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[nilchance]

I am home! Yay yay yay.

Our Christmas gift to ourselves this year: a PS3. I missed shooting things so bad, I can't even. Anybody have good recs of games they've enjoyed? We have Ratchet and Clank: Tools of Destruction, Little Big Planet, and Lego Indiana Jones. PS2 games we've loved included Ratchet and Clank, Jak, Sly Cooper, Lego Star Wars, and the Evil Dead video games. I would love some recs for good horror games, as well.

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[vambrace.livejournal.com]

Red Dead Redemption is really good.

[katzb101.livejournal.com]

I'd second the Red Dead and add Bio Shock into the mix.

[atypia.livejournal.com]

*Definitely* RDR. Fallout New Vegas is awesome. Bioshock got a lot of play by my ex-housemates.

[hederahelix.livejournal.com]

I am apparently a complete and total sucker for certain RPG from Bioware. Every video game I've ever been addicted to is from them: Neverwinter Nights 1 and 2, KOTOR, etc.

For the PS3, Dragon Age was something I almost didn't buy because it wasn't D&D, just D&D-esque. And then I proceeded to get completely hooked on it.

(I should warn you that there is some spectacular fat-phobia and homophobia fail in one chapter of it, which really, really pissed me off because it snuck up from behind and walloped me so hard precisely because until that point, the game had been doing so well on gender since there are same sex romance options available to male and female characters--at least for a video game. I won't say more without prompting because it's spoilery, but the thing is as angry as I was about it, the game is still better on that front than most other RPGs, and I love the world it built.)

I have played it through several times, and I've almost finished the expansion pack. I'll be reserving my collector's edition of DA2 in the next few days to get it at the same price as the regular edition.

I also have really enjoyed Lego Batman. I'm curious to see if I'd enjoy Lego Harry Potter 1-4 as much.

I suck at MLB kind of epically, but I play with other people who do too.

I'm playing Mass Effect 2 on the PC right now, and I'll likely get the PS3 version because I have become much more comfortable with the controller AND since ME1 won't ever be released for PS3 (Microsoft Owns ME1), they're including an interactive thing to get players up to speed on the plot of that in ways that affect the outcomes in ME2.

(Mass Effect 2 is a nice blend of shooting things with role-playing. There are same sex romance options for female chracters but not for men (!!!), but those relationships also don't earn you the trophy for romance--at least in the PC version. I can't imagine Bioware changed that in the PS3 version due out later this month. Somebody needs to have a chat with these folks.)

I picked up Heavy Rain, but I have to say that it kind of annoyed me; I know people are raving about its storytelling, but I was kind of meh about the whole thing. I think a lot of that had to do with the controller being used so differently. Honestly, the last console I owned before this was an Atari 2600, so getting up to speed on the controller had taken a lot longer than I thought it would.

Last, but not least, as someone with RSI in my wrist, I just wanted to say that my wrist complains a lot less when I turn the vibration effects in the controller off. I felt like a dolt that it took me so long to figure out to do that, so I just thought I'd mention it.

If you haven't seen Let's Plays, you might want to check out youtube for those. (Forgive me if I'm telling you stuff you already know, but Let's Plays are players recording video with their own voice over of them playing the game in question and posting those clips to youtube.) Toegoff is a gamer who does some really great blind let's plays (he records them on his first play through). I enjoy watching his ME2 and DA let's plays as much as playing the games themselves, and I know he's done some LPs for horror games, so if you're looking to get a sneak peak of the games in question and no one is giving you horror game recs, you might check out what he's done. I found a few of his horror game LPs while looking for other stuff by him.

Enjoy the PS3. I have to say it's the one product in my home that has more than lived up to its marketing campaign: it really does just about everything. We will not speak of the fact that I used it to email people at work the last time my laptop died, right? Right.

[alhazred.livejournal.com]

* The Uncharted series
* inFAMOUS (inFAMOUS 2 is coming out soon-ish)
* Dead Space (which you know already; fun fact, the PS3 version of Dead Space 2 will come with a Move-enabled port of Dead Space Extraction, the previously Wii-exclusive prequel game)
* Heavy Rain (good lord, this game, I don't even. It's not horror, but if you like horror you'll like this.)
* Metal Gear Solid 4
* Vanquish
* BlazBlue (there are two, Continuum Shift is the second, but I recommend it over Calamity Trigger because in terms of gameplay it's more of an expansion. You're better off just hitting Wiki for a plot summary of the first game. Hell, I could do it myself, condensing that nuttery into a single LJ post would be an interesting challenge 8P Continuum Shift also has Hazama, who is basically HABIT wearing a fedora.)