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Destructoid's games of the week for 06/24/07: I'm hot edition! photo

It's f**king hot.

For those of you who have never had the pleasure of visiting the beautiful Northwest, you may have visions of a place eternally clad in flannel, evergreen trees and grey skies. Oh, how I wish it were still so!

Apparently that global warming thing that Al Gore has his panties all in a bunch about has decided to attack me personally.

The current ambient temperature in Portland, Oregon is 85 degrees Fahrenheit. Mind you, it's 3:04AM.

It was 105 degrees here earlier in the day.

I may not be a scientist, or even a college graduate, or even a person who can count properly without removing his shoes, but even I know that 105 is far too hot for humanity to properly survive. We'll all end up in underground burrows fighting the Morlocks.

If only I had a giant penguin that I could slit open and crawl inside of ...

These people played games. I'm too sticky to care. Maybe you do. 

Leigh Alexander:
Actually, trying to beat the God Challenges in God of War, Odin Sphere, Puzzle Quest and (STILL) Twilight Princess when I can be bothered to sit down for a while (which is rarely). Also indie game Within a Deep Forest, and Snow Drop, a H-game.

Oh yeah, and we did just get RE4 for Wii, so we'll probably play that all weekend.

Nex:
I finally broke down and, at the insistence of Mr. Linde, purchased Pac-Man Championship Edition. While I wish they would have let us play as Bison (or at least Vega) the inclusion of same-character versus matches is a huge draw.

Jim Sterling:
Very little, Mr. Mushnik. Mostly too busy with Gamers for Gaming (check it the bloody hell out, people), but I've naturally found time to squeeze a little action in. Been trying to do some Oblivion, though my Xbox worryingly was unable to read the disc like it had done with a now-unplayable N3. Aside from that, I've been playing through some Earth Defense Force 2017 which I'm now taking with me to Gamestation to see if they'll take it back - DO NOT WANT.

Colette Bennett:
I have been playing Puzzle Quest for a record breaking 3 weeks straight. I need a new game. Also I think I need a life.

Topher Cantler:

I've been playing Art Department Organization Force 2007, Pac-Man CE, Business Card Maker 4, and Forza 2.

Grim:

As far as 360 gaming in concerned, I've been playing the usual Gears of War, Crackdown, and Pac-Man CE . All the talk about Resident Evil 4 (Wii edition) has made me pull out the old Gamecube for some fun times. Oh, and I finally got a chance to play Psychonauts earlier this week on PC.

Gameboi:
I'm still having fun with Legacy of Kain: Defiance, and I've dabbled a bit in Kingdom Hearts II, as well as Vectorman. I never tire of great games from the past.

I'm also suffering through a real life game called the water table is extremely low around here from a lack of rain, and spending too much time under the house priming a thirsty pump. Precious gaming money is about to slip from my grasp. Oh ye evil game of life! I rebuke you.

Nick Chester:

I've been out of town most of the week, so I've been mostly playing Planet Puzzle League, since they won't let me take my Xbox 360 on planes.

David Houghton:
I've sadly had very little time for gaming this week with all the BBFC and Gamers For Gaimng stuff going on. I've put in a bit of time with Mario Strikers (Broken record, I know), Mario Kart DS and N, but that's about it.

Dick McVengeance:
I've been playing little bits of Red Steel, and some Resident Evil 4 for the GameCube. Considering I own it, and haven't beaten it yet, I see no urge to buy the Wii version, despite the leg-humpings of a Mr. Aaron Linde. Also, I've been playing a bunch of GURPS. I'll give respect to anyone who knows what the hell that is.

Faith:
Still trying to finish Touch Detective but wednesday night my DS died 3 minutes after I turned it on at work. I forgot to charge it, so I spend an hour playing Block Breaker Deluxe on my cellphone. How boring.

I'm still playing Twilight Princess and I started playing Rayman Raving Rabbids. I finally got my bunnies. DAHHHHHHH! *runs by with plunger*

Aaron Linde:

I'm having a grand old time playing through Resident Evil 4 for the 9th or 10th time on my Wii -- slaughtering villagers with well-timed headshots and grenades and such simply never gets old. I'm digesting the last few hours of Crush on the PSP and Shadowrun for forthcoming Destructoid reviews, and when that's through, I've got a date with Baten Kaitos on the 'Cube which I simply never got around to. That game is too damned pretty to be left unplayed.

Chad Concelmo:
I am hopelessly addicted to the awesomeness that is my new favorite game, Pac-Man Championship Edition. I also finally beat Rogue Galaxy (huzzah!) and am revisiting Super Mario 64 on the Virtual Console.

