TheFeed's Weekend Playlist: Fight Night, Dawn of War, Peggle, Harry Potter, And More

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Posted June 19, 2009 - By r_pad

The G4tv.com crew is getting ready to celebrate the summer solstice (there are a lot of Wiccans here), but that won't stop the crew from getting their game on. This weekend, the gang has all sorts of games in mix -- real-time strategy, iPhone games, sports, role playing, and more. Find out what your favorite G4tv.com staffers are playing in a sun-soaked edition of TheFeed's Weekend Playlist. As always, let the boys know what you're playing this weekend and what you think of their picks.

Brian Leahy loves Starcraft II (2)

Brian Leahy: I’m in a bit of an RTS mood (especially with chatter that the StarCraft 2 beta will be kicking off soon) so I’ll probably load up the ‘ol Brood War and get my ass kicked on iCCup a bit. Then, I’ll switch over to Dawn of War II and knock out some team games. As always, Street Fighter IV will make an appearance (it’s basically my Fallout 3: over 110 hours logged to date) and I’ll put more time into Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 on the Wii.

Raymond Padilla: After a week, I'm 22 hours into Final Fantasy VII. The story is much more enjoyable this time around, largely due to the PSP's excellent Crisis Core. Little bits of dialogue are so much more powerful, like when Aerith's adoptive mother worries about her cavorting with another boy from Soldier. I also made sure Aerith was in my party when I went to Gongaga and barged into Zack's house. Small things like that mean so much more after experiencing the story in Crisis Core. One thing that's always bothered me about this game -- wouldn't it have been easier to save the world and defeat Sephiroth if most of the party wasn't dicking around on an airship? I guess there's no overcoming longstanding RPG conventions....

When X-Men Origins: Wolverine (the movie) came out, I avoided it because due to negative reports of Deadpool's portrayal (he's one of my favorite Marvel characters of all time). A lot of my industry friends have raved about the game, saying it's one of the best superhero titles of all time. As a lifelong comic-book nerd, I have to check this one out. This seems like a good weekend for slicing and dicing with the "best at what he does (and what he does ain't pretty)".

World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King

Billy Berghammer: I finalized my apartment unpacking last weekend, and as I promised myself I wouldn’t return to World of Warcraft until that project was done, it’s time. World of Warcraft for me will always be the ex-girlfriend I can’t get rid of. But what can I say? We had a few drinks, she kissed me again with her poison lips, and the temptress sucked me in once again. My friends keep telling me she’s no good for me, and I’ll just end up battered and bruised again just like before, but this time I believe in my heart that it will be different. I just hit 74 a few days ago, and am currently on the road to 80. But once I hit 80, I know it’ll be over. No, really. It’ll be over. Then again, the G4 crew has been teasing me to join their guild, and since I haven’t toyed too much on the Horde side (Alliance 4lyfe!) I may let the affair continue. And then it’ll be over. I promise.

Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

Patrick Klepek: Sadly, I was lying last week. No ghost busting occurred over the weekend and it's actually only recently a copy of Ghostbusters: The Video Game landed in my lap. With only a few stages left in Capcom's Bionic Commando reboot waiting for me to finish off (if you, like many others, passed on the game, it's worth borrowing from a friend for experiencing the mostly brilliant swing mechanic), but I'll actually be spending time with two licensed games: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Heck, I even volunteered to play both games. Let me bring you inside into my madness on the first one: I have blind, misguided hope that Activision can produce a worthwhile Transformers video game. You'd think a Transformers video game would be easy enough to make -- smash, robot, smash! -- but that hasn't happened yet. Soon, I'll discover if I've made a bad decision. Wish me luck? I don't deserve it. Oh, as for Harry Potter -- every other Harry Potter video game has been innocently average but competent enough to engage fans of the material (aka fanboys such as myself).

Jake Gaskill: As bizarre as it may sound, I actually just started playing through Halo 3 again (also, the first time on an HD TV, so that’s nice). I want to see why I don’t really remember a lot of what happens in it, aside from a few memorable sequences that stuck with me. I also finished the Adventure portion of Peggle (I’m still waiting for it to load on my pathetic iPhone 3G), so now I’ll be moving onto the Challenges, because I can’t get enough of being embarrassed by a bouncing ball. And in honor of the U.S. Open, I might just have to pick up Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10, but I’m not sure.

Sterling McGarvey: For the record, I threw in the towel on Trash Panic after spending an hour obsessively trying to get through the first few stages. It finally reached a point that it just wasn’t fun anymore.

