Request

I know we've had similar threads before, but this one is for a couple of planned video features. This only applies to consoles. 

1. List your favourite characters and reasons why. List as many as you like.


2. List your favourite games by genre... eg:

Racing - Midnight Club LA
Fighting - DoA 4
1st Person Shooter - Killzone 2
3rd Person Shooter - Gears 2
Open-world - Crackdown
Platform - Super Mario Galaxy
RPG - Lost Odyssey
Strategy - Halo Wars
etc, etc, etc... listing multiple games per category if your torn between 2 or 3.

3. List your overall choice of best looking game, again giving multiple if you can't decide on just one.

4. List your choices for 'best...' for each of the following categories:
Art Direction
Character Models
Animation
Lighting
Texturing
Level Design
Particle Effects (weather, fire, explosions, dust, smoke etc)
Use of Sound

Toda Raba (thanks)

u first

"If you knew how good I am you would think I'm modest."

Give me a bit to think about it.

too lazy

Where's the vid going up, out of curiousity?

1.
Onikage vs Rikimaru (Tenchu Stealth Assassins)
Solid Snake (MGS)
Kazuya Mishima (Tekken)
Cloud vs Sephiroth (FFVII)
Prof Isaac Kleiner (Half-life 2)
The Companion Cube vs GLaDOS (Portal) - not strictly for consoles but there's Still Alive and shame to lose this one!
Agent 47 (Hitman)
Piggsy (Manhunt)
Cone-head (Silent Hill 2)

2.
Racing - Race Pro
Fighting - Tekken 5
1st Person Shooter - Left 4 Dead
3rd Person Shooter - GRAW
Open-world - Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
Platform - N+
RPG - FFVII
Strategy - UFO/XCOM: Enemy Unknown - was out on PS1 too right?

3.
Prince of Persia (2008)
(FFXIII VS if it can count yet)

4.
Art Direction - Muramasa: The Demon Blade   
Character Models - Mass Effect
Animation - Prince of Persia (2008)
Lighting - Bioshock
Texturing - Gears of War 2
Level Design - Left 4 Dead
Particle Effects (weather, fire, explosions, dust, smoke etc) - Gears of War 2
Use of Sound - Silent Hill 1
Story - FFVII
Soundtrack - Xenosaga II / Streets of Rage 2


...and wtf is toda raba??  oh..ok I see, np.

Consoles Choupolo dude... consoles ;-) Crysis isn't available on consoles... yet. I need you to substitute some console games... please :-)

The video's, along with the first bunch of game showcases (not reviews) will initially go up on my YouTube channel because it looks like they'll be ready before the website if up. Things are moving fairly quickly now though and we're getting ready to start work on the podcasts. You'll see...

Doh, sorry!  I did read that bit, but must've chosen to ignore it. :P

Edited.  Website sounds cool, you must keep us updated.

1. List your favourite characters and reasons why. List as many as you like.

Sonic the Hedgehog - made video games "cool" back on the sega genesis


2. List your favourite games by genre... eg:

Racing - Project Gothem Racing 4
1st Person Shooter - Halo: Combat Evolved
3rd Person Shooter - Gears 2
Platform - N+ (360 live arcade)
RPG - Oblivion
Strategy - Halo Wars


3. List your overall choice of best looking game, again giving multiple if you can't decide on just one.
Gears of War 2

4. List your choices for 'best...' for each of the following categories:
Art Direction - Gears 2
Animation - Halo Wars
Lighting - Gears 2
Texturing - Gears 2
Level Design - Gears 2

"If you knew how good I am you would think I'm modest."

Sonic made videogames cool for 9 year olds maybe, sonic is a fucking nerd.

emofag


Sonic made videogames cool for 9 year olds maybe, sonic is a fucking nerd.

sonic is so cool you are just jealous because your junker can't keep up

1. List your favourite characters and reasons why. List as many as you like.

-HK-47

Best dialogue ever.   Here's a sample: 
[Revan:  "You don't need to call me master, you know."
HK-47:  "Query: Don't I?  I was under the assumption that organic meatbags such as yourself enjoyed such forms of address."
Revan:  "Organic meatbags?"
HK-47:  "Retraction: Did I say that out loud?  I apologize, master.  While you are a meatbag, I suppose I should not call you as such."
Revan:  "You just called me a meatbag again!"
HK-47:  "Explanation: It's just that... you have all these squishy parts, master.  And all that water!  How the constant sloshing doesn't drive you mad, I have no idea..."
Revan:  "Neither do I, come to think of it..."
HK-47:  "Statement: Now do you understand the travails of my existence, master?  Surely it does not compare to your existence, but still..."
Revan:  "I survive.  Somehow."
HK-47:  "Commentary: As do I.  It is our lot in life, I suppose, master.  Shall we find something to kill to cheer ourselves up?"







