TheFeed's Weekend Playlist: Trine, Left 4 Dead, Dissidia, 'Splosion Man, And Monkey Island

20 Comments Posted July 17, 2009 - By r_pad

A wise man once said, "But there ain't no cure for the summertime blues." Fortunately, that doesn't apply to the peeps at TheFeed -- how can anyone here be blue when there are so many great games to play?!? From Wii MotionPlus action to indie darlings to upcoming fighters, the troops have all sorts of great games on tap for the weekend. Find out what your favorite writers are playing and let everyone know what's on your playlist this weekend.

Jake Gaskill: I finally picked up Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 for the Wii, and I’m thoroughly satisfied. I’m looking forward to trying out the Play the Pros feature during this weekend’s British Open (I’ve already torn apart Turnberry, so it should be a pretty easy tournament.) I’ll also be working on the XBLA title ‘Splosion Man, which I’m really excited about (be sure to check back next week for my review). Unfortunately, I don’t think I’ll be able to get in any more Shadow Complex (BOO!), and when I say that that saddens me, you have no idea how much I mean that.

Left 4 Dead

Stephen Johnson: A Left 4 Dead mania is sweeping the G4 offices, so I imagine I’m going to spend my weekend in zombie-town. I haven’t played that much multi-player L4D yet, but I’m teamed up with the great Jeff Kanjanapangka, Eugene Morton, and a yet-to-be-decided fourth. I’m sure they’ll school me good.

Here are the G4 office-workers I most look forward to murdering, in a virtual sense: Jonathan Goorvich, Dana Vinson, and Eugene Morton. Dana because she’s super-friendly and needs to be taught a lesson in evil, Jonathan because his glasses haunt my dreams, and Eugene Morton. He knows what he did. I know Eugene is on my team, but I’m going to light that bitch on fire anyway.

New Dissidia Final Fantasy Screens Shine

Raymond Padilla: I completely failed to start Blue Dragon last weekend. That's what happens when you forget that your friends from Thailand are supposed to crash at your place. I'm not sure I'll get to it this weekend either. I have a bunch of Dissidia: Final Fantasy to play. I'm also trying to con my friends from Sony and Ignition to come over for some Rock Band 2. The good news is that they suck at setting up WiFi, so I agreed to sort our their router problems if they play some Rock Band at my place...which really isn't much of a con when I think about it.

Trine Co-Op Gameplay Trailer »

Andrew Pfister: After a week spent on the road for Special Assignments™, I’d normally be looking forward to a weekend planted on my slightly misshapen futon (who needs luxuries like a couch?) and tasting a sample platter of games I’ve recently liberated from Billy’s office. But I think I’m going to be attached to my PC for most of the weekend finishing up Trine, diving into some of the newly released LucasArts stuff, and generally exploring my long-neglected list of Steam favorites. And if I find myself compelled to pick up a new widescreen monitor to enjoy them on, well, so be it.

Tales of Monkey Island WiiWare Release Date Still Not Finalized

Patrick Klepek: Having finally put Overlord: Dark Legend behind me (an entertaining Pikmin-like adventure that sadly dovetails into repetitive nonsense in the last few hours), this weekend promises a two-pronged dose of old school. On one hand, my recent efforts to install Windows XP on my MacBook Pro were successful, immediately prompting me to install Steam and purchase a copy of Trine, the wizard/knight/thief platformer that's all the indie rage lately. I can't wait to dive in. On the other, there's The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition. Having not joined the adventure genre until The Curse of Monkey Island era, it's been a blast to see where Guybrush Threepwood came from. Please, LucasArts -- make more of these!

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

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RRODisBack

I've gotten back into playing Warhawk. Man, I forgot how fun that game is . Warhawk all weekend for me.

Posted: July 17, 2009 4:19 PM | Reply | Report

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blakseed

Battlefield, Blazblue, Gears2(if I can connect) Bioshock, inFamous and Dead Space. I've been playing my older games lately so I might add some Crackdown DMC 4 or Def Jam Icon into the mix.

Posted: July 17, 2009 4:43 PM | Reply | Report

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Oinkness

Hooray Patrick, I got Monkey Island and finished it off in about 6 hours simply because I went very slow and enjoyed everything. It's really great and I hope you like it.

On a side-note, I knew as soon as you guys added this thumbs system that people were going to abuse it and thumbs down perfectly legitimate comments while ones that I would consider questionable got a thumbs up. I've personally been "reseting" each +2 or 0 comment back to +1 as I see fit. Why? Because I'm the masked marauder of the night... the hero... for great justice.

