two player co-op - Latest Comments

Re: Duck and cover! Let’s play Fallout.

Justin Anderson — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 20:14:50 -0000

Agreed! The best part of Fallout is planting dynamite on all 6 bandits in their hideout, making sure to adjust the timers so they all go off at the same time. What was once a terrible battle becomes a pile of hamburger and bottle caps.

Also of note, your CHA determines how large your party can be.

Re: Duck and cover! Let’s play Fallout.

Jonathon Howard (falselogic) — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 17:59:28 -0000

You trade for things?! No, no, no. Fallout is awesome because you can just steal from them and then put grenades in their pants and they'll blow up. It is awesome!

Good choice though! I play this game over every year or two! Looking forward to what else you find and share!

Re: No Sleep Until Clear!

Jonathon Howard — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 18:43:10 -0000

Play alongside it isn't multiplayer

Re: No Sleep Until Clear!

Justin — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 11:53:02 -0000

If you've played Fallout 1 and 3, you really owe it to yourself to play Fallout 2. It's available through GoG for $6 and is on GameTap if you're into that sort of thing. Fallout 2 is up there with Chrono Trigger and KOTOR as one of those games I replay every couple years.

Fire Emblem was one of my favorites for the GC, but I can't really call that an RPG. It's surprising and cool how any member of your party can permanently die at any point in the story, but it's really just a series of fights.

Mass Effect 2 is one of the best games I've played in a while, with a tighter story than ME1.

Skies of Arcadia and Tales of Vesperia are good JRPGs you may not have played, but they are definitely not games you can leave and come back to.

Re: No Sleep Until Clear!

Nick — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 13:23:12 -0000

Ssssh -- don't let Luana hear you dissin' the draw system -- them's fighting words. :-)

Re: No Sleep Until Clear!

LauraB — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 13:13:54 -0000

I have a spot in my heart for FFVIII on a PC with Chocobo World constantly running in the background, so you can negate the crappy Draw Magic system with the hacky-import-export Chocobo trick. I love the music, characters, and plot so much that I've played the game through 2x and am considering a third time. Stockholm Syndrome Disclaimer: It's also the first RPG I ever played, though I put it aside for about a year before finishing it.

Most of the games I <3 and continually go back to aren't RPGs, I suppose - e.g. Bioshock+2, Zelda Wind Waker, Halo, Jet Grind Radio. And many traditional RPGs I haven't played to the end (FFVII and XII for example).

Re: No Sleep Until Clear!

Nick — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 22:02:37 -0000

Kinda sorta. It's an offshoot of the Shin Megami Tensei games, which all involve the occult and demons in some way shape or form. The persona games specifically (at least the last two) do focus around high school kids dealing with an impending crisis and unravelling murder mysteries respectively.

They are very linear, but what they get right (and what most JRPGs lack) is a fantastic narrative. It's part interactive fiction, and part dungeon crawler. Customization comes into play by means of:
* Managing school and social interactions by day
and
* Collecting and fusing demons to summon, and taking advantage of their respective strengths/weaknesses by night.

An acquired taste, perhaps, but a whole lot of payoff in my humble opinion.

Re: No Sleep Until Clear!

Gene — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 20:56:10 -0000

Yeah, Bioware, Bethesda, and the old Black Isle Studios are my favorite RPG-makers. I think RPGS need an open world, with lots of choices and freedom to make your own way. Having come from a pen-and-paper RPG background, I find these features necessary. Most JRPGs are too much on rails for me.

I haven't played the Persona series (that's the one about a high school psychic club, yeah?)

Re: No Sleep Until Clear!

Nick — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 15:14:05 -0000

Hrm... I dug the concept of NWN, if not the execution, and I always meant to go back to some of the 2E D&D games... it sounds like Planescape is a good place to start, and then possibly graduate back in time to Baulder's.

Wasteland definitely intrigues me. I played Fallout3 first on a rental (still want to get back to it) and loved it, and then tried me some Fallout1, and loved it as well. Perhaps I should go back to the roots for that 'un. When you say play with me -- is it multiplayer? Or do you just mean play alongside?

Re: No Sleep Until Clear!

Nick — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 15:11:24 -0000

I do get the occasional jones for a good SRPG, and while I'm usually less inclined to finish them, I do enjoy the hell out of them. The FE series in particular seems neat just because permadeath is such a big factor.

btw... are you Mr. Met Mike? If so, long time, buddy!

Re: No Sleep Until Clear!

Steph — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 14:48:49 -0000

I'm the same way. If I watch someone else playing the same game I am, and they beat it, I cannot play it. For example, I was playing Super Paper Mario and so was Pat. He beat it and I haven't touched it since. I saw too much of the story line to need to enjoy it myself.

Re: No Sleep Until Clear!