In preparation for next week’s review, I’ll be playing Fight Night Round 4 some more. I’ve been seriously dragging ass in the office every morning because I’ve been up very late honing my abilities in the Sweet Science. I did a lot of trash talking to Leahy prior to playing it, and…that probably wasn’t a good idea. If you haven’t noticed from the demo, Round 4 guts the defense and counter-punching system that EA Chicago built and puts something totally different in its place. I get the sense that he’s been playing it quite a bit, so I’ll need to get my skills up to par.

Tags: Nintendo DS, PC Gaming, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, Weekend Playlist, Wii, Xbox 360

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Killua_Zoldyck

Just finished Resistance Retribution and defeated half of the Colossi in Wander and the Colossus. Going to finish up 3rd Phoenix Wright game and move on the Apollo Justice in preparation for the Edgeworth game coming out...

Posted: June 22, 2009 7:37 AM
drieva

Oh yeh defintley gonna get some 09 the show(demo)in and Uncharted 2

Posted: June 21, 2009 4:04 PM
drieva

Call of Duty 4 mainly I m also gonna try to get inFAMOUS if I do thats all I ll play also I m gonna snag a copy of FNR4 ASAP I loved the demo

Posted: June 21, 2009 4:01 PM
DreamingDarklyRobin

Legend of Mana for the Ps1. Sure it's old but it's also a childhood favorite.

Posted: June 21, 2009 1:41 PM
spleendingo

@Motorhead151 Same thing happened with my 360. Red ringed right out of the repair box. Now it hit or miss on how long I can play before it shuts down on me lol! Therefore, I'll be sticking to my PS3 this weekend. I finished "inFAMOUS" as good Cole, so I'll begin the evil side now. Also another playthrough of MGS4 sounds good. If my 360 doesn't brick on me, I'll also play some "Left 4 Dead" and "CoD: MW" or "CoD: WaW". Just started "Ghostbusters" on the PS3 so I may finish that off also. And if I'm feeling really bored, I'll be busting out the Wii for some "Madworld" or "House of the Dead Overkill".

Posted: June 20, 2009 3:48 PM
Phategod

Hopefully I can find the last four Purple orbs in Prototype and get most of the acheivements.

Posted: June 20, 2009 1:58 PM
crocodilius

lol, my ps3 just died. i sent it in and hopefully i just get a new one in return.

Posted: June 20, 2009 6:18 AM
Motorhead151

Forget Fight Night (50 fighters, many unknown to anyone who's not an obsessed boxing fan) versus UFC 2009 (More to do, requires more skill to play and 80+ fighters)

Oh but my XBox died again, thanks Microsoft for sending me the same broken one again and again.

Posted: June 19, 2009 11:09 PM
RRODisBack

More inFAMOUS, I started another play through of MGS4, Resistance 2 co-op, Rockband 2(downloaded the Evanescence pack), and some MLB 09: The Show.

Posted: June 19, 2009 8:09 PM
ProjektX13

Prototype and brushing up on COD MW until MW2 comes out

Posted: June 19, 2009 7:23 PM
crocodilius

I played the last transformers game...it was...bad.
Harry Potter games are always cool though, especially the portable ones.

Posted: June 19, 2009 6:49 PM
hybrid_theory

To be honest, one of my friends and I got hooked on Mega Man Battle Network 4 again recently so I'll probably be doing that most of the weekend. If only Bass SP wasn't such a pain to find I could get that last giga chip I need and I can play through and experience the story again.

Posted: June 19, 2009 5:49 PM
SayAnything8

Fallout 3
Splinter Cell DA getting ready for Conviction YAY:)
Team Fortress 2

Posted: June 19, 2009 5:42 PM
360_Mafia_Godfather

I will still be playing Red Faction Guerilla and Prototype!

Posted: June 19, 2009 5:21 PM
Lucifer6972

You know, I gotta always get my Call of Duty, I confess. I always do, I have to. But to tell you the truth? I'm almost done with Infamous, almost. I like it, I do. And ironically, my friend just started(just bought it) and is playing it right now. And boy, some Fight Night 4 does sound sweet...definitely got the boys attention, :). Oh yeah, we LOVE Fight Night, definitely can't wait. Good looking out Sterling, :).

But overall, is the same games. Halo, Starcraft, Diablo, even Black and White, heck, I seen my boy bust out FF4 on the DS...and yep, don't bother him, LOL!!

Cool guys, good looking out.

Posted: June 19, 2009 5:20 PM
Lucifer6972

"Sadly, I was lying last week."

LOL!!! Is all good Patrick, LOL!! That was a good one, now get back to finishing it.

Posted: June 19, 2009 5:08 PM