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[DanJennings]

holy cow you have missed out Simon!

After GTA3 was probably the best in the series: GTA Vice City, set in 1980s Miami, with an amazing 80s soundtrack to match, and Scarface and Carlito's Way references aplenty

Then there was GTA: San Andreas, set in 90s LA, and you play a black gang member, so plenty of hiphop and 90s alt rock

In GTA4, you play a Polish immigrant to New York in the present day, and there are literally TONS of radio stations, traditional Polish music, New York Hardcore punk, classic rock, psychic radio, chat, indie, jazz, whatever you want!

and of course you can put your own audio files in, and create your own radio station on all of them, but I think you could also do that on GTA 3 couldn't you?

[Alex_UK]

The problem I had with GTA4 was that the character you play (Nico?) was a complete tw@t IMO, so I didn't give a stuff what happened to him!

[DanJennings]

I thought 'CJ' from San Andreas was much worse, and I think Nico softens a bit after a while

[Alex_UK]

Perhaps I should give him another chance, then!

[Themis]

I got FF XIII and God Of War 3, both on PS3.

They are both very, very good. Recommended.

FF XIII has something that I always missed on FF : enemies are visible (and, thus, avoidable sometimes). Of course, as usually, a long, long story, with plenty of videos, very well made.
And the profession specialization (and upping) is not as complicated as the late FFs. Characters not part of your actual team, get equal experience, so they don't stay "behind". Fortunately.
It's a new genre : a tactical-movie !

[DanJennings]

The special edition (with voice acting and better graphics) of Monkey Island 2 (one of the best adventure games ever made) is out now!
I want it more than is healthy.

[Maximum]

The special edition (with voice acting and better graphics) of Monkey Island 2 (one of the best adventure games ever made) is out now!
I want it more than is healthy.

Bought it and finished it already. Never played the second or third games (I know for a Monkey Island fan that's pretty bad) at the time so it's nice to catch up, and fill in some plot holes. I'm not sure whether I should find a way to play the third original, as that should be pretty much the full shebang already, though they may re-release it with fully compatibility and only a slight touch up to the graphics.

[DanJennings]

I don't think they'll rerelease the third one, the graphics are pretty good on that one, and it already has full voice acting.
You should definitely track it down, it's excellent. The fourth one (escape from monkey island) was ok, but definitely a dip in quality, but the new episodic series 'Tales of monkey island' from telltale games is excellent also.

[DanJennings]

and by the way, I've just finished it too. it was excellent.

[Maximum]

It's likely to have compatibility issues though, and enough fans seem to want a re-release with only minimal or no enhancements. It should be easy enough to do and have enough people willing to buy it to make it a no brainer really.

I forgot how cryptic some of the puzzles were in the older ones, some require some real out of the box thinking to have a clue, where as with Tales you always knew roughly what to do. This wasn't a problem with the first special edition because I could probably write a walkthrough from memory.