New games this week: Chrono Trigger edition
What's left to fear? Prince of Persia next week? Heck, you could do a Prince of Persia week in your sleep by this point. No, you did it, you made it through. We like to think you may have even learned a couple of things about yourself along the way.
Xbox 360:
- Sonic Unleashed
- Winter Sports 2 The Ultimate Challenge
- NPPL Championship Paintball 2009
- King of Fighters Collection: The Orochi Saga
- Winter Sports 2 The Ultimate Challenge
- Safecracker
- Ultimate Band
- Cake Mania: In the Mix
- Skate City Heroes
- AMF Bowling World Lanes
- Championship Foosball
- Sonic Unleashed
- Winter Sports 2 The Ultimate Challenge
- Mytran Wars
- Chrono Trigger
- Age of Empires: Mythologies
- All Star Cheer Squad
- Ski & Shoot
- Emma in the Mountains
- Personal Trainer: Cooking
- Iron Chef America: Supreme Cuisine
- Neopets Puzzle Adventure
- Syberia
- Club Penguin: Elite Penguin Force
- Cradle of Rome
- Ultimate Band
- Bratz Kidz
- Zoo Tycoon 2: Ultimate Collection
- Band Manager
- Neopets Puzzle Adventure
- Gothic 3
- Disney's Bolt
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Obie @ Nov 24th 2008 8:47AM
Whoo, now the catch-up begins!
Dr. @ Nov 24th 2008 8:53AM
I don't think playing L4D over and over and over helps me catch up on anything... :D
Obie @ Nov 24th 2008 8:54AM
I know right? Most fun co-op game of the year IMO.
baby sea tuna @ Nov 24th 2008 8:56AM
Yeah, I keep waiting for your avatar to puke all over me.
Do I have GTs for you guys? I need more L4D co-oppers!
GT: brother seamus
Lee @ Nov 24th 2008 8:57AM
When you look at it like that then yes. LBP was too problematic from the get go. L4D is perfect and yes the most fun co-op game this year.
Super hyped sony game fails.
Not as hyped Valve game massively succeeds.
Go Valve!
But not Squeenix. suppose it's good for real gamers who want Chrono Trigger to acquire it without paying 60 fucking quid for the SNES version.
Lee @ Nov 24th 2008 8:58AM
makes sense for BST to be playing the crap version of L4D.
Obie @ Nov 24th 2008 8:58AM
Joystiq needs a friend list on here, so we can PM and exchange gamertags/ friend codes.
Get on it!
baby sea tuna @ Nov 24th 2008 9:11AM
"makes sense for BST to be playing the crap version of L4D."
Makes sense that I try to be nice and some snobby PC fuckstick has to go an ruin my morning by being a holier-than-thou shitstain. Nice job. I'm gonna go get some coffee, now why don't you go and cram that performance mouse up your dumb ass?
Obie @ Nov 24th 2008 9:26AM
Lee we were all digging the same game...can't we all just...get along? :(
Saria the Cat @ Nov 24th 2008 9:39AM
@Lee: Ugh, why can't you just enjoy a good game without first looking at which "team" carries/develops it in your fanboy battle?
John Z @ Nov 24th 2008 10:04AM
@Saria
Because, obviously, games are not about having fun. Duh.
Lee @ Nov 24th 2008 10:04AM
I see, you have to earn the right to be the same quality of douche as BST... after reading his other comments in this news item.
Ok. I'll tone it down for now :)
Haggard @ Nov 24th 2008 11:14AM
Lee man, you have a point and I agree with it but sometimes it's best to keep things to yourself.
Dr. @ Nov 24th 2008 11:38AM
I don't play L4D on the 360, so my GT isn't going to help. I'm in the Steam group, though!