Dyson Grigsby:
I've been playing the fog is finally gone, so I can go outside again!, and Yes, I know about the RSS feed, stop asking. Between the time spent playing those two games, I've been playing a lot of Wii Sports and Super Paper Mario. I gave up on Odin Sphere, not because it wasn't good, but because it got repetitive reeeal quick.

Rev Anthony:
I gave up on Odin Sphere as well, for the same reasons Dyson mentioned. Other than that, I've been playing a lot of Urban Dead, some of The Specialists, and I'm using the HL2 Zombie Master mod to pass the time until Left 4 Dead comes out. Speaking of which, when the hell is Left 4 Dead coming out?

 

What have you kids been playing this week? If any of you say "in the sprinkler", I'm stabbing your face off. 


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uptonogood's Avatar
uptonogood at 06/24/2007 06:58
global warming doesn't mean it's getting warmer per se but glad to know the concept is being driven home across the world these days. at least we know nature's not fucking around these days and getting to the point rather rapidly.
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bhive01 at 06/24/2007 07:03
Leigh, I too am STILL playing Twilight Princess. I'm looking for some mirror pieces and have no idea how much is left. I got distracted by Pokemon on my DS for a very long time and am just now getting back into it. It was so long since I had played I had forgot how to do the spin move (aka I was shaking the wrong side). This was particularly aggravating in the desert palace.
JTHomeslice's Avatar
JTHomeslice at 06/24/2007 07:04
I've got a date with RE4 on the Wii and also more Pokemon. Gotta catch em all, y'know.
atheistium's Avatar
atheistium at 06/24/2007 07:06
This lack of workman upsets me.
nsolo1717's Avatar
nsolo1717 at 06/24/2007 07:06
i been playing the usual gears of war....can't get away from that one . Plus i picked up DIRT for the 360 and it's suprisingly fun. The challenge of the courses and beating my own personal times got me hooked. Never mind that it's the prettiest racer i've ever seen.
Buster's Avatar
Buster at 06/24/2007 07:08
just one xbox 360 game and one DS game

lost planet- the new maps came out on the 21st, and they're HUGE it actually takes you 3-4 minutes go get to the other side of ruins and ice drop, and trying to find out where all the teleporters in lost technology go is nuts

i just teleported and accidently threw a gum grenade on the floor, so i rolled away, and not even a second later someone from the other team came through the same warp and detonated my grenade, it was awesome

and as for my ds game, its phantom hourglass, the game is really good, cant wait to play it in english to understand what they say
bhive01's Avatar
bhive01 at 06/24/2007 07:14
@Atheistium,

I find your lack of Workman... Disturbing.
MaxVest's Avatar
MaxVest at 06/24/2007 07:20
Nex, you're so lucky. You've got global warming, and here I am using my own energy to maintain my body temperature... like a sucker.

Trace Memory (it was cheap!) and NSMB.
Garbz's Avatar
Garbz at 06/24/2007 07:53
Twilight Princess was easy.

Not that i finished it. I got bored halfway through the Palace of Twilight and stopped playing.

I suppose i should finish it over the summer really.

Also, where is my Podtoid Nex?!

I know you have it!!! :P
stevenjazz787's Avatar
stevenjazz787 at 06/24/2007 08:01
Bought a PS3. Motorstorm is alot more different from ExciteTruck than I thought it would be.

Dick, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Other Strangeness is good enough for me. Gurps is for people alot more creative than I am. It's too, um, Universal.
TheBrain's Avatar
TheBrain at 06/24/2007 08:18
I've been playing Mercenaries non-stop. The game is really awesome and is only hampered by the poor draw distance and shitty AI. I can't wait for Mercenaries 2.

I've also played a bit of Shining Force as it was recommended to me when I told someone "I LOVE TEH FIRE EMBLEM!." I only played the first mission but I'm already a little disappointed by the fact that the game chooses the order my characters attack in. I don't know if this is supposed to be some sort of tutorial or if it will continue throughout the entire game. I sure hope not.

I also played the first little bit of Tomb Raider Legend and Kingdom Hearts...they are on the backburner until Mercenaries is finished, though.
Rainbowblack's Avatar
Rainbowblack at 06/24/2007 08:39
going into my 4th week of shadowrun, as good as this game is It's community went to complete shit once H3 beta ended. its full of rapping teens and 5 year old euro screaming REZ ME!! REZ ME!! REZ ME!!
I want to trade this in, but I want at to least wait until the map packs and their prices are announced before I do so (theres still the possibility that they might be free. I want my 60 $ worth lol)

I actually dug out some old games out the corner of the closet this week and started to replay them. Xenogears & Okage mainly. I think I'll be playing those until I cave and by the Darkness which hopefully won't be until the end of July

And for the 3rd strait month Panzer Dragoon Orta wonders why its gone unplayed when half of gaming would kill to get their mitts on it.

