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[viscousmemories]

As I mentioned elsewhere, my roommate bought an Xbox recently, as well as Halo (a first-person shooter), Fable (a single-player RPG), and Mechassault (a shooter). We played Halo through to the end as a team, which didn't take long. That's a very cool game. We also each created Fable characters and played the game through to the end. I created an evil character then, but got bored about half-way through.

So I have two questions:

What are your favorite games for the Xbox (or PS2)?

And more specifically:

Do you know of an RPG that's Fable-like but which is multi-player (though not dependent on the Xbox online service) and/or lasts much longer than Fable?

[LadyShea]

We just got an XBox the other day, and so far have been unable to find a multi player cooperative play. PS2 had a couple that we really enjoyed playing together, specifically the Baldur's Gate series.

So far, I have only played Harry Potter-Prisoner of Azkaban and Silent Hill 4 on the new XBox. I'll let you know what other cool ones I find, and you do the same for me, okay?

[viscousmemories]

Will do.

By the way if anyone cares, my thread (http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=815) about lisarea being a chicken chaser was referring to Fable, since she had mentioned playing that game too. :yup:

[Goliath]

Throughout the years, I've been seriously tempted to buy a PS2 or an Xbox (probably an Xbox) but I'm afraid that if I ever do, I'll never be able to get anything done! :eek: :D

[JoeP]

Throughout the years, I've been seriously tempted to buy a PS2 or an Xbox (probably an Xbox) but I'm afraid that if I ever do, I'll never be able to get anything done! :eek: :D
Exactly my fear. See how much time I spend in the Arcade? Nil. (Although I was the champion in one game for a couple of days :winner: in the distant past.) If I spent any time there, it would become all my time. I've been through this with the SNES games I own ... which my daughter has taken over. :giggle:

[Scotty]

I think the RPG area in X-Box is very lacking.

I just picked up X-Men Legends, and it is pretty okay for multi-player, although there are sections where only one person plays, then you all get together to battle stuff. That might even work well with 4 players. (an okay level of RPG involved)

Baulder's Gate (1 and 2) was fun for multi-player, although it is repetative.

There are some new single-player RPG's that are supposed to be good (fable as you mentioned) and one other I can't think of now. But, I only like playing the cooperative games.

-Scott

[LadyShea]

I think the RPG area in X-Box is very lacking.

Thats the perception I got looking for games the other day. We kept the PS2, and plan to have it cleaned/repaired, so I guess we'll just take advantage of having both systems

Baulder's Gate (1 and 2) was fun for multi-player, although it is repetative.

Yes, the repetitiveness was a big drawback, and I had hoped they would improve that aspect on sequals. But, it is so far the only series we have found with that level of cooperative play, which we really enjoy

But, I only like playing the cooperative games.

-Scott

We really prefer them as that is seriously quality couple's time for us. Although I enjoy some game time alone, it's not my preference.

I have liked the Harry Potter games for mindless time consumption, and really had fun with Kingdom Hearts as well as the Dark Clouds for RPGs. Frankie has found various golf and other sports games that he likes on both systems.

[dave_a]

For multiplayer coop games Halo is great (FPS). There are many other games that feature 2 player split screen games although they aren't necessarily cooperative. Burnout 3 (racing/crashing) allows for playing the races and crashes together.

My favorite games for xbox to date are:

1. Halo
2. Dead or Alive (I have the original, but not Ultimate yet)
3. Any Tom Clancy game (Rainbox 6, Ghost Recon)
4. Burnout 3
5. For kids the Spongebob Squarepants:Battle for Bikini Bottom

There are others I like, but these are the ones getting the most play time at the dantonac residence.

Of course at this point I am just waiting for the dawn of a new age when Halo 2 is released and all other games become irrelevant overnight.

[Scotty]

By the way, I think the new X-Box, whenever it comes out, will not be compatable with the older games. So, buy buy buy.

The only reason I got an X-Box was because I knew MicroSquish loses money on them. Happy me.

