A Winner Is You (2009)

New year, new thread!

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A good JRPG that suffers from all the ills typical of JRPGs: cliched plot, horrible character designs, and wooden dialogue. The combat played a major part in my finishing it, however, as it was really nice to fight in real-time and use some cool special attacks. I absolutely HATED the real-time menu system though. The game sort of falls apart at the end, with the bullshit last dungeon and lame last boss fight.

I still like to play these types of games now and then, but I don't see how much more life the genre has left in it. Japan has basically been recycling the same formula for more than a decade, and it's really showing its age.

if you don t want it
give it to me i pay the shipping costs
or a trade perhaps

It was lent to me by a friend. I almost bought it too, but decided to wait and borrow it.

#2.

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I'd already beaten it solo, but a friend and I decided to tackle the whole thing co-op. It took us only two days, and now I realize just how short this game is. The online play was only slightly laggy this time around, and I actually found the last two hidden orbs I needed!

2009|01

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I just don't know why, this afternoon I got an irresistible craving for Choplifter on the SMS. The first thing I did when I came home was fire up the old Sega 8-bit joy machine and give it a go.

I had already beaten it in the past, but I don't care. It's 2009 and it's here, first game I beat this year! I made it through loop 4-2, totaling 1.660.600 points, when I turned into a massive 2x16 POW killer... :?

Anyway, this game is still awesome after all these years. And I think I never got to see ET's bike fly in stage 4 until today! ;)

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I picked it up at a Flea Market for $3.. I finished it today on Normal, overall it was a pretty solid and unique shooter. Another great Renovation/Wolf Team game.

Strida Col will be forgotten. :(

I actually did it on the 31st December - but I finally got all 1000gs on Virtua Fighter 5 on the 360. It was seriously doing my head in because quest mode was taking so damn long, but I persevered and finally did it. I'm not going anywhere near another VF now for a long long time...

Just got the Platinum trophy for Dead Space, and damn what a stupid idea that was.. I love the game obviously, but having to play through a game 4 times to get all the trophies/achievements is a little ridiculous. Now I can work on my other acquisitions since then, mainly Fallout 3, Sonic Unleashed, and my ultimate time waster, Time Crisis 4!

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I picked it up at a Flea Market for $3.. I finished it today on Normal, overall it was a pretty solid and unique shooter. Another great Renovation/Wolf Team game.

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They just don't make covers like that anymore.

Just beat Out of This World (Genesis)...for like the billionth time, I still hate the section with the Steam Pipes...this game had the best password system EVER. 4 characters per password = jawauwsum!

Going to start next on either Raiden Trad or Road Blasters...I want to play something mindless for a bit.

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Going to start next on either Raiden Trad

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Good luck with the "special bonus" stage after you complete the game.

I got 341 points on the Ipod brick breaker game because I was on the train and my Lap Top's battery died while I was playing my legitimate copy of Guardian Heroes.

2009|02

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1CCed it and got up to the end of stage 2-2, when I had a cheap death before the boss and could not handle the bullet swarm unpowered.... :?

I'm going all the way through the series, and I think this one was a nice evolution to the first game. The boss rush and the last stage are brutal, but gosh it feels good to go through one of them unharmed!

Now for the SNES slowdown feast of Gradius III.

#1: Resistance 2 (PS3)
#2: Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm (PS3)

The Last Remnant will be the next one, hopefully tomorrow. I'm at the final boss, but am trying to get the last achievement I need before fighting him.

Just finished Call Of Duty:World At War this afternoon - Nazi Zombies is HARRDDD!!!! Just can't get past wave 4 - by myself, mind...

This weekend, I just started and finished The Legend of Zelda.

Yes, I used a walkthrough.

That game is amazing. Never had beaten it before. Now once I get done catalogging my whole collection I am going to start on #2. Hopefully I will be able to play every game on a portable, as I want to play the two they released for original game boy too.

