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Welcome back to the board, me!

Weirdest sensation this morning to get a notification that someone had tried to log into my account 5 times and failed. Why anyone would want to steal my old, seldom-used (mostly before the big board crash several years ago) account is a bit beyond me, what with my most creative of user names. The really sad part is my password was super-easy to guess. The guy who failed to guess it deserves a quadruple-facepalm.

Anyway, since that put Jazzfanz on the brain and I barely follow NBA basketball anymore, thought I'd jump in this thread just for giggles.

//r00t 4 Jazz said:
Yes I also have kids and while I don't have a rule like you of not playing in front of them I do try to keep that to a minimum and so I'm similar in playing time hours just in smaller chunks.

Also my youngest is now 8 so he's getting to really want to play games with me and that really makes me wish there was a good multiplayer RPG game. He does very well in school and spends enough time playing outside that I could use it as bribery if he wants to play with me (joking sorta).
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(Yes I realize I'm responding to an ancient post...)

Dood... heard of the Tales Of series? Specifically I think Tales of Vesperia and Tales of Xillia could potentially be great to play with your kid. The series generally has decent storylines, and when you do get into the (very active for a JRPG) battle system, you have four characters running around that can all be controlled by separate human players if you wish. The storyline part is single-player only, it's true. But there's a lot of combat and the combat is great, so it's still effectively a co-op RPG.

Then of course there's Diablo 3, which I hear is better on consoles than on the PC due to no horrible auction house system.

There's also games from other genres that have RPG elements, like Borderlands 2 or Dragon's Crown. But those two are likely too raunchy for an 8-year-old (well, certainly Dragon's Crown is, Borderlands is... borderline, nyuk nyuk nyuk).
 
Johnnyfan12 said:
Welcome back to the board, me!

Weirdest sensation this morning to get a notification that someone had tried to log into my account 5 times and failed. Why anyone would want to steal my old, seldom-used (mostly before the big board crash several years ago) account is a bit beyond me, what with my most creative of user names. The really sad part is my password was super-easy to guess. The guy who failed to guess it deserves a quadruple-facepalm.

Anyway, since that put Jazzfanz on the brain and I barely follow NBA basketball anymore, thought I'd jump in this thread just for giggles.


(Yes I realize I'm responding to an ancient post...)

Dood... heard of the Tales Of series? Specifically I think Tales of Vesperia and Tales of Xillia could potentially be great to play with your kid. The series generally has decent storylines, and when you do get into the (very active for a JRPG) battle system, you have four characters running around that can all be controlled by separate human players if you wish. The storyline part is single-player only, it's true. But there's a lot of combat and the combat is great, so it's still effectively a co-op RPG.

Then of course there's Diablo 3, which I hear is better on consoles than on the PC due to no horrible auction house system.

There's also games from other genres that have RPG elements, like Borderlands 2 or Dragon's Crown. But those two are likely too raunchy for an 8-year-old (well, certainly Dragon's Crown is, Borderlands is... borderline, nyuk nyuk nyuk).
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Welcome back!
 
Johnnyfan12 said:
Welcome back to the board, me!

Weirdest sensation this morning to get a notification that someone had tried to log into my account 5 times and failed. Why anyone would want to steal my old, seldom-used (mostly before the big board crash several years ago) account is a bit beyond me, what with my most creative of user names. The really sad part is my password was super-easy to guess. The guy who failed to guess it deserves a quadruple-facepalm.

Anyway, since that put Jazzfanz on the brain and I barely follow NBA basketball anymore, thought I'd jump in this thread just for giggles.


(Yes I realize I'm responding to an ancient post...)

Dood... heard of the Tales Of series? Specifically I think Tales of Vesperia and Tales of Xillia could potentially be great to play with your kid. The series generally has decent storylines, and when you do get into the (very active for a JRPG) battle system, you have four characters running around that can all be controlled by separate human players if you wish. The storyline part is single-player only, it's true. But there's a lot of combat and the combat is great, so it's still effectively a co-op RPG.

Then of course there's Diablo 3, which I hear is better on consoles than on the PC due to no horrible auction house system.

