I bought Ratchet and Clank: A Crack in Time. It is very very good. Also got SSF4, still adapting to using the pad (used to a keyboard, which I was quite good with, despite how notoriously horrible keyboards are for fighting games)

It was fun. But there was a lot of driving. And I know that occurs in GTA style games, but the GTA games didn't have a speed limit at least. I'd say about 40% of it was just driving from A to B with no time constraints or need to go fast etc. This issue kind of reminded me of Far Cry 2 and it's long travel times. (I beat that game too BTW)

But yeah, once you actually get to the missions, they are fun, varied, sufficiently challenging, and the story itself is some of the best stuff I've seen.

Enjoying DiRT still. I think after all the slower driving I did in Mafia I felt the need to do some more challenging driving. Made a bit of progress, at 48% now.

I've played the original three, and Deadlocked. Deadlocked sucked wang.

IDK. I've heard this argument before. I feel that in that case, there should be more of a dynamic city, where driving around rewards/challenges you somehow, instead of just forcing the slow driving on you. Furthermore:

-The game likes to save at times where if you somehow fail or encounter a mission stopping bug (Happened to me a few times) you have to do the driving all over again.

-The compass doesn't help much since the city has 3 islands you have to drive around, and many of the area look similar, forcing you to use that semi-transparent map, making it so that most of the time you are just watching a yellow arrow move around.

-You generally take the same routes, making it so you see the same areas over and over.

-Cars are very slow, speed limit makes them slower, trying to speed and get there faster usually results in either getting stopped for tickets (annoyingly slow animation) or busted (start over). Unless you have a vehicle with decent speed acceleration (Unlikely), even then, the cops in this are much harder to avoid. (in other cases I'd see this as a positive, but not in cases where you are driving in an unchallenging environment otherwise)

-I can go out and take a drive like this whenever IRL. Maybe not in a 30's motif, but still.

There should have been an option for people to fast travel, and then rewards for actually driving from point A to Point B. I like exploration however, so making me have to drive someplace the first time is fine by me mostly.

Purposefully keeping players from regular stimulation in a game is pointless. There is better ways of setting a mood, and some moods aren't worth it anyway.

But yeah, oddly enough even with this particular set of complaints (really its just 1 broken down into smaller pieces) I stand by the game as very well done and fun to play.

I just finished Chapter 1 of Ghost Trick (went really quick since it's mostly a tutorial and I had already done it in the demo), playing Chapter 2 right now.  Off the bat I have to say that this the most beautiful game I've played on the DS.  The animation is so absurdly fluid and the second location you're in (not gonna say much because of spoilers) is so awesome.  Tons of little details.  Excellent shit.

I'm playing ghost trick too and it's pretty ownage. My favourite part so far was when the main character, a ghost, doesa trick