I'm not into the online multiplayer that much right now. My live subscription ran out, and I haven't bothered paying for another at the moment.

One player games are fine for me.

haha. did you kill it like i did?

Agro?
I love shouting that out at just the right moment at work.


Still slooowly working my way through xmen legends 1.
I tend to get pissed off with it here'n there.

OMG! I didn't know you could kill it!

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*puts Darkness back into console*

Hey.. i am looking for a horror video game for xbox 360.. any suggestions??? Did you guys here Gore Verbinski is going to do Bioshock the movie..

I didn't know you could. :eek:

I'm going to have to check that out!

Condemned: Criminal Origins
Condemned: Bloodshot
The Darkness
Dead Rising

Those should get you started.

And we have a thread on the movie.

Condemned 2: Bloodshot

I just beat the first level of this one. It's not nearly as scary as the first one.

I have a tendency to start games and not finish them. So I'm trying to finish Halo 3, F.E.A.R. and Bio-Shock this week.

I cant speak for Halo, but for the other, 2, your are in for quite a treat if you finish both this week. very different games, both with jaw dropping endings. Again, VERY different.

I wont tell you which one, but one of them will possibly make you shit your pants.


BTW, let me know when you DO finish them, I appear to be the only person here who has finished either of them.

i think a lot of people have finished bioshock here .. chrono was tallking about it.

Halo 2 and 3 are the only 2 games i ever finished ... so i definately have that same tendancy to start them and abandon them.

Well, I appear to be the only one who finished FEAR then.


For horror fans to havel played and not finished FEAR... Its like being a horror fan who has never seen the exorcist or texas chainsaw massacre... you HAVE to, it is too good an example of the genre not to.

Maybe some horror fans just doesn't like shoot-em-up games.

Ever thought about that, hmm?

I finished the game awhile back but just didn't care for it that much.they talked about how much horror was involved but in reality you spend most of your time fightint those soldiers.

....A lot of us here have finished BioShock (Including me). I was going to pick up F.E.A.R., but I read that it erases it's saves on the 360. And I don't have suped up graphics cards to run on PC.

Hey, HEY, I finished Bioshock! :p

...and pretty much have been bugging everyone I know with a PC or console to pick it up. Ridiculously amazing game, though the final Big Bad was a little too easy to beat.

Soooooooo... You're one of the many who have recommended F.E.A.R. Maybe I'll have to pick that one up next...

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I am currently playing Condemned: Criminal Origins...

aaaaaaaaaaaaand... I am a huge pussy and am totally terrified. I think it was Mothman who said it was scarier than the second one... And he's right. :o

It was build up. there is a lot of fighting clones and blowing shit ip, but even if the rest of the game sucked, the final 20 minutes and closing scene made up for any shortcomings in my opinion.

if you can run directx 9 you can play fear. cards that can show dx9 are old these days, so you might be able too.

And you have added another argument to my list to why consoles suck ;)


I apprently missed your bioshock posts. sorry... Did you beat it as good or bad?

And yes, pick up fear. these days it is just a tad dated, but the gore, action and horror make up for it. it is ridiculously atmospheric. it plays like a horror movie, a well done horror movie.

No need to apologize. Much to my dismay this forum does not revolve around me and my posts. :p

I beat Bioshock as "Good," so I think it really helped me get to a point where I was ultimately a powerhouse and the enemies weren't a real threat to me... Which took some of the challenge out of it. Then again, I was playing it on "easy." hahaha

How about you?

And if you like horror-based video games, have you picked up either of the Condemned games? Bloodshot is pretty damn good and I'm making my way through Criminal Origins now.

I beat it as bad first then turned around and beat it as good.I need to go throuhg and beat it on hard though.

I'm playing Crackdown now. I picked it up, and haven't put it down yet. It's a lot of fun, and a lot to do.

I have not checked out the condemned games yet. however, as soon as i have cash to burn, im going to get orange box, since i have been dying for that since it was announced over a year ago.

I beat Bioshock both ways, and the good ending is infinitely more satisfying. Killing little girls for a marginal gain in power just doesnt work for me.

Orange Box, Orange Box... I think I might have to pick it up, too.

As for the Condemned games, you can get them pretty cheaply from amazon.com. Another option is The Darkness, which was a lot of fun (and I know that VC and Mothman especially loved). You can probably get those used pretty cheap. :)

Orange Box was fun for a bit. Not really my favorite type of game though. Very repetitive. Run, open door, get back to path, repeat. Very straightforward and sometimes confusing. I'll get the 3rd one of they decide to make it, but I will wait til it comes down in price.

