What Are You Currently Playing? 6.65: Neighbor of the Beast

[talonmalon333]

And if you find the series just isn't working for you, I'd at least recommend anyone play MGS3. It's pretty much the best game in the series and nails the stealth gameplay. Plus, it works very well as a stand alone story. Anyone could potentially enjoy that game without ever touching the rest of the series.

[Nel_Annette]

It would appear that Rising is less than $9 on Amazon. THAT WILL GO INTO THE CART AS WELL!

[Spark Of Spirit]

Also, play MGS2 first

Do you also tell people who have never played a Mario game before to start with Sunshine, or someone interested in Ratchet to play All 4 One first? 

Start at the beginning and work your way forward.

[Foggle]

Sunshine is amazing aside from the unfair difficulty level though.

[gunswordfist]

Who the hell has never played a Mario game?

[Nel_Annette]

Found my PSP. So now this is happening after a day of Hyrule Warriors.

[gunswordfist]

I got a working 360 today and I started Spider-Man Shattered Dimensions. Now I can really appreciate Spider-Man Noir.

[talonmalon333]

Is Sunshine really that hard? I mostly remember it just being boring and repetitive.

[Spark Of Spirit]

It's very monotonous. But usually people refer to the poorly implemented blue coins when talking about difficulty.

[talonmalon333]

It's very monotonous. But usually people refer to the poorly implemented blue coins when talking about difficulty.

Right. I remember now. That was bad but I don't think it was the game's main problem. It was just boring as a whole. Certainly a far cry from amazing.

[Foggle]

Some of the levels are fucking rage-worthy. That watermelon...

Right. I remember now. That was bad but I don't think it was the game's main problem. It was just boring as a whole. Certainly a far cry from amazing.

It's no more boring than Mario 64. Which also isn't boring.

[gunswordfist]

Well Super Mario 64 is just fine.

[talonmalon333]

Well Super Mario 64 is just fine.

Yeah. 64 had a lot of care put into it, with plenty of varied and creative levels. Sunshine is just a bunch of cities and regular locations with little real platforming. And there are only, like, five levels in the whole game so you're constantly revisiting them. Then there's the fact that the game's idea of good gameplay is having you clean the cities with water. That's what this game finds to be fun, something people don't even like doing in real life.

[Nel_Annette]

Sunshine had wonderful atmosphere, if anything. It keeps the tropical island motif going for almost all of the game, barring those weird other-worldly non-Fludd sections. And Fludd was fun as hell to use. And I think I'm the only person in the world who actually liked hunting the blue coins.

I enjoy Sunshine more than the Galaxy games, at any rate.

[Spark Of Spirit]

There are two sorts of 3D Mario fans. One seem to think Super Mario 64 and Sunshine are brilliant games and the Galaxy games are letdowns, and the other love the Galaxy games and just aren't fans of the older 3D Mario games. I'm in the latter camp who also likes Super Mario 3D World far more than SM64, and is probably the only one in the world who thinks so.