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sb:recommended:xbox [2017/10/08 10:01] the_blueberry_hill Removed my rude BG&E comment, changing 'PC' to 'Windows' |
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| * firenze: the nighttime Vegas setting is really great. It also includes one of the two maps from each of the first two //Crazy Taxi// games, and a just fucking ridiculous mission mode (Crazy X). If you like hard, video-gamey video games it's great. It also works wonderfully as a pick up and play diversion for 10 minutes. | * firenze: the nighttime Vegas setting is really great. It also includes one of the two maps from each of the first two //Crazy Taxi// games, and a just fucking ridiculous mission mode (Crazy X). If you like hard, video-gamey video games it's great. It also works wonderfully as a pick up and play diversion for 10 minutes. | ||
| - | ***//Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge//** | + | ***//Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge//** (also on: XB1) |
| * Tulpa: A nice arcade flight shooter. | * Tulpa: A nice arcade flight shooter. | ||
| * Swarm: It's like Disney's Talespin if instead of a bear it starred Nathan Drake from Uncharted. The game gives you a bunch of big maps and lets you do a bunch of missions in them until you move on. Has some nice early levels that have you flying through island caves that it drops way too early. Simplistic but solid gameplay, if you know how to lead targets you'll win every time. | * Swarm: It's like Disney's Talespin if instead of a bear it starred Nathan Drake from Uncharted. The game gives you a bunch of big maps and lets you do a bunch of missions in them until you move on. Has some nice early levels that have you flying through island caves that it drops way too early. Simplistic but solid gameplay, if you know how to lead targets you'll win every time. | ||
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| ***//Maximum Chase//** | ***//Maximum Chase//** | ||
| - | * Swarm: Absolute insanity. You're RICK SUMMER, TRAFFIC COP and you've gotten caught up in some bad shit with some terrorists who are trying to fuck up your car! Hilariously cheesy yet charming, this is the real FMV shit people crave. The game almost doesn't work, but the arcade gameplay is okay enough and the game short enough, for you to laugh your way through 60 minutes of pure bewilderment. They sold this game for $60! In 2003! | + | * Swarm: Absolute insanity. You're RICK SUMMER, TRAFFIC COP and you've gotten caught up in some bad shit with some terrorists who are trying to mess up your car! Hilariously cheesy yet charming, this is the real FMV people crave. The game almost doesn't work, but the arcade gameplay is okay enough and the game short enough, for you to laugh your way through 60 minutes of pure bewilderment. They sold this game for $60! In 2003! |
| + | * Decinoge: Cheesy doesn’t even begin to describe this game. It’s ridiculous turned all the way up to 15. Loved every little bit of terrible voice and real live acting (found on the credits they were actually 2 completely different things). I have to admit this was one of the funniest one and half hours I’ve had in the last month or so. I can’t really say I’ll play the game again. Might do so to get better scores. But that one time was amazing. I’ll probably consider one of the best “one offs” I’ve ever played. | ||
| ***//Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance//** (also on: 360, PS2, PS3, Vita, Windows) | ***//Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance//** (also on: 360, PS2, PS3, Vita, Windows) | ||
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| * dmauro: It won't be readily apparent that this is a good game, but if you stick with it for a little bit (my Dad got me playing this one and kept making me playing it with him) you'll realize it's really got something going on. The one thing that I haven't been quite able to enjoy is that you kind of need to memorize the courses and they are decently long, but they give you enough laps that you might be able to memorize it before you get to the end of the final lap.\\ It's far from the best game, but it runs in widescreen and hi-def, and you'll feel really awesome when you firgure out just the right amount of air to get on a series of jumps so that you clear them with the least amount of up and down as possible. | * dmauro: It won't be readily apparent that this is a good game, but if you stick with it for a little bit (my Dad got me playing this one and kept making me playing it with him) you'll realize it's really got something going on. The one thing that I haven't been quite able to enjoy is that you kind of need to memorize the courses and they are decently long, but they give you enough laps that you might be able to memorize it before you get to the end of the final lap.\\ It's far from the best game, but it runs in widescreen and hi-def, and you'll feel really awesome when you firgure out just the right amount of air to get on a series of jumps so that you clear them with the least amount of up and down as possible. | ||
| - | ***//Ninja Gaiden//** | + | ***//Ninja Gaiden Black//** (also on: XB1; remade for PS3, Vita) |
| * NeoEsZ: I'm a devil may cry fan who has beaten the DMC games too many times. This is something different and fresh, and I like it. Especially for the campy, cheesy parts. | * NeoEsZ: I'm a devil may cry fan who has beaten the DMC games too many times. This is something different and fresh, and I like it. Especially for the campy, cheesy parts. | ||
| - | + | * Ni Go Zero Ichi: Still the best game in its genre imo. Compared to //DMC// there's less emphasis on racking up style points and combos and more about just straight-up surviving every encounter. Years before //Souls// came along, control and movement is so fine-tuned and precise (almost nothing is automated and there's no mechanic even remotely resembling a QTE) and the level design is so nice and playground-y (with mild Metroidvania elements, even) you feel like you have an incredible amount of control in how you tackle the game's imposing challenges. The character models are gorgeously animated and the art direction is good, so it looks better than most games of its era too. The only thing that hasn't aged gracefully is the camera. | |
| - | ***//Ninja Gaiden Black//** (remade for PS3, Vita) | + | |
| ***//Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath//** (also on: PSN, Vita, Windows) | ***//Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath//** (also on: PSN, Vita, Windows) | ||
