Video Games Thread

Thorns On My Grave · November 27th, 2007, 06:40 PM

Since metal and gamers are symbiotic, this is the thread to talk about games. This forum needs more activity, and this will certainly help, plus it will be cool to see if the Pyradudes are Pyranerds too.

So I am a big RPG fan, and I just got my PSP. I'm playing Valkyrie Profile: Lenneth, a bitchin game that lets you take control of the legendary Valkyrie to go to earth and acquire souls for Odin and the last battle when Ragnarok comes.
If that isn't metal, I do not know what is.

EXCELLENT GAME!

Any RPG fan must pick up this classic.

pyramazekeyboardist · November 27th, 2007, 07:29 PM

I enjoy pwning n00bs in warcraft 3 as you all know, but I also like mario kart, resident evil 4 (which I have beaten 10 times), and of course the halo series.

Chryst Krispies · November 27th, 2007, 07:45 PM

TEKKEN TEKKEN TEKKEN.

Thorns On My Grave · November 27th, 2007, 10:22 PM

hah... im more of a soul caliber guy when it comes to fighting games. Tekken games are too damned slow for my taste

The Wicked One · November 28th, 2007, 12:34 AM

If i had more time id play my Dynasty Warriors/Samurai Warriors games.
RPG: FFVII, greatest game of all time. no exceptions.
1st person shooter: Black, Halo, Gears of War (if i had a 360)
3rd person shooter: Star Wars Battlefront I & II.

unfortunately, i don't have the time anymore.

carbon · November 28th, 2007, 02:06 AM

Oh geeze, let me make a list...

First big-time game i got into alot was Ultima Online, holy ish that games freaking awesome.

then after that its pretty much been First Person shooters, and a few rpgs here and there...
after Ultima Online:

Unreal Tournament
A mass of unreal tournament mods (about 1-2 yrs of this)
Final Fantasy XI
CounterStrike Source (been playing a LONG time now)
and just recently picked up Call of Duty 4, i think this will be my new addiction..

I dont play as much as i use to this time a year ago though, I'm now in music school and working, so its pretty difficult to keep up on many RPGs and the like, but i've played quite alot of strategy and rpg games back in the day.

yeh, games are pretty much awesome.

Solon · November 28th, 2007, 04:41 AM

Hugh RPG / Shooter Fan ...

- PC :
Shooter :
Fear
Unreal tournament
Serious Sam 2 ( this just kicks ass

)

Rpg : ( oh boy ... )

Baldurs gate 1 + Tales of the swordcoast
Baldurs gate 2 + Throne of Baal ( absolute best ever )
Neverwinter nights 1 + hordes of the underdark + shadows of undertine
Icewind dale 1 + trial of the luremaster + heart of winter
Icewind dale 2
Neverwinter nights 2
Jade Empire

-Xbox
Shooter:
Halo 1
Halo 2

RPG:
Knights of the old republic I
Knights of the old republic 2

- XBOX 360
Shooter :
Ghost recon advanced warfighter
Gears of War
Call of duty 3
Halo 3
Lost planet
Bioschock

RPG:
Enchanted Arms
Dynasty warriors 5 Empires

These were all played over a period bout give or take 7 years ; since i'm in university ( well not really a university but don't know the best transulation

) and am busy with my GF, gaming time is going down, but when I do play
it's usually assasin's creed ; mass effect on XBOX 360 ^^

Enjoy

Caduceus Follower · November 28th, 2007, 07:00 AM

I am going all retro lately...on my nintendo wii I've been playing Castlevania 1,2, and Super Castlevania 4... (nice soundtracks on them)

Some weeks ago I found Fallout in some discount shop...so I'm all into the 'Post nuclear role playing game' on my pc now

Solon · November 28th, 2007, 08:35 AM

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Originally Posted by Caduceus Follower

