That's a good question - I have NO idea. I haven't done anything co-op yet.

Rock Band 2. I have got to be the worst singer ever.

Zelda II: The Adventures of Link on NES, lol, I had never played a Zelda game before getting this one recently.

Played "The Lord of the Rings: Conquest" for 10 minutes the other day. The next day i returned it.

It did seem to play like a horrid piece of shit didn't it?

I've played better mods.

I would place it in my flop 3 of the worst console games i've ever played. And that says a lot.

I don't know about that for me (I've played a LOT of shitty games) but I will say that I didn't even finish the demo it was so bad.

I didn't even finish the training tutorial..

I traded in my old GTA collection and a couple other not-so-great ps2 titles at EB games. I always thought I'd want to hold on to the entire GTA series, but after playing 3, VC, SA, LCS, VCS and 4...well, I went back to play Vice City, and the control scheme was just so damn different back then, ha...kind of ruined it a little for me....although I kept my copy of San Andreas because it's a bit bigger, had a better control system, and well, I couldn't trade in the version I had on account of being something you could access "hot coffee" mode on?
I dunno...

So the girl got the latest need for speed which isn't really great on ps2 compared to other versions...she's taking that one back and choosing something else.

I got some "older" games,

The Thing which I think is great, never played more than a third of it last time though.

True Crime: LA, which I'll probably be taking back...seemed an OK game but the driving was just waaay too arcadey and crappy for me to accept.

Total Overdose - this one seems pretty cool actually, a keeper I reckon...it's a little bit GTA, a little bit POSTAL and seems to be pretty funny. Control scheme's a little different, but the kind I could get used to - bit like "gun".
Only played a mission or so thus far but I'll stick with my initial assessment.

So don't know what I'll trade TC in for, probably some fighter...but right now out of the ones I have, I'll more than likely get into The Thing again.

"Fear 2" PS3

Switching between Gears of War 2 and Dead Space

Playing the DLC content for GTA IV.

It's pretty fun.You get to play a biker in a gang.you ride around with your gang and kill other gang members.Have these really big gang wars which can be pretty hard.

But the best part is the bike races where you can knock people off there bike with a bat.Brings me back to the good ol days of
Road Rash.

I still never finished Tomb raider underworld..Now I'm pretty sure I've encountered a game killing bug that everybody was talking about. The 4th level. I'm so pissed. Hopefully I can just redo the level. I don't even want to do that! The levels are too damn long.

ps2 - Run Like Hell
Bargain bin 2nd hand purchase...bit of an aliens ripoff, but overall quite atmospheric and good, worth checking out.
Lance Henrikksen, Michael Ironside, Kate Mulgrew and Brad Dourif play some of the cast.

I remember, I actually saw a trailer for this some years ago...always wanted to know what it was for. It's funny how you come accross things like that.

The combat leaves a tad to be desired but the storyline is cool, and the feel is there. Maybe worth a check out if you haven't yet.

Also played through "total overdose",a pretty fun max payne meets gta kind've title.

"Silent hill - homecoming" ps3

Creepy as fuck from the first seconds of the game. That's how i like em. :)

Impressive. Really impressive.

And definitely a much improved combat system. Finally!!

I was worried it would suck because of the switch to an American studio. Sounds like I was (thankfully) wrong.

Indeed.

This is a must-buy for all horror gamers out there.

Update - Run Like Hell has a ver, VERY cool sci-fi storyline.
I'd recommend it to anyone into horror/scifi.
Combat may be a bit simplistic, but that's the only bad thing I've got to say about this title.
Tense, atmospheric, great voice acting and a killer soundtrack.

Far Cry 2

holy shit, I hooked up the HDMI cable to the new 50 inch and WOW. What a difference.

And it's in COLOR!!! :D

House of the Dead: Overkill

Love it!!!
I am surprised they got actual words in between all the cussing though:D

Tetris :D .........................

Gave that Watchmen DLC game a spin over the weekend, pretty satisfying really. I didn't want to relive the story I just want to kick highly efficient arse. It delivered in that and got NEARLY finished before the inevitable tedium of beat-em ups kick in. Satisfied me, and for less then the damn Iron Man game cost me just because I wanted to fly around in armour fighting choppers after watching that movie.

Getting close to finishing Dead Space... I'll be very sad when it ends. I love this game.

Quality game, genuinely tense playing experience

It's increddddible. I can't even comprehend how awesomely horrific it is.

"Resident evil 5" PS3

I heard it was the lamest, most unfrightening RE game so far. I lost interest.


In other news, I bought Bioshock! I'm starting it soon.

I would say the same about Bioshock. ;)


But yes, what you've heard is not far from the truth. The fact that it all begins in brought daylight does very, very little to the horror. It's just 2 people against a whole town of insane africans. I wouldn't call that horror, I would just call it action. Just like i would call the movie Gymkata an action movie and not horror.

