Maldoror ([info]maldoror_gw) wrote,
@ 2008-03-03 14:36:00
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I can haz PS3?
I needed another thing to spend my spare time on like I needed the business end of an icepick applied to my head, but, to make a long story short: after a good year and a half of holding out, I finally caved into my husband's demands for the latest in a long line of 'Uber Shiny Treasure of Geekery +3' and am now the proud co-owner of a PS3.



To give you an idea of what kind of games I like, here are my Favoritest Top Games Ever Played And Replayed (not counting the likes of PC-specific games such as Civ):

Grim Fandango ( "His skin was as sweet as mango / As I held him to my breast / But now we dance this grim fandango / And five more years until we rest" Damn, they don't make games like that anymore)

Final Fantasy VIII (I played Final Fantasy VII but got stuck on the *$%$# Yeti snow slope and gave up. It didn't have the same pull story-wise and gameplay-wise as VIII which I played through entirely four times)

Thief (I replayed both I and II extensively. To this day the clank of my footsteps on a metal grating makes me think of Garret, guards and Hammerites)


So, I like my games with plenty of story, adventure, wit, plot, character and the occasional twist and turn. That's not too much to ask for, is it?


In an attempt to seduce me into thinking that a PS3 was the second best thing ever to enter our lives, right after Squidlet, my husband offered to rent me a game. I asked for either anything in the Final Fantasy line, or Kingdom Hearts since I heard so much about it. He got me Kingdom Hearts...2. I love him anyway. From the flashback exposé of KH the first in the first 30 minutes of KH2, I don't think it's quite sordid mature enough for me. Can anyone rec any other game?


Also, has anyone on my f-list played Final Fantasy XII? There's a cheap copy at my local EB Games.

Haha, that was longer than I thought. I'll stop blathering (and go play Motor Storm). Mal out.


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[info]takatohedgehog
2008-03-03 10:16 pm UTC (link)
I've played FFXII. It's one of the better FFs (next to FFIX), and has a really good storyline although I've only played about halfway through (really need to get back on that...). If you like skypirates, a plan to take over a kingdom and a FF hero who is NOT a wangsty bitch, this is your kinda game.

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[info]maldoror_gw
2008-03-03 11:53 pm UTC (link)
You won me over at 'not a wangsty bitch'. I mean, I liked Cloud and others of his ilk, but the Cloud O' Doom (TM) hanging over their head got a bit much at times.

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[info]dorcas_gustine
2008-03-03 10:18 pm UTC (link)
FFXII is amazing on certain aspects. The graphic is astounding and I played it with my jaw literally on the ground (that's how good it is).

That said, the main character, Vaan, hasn't much of a personality, but the 'secondary' characters (Balthier, Fran and Basch), are to die for.

The plot is nice, but it's mainly a political plot. Anyway, I highly reccomend it.

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[info]maldoror_gw
2008-03-03 11:53 pm UTC (link)
I love political intrigue, and some Square Enix et other characters have TOO much personality for my taste at times (aka, I want to slap them so they can get over their twagic past already). Sounds like a game I'm gonna have to check out!

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[info]evilkat_meow
2008-03-03 10:25 pm UTC (link)
*delurks to rec*

Rock Band. If you are a musician or just someone who appreciates music, you must get this game. You can live out those old fantasies of playing in a band, but without the years it takes to actually learn the instruments. :) Here is a link to some info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_band_game

For $160, yes, its expensive for a game, but you get the guitar, drums, and mic. It truly is hours of fun for the whole family. My husband and I absolutely love playing it and my 8 week old son enjoys watching his parents making fools of themselves. Who needs to go out for karaoke anymore?

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[info]maldoror_gw
2008-03-03 11:51 pm UTC (link)
Since my 8-month old loves to watch me fly like Superman at the moment, I can imagine what a kick she'd get out of that. My husband did mention getting a guitar to go with the console, but if he spends a single cent more for the next two months I will personally skin him and sell his hide, so it may have to wait...

