with the "broken" classes or the "who the fuck uses a Dancer" class means it is pretty well rounded in providing you options for any party configuration, even if it means chugging potions and hitting it enough times.

In Pokemon, you can give many pokemon different abilities and beef them / train them however you want. Pokemon is very balanced as well. The main game isn't the best example because it's designed that way to showcase the varying abilities and element types. As since the original game, the whole "thing" was playing other trainers. Real people with different tactics.

You very much come across as a "Timmy" - the power gamer, who just wants to bash his way through the game as quick as they can.

i have also seen people finishing the original final fantasy,solo with a white mage,that doesn't make it less insane
the point it's that the system is unbalanced because some jobs and skills are so awesome that they make the whole thing trivial,and it's not like FFVII where you have to spend an eternity trying to raise a golden chocobo,all it takes is just to spend some times being a ninja which is something you want to do naturaly and *BANG* you are dual-wielding excalibur and masamune,if there is a cheap tactic or a broken skills that deal awesome damage,the fault it's of the game for having it not of the player for using it,that's why we have all those nerf in diablo 3 and why trading card games have a list of banned cards

and sure you can have a dancer and have a character that praticaly does nothing but there's no logical reason for doing so other than "i want to win with a dancer" which is the johhny way and not the natural spike way (who would just go with the good jobs) that's what makes it broken,imagine a starcraft player who only uses those turret tank because it makes the game more challenging, does this sounds like a real existing character?


and i wasn't trying to say pokemon was unbalanced,what i was trying to say is that self imposed challenge are stupid,and if you feel the need of having a self imposed challenge in your game to make it fun,you have a big problem in your hand

when you don't pay for any of your games they lose all value and become a perfunctory activity for the afflicted individual.

Let this harrowing, self-evident discovery be a lesson to us all.

i swear someone once on gaf told me the same thing when i was saying bad things about persona 3
are you on the same level brob?

[etiolate]

Playing Quantum Conundrum. Derp cats Physics puzzles

Very portal-esque, but with a more kid friendly, cute-humor to it. Q from Star Trek TNG does the voice acting for the professor.

[tiesto]

Short but cool flash game some dude I know made. Puzzle-platformer type game:

http://www.kongregate.com/games/logicow/reclaym

[cool breeze]

panzer dragoon orta is strangely a lot harder than I remember

The recent twitchier rail shooters like Sin and Punishment 2 and Kid Icarus are making me think I can just dodge at the last second or should control reticule and character independently.

[Bebpo]

Playing Quantum Conundrum. Derp cats Physics puzzles

Very portal-esque, but with a more kid friendly, cute-humor to it. Q from Star Trek TNG does the voice acting for the professor.

I didn't even realize this was out.

/adds to wishlist for next steam sale.

[Bebpo]

Guild 01 Cont'

Aeroporter - Aka, BAGGAGE CLAIM - THE GAME.  This is actually an awesome 99cent iOS game.  It's well designed, exciting, and addictive.  It also gets FREAKING HARD as your managing all these baggage lanes and sorting baggage and then VIP BAG comes along and you gotta load it first or WRONGLY SORTED baggage comes along and you gotta figure out where it really goes.  Everytime you play, as long as you do well, it continually adds further mechanics and complexities to the baggage sorting.  Also, it's not even 3D; the 3D light turns off when you play it, lol.  But yeah, for what it is, it's a cool fun game.

Dungeon Guy Something Weapon Maker Man - Surprise of the set.  This is a really polished fun and hilarious rpg sim x rhythm game.  It's sort of like a My Life as a King game if it wasn't boring and was pure awesome instead.  Your days are people coming in and requesting weapons for quests.  Then you match up their skills and the enemies they are going to fight and then you make a weapon which is a rhythm game.  Then they go off questing and you get constant updates from a hidden camera in their weapon relaying their adventures.  People keep coming and going so you're constantly making weapons and polishing the ones that come back to up their stats and while you're doing this the dialogues from the hidden cameras are relaying totally hilarious stories that you can read to keep the other stuff from being monotonous.  The characters who come in have a ton of personality and their stories are awesome.  The art and character design is very, very good and the music is PURE HOTBLOODED 60S SUPER ROBOT/SENTAI MUSIC.  Incredible!  There's also a meter counting down the days until the resurrection of the demon lord, so you have until then to make the ULTIMATE FINAL BOSS KILLER WEAPON which you make by continually upgrading your weapons that come back from completed quests.  The thing is that if the person renting the weapon fails their quest and dies/runs away, you don't get your weapon back ever.  So you gotta be careful in judging the people who come in and their quests and pick the right weapon for them.  This would make a really good $15 XBLA/PSN/Steam game.  Love it so far.

So yeah, the only stinker in the 4-pack seems to be Suda51's D- sandbox Panzer Dragoon.  Cool Matsuno table top rpg + Fun iOS baggage sorting game + Awesome XBLA style rpg-sim = great deal, especially since it's a budget title.  It's nice playing a bunch of Japanese games that feel very creative and original.  I think that since Japan doesn't really have much of an indie scene compared to what we're seeing in the west, we're not getting to see a whole lot of Japan developed games where the developers get free reign and don't have to worry about stuffing panty shots in or rpg padding to sell those extra copies.  So this is a very unique and enjoyable compilation of original games.  Too bad the series is probably dead after Guild 02 since sales are probably far too low for L5 to bother with it.

[Spurgeon]

I'm playing the first Marvel Ultimate Alliance, just felt nostalgic for it. I don't know if it's because of the Avengers movie, the DLC getting pulled, or a combination of the two, but eBay/Amazon prices for the Gold/Special edition are distinguished mentally-challenged.

Did anyone ever play the sequel? How does it compare?