I'm so inhumane

Kif 's Avatar
Kif at 06/24/2007 09:06
Still rocking out Forza every now and then, and I'm just getting into Phantom Hourglass too. I also downloaded SMB2 on the Virtual Console since I had 2000 points spare. Not got around to playing it yet, but I will.
BA Chieftain's Avatar
BA Chieftain at 06/24/2007 09:46
After 8 months of owning (and about 2 months of not playing), I've had two people challenge me to Elite Beat Agents...

And to answer your question, yes... I actually "served" somebody with a Nintendo DS.
Reeper's Avatar
Reeper at 06/24/2007 09:58
i've been playin tony hawk recently :X and elite beat agents on the ds, even though i haven't picked up my ds for a little while. oh, also F.E.A.R. it's fun :D.
tazarthayoot's Avatar
tazarthayoot at 06/24/2007 10:26
Um, I have yet to unlock the ability to play Pac man world championship with same character versus matches, Nex. Is this something you can do with the Action Replay?
tazarthayoot's Avatar
tazarthayoot at 06/24/2007 10:31
Both GBA Castlevania games, still. Castlevania on XBLA, and since I just got a new copy of Gears, it'll be a lot of Gears this week.

Darkness as soon as that mamma jamma comes out.
jimbury's Avatar
jimbury at 06/24/2007 10:46
Nex--

What Portland do you live in? I'm in SW, and it's raining and 55 degrees. Yesterday wasn't very warm, either (got to 71). Make sure you don't have your heater on...
jimbury's Avatar
jimbury at 06/24/2007 11:00
Oh, how foolish of me. That's a great city, too, on the banks of the mighty Columbia trickle.
Necros's Avatar
Necros at 06/24/2007 11:10
@ Nex: You may hate global warming, but in northwest New York, it's the only thing that's bringing nice enough nice weather to play the oh-so-wonderful Boktai.

Otherwise, spent most of last night getting very close to the end of .hack//INFECTION with a friend. The rest of my week has been filled with Mario Kart DS and Advance Wars.

Also, not a [i]video[i] game, but close enough, I'm playing UFS (Universal Fighting System). My character of choice is Cervantes, but he keeps getting the beatdown from this one Street Fighter III character I keep forgetting the name of. Damned cross-overs.
Justin Villasenor's Avatar
Justin Villasenor at 06/24/2007 11:25
I've been playing a bunch of skirmish matches on Supreme Commander. Big explosions are fun!
I'm still working my way through Super Paper Mario and need to get around to finishing the second half of Shadow of the Colossus.

"Also, I've been playing a bunch of GURPS."

ZOMG d20 system 4 life
GuitarAtomik's Avatar
GuitarAtomik at 06/24/2007 11:28
I've been playing a fuckton of Shadowrun lately and lots of God of War 2. I tried to play a bit of Gears for Friday Fight Night but my 360 froze on me :[ I was sucking anyway.
Garbz's Avatar
Garbz at 06/24/2007 11:33
I was playing through Golden Sun: The Lost Age recently due to starting a link game using my kick ass Golden Sun 1 file.

Started ot get back into Pokemon Pearl though in the last day or so so i've been playing that.
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SLiFE at 06/24/2007 12:13
I got my ass repeatedly handed to me in Gears on Friday, but I've been prackicing up on Worms (which I finally broke down and bought). Hell of a game to play stoned.
Probably gonna rent The Darkness this week. I don't think it's purchase worthy at all, but it should be entertaining for a few days.
ZServ's Avatar
ZServ at 06/24/2007 12:13
I've been playing Fable, Halo, and Halo 2. Picked up RE4: Wii, gonna try it out tomorrow when I'm back home.
Joe Burling's Avatar
Joe Burling at 06/24/2007 12:15
I just picked up Mass Effect: Revelation. I've been wanting to read this.
tazarthayoot's Avatar
tazarthayoot at 06/24/2007 12:24
What are books?
Colette Bennett's Avatar
Colette Bennett at 06/24/2007 12:56
@SLiFE - That icon WINS.
CrackerlySeagull's Avatar
CrackerlySeagull at 06/24/2007 13:30
FFIII on DS, Day of Defeat: Source, GRAW (PC), and Homeworld 2.
BlueWolf72's Avatar
BlueWolf72 at 06/24/2007 13:38
I am playing Dirt 360 and Tenchu 360 and this week I get The Darkness and Transformers not sure about Bigs or Hour of Victory.
Joe Burling's Avatar
Joe Burling at 06/24/2007 13:55
@tazar

"hey, bulldog face"

tazarthayoot's Avatar
tazarthayoot at 06/24/2007 16:25
That guy was awesome okay, he promised us all titties.
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Chibi_Zero at 06/24/2007 16:58
I have mostly been playing Scurge: Hive for the DS this week. I picked it up for 10$ a few days ago. I have also played alittle RE4 for the Wii.The little I played made me realize that it is going to take a while to get used to the Wii controls. I restarted the game about 5 times just to get past the 1st few baddies without being getting hit...
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Chibi_Zero at 06/24/2007 17:20
And if you can really consider it a game I have been playing a little Bible Black on the side...
donkeykong's Avatar
donkeykong at 06/24/2007 17:41
I think it's weird that so many people have been playing Twilight Princess for so long. I bought that game like two weeks ago and finished it a few days ago. Obviously I have a few sidequests left but the main quest was only about 35 hours I think. Maybe a bit less.