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[info]techiegoat
2008-03-03 11:24 pm UTC (link)
Folklore is really cool. I like to describe it as Silent Hill meets Pokemon meets Genji (creepy town and the netherworld/collecting monsters and using their attacks/gorgeous graphics and environments).

Assassin's Creed is very open-world and stealthy with a surprisingly cool storyline.

Enchanted Arms (XB360 port) is a turn-based RPG full of ghei. ^_^

Devil May Cry 4 may be a little fast-paced for what you're looking for. . . but it's got hot guys, crazy action, and a nice learning curve for new players to the series. Though it's #4. . . honestly you aren't missing much, plus they go over the story and characters of the other three games.

Uncharted: Drakes's Fortune is like Gears of War (over the shoulder shooting) meets Tomb Raider (lots of exploration and puzzles). The animations are very natural and fantastic.

As for games not out yet, well, the big 2 in my book are Metal Gear Solid 4 and Valkyria Chronicles. You've got some time on those, however.

FFXII turned me off since it plays like an MMORPG. . . without the O. I like the characters, and the plot (though complicated) sounds cool, but the gameplay just killed it for me.

If you want mature RPGs, check out the Shin Megami Tensei ones (Nocturne, Didgital Devil Saga, Devil Summoner, Persona 3). Or, for an action RPG much in the style of Kingdom Hearts though somewhat more mature, try Rogue Galaxy.

And that should be enough for now. ^_^ I hope that helped at least a little!

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(Anonymous)
2008-03-05 05:01 am UTC (link)
A friend and I have played Folklore together. It definitely has a dark storyline, but the graphics and plot are awesome. It works better on a HD or a good grade TV, and the subtitles are a little hard to read on a small screen, but seriously. It's awesome, and the script is fabulous.

Nia

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[info]aubuyn
2008-03-03 11:39 pm UTC (link)
I was going to rec you Folklore as well, though I haven't played it. I've seen previews and it looks like a very dark game - so if you're looking for mature, that might be the way to go.

Also, I actually just beat FFXII last night. Personally, FFVIII was also my favorite of the square/enix line, and it really took a lot for me to finish FFXII. A year and a half, to be exact. The graphics are amazing, of course and the plot's decent, but the characters really fell flat for me. Some of the minor characters are more interesting and better thought-out then a few of the main cast. Of course, that's my personal opinion.

I'm not sure, but can you play PS2 games on PS3? If so, I'd also rec the game Persona 3, or if you want to wait until April, Persona 3: FES. One of the best games I've ever played!

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[info]maldoror_gw
2008-03-03 11:49 pm UTC (link)
This PS3 has backward compatibility, so I can play SOME PS2 games. The trick is figuring out which ones ^^; Thanks, I'll have to check those titles.

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[info]zombiemancer
2008-03-04 12:36 am UTC (link)
I'm not sure, but can you play PS2 games on PS3?

Depends on which PS3 you buy now. The 40 (or is it 60 now?) GB won't play them, but the 80 GB will. It's because they took out the backwards compatibility in the smaller version to make it cheaper.

Both versions will still play PS1 games, because they have the same type of disk as the PS3 (the standard reflective silver CD bottom, as opposed to the blue PS2 bottom).

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[info]duowolf
2008-03-04 04:55 pm UTC (link)
The 40 gig one won't but the 60 gig one does as thats the one my brother has.

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[info]zombiemancer
2008-03-04 12:33 am UTC (link)
Just piping in to say that I freaking love you MORE, if possible, for loving FFVIII.

Being over 200 hours in FFXII, I can say it is pretty damn nifty. Don't go into it expecting it to be just like the previous games. It is a whole new creature. I've heard many pan it, and many praise it, so it is all up to you on the love/hate aspect.

You're looking for PS2/3 games, but have you played Legend of the Dragoon and/or SaGa Frontier for the PS1? Both are finicky in my first gen PS2, but I love them enough to dig out the prehistoric PS1 to play them on.