I am going all retro lately...on my nintendo wii I've been playing Castlevania 1,2, and Super Castlevania 4... (nice soundtracks on them)

Some weeks ago I found Fallout in some discount shop...so I'm all into the 'Post nuclear role playing game' on my pc now

I forgot about fallout X-D ; they are a making a new one for its anniversary or so I hear

pyramazekeyboardist · November 28th, 2007, 11:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Caduceus Follower

I am going all retro lately...on my nintendo wii I've been playing Castlevania 1,2, and Super Castlevania 4... (nice soundtracks on them)

Some weeks ago I found Fallout in some discount shop...so I'm all into the 'Post nuclear role playing game' on my pc now

oh man, you gotta hear my cover of the castlevania clock tower theme!

Thorns On My Grave · November 28th, 2007, 11:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pyramazekeyboardist

oh man, you gotta hear my cover of the castlevania clock tower theme!

Post that shit blood!

Fallout is amazing, one of the best roleplayers ever.

Fallout three is. going. to. slay.

No doubt about it.

pyramazekeyboardist · November 28th, 2007, 02:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Thorns On My Grave

Post that shit blood!

Fallout is amazing, one of the best roleplayers ever.

Fallout three is. going. to. slay.

No doubt about it.

http://www.myspace.com/jweingarten
there is also some other random shite on there for your amusement

Jason369 · November 28th, 2007, 03:33 PM

Right now I'm playing Assassins Creed on my 360 and Super Mario Galaxy on my Wii(AWSOME AWSOME GAME. I guess I'm still a little kid at heart

). I'm definitely going to download Super Castlevania 4 onto my Wii sometime in the near future. I LOVED that game when I was younger, plus as was already pointed out the soundtrack for that game kicks ass. I also need to give a mention to Rallisport Challenge 2 for the Xbox. I got that game over 3 years ago on the day it came out and I still play it regularly. Best racing game EVER!!!!

Thorns On My Grave · November 28th, 2007, 04:04 PM

Super Mario Galaxy is utterly awesome, the first game for the Wii I think is of real, true quality.

I am SO addicted to it, and I don't even own a Wii. I was playing it in EBgames for like three hours. It's replay value is infinite, although I still play mario 3, so that's no surprise.

Assassin's Creed is dope, but not as dope as the hype made it out to be. That's the risk when you hype a game too much ::cough cough:: HALO ::cough cough::

Solon · November 28th, 2007, 05:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Thorns On My Grave

Super Mario Galaxy is utterly awesome, the first game for the Wii I think is of real, true quality.

I am SO addicted to it, and I don't even own a Wii. I was playing it in EBgames for like three hours. It's replay value is infinite, although I still play mario 3, so that's no surprise.

Assassin's Creed is dope, but not as dope as the hype made it out to be. That's the risk when you hype a game too much ::cough cough:: HALO ::cough cough::

assasins creed looks awesome has great gameplay and a good story, but the missions are repetitive ... if you play it you'll know what I mean X-D

Thorns On My Grave · November 28th, 2007, 08:20 PM

I know, I have played it. That's what I mean. It looks pretty sick, even plays sick, but in the end, it is not as it was hyped up to be.

Just a VERY pretty God of War, Prince of Persia, advanced hack'n'slash platformer

Caduceus Follower · November 29th, 2007, 02:28 AM

Rocking to Castlevania clocktower theme by Jonah

This type of stuff suites very well to metal. One good metal band should pick this stuff up some day and make a whole album of this stuff, but with vocals...that would kick some serious ass

Xendra · November 29th, 2007, 08:09 AM

Haha, call me a fanboy if you want, but I bought The Matrix: Path of Neo for the PC for 2€, and it slays! Okay, the textures are kinda bad and the game causes bad framerates even at low setting, but who cares about stuff like that when you get to smash an agent in the head with a metal pole \,,/! The character movements are smooth, and the controls are nearly perfect. I mean cmon, two attack buttons, dodge, jump, and focus (slow time etc.) --> 600 moves and combinations. I think that's pretty impressive. The fact that you get to play all the main events in the real storyline just makes all of it better.

