Suggest a PC/PS2 game?

[Yaka]

God of War
Shadows of the colossus
F.E.A.R
Farenhight
pysconuaghts
Siren

 

[Gef]

You sound exactly like my better half, she has no dexterity either! She loved Fahrenheit, made me do all the difficult bits though. (Getting across that beam at the end made me throw the controller at the TV a few times!) she also watched with glee as I completed Resident Evil

Games she really played lot are Heroes of Might and Magic, Sacred and Diablo, also an old one called Revenant.

 

[Damini]

You sound exactly like my better half, she has no dexterity either! She loved Fahrenheit, made me do all the difficult bits though. (Getting across that beam at the end made me throw the controller at the TV a few times!)

Well, to all that recommended it - Farenheit was the business. One of the very few games in life that I have completed. I actually managed to do that beam bit first attempt, which impressed me no end, but my attempts at seducing my lady friend with my guitar skills resulted in her looking at me with shame in her eyes, and leaving.

Which, it turns out, was quite a relief, as when my brother played it and completed that section I saw what you had to do next.

Rythmically pumping not really my gaming experience of choice.

I'm playing Siberia, and whilst I'm enjoying it for the most part, some of the puzzles are just damned annoying - most specifically the ones where you have to harvest numbers from your environment and use them in random ways. It reminds me of those hateful quiz channels that ask you to "add the numbers on the page". Also, this woman is a total cow. There's a bit where you have to pick up an oar, but it's too mucky and slimy for her to do it. So, I spend forever trying to find a towel or something to pick it up with. Oh, so wrong... The solution?

Spoiler

Demand that the local special needs child picks it up for you.

I'm slowly but surely working my way through the suggestions (omitting any Final Fantasy games, because having sat through Kenny playing one of them for roughly the same amount of time a female human incubates a child, everytime I hear the sound of smashing that heralds a fight, a little bit of me dies.)

Anyway, just wanted to say thanks.

 

[Damini]

Finished Syberia.

A bit of an anti climatic end. Good to whittle away some hours but the puzzles were either simplistic or required some deranged form of logic that I don't possess.

Farenheit - 95% (already playing through it again)
Syberia - 70% (good for killing time, but a bit dull in patches)

 

[inactionman]

If you like Destroy All Humans, you may enjoy this for a laff:

http://www.play.com/play247.asp?pa=...searchstring=stubbs&page=search&Go.x=0&Go.y=0

It's just come out, and it's a bit like DAH but you're a zombie!

Also you have mercenaries for the PS2, same engine as DAH but serious, and very cheap at £15.

If you like RPG's I can throughly reccomend Star Wars KOTOR & KOTOR 2, and any of the old interplay RPG's (Baldurs Gate 1 & 2, Fallout 1 & 2, and, if you can get hold of it, Planescape Torment. I think most of the interplay rpg's are sold in a pack now).

I'd also suggest Vampire: Bloodlines, but it's rather scary in places, and is played through a FPS interface (good point is that it's very cheap, a fiver from play).

 

[Louster]

Oh, man. VTM:Bloodlines is awesome, for sure. It isn't especially scary, really, and I personally never encountered any of its major bugs. (I don't remember if I had any minor ones - probably, though.) It's so well written and the way the decisions you make (with your character or dialogue or whatever) affect the game is impressively extensive and well-integrated. Not only that, but it's incredibly stylish and always 'feels' right - the whole environment is perfectly conceptualised.

Total (and underappreciated) classic.

 

[Gef]

Well, to all that recommended it - Farenheit was the business. One of the very few games in life that I have completed. I actually managed to do that beam bit first attempt, which impressed me no end, but my attempts at seducing my lady friend with my guitar skills resulted in her looking at me with shame in her eyes, and leaving.

Bah! Using an XBox controller? The analogue shoulder buttons really dont help in matters of the speedy button wagglage.. I also failed at the guitar and chatting the mrs up at all really, I think she got a bit cheesed at having to wait so long for me to find her boxes as I was messing with stuff in the flat.

TVM:Bloodlines was okay to a point, it uses the half life 2 engine so it looks sweet, I just didnt find much depth in it. The conversations were the main thing that set it appart from just another FPS game really and they werent particularly engaging. Although you could eat people so that was a bonus..

 

[Tilda]

DAoC?










(In all seriousness, it has improved a lot )

 

[Louster]

TVM:Bloodlines was okay to a point, it uses the half life 2 engine so it looks sweet, I just didnt find much depth in it. The conversations were the main thing that set it appart from just another FPS game really and they werent particularly engaging. Although you could eat people so that was a bonus..

Hurr. What? The "FPS" part of it was almost completely beside the point. Really, defining it as an FPS at all, rather than the sort of hybrid thing which Deus Ex began, is kind of dumb. In fact, Deus Ex is a perfect comparison - they both integrate RPG character-building elements effectively, both have a 'freeform within linear levels' nature, which suffers neither from lack of direction nor from lack of freedom, which either extreme tends to, and both have great, well-written dialogue - assuming you want to talk. Not only that, but the fundamental different types of vampire you can play radically alter the way the game pans out. The difference between playing a Malkavian, a Nosferatu and a Ventrue is massive, for example - Malkavians being totally insane, Nosferatu being unable to mingle with humans and Ventrue relying on their aristocratic status and power to get stuff done.

But eh, whatever.

