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[StorablePrawn]

The title says it all. I have to buy one or the other for a package deal where I work (employee discount), and I need to decide by tomorrow afternoon.

HELP. I'm sorry to post an annoying indecision thread, but this one is really killing me.

 

[Juice]

Unless the only thing you'd play a game for is the ability to sort of play it online wirelessly out of the box, go with Wipeout Pure.

TM:HO just doesn't have a lot of meat to it, and without the online component doesn't stand out at all.

Wipeout Pure is really fast and fun and a worthwhile game in its own right. While it doesn't have true online wifi play, at least said play isn't broken.

 

[Rhage]

Totally agree with Juice. Twisted metal gets boring pretty quickly, only get it if you want to do internet multiplayer a lot. otherwise go with wipEout! not only the prettiest game on the psp, but one of the most solid.

also, you can browse the web with it, which is strangely fun in itself.

 

[Soul4ger]

Wipeout Pure... I can't get into. It doesn't feel smooth to me. I don't know if it's just that I haven't clicked with it yet or what, but I find myself constantly letting go of the acceleration and breaking around corners and shit, and slowing down, speeding up, slowing down. I don't remember the first two being so dependent on it like this is..

 

[Juice]

Wipeout Pure... I can't get into. It doesn't feel smooth to me. I don't know if it's just that I haven't clicked with it yet or what, but I find myself constantly letting go of the acceleration and breaking around corners and shit, and slowing down, speeding up, slowing down. I don't remember the first two being so dependent on it like this is..

Yeah, I don't think it's the cat pajamas either (at least not for my tastes, it takes a lot for a racer to impress me), but if it had to be between these two games, I still think Wipeout is the most rationale choice in a toss-up.

All I purchased for myself was Lumines and THUG2 (guilty pleasure), while I'm still on the lookout for Ridge Racer and a used copy of Ac!d.

 

[Uno Ill Nino]

I've got several hours into Wipeout Pure and about 1 hour into Twisted Metal. If you like TM:Black, Head on is probably you're thing. Head On is purchase worthy, IMO, but Wipeout is much much better. Thing about TM is that the AI is kinda just....there. The enemy cars just drive around and don't kill eachother off much at all. You end up doing all the work. So you kinda feel like you're driving around killing one car at a time (if you don't they go heal and you start over) while all the other cars just drive around on the other side of the map until you hunt them down or the current targeted enemy leads you to them.

Get Wipeout, dude. Its fucking awesome. If you have ever liked Wipeout before (I LOVED XL) then this will be like old times.

 

[StorablePrawn]

XL was great, but the rest were so completely negligible in my eyes that I'm worried to pick up another Wipeout. Is Pure really up to the standards of the good Wipeout games?

 

[Bowser]

Get one, then trade in three shitty games @ EB and pick up the other! It's a win-win situation.

 

[StorablePrawn]

I'd do that, except I'm trading in all of my useless games to get my PSP.

 

[duckroll]

I gotta balance out the Wipeout love in this thread. I'm not a big Wipeout fan personally, so I picked up TMHO having loved TM2 and I don't regret it one bit. The game is NOT boring as some claim, and it's packed with extras, characters, secrets, etc. Of course if you don't like car combat deathmatch games you're not going to like it anyway, but if you liked TM2 on the PSX, TMHO won't disappoint one bit. The online play is a blast too.

 

[GDJustin]

Wipeout Pure... I can't get into. It doesn't feel smooth to me. I don't know if it's just that I haven't clicked with it yet or what, but I find myself constantly letting go of the acceleration and breaking around corners and shit, and slowing down, speeding up, slowing down. I don't remember the first two being so dependent on it like this is..

My thoughts exactly. Its my least favorite launch game I own, but I feel like the problem is sorta with me, not the game. It just hasn't clicked.

 

[Bowser]

I'd do that, except I'm trading in all of my useless games to get my PSP.

I'd stop by K-Mart/Wal-Mart/Target clearance bins/racks; I'm sure you could easily find some $4.99 titles to trade in.

Edit: GameRush is doing Buy 2 Get 1 Free on all pre-owned games till April 4th. You should be able to get 3 titles for ~$12.

 

[kaching]

TM:HO just doesn't have a lot of meat to it, and without the online component doesn't stand out at all.

TMHO has just as much meat to it as the previous TM games did. In fact it combines much of what TM2, TM:B and the TM:B online expansion offered, together in one package. Plus it offers minigames that you can get to from each arena which offer completely different challenges than the standard arena deathmatches do.

That said, I would say that the challenge on normal difficulty is a little lacking so far. They did two things I notice: reduced the single-minded obsession of AI cars to kill you above everything else, which isn't bad in itself, and made the health powerups infinitely replenishable as well as replenishing them frequently. Combined, the two 'tweaks' don't really make it that hard to finish each arena.

IMO, Wipeout Pure edges it out because it offers a better, more balanced challenge in the single player package.

 

[StorablePrawn]

This thread has served only to confound the decision further.

THANKS GAF.