-Scott

[Corona688]

By the way, I think the new X-Box, whenever it comes out, will not be compatable with the older games. So, buy buy buy. Cosmic irony: I have it from a source I consider fairly reliable, that internally, Microsoft's new Xbox is going to be a reduced, repackaged, Power Macintosh G5.

[Adora]

Favourite games: MGS series, Final Fantasy series *is such a girl*, ummmm, Oh, GTA series is excellent. My bro just bought San Andreas. Very very cool. Silent Hill, Resident Evil, Siren, creepy ones like that. I like the "survival horror" genre. They're about it.

[Scotty]

I think you are correct about that. Should be a fantastic machine, just not compatable (which is annoying).

-Scott

[trendkill]

My favorite Xbox game is Ninja Gaiden, which is a very fast, hardcore action game, but I loved Halo also. I'm not really an RPG person these days, although I did enjoy Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic quite a bit (no multiplayer on that one though).

I actually don't have an Xbox anymore, my main console is my PS2, on which my favorite games are Grand Theft Auto III, ICO, Shinobi, and Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty (Metal Gear Solid 3 comes out in just a couple of weeks). I also love the horror games, and Silent Hill 4 is one of the scariest; it's on both PS2 and Xbox, as is Silent Hill 2, which may not be quite as gut-wrenchingly disturbing as 4 but has a cleverer, more character-driven storyline and may be the better game overall.

The GTAs, Metal Gears and Silent Hills are very dark, violent and/or complicated and may not be for everyone, but I do think everyone with a PS2 should try ICO, which in my humble opinion is the most breathtakingly beautiful game ever conceived.
http://www.penny-arcade.com/docs/ico-256.jpg http://www.i-c-o.net/main/intro/img/00.jpg http://www.penny-arcade.com/docs/ico-05.jpg

Screenshots don't do it justice, but I had to try.

[viscousmemories]

Those screens are pretty, trendkill.

We've been playing Halo2 since it came out, but for some reason I'm not finding it all that exciting this time around. We started on "heroic" level since we finished Halo1 on "legendary", but even so it seems easy. And I don't like being an alien. Especially an alien without a flashlight. Yes I know, life is very hard.

[beyelzu]

dont you hate those fucking alien cultures that can develop interstellar travel but cant make a fucking flashlight.

[viscousmemories]

I know! What the hell were they thinking?

[Adam]

dont you hate those fucking alien cultures that can develop interstellar travel but cant make a fucking flashlight.

Or, as a friend of mine commented upon realizing that, in Doom 3, you can only use your flashlight if you put away your gun, "So, they can make fucking plasma cannons in the future, but they've lost our advanced twentieth century attaching-a-flashlight-to-a-damned-gun technology?"

[Scotty]

Those screens are pretty, trendkill.

We've been playing Halo2 since it came out, but for some reason I'm not finding it all that exciting this time around. We started on "heroic" level since we finished Halo1 on "legendary", but even so it seems easy. And I don't like being an alien. Especially an alien without a flashlight. Yes I know, life is very hard.

Yeah, funny, I bought it started to play the game with wife (she wasn't doing well) and just thought it was exactly the same. Um, advanced or just another "level" of Halo?

I haven't seen anything be very exciting in FPS's for a long while, maybe since Castle Wolfenstein. The look better, you can work with more people, but I just don't see the huge difference.

Point, shoot, kill, big whoop.

Now, give me something like Neverwinter Nights, and I enjoy that to no end, I started a server locally and have it running between PC and Mac. They made a great game there, and made it like it was a UNIX executable. Just drop it in place on any machine and all of the data is the same, just have to change the executable. Brilliant.

-Scott

[Adam]

I haven't seen anything be very exciting in FPS's for a long while, maybe since Castle Wolfenstein. The look better, you can work with more people, but I just don't see the huge difference.

Point, shoot, kill, big whoop.

I'll have to disagree there. FPS gameplay has come a long way since Wolfenstein. Back in the late 90's, team based mods of the original Half Life (I'm thinking primarily of Team Fortress Classic here, although Counterstrike also qualifies) added innovative tactical and social aspects to the genre, and more recent games like Battlefield 1942 have improved on these by adding more refined elements to force team play.

