Foolz said:

WTF is up with this place. It's not just Vader that actually liked FFXII?!

You are the weird one. FFXII is one of the highest rated FF games, many people love it.

phantom_leo said:

Sorry, GG. I only got to play one quick operation in Trauma Team so far....

I'll be very interested to know how the difficulty ramps up.  If it 's going to be like the other games, or if I'll be able to finish this one.

edgecrusher said:

Hitman 5, pretty cool. The last one was good but Hitman 2 is still the best. Surprised its been so long since they made one.

Started playing FF13 last night. Mixed reactions so far. I liked the western direction they were going with FF12 and really wish they stuck with that, with its focus on exploration and real-time combat. With FF13, they've gone back to a more Japanese style a la FF10, which is great, but they've also REALLY stripped it down and simplified things to the point where many of the elements that made FF....err, FF, are gone. There is ZERO exploration; you just get thrown into these random "acts" and fight your way through in some ASS-EASY random battles. I mean this shit is fucking simple...at least 20 times easier than the combat in any other FF game so far. The game is ultra-linear as well thanks to the aformentioned mission setup. It really seems like they were trying to make it as accessible as possible for the more casual players. Graphically its beautiful; I'm playing the PS3 version and its probably the best looking game on the system. The story and characters are kind of MEH right now, surprisingly. And they have their token whiny girl character yet fucking again.  I really hope it gets better cause as of right now this game is to FF12 and FF10, what FF9 was to FF8 and FF7: Good but should be much better.

Lost Odyssey smokes this game, easily.

Also just got Red Steel 2 and No More Heroes 2. Will play Red Steel 2 tonight.

Be interesting to see if you get like Dvader, not liking it at first. I hear the game takes the training wheels off, but only after 30 hrs?  Nice grab on NMH2 and Red Steel 2. Good to know that some of the USA VGpress crew actually have a sack.

Did you get motionplus then?

phantom_leo said:

Sorry, GG. I only got to play one quick operation in Trauma Team so far. Figuring out the Chapter Select screen seems to be part of the challenge of the game. I was looking where the story was supposed to start, couldn't quite figure it out, and decided to go for an early endoscopy procedure.

It's typical Trauma Center stuff, but it was fun to do something a bit different.

You basically control the scope, pushing in to go further, pulling out to retreat. You have a set of tools to siphon blood, inject medicine, spray to detect ulcers, cauterize and so forth. You, of course, need a steady hand and quick reflexes to get a good score. I didn't. I was bumping into walls, injecting Stabilizer again and again, thinking it was medicine, and couldn't quite get the hang of the 'radar' or the tool selector. I got a 'C.'

The cut-scenes are very high quality animation stills, the voice-work seems to be very competent. I like it A LOT. I never really got a chance to play Second Opinion (?) and decided to wait for this one, rather than take a step back.

So far, so good!

...Oh!



...Boobies!

Nice. Did you skip New Blood too? That game came out like a year late in Europe. I will get Trauma Team, not know but eventually.

aspro said:

New podcast is up.

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Archangel3371 said:

Foolz said:

WTF is up with this place. It's not just Vader that actually liked FFXII?!

I too liked FFXII, it was a great game.

Me three!