Weekend Playlist, 8/21/2009

8/21/2009 1:20 PM | 6 Comments | Page 1 of 1

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Ryan Kuo: I'm not playing anything. No, wait. I'm almost finished with the Hard levels in GeoDefense, so I hope to complete that game by the time GeoDefense Swarm is released. This is the only tower defense game you'll ever need.

I'm also tooling around with Osmos, which just came out on Steam. If biology class had been anything like this then I would be a doctor by now.

Chris Buecheler: My PC is still shitting the bed on a frequent basis ... I fear a hardware problem ... so this weekend I'll probably be investigating that. If I get it fixed, then I'll play some Fallout 3. If I don't get it fixed, and all my PC games keep locking up on me, then I will turn to my Xbox 360 and play Fable II. I bought that game this past weekend, when my wife and I tried to go to a movie, only we went to the wrong theater, and by the time we had figured it out, it was too late to go see the movie we were trying to see, so we instead went to a used-game store. The moral of this story is: the hell with "Funny People" ... I hear the second half of it devolves into a chick flick anyway.

James Fudge: Well, thanks to Kyle's and Harold's positive articles on Shadow Complex, I guess I will be playing the game beyond the trial. Oh hell, who am I kidding? I would have played it if both of them had said it was this generation's Custer's Revenge.

Harold Goldberg: I'll be going back to Shadow Complex to search for all the gold. I'll be traveling next week and also interviewing potential medal winners for the Winter Olympics, so I'll be taking the handhelds on the road. Mainly, I'll be looking at Dissidia: Final Fantasy (PSP) for a review elsewhere, although I saw Gus' review on Game|Life and am a little worried that it might suck. I'm also working on putting some of the history of Tetris into "The Game Changers" book. Strangely, a fair amount hasn't yet been told in the Alexey Pajitnov/Henk Rogers story.

Marc Saltzman: It's all Batman: Arkham Asylum for me, which I've been enjoying quite a bit (only about a third through the main game, though). The straitjacket with my name on it was a nice touch (great swag!), but schlock aside, this is one atmospheric and deliciously dark game that's hard to tear away from.

Erin Bell: It will be a point-and-click adventure weekend for me: Ceville, King's Quest II (part of the King's Quest Collection that I downloaded from Steam) and the second chapter of Tales of Monkey Island.

David Thomas: I'm so worried about not being cool that I downloaded Shadow Complex last night.

I'll also be playing the new Professor Layton game. Puzzling, dear sir!

Troy Goodfellow: This weekend I'm mucking around with a preview build of Lock 'N Load: Heroes of Stalingrad for next week's podcast. It's an adaptation of the WW2-themed board game. Like so many wargames, it has some issues with communicating information, but with so few good squad-level games out there, I'm really hoping this works out.

Gus Mastrapa: I'll be playing Diablo III. :P

Scott Jones: I'll be busy this weekend ignoring Shadow Complex again, which I've dubbed The Conduit 2: Still Conduiting. I love how excited we all get when anything with any semblance of quality comes along. Shadow Complex is not terrible, not by a long stretch. And the level of polish for an XBLA game is -- just wow! But I find the gameplay dull and unexciting. And making gamers hump from one end of the map to the other for No. 4 out of 30 Grenade upgrades, Metroid-style? Cruel and unusual, man.

I'll also be polishing off Arkham Asylum, and then I'll sit around and be annoyed by the latest Professor Layton brainteaser collection. Also: I have guests this weekend. My parents, late in life, became friends with my high-school chemistry teacher. And he and his wife are in Vancouver for the weekend, so I'm taxed with showing them around for an afternoon. If I can get them to play Rock Band, somebody owes me $100.

Tom Chick: It's shooter weekend! I'm completely enamored of Section 8, in which TimeGate finally brings to shooters some of the cleverness it brought to real-time strategy games with Kohan. But I'll also be playing Wolfenstein for the Crispy Gamer review.

Evan Narcisse: After much tweaking, I finally got MDK to be playable on my Boot Camp partition. I feel like I'm the slowpoke of the group, so I'll be doing my best to catch up. I'll continue to poke around Shadow Complex and will be playing Batman: Arkham Asylum for the Crispy review, too.

What's on your own playlist this weekend? Inquiring Game Trusters want to know. Leave a comment below.

Comments

CG-Prophet (Game Trust Writer)
8/24/2009 3:17:58 PM

here ya go:

Gamasutra link
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w1ndst0rm
8/24/2009 2:19:38 PM

@CG-Prophet:

Link man link!
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CG-Prophet (Game Trust Writer)
8/24/2009 1:08:54 PM

@Agnitio:

That's a good point Agnito. I did end up play Shadow Complex a lot. So far, according to Raptr I have put 22 hours into the game. I do like it but I think Scott Jones was correct in his complaints about having to backtrack all over the freaking map for all those items.

Also there's a bit of a backlash because of Orson Scott Card's attachment to the game - Gamasutra has an interesting article on it - but the real rough stuff is in the comments when the guy that wrote the game's story visits to talk about how irritated he is about the talk of boycotting the game..

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RyanKuo (Game Trust Writer)
8/24/2009 12:09:44 PM

I actually played the new Professor Layton all weekend, in preparation for a review. Also Eliss on my iPod, because I finally (!!) beat the dreaded Sector 15. Now I'm stuck on 17.

Giving up on GeoDefense for the time being.
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Agnitio
8/24/2009 11:19:22 AM

What about having a response post about your weekend / what you actually ended up playing?

I did end up playing lips, got a few new songs and had a great time with them.

Aside from lots of billiards I also ended up trying Madden 2010 which was okay but it didn't really impress me anywhere close enough to want to buy it - besides why are all the achievements linked to 5 minute quarters? I wanted to try the new take-down clock setting if you pick your play early, and play longer quarters but I don't get any achievements? weak.

I also ended up playing the trial for Shadow Complex which was a perfect trial, got me into the game and definitely am going to get it. Trials HD was good and might be a get at some point, maybe for $10 instead of $15. Played the demos for Mini Ninjas and Call for Juarez - Mini Ninjas was great, fun and definitely would play it again. I know of a bunch of people I think would find it fun. Call for Juarez did not intrigue me at all. Definitely looking forward to playing the rest of Shadow Complex sometime soon though
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Agnitio
8/21/2009 3:52:24 PM

I'm not sure what I'll be up to, maybe try out a little WoW (I happened to reactive my account for the month to participate in a workshop to show teachers how to play wow/what it is etc) with the news about Cataclysm - maybe try to get the GF to try it out. Other than that I have no idea we'll see where things go - could be some Lips in for the weekend, it's possible some board games such as Trivial Pursuit might come in.

I'm thinking about grabbing shadow complex/Trials HD or at least the demos and trying them out. I may have Prototype/Madden 2010 in from Gamefly (trying them out for the first time) so we'll see. Could go any number of ways. If this rain keeps up though, I'm definitely going to get a chance to play a few games :)
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