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Roper Klacks · 08-19-2009, 04:10 AM

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Originally Posted by booB

The only reason I can think of that one would say this about Legend is because of all the tech Lara uses. Certainly, story-wise, TRs 2 and 3 are the least Tomb-Raiderish games in the franchise, as they primarily involve hiking through modern man-made environments, and fighting mostly humans, as opposed to animals or monsters. Gameplay-wise, I would think that 6 would be the least Tomb-Raiderish game, due to its severely changed control scheme and reliance on stealth. I didn't like 3 because there was WAY too much backtracking in the levels (especially Nevada); I think they wanted to artificially extend the gameplay hours. I didn't like TR 4 and 5 (and stopped playing them both VERY early) because I didn't think the graphics were good enough for what they wanted to do with the games. I had a VERY hard time finding paths through the levels, because I simply couldn't tell where I was supposed to run, grab, etc. The early levels were so brutal that I didn't even want to take on the later ones. I still have never played 6, but I have heard it's the worst of the franchise by far. I can honestly say that Legend is my third favorite game of the franchise, but I have not played Anniversary or Underworld yet.

Legend was basically an action game, with almost no exploration and puzzle solving, and was ridiculous short and extremely easy and linear. Fortunatly the next Crystal games are way better, specially Anniversary. What i liked about The Last Revelation (i replayed it a few weeks ago) are all the aspects i said that Legend didn't have. It's long, hard, has a LOT of exploration in gorgeous enviroments (we can get easily lost) and almost feels like an adventure game with lots of puzzle solving, and good puzzles too, not those irrealistic "find the key/push the block/open door" of previous TR (especially 2 and 3). Angel of Darkness could have been a good game, the levels were great, but those controls were just too clunky. Chronicles is easily the worst of them, but that was almost like a spin off made to get a few more bucks to the AoD budget. Overall in my opinion, 1, 2, 4 and anniversary are the top TR games.

Intrepid Homoludens · 08-19-2009, 07:16 PM

Finally easing back into Splinter Cell: Double Agent after a year of not touching it! Almost done taking over the supertanker (which means I'm not that far in the game yet).

RLacey · 08-20-2009, 06:12 AM

Mirror's Edge
Managed to pick this up cheaply. It's good fun, but it keeps crashing. So I'm not playing it as much as I'd like to be.

*Fantasysci5* · 08-25-2009, 12:32 PM

Okay, dorkiness abound. I've recently started replaying an old favorite game from when I was a kid, called, "The Lost Mind of Dr. Brain". You have to complete tasks using different parts of your brain to help the good doctor, and I just fell in love with the different types of "puzzles" throughout. It's a fun, and slightly educational even though I'm now 19, game. I still have difficulty with the medium level.

booB · 08-25-2009, 04:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Roper Klacks

Legend was basically an action game, with almost no exploration and puzzle solving, and was ridiculous short and extremely easy and linear.

My Legend experience is completely different from yours. I find there to be plenty of exploration and puzzle-solving so far (I have gotten through Japan), although the puzzles are mostly of the platforming variety and few or no inventory ones. The action scenes are extremely hard, even on "easy".

Unfortunately, just when I finally decided that I love the game, I have run into a game-killing bug, where I can't resume a saved game because the game just crashes. I can't find anyone else on the internet that has the same problem, and there appears to be no way around it. Oh well... perhaps Legend just isn't in the cards for me.

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Originally Posted by Fantasysci5

Okay, dorkiness abound. I've recently started replaying an old favorite game from when I was a kid, called, "The Lost Mind of Dr. Brain". You have to complete tasks using different parts of your brain to help the good doctor, and I just fell in love with the different types of "puzzles" throughout. It's a fun, and slightly educational even though I'm now 19, game. I still have difficulty with the medium level.

I love that series, particularly "The Castle of Dr. Brain."

*Fantasysci5* · 08-25-2009, 09:02 PM

(stupid moment) Are we thinking of the same game? I thought it was a stand alone game, I didn't know their were others in a series?!?!

Kurufinwe · 08-26-2009, 12:12 AM

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Originally Posted by Fantasysci5

(stupid moment) Are we thinking of the same game? I thought it was a stand alone game, I didn't know their were others in a series?!?!