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[info]kitedreams
2008-03-04 12:49 am UTC (link)
Ratchet and Clank is a ton of fun, and witty to boot. I have Folklore, too, and I've given up on it. It's a beautiful game, but it's incredibly, painfully repetitive. Basically, you play through worlds as one character, then swap to another and play it through again. And then you're given side quests that involve you.. playing through them AGAIN. Technically, you don't have to repeat the worlds with both characters, but if you want the actual full story to play out, you do.

If you're able to, go online via the PS3 to their online store, and download the game demos. The files are huge, but the demos are playable and well worth the download time. Ratchet and Clank is available there as a demo.

/suzu from fanworkrecs under a new name

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[info]anti_paragon
2008-03-04 05:31 am UTC (link)
I've heard many many great things about Kingdom Hearts Final Mix that was released in Japan, and I think you can select whether you want English or Japanese spoken dialog. But what I know if it is what I've gathered from friends who've played the Japanese version with the handful of Japanese they know and from clips I've seen on YouTube. It does look like a wonderful game though. ^^

If it were a Nintendo, I'd jump at recommending The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. (IT WILL NOT DISAPPOINT) Ah well! ^_^

btw, is March 6th really your birthday? Or is it the "birthday" of your LJ account?

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[info]maldoror_gw
2008-03-04 05:40 am UTC (link)
The 6th is indeed my birthday. The day after I go back to work. Joy :P

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[info]anti_paragon
2008-03-04 05:47 am UTC (link)
Ugh, oh, ew. Birthday sympathy in your general direction.

Ah, real life. That's why we have fandoms to escape into. :P

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[info]maldoror_gw
2008-03-04 05:48 am UTC (link)
Hear hear. And by the way...icon love!

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[info]anti_paragon
2008-03-04 05:53 am UTC (link)
:D Thanks!

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[info]scribe_protra
2008-03-04 05:51 am UTC (link)
Um. Well I got a bunch of games I adore on playstation two and one.

Wild ARMs especially the first and ALter Code F ones but the whole series is pretty fun.

Breath of Fire three and four are good. Don't know about five.

I looooved Final Fantasy 9 even if the end bosss is a space flea out of nowhere.

The FF Anthologity I can't spell the damn things. The ones with FF1, FF2, FF4, FF 5, Crono Trigger, and FF6.

OH! Grandia! I loved Grandia. Not sure about Grandia 2 cause I never got past the second boss but it looked good from what I saw.

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(Anonymous)
2008-03-04 07:28 am UTC (link)
Thought I'd delurk for a minute to offer my tuppence - the very best games I have ever played (on any platform) are Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga 1 & 2 and Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne. Both are for the PS2, and you might have trouble finding Nocturne (which might have been released as Lucifer's Call, dependent on where in the world you are) because it's a few years old now, but if you want plot, character, adventure, twists and wit then you cannot do any better. Except, perhaps, for other Shin Megami Tensei titles. ^^; These games have a tendency to demonstrate the shallowness of plot in the majority of other games in the RPG genre simply by being there to be compared to.

If you want an immediately engaging plotline, I'd go for Nocturne first - DDS has a storyline that's just as good, but nothing is really resolved until the second game. And if you skip ahead to the second game, you lose almost all of the plot's depth. Overall, though, I think DDS is the better of the two, and I cannot recommend it enough.

Since it follows a bunch of cannibalistic demons through two apocalyptic worlds, I don't think you'd have much problem on the mature front, either. :D

-Anria.

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[info]maldoror_gw
2008-03-04 04:04 pm UTC (link)
I had a quick look at DDS on Gamestats, and it looks right up my street. The gameplay looks a lot like the FF series, which I like, and who can say no to one of your characters turning into a female demon with chomping breasts? I'll have to see if I can find that one at my local second-hand games store :P Thanks!

Do you need to play DDS1 and 2 before playing Nocturne, or are they truly standalone?

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(Anonymous)
2008-03-05 10:39 pm UTC (link)
They're truly standalone - DDS is a spin-off from Nocturne, but about all it does is import the demon models and some of the gameplay and fight mechanics. They've got completely different plots and worlds, and at most DDS will make vague tangential references to Nocturne in optional conversations. (I think. There might not even be that. They do have veeeery different plots.)