Unlike the new Silent Hill which i coulnd't stop playing, i already had to take a break from RE5 after only 40 minutes. Gonna play again in a little while tho.

I had to put this one down. It was too scawwy. :o I loaned it to a coworker and I hope he enjoys it.

That being said, I think that Dead Space is one of the most gorgeously gruesome games that I have ever played. Wish I wasn't such a pussy. :o

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I was playing Fable II for a while but, well, as you can see my rant in that thread, it frustrated me to a point of putting it down. There's very little substance or challenge in it. HUGE disappointment.

NOW I'm replaying BioShock with a higher difficulty level. Reminds me of how gorgeous and horrifying this game is. One of the best games I've ever played.

Please play Dead Space until the end. Best video game storyline ever... Truly horrific. Incredible finale too.

I think you have some wanderlust in your eyes there champ, it's passable considering it has wooden emotionless characters and a level of predictably along the same lengths as a Disney movie.

It's certain a gorgeous game, with all it's flickering lighting and well designed monsters. It's also very satisfying with it's high tech weapons and time slowing powers.

Though on the topic of it's story I found the movie/comic thing they released for it to be pretty entertaining the psychological elements were more shocking there I thought. You should check that out if you get a chance Posher.

In other news a just dusted off RE5, it was OK. The opening section is never really matched though, some nice set piece battles and some huge boss fights, in the end though it kind of just putters along with feeling truly compelling or horrifying. I miss the scary old days of the haunted house.

Amen brother.

Revisiting an old friend

Battle for Middle Earth: Rise of the Witchking

Street Fighter II Hyper Fighting
Peggle
Worms


I can dig both types of horror games, the brooding atmospheric chillers and the action packed monster slaughtering simulators. There's the occasional game that crosses into both territories (RE: Nemesis really pulled the series from the creepy zombie game and injected tons of action IMO) but I try not to judge a game by the genre it's in, rather, if I have fun with it or not. D was creepy as hell but it was lacking a bit of the interactivity I like with my games, Clocktower had a similar situation going. Do I like those games? Sure, they had some really cool moments but I won't be playing through them again anytime soon.

The Thing - PS2.
I never bothered finishing it back in the day, got just past the first boss type thing as I recall...however, I find I'm a bit more patient now, so I'm giving it another go.
Forgot how fucking tense this game can be...it's really atmospheric and works as a great "sequel" to Carpenters 80's version.
Even though a little dated, I'd definately recommend a playthrough for anyone that wants to experience a pretty scary game.

Good stuff.

Just picked up Ultimate Spider-Man, and something called "Vexx" that I know nothing about (again, random "not so well known" stuff on ps2) which I might play around with a bit today, but I'll probably see The Thing through to the end.

- B.

still trying to build up the uno rank.

Here's a little snippet from a quasi-review that might make a little sense.

"Playing through it again with Kiko, I'm still trying to figure out how the game isn't scary. I keep reading that it isn't, and everyone seems to agree with this thesis, but no-one ever says why. It's true that the game relies less on what you might call "Pavlovian" horror - it doesn't ring the expected bells. There is no haunted house, for example. There is a marked lack of jack-o-lanterns, and black cats are rare. When I run out of ammunition and five men are trying to kill me - one of whom has no head but rather a lashing, six foot trunk of slick vermin, I know that I personally find that unsettling."

I'll answer the question fielded in that quote Des. It lacks genuine thrills not because it fails to lean on "pavlovian" conditioning cliche's but because it's elements both allow you to kill too efficiently and the impact of it's monsters lack any sort lasting fearful impression after the thirtieth one you massacre. Also the shift from "Survival" to "Offense" makes you characters seem more like highly trained spec op zombie killers rather then victims fighting for their lives. Not necesarily BAD but not scary.

The exampled cited, I never once had to stare down one of those infected men whose parasite had morphed the mans head into a lashing tendril without a copiuos amount of ammo and explosives at my fingers. In fact I took on three or for of those things at once on many occaisons. The first time it was perhaps a bit of "FUCK what is that?" but then it's just one zombie against my shotgun. After that they pop up I waste them, busines as usual.

At times it is scary, the game can do a good job of keeping monsters popping up all around you and placing a tense sort of pressure on you, in full context though it doesn't scare you, becuase you just kill so many monsters and so efficiently.

Its not to say I didn't like it, and I truly love mercenaries mode, but it's not scary. Not in a condictioned response sense, nor in any genuine tension building desperate way that the first three delivered. I will add though virtually all of that applies to Dead Space in my opinion as well. In fact Isaac Hayes is even mroe efficient at killing with his time slowing powers and wide array of lethal useful weapons.