Posted: July 17, 2009 4:46 PM | Reply | Report

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360_Mafia_Godfather

I bought the Wheelman and Bionic Commando this week and have enjoyed both so far so I plan to play those this weekend plus Red Faction Guerilla.

Posted: July 17, 2009 5:02 PM | Reply | Report

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Trikkey

Think im gonna be on killzone infamous and maybe warhawk thx to rrod hadnt played in forever hadnt even played the expansions tho i bought them and downloaded all.Got tied up with other games and hadnt been on warhawk since o and cod4.

@ 360_mafia_Godfather i hadnt tried either one of those they looked pretty awful to me.What do you like about them?

Posted: July 17, 2009 5:39 PM | Reply | Report

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Trikkey

Might dust off the Wii at some point as well play some mario or zelda.

Posted: July 17, 2009 5:44 PM | Reply | Report

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spleendingo

I'm playing 1 vs. 100 tonight for the live show. After that "Left 4 Dead" for a few hours. I might fire up CoD:Modern Warfare. I haven't been playing that as much lately. I'm still on my evil play through of "inFAMOUS" so I'll be playing that tomorrow. Probably some "Killzone 2" and maybe...just maybe...I'll also turn on the Wii for some "Madworld" action. :)

Posted: July 17, 2009 6:19 PM | Reply | Report

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360_Mafia_Godfather

@ Trikkey

Well I just started both games. Wheelman is really awesome. Its sort of a GTA/Burnout mix its really fun. And BC is a pretty good action title I haven't got to play it as much as Wheelman but all the moves you can do with the grappling hook is pretty cool. They have them brand new @ Gamestop for $20.00 You should give them a shot. Especially Wheelman.

Posted: July 17, 2009 6:36 PM | Reply | Report

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RedSigma677

im finally getting fallout 3 and the dlc for it and will be playing that all weekend

Posted: July 17, 2009 7:21 PM | Reply | Report

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jrippin

Fight Night, Left 4 Dead, Fable 2

Posted: July 17, 2009 7:26 PM | Reply | Report

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Admiral_Ausome17

Im going to play Red Faction and the orange box. This time i might send the Gnome to Space!

Posted: July 17, 2009 7:50 PM | Reply | Report

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joeystar8

Prototype I'm surprised at how good it is O_O Battlefield 1943 3 on 3 NHL and Final Fantasy VII i'm going to be busy @_@

Posted: July 17, 2009 9:43 PM | Reply | Report

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L4Dfan550

Battlefield 1943, Left 4 Dead, GTA 4, Wolverine, and a little cod4.

sounds like a good weekend to me!

Posted: July 17, 2009 10:13 PM | Reply | Report

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Peynor

Ikaruga, Counter Strike: Source, and Dawn of War II for me

Posted: July 18, 2009 9:16 AM | Reply | Report

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DreamingDarklyRobin

Hmmm........Morrowind and Monkey Island.

Posted: July 18, 2009 10:36 AM | Reply | Report

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Mooby522

Street fighter 4, Halo 3 (online), Super smash brothers brawl with friends, and maybe some fallout 3 or oblivion this weekend (if i have time)

Posted: July 18, 2009 11:43 AM | Reply | Report

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Buzzerker74

cod4 and l4d are filling my weekend again, maybe some gears2 on xbl too.

Posted: July 18, 2009 12:56 PM | Reply | Report

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blindsideofthesun

I have a weird playlist for the weekend. After neglecting it when it first came out (played the demo, couldn't get into the combat and exploration for some reason), I am finally giving FFXII a well deserved shot. I realized rather quick that I only had to play the tutorial to clear everything up for me, and now I'm getting into it pretty easy. Also, as is with all FF games, the story line also makes it a bit easier to get into. So, given the nature of FF games, that will likely constitute my entire weekend's worth of game playing...
p.s. @ Pfister
What are you talking about man? Futons are luxuries! A couch and a bed? You can't beat that 2 in 1 deal. Just takes the effort of folding it up or down, and BAM, you go from hangin out to getting your sleep on. Sure, you're not likely to get anyone to get their sleep on with you, but that's what their place is for.

Posted: July 18, 2009 1:19 PM | Reply | Report

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Turtleboy7

i will gladly be your fourth but get in my way and risk being left hanging off a cliff

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Trikkey

@ 360_Mafia_Godfather

Thx for the reply.I may give one or both a shot one of these days.Left this reply before but it didnt post.so its a bit late.

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