WRUP: Shout-out to downloadable games edition

by Alexander Sliwinski on Dec 18th 2009 9:00PM

Considering the high-profile Q4 2009 retail release schedule is going to go well into 2010, which then hurts the downloadable games market, let's talk downloadable games in this week's WRUP. Let us know the titles from WiiWare, PlayStation Network, Xbox Live Arcade or PC from 2009 that you think shouldn't be missed. What's everyone playing this weekend?

Alexander Sliwinski (@XanderSliwinski): Probably going to do a little Firefight this weekend, also been having a craving to play inFamous again.
Andrew Yoon (@scxzor): It's time to start cracking on some handheld games, as they're typically ignored by the GOTY crowd. Going to start Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story and keep on trucking through GTA: Chinatown Wars.
Ben Gilbert (@BigBossBgilbert): Although I'd love to spend more time with Red Faction Guerrilla (Far Cry 2 on Mars! ... kinda!), I promised myself I'd play PixelJunk Shooter and Uncharted 2 this weekend. Now that Dragon Age: Origins is coming to Mac on Dec. 21st, I have one more excuse to put it off for the time being!
Christopher Grant (@ChrisGrant): This weekend will be spent: a) catching up on the Holiday shopping that I've so irresponsibly put off until now and b) ignoring the aforementioned Holiday shopping and playing more Dragon Age: Origins.
David Hinkle (@DaveHinkle): With Modern Warfare 2 being unplayable right now, my weekend will probably be a lot less exciting. I'm hoping to get to Brütal Legend and I definitely need to give this PC copy of Dragon Age: Origins some more of my time. Aside from those two, I've also got God of War Collection whispering sweet, violent nothings in my ear.
Griffin McElroy (@griffinmcelroy): This weekend, I'll be making the portable gaming decision equivalent of Sophie's Choice -- Do I play Pokemon Platinum, which I've almost beaten, or Final Fantasy VIII, which I barely played when it was first released? I take it back, that's way more difficult than Sophie's Choice.
James Ransom-Wiley: Thinking of my long plane ride this weekend, I'm gonna play the App Store lottery: blindly purchase a buncha 99-cent iPhone games! I hope I pick a winner ...
JC Fletcher (@jcfletcher): I'm just going to sit back in my chair and relax with Jake Hunter Detective Story: Memories of the Past. It should really take the edge off of the Bayonetta demo I keep replaying.
Justin McElroy (@JustinMcElroy): That review build of Dark Void demands my time, I've also got to play a bit more BioShock 2 before our preview on Monday. I know, it's a rough existence.
Kevin Kelly (@gadgetguy): This weekend is when everyone and their mom decided to have holiday parties, so between those I'll be playing Left 4 Dead 2, more Modern Warfare 2 (Dave's on crack ... it's plenty playable as my lack of sleep can attest to), Assassin's Creed 2, and I'm still dangerously close to peeling off the shrinkwrap on Dragon Age. Yikes. Happy Hollydaze, everyone!
Ludwig Kietzmann (@LudwigK): I think I'm in the last stretch of Dragon Age: Origins ... which is probably another 10-15 hours, right? If I manage to save Ferelden before Sunday, I'll venture into Silent Hill: Shattered Memories. I also have a brand new copy of Demon's Souls -- finding the time to play it is going to be the hardest part!
Randy Nelson (@DangerPenguin) I just completed my third? fourth? playthrough of God of War via the Collection and headed straight into God of War II -- cripes, that game has aged well! I still have three cheevos to go in Assassin's Creed II, so I hope to nail those so I can 100% the game before the DLC hits. Oh, and I'll probably play through the MGS: Peace Walker English demo about a billionty times. Good stuff!
Richard Mitchell (@SenseiRAM): Having shipped my beloved review copy of Left 4 Dead 2 to Kevin (enjoy it, jerk), I have the exquisite problem of choosing between Borderlands and Torchlight. I've also got a birthday bash tomorrow, so all kinds of games could be in the offing. Castle Crashers? TMNT? Halo? No idea, but the excitement is killing me.
Xav de Matos (@Xav): This weekend I'm rocking some Torchlight and Left 4 Dead 2. Also, I'm going back through the Splinter Cell series (starting with the first) to prepare for Conviction this February. Epic.
Justin Glow (@justinglow): (Is a new downloadable title coming in 2010)

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Still addicted to the monster that is Modern Warfare 2... Maybe if I can break away I might get around to some Peggle or play some more of the GT5 demo. Also I really need to get back to Uncharted, haven't played that since MW2 came out.

