All I can say is when you're trying to deal with poisonous gas or fire and they stop to chit chat, you got yourself a problem. Mind you, I only did a single play through of the game, and it was basically in one sitting (if you don't count bathroom breaks) so my opinion of the game may be tainted with sleep deprivation and caffeine overdose.
There was no food and only coffee; I had to do something to fill the hours. Yeah, I think I put about 80 hours into it. Long, long game.
I LOVED the Baldur's gate series. I never got to finish BG II because my friend burned me a copy and there was a problem with the 4th disc. I can't wait until they release the enhanced edition for mac os X this summer!
I know I'll end up getting all three of them, it's just of matter of which ones I can get for free and which ones I must buy. Oh how inconvenient money is. But I understand how too much dialog can be a bad thing, take FF 13. It was very little game play mixed in with much, good, storytelling.
I recently found my Donkey Kong Country for gameboy advance. I had completely forgotten that I had this game. I remember playing it on the SNES over at my friends house and having a fun time. But as I played I realized why I never beat this game. I am HORRIBLE at this game! So many deaths. I also seem to keep making the same mistake over and over again. I know better but I keep doing it anyways. Sometimes it works but often times I just die. I also hate the barrel obstacles. Which reminds me I could never get past one level in the sequel with the giant thornes maze with barrels. ... I usually considered myself a better gamer then my sister. But when it comes to DK she beats me hands down. lol
Storyline is all FF13 had. Was kinda disappointed in it. Oh my goodness, I forgot about donkey kong... must play again.
I haven't finished it. Got 20 hours in and decided that there just wasn't enough there to sustain me (and I had exams). In fairness, you can have a very good game and I won't finish it - Final Fantasy XII being a good case in point. Currently trying to get going again, 17 hours in.
I tried to play FF13 and just thought it utterly sucked; nothing about Final Fantasy has improved since 6, in fact it became much worse. Also, Mass Effect 3, not a bad game, but I have no hope for an improved ending.
You can say that again. Mass Effect 3 was golden until the ending. Then I wanted to jump off of a high place.
They really have. I liked seven, been trying to play it again but am lazy as all nonsense. But it just started to downgrade (I continue to be an optimist and hope it's only due to all the collective issues in the gaming world these days.) 13, really only worth the story line. The game play is linear, and like I said either in this post or another one, you are literally only going in a straight line for 99% of the game. Nothing to struggle with in it, no little hidden aspects (other than getting the GFs/Guardians/Eons/whatever they called them in that one), nada. I put too many hours into the game because I wanted to points but, video game wise, I tend to be the 'started it, might as well finish it.' On another note, there is this serious urge to start playing Left 4 dead again, despite the fact that it does quickly lose it's replay value for me on the Xbox with no fun little mod things.
That's why I hate 13, the plot and characters were introduced but by no means established, so for the first 8 hours of the game I had no idea who the characters were, or what their motivations were, or much of their personalities outside of the game narrative. I would have been more forgiving to the story if the game wasn't so linear. I didn't mind 10 too much, even though that was really linear too. The difference between 10 and 13 was that 10 actually felt like a real world, if nothing else. Magical elements aside, and say what you like about the stupid plot in 10, at least the world looked believable. The first 3 hours of 13 was on some non-discript highway, and the next 4 hours was in some ice cave. And I couldn't even remember how you got there or where it came from.
Have had FF13 sitting, waitinf for the to finish it for almost a year. I see no reason at all why i should. All about story, and a very bad one at that. Makes me want to pop in FF6 again and play a good game. Also, The Witcher 2 just came out on 360 today. Hearing good reviews and a game thats been on PC for a year. Can't wait to grab it.
I haven't played Mass Effect 3 yet but I have played Mass Effect 2, I think it is a brilliant game, graphically and in terms of the voice acting, the ending for that was well made, with many particular options, sadly in my first run through - Jack died - while everyone else survived, I wish to avoid the same fate this time simply because I want the achievement. I've heard Mass Effect 3 is good though, and that its ending isnt the best. But I'll still get it. Oh and Grunt and Garrus are probably my two favourite Mass Effect 2 characters.