I'm also regularly playing WoW, I just have to get to lvl70, otherwise me buying Burning Crusade was a total waste. But then again comes Wrath of the Lich King, it looks like I'm gonna be playing forever =D. I don't mind though, it's still fun, especially now that all the areas are new to me ( I never got past lvl52 on my first character >_>).

Thorns On My Grave · November 29th, 2007, 10:46 AM

Hah hah... I played PON... yeah it kinda sucked but it had it's ups.

I've never been into the MMORPGs, I played everquest for a couple years and that's about all I can take for my lifetime.

Xendra · November 29th, 2007, 02:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Thorns On My Grave

Hah hah... I played PON... yeah it kinda sucked but it had it's ups.

I've never been into the MMORPGs, I played everquest for a couple years and that's about all I can take for my lifetime.

Haha, yeah, I agree that PON isn't overall any good, but everything is forgotten the first time you can combo 4 bad guys into oblivion <3.

And about MMORPGs, I had a lot of good friends playing with me, so that made a huge difference. Now I play WoW because I absolutely adore the lore, and because all of it feels so alive and meaningful.

Thorns On My Grave · November 29th, 2007, 03:42 PM

I totally understand the appeal of MMORPGs but I can't get into them myself because there is no real sense of conclusion. That is why I dig the single player console RPGs so much. There is a beginning, middle, and end.

It usually doesn't take three months to go from level 64-65 too!

GuitarRage99 · November 29th, 2007, 08:31 PM

GOD OF FUCKING WAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! No one can fuck with Kratos!

PyramazeGuitar · November 30th, 2007, 05:22 AM

Well, i don't get too much time to enjoy my PS2 - but i must say that Resident Evil 4 is awesome. I also enjoyed God of War very much. Maybe when the new album is done i get some more time to molest my console again

Caduceus Follower · November 30th, 2007, 05:50 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by PyramazeGuitar

Well, i don't get too much time to enjoy my PS2 - but i must say that Resident Evil 4 is awesome. I also enjoyed God of War very much. Maybe when the new album is done i get some more time to molest my console again

Michael also into games?

So when is Pyramaze gonna make a full Castlevania song...maybe as bonus track?

...sorry..just wishfull thinking

Thorns On My Grave · November 30th, 2007, 10:42 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by PyramazeGuitar

Well, i don't get too much time to enjoy my PS2 - but i must say that Resident Evil 4 is awesome. I also enjoyed God of War very much. Maybe when the new album is done i get some more time to molest my console again

Given that you have so much to do it is not surprising. I work full time and go to college full time (getting a history/teaching degree) so my gaming days are pretty much zilch. However,... I always find a way

November 27th, 2007, 06:40 PM	#1 (permalink)
Thorns On My Grave I Am Vengeance Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Alameda, California Posts: 1,890	Video Games Thread Since metal and gamers are symbiotic, this is the thread to talk about games. This forum needs more activity, and this will certainly help, plus it will be cool to see if the Pyradudes are Pyranerds too. So I am a big RPG fan, and I just got my PSP. I'm playing Valkyrie Profile: Lenneth, a bitchin game that lets you take control of the legendary Valkyrie to go to earth and acquire souls for Odin and the last battle when Ragnarok comes. If that isn't metal, I do not know what is. EXCELLENT GAME! Any RPG fan must pick up this classic. __________________ What is this silent grave to those who never sought to find it? What is greatness to the dead?

November 27th, 2007, 10:22 PM	#4 (permalink)
Thorns On My Grave I Am Vengeance Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Alameda, California Posts: 1,890	hah... im more of a soul caliber guy when it comes to fighting games. Tekken games are too damned slow for my taste __________________ What is this silent grave to those who never sought to find it? What is greatness to the dead?

