Recent Gaming Purchases

[Thief]

It's not really a purchase but after all these years I'm finally playing Super Metroid for the first time. Well, I played it when it originally came out but I don't think I understood the game mechanics because I remember not being able to get very far at all in the game. But this time around I'm really loving it. It's a little frustrating since I'm kinda OCD about exploring places and it's hard to get certain places until you have the necessary powerups.

If the other Metroid games are this fun I'll probably get used copies online.

nice dude, probably the best designed game I can think of. The meta-game is also extremely rewarding, since the movement in that game is ridiculously complicated and you can pull of some really cool things when you learn advanced techniques. Plus there are Randomizers (like route/item) and tons of Romhacks on metroidconstruction.net (many of which are extremely well made... and some that aren't, but the site has a rating system).

I'm slightly obsessed with the game, but it's the best game ever so I don't feel so bad :P

As for other metroid games, I'd probably recommend Zero Mission and Fusion (if you want something along the lines of super metroid... although not nearly as deep, still fun to play casually)

I also am really fond of Metroid Prime 2: Echoes, although it plays like a completely different game. Metroid Prime 1 isn't as good, in my opinion, but probably worth playing because its so widely considered a classic. Even if you don't like it you'll gain first had experience/knowledge about a really popular game.

Other M, as you probably know is pretty bad. Most often you'll hear people complain about the story, but the gameplay is the bad part. Just avoid it. I bought it a little while ago for 8 dollars out of curiosity and I regret it.

As for Metroid 1 and 2, they'll probably feel a little dated. I enjoy them for what they are, but many of my friends hate them, so who knows.

Great series, although Super Metroid is a God game, and some of the others are just merely good games.

[elfshadowreaper]

I decided to look up a walkthrough video because the places I couldn't get to were annoying me. Then I saw the person doing walljumps and dashing and I didn't see anywhere in the game that told me how to do those. It took about 20 minutes to get the hang of those moves. I eventually had to use the keyboard because the gamepad I'm using didn't register me pushing left and right.

I'm loving it so far though. What's the meta game you're talking about? I think I also tried Metroid Prime 1 right after it came out for GameCube. I don't remember why I didn't get into it. Probably because I didn't understand the paths or something.

[Thief]

The game actually does teach you how to wall-jump and shine-spark (dash) but they don't explicitly tell you how. Instead, you're locked in a room and shown how to do it and you're forced to learn based on observing these little animals.

Anyway, the meta game is mostly consisting of many different speedgame runs (such as different ways to complete the game)

There are a bunch of categories listed here: http://deanyd.net/sm/index.php?title=Main_Page

but it includes stuff like
low% (lowest amount of items possible yet still complete game)
reverse boss order (where you fight the four main bosses in an opposite order)
+ plus loads more

there are also things like item randomizers, where the item locations are the same but the item you get is randomized, which drastically changes the route you'd have to take through the game.

Also, the super metroid speedrunning community also hosts puzzles occasionally. They usually require the understanding of advanced techniques (many of which you can learn via the page I linked above, or by watching tutorials made by top level players).

I've even hosted a puzzle myself.

Once you get the hang of more advanced movement techniques, such as wall-jumping, machballing, shortcharging, et cetera, the game just becomes a blast to play. There's so much more to learn after your first casual playthrough and the game has the best replay value imaginable. I've played through the game countless times at this point and it never gets boring.

The leaderboards can be found here: http://www.deertier.com

there's a rather large community of people who play super metroid competitively and it's a lot of fun.

[Raithos]

[Yama]

Since they're probably some of the best games of their gen I decided to cave in and buy them but I really need to stop purchasing games with the massive backlog I've already got. Most of the games I've bought over the past 2 years I didn't even bother nor intend to finish either making me feel like I wasted my money on them.

also got Tokyo Jungle since it was so cheap.

[OL]

Enjoying the show enough that I had to order both of these (brand new, in their original wrapping; god, I love getting to open the original packaging of older games). Already got the first one, just waiting on the second. Not sure if I should start yet (even though I really want to) because I'm pretty sure it'll have some spoilers and whatnot for the show, and I'm only on episode 15 so far. Still, the gameplay looks pretty cool, so maybe I'll just give it a try in a bit, then save the rest for after the series.
I probably would have gotten these eventually anyway, even if I wasn't into the show much. It seems really rare that we ever get these kinds of anime-based mecha games, so they're always worth a try when we do.
I just wish we could have also gotten the VOTOMS game for PS2, but I guess VOTOMS was never big enough outside of Japan to warrant a localization.

Also bought MDK and MDK2 on sale on gog.com yesterday. Always meant to play these someday, but never got to. And if I enjoy them enough, there actually are console version out there, so I may invest further just to have hard copies.

[Henry Spencer]

Also bought Armored Core: Silent Line (PSP ver.) off the PSN for my good ol' Vita. It's great that you can map the D-Pad controls to the second stick on Vita, makes far more PSP games playable than they were before.

[OL]

Preordered both. Deception comes out in July, Nobunaga in September (hopefully with some kind of cover art by that point; it'll probably look like this ).
Deception was a given, but it's probably kind of weird that I'm anticipating Nobunaga's Ambition so much, since I'm usually not big into political/social strategy games. But watching videos of it, it just looks so... relaxing, in a way. And I think being on the PS4, at this stage in gaming, it seems to have become visual enough and user-friendly enough that I'll finally be able to get into something like this. Still looks incredibly complex, but it seems accessible in a way the series never really was before.

[Crimson Ryan]

[Riku Rose]

See this was just over 2 weeks away so ordered a copy.

[OL]

Just ordered a tshirt with this design on it:



Anyone who knows what it's from off the top of their head is allowed to be my friend.

[GoldenLotus]

The last game I bought was Titanfall for the 360 over a year ago and I have yet to play it. Besides not owning the console anymore, my lent it to my brother and never seen it again. Last one I played was Watch_Dogs and it was really good. On par with GTAV.

[myshtuff]

Got Outlast for $4 on the steam sale. It's pretty spoopy. Neat atmosphere and genuinely creepy.

[OL]

Grabbed a number of things on gog's summer sale so far:

Gabriel Knight series
Crusader series (No Remorse and No Regret)
The 7th Guest
Outlaws
The Dig
Harvester
Shadowrun Returns
Shadowrun Dragonfall

Playing a good bit of Outlaws at the moment, and I've started The Dig (played both long ago, but I've always loved them).
Not sure what to think of Gabriel Knight so far... it's so often heralded as this essential piece of point'n'click history, but goddamn does Tim Curry's voice performance for Gabriel turn me off so far. Thought I was really gonna like it (Tim Curry is great otherwise), but he sounds like a smarmy perv in this no matter how innocent the sentence. And I still have no clue what kind of accent he's trying to do. It's pretty terrible. I'll try to push past it later.
The Shadowrun games are the newest ones on my list, and I'm really looking forward to playing further into them. The little bit I've played, it feels like a more fun version of classic Fallout's battle system. And that's nothing but great. The games look really nice too, and the music seems solid so far. I think I might end up loving these.

[MiTT3NZ]

The Dig is just daft. I remember playing the demo over n over, being in awe of it... over a decade later I discovered BitTorrent n downloaded it. The demo was better than the game. Shit is ridiculous.