30 Days of Video Games Thread

[BojackHorsefella]

Can I say Destruction Derby?! :-)

You could, except there WAS a Destruction Derby 2, I believe.

[BojackHorsefella]

Looks like that's a no, Crewe.

[Crewe]

That one musta sucked because I don't remember that lol

In that case, Ill go with The Last of Us. Id be interested to see where the story and characters may develop.

[BojackHorsefella]

That one musta sucked because I don't remember that lol

In that case, Ill go with The Last of Us. Id be interested to see where the story and characters may develop.

You've put me in a pickle here because they ARE making a sequel, although obviously they haven't completed it yet.

Hm........ I'll allow it.

[Crewe]

lol oh, I heard talk, didn't know it was definite.
ok then, I was going to suggest Burnout, but since they had a reissue recently, lets go with The Sopranos.
The first attempt was absolute crap, a pure cash grab. Poorly thought out gameplay design, shitty graphics, even for 2006....or was it 2007? I think it was right as the series ended, or right before. In any event, it truly sucked.
2 gaming console generations later, and storytelling becoming central to games now, I think someone could really come up with a top product in a genre that is sorely missing from the industry.

Better? 

[BojackHorsefella]

lol oh, I heard talk, didn't know it was definite.
ok then, I was going to suggest Burnout, but since they had a reissue recently, lets go with The Sopranos.
The first attempt was absolute crap, a pure cash grab. Poorly thought out gameplay design, shitty graphics, even for 2006....or was it 2007? I think it was right as the series ended, or right before. In any event, it truly sucked.
2 gaming console generations later, and storytelling becoming central to games now, I think someone could really come up with a top product in a genre that is sorely missing from the industry.

Better? 

I would absolutely play a Sopranos game that takes place after the finale. Firstly, we would confirm Tony's dead (he absolutely is, btw), secondly, I feel like the power void that leaves could set up a very interesting storyline. Plus, imagine driving in your car, GTA style, through all the scenes from the opening?

[Crewe]

lol oh, I heard talk, didn't know it was definite.
ok then, I was going to suggest Burnout, but since they had a reissue recently, lets go with The Sopranos.
The first attempt was absolute crap, a pure cash grab. Poorly thought out gameplay design, shitty graphics, even for 2006....or was it 2007? I think it was right as the series ended, or right before. In any event, it truly sucked.
2 gaming console generations later, and storytelling becoming central to games now, I think someone could really come up with a top product in a genre that is sorely missing from the industry.

Better? 

I would absolutely play a Sopranos game that takes place after the finale. Firstly, we would confirm Tony's dead (he absolutely is, btw), secondly, I feel like the power void that leaves could set up a very interesting storyline. Plus, imagine driving in your car, GTA style, through all the scenes from the opening?

I feel like Chase would never allow the ending to be played off like that, but that would be cool to do the GTA thing.
Now that I think about it, probably the only way a Sopranos video game gets made would be to either take place during the series which wouldn't work because, no Gandolfini, or, the ubiquitous suggestion about the movie which is a prequel, dating back to Tony's dad, Johnny Boy and Uncle Junior Soprano. I think that would be worthwhile, sort of an LA Noire vibe to it.

[TheNorm]

Day 25 - A Game You Wish They'd Make a Sequel To

Was originally going to say Shadowrun (the PC/X360 that dropped in 2013 doesn't count), but thought of a better one...Sleeping Dogs. It was a PS+ free game sometime in 2013 on the PS3, and damn I was hooked. Elements of GTA with an awesome crime story and combat reminiscent of Rocksteady's Batman series, taking place in Hong Kong. You played an undercover cop trying to help take down the Triads, and had to balance the criminal underworld life with the police life.

[BojackHorsefella]

Day 26 - Favorite Videogame Sidekick

We all hate Navi from Ocarina of Time. Natalia was the WORST on escort missions in GoldenEye.

But who's a sidekick that doesn't suck?

For me, I have to go back to Ocarina of Time and say Epona. She comes when I call for her, she's super fast and makes travelling so much easier, and I can still attack enemies even while on horseback.

[Crewe]

I can't really remember one that didn't sit there and let me die lol
That said, I don't recall being too disappointed with Ellie from Last of Us, so, yea, Ellie.

[cflnut]

Day 25 - A Game You Wish They'd Make A Sequel To

Backbreaker. Despite having some problems I did really like this game.

Day 26 - Favorite Videogame Sidekick

Codsworth, from Fallout 4.

[BojackHorsefella]

Day 27 - A Game You Never Finished

Pretty straight forward. Obviously we all probably have a lot of games we never finished so this can go a lot of places.

I'm going to go with one that's haunted me forever. The N64 just came out. My mom said we could get one but we'd have to sell our NES, SNES and Genesis. So, my mission before that happened was to best Killer Instinct on the SNES with every character.

Then she got us the N64 and it was time to sell the rest. I almost did it too, but the only character I didn't beat it with was the tomahawk guy (can't remember his name. It may even have just been Tomahawk). I even made it to the final boss but lost. Never got the chance to try again.

[Crewe]

A game I never finished?
I know there's a few, but I think the one that frustrated me the most was Killzone 2. It was a fun game but it seemed there was a boss level I could not navigate.
Rainbow Six Vegas was another, but that was more from a disappointment viewpoint.

[TheNorm]

Day 26 - Favorite Sidekick

Oracle/Barbara Gordon in the Batman Arkham trilogy.

Day 27 - A Game You Never Finished

I could list a ton of games here, and I still have quite a few of them, holding on to them with the very slight hope that I may get to finish them eventually...but for this one, I'll go with XCOM. Starting that game a few weeks before I went back to school was a really dumb idea.

[rollntider]

That one musta sucked because I don't remember that lol

In that case, Ill go with The Last of Us. Id be interested to see where the story and characters may develop.

It was actually as good or better. They added a few more features to it.