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The Quick Capsule Review

iamus

02:33 / 19.09.05

This is a thread for those games that caught your attention and you would consider aquiring, but you know nothing about. Ask your fellow Barbelites if they've played them and if they're any good.

So......

Transformers for the PS2 and Fallout 2 for the Mac/PC?

All Acting Regiment

08:05 / 19.09.05

Afraid I can't help with those, but what about Half Life 2 for PC?

Although no-one's asked, I heartily recommend the Cossacks series of games. If someone wants a thread about them just ask.

COG

08:13 / 19.09.05

NHL games on Gamecube etc. I used to love icehockey on the megadrive in 2D, but I'm not sure it would work so well in 3D. All the angles etc, it was like liquid chess, I tell thee.
Also, I've heard the Sega ones are better than the EA ones. True?

ONLY NICE THINGS

10:57 / 19.09.05

Fallout 2 is archetypally Troika. There's an incredible amount to do, an insane amount of detail and a lot of character touches. It has some disadvantages - some fo the voice acting is poor, and because it is made by geeks the dialogue and some of the plots are scene-breakingly referential to Pinky and the Brain, Monty Python, that sort of thing, which you will either like (if you are everything that is wrong with gaming) or loathe. It's got a lot of good points, though, and will give you tens and probably hundreds of hours of gaming time for a couple of quid, if you like post-apocalyptic RPGs.

Legba: Are you recommending Half-Life 2 or asking about it? Only it is probably thhe best game since UFO: Enemy Unknown...

All Acting Regiment

10:59 / 19.09.05

Asking if it was good. I'll check it out.

ONLY NICE THINGS

12:07 / 19.09.05

I would. Activating it with Steam is a slight pain, but after that you have a FPS that could only really be improved by more length, more difficulty and the ability to pilot striders. In terms of the atmosphere it creates, and the flexibility it gives you within a linear structure in achieving your ends is pretty impressive.

It's surprisingly scalable, too. I could just about play it on a Celeron 1.8Gig with 512MB RAM and an FX5200 merrily burning out in a 4x AGP socket. Obviosuly, I wouldn't recommend this...

The Falcon

09:31 / 20.09.05

Transformers is a bit shit, really. I've a shot from a pal, and - given that it's failed to live up to my 20+ year dream of 3D environment Transformers computer game, and these might constitute slightly unrealistic expectations - well, it's a bit boring.

I'd've preferred something in the mould of Guardian Heroes (izzat the one? fighter with the massive cast of characters - instead of three, which you get with TF, and they're Energon models, or whatever they're called these days.)

I mean: you can transform, and there's a reasonably satisfying noise, but it's not that great otherwise.

iamus

11:50 / 21.09.05

Thanks guys. The bargain bin is one Fallout 2 lighter, and the second-hand PS2 shelves are just as Transformer-heavy as before.

When it comes to RPG's I'm more accustomed to consoles, but I do enjoy home computer ones now and again. Recently, I've been looking for one to sink my teeth into so this ought to do nicely.

semioticrobotic

01:58 / 13.03.07

Castlevania games for the Nintendo DS?

Someone wants to stop me from making an impulse buy?

The Strobe

10:22 / 13.03.07

Well, I can't comment on Portrait of Ruin, but Dawn of Sorrow is awesome. Nicely structured, in the vein of the Metroid-vania games; really beautiful 2D animation, with some very subtle 3D in the backdrops; reasonably challenging, great boss fights, not-half-bad music. In short: very good.

I'm told Portrait of Ruin is as good, if not better; it plays slightly different, due to the two-character swapping.

So: sorry, can't help stopping you buy them, I'm afraid.

semioticrobotic

12:11 / 13.03.07

Oh for the love of Dracula. I bought the first one.

semioticrobotic

01:10 / 19.03.07

Okay. I just had to share this.

My copy of Dawn of Sorrow arrived in the mail today, and to my surprise it's been repackaged by Konami as part of a Greatest Hits series. Therefore, it does not bear the original package design, but rather a new one, a picture of which is here.

The box art is now a picture of the original box art.

Kirin? Who the heck?

15:27 / 19.03.07

Yes. I was a little, ah, bemused the first time I saw one of those. What's wrong with just slapping a 'We're milking it for even more money!' banner across the top?

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