My current gaming-experience

I played the New Stuntman at a friend's house, I've been meaning to pick it up myself, just haven't been by the game stores lately... It's a fun game, like Vracer said, better than the first...

My current gaming experience is playing "Apples to Apples" at a Christmas party. . .wheeee!

GarySogar wrote:My current gaming experience is playing "Apples to Apples" at a Christmas party. . .wheeee!

Apples to Apples RULES! I sold the $#it out of that game! SO easy to demo, and a total blast with the right group of folks!!!

I've got the big Party box edition....but no party.

Apples to Apples sounds like a fun game when Rock Band is broken.

what the heck is apples to apples?

Step One:
http://www.google.com

Step Two:
Enter in the search for: apples to apples
http://www.google.com/search?client=fir ... gle+Search

Step Three:
Click on a viable link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apples_to_Apples

Step Four:
Read the rules section

Step Five:
Celebrate your recent success with a pickle! Unless you don't like pickles.

Well I have beaten both God Of War games... Excellent games for the most part... I really didn't like the way Part 2 ended, but it definitely leaves it open for a part 3... The only other thing I didn't like was the fact that it is a Fixed Camera... If they had made it to where we could have changed the Camera view the game would have been off the charts, in my opinion...

Other than that, the games had no flaws that I found... I enjoyed them thoroughly...


I can't wait for God Of War III...

Currently I'm playing a RPG called Odin Sphere. This is by a (relatively new) company called Vanillaware (apparently spun-off from Atlus) who so far I am really liking as a company because they seem to bring out really stunning 2D visuals in their games and somewhat fresh gameplay. I like 2D a lot personally and like to see companies etc. still utilising it over 3D, not that 3D is bad either, but I do wish there were more 2D games/films etc. these days, like when Disney's Enchanted came out and I saw the trailer which started out with some smooth 2D animation I was a little dissapointed to see it quickly go to live-action as I had though "Disney's doing 2D again? Cool!", oh well it was an OK movie. Another games company I like is Nippon Ichi who mainly do tactical RPGs (very good ones at that) and they also do 2D (with computer generated stuff for effects I think), even their PS3 game, Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice, was still 2D sprites/character artwork

Anyway I digress, Odin Sphere is a very challenging game. Especially when you start out in it and are finding your feet. You can't just rush into a battle and button mash and come out on top. You have to be careful with your moves and know when to back off. Bosses can be really tough as they have some very powerful moves and they adapt to your movements (e.g. doing different moves if you're closer or further away etc.). In the game you also get a limited inventory which can quickly get packed when you're also collecting stuff for mixing alchemy potions, cooking recipes or plant raising materials (which help make the game easier). In it you get to play as about 5 different characters, although a lot of their locations and enemies criss-cross meaning repeats of earlier battles, its still a lot of fun to follow the different perspectives (each character is someone you will of passed whilst playing the other characters) to form a complete epic story. So far I'm only just starting the 3rd character. At times it can be very frustrating but at the same time I'm enjoying it regardless, even when I'm repeating the same boss battle for the 10th time because it smacked me in the face when I was caught off guard lol. But sometimes it can be pretty interesting, in the last boss battle both me and it were down to our last health and I decided it was all or nothing, luckily I came out on top before it had chance to eat me (again).

Another game by this company I've played is GrimGrimoire. Which is a tactical RPG but with a twist as battles take place on a flat vertical plane, basically on different platforms/floors with stairs inbetween that the enemies and you travel between (except for certain special or flying characters who travel freely). I enjoyed the game a lot, although like Odin Sphere it suffers from repeated locations it was still visually great and interesting to play. Shame it was a little short, something that Odin Sphere doesn't suffer as much from due to the difficulty level.

Too bad their latest game is coming out on the Wii which I don't have I hope a version comes out on PS2/PS3 or their future games don't all start being Wii games. I can't really afford to buy games for more than 1 console at a time.

I personally like the branching story of Odin Sphere.... How you can play different parts of it and different viewpoints... I like how it also lets you play all the viewpoints of every character so you can get the full story from different perspectives as well as see what motivates each and every character.

Art style is definately amazing.

Muramasa: The Demon Blade.... that the other game you are referring to?

Odin Sphere sounds like a really good game, what platforms is it for??? Just computer or is it on Consoles as well???

I've been playing Trackmania Nations Forever as of late on PC purely because it's free and AWESOME! On 360 I'm playing GTA4-Tomb Raider:Underworld-Burnout Revenge-Portal-Geometry Wars 2-Bionic Commando:Rearmed-Blazing Angels 2 and NHL 09.

Wii - Super Mario Galaxy and every other Mario game on Virtual Console-Boom Blox by Steven Spielberg.

DS - Just finished Arkanoid

Odin Sphere is for the ps2.

Dead Space
Very well produced game that borrows more than it brings. Still freaky. Has some spots where there's no gravity and you're hopping around, other parts where you're walking through a vacuum and the audio becomes muffled. And you kill things via dismemberment. And you fight mutated babies.

I've been playing a lot of Left 4 Dead. That game is amazing. It's what an FPS should be: mass amounts of fun with friends. It's being labeled by many in the industry as the first "true," co-op experience because cooperation is the only key to survival.

You should join me and my buddy Freepizza for a game or two. We shoot zombies like there's no tomorrow.

-Fred