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Post by Exhuminator on Jan 5, 2018 13:16:41 GMT -5
2008 does seem like yesterday, and yet also so long ago. Time is weird yo.
Now that I'm using HowLongToBeat to track what I beat, I know exactly what I was playing and when, all the way to 2013. Unfortunately, I don't know exactly what I played and when in 2008. However, I can remember a few games I played that year:
Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia - Utterly brilliant Igavania, my favorite of the bunch. I even prefer it over Symphony.
Fallout 3 - As a big fan of the series, I for one wasn't disappointed in this. Had great fun roaming the wasteland and murdering everyone and everything.
Mario Kart Wii - A big series disappointment for a big series fan.
Okami - Played this on PS2, but didn't beat it. I got worn out on it. There was enough material here for a great 15 hour game. But Clover tried to stretch it into 40 hours and the content was just too thin for that.
Ninja Gaiden: Dragon Sword - I didn't expect much from this. I mean, touch based Ninja Gaiden, come on... but guess what? This game is AWESOME. Really badass what Team Ninja accomplished here. I recommend it to any action fan.
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - I had gotten a DS Lite in 2007, and was madly in love with it well into 2008. I remember playing Ace Attorney early in 2008 and having a great time. Sadly its two immediate sequels failed to match the charm, wit, and design of the first. But I'll always love OG AA.
Super Smash Bros. Brawl - Played the mess outta this with my friends, we like Ike indeed.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl - An amazing survival horror semi-open world FPS, I didn't expect much, I was blown away.
I'm sure I played a lot more than that in 2008, but those are the ones I remember.
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Post by kingmike on Jan 5, 2018 14:06:59 GMT -5
2008 was one of the last really good years for jRPGs before the genre went into major decline on home consoles. We got Tales of Vesperia, Valkyria Chronicles, Persona 4, and Lost Odyssey that year! Atlus was still in their boom years at the time as well, and were localizing a crapload of DS games, but I don't remember exactly which ones I played in 2008 specifically. jRPGs took up most of my time that year! Atlus was certainly publishing odd games. It might have been that year I played... what was the name, Masters of the Maze (aka Dungeon Maker), maybe a couple dungeons in. Another game I bought because of the odd concept but ended up not playing far in was My World, My Way. Yes, Tomato translated Magna Braban and I did the ROM hacking. But the version I released in 2006 turned out to be bad and only work on ZSNES and similarly outdated versions of SNES9x. (maybe it was a bad idea to upload it at 6:06 on 6/6/6 ) So I ended up redoing the hacking in 2013 to make it compatible with more recent emulators. Although Tomato has said he'd like to play it to see how his translation skills have changed since 2001, it seems he's far too busy with his book writing stuff.
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Post by GamerL on Jan 5, 2018 18:47:45 GMT -5
2008 does seem like yesterday, and yet also so long ago. Time is weird yo. Now that I'm using HowLongToBeat to track what I beat, I know exactly what I was playing and when, all the way to 2013. Unfortunately, I don't know exactly what I played and when in 2008. However, I can remember a few games I played that year: Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia - Utterly brilliant Igavania, my favorite of the bunch. I even prefer it over Symphony. Fallout 3 - As a big fan of the series, I for one wasn't disappointed in this. Had great fun roaming the wasteland and murdering everyone and everything. Time really is weird, this is the first time in my life I can remember a decade back as clearly as this. As for Order of Ecclesia, it's a game I'm really meaning to revisit (along with the other two DS Castlevanias), I remember appreciating that it borrowed elements from Simon's Quest but at the same time I missed both exploring a central castle and the wackier standalone levels of Portrait of Ruin like Egypt and London, but I'm sure time has probably been very kind to it, I feel like I took it for granted at the time because I didn't realize it would be the last Igavania and didn't appreciate how good it really is at the time. (a less forgiving person might even say it's the last Castlevania period since it's debatable as to whether the Lords of Shadow games even count or are just Castlevania in name only) But even if it's not my favorite, it wasn't a bad note for the series to end on. With Fallout 3 it was the first game I played in the series so I loved it, but having gone back and played 1 and 2 since I can better understand people's criticisms, however I still feel like people need to lighten up on Bethesda's Fallout.
