Week o Games,9/20: Halo ODST, Katamari PS3, Persona PSP, TMNT Smashup, SpyBorgs, Aion

slash000

Another week, another 7 days of new game releases!

Welcome to the 82 edition of G&T's newly traditional "Weekly Games Release Thread!" - Week 9/20/09 - 9/26/09!

Where we discuss what we're looking forward to, what we're going to buy, and what we're just now realizing is being released this week that we had forgotten about!

NDS

Women's Murder Club: Games of Passion
Fabulous Finds
Just in Time Translation
Hidden Mysteries: Titanic
My Hero: Astronaut
The Price Is Right 2010 Edition
Where's Waldo? The Fantastic Journey

PC

Aion: Tower of Eternity

Dungeon Fighter Online
Fallen Earth
Order of War
The Price Is Right 2010 Edition
Where's Waldo? The Fantastic Journey

PS2

Scooby-Doo! First Frights

PS3

Katamari Forever


Fallout 3: Broken Steel (DLC)


Zombie Apocalypse (PSN)

PSP

Shin Megami Tensei: Persona

Wii

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Smash-Up




Spyborgs





Cabela's Big Game Hunter 2010 (w/Gun)

Animal Kingdom: Wildlife Expedition
Family Party: 30 Great Games Outdoor Fun
Hidden Mysteries: Titanic
Scooby-Doo! First Frights
The Price Is Right 2010 Edition
Wacky World of Sports
Where's Waldo? The Fantastic Journey
Hardy Boys: The Hidden Theft

Xbox360

Halo 3: ODST




Black College Football Experience - The Doug Williams Edition




Zombie Apocalypse (XBLA)

Looks like a decent week.

The HD systems get Zombie Apocalypse on their digital distro services.

PS3 gets Katamari Forever.

360 gets the newest in the Halo franchise as Halo 3 ODST comes out. Should be a hit.


PSP gets another great RPG, as Shin Megami Tensei Persona comes out for the little system.


Aion comes out for PC, but while I have seen it mentioned in news, I am unsure about what it is.


Interestingly the Wii has a couple of games that could potentially be quite awesome:

TMNT Smash-Up is a smash-bros-like game developed by a team of people who had worked on Smash Bros Brawl as well as some former Team Ninja folks.

SpyBorgs is a game from Capcom that looks to be like quite a solid and well-made brawler that looks to be even more fun when played in local multiplayer. It's another Wii exclusive that Capcom is putting time and effort into making a quality product, so if you're in the market for what could be an excellent 3rd person brawler (especially with >1 player) SpyBorgs could fit the bill.

Ah_Pook

i really want katamari forever but my budget is pretty tight and ive already played a ton of katamari in its various incarnations. i'll pick it up sometime down the road.

mastrius

Halo and persona all the way baby. Cannot fucking WAIT. I find myself playing the psp more than my actual system these days. (damn you Dissidia and Crisis Core) and Persona looks to steal my life even more. Dammit.

Antihippy

Naaaa nanana na na na naaaaah.

I won't be getting it. My money is already going to too many games.

Bartholamue

Aion is the newest MMOG from NCSoft, makers of Guild Wars and City Of Heroes.

greeble

I've never played a persona game before. I kind of want to see what the fuss is about, but all the videos I've seen so far seemed rather dull. (Not a big JRPG person, but have been known to love a few.) Not sure I want to get a game that is all about teenage relationships.

Also I'd like to finish off prototype and platinum Uncharted before Demon's Souls gets here.

Ah_Pook

also what in the hell is


Black College Football Experience - The Doug Williams Edition

mastrius

greeble wrote: »

I've never played a persona game before. I kind of want to see what the fuss is about, but all the videos I've seen so far seemed rather dull. (Not a big JRPG person, but have been known to love a few.) Not sure I want to get a game that is all about teenage relationships.

Also I'd like to finish off prototype and platinum Uncharted before Demon's Souls gets here.