Sierra made four Dr. Brain games.

*Fantasysci5* · 08-26-2009, 06:56 AM

Once I heard there were other games, I went to look them up. For some reason, I wouldn't want to play all those games, which seems like they would be a lot alike. Nothing can beat the different guises of Rathbone.

On a side note, I was watching some guys play "Gears of War". It looked so bad to me. It was very graphically violent, which I don't mind so much, but that chainsaw sound still gives me the creeps. The people when moving look like their sticking their butts out really high, looking ridiculous. *shakes head*

booB · 08-26-2009, 09:13 AM

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Originally Posted by Fantasysci5

Once I heard there were other games, I went to look them up. For some reason, I wouldn't want to play all those games, which seems like they would be a lot alike.

They are, pretty much. I mentioned "Castle" because it was the first one I played. They're basically primitive versions of Brain Age, or Professor Layton, or [insert-your-own-game-full-of-assorted-brain-teasers-here].

*Fantasysci5* · 08-26-2009, 10:22 AM

Yes, I love the different personalities of Ratbone, and how it makes you think and use different strategies for each new puzzle. I still can't do the medium levels, that freakin' 16 year-olds shopuld be able to do...

Giligan · 08-26-2009, 04:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Fantasysci5

On a side note, I was watching some guys play "Gears of War". It looked so bad to me. It was very graphically violent, which I don't mind so much, but that chainsaw sound still gives me the creeps. The people when moving look like their sticking their butts out really high, looking ridiculous. *shakes head*

But that's the best part.

Well, one of them, anyway.

And they do not look like they're sticking their butts out.

Unless they were roadie-running. In which case they're supposed to look like that, because they're crouching.

Intrepid Homoludens · 08-26-2009, 05:05 PM

Splinter Cell: DA. Still in Shanghai, trying to negotiate the Chinese New Year dragon to get to Aswat's room. This game is pure suspense.

*Fantasysci5* · 08-27-2009, 12:13 AM

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Originally Posted by Giligan

Unless they were roadie-running. In which case they're supposed to look like that, because they're crouching.

Yeah, I guess they were, because they did flips every other second, but it looked so ridiculous. It's like they're the hunchback of dotredamn, trying to show a girl their butts.

Anyway, with action games, I prefer fantasy like Halo to real life. The real life games make me feel like I'm killing people for real, and it's unsettling. I know, I'm a weak-stomached girl.

Hammerite · 08-30-2009, 03:04 AM

I'm wondering whether or not to replay Final Fantasy VI or VII...

DustyShinigami · 08-30-2009, 04:38 AM

Batman: Arkham Asylum

I've just entered the Botanical Gardens section - following Harley Quinn's trail. It looks like I'm nearing the end. I don't want it to finish.

Intrepid Homoludens · 08-30-2009, 05:07 AM

GTA IV: The Lost And The Damned. Just started the Action/Reaction mission.

outcast · 08-30-2009, 05:47 AM

Im playing So Blonde (third chapter)

And Death to Spies Moment of truth: (really good game if you like hitman)

Hammerite · 08-30-2009, 10:59 AM

Replaying Final Fantasy VII, as well as playing Fallout 3 for the side-quests.

I don't expect to finish FFVII by the time I set off for university, but I want the first disk finished at least as a good breaking point for when I'd return home during holidays.

Little Writer · 08-31-2009, 01:34 AM

"The Longest Journey": reached the underwater god. Wondering how "long" a journey it still is - I'm getting a bit tired of people constantly telling stories (this game certainly deserves its title in that regard!)

RLacey · 08-31-2009, 06:10 AM

Section 8 (open beta)
Been playing this a bit more before the beta ends in a few hours. On one level, it's just yet-another-FPS, and yet I've been enjoying this a lot. Enough, indeed, that I'm slightly irritated at having to wait a fortnight until I can play it again (it gets released this week in the USA, but not until the end of next week in the UK).

