THE VIDEO GAME THREAD

Alright, we've hijacked enough threads and I think we can all agree it's time we start a thread dedicated to video games (all types).

Bryan, I love the "run around do what you want type games" like GTA series, fracking stoked for the newest one coming out.

I don't know what it is about the GTA games, but I've been playing them since the original on PC (overhead view - 2d lol) and I can burn a few hours that way NO PROB!!

Jay - AC3 probably isn't for me either, but damn those graphics in the commercial look awesome!

If it's similar to red dead, forget it! I don't care much for western weaponry but wtf man!!! COD series are the bomb!! literally!! another great way burn a few hours "every" night..just kidding, I barely play anymore but there is something addicting about playing online and challenging your skills against the guy in IRAQ who does this for a living in real life! lol

carry on.....

Minesweeper FTMFW! LOL

I'm more racing games, you know, where I can do the things I wished I could on the roads even in the process of building my own seat/steering/pedals/shifter and possibly acuators with motors for the driving feel, but that's if I can get some help from a buddy of mine.

i play games like grid.. and need for speed underground. when i have some time to kill but i got sick of the controller and the steering wheels suck. lately i been playing this sweet drift game on phone cause i can steer using my phone.

the only shooting game i actuall could get into and finish the campain was james bond for the wii. using a real gun motion to me was way better then using the controller. plus when M called you, you had to answer you controller and her voice actually came from the controller.

a good buddy of mine has a g37 steering wheel with the 3 pedals (touch sensitive) and 6 speed manual shifter (where reverse is a PITA to get into lol) and Gran Turismo 5 is VERY simulated with the wheel feedback (vibrations and counter steer) and you can miss your shift/s quite easily if you don't get the clutch right..also blow your trans if you don't use your clutch hahaha..

also have paddle shifters too!

PFTT I'd put my talon on the line over a game of minesweeper. I'm really good

If my laptop wasn't stolen I'd being playing star craft 2 all day erday. However I have no problem settling with super smash brothers brawl

I use to love need for speed but it's been a while. Halo and COD are fun and stuff but I don't get too into them. I've always wanted to try assasins creed

^^ Ha, StarCraft. I remember that game. Used to play the older one all the time.

But now I'm more into NHL 13 and Call of Duty

Mike you play NHL 13? SWEET! what console?

360, but I took it over to my buddies the other day and haven't gotten it back lol. So I'm stuck with NHL12 right now.

Sum it all up, Mike, STFU and play the entire AC series. Amazingly immersive, and an excellent storyline! lol
Starcraft, still awesome.
I completely agree with Jay on "grid" games. Offer a much more in-depth level of gameplay.

Remember, if you want the most of your games, I recommend a solid sound system. 5.1 at least! Turtle beach headsets are the bomb!

If you're around the x360 scene, shoot me up johnovision27
I'll be rocking AC3 all this week and Halo 4 for the foreseeable future. Used to play CoD (only the MWs), still do just like to take a break every now and then.

Curious on everyone's favorite system and game of all time. Lets hear it

N64- mario kart/ mario tennis/ smash brothers

WIN ...100% WIN

excellent.

I've been wasting my nights away lately, because I'm broke, and because of Torchlight 2.

The pace of the game is great. Different flavour from Diablo.

I haven't touched my 360 in a while. I guess console gaming isn't for me.

Everytime something new comes out like Halo X and Gears of War X, it's just more of the same. They're shooters.

Best shooter to this day is Counter-Strike. I'll occasionally play that.

I do have AC 123 sitting here...we'll see if I ever get to them. I played a bit of 1.

Shoot I have some games still in their wrapping like Ghost Recon.

Have lots of catching up to do. I plan on making this winter a complete STAY AT HOME gaming season 'slash' workout season getting back to my gym's new facility.

Occasional drink binge with the boys.

Gotta save money!

Lol johhny

I'll definitely "shoot you up johnovision" on some COD or possibly halo 4 if I get around to moving back into the city or an area with REAL high speed internet.

Favourite games of all time based on genre;

Sports: NHL 94, this is the 2nd edition of easports nhlpa and 94 technically kicked off the entire NHL series as we know it today. It's graphics were 2D but seemed like 3D for it's time. Awesome game play, all the right players with stats and the only missing (from nhlpa '93) was the fighting aspect but a legendary game none the less.

RPG (for you newbs, that's roll playing game): frack so many to choose from. N64's original mario bros 3D was good, Zelda on the 32 bit NES, super metroid, resident evil series until it got gay (after the 3rd one), so many hours invested..but if I had the choice to pick up a controller and re-play my wonder years, I'd have to go back to the resident evil days. I got my dad addicted to it. We would play it until 2-3am on school nights with the lights off and both get scared LOL..