There's also games from other genres that have RPG elements, like Borderlands 2 or Dragon's Crown. But those two are likely too raunchy for an 8-year-old (well, certainly Dragon's Crown is, Borderlands is... borderline, nyuk nyuk nyuk).
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I hate this console popularizing trend that they kill the PC versions for the sake of.
 
addictionary said:
I hate this console popularizing trend that they kill the PC versions for the sake of.
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Man... totally agree with you there. Crysis much? Big open environments to mostly linear?

And... Mass Effect? I mean, the first one had separate cooldowns for each ability, which was totally the way to go. For the 2nd they switched to a combined cooldown meter as a nod to the limitations of using a controller. Hello! PC version = hotkeys. Better. Yeah.

I'm hoping that for the next few years though, that at least the pure power-related limitations put on PC versions for the sake of easy porting to consoles will lessen (as they will no longer need to adhere to PS360 standards).
 
Just thought I'd note that I've played some GTA5 now... the game tells me I'm 50% done. I've been doing pretty much just story missions, very little running around otherwise. I have to say, the game is really impressive. I normally couldn't care less about stories in games, but the characters and the story and the three-person narrative structure really sucked me in. The writing and voice acting and presentation overall are extraordinary. And the gameplay has impressed me by its sheer variety. Every story mission seems to introduce you to something new, and everything they have you doing is fun. Overall, this is definitely the best GTA yet, and should be on anyone's game-of-the-decade list, small quibbles aside. I'll be interested to see what they do with the online component when it's finally ready.
 
AtheistPreacher said:
Just thought I'd note that I've played some GTA5 now... the game tells me I'm 50% done. I've been doing pretty much just story missions, very little running around otherwise. I have to say, the game is really impressive. I normally couldn't care less about stories in games, but the characters and the story and the three-person narrative structure really sucked me in. The writing and voice acting and presentation overall are extraordinary. And the gameplay has impressed me by its sheer variety. Every story mission seems to introduce you to something new, and everything they have you doing is fun. Overall, this is definitely the best GTA yet, and should be on anyone's game-of-the-decade list, small quibbles aside. I'll be interested to see what they do with the online component when it's finally ready.
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This.


It's a GTA IV + upgraded mechanics, interesting characters and then 10x the fun. I like the fact that money seems to matter so far. I.E. you can do fun stuff with your money therefore you want to make more. I think Trevor is the standout character so far.
 
Has anyone played XCOM: enemy unknown? I'm going to try to make the entire Jazz team and see which player survives the longest LOL.
 
asian_roger said:
Has anyone played XCOM: enemy unknown? I'm going to try to make the entire Jazz team and see which player survives the longest LOL.
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So I know this kind of talk might get dismissed by some as elitist or snobbish, but if you like the new XCOM, you should seriously consider buying the original version from like 1994 or whatever year it was on Steam. It's like $5, and it's seriously just a better game. In everything except graphics, of course. And since it's so old, system requirements are no object... you don't remotely need a "gaming PC" to run it.

I did play through the new version on my PS3 on Classic difficulty. While it was good and I did enjoy it, graphics aside it made almost no real improvements on the original. It pretty much just dumbed it down. So I just played through the campaign and thought "that was fun, but I see no reason to ever play it again over the original."
 
Johnnyfan12 said:
So I know this kind of talk might get dismissed by some as elitist or snobbish, but if you like the new XCOM, you should seriously consider buying the original version from like 1994 or whatever year it was on Steam. It's like $5, and it's seriously just a better game. In everything except graphics, of course. And since it's so old, system requirements are no object... you don't remotely need a "gaming PC" to run it.

I did play through the new version on my PS3 on Classic difficulty. While it was good and I did enjoy it, graphics aside it made almost no real improvements on the original. It pretty much just dumbed it down. So I just played through the campaign and thought "that was fun, but I see no reason to ever play it again over the original."
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Consider Xenonauts, the "true" successor to X-Com, and how its tactical battles are an absolute slog. Time units is a terrible and outdated system. The two-action system is an incredibly efficient innovation that allows the game to move at a brisk pace. I love X-Com, but I doubt I could go back. Enemy Within promises a strategy layer overhaul, which is really the weak link of the new XCOM.
 
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