08-19-2009, 07:16 PM	#1522
Intrepid Homoludens merely human Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Chicago Posts: 22,309	Finally easing back into Splinter Cell: Double Agent after a year of not touching it! Almost done taking over the supertanker (which means I'm not that far in the game yet). Share Share this post on Twitter __________________ platform: laptop, iPhone 3Gs \| gaming: x360, PS3, psp, iPhone, wii \| blog: a space alien \| book: the moral landscape: how science can determine human values by sam harris \| games: l.a.noire, portal 2, brink, dragon age 2, heavy rain \| sites: NPR, skeptoid, gaygamer \| music: ray lamontagne, adele, washed out, james blake \| twitter: a_space_alien

08-20-2009, 06:12 AM	#1523
RLacey The Thread™ will die. Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 22,542	Mirror's Edge Managed to pick this up cheaply. It's good fun, but it keeps crashing. So I'm not playing it as much as I'd like to be. Share Share this post on Twitter __________________ RLacey \| Killer of the Thread™ I do not change to be perfect. Perfect changes to be me.

08-25-2009, 12:32 PM	#1524
Fantasysci5 Stalker of Britain Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Missouri, US Posts: 4,535	Okay, dorkiness abound. I've recently started replaying an old favorite game from when I was a kid, called, "The Lost Mind of Dr. Brain". You have to complete tasks using different parts of your brain to help the good doctor, and I just fell in love with the different types of "puzzles" throughout. It's a fun, and slightly educational even though I'm now 19, game. I still have difficulty with the medium level. Share Share this post on Twitter __________________ "And everyone's favourite anglophile, Fantasy!"-Intense Favorite Adventure Games-Lost Crown/Dark Fall 1&2, Longest Journey games, Myst games, Barrow Hill Favorite Other Games-King's Bounty, Sims 2, Fable, Disciples 2 Gold Currently Playing-Trine 2 Games I Want-Kings Bounty: Warriors of the North!!!, Asylum, Last Crown, Braken Tor, Testament of Sherlock Holmes

08-25-2009, 09:02 PM	#1526
Fantasysci5 Stalker of Britain Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Missouri, US Posts: 4,535	(stupid moment) Are we thinking of the same game? I thought it was a stand alone game, I didn't know their were others in a series?!?! Share Share this post on Twitter __________________ "And everyone's favourite anglophile, Fantasy!"-Intense Favorite Adventure Games-Lost Crown/Dark Fall 1&2, Longest Journey games, Myst games, Barrow Hill Favorite Other Games-King's Bounty, Sims 2, Fable, Disciples 2 Gold Currently Playing-Trine 2 Games I Want-Kings Bounty: Warriors of the North!!!, Asylum, Last Crown, Braken Tor, Testament of Sherlock Holmes

08-26-2009, 06:56 AM	#1528
Fantasysci5 Stalker of Britain Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Missouri, US Posts: 4,535	Once I heard there were other games, I went to look them up. For some reason, I wouldn't want to play all those games, which seems like they would be a lot alike. Nothing can beat the different guises of Rathbone. On a side note, I was watching some guys play "Gears of War". It looked so bad to me. It was very graphically violent, which I don't mind so much, but that chainsaw sound still gives me the creeps. The people when moving look like their sticking their butts out really high, looking ridiculous. shakes head Share Share this post on Twitter __________________ "And everyone's favourite anglophile, Fantasy!"-Intense Favorite Adventure Games-Lost Crown/Dark Fall 1&2, Longest Journey games, Myst games, Barrow Hill Favorite Other Games-King's Bounty, Sims 2, Fable, Disciples 2 Gold Currently Playing-Trine 2 Games I Want-Kings Bounty: Warriors of the North!!!, Asylum, Last Crown, Braken Tor, Testament of Sherlock Holmes

08-26-2009, 10:22 AM	#1530
Fantasysci5 Stalker of Britain Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Missouri, US Posts: 4,535	Yes, I love the different personalities of Ratbone, and how it makes you think and use different strategies for each new puzzle. I still can't do the medium levels, that freakin' 16 year-olds shopuld be able to do... Share Share this post on Twitter __________________ "And everyone's favourite anglophile, Fantasy!"-Intense Favorite Adventure Games-Lost Crown/Dark Fall 1&2, Longest Journey games, Myst games, Barrow Hill Favorite Other Games-King's Bounty, Sims 2, Fable, Disciples 2 Gold Currently Playing-Trine 2 Games I Want-Kings Bounty: Warriors of the North!!!, Asylum, Last Crown, Braken Tor, Testament of Sherlock Holmes