Racing game: mario kart 64 is a multiplayere classic!! BUT, I'm not sure if you guys recall a racing game called TOP GEAR. It came out before the original Gran Turismo. It was the first racing game that you could upgrade your car, race for money and buy better parts (ie. Turbos, tires, ect...) The music in that game is addicting aswell. Hours will pass by and your thumbs will blister

Fighting game: mortal kombat series ftw! Arcade style. I remember learning all the finishing moves, babality, animality...street fighter aint got sh!t on the MK series to this day

First person shooter: easy!!! GOLDEN EYE N64!! It's default controller setting is inverted looking and to this day, I switch my controller setting on EVERY FPS game to inverted. I'm more accurate that way

I may have missed something here..I'll get back to this later

One last one!

Multiplayer game: Super Bomberman on the N64. 4 player addiction until the sun would rise twisted metal on the PS1 was also one of my fav's.

Ok I'll stfu now hahaha

If we're going back to N64, then Mario Kart and Golden Eye 007 takes the cake for multiplayer. I still have my N64 hooked up as it works flawlessly!

yep! Still have mine too with the rumble pak's and occaisionally, have to blow into the cartridge to get a game to load up

At the moment, i've been playing around with Mechwarrior 3 beta. Although, BF3 is keeping me busy usually for gaming duties.

Once in awhile i'll play SC2.

But im looking fwd to Simcity 5 actually. Ive always had fun playing the original all the way to Simcity 2000. Then CS took my time after that .

those sim city games were awesome!!! although when i figured out how to do the money cheat, it took all the challenge away and i couldn't be bothered to play it again.

damn those natural disasters!!!!

Yes golden eye how could I forget. My n64 is always hooked up and travelling from house to house. You can't beat the classics

For single player games I am the #1 metroid fan... from the original, especially super metroid all the way through to the prime series (including the game boys:P)... wasn't a fan of Other M thought tbh (then again who was?)

shout out to zelda series too, but I haven't played anything after princess twilight

I find golden eye is falls 1% short just because there's not that random luck factor.. like in mario kart

Dirt 3 and grid with the Xbox wheel, setup and mounted with a talon seat

Mx vs atv reflex

COD

I have to agree with you guys about GRID, really enjoyed that series and it gave you a nice variety.

I actually started a blog on games cause I pretty much play everything that comes out (only one review so far :P) http://hourafterstart.blogspot.ca/

As for GTA, not sure I am in to this one, the last one sucked in my opinion. I didn't even finish it before I sold it to EB. I am huge on supporting companies and I think that was the first game I sold back to EB.

Playing right now AC3 and loving it and am going back to Mass Effect 3 online which is super fresh and I am loving it!

How can you mention RPGs and not recall or mention Chrono Trigger!?

One of the best, if not THE BEST, RPG of all time on the SNES. They ported it over to the PS1 I believe as well.

That game had multiple endings so multiple play throughs were worth it with different timelines like the choose your own adventure books.

Awesome game, I'd play it again.

Golden Eye was awesome. Skipped many a classes in highschool for that one.

I really wanted to pick up some older systems just so I could play some games I missed over the years, but I think if I did that I would lose my job, family/friends after years of playing.

Several friends and I are getting NFS:Most Wanted for the Xbox360. We're busy guys, but we might find one night every 2 weeks to just sit down for a few hours and race.

I'll probably pick it up in the next week or two.

I used to play a lot of Gears of War on the 360 in high school when it first came out but kind of stopped playing games after that. Decided to build a gaming pc to try pc games out but I'm not too fond of those either. I'm holding out for Halo and Call of Duty at the moment, I'll give them a try since they haven't disappointed so far. The new Forza doesn't look too bad either. I can't seem to finish a single Assassin's Creed game. I've tried more than once and just cant stay entertained long enough to finish it, they're just so boring and repetitive to me. NHL is also a really good game to play against friends.

Exactly how I felt. Torchlight 2 brought me back into PC gaming.


If a bunch of guys are going to get together to play NFS: Most Wanted I might have to pick it up and get Live Gold again.
We'll see how good it is though.
I never finished Forza 2 or Project Gotham Racing.
Got bored of those.

NFS: Most wanted is good. the different cars provide a good variety fo driving styles.

Forza 2 is awesome for the live online auction house.