Which part of Orange Box? Ep. 2? You can't be saying that Half Life 2, Portal, or TF2 are straightforward...

I couldn't play Team Fortress 2. I don't have XBL anymore.

Portal wasn't too repetitive, but it only lasts about 2 hours tops.

Half Life 2, Episode 1, and Episode 2 were all the same. Very repetitive. Come on, you run, come to a blocked exit, have to go find the power to unlock it, then go all the way back to your main path. Regardless of if you're in a car, air boat or on foot. It was the same thing in each part of the level. It had a pattern that I caught onto very quickly.....And it only lasted about 12 hours for the whole Orange Box experience.

ok....gonna have to put the other games on the back burner for now....I just downloaded Bionic Commando Re-Armed for the 360........bringing back lots of memories.:D

my kid and i played Halo 3 when he was off sick the other day ...

he loved it ..

still working my way through some goals in Tony Hawks Proving Grounds.
Been playing Burnout Paradise a good deal. gorgeous visuals, huge map, tons of cars that move at absurd speeds. its a fun game.

In HL2 there are driving sequences, parts where you're going through a ghost town on the rooftops avoiding certain doom, and hell... there's even a part where you're fending off zombies in the dark (with only a few flares for illumination) while your partner fixes an elevator. The gravity gun makes for some easy but inventive puzzles and the physics allow you to be very creative with the way you dispatch your enemies. I can't think of many FPS games that don't usher you from point A to point B...

I miss the crash mode from the other games, trying to earn medals by causing insane amounts of damage was the best.

But that's just it. The puzzles don't have enough variety. You basically have to do the same thing with the Gravity Gun, every other puzzle. Look at BioShocks puzzles. They were unique, and had enough variety in the game feel.

Yes, you did have that ONE zombie level, but that was it. You have to drive the car, and the airboat, and you're doing the same thing with both of them. You can't get out for whatever reason, and then you have to stop to go make an opening for them. Then get back in, and it lasts over 8-9 segments of the same thing. Same for when you're on foot.

As far as other games, they do to a degree. But it isn't the same. The Tomb Raider: Legend game that I just finished playing, had some interesting puzzles. And they weren't every 5 minutes. It had enough of an action/puzzle mix, that it didn't get repetitive.

You're comparing a 3rd person action game to an FPS... it seems like you just prefer one genre over the other. For me Tomb Raider was an overhyped platformer that failed to deliver solid controls or a decent decent story and simply rode to stardom on the ample knockers of Lara. To each their own, I won't get after you about your opinion but stating that HL2 is repetitive is a ridiculous statement. It is a linear experience that can be played in different ways with a brilliant story that's executed almost flawlessly. The excitement from escaping the combine, the thrill of fighting a strider, the rush of running through the sand trying to avoid ant lions, the strategy of setting up turrets to fend off a combine attack, the joy of fighting off a gunship from a catwalk... some individual sections can be repetitive but they're few and far between and that's the nature of the FPS and HL2 sets the standard as far as level diversity goes. Even the "non-linear" Far Cry didn't throw such different scenarios at you. To feel that Tomb Raider is better is your opinion and you're welcome to it but to say TR is less repetitive is ludicrous. Shoot, shoot, shoot, jump, push something, repeat.

It's not a matter that I prefer one genre over the other. I loved the Halo series. Even though you were on a track, you had more open landscapes and the vehicle combat was phenomenal.

I own both of the Condemned games. Both of those are story driven, first person games. I also own both of the Vegas games and Conflict: Denied Ops.

Comparing Tomb Raider (a third person ADVENTURE/PUZZLE game), to Half Life 2 (a first person ADVENTURE/PUZZLE game), isn't far off at all. That's kind of like saying that Halo 3 and Gears Of War aren't both comparable because one is a third person game, and one is first. They are still, shooters.

The way Tomb Raider is less repetitive, is the way that it breaks up the action and the puzzle solving. (And in this, I mean that it isn't running, go around a corner, see your blocked, go back, shoot 3 guys in front of a switch, then go back. At least you had some segments that were just one or the other.) Not to mention the change in locations. I mean come on, I get sick of the first 2 hours of the game, staring at nothing but the inside of the airboat, and orange backgrounds with water that you can't jump into. At least in Tomb Raider, everywhere looked different.