 

[leggy]

WE LOVE KATAMARI

Also, the PAL version of Shadow of the Colossus came out yesterday. If you loved ICO or even hated it. BUY IT IMMEDIATELY.

If you want.

 

[Sar]

simple games that require a little thought, though not always and are quite fun -

Morrowind
Myst box set
Fable
Destroy all humans
FF7 (for the pc, off ebay)
Dungeon siege

soz if they have all been said

Do NOT get the PC version of FFVII.

I bought it when it came out in 98, and it nowadays refuses to run in hardware mode on my Radeon 9800 pro, because Ati cards don't support "Ye olde 8-bit palletted textures".

The irony is I had to get the iso's of the original PS1 version and play it through ePSXe.

Playing through it atm and am up to the point where Cloud disappeared. I'd forgotten just quite how much I love this game

 

[Sar]

Oh, man. VTM:Bloodlines is awesome, for sure. It isn't especially scary, really, and I personally never encountered any of its major bugs. (I don't remember if I had any minor ones - probably, though.) It's so well written and the way the decisions you make (with your character or dialogue or whatever) affect the game is impressively extensive and well-integrated. Not only that, but it's incredibly stylish and always 'feels' right - the whole environment is perfectly conceptualised.

Total (and underappreciated) classic.

I second that. It's a great RPG, and quite sexeh too

 

[Damini]

Not even close to what you specified but:

'We Love Katamari' is out on friday. http://shop.gameplay.co.uk/webstore/productpage.asp?productcode=PT2087&title=we_love_katamari
Very original and very very cute.

I bought Katamari.

I have thumb blisters, and haven't seen sunlight for two days.

Damn you Leggy!

Spoiler

(Love you Leggy!)

Also I finished Psychonauts. I enjoyed it a lot, but sometimes I found it really difficult. Might just be because I'm not used to the conventions of these kind of "boss" games, and probably also because when I do those MENSA tests where you have to rotate images mentally I actually score "blunt scissors and round paper" so by god, there was some swearing from me on occasion. Or more accurately, prolonged periods of time. However, it made me grin, and I adored the different levels, ESPECIALLY the milkman one.

I've also bought "Destroy all Humans" and "Vampire the Masquerade" but haven't played them yet. Roll on RSI!

 

[Tilda]

The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion is one you might wish to try.

 

[Wij]

King Of Fighters '97 !

 

[`mongoose]

I bought Warhammer 40k Dawn of war from play the other day cos it was £18 delivered.

It's fun so far,

You could try world of warcraft out

Or Elder Scrolls: Oblivion. Alot of mates have bought that and are saying it's really cool. Me, I refuse to pay full price for it cos I am tight

M

 

[babs]

wij, 97???!!? are you MAD???

98 pwns it into a cocked hat.

There is only one game from now on, the all-conquering GUITAR HERO. I got it yesterday and now have arthritis and bloodshot eyes, just like that time trem got locked in at the childrens petting zoo.

Seriously, GH is fantastic, I urge you all to buy it now

 

[MYstIC G]

Mortal Kombat tbfs Lou!

 

[Damini]

I have just finished playing Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines.

How awesome is that game? I mean, there are problems (like the fact it positively makes smoke pour out of my computer, and lags something chronic in patches) but over all I thoroughly enjoyed it. It's also the first game I've ever played where you shoot people in a FPS kind of way. I will confess though, I had to do the haunted hotel bit with the lights on and the sound off, because it made my heart go a bit spasmodic.

I've also just finished Dreamfall recently. Seriously, wtf? I think it gave me cancer of the logic. Though I do want a gorilla toy, and kept on going back to the house to make sure he wasn't lonely.

Anyway, thanks for the recommendations. Feel free to throw some more names at me if you stumble across something good.

 

[Lazarus]

finished bloodlines a while back. was good for a bit, then I got fed up with it.

 

[Wij]

wij, 97???!!? are you MAD???

98 pwns it into a cocked hat.

Ooh - well ressurected. I never noticed this

97 > 98.

They ruined Terry in 98. He was my fav char in 97. I could do some wicked combos.

And the bosses were well cool

*wub saturn*

Anyway, just ordered a Gameboy micro and Advance Wars...

 

[Mobius]

I absolutely love Vampire: Bloodlines. It's just so darned cool even with all of it's bugs, and really gets that gothic feel just right. Some of the quests are both disturbing and hilarious, and the multiple endings are cool, as is the race that speak entirely in tongues, altering every piece of text in the game. I tried finding vampire porn afterwards, but it's a bit of a niche fetish.

 

[Ch3tan]

Anyway, just ordered a Gameboy micro and Advance Wars...

I know the micro is the third of the cost, but cancel your order and get yourself a DS lite. The screen on the micro is way to small.

 

[Wij]

It looks cool

I've already got a DS. I'll get a lite come bonus time.

 

[leggy]

Advance Wars wins. The DS version just adds that little bit extra sex.

 

[Ch3tan]

But...but... fi you have a DS, which plays GBA games, why buy a micro?

Wij you are a mentalist.

 

[Wij]

But...but... fi you have a DS, which plays GBA games, why buy a micro?

Wij you are a mentalist.

I want a Micro

 

[Ch3tan]

I want a Micro

Popular opinion seems to think you already have one

 

[Wij]

My doctor says it's a picopenis.

 

[babs]

kof97 loving cockjockey!

Kim all the way anyway tbh!