This may sound retarded to you guys but at one point, I decided to make 'Eleanor'..68 shelby with the paint and stripes, fully modded into a 's' or 'u' class (can't remember)..then I posted it in the auction after customizing a licence plate in cursive writing saying 'eleanor' and it sold for my asking price of $10,000,000.

so, I mass produced them and have now have something like $228,000,000 LOL

Holy crap, the Eleanor is a beautiful car though. The only thing that I hated about Forza 2 were those endurance races. Sometimes it would take over an hour just to complete one, little bit ridiculous. Yeah I'll probably be getting NFS as well, can't seem to stay away from that series no matter how shitty they've been getting.

LOL, that's not an endurance race, Gran Turismo has actual endurance races that take hours to complete. They even have the 24hr lemans, which as your probably guessed it takes 24hrs to complete.

Honestly never was really into simulated sports games. I get into some pretty serious competition with my buddies and I play Mario sports on wii and a 2-4. Can Smash bros count as a "sports" game? haha


ANY Zelda game, PERIOD! (minus windwaker... hated that one)
I was always a fan of the Elder Scrolls games, except the part where they consume your soul. I think I got over 250 hours into Oblivion and finally said enough is enough. That is the reason I haven't started playing Skyrim. But it's oh so tempting!

Does anyone recall an excellent little game called Mario RPG for SNES? Hands down my favorite RPG



Mario kart 64 will always be the staple in my racing games, but I am a huge fan of the grid games as Jay mentioned earlier
btw, nothing blistered your thumbs like playing hours of mario party 2 for 64, or destroyed joysticks for that matter....


Mortal Kombat - SNES, NEXT!


Does no one remember perfect dark? I prefer that game over Goldeneye because of the secondary functions on all the weapons. Laptopgun FTW!
But Halo will always be at the top of my list. 6 more days!!
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I'll add RTS games. Starcraft, always a great classic until you encounter one of those Korean machines online.
Has anyone ever played Simcity 4? Damn, there is so much going on in that game, it's hard to keep tabs on it all. Nuts to the city, you have to make an entire region work together!

Wow, I would NEVER be able to play Gran Turismo then. I love cars and racing and all but sitting in one spot for hours going around the same track, in the same car in a video game just gets way too boring for me.

Well for those crazy races like that you have to approach just like an actual endurance race is. Have multiple drivers.

I prefer Mario Kart on SNES, I think it was a much better game than 64 was

No one does that. I would never trust someone else to race for me.

In previous versions (Gran Turismo 4 and earlier), you either did it in one sitting or left your PS2 on, changed the channel/turned the TV off and came back to it. Not ideal, but it's how almost everyone with some semblance of sanity did it.
In Gran Turismo 5 (PS3), you can quit the game and save the race in progress, but if you go to play the game again you MUST continue the race, or forfeit your progress i.e. you can't save it and then go do another race or play arcade mode. You can pop in another game, etc...but the next time you boot GT5 up, you're doing that race if you don't want to lose it.

holy frack!!! perfect dark was the BOMB!!!! I remember those laptop guns, throwing them on ceilings or above doorways and opponents would walk into an ambush!

They also had that xray gun where you could scope through the walls of the entire map!!

goldeneye is a classic still!!

The only game I ever spent much time on Elder scrolls Morrowind. The GF at that time wanted to get a second xbox and play at the same time! It was a awesome game but now I dont even own a system to play games on

NES-Played it but nothing was as memorable as below

SNES-
1)Zelda
2)Megaman X (1-4)The rest meh...
3)one of the sickest games to hit the SNES E.V.O <---Look it up!
4)Mario Kart= Best Mario kart by far
5)Super Mario Allstars
6) Street Fighter 2- Im sorry only people who suck at arcade fighters play MK....Just sayin.
7)Chrono Trigger- Just WOW

N64-
Toooo many but a few come to mind.
1)Perfectdark aka Goldeneye 2.0(PD had the better multi while GE had the far superior 1 player)
2)Bomberman 64 (can not agree more how addicting 4 player multi is......played it this weekend no joke for 3 hours.
3)Vigilante 8
4)Star Wars:Rogue Squadron
5)AeroFighters Assault- S0000 FUN!
6) Turok series

PS-IMO Best Console Ever and I cant even list the amount of memorable games so ill give a top 10.
1)Final Fantasy franchise-Epic.
2)Metal Gear Solid series-Epic.
3)Syphon Filter
4)Twisted Metal series
5)Tony Hawks (the first one)-Epic
6)Worms-Hilarious!
7)Zone of the enders-ps2 but soo good.
8)Shadow of the colosus-ps2 SO GOOD!
9)Grand Turismo series
10)Chrono Cross-Epic