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| * NeoEsZ: [...] the graphics, presentation, and controls are all really good. It actually beats out its sequel that I had played previous to this game, //[[game:slai|SLAI]]//. | * NeoEsZ: [...] the graphics, presentation, and controls are all really good. It actually beats out its sequel that I had played previous to this game, //[[game:slai|SLAI]]//. | ||
| - | ***//Phantom Dust//** (BC) | + | ***//Phantom Dust//** (also on: XB1) |
| * boojiboy7: A game created with a decent collectible card game as its backbone, but instead of playing cards, the players act out the battle in largely destructible environments that change a fight. Technically backwards compatible on the 360, but there are some framerate issues and occasional lockups. Still worth playing it that way if that's the only way you can. | * boojiboy7: A game created with a decent collectible card game as its backbone, but instead of playing cards, the players act out the battle in largely destructible environments that change a fight. Technically backwards compatible on the 360, but there are some framerate issues and occasional lockups. Still worth playing it that way if that's the only way you can. | ||
| * Rudie: Magic The Gathering: The Movie: The Game. | * Rudie: Magic The Gathering: The Movie: The Game. | ||
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| * mothman spirit: You beat dudes up with psychic superpowers! I am on level two, and it seems to have some pretty brilliant level design! | * mothman spirit: You beat dudes up with psychic superpowers! I am on level two, and it seems to have some pretty brilliant level design! | ||
| - | ***//Psychonauts//** (also on: PS2, Windows) | + | ***//Psychonauts//** (also on: PS2, PS4, XB1, Windows) |
| * Leau: Psychonauts is a must play. Yeah there's a port for it on the PS2, but it's a really shoddy one, and the game just feels much better on the xbox (I've beaten both versions to 100% completion). | * Leau: Psychonauts is a must play. Yeah there's a port for it on the PS2, but it's a really shoddy one, and the game just feels much better on the xbox (I've beaten both versions to 100% completion). | ||
| * Intentionally Wrong: People bag on //Psychonauts// for being "just another platformer" but they were too caught up being offended by the routine to notice what an odd fusion Psychonauts really is. It's got the hub design of //[[game:Mario Sunshine]]// but the levels are all over the map: several are traditional platforming action, others are more about adventure game sensibilities. Every level has some unifying characteristic that makes it unique, though: one level has you combining scripts and scenery with mood-lighting on a stage to create different platform configurations; another involves personally recruiting and deploying units in a strategy board game against [[character:Napoleon Bonaparte]]. Taken together with the brilliant writing, //Psychonauts// becomes one of my top three games of all time. | * Intentionally Wrong: People bag on //Psychonauts// for being "just another platformer" but they were too caught up being offended by the routine to notice what an odd fusion Psychonauts really is. It's got the hub design of //[[game:Mario Sunshine]]// but the levels are all over the map: several are traditional platforming action, others are more about adventure game sensibilities. Every level has some unifying characteristic that makes it unique, though: one level has you combining scripts and scenery with mood-lighting on a stage to create different platform configurations; another involves personally recruiting and deploying units in a strategy board game against [[character:Napoleon Bonaparte]]. Taken together with the brilliant writing, //Psychonauts// becomes one of my top three games of all time. | ||
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| * Rudie: While the other [[game:silent_hill_series|Silent Hill games]] lend themselves to multiple playthroughs, a lot of this game hinges on surprise and not knowing what to expect. You explore the titular room in first-person, and totally hit the shit out of dogs with a charge meter and typical third-person. | * Rudie: While the other [[game:silent_hill_series|Silent Hill games]] lend themselves to multiple playthroughs, a lot of this game hinges on surprise and not knowing what to expect. You explore the titular room in first-person, and totally hit the shit out of dogs with a charge meter and typical third-person. | ||
| - | ***//SoulCalibur II//** (also on: Gamecube, PS2) | + | ***//SoulCalibur II//** (also on: 360, Gamecube, PS2, PS3) |
| ***//Spartan: Total Warrior//** (also on: Gamecube, PS2) - [[http://www.actionbutton.net/?p=387 | Action Button review]] | ***//Spartan: Total Warrior//** (also on: Gamecube, PS2) - [[http://www.actionbutton.net/?p=387 | Action Button review]] | ||
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| * NeoEsZ: Cheesy characters and aptmosphere. Like a sega arcade beat 'em, because it is one. Lovin' it. | * NeoEsZ: Cheesy characters and aptmosphere. Like a sega arcade beat 'em, because it is one. Lovin' it. | ||
| - | ***//Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory//** | + | ***//Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory//** (also on: Gamecube, PS2, PS3, Windows) |
| * Intentionally Wrong: I also enjoyed //Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory// for its multiplayer. Yes, we all know how //[[game:metal_gear_series|Metal Gear]]// is sooo much better. Whatever. I found multiplayer //Splinter Cell// pretty fucking awesome, although I am a notorious sucker for asymmetrical units. I haven't played single-player past the first mission; I kind of hate stealth games. (I also love them. I do both.) | * Intentionally Wrong: I also enjoyed //Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory// for its multiplayer. Yes, we all know how //[[game:metal_gear_series|Metal Gear]]// is sooo much better. Whatever. I found multiplayer //Splinter Cell// pretty fucking awesome, although I am a notorious sucker for asymmetrical units. I haven't played single-player past the first mission; I kind of hate stealth games. (I also love them. I do both.) | ||
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| * Ni Go Zero Ichi: Very possibly the best ever //Star Wars// game. | * Ni Go Zero Ichi: Very possibly the best ever //Star Wars// game. | ||
| - | ***//Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic//** (also on: Windows) | + | ***//Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic//** (also on: XB1, Windows) |
| * tacotaskforce: //Knights of the Old Republic// was designed to be played on the Xbox, on an Xbox game pad. | * tacotaskforce: //Knights of the Old Republic// was designed to be played on the Xbox, on an Xbox game pad. | ||