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Another week, another 7 days of new game releases!
Welcome to the 50 edition of G&T's newly traditional "Weekly Games Release Thread!" - Week 2/8 - 2/14!
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!
Welcome to the 50 edition of G&T's newly traditional "Weekly Games Release Thread!" - Week 2/8 - 2/14!
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
Retro Game Challenge
Thrown back in time to the 1980’s, you are turned into a young boy and forced to play video games by an evil self-proclaimed “Game Master.” Game Master Arino will test your gaming skills by throwing various challenges at you in a wide variety of retro games including shooters, racing, action and even an epic role-playing game. To escape you must defeat him in every retro game challenge he throws at you. But you are not alone in you quest – armed with access to gaming magazines, you can find cheat codes to warp to later levels, receive unlimited continues or even become invincible! A young Arino is at your side to keep you company during your challenges, quite amused that he grows up to be so evil and becomes the cause of your current predicament. Test your skills with the awesomeness of the 8-bit era and prevent the retro games from exacting their revenge!
Jake Power: Fireman
My DoItAll
PC
F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin
X-Blades
Galactic Civilizations II: Ultimate Edition
Mystery Case Files: Return to Ravenhearst
Perimeter II: New Earth
Warfare
Celetania
PS2
M&Ms Adventure
PS3
X-Blades
F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin
Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection
PSP
LocoRoco 2
Wii
Deadly Creatures
The House of the Dead: Overkill
Onechanbara: Bikini Zombie Slayers
NASCAR Kart Racing
Xbox360
F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin
X-Blades
Onechanbara: Bikini Samurai Squad
Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection
Mass Effect (2-Disc Edition)
WiiWare/VC
LIT
dunno yet
XBLA/XNA Community
3 on 3 NHL Arcade
dunno yet
PSN
Flower
dunno yet
This is an awesome week.
First - Retro Game Challenge for Nintendo DS! It's like the ultimate homage to all retro games in one NDS cart! Fuck yes!
Second - Sonic Ultimate Genesis Collection comes out for PS360! A serious collection of Sega games!
Third - Deadly Creatures comes out for Wii! It's like God of War but you play as a scorpion and a tarantula!
Fourth - House of the Dead Overkill comes out for Wii! The ultimate grindhouse-like shooter that's been custom built for at-home entertainment, for newcomers and hardcore lightgunner fans alike!
Fifth - FEAR 2 comes out for the HD systems!
Sixth - Loco Roco 2 arrives for PSP, at retail, for $20!
Seventh - Oneechambra comes out for 360 and Wii! The campy zombie-slaying-chick over-the-top-violent action games!
Eighth - X-Blades comes out for the HD systems, but I don't know much about it except that it's some kind of action game and the Euro box-art has a discrepancy between the two versions!
Ninth - Flower for PSN!
Man, this year is getting it's game on.
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Also, nice thread title.
February is the new November.
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(Please do not gift. My game bank is already full.)
Who wants thread rights? :P I could try, but I think a game like that could use a special touch.
Makes me feel kinda guilty for buying some VC games, but I doubt Nintendo will ever make an SNES collection as awesome as this.
Oh, and FEAR 2. Though I'll probably wait until I'm done replaying the first game.
No kidding. Can you imagine how awesome an HD remake of SNES games would be? (though I guess it wouldn't technically be a HD remake on the Wii, but you get the idea)
What's Flower all about anyway?
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Retro Game Challenge is one of the few DS games I really want to try.
(Please do not gift. My game bank is already full.)
Oh, er...
Hm...
Basically, you're a flower petal that flies around in a series of levels. Your goal is to touch flowers, which makes you bigger, and your goal is to cleanse the land. So, I guess, Fl0w meets Okami?
And it's controlled entirely by sixaxis - very well, apparently. It's supposed to be a very relaxing, "artsy" game, though with more actual content than Fl0w.
Steam ID: slashx000______Twitter: @bill_at_zeboyd______ Facebook: Zeboyd Games
(Please do not gift. My game bank is already full.)
I might grab Patapon too. My PSP hasn't gotten any love in months.
Though neither has my DS. Le sigh.
Switch: 6200-8149-0919 / Wii U: maximumzero / 3DS: 0860-3352-3335 / eBay Shop
I know, but I'd prefer to have a UMD.