Argilla talks out of the chomping breasts, too. In one memorable scene, she starts a sentence on one breast and finishes it on the other. This is while she's using her whip-arms to pin down a bat-thing with its head on its crotch that's saying it wants to eat her. And that's not the weirdest thing that happens in the game. XD

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[info]maldoror_gw
2008-03-11 03:52 am UTC (link)
....I HAVE to get that game. I've gone to every video store I know of in town, and nobody has it. I may order it.

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(Anonymous)
2008-03-04 07:49 am UTC (link)
I've played FFXII, haven't beaten it yet though. I have to say though, that the story just isn't very good compared to my all times favorite FF games (7, 9 and 10- I didn't play 11 becasue I REFUSE to pay a monthy fee to play a game). An expert friend of mine told me that the guy who worked on the plot was the same guy who worked on the very early FF games, including 6 (which I'm still working on), and is sort of a game-plot genius (like the Joss Whedon of games) and he got all the way through the begining of the game and then had a nervous break down of unkown origins. So that left this co-workers to try to figure out what he intended from his notes alone and you can really tell when he left the team, because at a certain point plot holes start appearing, you starting going "wha..?" to things people say, and stuff generally just stops making sense.
However, the graphic on it are so good (the best ever!) that I just had to keep playing it, and only the prospect of an ENDLESS dungeon has stopped me from finishing it. It's definetly worth buying if you can find it cheap, but it doesn't live up to the best of the series, plot-wise.
You could give Digital Devil Saga and it's sequals a shot. Those are very hard, but very interesting games.
I know you mentioned sordid, but how about creepy? Rule of Rose is about all the creepy you'll even need in your entire life time and in the life time of your Spawn. Don't play it alone. It's a good game though.
I don't live games that are too cute and kid-zy either, but I tihnk maybe you should give KH 1 a second chance. I love that game. The second one I love mostly because it's all about finding and rescueing Riku, who is my fav (and the yaoi in brain just has a party of that plot line). Poor Riku is manipulated by the dark side in the first game and but comes through in the end with a heroric sacrifice. It's all very naru/sasu ish if you ask me (only Riki doesn't piss me off as much).
Anyway, as rpgs go, that's all I got for you.
Action games, if you like em, I'd say Crash Bandicote. Just plain old fun. The PS1 Crash games are awesome. For gaget goodness there's Rachet and Clank, and oohhh, the weapons you get to play with....
A strange mix of rpg and action is Jack II (not to be confused with it's prequel Jack and Daxter, which sucks). It follows the revolts and resistance against an evil military government where everyone has really big elf ears and you get to do a wide variety of missions, you can attack random citizen and steal cars, for no reason other than that you had a bad day and feel like it (it's like an elf-eared, good-guy version of Grand Theift Auto). Great game. 3rd one is okay, but Jack II is the thing you want.
Hope that was helpful. Forgive any mispelling, my dyslexic brain is not functioning at 3 in the morning.
-P.I.

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[info]sakurazuka_jae
2008-03-04 11:54 am UTC (link)
I'm holding off on the PS3 until the next Final Fantasy comes along and I am forced to upgrade, but I too know what it is like to have too many damn distractions around.

It actually saddens me to say this, because I anticipated the game for ages and even went so far as to pre-order it, but Kingdom Hearts 2 is vastly inferior to KH1. Not because of the storyline, but because of the pacing:

KH1: Story -> Required side-quest -> Check-in with overall plot -> Unrelated event -> Foreshadowing -> Required side-quest -> Plot etc...
KH2: Story -> Required sidequest -> Required side-quest -> Required side-quest ... -> Oh yeah, the plot...

I also loved FFVIII, and found it so much more fun to get through than VII (for which I was forced to resort to walk-throughs because I had no idea where I was supposed to go next to keep the plotline going. I know people rave about the freedom to roam around and non-linear storylines but to me if you're not even sure what CONTINENT you're supposed to be on it's not a good sign), IX is quite good, although I actually really enjoyed both X and X-2 so much more. All of which brings me to my endorsement of XII as an excellent game. Yes, it has a few characterisation issues - mostly because unlike all the previous installments it doesn't really HAVE a main character. Technically Vaan is, but... kinda not really. I can't really explain. Although he WILL make you cringe a few times - unlike previous teenaged FF heroes, he actually ACTS like a teenager. But at least he doesn't drip angst everywhere all the time.