[viscousmemories]

Hell, single player Half-Life is still my favorite game. I was so engrossed in the plot I was literally horrified and afraid when I was coming down that staircase and saw a Marine opening fire on the lab technicians... :yikes:

Pretty soon we're probably gonna hook up X-box live or whatever it's called and play some Halo against out-of-state friends. Anyone here interested in some of that action?

[beyelzu]

Hell, single player Half-Life is still my favorite game. I was so engrossed in the plot I was literally horrified and afraid when I was coming down that staircase and saw a Marine opening fire on the lab technicians... :yikes:

Pretty soon we're probably gonna hook up X-box live or whatever it's called and play some Halo against out-of-state friends. Anyone here interested in some of that action?
dude, I say this with all respect.

I will purchase halo2 in a couple of weeks and then I will rape you like you have never been raped at halo2.

and if I get my friend kenny to play on my team, it will be a fucking bloodbath.


in short, hell yes I am down with playing some halo2 multiplayer.

[viscousmemories]

:biglaugh:

Search your feelings, Bey. You know the truth. :iamdad:

[beyelzu]

:biglaugh:

Search your feelings, Bey. You know the truth. :iamdad:
tom,

I have lost a great deal of respect for you. if you are my dad you fornicated with my mom, and trust me when I say she is not an attractive woman physically or emotionally.

so I am left wondering, how thick were your beer goggles that night. :D

[viscousmemories]

:biglaugh:

Search your feelings, Bey. You know the truth. :iamdad:
tom,

I have lost a great deal of respect for you. if you are my dad you fornicated with my mom, and trust me when I say she is not an attractive woman physically or emotionally.

so I am left wondering, how thick were your beer goggles that night. :D
Daammmn. I hope you weren't planning to get laid by anyone here. Chicks hate it when guys dis their own Mom. Seriously, man. :doh:

[beyelzu]

:biglaugh:

Search your feelings, Bey. You know the truth. :iamdad:
tom,

I have lost a great deal of respect for you. if you are my dad you fornicated with my mom, and trust me when I say she is not an attractive woman physically or emotionally.

so I am left wondering, how thick were your beer goggles that night. :D
Daammmn. I hope you weren't planning to get laid by anyone here. Chicks hate it when guys dis their own Mom. Seriously, man. :doh:

I dont know, most of the chicks I have gone out with quit trying to defend my mother when they actually hear about my childhood. I generally get lots of sympathy for being such a poor fucked up kid.

[viscousmemories]

I dont know, most of the chicks I have gone out with quit trying to defend my mother when they actually hear about my childhood. I generally get lots of sympathy for being such a poor fucked up kid.
Hmm. I'm in the peculiar position of not knowing whether I should pat you on the back for your fucked up childhood or envy you for the chick appeal a fucked up childhood invariably affords. :D





Damn, why do child abuse jokes always fall flat? :chin:

[beyelzu]

I dont know, most of the chicks I have gone out with quit trying to defend my mother when they actually hear about my childhood. I generally get lots of sympathy for being such a poor fucked up kid.
Hmm. I'm in the peculiar position of not knowing whether I should pat you on the back for your fucked up childhood or envy you for the chick appeal a fucked up childhood invariably affords. :D


damn near everything has an upside.




Damn, why do child abuse jokes always fall flat? :chin:
it's one of life's little mysteries.

[SharonDee]

Y'all are so cute. C'mon over here; I'll do both of y'all right now!

:heybabeh:

:3some2:

[viscousmemories]

:woohoo:

[Goliath]

dont you hate those fucking alien cultures that can develop interstellar travel but cant make a fucking flashlight.

Yeah, but running around in an extremely dangerous environment with the options of either holding a weapon ready to fire or using a flashlight (ala Doom 3) isn't that much better.

[Goliath]

Y'all are so cute. C'mon over here; I'll do both of y'all right now!

:heybabeh:

:3some2:

Awww, too late again... :deepsigh: :cryhome: