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[Diablo]

Don't like the Metal Gear Solids, eh?

Personally, I love Metal Gear Solid, and Metal Gear Solid 2 was decent (though, the whole Raiden thing was unforgiveable).  Yet, Snake Eater, which everyone is critically hailing, was nigh unplayable to me.  I played it for two hours, and enjoyed no part of it during that time.

I'll have to look into MoH:  Infiltrator.  Honestly, I have never even heard of the game, so I can see why it's under-rated.  :shock:

[NT]

Don't like the Metal Gear Solids, eh?

Personally, I love Metal Gear Solid, and Metal Gear Solid 2 was decent (though, the whole Raiden thing was unforgiveable).  Yet, Snake Eater, which everyone is critically hailing, was nigh unplayable to me.  I played it for two hours, and enjoyed no part of it during that time.

I'll have to look into MoH:  Infiltrator.  Honestly, I have never even heard of the game, so I can see why it's under-rated.  :shock:

I'm pretty old-school when it comes to gameplay.  I generally prefer classic games to stay in 2D.

I also dislike the current trend of the kiddies wanting huge and elaborate storylines in games.  MGS2 had an insanely boring amount of FMV.  I don't like FMV.   :x

[Ishan]

Never got really used to the every-games-need-to-be-in-3D thing. This crazyness killed many good "genre" in video games, no more side scroller like shoot-them-up (wich tend to make a comeback in 3D but kids usualy don't like those, it's more for a mature audience, I can't get away oif Gradius V lately ) or those point and click adventure games wich I tend to be totaly  in love with (nothing better like a good old lucas art game )
What's really a pity is with all the power we got with recent hardware, we could get very beautiful hires 2D games with incredible special effects (just looks at some of those 2D fighting games still produced, maybe one of the last truely faithfull to the 2D era)
They even killed what I call the japrpg genre, just try FF6 then next to it one of the last crap like FFX-2, nothing in comon with a machine 100x more powerfull.

IMHO we'll see the same crap on all those "nextgen" portable game systems.

Don't listen to me, I'm an old nostalgic

[Diablo]

What, did everyone stop playing their GBAs all of a sudden?

I'm back to playing mostly Golden Sun again.  The story and dialogue are extremely childish, but the game is still fun overall.  Not an excellent RPG by any stretch of the imagination, but a fun time-consumer nonetheless.

[biggreen]

Speaking of diablo I've been getting into Lord of the rings two towers over the last few days. They were obviously inspired by that classic while making this game. It even has the trademark red health and blue mana spheres at the bottom of the screen and the bar that shows your Exp. points needed to level up. Even choosing your special abilities by distributing recieved skill points is the same. The game is also lightning fast on the gba. Plus it supports multiplayer. From what I can tell so far a triple A action RPG.

[Diablo]

Looks like I've a game to look into, then!

Thanks for the input, biggreen.

[dshier89]

The castlevania games rock!

[NT]

Never got really used to the every-games-need-to-be-in-3D thing. This crazyness killed many good "genre" in video games, no more side scroller like shoot-them-up (wich tend to make a comeback in 3D but kids usualy don't like those, it's more for a mature audience, I can't get away oif Gradius V lately ) or those point and click adventure games wich I tend to be totaly  in love with (nothing better like a good old lucas art game )
What's really a pity is with all the power we got with recent hardware, we could get very beautiful hires 2D games with incredible special effects (just looks at some of those 2D fighting games still produced, maybe one of the last truely faithfull to the 2D era)
They even killed what I call the japrpg genre, just try FF6 then next to it one of the last crap like FFX-2, nothing in comon with a machine 100x more powerfull.

IMHO we'll see the same crap on all those "nextgen" portable game systems.

Don't listen to me, I'm an old nostalgic

I'm in total agreement.  Gradius V is a good game.  There should be more current-gen games like it.  The music and graphics are great, and the game is hard like it should be.   :evil:

And as far as I'm concerned, Final Fantasy died after FF6...

[NT]

What, did everyone stop playing their GBAs all of a sudden?

I'm back to playing mostly Golden Sun again.  The story and dialogue are extremely childish, but the game is still fun overall.  Not an excellent RPG by any stretch of the imagination, but a fun time-consumer nonetheless.

I'm still playing Mario and Luigi, so there's really nothing new to report on that front.  40-hour RPGs tend to do that.  

I also just beat Mercenaries for PS2.  That is a QUALITY game.  One of my favorite games ever.  

In additon to that I've been playing a couple of PS2 flight sims - Aero Elite Combat Academy and Energy Airforce:  Aim Strike.

[NT]

The castlevania games rock!

Yeah, anyone who hasn't played through the trilogy needs to drop what they're doing and play them immediately.

[dshier89]

Some other favorites of mine

Super Monkey Ball JR
Wario Ware
Prince of Tennis
Kingdom Hearts(havent got far at all)

Survival Kids.  Awesome obscure GB RPG.

[dshier89]

I like star wars lego and mario party advance. I hope they work, been getting mixed reviews on it.