General Gaming Thread

[DMN in the House]

Saint's Row 4 is legitimately one of my favorite games of all time. It's just so over the top, awesome fun.

[apsham]

I'm with the XBox One Dashboard Preview program, so I'm going to be receiving a BETA trial of EA Access.

[King Ellis]

Non disclosure, asshole!

But also, going back to the 'But it's X1 only!' thing, this is EA we're talking about. I know they're pretty buddy buddy with Microsoft but unless they're getting paid off, that's a lot of money to be leaving on the table and I think it's a bit more substantial than say the UT team stuff in FIFA which was MS exclusive.

[apsham]

There's no NDA and you don't even get to actually try the service without signing up.

[Dan]

Just downloaded the EA Access, it's £3.99 a month and £19.99 a year in the UK.

Gonna get a year I think, I can trade in Madden for £13 so it'll cost me £7.

[RoyWill Rumble]

I'm waiting on an iPad in the next few weeks, so I was interested in some apps/games, obviously. I'm thinking FTL, Year Walk, anddddd possibly The Room. Any more suggestions?

I also wanna get into another couch co-op game with the ladyfriend, since we're stuck in most games we have. We tried Borderlands 2, but our TV was just too damned small to play split-screen comfortably.

We have most of the good Wii U co-op games aside from Rayman and the Virtual Console games, but we have Rayman Origins on 360 anyway.

SO, SUGGEST AWAY.

[MalaCloudy Black]

Hearthstone might be worth a try if either of you are into CCGs. It's on iPad and PC. Of course, there's not really any co-op so to speak, but you can play against each other..

[TKz]

Hearthstone is 90% what I use my ipad for. Love that game and the PVE is great fun.

[apsham]

I really love the idea of that but I don't like the idea that people with legendaries could just plow through me.

[TKz]

Legendary cards aren't really any better than the rest. There are some staples of the top game meta, but for the most part only 3-4 are worth having. They mostly have downsides too, like Leeroy that summons two minions for the opponent with enough damage to kill Leeroy. It's arguably one of the fairest free to play games out there. Check out Trumps free to play decks for good starting points, he's taken two classes to legendary without spending any money or using any legendary cards.

[apsham]

Hmm. Interesting.

[apsham]

Remember me posting about how some games at Target last week were 20 dollars?

That sale ended - and all that stuff is now TEN DOLLARS. TEN FUCKING DOLLARS. One controllers, 10 dollars - though they were only priced that, they were still gone from the last insane sale. A friend picked up 3 Wiimotes for less than the price of one. What the hell is going on?

[Drock007]

So im looking into getting a Game Boy Advance and a shit ton of games from Game Boy to Game Boy Advance. Obviously Pokemon and all there glorious games are a must, anything else you guys think i should get?

[EWB's Best Poster.]

A time machine.

[Bobfoc]

I didn't play many handheld games back then, but Advance Wars was fun.

[Robsturgh]

The original Golden Sun game was great. They also released most of the major NES/SNES Mario games on the advance. So go get Super Mario World (Super Mario Advance 2)

[SRN]

So now that I have working laptop again, I am going through my backlog of games and I just want to say that 10,000,000 is an insanely addictive game. All I wanted to say.

[King Ellis]

Re: GBA

I don't know what it's like where you are but here, these can be a bit pricey, even just as loose carts. But nevertheless:

Mario & Luigi Superstar Saga (GIVE ME YOUR LIKES, SOUSA)

Astro Boy: Omega Factor

Advance Wars 1/2

Metroid Fusion/Zero Mission

Castlevania: Circle of the Moon/Harmony of Dissonance/Aria of Sorrow

The Legend of Zelda: Minish Cap/A Link to the Past

Fire Pro Wrestling 1/2

Those are some of your bigger name titles, plus Fire Pro since we are a wrestling board after all and Astro Boy thrown in there too because that's a cool game. Then, as Robster said, you've got any number of ports on there from the SNES like all the different Marios, Yoshi's Island, Final Fantasy/Tactics, Donkey Kong Country etc etc.

A good bet might be looking at the NeoGAF thread for collecting different GB/GBC/GBA games. Always makes me covet things and they bring up some cool things like little projects they've done to make new covers, boxes, rehousing games in DS cases and modding GBA's with backlights, getting them from resellers such as Rose Coloured Gaming etc etc.

[probablyoliver]

Me and Snowball picked up both Forza 3 and Burnout Revenge the other day and bah gawd, they're both wonderful.

I've not played a driving game in years, probably since Total Driving on PS1. They've come so far.

[Baddar]

I loved Forza 3. If I get a One at some point, I'll definitely pick up the latest Forza along with it.