Sam and Max 2's cancellation still sucks big time. Was the Full Throttle 2 you were referring to the sellout action game? Did you know that there was going to be a pure adventure game sequel to Full Throttle before Hell on Wheels was announced? http://www.mixnmojo.com/php/site/gamedb.php?gameid=116
If you liked Full Throttle, Day of the Tentacle, and Grim Fandango, check out Psychonauts. It's a funny psychic-themed platformer with good character development and strong psychological undertones by Tim Schafer, the brilliant madman behind those adventure games. www.psychonauts.comwww.doublefine.com
In adventure games, the ex-Sam and Max 2 team has split from Lucasarts to form Telltale Games, which is currently working on an episodic adventure game based on Jeff Smith's Bone comic book series. http://www.telltalegames.com/bone_the_game
In indie games, Gish is a fun, innovative platformer where you play as a ball of tar. There's a realtime physics engine where you can change your physical characteristics to become sticky (to climb up walls or grab blocks), slick (to squeeze in tight spaces), or hard (to break through walls or crush enemies). http://www.chroniclogic.com/gish.htm
I tried out the F.E.A.R. demo, but somehow my computer that could handle Half Life 2 at medium detail requires it to scale down to Marathon (http://trilogyrelease.bungie.org/ )-level graphics before it becomes playable. This significantly lessens the impact of the game.
"Omg. Where did they get the idea to not use army guys? Are they taking drugs?" --Tim Schafer on originality in videogames
yeah I hope they optimize the FEAR engine before it's released, I can run hl2 and doom 3 on maximum settings but on FEAR I get an occasional pause and stutter- but I forgive it, it's shaping up to be such an awesome game.
Strange, the F.E.A.R. demo run totally fine in full detail on my PC, and I don't even have recommended specs for it. Doom 3 was fine for the most part, but the end boss was unplayable because the frame-rate went to slide-show like speeds.
Most of the new console games are crap. The old console games are gold though. Most of the time, I'm playing Genesis games like Vectorman, Rocketknight Adventures, Sonic, etc. I'm not saying all new games are crap though. The Ratchet and Clank series is pretty good and we can't forget DDR.
Just so you know, Sam And Max 2 was purchased by a german company, who will likely release it. If it ever gets an international release is another question all together. Unfortunately, no one has taken the Axe out of Full Throttle 2's back yet.
Of all the recent games I can think of, only Devil May Cry 3 has held my attention for any length of time. It almost takes inspiration from the gameplay of the original Doom in that you're just given hundreds of enemies to batter.
I do prefer my collection of DOS games, though. I rediscovered ZZT only this morning.
Shab, are you referring to Bad Brain? Because they didn't actually succeed in buying the rights to Sam and Max 2 from Lucasarts. Steve Purcell, the original creator of the characters now has legal rights to use Sam and Max again. There's a scan of a recent PC Zone article about the fiasco over at Mixnmojo: http://www.mixnmojo.com/galleries/gallery.php?gallery=269&image=3343&goback=http://www.mixnmojo.com/ . I didn't know that it was 90-freakin'-percent complete when it was canned.
"Omg. Where did they get the idea to not use army guys? Are they taking drugs?" --Tim Schafer on originality in videogames
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I can't wait until DDR Extreme 2 comes out. I roxxorz at DDR.
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I miss those adventure games. KQ6 was one of the best. But I guess people stopped buying them because you have to pay quite a bit for a game that doesn't have any replayability.
The FF series is rapidly going down ever since FF7 and so were the other game series.
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Most U.S. mixes of DDR are pretty awful. The Japanese version of Extreme for PS2 had like 110 songs, but it was butchered down to 61 for the US release. The best home solution for DDR is Stepmania. I run my computer through my TV and sound-system, then hook up my dance-pad (mounted on 3/4 inch plywood and wrapped with plastic) via a USB adapter. I have every official song from every Japanease arcade mix, plus a folder of about 150 unofficial songs. There's literally thousands more user-made songs and steps to download. On a random note, this seems like as good of place as any to brag about B-ranking Max300 yesterday.
As for games I'm looking forward to:
The Legend of Zelda (cube)
Gunstar Super Heroes (gba)
Shining Force Neo (ps2)
Phantasy Star Universe (ps2/pc/?xbox360?)
Lost Odyssey (xbox360)
Perfect Dark Zero (xbox360)
Too Human (xbox360)
Sonic the Hedgehog (next-gen)
Afterburner (next-gen)
Nintendo Revolution + Games
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A little competition never hurts. I always play on my soft pad, with a Judge and Life difficulty of 4. On a even more random note, did you know they have StepManiaOnline (stepmaniaonline.com). It's super cool!
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Impressive. Our Max300 score-breakdowns are almost identical. I also took a screenshot the other day of my score on Sakura, as well as my score on Dokudenpa (user made track and steps, about 3:30 long).
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Was the Full Throttle 2 you were referring to the sellout action game? Did you know that there was going to be a pure adventure game sequel to Full Throttle before Hell on Wheels was announced? 
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