"Late To The Party" or "Fantastic Old Games You've Just Played"

[Seil]

In Saint's Row The Third, Burt Reynolds is the Mayor, and asks you to take care of a zombie problem.

You can listen to Bonnie Tyler belt out "I Need A Hero" while shooting Mexican wrestlers out the window of your car while you're hitting a ramp.

There is a Michael Bay cheat that makes the explosions five times bigger.

[Kyanbu The Legend]

While not the greatest game. Klonoa Door to Phantomile (PS1) manages to still be a fun platformer.

[Ryong]

I never got too far in FF8 until I played it early last year, from start to end.

I honestly liked the plot, but a feeling I got throughout the game was that the music used for almost every scene was much more powerful than the scene itself, as an example, there's a part where Squall has to give a rousing speech to help his allies fight back against an enemy military force. The M6E1wYCOuWQ sounds much more heartfelt and powerful than his speech that boils down to "I know you're all tired, but let's give it our best shot, just one more time.".

This doubles as a post for the video game music thread.

Also, I only got to play Arkham Asylum and Arkham City a few months ago: I really liked Arkham Asylum despite not being that big a fan of superhero stuff, but Arkham City is just...weird. AA had a bunch of parts towards the end where you'd get to a place and then have to wait for the guards to go into the wrong position so you could systematically take them out. In AC, a group is either a bunch of minor thugs with a couple of stronger guys or it's an entire group of people with guns. Instead of making sneaking harder by making guards have peripheral vision and vertical vision, you just give them more guns and give you less ambush points.

Oh and I played Muramasa and FF3 on my Vita. I had played FF3DS before up until nearly the end and was crazy annoyed at the encounter rate and how at some points any encounter can result in death because you just got ambushed by something that can kill two of your characters if they're not at full health. It annoyed me further that the final area is a bunch of bosses you have to fight or the final boss can kill you instantly and every single one of these bosses is fought after a dungeon you have to run through every time if you died and you can't back out of the area. Also you basically need to be past a certain level in order to beat the game without luck. Also, even though the level goes until 99, I got to ~40 and the only thing I missed was an optional superboss. I only know of a single RPG that actually gets you to max level as long as you do every sidequest there is and that's Tales of Phantasia, but being level 40 out of 99 for the final boss is just weird.

Muramasa is a game about replaying the same areas a bunch of times. You beat the game with one character, then beat it with the other character, then fight through the final dungeon again with both characters and fight an alternate final boss with each and then fight through the final dungeon again with both characters and fight the normal final boss again and then you get the true ending with both and unlock a higher difficulty which is the "easy" - autoguard from the front when not attacking, enemies do less damage, enemies don't scale with your level - difficulty except you have 1 HP. If you want to get all trophies, you need to beat every single boss again with one character, including the bosses from the other character and clear every single cave of evil - challenge areas - with both characters.

Oh I also played FF4 last year before playing FF8 and I hated it. I had never played past a very early part because I disliked it, but forced myself to play through the whole thing and my opinion of it only worsened. Characters are not that good, your party keeps changing, everyone on your group is an idiot who can't plan ahead and keeps walking right into every trap the villain sets, etcetera.

[KOGGLES]

Mass effect is still probably one of my favourite franchises. I'm playing through it again on Insanity. Very fun, great story. Despite what people say about ME3, it was still worth playing and the combat was AWESOME.