PS3-Not many
1)Darksouls
2)Demonsouls
3)Cod
4)Metalgear4-Amazing

PC-
1)Omikron-Very Original top 10 fav game
2)Final Fantasy 11- Too much time into lol
3)Star Wars Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II- possibly best Star Wars game ever.
4)QUAKE 4 Arena- Insane Multi!
5)Warzone 2100- My all time fav RTS
6)Prey-Kicked off my interest in Pc gaming again
7)Carnivores- When shooting the T-rex make sure you hit the eye.....
8)Unreal-Epic
9)Fear Series- freaky as sh1*
10)Mech Warrior 2!!!! EPICC!
11)Recoil
12)Doom-obvious
13) AVP-first game to scare me

360-Boring

Games Awaiting-
1)Aliens: Colonial Marines- Hope its good.
2)Final Fantasy 14 2.0- DOnt fail me twice.
3)The Last Guardian

I may add if something comes to mind.

I have the HD collection for both of these. I have been playing some ICO cause I had never played it and loved Shadow of the Colossus. Both ZOE games were really good and have not tried the HD version yet.

WTF? How have I not heard of Chrono Cross!?

See this is why I want older systems.

Damn.

Gotta play this.

I'm pretty sure I could get my hands on a PS1 somewhere.

As a strict PC gamer. I play only a few games consistently:

Team fortress 2 - now free to play
BF3
Medal Of Honor



I find myself buying pretty much every AAA title that gets released but usually only for the campaigns.
I find that a good campaign is a lost art due to multiplayer being the real money maker.


ONWARDS AC3 and Bioshock 3!!

Mario RPG Legend of the 7 stars. Unforgetable. You sre the 1st person I know that has played this other than me. You sir made my day.

The only sports game I can say I've invested time is mario tennis 64 and of course all the smash brothers

neal - tony hawk and the metal gear series

I'm excitied for Halo 4 (shoot me).

I use to be an avid PC Gamer but got out when I had a crappy PC.
I still want to go back and play some classics like System Shock (1&2), Fallout 1&2, Dues Ex, etc.

Right now I use my 360 for my gaming fix. I need to start playing GOW3, finally picked it up. I usually wait a while after a game has come out before buying it.

Have my original copy, mint with the box. Every now and again I pull it out of the closet and look at it.

Pilot wings 64 was a great game aswell. I never really got into PS3.
As for NES, the games I recall most are Zelda, Double Dragon, Dr. Mario (still play this on 64), and finally mario golf.

Just got Forza Horizon, AC3 and Halo 4 today. Haven't touched AC3 but I'm really enjoying Horizon. Going to try out Halo right now. I used to love the N64 as well but I can't play those games anymore now that I'm used to all the next generation stuff

I was not sure about Horizon mainly because Forza for me was GT on 360, and Horizon looked like an arcade game and looks like they are getting away from the Sim style.

It's more like a simulation but on the streets instead. I think it's actually pretty fun.

.... You got Halo 4 today??

Yup, I tend to get most big releases a little early.

how's that possible?

He knows some people who know some people who robbed some people

lol

an old buddy of mine's dad is a district sales manager for EB Games, he'd get games early too.

Yeah there are actually quite a few ways to get games early.

I just download them like a boss

Ummmm, f you? haha, I kid. Thats pretty sweet though! Although, I need this week to beat AC3 before Halo ruins my life.

Yeah I still haven't even put AC3 in yet, too caught up with Forza. I'll check it out in a little bit.

i think im going to futureshops midnight Halo release with my kid, And fight some guys for some swag!

Horizans a pretty good, ive really enjoyed it so far. Its missing features from 4 that i wish it had though(mainly tuning). It needs more cars as well but im sure with the monthly releases there will be plenty.
I usually play horizan, NHL 13 and black ops, if anyone wants to race or anything else my gamer tag is COBCODEWOOD90

I haven't tried the campaign but the multiplayer for Halo is WICKED. I've been playing big team slayer all day.

Bought XCOM Enemy Unknown today, loving it!

I heard it was a good one, wasn't to sure about the whole strategy thing, most of those games are huge time sucks.

I love turn based strategy and RPGs. I wish there were more of them but today it's all about the action.

just played the forza demo today! Im sold that is one aswome car game.

yea its pretty slick, wish the graphics were a little better

i guess this is the first racing game i played on my 3d led 55inch lg so it seems to have better graffics then any racing game i played before..