Hah. Wow. Yeah no. Persona is nothing like that. Persona 3 is about the world coming to an end and the teens trying to save it while people are slowly being killed and Persona 4 is actually a murder mystery. Theres just some awesome school stuff you can do in it. Its actually really damn fun and sometimes i prefer walking the school and talking to people to dungeon crawling.

But the original Persona games are completely different than how P3 and P4 play out.

Dehumanized

P3 and P4 are much more accessible games than P1 was. I'm not sure how much the remake will change that, but it'll probably still be like that.

I'm in for the Persona 1 remake, and probably going to eventually snag Katamari Forever -- a few months down the line. The demo for it seemed a lot better than Beautiful Katamari was, though the idea behind the game is certainly quite played out by now.

darleysam

Ah_Pook wrote: »

also what in the hell is


Black College Football Experience - The Doug Williams Edition

Yeah.. I wanted to ask that too.

Wut?

Brainiac 8

TMNT: Smash Up for me. I have been waiting a while for it.

I probably can't buy it for a few weeks though, as I have so many other games to finish.

RainbowDespair

Molly the Were-Zompire (my interactive novel on XBox Live Indie Games) is 75% through peer review after being up for 5 days so it'll probably come out this week. 80 MS points to purchase.

Impressions from the reviewers so far have been positive:

"Good choose your own adventure game, some of the choices made me laugh hard."
"The writing is playful, humorous and interesting."
"I like it, Congratulations!"

EDIT: Review % increased shortly after posting this so I updated it.

wunderbar

Stoked for Halo, and would like to pick up Persona but I haven't bought Scribblenauts yet, and that goes first. TMNT smashup is also on the list, but will likely wait.

Lunker

RainbowDespair wrote: »

Molly the Were-Zompire (my interactive novel on XBox Live Indie Games) is 75% through peer review after being up for 5 days so it'll probably come out this week. 80 MS points to purchase.

Impressions from the reviewers so far have been positive:

"Good choose your own adventure game, some of the choices made me laugh hard."
"The writing is playful, humorous and interesting."
"I like it, Congratulations!"

EDIT: Review % increased shortly after posting this so I updated it.

Well, you can count on at least one sale from this guy here.

I'm mildly curious about Persona PSP, though I've found I have a love-hate relationship with SMT games. I'm also curious about Motorstorm Arctic Edge coming later this month, so I might wait and see for the time being.

Ah_Pook

darleysam wrote: »

Ah_Pook wrote: »

also what in the hell is


Black College Football Experience - The Doug Williams Edition

Yeah.. I wanted to ask that too.

Wut?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60OZQmMvR2c

so... mediocre looking football game with rhythm based drumline minigames.

hmm.

UnbreakableVow

Psh.

More like rhythm-based drumline game! With mediocre-looking football mini-game.

Fashionist Pig

UnbreakableVow wrote: »

Psh.

More like rhythm-based drumline game! With mediocre-looking football mini-game.

On the plus side, when you play replays, the camera blurs from the speed of the ball being thrown, apparently.

Sadly, I'm afraid I will be waiting for the sequel; White College Waterboy Experience - The Adam Sandler Edition.

RainbowDespair

Lunker wrote: »

RainbowDespair wrote: »

Molly the Were-Zompire (my interactive novel on XBox Live Indie Games) is 75% through peer review after being up for 5 days so it'll probably come out this week. 80 MS points to purchase.

Impressions from the reviewers so far have been positive:

"Good choose your own adventure game, some of the choices made me laugh hard."
"The writing is playful, humorous and interesting."
"I like it, Congratulations!"

EDIT: Review % increased shortly after posting this so I updated it.

Well, you can count on at least one sale from this guy here.

Excellent! I'm really hoping that it can break the top 10 best sellers of the week chart for the first week since that would give it a huge boost in visibility.

brynstar

I picked up Fallen Earth sort of on a whim last night on Steam, partly after reading some of the forum thread here, and it's pretty great. It's a Sci-Fi MMO set in a wasteland version of the Grand Canyon. The game is huge, and I'm really enjoying the real-time shooting and melee combat, even though the whole thing has a roughshod feel to it. Although at first it seems like a shameless Fallout clone, it's actually quite a bit different, and I'm pleasantly surprised.