Oh, I beat Superman Returns for Xbox 360 over break. Talk about movie game #13904810398, this game is so pointless and repetitive, it bored me to tears, but you get a quick 1000 gamer points and it was only 5.99 at gamestop so I added it to my collection.

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This weekend, I just started and finished The Legend of Zelda.

Yes, I used a walkthrough.

That game is amazing. Never had beaten it before. Now once I get done catalogging my whole collection I am going to start on #2. Hopefully I will be able to play every game on a portable, as I want to play the two they released for original game boy too.

Oh, I beat Superman Returns for Xbox 360 over break. Talk about movie game #13904810398, this game is so pointless and repetitive, it bored me to tears, but you get a quick 1000 gamer points and it was only 5.99 at gamestop so I added it to my collection.

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Those early NES games (Zelda and Metroid specifically), I can't imagine how gamers were able to complete them without guides. Zelda is the better game IMO, but both games stonewall you with objectives like "shoot/bomb random block to proceed."

How the hell would I have ever thought to do that??

Oh, and if you thought Superman Returns was bad, give King Kong a whirl. I got it for the exact same reasons you did, and it was the least satisfying 1000 points I ever earned.

#3: The Last Remnant (360)
#4: Saints Row 2 (360)

I just completed my first game of 2009, and that game is "Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem" for the Nintendo Gamecube.

It's the best horror themed game that I have ever played.

1) Metal Gear Solid (Playstation 1)
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Fantastic Game, I'd never played it before. Spent about 2 hours a night for 1 week getting to the final boss, which I then found to be RIDICULOUSLY BIASED... So I left it for 2 weeks... Finally picked it upagain and finished it tonight. Good outro video.

9/10

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1) Metal Gear Solid (Playstation 1)


Fantastic Game, I'd never played it before. Spent about 2 hours a night for 1 week getting to the final boss, which I then found to be RIDICULOUSLY BIASED... So I left it for 2 weeks... Finally picked it upagain and finished it tonight. Good outro video.

9/10

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Personally, I think that the Original Metal Gear Solid is the best in the series. I'm also quite find of the GameCube remake as well.

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Personally, I think that the Original Metal Gear Solid is the best in the series. I'm also quite find of the GameCube remake as well.

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I really didn't know much about MGS before I picked up and played it, all I knew was that it was considered one of the best games on the platform and it went for £££.

I took a look at the GC remake and thought: "whoa! I know that place! But it didn't look that good when I saw it!", the PS1 graphics give MGS a certain cartoonish charm. I don't own a playstation two (well, I bought one about 8 years ago and sold it after 3 days) so I don't think I'll be playing any of the sequels. In my experience originals are always best (see: Jurassic Park, Back to the Future), I will watch some Youtube vids to see what happened to Snake though.

2009|03

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The game is Super Raiden for the PC Engine CD. I was lucky/persistent enough to loop it and get to the 10th stage a second time.

This port is cool, besides the complete absence of parallax, and the CD music is a lot welcome. The checkpoint system gets on my nerves - but anyway, that's how things were mostly done at that time!

I gotta try playing the MD version again to see how it compares in difficulty. My memory tells me the MD port is a lot harder, at least in the beginning of the game.

#5: Persona 4 (PS2).

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I really didn't know much about MGS before I picked up and played it, all I knew was that it was considered one of the best games on the platform and it went for £££.

I took a look at the GC remake and thought: "whoa! I know that place! But it didn't look that good when I saw it!", the PS1 graphics give MGS a certain cartoonish charm. I don't own a playstation two (well, I bought one about 8 years ago and sold it after 3 days) so I don't think I'll be playing any of the sequels. In my experience originals are always best (see: Jurassic Park, Back to the Future), I will watch some Youtube vids to see what happened to Snake though.

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Eh, personally I don't think your missing all that much. I'm playing through Metal Gear Solid 3 right now, and it's a pretty good game, but I'm not to fond of how they departed from the classic style of gameplay.

Definitely though, the original Metal Gear Solid is the best out of all of them that I've played.

I passed Gears of War 2 this week. Much better than the first IMO.

