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Speaking of Telltale Games...has anyone played Tales of Monkey Island? I'm a fan of the Monkey Island games, and it looks promising. I'm several years late to the party, but I might have to try it.

Kame-Sen'nin wrote:Speaking of Telltale Games...has anyone played Tales of Monkey Island? I'm a fan of the Monkey Island games, and it looks promising. I'm several years late to the party, but I might have to try it.

I've been curious about that one, too! I've heard it was good.

Red Dead Redemption. Not so much a good game as much as a great "experience". The controls are wonky as I find all modern 3d environment games to be, but I love westerns and the idea of "experiencing" a western--albeit in a fictional setting, and on the safety of my sofa, lol--is something I've long yearned for. Wide open lands, horses as the main mode of transportation, small town communities...that's always been something I've sometimes idealized in my head, even though I don't care for the hygienic standards of the old west and the idea of pretty much everyone being able to carry a gun (though I guess they still do that today in the US, lol). And the racism of course I don't care for either (though in a modern game they conveniently brush that aside).

Sometimes I just spend an hour or so just casually riding the horse and looking at the open lands. It's mostly just empty game space from a practical standpoint, but as escapism for a less industrialized era it's pretty immersive. As someone who's always lived in spaces where I can't walk for more than a few yards without running into some concrete or building, it's basically a form of escapism now to play a game like this.

I've never really been a fan of modern gaming that tries to be more of a substitute for real life...I'm more someone who views games as more of a hobby. But this Red Dead Redemption pushes the right buttons for me in terms of games that are more about the immersion factor than actual gameplay. I can't, for instance, see myself wasting hours and hours a day just soaking in the world on those Skyrims and Witchers and stuff with knights and fairies and dragons. I mean I *like* medieval fantasy games (Just finished Dragon's Crown after all), but those worlds are not the kind of thing I think of as places I want to live in or spend an extended amount of time in beyond a "just beat this game" standpoint.

llj, I really know what you are expressing about the excessive escapism present in many of today's games. As i mentioned earlier, I purchased Fallout 3. The game was interesting and fun, but the game is too intricate for my taste. The world in the game is very extensive and you can easily wander around for hours and hours interacting with NPCs, Nonplayable characters, and aggressive wildlife and other enemies. i played the game right up to where I escaped the vault and went to the bar to ask about my father. The problem was i had to wait until night until the bar opened. I had to wait at least and hour after i arrived Megaton. Too much real time passing in my opinion.

The games i tend to complete are Catherine, Alice the madness returns, or Mortal Kombat in story mode. It usually takes me three days to beat the games. I played games like fallout before, but it usually lasts for a couple of weeks before I let it go. When I was playing Neverwinter Nights I played almost religiously for months. Yet, i made a bad decision to fight a dragon with an impossible challenge rating and got stuck. I just gave up playing because i was not in the mood to back track.

I played Guild Wars much longer because i made an online friend. If i played Fallout online i think I could get hooked. I am a big time internet chatter. I was thinking of getting on Second Life just to have more of an online social life. i have downloaded the SE Veiwer and was in the process of buying some Linden dollars just after I enrolled in an electronics class at the local community college. The class got hard and I forgot about SE. However, i might give it another chance sometime down the road.

Just for the sake of not wasting my money i will give FAllout another go.

I've heard that Fallout: New Vegas was better than Fallout 3. I actually have New Vegas sitting in my small pile of 360 games, waiting to be played.

Picked up Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City for a few dollars. Heard very mixed things about this one, but it was cheaper than a rental. So far it was worth the low price.

Also, I ordered Godzilla for PS4. It's currently going for around $20 at Gamefly. No way I was going to spend the original $60 msrp, but since I'm a huge Godzilla (strictly the Toho films, however--not the latest American one), I had to play it. Hopefully it'll arrive next week.

usamimi wrote:I love the art direction on TWAU, the use of color, shadow, and direction itself is just really great. I'm looking forward to season 2 already.

Just finished it last night and I was not disappointed. As usual, Telltale did an amazing job. I can't believe I had waited until now to play it, every chapter somehow managed to top the previous one. I'm a little worried though that Telltale's taking on too many new titles to develop at once. They still haven't announced season 3 of The Walking Dead and I tried looking up any info on The Wolf Among Us season 2 and couldn't find much.

Kame-Sen'nin wrote:Speaking of Telltale Games...has anyone played Tales of Monkey Island? I'm a fan of the Monkey Island games, and it looks promising. I'm several years late to the party, but I might have to try it.

No, but I loved playing the first two games on my sister's 486 computer in the early '90s. "How appropriate... you fight like a cow!" I loved those old SCUMM games.

i have been playing Poppit a LOT! It is just a simple game but i must do a combined hour every day. I have to force myself to stop. I am starting to see why gamblers can sit at the slot machines for hours on end! Here have a look at this free game and see what i mean. it just loads in your web browser and is instantly playable. Link: http://poppit.pogo.com/hd/PoppitHD.html

Received Godzilla for the PS4 in the mail today. Really didn't have much time to play, maybe 15 minutes or so. I know it's not a fair amount of time to get a good feel for the game but, what little I did see, I really liked.

Godzilla handles like a tank, slow and lumbering--just like he should. And the opening tutorial takes place in 1954 and is in black and white, with Akira Ifukube's fantastic Godzilla theme blaring in the background. Years ago, I used to play the Gamecube/PS2 Godzilla games, like Destroy All Monsters Melee, Save the Earth, etc...and loved them, but something about the gameplay always felt off. The monsters were too fast, the in-game physics had the monsters getting tossed into the air and across the screen like rag dolls...it just didn't seem authentic to the movies (albeit they were fun games to play with friends). For the brief time I did play this new one, it's clear they went for a 'heavier' approach to the monsters.

We'll see how the game holds up when I play it more this weekend. I can already guess that this is a title for hardcore Godzilla fans only, and since I'm a huge fan of the Toho films, I'm sure my rose colored perception will be different than a casual fan.

I'm nearing the final stretch of Red Dead Redemption. Heard dismaying news about the fate of the main character (who's easily the best I've ever played in a Rockstar game) but excited to get a glimpse of the "new" protagonist extra as an epilogue.

In the meantime, I am also waiting for a price drop on the PC version of Trails in the Sky. Will it come any time soon? I hope I don't have to wait until Christmas. Since I'm paying in Canadian money, the exchange rate is ass because of the horrible value of the CDN dollar right now. $20 usd is $26.65 in cdn right now. WTF