What Are You Currently Playing?

[Noah Phoenix]

Originally Posted by Cayal

Mass Effect is great. I can't wait for the sequel.

The more I play it, the more I love it! Not even done any of the first plot missions after you get the Normandy, and I've been playing for seven hours! Scoured the universe, taken out Geth outposts, explored uncharted worlds and not even started the story yet!

Loving the sniper rifle and NO AMMO! The only gripe I have is the limited difference in the interiors on the worlds. It's a massive game, and I understand that they couldn't fit a lot on the disk. Perhaps they should have left some of the star systems off and had them as DLC and then put a few more interiors in?

I've also got PGR4, Left 4 Dead and Zelda: Twilight Princess on the Wii waiting in the wings once I've finished Mass Effect.

[Cayal]

Just finished InFamous. Awesome, awesome game.

Now onto Uncharted trophy whoring and FFVII PSN.

[Noah Phoenix]

Originally Posted by Cayal

Just finished InFamous. Awesome, awesome game.

Now onto Uncharted trophy whoring and FFVII PSN.

I'd be so freakin jealous if I didn't already have it on the pc

[Cayal]

You mean FFVII?

[Noah Phoenix]

Yep. Awesome game. Lost a little of it's shine over the years for me, but still one of the best I've played, if not THE best. I seemed to enjoy FFVIII a little more this time around than the first time. Perhaps it's the fact I've changed a lot since the first time I played them. Think I was around 15 when FFVII came out (1995-ish wasn't it?). 28 now, so my taste has bound to have changed over the years. I used to love JRPG's back then, hated FPS and racing games. Now I find it hard to get into big RPG games, I didn't like Oblivion or Fallout 3, and love COD4, Burnout Paradise and PGR4.
Mass Effect however, seems to be changing that.

[Cayal]

1997 I think Final Fantasy VII came out. I remember seeing the advertisement for it on TV before I ever had a Playstation and then my parents bought me a Playstation for my birthday and Final Fantasy VII was the first game I ever bought.

[Noah Phoenix]

What a way to start, eh? I would have been 17 then. Good memories!

[Cayal]

I would have been 13 when I got the PS/FFVII and while Final Fantasy VII may be the greatest game I've ever played. The first ever PS game I played was Resident Evil...boy did I never ever expect the dog smashing through the window. That is one hell of a memory.

The more I play FFVII the more I want a remake. God I hope Square Enix get it done, the PSN release sold incredibly well.

[Sephiroth]

I was 17 as well, and I bought a Playstation specifically to play it, having been astounded by my first impression of watching a friend play the beginning when it first came out.

Thus ended the long and distinguished tenure of my Mega Drive, may it rest it peace. (I wish I still had it, now... )

And in my opinion, FFVII is still the shiniest of all shiny things, btw.

Great memories. Some of the best of my life, and that's no exaggeration. Which is why I'm tentative when it comes to a remake...do I really trust them to deliver something that does justice to the greatness of the original?



Anyway, the Bioshock plat is in the bag, and I'm halfway through my second playthrough of inFamous now. I'm enjoying it -- further comment is reserved for the game thread.

Not sure what's up next, yet. Was excited by Ghostbusters, but the PS3 visuals thing is putting me off. Have been considering Red Faction: Guerilla for a while... And people still keep telling me to try LBP, and that it's awesome fun, etc, etc...

We'll see........

[Noah Phoenix]

I think if they keep the story exactly the same, added to the incredible depth and merely updated the visuals, then they could make it work. But the problem with remakes is that the original was popular because of the time it came out, and that it was really ahead of it's time, a remake now would just be a remake. It wouldn't be ahead of it's time, it wouldn't be anything new that the western world hadn't seen much of before.
It's the same with the slew of movie remakes. Who really thinks that a Flashdance remake would do well these days? It was popular because of the times, not because it was a great movie.
I fear there would be too much disappointment in a FFVII remake, and IMO SquareEnix just wouldn't risk it in the 'current economic climate'.

[Cayal]

I think there is a difference between remaking movies and video games.

If they leave FFVII and update the visuals, give it voice acting and improve the dialogue (such as Aeris saying 'This guy are sick') it will work.

There is absolutely no doubt in my mind a Final Fantasy VII remake will sell millions. In Japan alone I think they'd make their money back. I'm pretty certain if Square Enix put dog poo and labelled it Final Fantasy VII dog poo it would sell millions.

[Shadow Trooper]

Currently playing Company of Heroes and loving it!

[Connavar]

I borrowed my brother's PS3 and im enjoying fully MGS4 my first time playing it.

I was playing all night almost to dawn. Playing with dark room liking being to cinema but with a great story and great gameplay. Kojima and co never lets down. MGS series is what gaming experiance is all about. Not about some repetitive shooter or a game like Assassin's Creed who gets old after 5 minutes of gameplay.

Its about the fun,joy you get from sneaking through a war zone and being proud you made it without dying or getting seen by the enemy. Then the tempo changes and its a cool gunfight with Liquid cyborg like private soldiers. You know when you meets Meryl's team for the first time.

[StoryForge]

Our 2d specialist is currently playing Infamous, and our intern....(me) is waiting for Mass Effect 2

[Sephiroth]

I'm not sure if they could make it work or not, Noah. But Cayal's right, in that it would sell millions, regardless. Which, I think, is what worries me... The temptation may be too much to resist, and the end result may be something that those of us who adore the original will be very disappointed with.



Anyway. Finished inFamous, got my platinum.

Have just finished Dynasty Warriors 6 Empires, as well, which I must say was a thoroughly mundane and repetitive experience........

Currently I have Little Big Planet and Burnout Paradise on the go. The former has yet to excite me, although I've quite enjoyed certain parts of certain levels, and I have begun to create a level of my own. The latter is actually quite fun, in a mindless sort of way. I played the original years ago, and I got this as part of a deal.