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Post by Exhuminator on Jan 8, 2018 10:15:01 GMT -5
>I missed both exploring a central castle With Ecclesia, I appreciated being able to explore the surrounding countryside areas, like forest and mountain levels. I mean in addition to the primary castle areas. I too would like to replay Ecclesia, to see if I still love it today as much as I did ten years ago. The only possible negative thing I remember about the game, is some of the bosses were perhaps a little harder than they should have been. As a result I had to grind a few times for levels. >I still feel like people need to lighten up on Bethesda's Fallout. As someone who had played (and loved) Fallout 1 & 2 before playing Fallout 3, I agree. I remember when Fallout 3 released, a lot of people were calling it "Oblivion with guns", which was total nonsense. Fallout 3 did a great job of capturing a lot of what made Fallout be Fallout. The only criticism I'd levy against Fallout 3, is it didn't have as much dark humor as Fallout 1 & 2. Despite that, Fallout 3 absolutely nailed being a survivor in a forlorn wasteland, I loved it. I still need to get around to playing New Vegas. I've owned New Vegas for years and years. My backlog unplayed library is uh, a tad large.
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Post by lurker on Jan 8, 2018 13:19:40 GMT -5
IIRC the issue people had with Fallout 3 was mainly the writing and how it handled the lore.
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Post by Feynman on Jan 8, 2018 13:29:13 GMT -5
That and the world having no internal consistency whatsoever. The whole game feels like glorified fanfiction. I mean, I guess in a way it basically IS fanfiction, but still.
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Post by The Great Klaid on Jan 8, 2018 14:34:34 GMT -5
This would be the year I stopped really playing games. School and dating ate up all of my time. But, the first few months I was still playing long PS2 JRPGs. I think I beat Xenosaga 3 that spring. Oh and a bunch of PSP games too. Like it might have been the year I beat Final Fantasy Tactics, and almost 100% Crisis Core. After that I'd really start playing shorter games, but that wasn't for a couple of years of me insisting I had time to play Digital Devil Saga.
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Post by mrnash on Jan 8, 2018 17:24:09 GMT -5
Probably getting caught up on PS2 JRPGs. That system had so many, and they were super long usually. >_<
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Post by GamerL on Jan 8, 2018 18:15:12 GMT -5
IIRC the issue people had with Fallout 3 was mainly the writing and how it handled the lore. And it's a fair criticism, the storyline in a 3 is a bunch of bullshit, 4's is better by virtue of the fact that Bethesda came up with their own antagonist instead of reusing The Enclave, but it never rises above mediocrity. But I actually really like one thing Bethesda did and that's to play up the 1950s retro futurism angle, in the original 2 games it's mostly background flavor, but the first thing you do in 3 is explore a ruined 1950s neighborhood, it's a pretty effective moment. Really it's best to just pretend Bethesda rebooted Fallout, so Fallout 1,2 and NV are it's own continuity whereas 3 and 4 are it's own continuity, that makes it easier to ignore any discrepancies.
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Post by edmonddantes on Jan 8, 2018 18:54:36 GMT -5
I think ten years ago I first got my PSP due to a Metal Gear fixation (meaning I wanted to play the PSP-exclusive segments, including Acid) but wound up discovering other titles, especially compilations like King of Fighters Orochi Saga and Gradius Collection. I think for awhile those were my life. Not even sure how that happened.