2. List your favourite games by genre... eg:

Racing - PGR3 (360)
Fighting - FNR3 (360)  I expect to enjoy FNR4 even more
1st Person Shooter - Killzone 2, COD4
3rd Person Shooter - MGS4
Open-world - GTA4 (360), Fallout 3 (360)
RPG - , KOTOR 1&II (Xbox), Shadow of Destiny (PS2)
Strategy - FF Tactics


3. List your overall choice of best looking game, again giving multiple if you can't decide on just one.
-Killzone 2
-MGS4
-GT Prologue
-Fight Night round 3


4. List your choices for 'best...' for each of the following categories:
Art Direction- MGS4
Character Models- Mass Effect
Animation-MGS4
Lighting-Killzone 2
Texturing-Gears 2
Level Design-Halo
Particle Effects (weather, fire, explosions, dust, smoke etc)-Killzone 2
Use of Sound-  Battlefield BC, Mass Effect, Oblivion

"This is sad. There's no other word for it. The person who invents a way to punch someone in the face over the Internet will make millions from the demand generated by people like this." Youtube comments

1. List your favourite characters and reasons why. List as many as you like.

Zoè from Dreamfall, because she seems like a real character. Nothings bloated.



2. List your favourite games by genre... eg:

Racing - Rollcage (PS1)
Fighting - DOA4 (360) 
1st Person Shooter - COD4
3rd Person Shooter - Gears of War 2
Open-world - GTA4 (360)
RPG - , KOTOR 1 (Xbox), Fallout 3
Strategy - Halo Wars (only console rts iv played)
 
3. List your overall choice of best looking game, again giving multiple if you can't decide on just one.
-Gears of War 2
-MGS4
-Valkyria Chronicles
 


4. List your choices for 'best...' for each of the following categories:
Art Direction- Valkyria Chronicles
Character Models- Mass Effect
Animation-Uncharted
Lighting-Killzone 2
Texturing-Gears 2
Level Design-Uncharted
Particle Effects (weather, fire, explosions, dust, smoke etc)-MGS 4
Use of Sound-  Mass Effect

1. List your favourite characters and reasons why. List as many as you like.

Big Boss - It's fascinating to watch the inevitable play out.

Alyx Vance - Strong chick. Likes guns. Nuff said.

Niko Bellic - The first GTA game that ever caused me to be emotionally invested in the lead character. The good guy doing bad things dynamic is really cool.

1. List your favourite games by genre... eg:

Racing - Burnout 3: Takedown
Fighting - Power Stone
1st Person Shooter [online]- COD4
1st Person Shooter [offline]- Half-Life 2
3rd Person Shooter - MGS4
Open-world - GTA4 / Battlefield: Bad Company
RPG - Tales of Sypmhonia / Final Fantasy IV
Strategy - Settlers of Catan (LIVE Marketplace)
Platformer - Jak & Daxter: The Precursor Legacy
Other - Katamari Damacy

3. List your overall choice of best looking game, again giving multiple if you can't decide on just one.
-MGS4
-Psychonauts
-Mario Galaxy

Art Direction - Psychonauts
Character Models - Call of Duty 4
Animation - Uncharted
Lighting - GRAW 2
Texturing - Gears of War 2
Level Design - Mario 64
Particle Effects - Far Cry 2
Use of Sound - Battlefield: Bad Company

"I'll wager sixty finest English pence that you defeat Big Sister in the end by shagging her to death."

Kikizo.com - Excellence in Journalism

1. List your favourite characters and reasons why. List as many as you like.

Hmmm, I have a few I guess. Three Dog from Fallout 3, because his radio station is fucking awesome. Andrew Ryan from Bioshock, because he was more like Ayan Rand than she herself due to having a penis. And, as Ghost said, HK-47 is fucking epic.

1. List your favourite games by genre... eg:

Racing - Burnout 3 and Paradise come to mind.
Fighting - MVC2 is the obvious choice.
1st Person Shooter [online]- COD4
1st Person Shooter [offline]- Half-Life 2 and the accompanying episodes
3rd Person Shooter - MGS4 for the cutscenes
Open-world - Fallout 3
RPG - Fallout 3 or KOTOR
Strategy - hmm, I like a few Live Arcade board games, but full retail Ill go with Halo Wars
Platformer - The Sly Cooper games or any side-scrolling Mario
Other - Castle Crashers, Castle Crashers, and Castle Crashers.