Nick — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 12:09:19 -0000

Sombody's a fan of Bioware and Bethesda! (certainly nothing wrong with that!)

I actually own Oblivion and plan on completing it -- I've restarted that game SO many times due to class indecision. Now that I have a working 360 again, I should get my copy back from the friend I lent it to.

Also, if I may counter-recommend, you may actually enjoy Persona 3 and 4 on the PS2. They're certainly long, and a little bit grindy, but they have fantastic stories. Also, the very Japanese settings will really hit home, I think (they did for me, at least).

Re: No Sleep Until Clear!

Nick — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 12:07:14 -0000

EDIT: Arg! I keep replying to the wrong comments! You'd think I could figure out my own blog's comment system!

EDIT2: Okay, I guess I was replying to the right comment, and Discus chose to display it out of whack to confuse me. Sorry for the spam, Gene!

Re: No Sleep Until Clear!

danowar — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 04:33:40 -0000

Ultima IV - Quest of the Avatar...and don't play this on console. Play it on C64, Apple 2 or another home computer.

Re: No Sleep Until Clear!

Jonathon Howard (falselogic) — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 23:46:50 -0000

Planescape Torment, I second Wasteland too, I might even play it with you! Knights of the Old Republic, Fallout, Mass Effect. Deus Ex and System Shock 2.

I can go on and on and on, really I can. But these are all good.

Re: No Sleep Until Clear!

Mike — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 22:07:57 -0000

Try the Fire Emblem series. Theres 11, so I'm sure you'll find one that you like. It's a turn-based strategy RPG, really deep characters and story. You can go original on the SNES, or semi-recent on the GBA, or most recent on the Wii. I don't know what you have access too, but you can emulate all of them except the Wii ones. Its a really great franchise, you should definatly check it.

Re: No Sleep Until Clear!

Phil Wesson — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 21:52:52 -0000

Good catch! Yes, there are three skies of arcadia characters in it, but they're bonus, so if you didn't play SoA, you aren't missing anything in VC. However, I would play SoA on its own, as it's a great game.

VC does a great job making you attached to the characters, as each one of them has their own individual stories, and each one of them can die at any time.

Re: No Sleep Until Clear!

Nick — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 21:51:01 -0000

Those are NOT off the table, Greg. Recommend away!

Re: No Sleep Until Clear!

Nick — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 21:50:25 -0000

Hrm... that's the one with Arcadia characters in it, no? I actually do own SoA for dreamcast but have never touched it -- would you recommend I start there?

Re: No Sleep Until Clear!

Phil Wesson — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 21:48:26 -0000

Valkryia Chronicles for PS3 is a tactical RPG. Beautiful artwork, engaging story, very original battle scheme. You won't be disappointed.

Re: No Sleep Until Clear!

Gene — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 21:47:20 -0000

OK I'll bite.

And you said you didn't care about platform, so I went broad -- and in no particular order.

Baldur's Gate I and II
Planescape: Torment (really great story)
Fallout 1, 2 and 3
Neverwinter Nights
Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind and 4: Oblivion
Dragon Age: Origins
Mass Effect 1 and 2

And a few that are not true RPGs but have some RPG elements:
Bioshock
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
ICO and Shadow of the Colossus

You'll note a lack of JRPGs here. I find that they have incoherent stories and most use a very small number of generic character archetypes. They also give virtually no option to the player to choose how to play, what kind of character to be, what kind of ending to aim for, etc... They are also notoriously long, full of grind-it-out, repetitive random encounters. So boring. Oh, and don't believe the Demon Souls hype.

Re: No Sleep Until Clear!

tsykoduk — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 21:11:00 -0000

Meh. computer RPG's are too much work. I prefer point and click interfaces.

Re: Hey, Nintendo!

Nathaniel Payne — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 10:40:41 -0000

Ha! Brilliant. :)

Re: Good news for people who like bad news

coren — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:30:30 -0000

Part of it is that the late night programs (Daily Show, Colbert Report, as well as Letterman, Kimmel, Fallon and the unfunny gentleman who is on instead of Conan) do not tend to make it to the internet via the more dubious methods (torrents) (although that's changing of late). That gives the content owner a bit of a leg up in terms of drawing traffic as well.

That aside, Comedy Central's website is still atrocious, but I wonder if you underestimate the willingness of viewers to visit their portal if Hulu content is removed. Maybe I overestimate it. Time will tell. But the way I see it - if you (the general public) were viewing it on Hulu, there was a fair chance you couldn't, or had no interest in, seeing it during it's original broadcast. If that's the case, then the difference between Hulu and another site might be so small as to be inconsequential. I guess we'll see.

Re: They start early, apparently.

Patrick — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 08:11:50 -0000

Friends, reviewers and fan art have not swayed me to start my copy yet. But THIS, Lorelei? She has me sold.

Starting this tomorrow. :)