SO I BOUGHT A PS3 [RECOMMEND ME SOME GAMES]

I really recommend you ask people to recommend a few games with thorough justification and not give you a giant list of games without explaining why each one is good (the latter is how these topics usually turn out). It's not really helpful if people just namedrop. Anyway:

Devil May Cry 4 and Ninja Gaiden Sigma are the best character action-brawlers on the market right now. I cannot recommend one over the other as they are basically the same game. I think I personally prefer Ninja Gaiden a little more. Both are pretty difficult and require a lot of finesse on your part. The action is just as tight as a one-on-one fighting game, though, so there is enormous room for you to succeed through individual skill at the game. I warn you that both games are unbearably cheesy (however DMC4 comes across as more self-aware about it).

Burnout is one of the best-regarded arcade racers out there. I recall that you loved earlier Burnout games so you might as well try the newest one.

Oblivion is way better on PC but really fun on consoles also. If you haven't played it yet, you might as well now. Pretty much everyone in the world loves Oblivion. The expansion is especially awesome (I think it's included on-disc in the Game of the Year edition).

Uncharted: Drake's Fortune was one of the biggest surprises I had played last year. Myself and everyone else were convinced that it would be an awful Tomb Raider clone, but the game somehow pulled everything together to offer a game where the platforming, the shooting, the exploration, and the story were all pretty solidly OK. You have played games with better shooting, and games with better platforming, and games with better stories, but you probably haven't played a game that does them all competently enough. The end result is a game that does a whole lot of things, and does them all pretty well, and ends up being a much better game than each of its pieces would suggest. Trivia: The female love interest has small boobs and wide hips. This curiously made her one of prettiest girls in a video game ever. In listening to an interview with the game's director (who was female), I learned that the (male) character designers had originally designed a typical walking vagina with huge boobs et al. She was put off by the design and made it a major goal of the project to make all of their characters as plain and everyday as possible. The result is a staff of the most memorably uninteresting characters I've ever seen in a game.


It is unfortunately true that all of the really popular games on PS3 are also available on 360 and are usually marginally better on it. All of us that went out and bought PS3s are actually waiting for 2009, because that's when we'll finally have a steady stream of excellent Japanese games (did anyone else notice that lack of blockbuster Japanese titles last year?). So uh . . . welcome to the club!

PS2 Game I Recommend
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Shing Megami Tensie: Persona 3
Not only does this game take up about your entire life. You don't even have to train or anything. It has a relastic sim part to it and the dating system is suprisingly well thought out. You can develop relationship with other character which in turn make your personas stronger. A great game and has really interesting storyline.

PS3 Game I Recommend
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SKATE
This is not your typical skating tony hawk game. This takes away the unrealistic skating tricks of tony hawk games and adds the enginerring and skill it takes to perform a simple trick. The graphics stunning and the whol experience is great makes well use of the axis controller.

author=iamnot link=topic=857.msg11419#msg11419 date=1207240298
I don't know if you are into RPGs or not

Hahahah

Dude, Kentona invented the RPG genre.

In terms of PS2 games, Shadow of the Colossus and Dragon Quest VIII are pretty incredible; so's Final Fantasy XII, I guess, though I haven't gotten very far. Okami is really good too, partly because it's a really good game and also partly because there are no Legend of Zelda games for Sony platforms, and it fills that niche really well. Besides, Okami>Legend of Zelda

Another reccomondation is Odin Sphere, which is sort of flawed in a couple of aspects and isn't always that fun, but is really different from most of the other games out there--and so much effort was put into its presentation that it's really worth trying out.

author=brandonabley link=topic=857.msg11487#msg11487 date=1207324575
Xenosaga 3 and not the first two. The first two games are not good. Even WIP likes Xenosaga 3! It is basically a Dragon Quest game set in outer space. The story is full of symbolism that will take you back to 10th grade creative writing, but if you manage to ignore that you'll realize the characters are all very good and the story itself is pretty interesting. Because Xenosaga 1 and 2 are purely expository and the entire series' plot occurs in this game, you really aren't missing anything either.

They massacred the story without the original authors' consent starting at the second half of the second game. For 3 they drastically dumbed down the battle system & character building systems, turning the entire game into an attack command mashing session as opposed to the more tactical combat of the previous two games. Congratulations!

While there were a lot of good games for PS1 and PS2, the only games I can think of off the top of my head that you really need are Legend of Mana and Katamari Damacy. Especially Katamari. Mana is hands down the best thing Squenix ever made, but Katamari is hands down the best thing ever made.

author=kentona link=topic=857.msg11634#msg11634 date=1207665035
I thought I just read somewhere by someone that Legend of Mana sucks...

Everyone but Shadowtext thinks this.