So what're you playing nowadays?

Dragon's Dogma is eating all my time away. best open world RPG i've ever played. the controlls, skills, free movement and different fighting styles make for a nice RPG package. you must play it to believe it. i'm an addict.

The Adventures of Lolo (NES)

Never had this on the NES growing up. It was one of those games that I saw in Nintendo Power and one of those strategy guides that covered multiple games, and thought it looked like an RPG like Dragon Quest / Dragon Warrior, but with a cutesy hero that looked like a blue M&M.

It's actually a puzzle game. You push blocks to block enemy attacks or obstruct obstacles, you freeze other enemies and move them around with a magical projectile, and you collect hearts to open a chest, collect a jewel, and move on to another room.

The game's sole track, which loops every 30 seconds, is obnoxious, and reminds me of the musical theme associated with Humpty Dumpty.

I'm on the 7th floor of the castle already (each floor consists of multiple rooms/puzzles), and I've been able to figure out each puzzle myself up until now, without consulting any guides or FAQs, with a good level of thinking. Some of it has involved experimentation and counterintuitive thinking. And sometimes, that's the most inspirational kind of thinking. Other times, I've just had to consult the manual to figure out how things are supposed to work. The game holds your hand absolutely NOT AT ALL. Which I can respect.

I'm rather liking it.

I only held off on it so long, because there was a Strong Bad / Homestar Runner cartoon that implied it was a bad game. "The Adventures of Lolo? You'd better have saved us the receipt!" They had that to say about Bayou Billy, too.

There was also someone who told me that the game was impossible to beat, on account of one puzzle which was apparently unsolvable, due to a programming mishap. I'll have to see about that.

Last edited by Dartannian (Jun 12, 2012)

I rented New Super Mario Bros. Wii and figured I'd give it a shot since it was only two bucks to rent for the night. I played for almost 45 minutes and did not enjoy any of it. The magic of the old Mario games is nowhere to be found on that disc. I shut it off after my cat jumped on my lap right as I was shaking the Wii remote to perform some stupid jump and I hit her in the face. Needless to say, I wish I could get my two bucks back.

Dartannian wrote:

Truth to tell, I'm more critical about JPRGs than any other genre, having played about 50 of them on the PS2 alone, so it's left me pretty jaded.

JRPGs are still my number 1 favorite genre, but even so I hated Last Story.
Didn't even bother finishing it. Annoying characters, derivative story, boring combat (some boss battles are cool though) and an incredibly disappointing soundtrack.

Idolores wrote:

Zane wrote:

I rented New Super Mario Bros. Wii and figured I'd give it a shot since it was only two bucks to rent for the night. I played for almost 45 minutes and did not enjoy any of it. The magic of the old Mario games is nowhere to be found on that disc. I shut it off after my cat jumped on my lap right as I was shaking the Wii remote to perform some stupid jump and I hit her in the face. Needless to say, I wish I could get my two bucks back.

Felt the same way.

Thirded. It was just generic, uninspired, "Hey, we haven't released a side-scrolling Mario game in some time...shouldn't we do that?" It wishes it was Super Mario Bros. 3.

Amazingu wrote:

I thought NSMB on DS was rather Meh, but I really liked NSMB Wii for some reason.
Then I played through SMB3 recently and I was reminded of how brilliant the stage (and map) design was, and I can't help but think that the series has lost a lot of its imagination.

I had a great deal of trouble slogging my way through NSMB Wii and I thought I was just tired of side-scrollers. But then, a few weeks ago, I played through SMB3 and had a blast. It's not me, it's Nintendo. They've gotten lazy, pumping out one uninspired game after another.

(The Galaxies don't count. They're oddly inspired.)

hmmm lately I've been delving into Marvel vs Capcom 3 (Vita), Lara Croft and the Warrior of Light (PS3), Little Big Planet 2 (PS3) Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown (PS3), Ridge Racer Vita, Crimson Gem Saga, The 3rd Birthday (PSP) giving the US edition a playthru . Holding off on shadow of the colossus(PS3/Vita) and Ico(PS3/Vita) until the vita crossplay function is enabled and slowly playing Devil May Cry 4 over again

Re: Chrono Trigger

So, Tata (that pre-pubescent kid in the medieval time period) gets the Hero's Medal, he's looking at it in the pub, and when people notice he has it, they start standing up and cheering "Hero! Hero!"

My questions are, what's a pre-pubescent kid doing in a pub? For some reason, I'm inclined to think that, even back then, they had a minimum age for who was allowed to be in a pub, much less drink. Second, why would they mistake a pre-pubescent kid as a hero? If I remember correctly, the Hero's Medal is a military award from Guardia, that was given to Glenn (Frog) for whatever reason.

All I can say is, if I ever saw a pre-pubescent kid in a pub with some sort of military award, (1) I'd think he was related to the pub's owner(s) - and it'd probably be out in the country, because they're not as much sticklers about minimum age in the countryside - and (2) He got that award as a keepsake from a military man in his family.

Re: Chrono Cross

Chrono Cross was a first for me, in that, I think it had to be one of the first, if not THEE first RPG I played in which the game's setting wasn't global in scale, it was just limited to a small region of the world - an archipelago, to be exact. That always felt kind of weird to me. And when they have that open current at the northwest side of the map, it kind of made me think that, at one point in the game, you'd actually get to leave the archipelago and get to see the rest of the world.

I tried Theatrhythm Final Fantasy at a friend's house. Since this was just a quick test, I really had no idea what was going on with the leveling up and equipment stuff, but the core gameplay surprised me with it's solidity. It's cute and enjoyable. I still think it would be better as an F2P iOS game where you pay for songs instead of a $40 3DS game with additional paid DLC, and I personally think we'll see an iOS version at some point, but for now this is a decent celebration of FF's 25th anniversary.

Is the music in Theatrhythm new arrangements or the original versions of the music?

Tried a few more games:

Babel Rising (PS3)
-Mediocre tower defense game with a lousy camera.

Summer Stars 2012 (PS3)
-Wretched olympic rip-off.

Tatsunoko Vs. Capcom: Ultimate All-Stars (Wii)
-Lousy graphics, but pretty fun to play.

Just found a complete copy of Soul Blazer on SNES for $63. Playing through it again since I fell in love with it last Summer.