Yes, Half Life 2, does have some interesting parts, and some very fun ones. But when you're running on foot, up and down hills, just to back track because you couldn't use your grav. gun in the same way you used it in the previous puzzle, now that's ludicrous.

Play through it again, or read the strategy guide on IGN. The whole game has a pattern. Especially the vehicle parts. And look at the survivor parts, you have to constantly battle off combine, area, after area, after area, as they die off. Solve one puzzle, get back to your path, and three more join you, to go and do the same thing, in a slightly different way.

Tomb Raider may be repetitive like every game, but it's not as drawn out. And it's not like you come to a dead end, turn around, go into a room, shoot 3 people, flip a switch (that you should be able to hit with your grav. gun), then go back. And that's what gets annoying with Half Life 2.

Honestly, the most adrenaline pumping part of The Orange Box for me, was when you are in the Antlion tunnels in Episode 2 and have to fend off the separate tunnels. Why that held my attention, I don't know. It's nothing more than a "defend the base", like all of the other "action sequences" in the game.

And just for the record, I never said Tomb Raider was better. I was using it as a comparison. Kind of like I did with BioShock, which you seemed to say nothing about.

Was Half Life 2 a good game? Yes.
Was it repetitive? Yes.
Did the enviroments change enough? No.
Would I play through it again? Maybe.

Every game has a pattern, I've played through Half Life and Half Life 2 multiple times. To say Halo had more variety is ridiculous. We'll just have to agree to disagree on this one because I think all the games you mentioned are more repetitive that HL2. Even though some tasks do seem repeat themselves, it's the means to the solution that varies and you can't call it the same situation. I admit some situations are repetitive or even too similar to HL1 but those just fill a little space here and there and allow you to kill some folk and have fun with the physics. HL2 is a first person shooter that's backed with a great story and an engine and design that are both so superior that they make you feel like you're playing an action/adventure game. Condemned (haven't play 2 so I can only speak for the first), Conflict Ops games, Far Cry, STALKER, Doom 3, the Unreal Tournament games, the Quake series, the Rainbow Six Vegas series, and even Call of Duty don't match the single player variety of HL2. Hell, the only things I can think of recently that do are more akin to an RPG like Bioshock or are predominantly multiplayer like the Battlefield series (the earlier PC games, not the dumbed down console experiences). Gears of War and Halo are different games, one is a first person shooter and one is a third person shooter. They occupy the same broad genre but are in different sub-genres.

Again, I don't recall saying that Halo had more variety. I said I loved it.

I wouldn't say HL2 is a shooter. It's not got as much action as a shooter, and 90% of the "shooter" games out there, do not have puzzles. You simply SHOOT stuff 98% of the game. It's more of an adventure/RPG that's in the first person genre.

As far as those other games not matching the variety in HL2...How is that possible? Every task in HL2 that you preform is something such as defending a certain thing for a set amount of time, or figuring out how to open a door that's blocking your path. Yes, you are constantly moving, but it's done so much, that I began to feel the "is this game ever going to be over?" feeling.

You have to get through a different challenge to open a door or hit a switch though. One time you could have to find a plug and use the grav gun to unplug it so that the water isn't electrified and the next moment you be trying to catch plasma spheres being fired and re-routing them to a power supply. You can't look at the task, you have to look at the means to the end. Doesn't matter though, you have your opinion and I have mine, it's obvious we're not going to sway each other.

Siren Blood Curse

Too early to say anything about it yet, but it seems very difficult even on the easy level.

That looks pretty cool, not sure how I feel about episodic content yet but it's here to stay I suppose. Did you get all 12 episodes or just start with the first 4?

Yea, i got all of them.

To get less would be ridiculous, unless you're very unsure if you'll like it or not, coz it doesn't take a helluva long time to get through a chapter.

If you're, unlike me, able to see where the hell you're supposed to go in the first chapter, I'll guess it would take a person under 5 minutes to complete the first chapter. It took ME over an hour and several tries, coz the game is so damn dark i couldn't see a whole lot, which was a shame, coz i felt i missed a whole lot of cool scary details while trying to escape the lunatic cop. You just don't have that kind of time or overview to enjoy and discover details. The gameplay doesn't allow it. :(

But the atmosphere and story are great.

I'm on chapter 3 now. Took me 2 hours to get there and that's pretty fucking slow.

The Simpsons game for 360.Nothing greta just something to pass some time I guess.

i beat it.