Other than that, Puzzle Quest on the DS and yesterday I picked up Pitfall for the SNES from the flea market.
Rainbowblack's Avatar
Rainbowblack at 06/24/2007 18:09
Took me two months to beat Z:TP

then again It sat there unplayed because I refused to turn my Wii on without that damn composite cable

When I finally got one, Zelda looked no better lol.
Samit Sarkar's Avatar
Samit Sarkar at 06/24/2007 18:37
I didn’t really play video games at all this past week, so I don’t really even know why I bothered to post here.

Um, I might’ve played a bit of the Warhawk beta here and there, and maybe some Calling All Cars, but mostly, I’ve been watching DVDs...since it’s the summer, I finally found the time to get into my four Futurama sets. Sadly, the first of the four Season Two discs is messed up...there’s something weird on the underside that looks like someone peeled a sticker off of the disc, yet there aren’t any scratches on either side of the disc. My plan is to bring the set in to Best Buy, claim it was given to me as a gift, and use their available-once-a-year-only-per-customer no-receipt exchange policy. I love you, Best Buy!
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s0lesurviv0r at 06/24/2007 18:39
Now that Guilty Gear Accent Core is headed to the US, I'm going to install the PC version of #Reload onto my computer and give it another hundred plays to make the wait hurt a little less. In between sessions of Bejeweled 2, I've been playing Silent Hill and Megaman X4.
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Oni at 06/24/2007 21:24
Well, I rented Red Steel last weekend, and just beat it a couple days ago. I didn't get the best ending, but I'll be damned if I'ma sit through it again just to see it. It's better than most people make it out to be, but it's still not great. If I saw it for like, $20, I wouldn't hesitate to buy it, but as it stands, no fucking way.

Also, I got SSX Blur today. I'ma play the absolute FUCK out of that this week! My God it's been so long since I've played a good snowboarding game, and Blur definitely fills that void.
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BluDesign at 06/24/2007 21:52
I'm waiting on 360 reviews of Transformers and Harry Potter. I'm on the fence on both titles. I've seen decent reviews of HP so far, but I gotta reserve judgement till I see some of Transformers.

I did take advantage of a sweet deal at Toys R Us.
It's buy 2 get 1 free week on ALL DS games, so I bought Planet Puzzle League, Clubhouse Games, and SimCity DS (Japanese tranny not included sadly).

I've also got a ton of MS points to burn through as well, so I'll be getting the Lumines levels later this week too. It's nice to have cash in the 'ol bank account.
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namtastic at 06/24/2007 23:56
I'm in the same boat as the others with Twilight Princess. I love it, but I don't love playing it, if you know what I mean. After a while it gets kind of boring and tedious and I stop playing until the promise of adventure lures me back into playing. Still haven't found the mirror shard at the Snowpeak Ruins, which the more I'm in them, the less challenging and more unnecessary they feel to the story.

While almost the same game, Okami always left me wanting to play it more, and I never got tired of it. And it wasn't any harder or easier, in my opinion. It was just paced a hell of a lot better (you don't have those hey-I-just-got-a-new-sword-move-crap-I'm-a-wolf-now moments) and frankly, there was always a reason to fight everything because you could always get something out of them -- I'd have sessions in Okami where I'd just still down and do nothing but beat up enemies and have fun. I think Zelda is the first open action/adventure game where I spend as much time as possible avoiding combat since I can get rupees and hearts far more reliably from just cutting down grass.

Grass, damn it.

But yeah. That, Virtual Fighter 5, and Crush.
nectarine's Avatar
nectarine at 06/25/2007 02:34
Puzzle Quest is totally Rad!
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Rancor at 06/25/2007 12:08
Tenchu 360, and Crackdown look beautiful on my brand new tv, fuck 1080p is gorgeous, really excited about transformers because the hd trailre for the game looks fucking amazing. . but despite hd beauty i ended up playing megaman x5 and goddamn pokeman all weekend. National dex ftw!!!, It like a morp, i finnaly log in 90 hours of game play and the game is barely starting. . . damn pokemans damn them for EVER.
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