I only have a PS3, but Flower and PJ shooter should not be missed.

I'm away from my console for the winter break. This weekend will be Patapon 2 and Maybe some Altitude on the PSP.

On the PC, rather. Brain fart.

Final Fantasy VIII which has just finished downloading, along with RE5 and MW2.

Finally got around to playing Prince of Persia. And still playing some Tekken 6.

Joystiq should have a Tekken tournament, I want to beat up some people on this site.

Also, I've been playing some demo's the last few days:

God of War 3 - Wow amazing!
Dante's Inferno - The kind of clone I like.
Gran Turismo 5 - I've gotta be honest and say I'm a bit underwhelmed by this demo. Especially by the graphics. Hope the final version ends up a lot better!

I'll add you for Tekken.

Please do, I'm always up for some Tekken.

I'm slightly addicted to the My Player mode in NBA 2k10, it's alot of fun and gets you to play the game differently then when you control a full team.

As far as a downloadable game that shouldn't be missed, Monkey Island is certainly up there. Magic is a game that i find myself going back to often as well. Those two are good picks, for sure.

My top ten of '09 is flooded with downloadable games. Shadow Complex, flower, PixelJunk Shooter, Trine, Trials HD, and Machinariumt all made it into my top ten of '09. Definitely don't miss 'Splosion Man, Torchlight, Fat Princess, The Maw, Critter Crunch, and Defense Grid too. WipEout HD Fury has enough content to be considered a full game, and it's all good stuff too. That's all I've got from the top of my head anyways.

Oddly enough, I'm playing Critter Crunch. It's only like $7 and has a smorgasbord of content, I'm a little disheartened to find only 30,000 or so players registered on the leaderboards.

In regards to WipEout HD Fury: It's all good stuff save for the constant screwups with advertising. Still shouldn't be missed though!

Done aaaaaaannnnnd Done.

Yeah Critter Crunch definitely deserves more love.

The online vs for CC is pretty fun.

It really is Markez. And I think that's part of the problem with the game not selling: Half of the people I've played against online are still playing the Demo version...

Gotta hand it to Capy too, it's literally the only puzzle game I've ever played online that didn't suffer horrendous lag.

Gratuitous posting of my Halloween pumpkin that finished dead last in the Joystiq poll :P

http://crittercrunch.com/?p=425

Me, my JP translating bro, and Final Fantasy XIII are the plans for this week of Christmas.

I can't wait till March, sorry.

Final Fantasy VIII will be playing out it's angst-filled and improbably amnesiac story on my PS3 while Megaman 9 taunts me from the WiWare side of things and Symphony of the Night haunts me on Live. I will also attempt to break MW2's stranglehold monopoly on my Dragon Age time but I make no promises.

Shadow complex is pretty much the only downloadable game that I can think of worth mentioning this year, for any system.

I'm spending this week replaying Mass Effect 1, in preparation for the game of the forever, Mass Effect 2. This time next Friday I will finally have a Wii after months of talking about getting one, and I will have over a dozen "new" games to play to hold me over until Mass Effect 2.

I'd be interested in Splosion man if i had those platforms. Heard it's an excellent side-scrolling platformer. Trine sounds vaguely good, and if you liked Lumines or its ilk, Bit Trip Beat and Bit Trip Core were supposed to be excellent additions to the rhythm-puzzle quasi-genre

Oh yeah I forgot about Splosion Man, that was a pretty cool game. Trine is really boring though, I've had it for weeks now and can't force myself to play past the 3rd stage.

The bit trip games are not my thing, but Fernando insists that I play them so I guess he's sending them to me over the Wii gift thing or whatever.

I just found City Rain. It's on PC and Xbox Live Indie Games, I'm playing on Xbox. It's Tetris meets Sim City. Best $5 I've ever spent. Great game.

I'm currently playing LOST season 3. I just bought the season 5 box set and I'm working my way toward it. I hope that LOST will go out with a bang next year as it is my favorite show to come out in a long, long time. It's good to know that it will end properly unlike a lot of other shows that get canned long before they have a chance to wrap things up in an orderly fashion.