Well not missing much with MGS3 anyways. If you ever do pick up a PS2, be sure to play Sons of Liberty, its the best one in the series IMO. The story line is pretty dumbed down in 3, and like 16-bit I don't really dig how they changed up the gameplay.

2009|04

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My worst fear concerning this game was that the songs sucked. I'm not such an Aerosmith fan. Luckily I was wrong, and was very pleased by the set list.

This is however easier than GH III, for instance. I beat it on HARD with several 5 star achievements, and I think I'm finally ready to get back to the older games and see how my pull-offs turn out this time...

Woa? Someone who actually enjoyed GH: Aerosmith? damn. I always liked GH II the best even though the tracks were covers but I just think it had the most solid tracklist, still need to try the original one though.

#6: Killzone (PS2)

#7: Siren: New Translation (PS3).

2009|05

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It makes me sad that the vast majority of Mega Drive players/fans are deprived from playing this shooter masterpiece. Excellent graphics and gameplay + levels are a lot different from each other. The soundtrack is also fitting, though not outstanding.

I like how the score in Eliminate Down is implemented just like in Thunder Force. It forces you to play it again in order to get the maximum number of multipliers after you beat the game.

Here's a bit of a first for me:

I plowed through Mario 3 using as few power-ups as I could, conserving them all for the big push through World 8. When I got to Bowser's Castle, I found that I had a hammer bros suit in my inventory. I threw it on just to see how long it would last, and I surprised myself by making it all the way through the castle. I took out Bowser with a few hammer strikes to the dome.

Never even knew that was possible, but then again, I was never able to hang onto my hammer suit through World 7 before . . .

#8: Zone of the Enders: The Second Runner (PS2).

Uncharted: Drake's Fortune

Despite my fears that it was going to kill my PS3 the whole time it was a pretty good game. I flew though the first 9 chapters and was thinking that this was going to be a 4 hour game, luckily it kept going for another 13 or so chapters.

I've finished Mirror's Edge. IF you look past the awkward controls and stop playing about halfway through the game, it's an excellent FPS-without-the-S. It's fantastic to see EA, of all people, producing a next-generation game where the primary colour is white, and everything's clean and you can almost taste the wind.

Buuut, once you get taken off the city rooftops and into a series of interiors where the 'pres butan lern where 2 go' button doesn't work, it gets very, very annoying. Too often I was left hammering the attack button while I'm getting butted to death by SWAT teams when you're stuck in the disarm maneuver because the gun didn't flash red at the 'right' time AAARGH.

My absolute favourite part of the game was Ropeburn's assassination - you're sprinting through the city rooftops past SWAT and CPF teams, tearing shit up just to escape *sigh* into the subway system. That's the only stand-out part of the game where you HAVE TO KEEP RUNNING or YOU'RE DEAD.

It's a shame that everyone besides Faith is American - I really like the character designs from the concept art. Jacknife looks better with long hair :)

Summary: the opening 'EA presents MIRROR'S EDGE' demo is the #2 coolest part of the game

2009|06

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Armed Formation F for the PCE is a quirky little shooter that could have had its colors better handled. Rarely have I seen so many colors together in a way that it surely gives you a hard time distinguishing bullets from backgrounds and walls from free pathways.

Most bosses in the 7 stages are wimpy. Some of the tunes are excellent and catchy sci-fi material though. It's not the best non-famous vertical shmup out there, but it is mildly fun.

#9: Onechanbara: Bikini Samurai Squad (360)
#10: X-blades (360)

Just finished the GG Shinobi without losing a life. Oh yes! :D

2009|07

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Strikers 1945 II (Saturn)
Hard game, my dedication paid off when I was able to loop it!

2009|08

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Fire Mustang (Mega Drive)
Simple yet fun. Fast paced action and amazing parallax compensate the lack of variety in gameplay.

2009|09

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Sagaia (Master System)
More difficult than the MD version. It's not a good port however, so it's only recommended for Darius hardcore fans.