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MrBubbles on 08 August 2008

shams said:

 

If I had to choose between Oblivion, Lost Odyssey or Eternal Sonata - which should I get?

What games should I be looking out for, and which shouldn't I?

 - I like adventure/RPG/platformers titles

 

 

i would say Lost Odyssey to be the superior game of those three.

 

a few to start your 360 collection would be crackdown, overlord, kameo and viva pinata.   Fable2, Banjo Kazooie3, and Infinite Undiscovery are coming out soon and look very promising. 

And i cant encourage you enough to have a look at the XboxLive Arcade games.  there are over 150 right now with a wide range of genres.   a free trial is available on all of them.

there is also a large number of demos for retail games available.



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sinha on 08 August 2008
shams said:

If I had to choose between Oblivion, Lost Odyssey or Eternal Sonata - which should I get? I tend to prefer "harder core" RPGs (harder ones for sure). I might be able to grab one, and borrow a couple of others.

Is Assassins Creed worth it? (or am I better off borrowing it, or renting it?) - not sure if he has it anyway.

 

Good choice on Mass Effect.

Eternal Sonata is totally lame (but pretty), unless you enjoy laughing at youtube videos of embarrassingly bad cutscenes. 

If you prefer Western RPGs, Oblivion, if you like JRPGs, Lost Odyssey.  If you want both, go with LO because copies of Oblivion are cheaper and easier to find.


Assassin's Creed is barely even worth renting or borrowing.  Play it for 2-3 hours, and if you are mentally disturbed* enough to want to do those same things over and over again ad nauseum, I guess you could keep with it.  But with all the quality 360 games out there, you have no good reason to be bored enough to do so.

* "Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results." -- not A. Einstein or B. Franklin.



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starcraft on 08 August 2008

Of the games you suggested Lost Odyssey is the best.

Also, buy Kameo. Don't get it as part of you're two game package as it is like $AU30 in shops. It's short, but an EXCELLENT platformer.



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shams on 08 August 2008

Looks like its Mass Effect + LO then. I briefly played Kameo ages ago, and was not impressed.

I'll almost certainly get RE5 & Banjo when they release.

Dead Rising - nah.

In general I have *heaps* of (Wii) games, so the 360 is primarily to play any AAA games I just don't want to miss out on. Doubt I'll go online at all, or even touch XBLA (but you never know).

GTA, Halo, COD, GoW - no thanks. Bioshock - probably not. Looked at it briefly before.

Fable... not sure about. I generally prefer RPGs with "direction" rather than pure open-ended games (end up being less intense, more boring - and just time suckers). May borrow or rent it sometime.

Fallout I will consider, but I really enjoyed the old-tactical turn base elements of the old games. If this new one turns into an elaborate FPS with RPG elements... no thanks. Then again, I sort of get the impression Mass Effect is the same (will see).

thanks for the help all!



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sinha on 08 August 2008

Fallout 3 is much less of an "elaborate FPS with RPG elements" than Mass Effect.  I'm pretty sure Fallout 3 will have an optional turn based-type combat system, my understanding is the player can choose how to play it.

But I'm confused, because Fallout 3 and Mass Effect both much more RPG and much less shooter than RE5, are they not?

Fable 2 is an RPG... and an AAA game... and it may be the GOTY. You sure you want to pass it up?



We don't provide the 'easy to program for' console that they [developers] want, because 'easy to program for' means that anybody will be able to take advantage of pretty much what the hardware can do, so the question is what do you do for the rest of the nine and half years? It's a learning process. - SCEI president Kaz Hirai

It's a virus where you buy it and you play it with your friends and they're like, "Oh my God that's so cool, I'm gonna go buy it." So you stop playing it after two months, but they buy it and they stop playing it after two months but they've showed it to someone else who then go out and buy it and so on. Everyone I know bought one and nobody turns it on. - Epic Games president Mike Capps

We have a real culture of thrift. The goal that I had in bringing a lot of the packaged goods folks into Activision about 10 years ago was to take all the fun out of making video games. - Activision CEO Bobby Kotick

 

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sc94597 on 08 August 2008

Actually you should just wait until Tales of Vesperia is released. Unless you plan on getting it aswell.



badgenome on 08 August 2008

At the risk of repeating myself repeating myself: Braid.

Edit: I'd say rent Assassin's Creed or borrow unless you can get it for $20ish. It's pretty amazing at first, wears thin by the end, and really hasn't much replay value IMO.



KZ2 on 08 August 2008

Oblivion is the best of those three.

Lost Odyssey is ok. But is a very difficult game.

Eternal Sonata is terrible game it is selling for $29 at JB HiFi. Low price means not good game.



sc94597 on 08 August 2008
KZ2 said:
Oblivion is the best of those three.

Lost Odyssey is ok. But is a very difficult game.

Eternal Sonata is terrible game it is selling for $29 at JB HiFi. Low price means not good game.

Where did you get that idea?

Eternal SOnata http://www.gamerankings.com/htmlpages2/934162.asp?q=eternal%20sonata 80

 Lost Odysseyhttp://www.gamerankings.com/htmlpages2/928334.asp 79

Btw eternal sonata is my favorite 360 game.

 



KZ2 on 08 August 2008
sc94597 said:
KZ2 said:
Oblivion is the best of those three.

Lost Odyssey is ok. But is a very difficult game.

Eternal Sonata is terrible game it is selling for $29 at JB HiFi. Low price means not good game.

Where did you get that idea?

Eternal SOnata http://www.gamerankings.com/htmlpages2/934162.asp?q=eternal%20sonata 80

 Lost Odysseyhttp://www.gamerankings.com/htmlpages2/928334.asp 79

Btw eternal sonata is my favorite 360 game.

 

 

Gameranking scores mean nothing. Eternal Sonata has barely sold 200k worldwide. Sales speak a lot more than BS review scores on a biased gaming site. JB Hifi in Australia Eternal sonata sells for only $29 brand new. Seeing the low price I question the quality of a game and it is also a niche market game JRPG.