I think the graphics for Forza are actually pretty good and definitely a good game overall. Big team slayer on Halo 4 has taken over my life though, pretty fun online.

Guess I'm the only one who didn't like Forza Horizon.

there are very few racing games i didnt like..

My list of titles that enjoyed playing across all platforms

NES
-battle toads and double dragon
-recca
Sega
-Earth Worm Jim
N64
-Turok (1st series)
-Golden eye
PC
-Far Cry (1st series)
-Doom 1,2,3
-Half Life
-Crysis (all series)
PS3
-Uncharted 2/3
-Mirrors edge
- Heavenly Sword
360
-PGR
-Dead or Alive 4
PS-Vita
-Puddle
-Uncharted
PSP
-Prince of Persia Warrior Within

those are all great systems.. but i actually been playing more games on my phone then consols or pcs. right now im playinh a free game called drift mania
its sweet! you use the motions of the phone to steere.. its got throttle control, not just a button. and an ebrake. i recomend anyone here that has an android to download it.. and anyone here who has a iphone to run it over and buy a real phone so they can download it.

I forgot about Heavenly Sword! I loved that game. Needs a second game.

console's i've collected over the years;

kleeko vision, atari, sega, sega cd and sega saturn, all the nintendo's, ps1 and 2, no ps3 lol..xbox 360, not the original.

i sometimes still pull out the ps1 and n64 for the classics but havn't found the time in a long time

anyone remember pong?

I usually just use emulators if I want to play my old ps1 games.

I just got black ops 2 but the xbox live servers aren't up yet, I really want to see if the multiplayer for this has changed at all. And to be honest, the only old games that I really played with an emulator were the pokemon games for gameboy.

Let us know, I am really on the fence. I enjoyed Black Ops and did not get MW3 so not sure if I am into FPS as much as I used to, I am not a really competitive person. I am playind MOH right now and really enjoy the new stuff they have in the campaign.

Yup, I'll be sure to let you know as soon as the servers are up for it. Hopefully they hurry up with that.

they're probably waiting until the 11th :s

I'm not too sure, word is they're going to start a live stream of the game later on this week so it shouldn't be too long now. A few days at most.

http://dsc.discovery.com/adventure/...ed-iii-parkour-video.html#mkcpgn=fbdsc17

Enjoy, all you Assassins Creed lovers

LOL, that was alright, I was getting annoyed at the fact that the guy was doing free running a lot of the time and not parkour but that's just me being technical.

I wanted to add that I have just been playing torchlight 2 because of Michael's recommendation and I have to say I enjoyed. I am thinking of buying it now. Michael, how is the online stuff?

Just picked up my copy of Black Ops 2

Try it yet?? Been curious to hear how it is.

I played offline multiplayer and it was fun and am really enjoying it, also played the story and it was terrible. But who buys COD for single player!?

ME

My internet sucks out here in the sticks FML!!!

If you want good FPS single player I would go grab medal of honor, playing single player now and am really enjoying it.

i just want to shoot you! for having faster internet than me

LOL, well maybe you will get it and then you can shoot me! That is if you have a PS3

Yea screw the campaign mode, I'm gonna jump straight online when I get home tonight. XBOX 360!

NOPE! Halo night!

so halo has been on my tv for the last 3 days.. and i know i dont play it so maybe im missing something.. but it looks as boring as the reach and halo 3. with a few extra guns and missions.. might as well been dlc! seems like a lot more hype then what was released. kinda like the iphone 5.

I've been playing Black Ops 2 for a few days now and it's definitely worth it. Really good game online but it is very competitive(Xbox Live).

Edit: Forgot to add that Halo 4 is pretty garbage, especially campaign. The multiplayers decent though but it is almost like DLC, not much in terms of improvement.

This is of course in comparison to the COD series which has been the same game with different images for the past 3 years? lol
The online play has improved significantly I think. There have always been issues with both games. My biggest issue with COD is "lost connection to host" UGH

Me and my buddy just spent tonight playing part way through the campaign on co-op. I have to say I am enjoying it, I have been a halo basher since halo 2 came out so that's not something easy for me to say. I will also add that I haven't really played a halo game since 2 if that makes any difference.

UH OH, look what's on sale!

http://www.redflagdeals.com/deal/video-games/steam-midweek-deal-terraria-249-us-reg-999-us/

SOB! lol Oh well. It's a great game and extremely addictive.... I've only played 5 sessions and I've already logged 45 hours.... Playing with a couple of buddies really helps as well.

haha that's funny! I may just grab it.