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[ukimalefu]

Smoke_Tetsu, on 03 May 2012 - 11:33 PM, said:

Yeah the thing is I play those same games from time to time.. and I have always found Quake 2 to be rather boring and a let down I actually enjoyed Quake 4 a lot more than it. Duke Nukem 3D is a good one and I still play it as well as Doom and sometimes even Marathon 2. But even when I play those games I realize I'm doing the same things each time I play them. Get card A, head to door A, get card B get to door B, or press switch\computer A, B, C, ultimately getting to the exit... and once again you can't choose which order you get those keys. But I'm repeating myself ast this point so nevermind.

What did you just say about Marathon!?  

[MadDog]

Dont get me started on COD4.  All too often there comes  a point in a game, when I realize.."this game sucks, but I will finish it because of the money I paid for it".  I hit that in Q4 early on, and same for COD4 when I realized they used the "clown-car" spawn model.

Maybe I am harder than most to please when it comes to suspension of disbelief, but I thought such games as Max Payne, MP2, Fallout 3, COD 1, MOH1 worked well for me.  I plan on playing Mass Effect at some point, which I hear is really fun.

Mad DOg

I should of also mentioned DeusEx.  Great in principle, giving the player many options, but somewhat spoiled by the poorly thought out weapons.  Maybe DE2 is better ?

Another good game:  Dead Space. I would rate it 9 of 10 except for the popsnizzlety mouse tracking you have to hack.

Mad Dog

[Wumpus]

MadDog, on 09 May 2012 - 07:21 PM, said:

Maybe DE2 is better ?


Another good game:  Dead Space. I would rate it 9 of 10 except for the popsnizzlety mouse tracking you have to hack.

Mad Dog

DE2 is terrible, skip it at all costs.

I played Dead Space. I wouldn't give it 9 out of 10, but to each their own. It was fun in its own way, but I'm not a big fan of horror titles that limit your movement on purpose to make things more difficult.

[Frost]

MadDog, on 09 May 2012 - 07:21 PM, said:

Maybe I am harder than most to please when it comes to suspension of disbelief, but I thought such games as Max Payne, MP2, Fallout 3, COD 1, MOH1 worked well for me.  I plan on playing Mass Effect at some point, which I hear is really fun.

With you 100% on all those games.

And Mass Effect is like the pinnacle of games. So good, that even when the devs make missteps that really piss you off, the game is still light years ahead of its cheap unfulfilling competition. I found myself bitching about changes they made in ME2 that really irked me, then I went to play some random shooter by Activision and went, "Oh yeah, I guess maybe I blew that out of proportion." The first game still ranks in my top 3 games ever, and will probably always retain that position.

Just do yourself one favor: when you reach a point at the end of the third game where someone important tells you, "You did good, son. I'm proud of you," shut the game off that instant and make up an ending that makes sense to you in light of how you played the main character. Naturally you won't actually do that, but after you don't, you'll think back to this and say, "Man, I should have listened to him."

100-150 hours of shining interactive storytelling comes crashing down with a thematically revolting, contrived, fan-fiction quality conclusion that is horribly out of step with the main narrative. I thought all the internet-wide griping was hyperbole, but then I finished it just this last Saturday. Not hyperbole.

[Wumpus]

Huge ME fan here and going to do ME3 shortly. Looking forward to seeing how my characters (which I've saved since ME1) turn out. I know the ending supposedly sucks but I'm still going to see. Plus I hear they are adding ending DLC to help make up for it.

[Tesseract]

Smoke_Tetsu, on 03 May 2012 - 07:28 PM, said:

That's kind of a new one though... "in funnels" anyone?  

I believe the term officially endorsed by the gods of gaming is "tube".