08-26-2009, 05:05 PM	#1532
Intrepid Homoludens merely human Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Chicago Posts: 22,309	Splinter Cell: DA. Still in Shanghai, trying to negotiate the Chinese New Year dragon to get to Aswat's room. This game is pure suspense. Share Share this post on Twitter __________________ platform: laptop, iPhone 3Gs \| gaming: x360, PS3, psp, iPhone, wii \| blog: a space alien \| book: the moral landscape: how science can determine human values by sam harris \| games: l.a.noire, portal 2, brink, dragon age 2, heavy rain \| sites: NPR, skeptoid, gaygamer \| music: ray lamontagne, adele, washed out, james blake \| twitter: a_space_alien

08-30-2009, 03:04 AM	#1534
Hammerite kamikaze hummingbirds Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Over there. Posts: 7,946	I'm wondering whether or not to replay Final Fantasy VI or VII... Share Share this post on Twitter __________________ The bin is a place for household rubbish, not beloved pets!

08-30-2009, 04:38 AM	#1535
DustyShinigami The Quiet One Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Staffordshire, UK Posts: 1,986	Batman: Arkham Asylum I've just entered the Botanical Gardens section - following Harley Quinn's trail. It looks like I'm nearing the end. I don't want it to finish. Share Share this post on Twitter __________________ Now Playing: Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars - The Director's Cut (DS and iPhone), DOOM 3: Resurrection of Evil, Hotel Dusk: Room 215, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Justice for All, Silent Hill - HD Collection Recently Completed: Max Payne, Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne Next: Bayonetta, Devil May Cry - HD Collection, Max Payne 3, Metal Gear Solid - HD Collection, Silent Hill: Downpour

08-30-2009, 05:07 AM	#1536
Intrepid Homoludens merely human Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Chicago Posts: 22,309	GTA IV: The Lost And The Damned. Just started the Action/Reaction mission. Share Share this post on Twitter __________________ platform: laptop, iPhone 3Gs \| gaming: x360, PS3, psp, iPhone, wii \| blog: a space alien \| book: the moral landscape: how science can determine human values by sam harris \| games: l.a.noire, portal 2, brink, dragon age 2, heavy rain \| sites: NPR, skeptoid, gaygamer \| music: ray lamontagne, adele, washed out, james blake \| twitter: a_space_alien

08-30-2009, 05:47 AM	#1537
outcast Junior Member Join Date: May 2009 Posts: 27	Im playing So Blonde (third chapter) And Death to Spies Moment of truth: (really good game if you like hitman) Share Share this post on Twitter

08-30-2009, 10:59 AM	#1538
Hammerite kamikaze hummingbirds Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Over there. Posts: 7,946	Replaying Final Fantasy VII, as well as playing Fallout 3 for the side-quests. I don't expect to finish FFVII by the time I set off for university, but I want the first disk finished at least as a good breaking point for when I'd return home during holidays. Share Share this post on Twitter __________________ The bin is a place for household rubbish, not beloved pets!

08-31-2009, 01:34 AM	#1539
Little Writer Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Belgium Posts: 534	"The Longest Journey": reached the underwater god. Wondering how "long" a journey it still is - I'm getting a bit tired of people constantly telling stories (this game certainly deserves its title in that regard!) Share Share this post on Twitter __________________ "There's a difference between knowing you are, and simply being." Just finished:Jurassic Park, Mata Hari Playing now:Assassin's Creed 2, So Blonde To be continued:Final Fantasy 13

08-31-2009, 06:10 AM	#1540
RLacey The Thread™ will die. Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 22,542	Section 8 (open beta) Been playing this a bit more before the beta ends in a few hours. On one level, it's just yet-another-FPS, and yet I've been enjoying this a lot. Enough, indeed, that I'm slightly irritated at having to wait a fortnight until I can play it again (it gets released this week in the USA, but not until the end of next week in the UK). Share Share this post on Twitter __________________ RLacey \| Killer of the Thread™ I do not change to be perfect. Perfect changes to be me.

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