GameSetQ: What Have You Been Playing Over The Holidays?
Well, it's been a fairly pleasant holiday season, at least here at GameSetWatch HQ - and there's been a completely ridiculous plethora of games that all of you dear readers could at least theoretically have played.
But buying a game and playing it don't necessarily go together. So what did you guys actually have time to play - or decided to play - over Xmas? Here's what I ended up checking out:
- Rock Band - finally got round to completing this in Medium difficulty on Solo Tour with the guitar. Also grabbed downloadable tracks including 'Buddy Holly', 'My Iron Lung', and both the 99c All-American Rejects songs, which are pretty darn catchy, actually. Also had a mini-revelation - I like playing easier difficulty levels and having a relaxing pseudo-musical jaunt, rather than stretching my hand-eye co-ordination excessively on Expert.
- Scene It? Lights Camera Action - Sure, it's rather dependent on you knowing stuff about movies, but having played this with some friends, it's actually a lot of fun. It's especially cool that it includes movie clips that'll make you want to watch the original films - from spaghetti Westerns to Ghostbusters. Sorta film-educative in the same way Rock Band is music-educative, vaguely?
- Lots of Xbox Live Arcade games - reconsidering Mutant Storm Empire, which still isn't as good as Reloaded, but is better than most give it credit for. And I now bought the Konami classic Gamer Picture set just to get the Track & Field long jumping picture, and reinforce my reputation as the slightly lunatic 'Track & Field liker'. I'd like it more if I could beat Mathew Kumar's high score, tho. :P
- Miscellaneous - belatedly completed Portal, grabbed a Classic Controller to play Geometry Wars Galaxies for Wii properly, am about to get into Dungeon Maker: Hunting Ground for PSP [UPDATE: Tried it - definitely one of the best unconventional games of the year!], rented and was slightly mystified by MySims for the Wii, played enough of Uncharted for PS3 to work out that it's really rather good.
How about you guys? Has it been Ratchet & Clank all the way, or Mass Effect for the win? Or alternatively, are you just playing Super Mario Bros again? Admit or die.
Comments
Zack and Wiki! Well, that is, until I took my Wii to the Christmas family gathering and my uncle, the family patriarch, accosted it after playing Wii Sports (Golf). Never thought I'd be in one of those tales
Posted by: Su | December 31, 2007 3:12 PM
Lots and lots of Space Giraffe. Had to get the >10M points on tutorial achievement, which I eventually did with 13,200,000 or so.
POD GET!
Posted by: ahpook | December 31, 2007 3:24 PM
Recently bought a Wii, so I finished Resident Evil 4 Wii and unlocked the extra characters, now at world 2-4 in Super Paper Mario, and playing the extra free stage for Picross DS.
Posted by: ReyBrujo | December 31, 2007 6:42 PM
finally played portal! and i never played half life 2, so i started that, although i played hl1 on the pc so playing hl2 with a console controller is a little weird.
i'm finally finishing daxter on the psp, and starting wild arms ps1 (also playing on the psp) -- i sure wish the playstation network had more ps1 games for download!
Posted by: bunnyhero | December 31, 2007 7:29 PM
The Dreamcast shooter (shmup) I've been working on for a while now. Basically done, but lots of optimization and debugging taking place...
Posted by: Brian Deuel | January 1, 2008 1:01 AM
Lots and lots and lots of Rock Band over at a friend's house. Also I've been trying to do a lot of practice on Kanji Kentei DS, but I'm not sure that counts as a game.
Posted by: Shih Tzu | January 1, 2008 4:04 AM
I still can't get some of the bloody achievements on that game though ;_;
Posted by: mathew | January 1, 2008 8:34 AM
Still eking out Super Mario Galaxy with our two year old son excitedly watching and firing star bits off for us ('more Mannio!' as he says).
Would suggest, Simon, that you persevere with the Wii remote/Nunchuck controls for GW Galaxies - remarkably, once learned, it's better than twin sticks...
Posted by: Alex | January 1, 2008 9:35 AM
I just finished a runthrough of Duke Nukum - Duke Nukem II - Duke Nukem 3D (+Plutonium Pak, Duke it Out in DC, and Caribbean) and now I'm playing Dark Forces.
Took a bit of tweaking to get Dark Forces playing just right (doubling the mouse sensitivity in DOSbox did wonders for the m+kb!) and it unfortunately looks like I'm going to have to play Jedi Knight on my old laptop since I get weird playback errors with smacker v2.2i on my desktop.
Other than that, playing Time Crisis a bunch and Project Titan a little!
Posted by: Roushi | January 1, 2008 11:21 AM
Kids played mySims and I watched for a good bit, found it FAR more interesting than The Sims.
Rented Geometry Wars: Galaxies and Dewy's Adventure, didn't really dig either of them.
Bought Mario Party 8 loved it (we'd already rented it for 3 weeks), Alien Syndrome - haven't played it, and Tales of Symphonia - 2 hours in and really enjoying it.
Also found time to pull out Mario Galaxy (finally broke 60 stars), Crossbow Training (simple arcade fun), Excite Truck (best game for getting air off jumps ever!), Mario Kart DS (mainstay), Bomberman 93 (must own VC) and R-Type.
Posted by: Russell Carroll | January 2, 2008 9:46 AM