3. List your overall choice of best looking game, again giving multiple if you can't decide on just one.
-MGS4
-Gears 2
-Splinter Cell Chaos Theory for Last-gen

Art Direction - Fabe or Psychonauts, I love twisted fairy tale vibes.
Character Models - MGS4
Animation - I know Im going to get stoned to death, but Spiderman Web of Shadows. Seriously, I loved just swinging around.
Lighting - Only game I can think of where the lighting impressed me that much was Crysis, and obviously its not console.
Texturing - Gears of War 2
Level Design - CoD4. Almost every level had an awesome memorable moment.
Particle Effects - Killzone 2
Use of Sound - Fallout 3, for the amazing soundtrack.

I dont want to celebrate, I want to sell you hate.

rockdude69

emofag


Sonic made videogames cool for 9 year olds maybe, sonic is a fucking nerd.

sonic is so cool you are just jealous because your junker can't keep up

You don't even realize how much you fail considering I've posted pics of my BMW.   You need to get a life and stop posting on two accounts. 

emofag

rockdude69

emofag


Sonic made videogames cool for 9 year olds maybe, sonic is a fucking nerd.

sonic is so cool you are just jealous because your junker can't keep up

You don't even realize how much you fail considering I've posted pics of my BMW.   You need to get a life and stop posting on two accounts.

2 accounts? Who is he?

I dont want to celebrate, I want to sell you hate.

As a forum user...


1. List your favourite characters and reasons why. List as many as you like. 

Marcus Fenix. Stereotypical in almost every single way... but done perfectly.

2. List your favourite games by genre... eg:

Racing - Midnight Club LA (awesome, underappreciated and a superior use of the RAGE engine over GTA IV)  
Fighting - DOA4 (because Tekken 6 isn't out on consoles yet) 
1st Person Shooter (offline) - Killzone 2 
1st Person Shooter (online) - CoD4
3rd Person Shooter (offline) - Gears of War 2 (only really because it's more fluid than GRAW 2)
3rd Person Shooter (online) - GRAW 2
Open-world - Crackdown 
RPG - Mass Effect
Strategy - Halo Wars 
 
3. List your overall choice of best looking game, again giving multiple if you can't decide on just one.

- Gears of War 2
- Killzone 2
- Uncharted: Drakes Fortune
- Race Driver: Grid
- GRAW 2

4. List your choices for 'best...' for each of the following categories:

Art Direction - Mirrors Edge (the time-trial DLC maps are amazing)
Character Models - Mass Effect
Animation - Uncharted
Lighting - Killzone 2
Texturing - Gears of War 2
Level Design - Uncharted
Particle Effects (weather, fire, explosions, dust, smoke etc) - Gears of War 2


Edwin... you've pondered long enough... lets have you...

1. List your favourite characters and reasons why. List as many as you like.
-The Bellic's (GTA 4) Interesting, organic, well developed characters
-Sam Fisher (Splinter Cell) Dry humor and overall bad-ass
-Captain Price (CoD4) There for many of the key moments of the game kicking ass the whole way through.
2. List your favourite games by genre
Racing - DiRT/ Forza 2
1st Person Shooter - Call of Duty 4
3rd Person Shooter - Saints Row 2
Open-world - Fallout 3/ GTA 4
Platform - Little Big Planet
RPG - Elder Scrolls IV/ Fallout 3
Strategy - Civilization Revolution


?Arcade? - Pac-Man CE/ Geometry Wars 2/ Nobu Nobu Boy

3. List your overall choice of best looking game, again giving multiple if you can't decide on just one.
n/a
4. List your choices for 'best...' for each of the following categories:
Art Direction - Fable 2
Character Models - Assassin's Creed
Animation - Uncharted
Lighting - Left 4 Dead
Texturing - Gears OF War 2
Level Design - Call of Duty 4
Particle Effects - n/a
Use of Sound - Bad Company


...For some reason it's hard to answer any of these since I don't pay attention to the finer details and just play the game...

Agent Ghost why PGR3 over PGR4? I liked PGR4 a lot more, I think I even liked PGR2 more than PGR3.

"If you knew how good I am you would think I'm modest."

I haven't played PGR4.    I wanted to pick it up but I must of had other stuff to play, and it just fell out of my radar.  I'm not a huge racing fan to begin with.  Sometimes I get an itch, but its rare.  I really enjoyed PGR3 though.  I can't imagine why you didn't like it.

I pre-ordered Fuel for PC and i'll be picking it up sometime this week.  I'll let you guys know if its shit or not. I might have grabbed PGR4 too but my 360 is terminated, and I'm not sure I even want to replace it.  I just hope that Fight Night Round 4 version on the PS3 isn't broken.

"This is sad. There's no other word for it. The person who invents a way to punch someone in the face over the Internet will make millions from the demand generated by people like this." Youtube comments

I did like PGR3 a lot. I just didn't have as much fun with it as I did PGR2, and then with PGR4 I got the feeling back.

"If you knew how good I am you would think I'm modest."

The aliasing in PGR3 hurt my eyes. PGR4 is sublime.