November 28th, 2007, 12:34 AM	#5 (permalink)
The Wicked One Menacing Bunny Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Howell, Michigan. (boonies) Posts: 714	If i had more time id play my Dynasty Warriors/Samurai Warriors games. RPG: FFVII, greatest game of all time. no exceptions. 1st person shooter: Black, Halo, Gears of War (if i had a 360) 3rd person shooter: Star Wars Battlefront I & II. unfortunately, i don't have the time anymore. __________________

November 28th, 2007, 02:06 AM	#6 (permalink)
carbon Guitarist In The Making Join Date: May 2007 Location: Apple Valley, CA, USA Posts: 274	Oh geeze, let me make a list... First big-time game i got into alot was Ultima Online, holy ish that games freaking awesome. then after that its pretty much been First Person shooters, and a few rpgs here and there... after Ultima Online: Unreal Tournament A mass of unreal tournament mods (about 1-2 yrs of this) Final Fantasy XI CounterStrike Source (been playing a LONG time now) and just recently picked up Call of Duty 4, i think this will be my new addiction.. I dont play as much as i use to this time a year ago though, I'm now in music school and working, so its pretty difficult to keep up on many RPGs and the like, but i've played quite alot of strategy and rpg games back in the day. yeh, games are pretty much awesome. __________________

November 28th, 2007, 04:41 AM	#7 (permalink)
Solon Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Belgium Posts: 130	Hugh RPG / Shooter Fan ... - PC : Shooter : Fear Unreal tournament Serious Sam 2 ( this just kicks ass ) Rpg : ( oh boy ... ) Baldurs gate 1 + Tales of the swordcoast Baldurs gate 2 + Throne of Baal ( absolute best ever ) Neverwinter nights 1 + hordes of the underdark + shadows of undertine Icewind dale 1 + trial of the luremaster + heart of winter Icewind dale 2 Neverwinter nights 2 Jade Empire -Xbox Shooter: Halo 1 Halo 2 RPG: Knights of the old republic I Knights of the old republic 2 - XBOX 360 Shooter : Ghost recon advanced warfighter Gears of War Call of duty 3 Halo 3 Lost planet Bioschock RPG: Enchanted Arms Dynasty warriors 5 Empires These were all played over a period bout give or take 7 years ; since i'm in university ( well not really a university but don't know the best transulation ) and am busy with my GF, gaming time is going down, but when I do play it's usually assasin's creed ; mass effect on XBOX 360 ^^ Enjoy __________________ If you have a gun let your friends play with it. It's always good to have a second set of finger prints on a gun.

November 27th, 2007, 07:29 PM	#2 (permalink)
pyramazekeyboardist Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 666	I enjoy pwning n00bs in warcraft 3 as you all know, but I also like mario kart, resident evil 4 (which I have beaten 10 times), and of course the halo series.

November 28th, 2007, 07:00 AM	#8 (permalink)
Caduceus Follower Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 64	I am going all retro lately...on my nintendo wii I've been playing Castlevania 1,2, and Super Castlevania 4... (nice soundtracks on them) Some weeks ago I found Fallout in some discount shop...so I'm all into the 'Post nuclear role playing game' on my pc now

November 28th, 2007, 03:33 PM	#13 (permalink)
Jason369 Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Ontario, Canada Posts: 49	Right now I'm playing Assassins Creed on my 360 and Super Mario Galaxy on my Wii(AWSOME AWSOME GAME. I guess I'm still a little kid at heart ). I'm definitely going to download Super Castlevania 4 onto my Wii sometime in the near future. I LOVED that game when I was younger, plus as was already pointed out the soundtrack for that game kicks ass. I also need to give a mention to Rallisport Challenge 2 for the Xbox. I got that game over 3 years ago on the day it came out and I still play it regularly. Best racing game EVER!!!!

