I. Must. Have. New. Harvest. Moon. Game. Fuck. College.
Seriously, if there was a display stand that says “press button for new Harvest Moon demo”, i’d SO be finger-raping that bitch.
As for Giza’s review,
HIT!
cough
We are on .hack now.
Whoops, sorry bout that. Oh well.
Anyways, .hack? Miss. The first was merely ok, a lot of potential that didn’t follow through. Apparently the sequels dont add much in the way of new gameplay. Unless they add some new stuff in the next episode, it wont be any good.
I’m going with miss as well.
Hit for .hack,I always liked the gameplay and is the closure to one of the most interesting stories i ave seen in a long time.
Dude, could you like… give links to the actual places instead of posting so many pictures here? I myself have a cable modem, but I know that several people here still have dial-up, and its rude to post so many large pictures in one place.
But I like puttin’ all the pictures.
Fine.
I would say it would be a hit with all the fans of the series, but a miss with everyone else.
And since I fall into the latter of the two groups, I’m going to give it a Miss.
Hack will probably hit somewhere… and even though we are on Hack now… HARVEST MOON IS SO COOL I THINK I AM GONNA BUY A GAMECUBE! (hit)
Harvest moon: Hit, the immersion factor and gameplay will carry it.
Thief 3: I played the original and liked it, im saying Hit on this one.
.hack//Quarantine: I fucked camped out at my friends house with his PS2 to play the first two .hack games. .hack fucking rules, and quarantine is no different. HIT
Harvest Moon will be a hit, and it already is. Because it’s on my list of things to buy, a list on which on there are barely anything at all.
I don’t know about Thief II. I do believe I’ve played a little of Thief I, like half a miniute into it.
As for .hack//Something, I have no real idea. The screenshots and blurb doesn’t appeal to me.
Just an FYI, i was talking about thief 3, not 2. The first two can be bought together these days. But I digress. next game?
Ok, new game!
.hack//QUARINTINE (PS2): Hit: 3 Miss: 4
Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life (GC): Hit
Next up…
Men of Valor: Vietnam (Xbox, PC)
Publisher
Sierra Entertainment/Vivendi Universal
Developer
2015
Genre
First-Person Shooter
Release Date
TBA 2004
The team behind Medal of Honor: Allied Assault aren’t content to sit still and rest on their laurels. While some of them went off to Infinity Ward to develop Call of Duty, the rest of the 2015 team has been hard at work on Men of Valor: Vietnam. We stopped by the Vivendi booth today to catch a glimpse of the game in action in a hot, sweaty tent that was certainly an appropriate setting for a game set in Vietnam.
The seven-minute demo started simply enough with white text on a black screen that read “War Zone C…30 miles north of the Iron Triangle.” The main character, a Marine in the 3rd Battalion, was riding in a Huey copter flying over the jungles of Vietnam watching a door gunner lay down a spray of commanding machinegun fire. As expected, he took a load of enemy lead to the belly and slumped to the floor lifeless. That’s when our hero got his chance. He took control of the minigun and started laying down a little fire of his own. Flying low over the grass-thatched hut roofs, he took out as many VCs as possible, and even blew a truck on a bridge to smithereens. Everything was going pretty smoothly…until the Huey was hit by an RPG. All of a sudden the intense combat focus turned to chaos as the Huey started going down. “We’re losing it! Brace for impact!”
After a crash landing, our hero emerged from the Huey dazed, but with M16 in hand, he followed the other survivors in an attempt to clear the area of enemy soldiers. We were pinned down in a hut and taking fire, but the Huey was leaking fuel, so we had to get out lest we end up toasty. After laying down a few rounds, we were able to make our way out into the open, but were quickly pinned down again in a blown-out building, machine gun fire and RPGs flying over our heads. We had wounded, and we had to get our boys out, so we called in a medi-vac. Unfortunately, the extraction Huey couldn’t land with so much fire coming from the tree line. That’s where air support comes in. We called in an air strike, and seconds later a low-flying jet dropped a canister into the trees. The demo ended with an impressive show of force as the napalm canister exploded in a fiery ball, taking out all of the hidden offenders. With the jungle clear, the Huey was able to land and we carried the wounded to safety.
