System Wars Lounge v42-- The Temporary Edition

Yes.

Although I always felt that while there is buying a system for one game, it's always about the games that will come ahead with it. I didn't buy a 3DS or Vita for any game in particular, I bought them because they were cheap and because they are Nintendo and Sony handhelds. That's all I really want.

Though I will buy the next system Zero Escape is on if it's on a different one.

Not bad at all, just school and stuff.

You?

Dead

Dat Bravely Default overworld theme...hnnnnnggggghhh

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Finally, robotic beings rule the world.

Yo, that's obscene.

"NC-17 with..." oh crap, I better not finish that line.

That reminds me of a stream of margarine I put on my toast this morning.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha, yeah

Some margarine.

So I ordered PS+ from Best Buy on Christmas. Cancelled the order about 2 weeks later because they lost it and I got a full refund. Yesterday I got the PS+ card in the mail. Think they'll charge me? lol

Hey "if they lost it" you never got it *whistles* :P
lol. idk what I'd do in that situation.

That happened to a friend and BB deactivated the card after the order was cancelled, so it didn't matter when he got the card later in my buddies case.

I just checked and it worked. hnnnnnnng

Haven't played Shadow Fall but LOL.

Yeah, KZ Mercs' campaign gets boring and derivative, fast. I liked how the beginning has this Halo Reach-y kind of vibe with that white mall complex.

Also, can I tell that guy you're up for that gameshare slot?

I don't really post here much anymore, but I'm totally getting a gaming PC. Hype.

That's a good deal for you. My friend wasn't as lucky.

yup. well. its different. its like a hang out. people come and say what's up.

so, what's up?

I wonder what kind of reaction I'd get if I made an "Alpha Protocol is Better than Mass Effect" thread.

news to me

So I just finished 999. My mind got too overloaded so I decided to go online and have someone explain it to me. Bruno gladly obliged.

What. The. Fucking. ****.

And...

Well, yep, that happens.

Knack is underrated

It's at least a 10

It was robbed of game of the year :(

Maybe we should have voted knack as our system wars king.

How are you? =)

I'm good. How about yourself?

lol pretty much my reaction too.

Doing good, I got a new game recently :o

Did you actually finish it though?

I got one of the endings. Forgot which one. I didn't replay it multiple times

That's not finishing it lol. At the very least, you need to get the Safe and True endings, everything else is just a quantum state counterfactual that is an alternative to what might have happened as opposed to what does happen in the True Ending if a certain someone had not been guiding your actions and hands.

Do not highlight or click that if you have any intent whatsoever of ever actually finishing the game, heavy spoilers for 999.

Then your reaction was faaaaar away from Char's.

Read it anyway, because never playing.

I heard that it is a hard as dark souls on normal difficulty.

@charizard1605: You ****, why the **** would you post that anyways?

@DarkLink77: What's stopping you all this time?

Which should I start first, Ico or SoTC? I'm going to pick one soon and play it.

Oh whoops, forgot to respond to you earlier

Have you played them before?

No worries. I've only played a little bit of SoTC when I had it on the ps2. Eventually misplaced my copy and regretted it. Never played Ico, but I always heard good things about it.

I dunno. I just don't care about it, I guess. There's no way it can live up to the ridiculous hyperbole you guys throw at it, and I've never cared about visual novels.

I'd still say try; neither Char nor I were into VNs and we were still enamored by it.

How do you know it's hyperbole if you haven't played it? No one says its gameplay is gonna be the best of anything or that it will cure cancer, only that its ending will blow your mind

It's not that. It's more of a "this is the best story ever told in a video game."

It's like, really? Come on, now. But yeah, I may give it a try if I ever get the backlog to a manageable level and I have some extra money.

1) That's not hard

2) It easily is. Like, there's no close competition, although I haven't played PlanetScape or the BioShocks. Is Bioshock 2 worth playing?

If you haven't played Planescape you really can't talk.

I haven't played 2. Infinite is.

You play ICO first (pronounced EEko btw, for RL convos).

SOTC came second and it's a better game, so going backwards by playing SotC 1st wouldn't be to your best gaming interest. You could lose interest in ICO doing that. Also, chronologically, it makes sense to play ICO first because it came out first. Both games are connected to the same mythos believe it or not, so if you like the universe, it's nice to have completed both games and playing SotC you may decide to never finish ICO after starting it and finding it not as exciting. They are not in the same genre, one is more puzzle platformer and the other being more a more action platformer/Boss Rush Mode on steroids. Both are revered games, but SotC is considered the better game and rightfully so. Playing SotC first is sort of like eating pie with ice cream first and then finishing your meal with broccoli last.

I enjoyed both games, but I'm certain I would have a different opinion if I played them out of order by playing SotC first. Then again, playing them over a decade later, maybe you won't enjoy them as I did back in 2001's ICO and 2005's SotC, who knows.

I recently went through those games with my lady last year or the year before, and enjoyed the HD experience, but part of that was because it was hang out time for both of us. She enjoyed herself, but I did wonder back then how she would have felt back when these games were technical wonders, as they are dated by today's gaming graphics standards.

I don't know if the HD collection will live up to the HYPE generated over the years by the cult following, but best of luck to you. When I bought them, there was literally no HYPE, I was one of those gamers trying to expose those niche gems back then. In my experience, HYPE can have disastrous effects on my movie going/game playing/book reading experiences, so I try to get to these forms of media to prevent that effect, but not everyone is wired like that. Too many times I've seen threads like, "XYZ was TERRIBLE, why is it SOOOO Overrated." I usually think those complaining should have tried whatever game/book/movie/tv show was before it was overrated, they may have enjoyed it instead of instantly critiquing it.

It's funny, I remember posting here in System Wars about Shadow of the Colossus prior to it's release in 2005, and trying to explain why people should give it a shot. When I would bring up, from the creators of ICO, they didn't know what that was either. Those were the days. I doubt I sold a single copy, lol. I miss talking about and exposing neat new IPs / niche games like Phantom Dust, ICO, Shadow of the Colossus, Maximo, Eternal Darkness, Zone of the Enders 2nd Runner, Pac-Man Vs., Viewtiful Joe, etc. It's comical because here I am talking about ICO and SotC now in 2014 on the same forum and website, it blows my mind. I never fathomed I would be chatting about those very same games with my same opinion all these years later. I'm grateful that ICO/SotC were given an HD collection for modern gamers, there is not enough of those HD collections for some forgotten games. A lot of games got skipped for the HD roll call, like Onimusha series for instance.

I actually bought both ICO and SotC on their PS2 launch days having had reserved each one, so I recall having had to wait years for SotC. It's nice to be able to have both games side by side for first timers.

That's a lot more than I wanted to type, but I'm just making some conversation. My recommendation is play ICO first, besides making conversation I wanted to give you background on where I'm coming from. My gaming roots. It's possible this background would be the exact reason why you may never touch either game after reading, which is also fine. As long as it helps in some way, lol.