ChewyWaffles

Ah_Pook wrote: »

so... mediocre looking football game with rhythm based drumline minigames.

hmm.

Racist bastard!

Dodge Aspen

I'm still in last week country. The 2 big DS releases from last week still haven't found their way into my life. I'm mildy interested in TMNT, so I'll check out some reviews, but I have a backlog from summer. There is no way I'll make it through this fall.

Brainiac 8

I plan on renting Spyborgs. I would support Capcom's efforts, but I just don't have the money to justify it. Strait brawlers tend to bore me sooner rather than later also.

Dixon

I'll be getting halo...and I would like to support indie games from people on the board so I'll think I'll grab you game to Rainbow...I've got 880 points so its perfect

brynstar

Wait Spyborgs is this week? Gah! That looked kind of interesting. I had no idea it was coming out already.

fragglefart

ODST MOFOS!

slash000

brynstar wrote: »

Wait Spyborgs is this week? Gah! That looked kind of interesting. I had no idea it was coming out already.

Nor did the few other people who have actually heard of this game. It is doomed to fail.

RainbowDespair

XBLA is getting 3 games this week: Zombie Apocalypse, Warriors, and Ion Assault. 800 MS points a piece.

Brainiac 8

I don't think fail is quite the word, as the sales of this will be doing far worse than just fail.

Langly

has anyone seen any reviews for the TMNT game?

Bartholamue

I saw a preview of the TMNT game, saying it played well but if you played 4 player, that it was hard to tell who you were on screen if you were all four turtles at once.

troublebrewing

Women's Murder Club: Games of Passion
Black College Football Experience - The Doug Williams Edition

w...t...f...

slash000

Wasn't that Women's Murder Club thing one of the games Nintendo highlighted at E3 for a brief moment? And everyone was like "eh?"

Brainiac 8

Yea, it was. It's another game in their visual novel series, such as Hotel Dusk: Room 215 was. If it is anywhere as awesome as Hotel Dusk was, I may decide to buy it. I'll be waiting for reviews though.

Lunker

That's right, I almost forgot about that whole James Patterson thing. I thought I had heard somewhere that instead of a "true" adventure game like Hotel Dusk, it'll be more of a mystery novel mixed with a hidden-object game, like Millionheirs kind of was.

darleysam

fragglefart wrote: »

ODST MOFOS!

Amen brother, feet first into hell!

Brainiac 8

Lunker wrote: »

That's right, I almost forgot about that whole James Patterson thing. I thought I had heard somewhere that instead of a "true" adventure game like Hotel Dusk, it'll be more of a mystery novel mixed with a hidden-object game, like Millionheirs kind of was.

Ever since finishing Hotel Dusk, I've been dying for another adventure game with a story that could hook me in a similar way.

143999

Bartholamue wrote: »

I saw a preview of the TMNT game, saying it played well but if you played 4 player, that it was hard to tell who you were on screen if you were all four turtles at once.

If there are four people in a room, and one of them doesn't want to be Casey Jones, those four people deserve what they get.

Brainiac 8

143999 wrote: »

Bartholamue wrote: »

I saw a preview of the TMNT game, saying it played well but if you played 4 player, that it was hard to tell who you were on screen if you were all four turtles at once.

If there are four people in a room, and one of them doesn't want to be Casey Jones, those four people deserve what they get.

I already told my friends that play Smash Bros with me that I get Casey Jones, and they can play whoever else they want to.

DusT_HounD

Anyone else pick up the Udon promo comic for Spyborgs when they were at PAX? I hadn't heard of the game either, but the comic itself is pretty sweet, and art is good. Now if only i still had a wii...

Arminas

Oh my god, I didn't know Katamari Forever was coming this week. I saw the Prince dicking around at PAX, but didn't see a demo-oh. Right. Now I remember the demo. It was like one little kiosk and I was too enamored by their business cards (I took like 30 of them) and forgot about the demo and then rushed over to see the Prince. WELL THEN. I need to read more on this version. I haven't played Katamari in a good while.

Dehumanized

There's a demo of the game up on PSN.