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Definitely not Fable 3.

Fallout 3, Arkham Asylum, Dragon Age Origins, Resident Evil 5, Just Cause 2, and Left 4 Dead 2 are all under $30 if you happened to miss those before.

as a dude who spends way too much money on games, i have all of those

lol at me

yeah i kinda disliked fable 2 and figured that 3 would be more of the same, but some dumb part of me keeps trying to recapture that first time fable magic

3 is much worse than 2.

ah crap i also dont have need for speed: hot pursuit or mass effect 2

hmmmm

ME2!!! Get that.

Mass Effect 2 is superb.

i have also considered the idea that from everything i read i could probably burn through shadows of the damned in a weekend and then go and swap it out for something else on the list

xpost is it a bad sign if i got really bored with mass effect 1 and quit somewhere around the cantina shootout thing

yeah, i'd say if you didn't finish me1 don't bother with me2 since at least 90% of its punch is from situating the world within the context of the actions you took personally in the first game

ME2 is definitely better than ME1 though, especially if you don't care that they simplified the RPG elements.

and i also havent bought blur yet

leaning towards shadows of the damned, metro 2033, and dead rising 2 and just buying blur later on, but who knows

yeah, i'd say if you didn't finish me1 don't bother with me2 since at least 90% of its punch is from situating the world within the context of the actions you took personally in the first game

i never played ME1, which is probably why i was pretty bored by ME2. a

selection was picked over, so no metro 2033, but had wild urge to buy you dont know jack instead. will report back on shadows of the damned and dead rising 2

shadows of the damned going back, dead rising 2 is pretty awes, hoping that a used copy of metro 2033 came in

ok ended up with need for speed hot pursuit and buying a copy of metro 2033.

so far metro 2033 seems like its a game built especially for my brain. its great.

super super dark, great feel and environments, everything is dismal and broken and depressing. all the weird conversations everywhere around you are worth listening to, realizing that you cant give money to all the beggars because they are everywhere so you have to try to pick the ones you believe or that look like they really need the money, only to have some laugh at you just as you get out of earshot. oh and did i mention that all the money is bullets, so every act of charity means you might end up knife-fighting a mutant in a radioactive corridor later on? this is a bleak bleak game, and its going to be awesome.

Gears of War 3 multiplayer is fucking cool. And it looks amazing in 3D, if you happen to know anyone who spent money on that particular boondoggle.

Did one month for a dollar so I'm on this xbox live thing for at least a month. Name = fireantparty

dear metro 2033 u are really really hard

This is a fun game!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQwLYWixReE

Looks like Dead Nation on wheels. Or a top-down Just Cause!

ah, "from the creators of Just Cause 2" might explain it :)

strongly reminds me of a game i used to play on the arcade at my dentist's office, but i can't remember the name off-hand (it was on the same machine w/ pacman, contra and that game where you're a jet plane fighting the japanese during ww2 iirc)

jackal?

1943?

yes to both!

man, that looks like just the kind of semi-mindless action/driving fun game that i want to play right now

I suggest playing it multiplayer even if it's with randoms.

I'm playing Madden '12 and it is easily the worst Madden I've ever played. I said that last year but this one is much worse than last year. Sheesh.

The PS3 version doesn't even have a roster update. Does the 360 version? Nnamdi is on the Raiders, Derek Anderson is QBing the Cards, etc.

one of my favourite DSP Madden 12 clips:
http://www.youtube.com/user/stefozzie#p/a/f/0/SiHlm_GUEyM

(background: phil played this same match previously but it crashed whilst he was winning, in his attempte to replay it things just didn't go his way. The rage starts arond 2:15 in and continues right until the end of the vid where he ends the clip with a most amazing sentence!)

no roster update??? that's a huge step backwards if true

anyone else playing forza 4? it's pretty amazing to look at from cockpit view with the realistic shadows and stuff.

i've started el shaddai (a nice $18 used pickup)

idk dudes. it's wild, very pretty, i love seeing japanese games get super sacrilegious with western mythoi, but this combat, ooof. after arkham asylum it's just very bad. i'd rather watch someone else play it i think.

How far in are you.

Comparing the combat to Arkham is really unfair because Arkham is basically the best brawler mechanics ever imo

not far at all. the neon city skyscraper bit?

well, sux2b el shaddai then!

i hate to say this but the combat doesnt really get better, altho at a certain point it can get kinda flowy and mesmerizing, which fits the weirdo vibe of the game imo.

Yeah there's a flow. But I liked it. And the levels get really great looking.

In other news, Witcher 2 is in the mail wheee

yeah i'm pumped for that but i may play the delayed gratification game for a while

Hmm, Witcher 2 is kinda weird to play on the console. You can definitely tell it was designed for the PC.

The 360 version of Spelunky is out on July 4th

10/10 review from Eurogamer
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-07-02-spelunky-review

I heard it's kind of hard.

That looks great! I haven't been playing much 360 at all since I moved to my new place, due to the stupidest thing - my television isn't in a convenient location to hook up the cable to the internet, and I'm too cheap to buy the router that microsoft sells.

But that tempts me to figure out a solution.

I ain't a typical fan of yer cute traditional platformer but that review pretty much makes it sound like the best game ever. Except maybe this little bit of underselling: a vibrant cartoon aesthetic that blends the painterly tones of Braid with the personality of Plants vs. Zombies.

haha that game sounds like a perfect hell for me

.. is it just a Rogue?

Spelunky is basically a roguelike platformer... i.e. perfect.

The original PC version can still be downloaded for free, here...
http://spelunkyworld.com/original.html

like pretty much all XBLA games, i'll get it when it drops to half price, then play it a year later

i finally hooked my xbox up to my router and downloaded spelunky! cozeny, iforry72 and polyphonique, you better watch out. i am chasing you on the leaderboards