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[info]duowolf
2008-03-04 05:02 pm UTC (link)
For PS3 games I'd recommed Folklore, Enchanted Arms, Assassin's Creed and Uncharted.
For PS2 games I'd recommend any of the Shim Megumi Tensai games though they are really hard, any of the Wild ARMS games espically Alter Code F and 3, any of the Suikoden games espically 3 and 5, any of the .hack games espically the second set and anything by Nippon Ichi espically the Disgeia series.

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[info]vuli
2008-03-04 09:22 pm UTC (link)
March Birthday Love! ♥ I'm two days after you. ^_^

I still haven't completed KH2. I poured 70+ hours of my life into that game, got bored trying to complete Jiminy's damn Journal, and still can't bring myself to tackle Sephiroth because I couldn't beat him in the first game and he scares the crap out of me. *sob* ...Technically, I suppose that means I haven't completed KH1 either. >.>

I'm a Nintendo fangirl, so my PS2 recs are therefore going to be a little thin on the ground, I'm afraid. Resident Evil 4 is the crown jewel of the RE series, and definitely one of the best FPS games out there, though the Wii version is the way to go if you have the option! Also, the Metal Gear series is pretty damn good if you skip the hours of cutscenes and dialogue which actually serve less to supply backstory and plot and more to prove that these games take themselves way too seriously. XD

Both series are also getting a PS3 release at some point this year, which for me is the console's best selling point! Well, that and the fact that the HD-DVD format is dead. >:D

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[info]baka_neko
2008-03-06 04:44 pm UTC (link)
Suikoden 5! Plot it definitely has a plenty, but its a PS2 game. It's not the most graphically glorious game out there, but there's a lot of story going on.

Also thirding the votes for DDS, you will need to play one before the other, so the second picks up where the first left off.

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[info]wingsofawolf
2008-03-12 05:20 am UTC (link)
Heh, don't know if you need this anymore, but Persona 3 (one of the Shin Megami Tensei series) is THE best game I've ever played or heard of. It's PS2. It's very dark, called "Persona" for a reason. It has all the little things that count-- characters move differently, etc. and best of all is the way it's set up: as the other characters progress, their "Persona"-- a physical manifestation of their personality, sort of-- becomes stronger, while the main character's (you) becomes increasingly splintered. Very interesting idea, plus I'm only halfway through and I've been playing it forever. And, strangely enough, not yet bored. Ooh, and every once and a while, there are *anime* sequences. I am a serious advocate that this game should be bought by everyone. The new version, Persona FES, is coming out soon with a bunch of extra stuffs. A bit cheaper than the version I got, too, but I gave in to the urgings and bought the collector's edition.

And now that I've ranted about Persona 3 for a very long time, for PS3 I've heard very good things about Assassin's Creed. If I ever manage to fork out the money, it'll probably be the first one I buy.

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[info]geppe
2008-04-01 06:29 am UTC (link)
Assassin's Creed was amazing, hands down lol Heavenly Sword I've heard mixed reviews on, but an awesome redhead with a 'sword o death' is hard to mess up.
I was the one lone girl in GameStop for a year before I moved and was forced t o quit. Since then I've fallen out of the video game loop a bit.
If you guys happen to have a x-box then Fable is amazing. Great game. Your character has to be male, but pretty much everything after that is completely customizable; height, weight, tats, horns (lol), and even sexuality. There's gay marriage in this game, its hilarious :3

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[info]maldoror_gw
2008-04-03 04:42 am UTC (link)
Hmmm, I don't have an Xbox, but I do have a PC, and if I remember right, Fable was available on that platform. I have indeed heard great things about it...I'll have to see if I can find it (because the horns sold me...)

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