As far as games are concerned, I'm still getting my ass kicked in Demon's Souls. I took a break for a while because I kept getting destroyed in the Tower of Latria, but I'm back. On top of that, come Monday, the game will be shifted toward a pure white tendency, so I'll finally be able to get Executioner Miralda's armor set.

I'm also playing Sacred 2. It's not the best game in the world, but I'll vouch for it being super fun. The dialogue is sooooo bad in that game that it's unintentionally funny.

If I have enough time, I might just boot up Mass Effect. With the second game just around the corner I want to brush up on the story line so I can be ready.

i'm gonna be in atlanta all weekend so no consoles and MW2 (BOO!). so it's mostly PSP, DS, or iPhone games whenever i have free time and when i'm done talking to friends on the phone.

Playing "Gears of War 2", "Bowsers Inside Story , New Super Mario Bros Wii, "Muramasa Demon Blade" and "The Legendary Starfy". Trying to beat them all by Christmas because I'm about to have another pile of games dumped on me. Lately I've been really bad about starting new games before finishing what I'm currently playing. I still have to go back and finish "GTA Chinatown Wars" and "Retro Game Challenge" (to name a few).

Oh and I just made this Flipnote.

http://flipnote.hatena.com/5C0463201E29D0F7@DSi/movie/29D0F7_0957D7ADFE73E_008?in=user

Probably going to continue playing Team Fortress 2 almost exclusively. I made the mistake of clearing out my full backpack a couple of weeks ago, so I've got a lot of random items to find so I can start crafting.

The weirdness with the drops last night did net me most of the new items and 3 camera beards, so it's not all bad.

Super Sonic Rocket Powered Battle Cars is my every night wind down game, Peggle is costing me many hours of sleep, C.O.D. Classic is just that, classic! Super Stardust HD is one of the best top downs ever...There are tons of games on the PSN that are worthy of 10 bucks, and have given me more play time than any of my disc-based games... Madden NFL Arcade is pretty fun too.

Split on Spirit Tracks and Tales of Symphonia. The 4th section of the Tower of Spirits (section to unlock Fire map) really had me scratching my head at a few points, though that was more due to my stupidity, like not putting together that if Phantom Zelda couldn't walk across Sand, the evil Phantoms couldn't either, and the last puzzle about walking from the Green tile to the Red tile was just mean.

Tales is really sucking me in. The only parts i really don't like are the puzzles. The puzzles are often quite pointless and frustrating. But there's quite a depth of strategy, even given the fact that i let the 3 cpus run around on full auto, and the story is good in a cheesy anime sort of way.

Its a good thing i'm on a handheld game, though. I'm spending 7 hours on a train tomorrow (and fortunately these amtrak cars are equipped with AC outlets, so i could play all i wanted. Explore some pointless secrets).

Also: i've only had to buckle down and grind once in Symphonia so far (to fight that disguised demon Killia). That shows a very good difficulty curve.

I just got Dragon Age: Origins and holy fuckballs is it awesome. I'm so happy that I've finally played a game that has a character creation system that doesn't suck hardcore.

Might throw down some L4D2 as well, but DA:O might eat up all my time.

Team Fortress 2. Unlocked the eyelander, and it is awesome when paired with the shield. The soldier's direct hit, and equalizer are awesome as well. Waiting for them to fix the achievement glitch so I can get the other weapons.

Might put some time into L4D2. To think people say that PC gaming is dead.

Yoon, is it just me, or does GTA:CW seem like it lasts fooooooooorrrrrreeeeeeevvvvvvvveeeerrrr? I've played the game for quite a good amount of time and I still don't think I'm close to the end.

Ok OK ... I just got home from watching Avatar in 3-D in a digital theatre with digital surround sound. Let me just say this movie completely exceeded my expectations and is instantly one of my favorite movies ever. It's THAT good. Amazing and there is something there for everyone. I'm a huge fan of sci-fi stuff and one of the biggest Star Wars nerds around and this one movie is superior to every star wars movie combined. I didn't have expectations either way and after the movie was over something happened that I've never seen ... a standing ovation by the audience! Everyone who like sci-fi or just good movies in general should go and see it because it's really one of those once in a lifetime movies.