Switch: 6200-8149-0919 / Wii U: maximumzero / 3DS: 0860-3352-3335 / eBay Shop
woah, woah, woah, why was I not informed of this
you play as a motherfuckin scorpion are you serious
Patapon 2 is meant to come out this week too, so I might up that and Flower off the PSN. If the Mirror's Edge DLC comes out this week then I'll pick that up as well.
Nice change from the usual scenario, isn't it? Is for me anyway. :P We got LocoRoco 2 last year as well, so I guess SCEA are just being really slow.
Is, uh...is it super-expensive where you are or something? o_O
It's only $30 here in the US, half the price of most new games.
Yes and you beat the heck out of dudes (and by dudes I mean bugs and lizards and rodents and snakes) with your claws and you sting the crap out of them all the time and all over the place including in the back of their throat.
You can also be a spider and climb all over walls and jump on things and web them up and all kinds of spidery stuff.
And it also stars Billy Bob Thornton and Dennis Hopper as these humans you run across/avoid while you're out in the desert.
Yeah, it's NZ$80 over here, while most new games are NZ$100-120. If I didn't already have the PSP Collection, I'd probably buy it but since I do, I'll just wait a few months. I've been burned a fair bit over the last few months, with Mirror's Edge and Prince of Persia dropping price just a couple of weeks after I bought them. I'm just going to play it safe, while picking up the games that I doubt will drop anytime soon (RE5, Killzone 2 and Empire Total War).
Does anyone know what's on that second disc of Mass Effect? Is it just the DLC?
Steam ID: slashx000______Twitter: @bill_at_zeboyd______ Facebook: Zeboyd Games
What's surprising about that?
Deadly Creatures is a pretty well-budgetted, high quality "hardcore" game, with voicework from Dennis Hopper and Billy Bob Thornton. If any other excellent action game for a console can be $50, why not this one?
HOTD is retailing for $50, but it's not just a typical lightgun shooter. It's far longer than an arcade shooter and it's designed for home console play, with lots of content, and plenty of replay incentives; plus these games are blast in 2-p. It's an extremely high quality game whose replay value revolves around the player and his tastes; not unsurprisingly, if you're looking to buy a lightgun shooter, you're probably going to be a person who enjoys the type of game in which replay is based on perfecting the levels/minimizing credit usage. It's just that there's also a ton of content, length, and high production values, compared to most games in this genre. If it were anything close to, say, Ghost Squad, I wouldn't want to pay $50 either. But there's far more here than something like that.
Steam ID: slashx000______Twitter: @bill_at_zeboyd______ Facebook: Zeboyd Games
I know nothing of Deadly Creatures so...
The people who wouldn't pay $50 for a lightgun game that's this good with this much content probably aren't the type that "get into" this type of game in the first place.
Also, many people have poured well over the average hours they may have spent on some typical action game into other lightgun shooters (like.. HOTD2 for example).
I anticipate playing through the 3 hour campaign at least 3 times by myself minimum (once for the first time and story, at least once more to get better/reduce credit usage, and at least a third time in Dual Wield Mode), and at least another time with a friend in 2-p. That's 3x4 = 12 hours, and that's the absolute minimum I will put into this game. I'll probably end up putting in more time on harder difficulties, trying to minimize credit usage, and exploring other paths, and unlocking stuff. Plus I'll definitely do several runthroughs in 2-p mode with a friend, which is glorious. I could see myself easily spending over 30 hours with this game.
Whereas a lot of straightforward single player action games, I'll be glad to have put in 10 or 15 hours.
edit: as a side note I should mention that iirc I put in over 20 or 25 hours into REUC, a mere lightgun game, and I never even played that in 2-p mode.
Do you like God of War? Do you want something akin to that with a very interesting premise and setting? Deadly Creatures.
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Also, do want Flower, and possibly Sonic collection, if I can convince someone else to buy it as well for online Streets of Rage multi.
I haven't watched it but I'm hoping this explains something:
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/44893.html
From what I've heard, it's alike GOW in terms of the Scorpion in that you have basic moves that you combo together and then you have a QTE kind of Finishing move.
The presentation is also somewhat like GOW in that you gain a great sense of scope as an arachnid/scorion amidst a huge world, and you even see the towering lumbering humans in the background at times (like seeing the Gods in the background in a GOW game).
The spider is more stealth than God of War though, but it looks just as fun.
I haven't watched that vid but hopefully it explains somethign.
I'll brb
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That looks really fucking cool.