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Well I don't know about others, but it certainly seemed to get good scores in reviews and "game of the year" stuff, and I really enjoyed it too. Which I was quite surprised by, to be honest.
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Edit: Outpost Kaloki X is pretty entertaining also.
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BS: Midway is a ton of fun. It's a WWII RTS/Simple Flight Sim/Simple Naval Sim hybrid.
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To the OP, I would heartily suggest making extensive use of the available demos and XBLA trials. There's a whole lot of gold out there if you're looking.
Also, shame on all of you for not mentioning chromehounds. You can find it around $15 dollars now, but its fun as hell, especially if you get into it and start playing online. I don't know quite how it is, but I know they nerfed shotgun karts(thank god), so things should be pretty nice.
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At first it looks kind of crappy, there's not really any argument there; it was originally made on what is more or less Dreamcast hardware, and it doesn't even look as good as the best DC games.
The whole game is about movement and spacing, and the manual does a surprisingly good job of detailing how the dashing mechanics work. However, the manual is outright incorrect in the moves list for a number of characters, and if you try to do their moves as the manual has written you may not get it at all. Pretty crappy, that part there.
If there's one part that people do complain about, it's the BOSS mode... because often it seems like Vanish BOSS activation is some kind of "I WIN" button. And yeah, some people's BOSS modes are much better than others, and some outright suck. But if you can learn how to defeat each of the boss patterns (and it's not impossible), you get to enjoy watching your opponent go "OH SHI-" as you survive it, activate your own afterwards and pwn his sorry 0-health Vanish-state person.
But that's not what's really important.
What's really important is
EDF! EDF!
Earth Defense Force 2017 is the best game on the 360.
At least, it's my favourite game on the 360.
And to hell with all of those who think the voices in the game suck. They add so much to the game that I would never play the game with them off.
EDF! EDF!
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Haven't played it yet, but isn't Carcassone (sp?) a better value for someone in my situation?
Regarding the actual topic of discussion, I gotta point out Earth Defense and The Outfit for any bargain hunters out there. The Outfit was a blast and it felt like I was playing with my little green army men again.
If a game is somewhat good, someone has sung its praises to death somewhere on the internets and likely on this forum.
This is actually a good thing since I don't think any games this generation are actually rare by any means. It's a different story for the PSP, PS2 and the DS though...
Yeah, I wouldn't say that they're quite as obscure as... well, some of the games on consoles that were never in North America, and it's hard to say that any game during the time of its generation plus the internet is THAT obscure.
That said, some games like Ronde and EDF have their threads frequented muchly by people that ALREADY have or have played the game... just look at the post/view count. It's not that high. And they're certainly a long ways away from being big hits.
Isn't the problem with Catan and other games, such as Uno, is that the cards you hold in your hand need to be kept secret from other players? I'm not sure how you could do local multiplayer on one screen, unless the game can convince everyone in the room not to cheat by looking at each other's cards on the screen somehow (which seems rather implausible). Carcassone doesn't have this problem, due to the way the game works (no secrecy needed).
If anyone has a good suggestion on how to bypass the secrecy thing in a local multiplayer game, I'd love to hear it. (And I'll float it up to the right people to see if they've heard of it, since I've worked with that group before)
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Same problem is right there along with looking at another person's screen in a FPS game to stop them fron sneaking up behind you. A few games can solve that issue, such as Texas Hold'em by having it deal out the cards, warn the player that it is there turn and while they hold in the A button their cards will appear, and after a counter it goes to the next person. Each person in the room would have to be trust worthy enough to not look on the deal. This would work for Texas Hold'em cause once you see your two cards you are good to go, unlike uno where your hand is constantly changing.
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Still has advertisements for it playing on television. I wouldn't call it obscure by any stretch of the word. :P
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I snagged Carcasonne when it was free about a week ago. It's pretty good but I don't know if I would have payed for it otherwise. The game will do same console multiplayer without gold accounts. Download the trial and see how it suits you.
I downloaded the katamari demo. . . maybe its because I have never played one before, or perhaps I missed something; but, WTF would anyone play this game? You roll around as this little ball over crap thrown in the street with some with bright seizure inducing effects then something about a creepy creature who calls itself a prince for no reason. Total crack game with no point as far as I could see.
(hoping that some fan is going to come in here and point out all the amazing fine qualities and what the point is, because I really lost some faith in the gamer community on that one)
Ah, the topic at hand. . . I didn't really enjoy Amped 3 as much . . . not a bad game, but I really enjoyed the play of SSX3 more. For arcade, not really obscure, but I get a ton of play out of Puzzle Quest and Lumines. (Catan, Geo Wars go without saying). My favorite major titles have already been well covered.
That's part of why a lot of people like the series.
With an FPS, the advantage of knowing where your enemy is located is nice, but ultimately not as important as your actual skill in being able to take him/her down. With certain card/board games, it's all about tactics and strategy, so secrecy is often much more important.
As for your example, you admit that you have to have everyone in the room be trustworthy. As I mentioned in my original post, yeah that's always possible, but it's certainly not ideal at all. Especially in a party situation, the game may devolve into a "make sure he's not cheating!" situation which, while fun, isn't what the game is ultimately about.
Something like DS connectivity, as someone else suggested, would be cool. Didn't the Dreamcast do something similar with the VU embedded in the controller? I think having some sort of add-on to the controller, which has a miniature screen, would be cool for party games like this.
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