[:plant:] The GFF Game Club [Now Playing: Max Payne] Now with less spoiler tags

I'm not adverse to the suggestion of a more recent release particularly, though Bad Company 2 is probably not a great pick for the next month.

I know Crackdown is one suggestion floating around, and we can add Max Payne to that list too. Anyone have any other thoughts they'd like to submit?

As for Ikaruga, I plan on giving it another play this weekend at some point, and whilst it's certainly a decent game the problem for me is that I just don't enjoy schmups that much. They can be fun, but I just don't have that bit of my brain that makes people want to perfect whole levels and chain the entire game. Basically if I survive long enough to make it to the end of the stage then that's a major win for me. I can see the appeal, but it's just not my cup of tea I guess.

I do like Ikaruga's colour swapping mechanic an awful lot though, I think that's a very clever twist on schmups and the ability to absorb bullets of one colour and the tactics involved in which colour you choose to shoot out (do you risk damage for dealing more vs. playing it safer) creates a lot of depth from a simple set up. For that reason alone the game has kept my interest far more than any other schmup has done in a long time.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

OK then, so what co-op games do people suggest? Crackdown supports co-op but it's more two people in the same game instance rather than having to work together (that's not to say it isn't fun, because it most certainly is), the Rainbox Six games do too. Left 4 Dead 1/2 perhaps? Army of Two? Any other thoughts?

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

OK, March 28th, so open discussion time for Ikaruga now.

Anyone have any more suggestions for next month? It doesn't have to be a co-op game suggestion, that's just one road we can explore when we chat about it. What do people think to the idea of playing a recent release (something like Resonance of Fate, Infinite Space or even something like Just Cause 2)?

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Hello everyone. So we're going to try something a little different to hopefully mix up the game choice a little and give everyone a little more involvement in the process. This might not work, but I figured it was an experiment worth dabbling with.

So here's how it's going to work: we've decided on a short-list of 5 games, you need to PM me by Wednesday 20:00 BST (which is 48 hours away) with the 5 games listed in preference order with your most preferred first (or at the top). We'll award points in a 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 fashion and then total the scores. Most points = game we play.

The 5 games (in alphabetical order) are: Bionic Commando (the new dreadlocks one), Crackdown, Machinarium, Max Payne and Yakuza 2

Get voting people.

Note: Only votes from members will be counted

I was speaking idiomatically.

Come on guys, this isn't that tricky, but I'm really surprised by how much difficultly people are having with this:

Originally Posted by OmagnusPrime

You need to PM me by Wednesday 20:00 BST (which is 48 hours away) with the 5 games listed in preference order with your most preferred first

The 5 games (in alphabetical order) are: Bionic Commando (the new dreadlocks one), Crackdown, Machinarium, Max Payne and Yakuza 2

That really does mean you need to list all 5 games, and in preference order. If you PM me just saying "Yo, I'd like to play X" it's not going to get counted.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

If anyone else is interested in voting you have a few hours left to do so, so get on that.

FELIPE NO

Right, the votes are in and the game for this month is:



Max Payne

I'll set another month on it, so we'll say the end date for this one is 30th April. If you don't have the game you can pick it up on Steam here: Max Payne on Steam. It was also released on Mac (no idea if that still works though). Used copies can also be had on original Xbox and PS2.

Also, a quick change to the rules: open discussion is allowed for the entire duration of play, though if you can spoiler tag chunks to prevent whole-sale give-aways for people who haven't gotten to where you are yet, etc, that'd be good (bascially: be courteous).

Enjoy.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

Apologies, I've been a little lax getting things sorted with this thread this month due to the flat move and everything else going on at the moment. I was intending to try and play this game this month, but sadly haven't gotten around to it.

So who did play the game, and what did you think of it? For those who returned to the game again how well did it hold up to your memories?

There's also the question of what game to tackle next: anyone have any suggestions?

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Shin

So now you guys have finished your meet thing, any chance of getting this up and running again?

Just wanted to say that I did see this post and did plan to get back to you, but I've been somewhat distracted. Yeah, sorry things have fallen off track a little due to getting busy with work and going away to the meet.

I think I also figured that people were losing interest, but if people still generally interested in the idea then please shout and say so and I'll see about getting this back off the ground sooner rather than later (still sort of catching up with my life back home post-meet).

Also, if people have suggestions for games, that'd be good.

How ya doing, buddy?