/v/ - Video Games

Demon Souls, when I played the servers were still alive, but the online community was basically dead, I'll never see Old Monk working properly. I got invaded one time tho, it was pretty cool.

There's a few games I've been interested in but have had to write off due to a mixture of their prices, not being able to emulate them on my level of toaster, and not having enough of personal interest on their systems to justify buying and modding them to play from burned disks. Stuff like Panzer Dragoon Saga and Grandia II (which has a PS2 port readily available where I live, but I've heard was a shit port job).

Saw a copy of PDS recently for $600, and while definitely outside my spending range by multiple hundreds, I get the suspicion that's actually on the low end for it these days.

>>15006704

you didnt miss anything, it was a really shitty online grinder

>>15006799

GW2 was utter shit, the developers fucked it up so badly the playerbase bled away, and the cunt they hired to write the story filled it with faggots, trannies, furry apologism and Mary Sues.

>>15006799

Oh boy did you dodge some shit.

t. paid 50$ for it at release

Shit on me all you want, but Halo during the bungie era, i was 14 when 3 launched and i was just so fucking mesmerized with that thing, it had some seriously impressive graphics for the time and the multiplayer was revolutionary, even today nothing comes close to forge mode and the replay/theater system it had, but me being a complete poorshit with a single mother who couldn't afford nice things (rent and the bills were crazy high, but at least we lived in a completely nigger-free zone and i was able to go to a nice college) meant that having my own tv, xbox 360, a copy of halo 3 and a gold membership simply wasn't possible, by the time i was able to afford one it wasn't worth it anymore, 3 and ODST were dead while Reach was on its way out because of 4, and even then it wasn't nearly as popular as 3.

I didn't play those games until october of last year, i found a 360 E on walmart bundled with halo 4 and tomb raider for 50 bucks and i bought it because it was insanely cheap, the whole bungie halo saga cost me 15 dollars on CEX too (after trading 4), it was a goddamn steal, the campaign was amazing as expected, but the multiplayer left me feeling empty because i never got to experience it in its heyday.

Dwarf Fortress. I really want to like the game - not just because of some shitty gamer cred or something like that, but rather because I have a raging boner for Dungeon Management games and DF basically is the most detailed one there is.

And still, every time I try to get into it, I eventually call it quits because of the awkward control scheme. With the graphics you at least can install a tileset if you feel like it, but rote-learning over 9000 different hotkeys while flipping through the sub-menu of a sub-sub-menu is just jarring.

Star Wars Galaxies because by the time i had learned about it it had already died.

Guild Wars, I was a poorfag kinder back then and couldn't afford it.

EVE Online, as younger same as with GW but, when I could actually afford it I realized it is too autistic and time consuming for me.

>>15006799

It's still active today if you want to give it a go. However, it is very different.

>>15006799

>>15006802

>>15006807

The game wasn't that bad at launch, it just lacked a lot of content which should've been added later on but never was, instead we got tranny trees and broken pvp.

>>15009110

Recent patches really fucked the game for the majority of players, some people really think they shouldn't have gave it a chance at all.

>>15006708

There's private servers for it. Seem to be doing ok.

>>15006704

I'm sure it is wicked gay but I still want to play Mirror's Edge 2. Just skip all of the story cutscenes.

>>15012629

Don't even bother, just play the first one again.

>>15006704

I always wanted to play pokemon snap, I remember always seeing it but when I was a kid I could never really buy video games and by 2000 the local rental shop had either closed or switched to just films, I played it at Christmas and enjoyed it

>>15006718

>Grandia II

There's a PC port as well.

>>15012908

It's actually the chillest FPS rail shooter I've ever played. It's short but aged fairly well.

>>15006830

>it had some seriously impressive graphics for the time and the multiplayer was revolutionary, even today nothing comes close to forge mode and the replay/theater system it had

Welcome to PC gaming from 10 years before Halo was released.

Honestly, Hellgate:London could of done really well I think, had the team changed a few things. Dropping that fucking sub fee, stylizing the game a bit more, and fixing the game's presentation could of gone a far way.

Shame.

>>15012629

>>15012765

Agreed, it suffers from open-world syndrome. Enemies are now even easier to get away from and there's no reason to do anything besides follow the runner vision route. The original game had a puzzle element where you're supposed to figure out how to get from A to B with your parkour skills, now that's all figured out for you.

Ultima Online. From all the antics I kept reading it sounded legendary but I was too poor to afford a computer.

>>15006784

Nice, I had a somewhat similar experience with Yoshi's Story. I had the guidebook but never got an N64 and have not played the game to this day.

>>15006799

I bought it on launch, it sucked shit. You're lucky you missed out.

>>15006830

I can tell you were 14 when Halo 3 came out