As for what I'm playing ... maybe some Assassins Creed bloodlines on the PSP and going back to Assassins Creed 1 & 2. I'll probably dabble in some Borderlands but so far I don't think it's that great. Granted I've only put a handful of hours but I'm kind of luke warm on it so far. Thats it!

best downloadable game I've played all year was Burn Zombie Burn. It's an amazing game for sure.

Just picked up Assassin's Creed 1 (I know, late to the party, but I can't stand to play a sequel before the first) maybe when I finish AC2 will be cheap.

In between that will be MW2. And maybe some L4D 2.
As for downloadable games, I got hooked onto Castle Crashers this year, but that's about all I've played.

Playing God of War 2 as well on the collection. Indeed, it looks to par if not better than alot of newer games and is still amazing.

Well, I was going to finish the God of War games, but I can't TF2 is pretty much going to suck up my weekend and probably most of my gaming time for the next month or so, until NMH2 comes out.

As for downloadable titles, Shatter, Shadow Complex, Splosion Man. All the S's.

I JUST got GoW Collection and will soon be making my way through my first playthrough ever. I'm not sure why I didnt pick these up on PS2 but everyone tells me how much I missed out...I thinks it's about time to change that...oh yeah Fat Princess and Mega Man 9 FTW!!!!

I just bought a PS3 this week, and although i spent most of it playing MW2 with my best bud, I uncorked Uncharted 2 and HOLY FUCKBALLS IT IS AWESOME!!!

hmm, it seems most of my post got cut off. Well, obviously ill be playing Uncharted 2, but I like to finish games on fridays and i think ive only got 4 chapters left so that's looking good. I might dip into the waters of it's multiplayer or just stick to CoD, or if I'm lucky Blockbuster will have their copy of KZ2 back!

I just finished off Dead Space, finally, after stating here many times I would do it 'this weekend'. I kind of think that game 'almost' something of a masterpiece, if it weren't for some repetitive elements.

That leaves my my next game in the lineup, Uncharted! You didn't care about playing the first one before the second? Dunno if it's your type of game, but I realllllly recommend LBP. It's great fun.

Gah that reminds me that after finishing off Dead Space, I still have SR2 in my 360 catalog that I didn't finish. Not sure if I can bring myself to finish it off right now. That game has some weird cheevos.

i was worried about it because i have a busy holiday schedule, i didnt know if id have time to beat UC1 before i'd have to endure an agonizing time waiting for an opportunity to play UC2, so i asked my friend who convinced me to buy a PS3 what he thought and he said it was basically made for people who didnt play the first one. I did play it a little bit, so i knew all the characters and everything

Yea you really don't need to play UC1 for 2. It's good, and you get more out of the second one if you've played the first, but it's not really necessary.

@Mr. ESC.

I think there were references to Scientology, but the overall jab was at organized religion in general.

Infamous is also a fun game Dark Wayne. I also second the suggestion of Little Big Planet. Some of the best downloadable games are the last guy, burn zombie burn, super stardust hd, fat princess and flower. Look into those at some point or another.

Also, good news for you, you can buy SFIV again for PS3. Don't forget to try Demon's Souls, MGS4, Resistance 2, and Valkyria Chronicles.

I already beat infamous over the summer when i traded consoles for a month, I didn't really care for it. It was a superhero game where I just didn't feel super. LBP is also fun but i dont know if ill actually buy it. And MGS4, well, ive never played anymore than the first hour of MGS2 so id be completely and hopelessly lost

ESC, first of all, I have to bring up again that you admitted YOU DIDNT VOTE FOR MY GODDAMNED PUMPKIN YOU ASS. I was a Silent Hill nut through The Room, but haven't touched Homecoming as of yet. For me, personally, Silent Hill 2 is the pinnacle of survival horror. Some sloppy gameplay mechanics sure, but it's as good as it gets. I have always wanted to try Fatal Frame but haven't, so I was remarkably bummed when I heard it wouldn't be coming to NA.

But I think Dead Space definitely took a big shot at scientology, albeit briefly. I think it's borderline undeniable, and I think it's awesome. Nip/Tuck went out of their way to insult scientology and that was hilarious as well.

As far as Infamous, as WRE how he feels about it and he'll likely start drooling all over the place.

I voted for Markez pumpkin because it was the BEST. It was so imaginative and creative that I said it was best before I knew he even did it.

so I beat UC2 last night and im comfortable with saying it's the greatest game i've ever played

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