November 28th, 2007, 04:04 PM	#14 (permalink)
Thorns On My Grave I Am Vengeance Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Alameda, California Posts: 1,890	Super Mario Galaxy is utterly awesome, the first game for the Wii I think is of real, true quality. I am SO addicted to it, and I don't even own a Wii. I was playing it in EBgames for like three hours. It's replay value is infinite, although I still play mario 3, so that's no surprise. Assassin's Creed is dope, but not as dope as the hype made it out to be. That's the risk when you hype a game too much ::cough cough:: HALO ::cough cough:: __________________ What is this silent grave to those who never sought to find it? What is greatness to the dead?

November 28th, 2007, 08:20 PM	#16 (permalink)
Thorns On My Grave I Am Vengeance Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Alameda, California Posts: 1,890	I know, I have played it. That's what I mean. It looks pretty sick, even plays sick, but in the end, it is not as it was hyped up to be. Just a VERY pretty God of War, Prince of Persia, advanced hack'n'slash platformer __________________ What is this silent grave to those who never sought to find it? What is greatness to the dead?

November 29th, 2007, 02:28 AM	#17 (permalink)
Caduceus Follower Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 64	Rocking to Castlevania clocktower theme by Jonah This type of stuff suites very well to metal. One good metal band should pick this stuff up some day and make a whole album of this stuff, but with vocals...that would kick some serious ass

November 29th, 2007, 08:09 AM	#18 (permalink)
Xendra Hevari from Finland! Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Helsinki, Finland Posts: 147	Haha, call me a fanboy if you want, but I bought The Matrix: Path of Neo for the PC for 2€, and it slays! Okay, the textures are kinda bad and the game causes bad framerates even at low setting, but who cares about stuff like that when you get to smash an agent in the head with a metal pole \,,/! The character movements are smooth, and the controls are nearly perfect. I mean cmon, two attack buttons, dodge, jump, and focus (slow time etc.) --> 600 moves and combinations. I think that's pretty impressive. The fact that you get to play all the main events in the real storyline just makes all of it better. I'm also regularly playing WoW, I just have to get to lvl70, otherwise me buying Burning Crusade was a total waste. But then again comes Wrath of the Lich King, it looks like I'm gonna be playing forever =D. I don't mind though, it's still fun, especially now that all the areas are new to me ( I never got past lvl52 on my first character >_>). __________________ " Jaa, tuo viruksentorjunta löysi ittestään viruksen joka johti ohjelman kaatumiseen. "

November 29th, 2007, 10:46 AM	#19 (permalink)
Thorns On My Grave I Am Vengeance Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Alameda, California Posts: 1,890	Hah hah... I played PON... yeah it kinda sucked but it had it's ups. I've never been into the MMORPGs, I played everquest for a couple years and that's about all I can take for my lifetime. __________________ What is this silent grave to those who never sought to find it? What is greatness to the dead?

November 29th, 2007, 03:42 PM	#21 (permalink)
Thorns On My Grave I Am Vengeance Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Alameda, California Posts: 1,890	I totally understand the appeal of MMORPGs but I can't get into them myself because there is no real sense of conclusion. That is why I dig the single player console RPGs so much. There is a beginning, middle, and end. It usually doesn't take three months to go from level 64-65 too! __________________ What is this silent grave to those who never sought to find it? What is greatness to the dead?

November 29th, 2007, 08:31 PM	#22 (permalink)
GuitarRage99 Across The Rainbow Bridge Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Albuquerque, NM Posts: 666	GOD OF FUCKING WAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! No one can fuck with Kratos! __________________ www.myspace.com/futilitarianband

November 30th, 2007, 05:22 AM	#23 (permalink)
PyramazeGuitar METAL Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Denmark Posts: 215	Well, i don't get too much time to enjoy my PS2 - but i must say that Resident Evil 4 is awesome. I also enjoyed God of War very much. Maybe when the new album is done i get some more time to molest my console again