Felix Neumann
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I liked Oblivion..and Fallout 3 was even fucking cooler This splatter moments are KILLER! The story is great and also the graphics. But hell yeah..I want Mass Effect 2. NOW!!!
Sorry dudes, I'm just a purist for the first two, which is why I'm so excited to have Obsidian (remnants of Black Isle, makers of the finest RPGs EVER) working at it. Fallout 3 was a bitter disappointment to me, and more than that it shows how much gaming culture has degenerated to allow a watered down, stat-based, open world FPS to pass as an RPG these days. One that got well received no less. And now I'm even seeing people that say it is better than the first two. It honestly makes me doubt the state of humanity!
Dude, this fall is gonna be HEAVEN - Mass Effect 2, Modern Warfare 2, Uncharted 2, sequels to three of my all-time favorite games of this generation! notworthy
Don't forget Assassin's Creed 2 and Bioshock 2: Sea of Dreams this year too!
I lost all hope for Bioshock 2 when i got to know that you will be playing as a big daddy through the entire game. uke:
Holy shit, I just got a flashback from the day when Fallout 2 arrived in the mail. Never heard of the game before, and for the first 15 minutes I was all "what the fuck, is this game really about slamming a bunch of scorpions with a spear in some dark cave?"
And an hour later I was a believer
Hell yeah. I actually tossed the game when I was going through the Temple of Trials. I thought it was just some generic dungeon crawler. My lord though, after I got out that game became something else. Something friggin special on a level that few games have ever matched... and most of them have been Black Isle titles.
If you older Fallout fans have never checked it out, please play Planescape - Torment. There is something like over 1 million lines of dialogue written and it's almost like playing through an interactive novel with the most amazing story line and setting. It's the one game that matches the brilliance of FO2 for me, albeit in a different way.
And if you'd excuse me going all truthful and antagonistic again:
Mass Effect is a shitty KOTOR.
Hopefully playing as a Big Daddy will make the new Bioshock actually somewhat exciting. Maybe drilling some faces will get over the tedium of fighting the same 4 enemies ad nauseam in some claustrophobic, linear, cut down System Shock, cut'n'dry FPS romp.
Yeah, the gameplay in Bioshock was lacking, and your right about the linearity and claustrophobia, but MY GOD the environments, design, and scripting, they held my interest for multiple playthroughs! Never have I played a game that was as much of a work of art IMO!
I actually own Shadow, just haven't gotten around to playing it yet!