CAN YOU FUCKING READ

Great reading you did there, genius.

Edit: WoF is a speedy shit.

What they said.

Woah hold on a sec! I put my post before he made the edit.

Not according to the edit time, mister!

But when you leave the page open for a long time and make your post, only then do all the posts update, I am adamant that the EDIT was not there when I wrote my reply.

The Vita is so amazing. It's really lightweight, the control set up is nice, nothing is really overbearing...it's great. It also has a Wipeout game on it so you should really have no beef at all.

Edit: Hey Dyna I'll buy your Vita if you end up deciding to sell it.

At this part I was convinced you aren't serious.

I totally am. I like the Vita a lot. I think it's neato.

No-one uses the word "neato" without irony. :|

If I'm going to sell it, I'm most likely selling it to a friend of mine, not that you aren't a friend, Mac, but you're really far away from Finland. If you're being serious at all, that is. Anyway, I'm keeping it for some time at least and maybe getting Mortal Kombat for it.

I spent the past couple of weeks watching eBay, hunting down copies of the Spyro games for PS1 (as my copies from my childhood were pirated and therefore don’t work on my PS2).

As of today, I now own the full trilogy. Original copies (not “best-of” re-releases), manuals, cases and inserts included. A bit battered in some cases, couple scratches and such, but fully functional (playtested each disc myself).

I plan to burn through the trilogy over the weekend, starting today. I fuckin’ love these games.

Spyro games are the best.

Vita is not the best.

@Mac Sirloin - is this your NG? and at which point are you right now?

After I killed Stockpile Thomas I had to restart the whole fucking game - 35h were lost.
After another 12h I was fighting with the Maneater bosses. when you fight with demons, you're stuck in the room and cannot pause.
suddenly someone rang the doorbell. considering that it might be my roommate, I dropped the controller and raced to the door, only to find the Jehovah's Witnesses. I immediately slammed the door, but it was already too late. I think they heard me crying and cursing

I got into the Hybrid beta. Its an XBLA game where you shoot other people. The difference is you don't really directly control your character, you just point to a place and they will go there. It works surprisingly well. Probably gonna pick this up when it comes out.

Soooo... it's a 1990's Point 'n' Click Adventure with Shooting?

I was thinking more like Frozen Synapse.

I've been playing a lot of Counter-Strike: Source recently. I'm not bad... It's hard to get kills though because most of the people on the server are better then you.

Oh man, CS:S. I gotta start playing that game again. Did you hear Valve is making a new one?

Cunter Strike: Global Offensive :tard: , wish I had the beta... Eh.

I can't wait till it comes out of beta.

Shut up and get on the optimist bandwagon, you pleb.

I'm still playing Final Fantasy Tactics. I've limited my clan to the starting characters you get and unlocked almost every single class for at least one of eachy (you always get an extra human). I found out that Archers/Hunters/Snipers are some of the best units you can have early on if you grind 'em a bit, and grind 'em I did. Still trying to find a Nu-Mou class that doesn't suck. Has anyone played FFTA enough to point me in the direction of such? Right now I just have a Sage casting Bio everywhere with some White Magic.

My real crowning achievement is my main character. He's a level 13 fighter with almost all of the Fighter (attack focused class) and Paladin (defense/support focused class) skills, and since I'm playing on an emulator I can just reload whenever his low hit-rate Fighter attacks miss. Fucking powerhouse, I basically just cast Haste on him and have him Beatdown every enemy then pick them off with my archers. Fun game.

Playing Dark Crusade. I never realised how great Orks were until now.

Playing Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortrex Strikes Back. My personal favorite out of the series, I'm trying to get all the gems and so far it's going really well. I'm currently at the third Warp Room and this is where things get tough.

I fucking love Crash 2. That game is my childhood. I could never 100% it, though; those gems are too much of a bitch to get.

Supreme game, though. Sometimes I even prefer it over Warped, and that game is (also) untouchable.

I love Crash. Well, loved.

Crash 2 is the best Crash, the third became muddled with too much side stuff. The exact same thing with the Spyro series happened too.

Couldn't agree more, Crash 2 had lots of similarities to the first game but overall improved pretty much everything. Nevertheless I thought Crash 3 was amazing, I loved the time traveling aspect of it.

I guess it’s based on taste, but Crash 3 and Spyro 3 are my favorites from both series.

One of my favorite aspects of those series was that in the original trilogy of games (Crash 1,2,3 + Spyro 1,2,3) you can see how the game design evolves and is refined – the first game in each series is simplistic and fairly tough, but built on solid gameplay; the second games both make significant adjustments which vastly improve the difficulty, variety and flow while keeping the basic gameplay intact; and the third of each series builds on the second’s structure but adds a little more variety – enough to avoid being a rehash without (in my opinion) going overboard.

And then both series moved to different developers and went to shit.

Not really. Sure, they weren't as good as the previous ones but for example, Crash Twinsanity and Wrath of Cortex were still pretty good. In fact, I prefer Twinsanity over the originals (hatemail coming in 3, 2, 1...). The newer Spyro games aren't that bad either. I don't mean the newest ones, I mean A Hero's Tail and Enter the Dragonfly. Those were good.

I played Wrath of Cortex once.

It lacked so much charm. You could feel the lack of charm.

The levels were really well designed from what I remember. If it weren't for the legacy dpad-emulating analogue stick it might almost be a good game