Notice I keep saying “we,” as if I were really there. That’s how realistic the demo felt. The thing that really impressed me the most was the atmosphere of the scene we saw, and the way the unorthodox fighting styles and attitudes during the Vietnam war were captured perfectly. It’s obvious that the 2015 team has really gone to great lengths to capture the “real feel” of the time.
Not only are you dealing with the harsh realities of war in Men of Valor: Vietnam, you’ll also be dealing with the culture of the Vietnam era. The minigunner we saw gunned down had the flip slogan “Those who are not with me are against me” scrawled on his jacket, Wooly Bully was blasting on the radio as we flew over the jungle and all the soldiers were using slang such as “groovy” and “man.” And since the Marine you play is an African American, you’ll run into some situations of racial prejudice that undermind the morale of the US troops during the Vietnam war.
Since you’re in Vietnam, cover and concealment are very important to a successful campaign. As you would expect, the environments are lush and rich with vegetation. Not only is this beautiful, but it makes your foes difficult to see, so you’d better be on your toes at all times.
The team AI in the game is looking pretty solid at this point. Your squad mates lean and duck to avoid fire, and take cover when the bullets are flying. Everyone in your squad has separate personalities, and you’ll learn how they react to various situations throughout the single-player side of the game. However, just as in real war, your buddies can get killed. If anyone in your squad is KIA, you’ll have a new soldier transferred to your team. Seeing as how you’re a seasoned Marine, you and all of your teammates are hardened soldiers who aren’t afraid of action. However, the replacements are green draftees, and will have some resentment toward you and the war. Damn pot-smoking hippies!
Expect standard deathmatch and team deathmatch on both the PC and Xbox Live. The team is looking to support at least eight players simultaneously on Xbox Live (possibly 16) and at least 16 on the PC. There will also be a co-op multiplayer mode where you can play through the entire single-player game with a buddy, and objective-based multiplayer missions similar to Counter-Strike or Return to Castle Wolfenstein.
Overall we were really impressed by Men of Valor: Vietnam. It looks like 2015 is not only looking to make a solid shooter, but explore the culture of the Vietnam era. Look for the Xbox version to ship this fall, with the PC version shipping a few months later in early 2004. To explain the gap, 2015 says that they want to make sure the game is as polished as possible
I’m sayin’ hit.
Undecided. I was getting tired of ‘real war’ games, but after playing ghost recon i realized it was just world war 2 i was sick of (EA even admitted to an overabundance of WW2 games when they saw how CoD didn’t sell as well as expected. Seriously, Day of Defeat, Medal of Honor and its sequels, battlefield 1942, Call of duty itself… i only needed one!)
I’ll have to see if Vietnam is new and different enough to be interesting, but if what i’ve heard of it is true, i’d have to lean towards a hit.
I know I’m a bit late, but HIT for .hack//Quarantine. I loved the 1st 3.
The Vietnam thing wont hit me at least…
If I were to make a list of all the medal of honour and operation flashpoint wannabes, I would faint…
I’d say Hit on gameplay
But miss on people actualy buying it. <— harvest moon
<img src=“http://www.rpgclassics.com/subsites/twistedrpg/images/hero/rirse.gif”> I say MISS on Medal of Valor, as I think there are plenty of gamers who are just bored of “WWII era shooters” with the exception to Crimson Skies, which is something else. 
Originally posted by Rirse
<img src=“http://www.rpgclassics.com/subsites/twistedrpg/images/hero/rirse.gif”>the exception to Crimson Skies, which is something else.
You right! It’s 1930s’ in an alternate universe!
I['m currently undecided on this one. For if it is like MoH, then it will be a Hit, if it’s not then I doubt it will do that well. However it will probably still be a hit with all FPS-gamers.
So I’ll give it a HIT.