I love Pokemon Emerald. The third generation (at least on terms of gameplay and graphic style) is probably my favourite. I used to spend hours running around talking to the people and having them recite ridiculous phrases. Figuring out how to capture the legendary Pokemon was really fun, and tricky. Fucking Latias.

I never really liked Diamond, though. The 3D graphics really put me off. I also didn't find the Pokemon very interesting.

It still amazes me how bad Diamond is and how good Platinum is in comparison.

Also I dislike the third generation. Most people do.

Yeah just don't get drawn in to deep. Pokemon/its diehard fans just suck.
I was big into Gen 1 and 2. Crystal (a game boy color game) came packaged with my gba and I loved it. Silver is my favourite.

I tried the Gold/Silver rerelease and didn't like it. Those squat little mutants that make up the bulk of the sprites have no place in an age where we can more or less program infinite detail.

I'm playing GUN: Showdown on my psp. GUN is probably my favourite video game. It drew me into this bizarre faze when I was at my fattest and most introverted where I spent long periods alone outside of town, exploring the shitwoods and garbage marsh. It told me a really neato meato story and let me murder the hell out of some horses with a bowie knife. Kris Kristofferson plays your dad, then he he plays your dead dad, then he was never your dad anyway. At that point the main character, Colton White, is a husk of a man who can only truly feel anything in situations of extreme duress, like hangin with a skin peeling cannibal and riding on a big train. You should choo choo choose this game before I come to your house in the night and

I finished LA Noire the other day.

I was expecting a crappy ending because I had heard what happens to the protagonist beforehand, however I was really pleased with it, because by the game's end I had realized that Cole wasn't the real hero, Jack Kelso was. What I saw of Cole was his public face, and his damned adultery and WW2 incompetence were the other side of the coin.

I have to hand it to the developers, the game was incredible.

I still love Pokemon however the latest, Pokemon Black/White are the worse by far. Awful looking Pokemon species, the storyline was really uninteresting and it had really irritating characters like N.

Pokemon Gold/Silver are my favourites. One of my childhood classics that brings a lot of nostalgia just thinking about them.

The thing is, I don't really have any nostalgia. Which makes me wonder which games are objectively the best, since the historical value is what people usually cite in support of the older ones.

Where Am I?
Long setup, decent payoff.

I've managed to discover where I was. It wasn't that hard, actually.

Well like everything, it's all down to opinion. I personally don't think there is a 'Best Game' like there isn't a 'Best Movie'. I guess a way to find an overall best game is to analysis people's opinions and find which game is the most favorited.

Nah. Most people are stupid and their opinions are shitty

I'm starting to see a pattern in repetitive game serieses.

Game K1 was good.
K2 improved on K a lot.
K3 only improved on K2 a little.
K4 was actually slightly worse than K3.

Now, original fans of the K series would say K1 was the best out of nostalgia.
People who started with K2 would say that K2 was better, as even though it reused K1's mechanics, the total quality was higher.
K3's generation would probably admit that K2 was the best, as though K3 was of the most polished quality, the innovation of K2 makes playing that seem somehow more genuine.
All three generations would hate K4, as it had no innovation and total quality below the sum of its parts.

Someone who never played any K could be said to be of the K4+ generation. Their experiences will be based on what they have seen most recently. Herein lies the question.

K4, subjectively speaking, is a bad game. It's worse than its predecessor. However, objectively speaking, it's better than K1, as it still incorporates the improvements of K2&3. The K1 generation would be outraged, but would that asessment really be wrong?

Later Pokemon games apparently contain less dramatic improvements than the previous ones. But if I, as a new player with no loyalty to speak of, just want to have fun, are they really such a bad idea?

FUCK YOU

I think that's a pretentious load of shite and will tell you that every generation of Pokemon is at least 'Very good' with G2, G4-2 and G5 being 'Amazing'.

That was a general observation. If you take one thing away from this conversation, it should be that I know nothing about Pokemon games.

Every generation has massive gameplay and balance improvements over the last one, and Generation V actually has a story and characters who have character, making it feel more like the (incredible) pokemon manga and less like the (horrible) pokemon anime.

Also, frankly, I think the ugliest pokemon are from Generation III, at least GV tried to do a lot of new things.

I believe some players find MM's observation fitting for MGS series

Good. This is a win-win for me anyway, because I don't have to play "the worse ones", whichever may fit that description, but the fact that I'll be able to enjoy triple battles and not-black-and-white-o-vision without having to compromise on overrall quality is welcome.

I fucked myself pretty good in Darksiders 2. I chose to do a side quest that I really wasn't leveled up enough for, and am now in a spot where I have to win a fight that I'm not sure I can. I can't go back (I managed to get stuck in the one place in the dungeon where it's impossible to backtrack), and I can't move forward without killing a fuckload of overpowered enemies. Anyway, I almost got out last night. I just have to keep fighting smarter, and I'll get through it eventually.

Couldn't you just load a previous savegame?

No. Darksiders 2 doesn't really let you create multiple saves for some reason.

Edit: I just discovered that if I toggle the map to the world map I can fast travel out of the dungeon. Thank fucking god.

I wish you could do that in Skyrim.

I was about to suggest that.

I just got to the third world in DS2, kind of disappointed that visually it's a lot like the first one, was hoping each would be really unique. Other than that and some other gripes, game is really good.

What level were you when you took on Ghorn in The Scar?

I have done none of the sidequests, think I will start on all those. I'm fairly certain I'm level 16 or 17 right now, though.

You should be just about right for that one. I'm level 12 (haven't even left The Forge Lands yet), and it rocked my ass, but I think three or four more levels should have made it pretty easy.

Edit: Got through it at level 13 last night. I fast traveled out, did a different side quest, leveled up, found a possessed scythe, leveled that up four times, went back and breezed through it.

I remembered I had Final Fantasy VI on my Wii, so I've been playing that. It's fun, but I don't know how to get to the other continent without my ship. Kinda confused about that.

Don't you like, go through the monster plateau or something?

Did I mention that War§ow is the best thing ever?

It's amazing. Any fan of competitive FPS TDM or duels would be mad not to give it a look. It feels like a tighter and better version of CPMA. It looks like the initial interest in Aus is tapering off, with most people going back to Quake Live, sadly.

I had the pleasure of trying some Portal 2 multiplayer with a friend over the weekend. Very fun, well-designed puzzles and GLaDOS’ humor is just pitch-perfect. Only played the first 2 courses though.

I'm also playing FFIV, the remake for the GBA. Just started yesterday. I tried emulating it a couple of ways but it kept crashing. This is the only one of the FF Advance remakes that I think suffers from the redone spritework. Characters are just a little too flashy for the horrible industrial tundra.

Apparently they're making Final Fantasy xiii. I hope your joysticks are duct taped forwad.

Aww, I wanna play! I have hardly any Steam friends, though. Someone play with me? :(

I am an expert in Portal!