BananaBoat @ Nov 24th 2008 1:45PM
I can't play anymore games. My thumbs just fell off from exhaustion
/in before "that isn't funny, my friend died from that"
Professor Lario @ Nov 24th 2008 2:16PM
Count me in:
GT: theone12358
jorojoserojas @ Nov 24th 2008 3:27PM
Here's my GT: jorojoserojas
baby sea tuna @ Nov 24th 2008 8:56AM
Oh shit, that's this week? I promised I wouldn't buy any more games between L4D and Xmas. Oh well, it's been 12 years, what's another month or so.
Foetoid @ Nov 24th 2008 8:59AM
My god! The Wii lineup is incredible!!!
Yes i was just sarcasticly giving shit to my own favourite currently-available console. As much as the good games that have come out since launch are some of the best games i've ever played, in the last 6 months of 2008 its been dreadful. Probably a good thing, i have many PC games to catch up on like FarCry2, Crysis: Warhead, Dead Space and even Fable 1 and FFVII. I wouldn't mind hearing some PAL release dates for the 'Play on Wii' remakes. I'm looking forward to releases in 2009 a lot, but it seems so long away.
I'm actually in the process of finishing Tales of Symphonia for the 4th time, and i'm starting to see how blurry it is. Not blurry in the tradional sense, but more like a double-vision thing going on as you can see outlines of characters near them. I would pay anything and everything to see ToS remade for 'Play on Wii' on a single disk in proper 16:9 480p with Gc controller/classic support and the ability to read a save-file from a GC memory card and use that information (and rewrite it to the Wii). I don't wanna lose my 135hr save file lol!
Haggard @ Nov 24th 2008 11:18AM
None of the platforms have a really good lineup this week. I looked at the PC section and thought "damn, choice between crap and crap here" until I noticed there wasn't even a PS3 section.
Which is odd, I mean it's getting close to xmas now and yet here's a week where literally nothing good except a port of a decade-old game is here.
Wiinterfang @ Nov 24th 2008 9:06AM
Finally the Real version of Sonic Unleashed is here :D. This is the Mario Galaxy of Sonic games.
Rollins @ Nov 24th 2008 9:12AM
Only in some sad alternate dimension where Mario was saddled down by innumerable annoying friends and transformed into a wereplumber.
Unfortunately, I just made the mistake of Google'ing "mario werewolf" to try to add to my point. I ended up with a picture of Mario and Spider-Man kissing. What a sad world we live in.
xFenixKnightx @ Nov 24th 2008 9:13AM
Any reviews yet? Man I hope it turned out good!
Wiinterfang @ Nov 24th 2008 9:16AM
The reviews so far are lacking, 7.2,8.0,6.7 etc.. But man they is this game fun, while the werehog levels are fun and entertaining the Day Time levels are nothing like I ever seen, it's just right you know, Best 3D sonic game so far but sadly nobody is going to give this game a change.
Btw don't listen to reviewers when they say the wii version is better, that version is terrible.
Dopple Boppler @ Nov 24th 2008 9:20AM
"Unfortunately, I just made the mistake of Google'ing "mario werewolf" to try to add to my point. I ended up with a picture of Mario and Spider-Man kissing. What a sad world we live in."
After reading that I did the same thing, stupidly assuming you were being hyperbolic for humor's sake. Unfortunately for me, I can never unsee Mario and Spidey lovingly caressing one another. Shit.
Wiinterfang @ Nov 24th 2008 9:23AM
I googled too but that wasn't as bad as I though you pansys, the lips don't touch or anything, well I guess the life of internet nerds is divided before you see your first goatse and after you see one.
Don't google for that work I warned you.
Mr Khan @ Nov 24th 2008 11:15AM
It still doesn't beat Secret Rings, and there are a lot of peripheral flaws that weigh the experience down, but if you don't own a Wii, then this is definitely the superior Sonic experience out there
Haggard @ Nov 24th 2008 11:19AM
I've done the hard work for you
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Pedobear @ Nov 24th 2008 3:23PM
I hope its an actual fun Sonic game. Last one I had fun with was Sonic Adventures. Why can't they make a Sonic Adventures 3, and fix the problems that were in the first 2? I'm sure it would be a pretty decent game.
