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PujolJunkie wrote:I'm a little late here but I'm absolutely enamored in FFXIII right now. It's insanely good. However this is coming from someone who has been waiting for this game for a really long time and is a HUGE fan of the entire series. YMMV, I suppose, but this game is amazing to me.
I picked it up a week ago before leaving for vacation and I haven't even had a chance to try it yet. Tuesday and mainly Wednesday evening I'm diving head-long into it and I can't wait.

Good stuff, eh?

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Cronos69 wrote:
PujolJunkie wrote:I'm a little late here but I'm absolutely enamored in FFXIII right now. It's insanely good. However this is coming from someone who has been waiting for this game for a really long time and is a HUGE fan of the entire series. YMMV, I suppose, but this game is amazing to me.
I picked it up a week ago before leaving for vacation and I haven't even had a chance to try it yet. Tuesday and mainly Wednesday evening I'm diving head-long into it and I can't wait.

Good stuff, eh?
Really, really good. About 13 hours in now. I'm still amazed by the story and the battle system exceeds all of my expectations.

MLB 10 The Show is good. It's extremely realistic but it is still really buggy. That's a real turn off for me.

BF:BC2's online is really frustrating but good all the same. It's crazy difficult if you're a low level player starting out.

Mass Effect 2 is probably gonna win game of the year.

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I'm pretty hooked on BF:BC2 online. I much, much prefer Hardcore servers. I just hate shooting a whole damned clip into someone before they die.

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Cronos69 wrote:
PujolJunkie wrote:I'm a little late here but I'm absolutely enamored in FFXIII right now. It's insanely good. However this is coming from someone who has been waiting for this game for a really long time and is a HUGE fan of the entire series. YMMV, I suppose, but this game is amazing to me.
I picked it up a week ago before leaving for vacation and I haven't even had a chance to try it yet. Tuesday and mainly Wednesday evening I'm diving head-long into it and I can't wait.

Good stuff, eh?
It's pretty good if you're a FF fan...I like it so far. Probably an 8-8.5/10...could be better.

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apparently the new mw2 map pack is going to cost 15$ and only have 5 maps (2 of which are old maps)...seems like a huge rip off

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Jocephus wrote:apparently the new mw2 map pack is going to cost 15$ and only have 5 maps (2 of which are old maps)...seems like a huge rip off
Activision is downright worthless.

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God of War III is a God of War game. I'm honestly not blown away by the graphics jump like I was expecting to be, but that probably says more for how good the game looked on the ps2 than anything.

I still get frustrated with some of the platforming with controls that don't respond quickly or intuitively and a fixed camera that forces you to change orientation. You'd think at this stage you'd have very responsive controls but I still don't feel that way with God of War and sometimes get pretty frustrated trying to figure out how to do what my brain wants to do.

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Michael wrote:U2 is a great game. One of the best this gen.
I may or may not have stayed up until 3:30 last night playing. It's too seamless. I honestly played from 1:00am on saying, "I'll save at the next major cut scene." Everything flowed so easily from one scene to the next, there aren't any troughs after climactic sections.

Have you played the multiplayer yet?

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XBLA released Perfect Dark. only 800 ms points. they cleaned it up a bit (not as boxy as the n64 version) and its fun to bring back the memories. if they put this up, and they have several other RARE games, i hope somehow they can put goldeneye up eventually

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glad you reminded me, I had forgotten that was coming.

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