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Dude the first three Silent Hill games are great, absolutely terrifying psychological horror that feels more like a movie then a video game, Capcom's best work hands down in my opinion. I love Resident Evil, Soul Calibur, and the first three Devil May Cry games (especially number 3 despite the FUCKING INSANE difficulty) but Silent Hill is almost flawless.

Erm, Soul Calibur is Namco's mate, not Capcom.

The PS1 original really hasn't aged very well. Its good they doing it I guess, but I'd rather see 8 or 9 rebooted.

Sacrilege!

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My bad...but didn't they use a couple Capcom characters in the last game? I pretty much suck at Soul Calibur. Tekken and Dead Or Alive are my strong points when it comes to fighters. Especially DOA though using Hayabusa is akin to cheating given how fast and damaging his attacks are combined with guard break finishes to every one of his combos.

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My bad...but didn't they use a couple Capcom characters in the last game? I pretty much suck at Soul Calibur. Tekken and Dead Or Alive are my strong points when it comes to fighters. Especially DOA though using Hayabusa is akin to cheating given how fast and damaging his attacks are combined with guard break finishes to every one of his combos.

Not to my knowledge no, but then again I haven't played a Soul games past III, which wasn't the best.

I've always sucked at Tekken, though I'm moderately decent at DOA. Jann Lee tends to own anything when you get in the flow.

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You know I've known a lot of people to hate on GTA on and off, and I used to teeter.  But, compared to a lot of other big-studio games, it's one of the most consistently great franchises out there; It's always amongst the better sandbox games, it always has a good story to it, and it has moments that are frustratingly difficult akin to Indie and oldschool titles, and NOT because of shitty gameplay mechanics.  I loved Skyrim (oh, the lost productivity) and feel that it really just the secret biography of Ronnie James Dio ("shouts" at dragons, kills the king of dragons on the top of a mountain, pretty obvious).  AVP more often than not makes for a great video game.

What's a good game to get into DOA on?  I know there were a few.  Which one was the most seminal?  The "third album" if you will?

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You know I've known a lot of people to hate on GTA on and off, and I used to teeter.  But, compared to a lot of other big-studio games, it's one of the most consistently great franchises out there; It's always amongst the better sandbox games, it always has a good story to it, and it has moments that are frustratingly difficult akin to Indie and oldschool titles, and NOT because of shitty gameplay mechanics.  I loved Skyrim (oh, the lost productivity) and feel that it really just the secret biography of Ronnie James Dio ("shouts" at dragons, kills the king of dragons on the top of a mountain, pretty obvious).  AVP more often than not makes for a great video game.

What's a good game to get into DOA on?  I know there were a few.  Which one was the most seminal?  The "third album" if you will?

I don't hate GTA, but I'm not a fan either. Once you go on a couple of rampages you've pretty much seen everything. The characters are unlikeable, and the stories are dull.

DOA is a good series. I think I prefer DOA 2 on the Dreamcast and Ps2 the most.

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I liked DOA4 best. Best graphics, some larger maps, combat system fully developed, and the most challenging story mode boss of any fighter. That fucking Kasumi clone with health regen and teleportation in a room where the floor and walls randomly explode and halve your health? How is that fair? Hayabusa is the only character I managed to finish story mode with.

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I don't hate GTA, but I'm not a fan either. Once you go on a couple of rampages you've pretty much seen everything. The characters are unlikeable, and the stories are dull.

DOA is a good series. I think I prefer DOA 2 on the Dreamcast and Ps2 the most.

i disagree strictly regarding the latest one. The story was nothing terribly original but Trevor was such a great character and I loved watching the narrative unfold just to see what he'd do next, and the soundtrack was really fantastic in just about every aspect. I thought that was easily the best installment of the franchise sparing the totally underdeveloped online play

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Lately I've been playing this wonderful game called the Book of Unwritten Tales which is a high fantasy point-and-click adventure game, by an indie publisher on Steam in the style of Monkey Island 2, and Sam & Max.

Highly recommend it if you like early 90's style adventure games from LucasArts.

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Only Sega I ever owned was the Mega Drive. Got VERY good at the original Sonic the Hedgehog, didn't care for the other games we got, not long after that got the Nintendo 64 and said bye-bye Sonic and hello Zelda.

MegaDrive is the shit. Two 6 button controllers plus a copy of Super Street Fighter 2 and you don't need much else for the rest of the week! :-P
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