Wiinterfang @ Nov 24th 2008 3:25PM
Then you are in for a Treat Pedobear, Sonic Unleashed feels like a Sonic Adventure game but waaaaay better. (the 360 version anyway avoid the wii version at all cost)
Atr-Slzr-Ctr @ Nov 24th 2008 3:26PM
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*WTF'd!*
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Superstar90 @ Nov 24th 2008 3:29PM
I know I shouldn't have.....
but I did :(
Haggard @ Nov 25th 2008 8:24AM
Lol, the url no longer works. Guess some gaygamer staff read the 'stiq.
xFenixKnightx @ Nov 24th 2008 9:11AM
I'm so proud of the Wii, no games this week that contain the word 'Party' or the letter 'Z'. Its a step in the right direction...
*gets all misty eyed
Speaking of the Wii, the little white money printing machine is back in my house, thanks to my wife. But this time its in the living room. I guess I'll finally get online and race some peeps on MK Wii, maybe DL an oldschool Nintendo game.
baby sea tuna @ Nov 24th 2008 9:25AM
The DS countz too!
Wiinterfang @ Nov 24th 2008 10:57AM
There you go man, everything you need to know is in this Sonic Unleashed review.
http://www.hardcoregamer.com/index.php?option=com_magazine&id_rubrique=1&type=article&id_article=228
xFenixKnightx @ Nov 24th 2008 11:09AM
Ohhhh, nice! Thanks man! As long as IGN, GT and Giant Bomb dont give it anything lower than an 8.0, I'll be playing this mother!
Wiinterfang @ Nov 24th 2008 3:42PM
Just be sure to have some time aviable the last stage is freaking hard.
joevill @ Nov 24th 2008 9:13AM
I regret trading my copy of Chrono Trigger for Final Fantasy III over 10 years ago...
T @ Nov 24th 2008 9:14AM
Chrono Trigger AND Iron Chef in the same week?! Oh DS you are a cruel mistress.
Donald @ Nov 24th 2008 9:15AM
KOF Collection looks somewhat int... oh, fuck it. Who am I kidding? This is all about the 1995(/2008) GOTY.
rvkremer @ Nov 24th 2008 9:36AM
I am comfortable saying with zero new games this week, even the PS3 has a betternew release lineup than Wii.
Yay for catch up weeks, but bring on PoP!
Zertoss @ Nov 24th 2008 9:46AM
Speak for yourself, Joystiq. I've got Sonic and Chrono to buy this week. Good thing I just finished Fable 2, though I'm eager to jump right back into it. The ending was so... Bob the Goldfish. I laughed.
acefondu @ Nov 24th 2008 9:55AM
I still can't justify spending $40 for a game that came out a decade ago. The Square tax is getting far too ridiculous, even for them.
zodduska @ Nov 24th 2008 9:57AM
Gothic 3 was released in 2006..
Ranus Studios @ Nov 24th 2008 9:59AM
I don't approve of the insinuation that Chrono Trigger is not an exciting game.
John Z @ Nov 24th 2008 10:01AM
It's about time.
FlamingEffigy @ Nov 24th 2008 10:02AM
I would have chosen Sonic Unleashed...only in the hope that it mmight finally restore past glory...we can but hope....
t_m @ Nov 24th 2008 10:44AM
So they saved the best for last??
Chrono Trigger and Prince of Persia.... oooooh yessss.
Skipjimroo @ Nov 24th 2008 10:49AM
Being from the UK I, sadly, missed out on the 90's sensation that was Chrono Trigger. I played it for the first time 2 years ago at the tender age of 24 and it's been an obsession ever since.
Partway through my second playthrough of the rom via emulation I was made aware of the PSone port and promptly imported myself a copy. Only to find it marred by lengthy load times and some rather jerky battle animations. After ripping it to a firmware enhanced psp I was sure I'd found the ultimate way to play the game; All the joys of the Toriyama animation, with none of the joyless thumb twiddling.
If this turns out to be yet another evolution for the title I'll pick it up without hesitation.
(as soon as it arrives in the UK that is...)