I didn't hate the ending of Mass 3 as much as other fans apparently do. But it was still a let-down. Mass 3 is a very good game, one of my favorites game-play wise, and it has a very memorable first half. But after 3 games I think people were expecting something huge; some giant, breathtaking ending that would make you think differently about the entire series and the war against the Reapers. By comparison the ending of Mass 3 is strangely mundane and uninteresting. The final choice isn't really a choice at all, and the version of London found and fought in is stereotypical to the point of stupidity: keep in mind Mass Effect is set 100s of years in the future this London has Big Ben, and those red-telephone boxes - something I haven't actually seen since the early 1990s. I actually said to my friend who was watching me play 'Is this what Americans actually think London is like?'
The original Mass effect is still my favourite. Mind you, still yet to play ME3, but as it's already half in price and than some, i'll grab it soon i think. I just hope that some of the decisions i made in ME1 actually play out, which i'm not sure they will. Also, E3 is approaching fast, can't wait! Going to be a good one this year.
^Some of the decisions do play out, some don't. If you don't save the Rachni in ME1 it leads to a massive plot hole in ME3.
I might have to try and play ME backwards, because I was in my own lala land and didn't realize it was a series until I bought 2 all willy nilly. Poor Game stop guy recognizes me on sight somehow despite the fact that I'm not an avid game buyer. I'm slightly scared, the teenage brother and his friends were very insistent that Dante's infernal was a bad, bad, bad game and not anything to do with gore, blood or violence. It has been offered to let me play it if I do not currently enjoy my life... So, has anyone here played this game that can tell me what is going on with that game? Because my curiosity is spiked by the mere fact that teenage boys did not like it.
Yeah, um, the Canadians made that game. TBH, I would think you guys would still keep Big Ben centuries into the future. Would be a dumb-ass move if you just demolished something like that. That'd be like us deciding to remove the Washington Monumet or the Statue of Liberty. I honestly think the telephone boxes are just shoutouts to Doctor Who. Come on, sci-fi set in London, who wouldn't pass up THAT chance? And hey, at least your stereotypes are okay. People seem to think we southerners still live like it's the mid-1800s, and our homes are simple log cabins by the swamps. Anyways, I've never played that much Mass Effect, save for the Mass Effect 2. I didn't play the last game because I felt it ran out of ideas with the whole "OMG! EARTH IS INVADED!!!111" plot. I mean, really? Really?? Well, can't wait to see what E3 has to offer. I bet money on... Naughty Dog's The Last of Us A new Uncharted game? A new Zelda game? Fallout 4! More Assassin's Creed III info!
But Doctor Who has a blue police box... and I've seen those in Scotland. (Don't know about London.) I have never seen a red telephone box Having not played ME3, I'm just kind of picking on you. But in order for it to be a shout out, it would kind of have to match. Mind you, now that I think about it, I can't remember seeing a blue police box in Edinburgh, just the small towns/cities/place things.
Well, they probably didn't want to get their butts sued by Stephen Moffatt if their blue police boxes looked exactly like the TARDIS. I haven't played ME3, though. I kinda lost interest after I discovered the Uncharted series.
Speaking as someone who loves the poem. Please. Don't play Dante's Inferno. The game is terrible, and the story makes a complete mess of Dante's original work. Even still. Like most fans of Valve I'm still living in hope of a Half-Life 3 announcement. Na, the red phone boxes like you see in ME3 where commonly found across England until the mid 90s, when they were replaced with all glass ones, and then all scrapped around during the early 2000s. They were made famous by films staring Hugh Grant, early 90s love comedies and such.
Pretty certain the new Xbox will be mentioned which is all i care about. Half Life 3 would be nice. But we've said that for how many years? The new zelda game will probably be more details on the Wii U version, which looks very nice. ALSO - if you're talkijg about ME3 ending, plese use spoiler tags. i shouldn't have to mention this.