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Post by Purple Moss on Jan 28, 2018 22:17:10 GMT -5
Important edit: I just realized I actually meant 2008 instead of 2007 all along. I remember the WotLK expansion came out around the time I had to format my PC, and checking the official dates, that expansion was released on 11/2008. Sorry for the confusion! I edited the post a bit.While I can't quite remember what was I playing in 2007, or even 2009 (though I can make some guesses), I do remember ( edit: not even that well ) that 2008 was the year of my World of Warcraft craze. I believe I must have started playing since around February. I was playing Ragnarok Online before. Last thing I was doing in that game was grinding slimes in a pyramid dungeon to get the second job. Still remember that, heh. Anyway, during the mid-year vacation I played WoW pretty much every day, 4 hours a day (from 8 am to 12). We had a cousin staying at our house at the time, and he always said stuff like "why are you playing that boring game every day?". I think I just ignored him or answered "I just like it". Man, I was such an asshole ): I played in a very small server, followed a quick leveling guide, and made it to level 70 as a Hunter in around 80 hours (total time, of course). After that I just went to small lower level raids by myself, explored the world, or helped other players. I also played in another server on the side, doing the Burning Crusade raids. I love being a Priest (I like helping!), though I was a sucky healer, haha, I just spammed the best heal spell or whatever it was And I remember Priests were always in great demand: just showing up at the entrance got you invites! Type "lfg priest" and you'll always get a job! Haha In December of 2008 we had our Annual PC Fuck-Up and had to format our PC (or get a new HDD, don't remember). The PC had been failing for a while, as just playing WoW got me blue screens every once in a while. I had to aim my camera towards the ground constantly, or I would get some really bad FPS. I think some of the capacitors of the graphics card had actually blown up! Early January came and I still hadn't reinstalled WoW yet -- ugh, too much work. Eh, I'll do it. But then...Browsing my PC I found a .doc called " Why WoW sucks" or something, in my brother's folders. He also played occasionally, though definitely not as often. Anyway, the item that most caught my attention in that file was something like, "WoW doesn't have an ending and goes on forever."Dude. That was a huge revelation, I tell you (d-don't laugh!). I just hadn't thought of that. I never reinstalled WoW. I've played like five MMOs since then, like GunZ (raise your hands!) and Guild Wars, but never with the same zeal. I never made any sort of announcement when I left. My God, the guys I played with must think I'm dead. That probably gives me bad energies. Goro/Zeel, anyone? Does that ring a bell? AND that's why I can't get into MMOs anymore. Or even gacha games for that matter. 2008 was an important point of divergence. I wonder what would I be playing right now had I not seen that... Also you guys have some good memory, I still can't really remember what else I played in 2007-2009, at all. 2008 feels like 2008. I probably still had my modded Xbox, so maybe some SNES games?
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Post by Amelia on Jan 28, 2018 23:08:35 GMT -5
In 2008 I went through a phase where I wasn't playing many modern games. I played a lot of 16-bit games. That was the year I got a Sega CD so Popful Mail and Snatcher stick out in my mind.
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Post by jorpho on Jan 29, 2018 1:12:07 GMT -5
Ten years ago, eh? I recall the apartment I was holed up in at the time.
Syberia 2. I'd borrowed it from a colleague.
Yoshi's Island DS. What a disappointment that was. It was like a bunch of robots analyzed the original Yoshi's Island and tried to replicate it without any real understanding of what made it fun. Still better than Yoshi's New Island, though. That was dispensed with through GTZ not long after I was done with it.
Klonoa GBA. An entertaining game, albeit short. The snowboarding levels were bloody excruciating, though. Records also show I got rid of that on GTZ.
Maybe Astro Boy GBA? Another nifty game. Hard Mode is bloody impossible.
A few months later I was playing Super Princess Peach via my R4. I am glad I did not pay the atrocious prices demanded by that game when it was new. Blech.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2018 19:36:36 GMT -5
I played in a very small server, followed a quick leveling guide, and made it to level 70 as a Hunter in around 80 hours (total time, of course). Goddamn huntard.
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Post by ommadawnyawn2 on Jan 30, 2018 5:32:32 GMT -5
When was this site created btw? Didn't see anything on the about page.
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