I played PGR3 to death, especially online (got into some of the tournament finals) so I didn't really fancy doing it all again in PGR4 and didn't think the graphics lived up to the hype - so unlocked a few cars, traded it in.

I dunno... the graphics impressed me, especially the weather effects. It wasn't the massive leap in ters of content that i expected but i think they came through as far as the visuals are concerned. I guess GRID impressed me more though, and Midnight Club LA blew my socks off.

Blur should be interesting.

GRID was amazing in many ways, I just like PGR gameplay more. I have GRID on PC and play it using a wireless 360 controller, my HDTV rendered in true 1080p resolution, and 5.1 surround sound system with a sound blaster X-fi. It's pretty amazing.

"If you knew how good I am you would think I'm modest."

Squeeze me for just putting my answers inside your quote.  Also added some that don't really fit into your Genres (just an "action" genre?), Ninja Gaiden in fighting, Uncharted in platform.

Nitro


I know we've had similar threads before, but this one is for a couple of planned video features. This only applies to consoles. 

1. List your favourite characters and reasons why. List as many as you like.
Mario.  Defines gaming to me.
Master Chief.  Big badass space marine and we still don't know what he looks like under the helmet, which adds to the appeal.
Blanka.  I love the SF2 cast, but Blanka is the standout for me.  Gaming equivalent of Animal from the Muppets.





2. List your favourite games by genre... eg:

Racing - Wipeout HD
Fighting - Street Fighter 4, Ninja Gaiden 2
1st Person Shooter - Halo 3, Orange Box, Bioshock
3rd Person Shooter - Gears 2
Open-world - GTA4
Platform - Super Mario Galaxy, Uncharted, LittleBigPlanet
RPG - Mass Effect, Oblivion
Strategy - Viva Pinata 2, Valkyria Chronicles, Halo Wars

3. List your overall choice of best looking game, again giving multiple if you can't decide on just one.
Killzone 2

4. List your choices for 'best...' for each of the following categories:
Art Direction - Bioshock, LittleBigPlanet
Character Models - Street Fighter 4
Animation - Uncharted
Lighting - Oblivion
Texturing - Gears 2
Level Design - COD4
Particle Effects (weather, fire, explosions, dust, smoke etc) - Killzone 2
Use of Sound - Halo 3

Doesn't look like I've been playing games for long, but I'm not one for nostalgia.

***flyingsaucersdisguisedasmushrooms***
***mushroomsinvadingfromouterspace***

Iad umboros


Squeeze me for just putting my answers inside your quote.  Also added some that don't really fit into your Genres (just an "action" genre?), Ninja Gaiden in fighting, Uncharted in platform.

Nitro


I know we've had similar threads before, but this one is for a couple of planned video features. This only applies to consoles. 

1. List your favourite characters and reasons why. List as many as you like.
Mario.  Defines gaming to me.
Master Chief.  Big badass space marine and we still don't know what he looks like under the helmet, which adds to the appeal.
Blanka.  I love the SF2 cast, but Blanka is the standout for me.  Gaming equivalent of Animal from the Muppets.





2. List your favourite games by genre... eg:

Racing - Wipeout HD
Fighting - Street Fighter 4, Ninja Gaiden 2
1st Person Shooter - Halo 3, Orange Box, Bioshock
3rd Person Shooter - Gears 2
Open-world - GTA4
Platform - Super Mario Galaxy, Uncharted, LittleBigPlanet
RPG - Mass Effect, Oblivion
Strategy - Viva Pinata 2, Valkyria Chronicles, Halo Wars

3. List your overall choice of best looking game, again giving multiple if you can't decide on just one.
Killzone 2

4. List your choices for 'best...' for each of the following categories:
Art Direction - Bioshock, LittleBigPlanet
Character Models - Street Fighter 4
Animation - Uncharted
Lighting - Oblivion
Texturing - Gears 2
Level Design - COD4
Particle Effects (weather, fire, explosions, dust, smoke etc) - Killzone 2
Use of Sound - Halo 3

Doesn't look like I've been playing games for long, but I'm not one for nostalgia.

Me either. There are games i remember fondly and which amazed me at the time... but gaming has moved on so fucking far.

Its wierd like that.  Even though I think some old games are still superior in many respects to many many new games - its not as if I go back regularly and play them, or even buy them again from second hand stores or online marketplaces like LIVE arcade.

Even though gaming has come a long way in the past decade, I think in most cases its gone in completely the wrong direction to my tastes.  Short, shallow, flashy games with quicktime events and character/story cliches are not my thing.

choupolo

Short, shallow, flashy games with quicktime events and character/story cliches are not my thing.

QTE's should burn in hell. I hate when cutscenes are ruined by them.

I dont want to celebrate, I want to sell you hate.