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Post by Chris Tilton on Feb 8, 2010 11:02:15 GMT -8
Mass Effect 2....amazing game from start to finish. Planet Scaning is ok with music from your harddrive. (ULTRAMAN!) Only thing that annoys me is the unskipable intro. I´ve started to score it with different music, and the best result is when you start playing Destruction of the Hometree when the text appears. When your timing is right it works from the point where the attack beginns until the sad sunrise before the main credits. And again Horner plays with your emotions. Why do you care that the intro is unskippable? (Though, if you keep hitting X, you can get through it extremely quickly). Do you find the opening of the game, where they train you how to use cover and shoot a gun, so compelling that you have to keep playing it over and over again?
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Post by General Silliness on Feb 8, 2010 13:37:19 GMT -8
Mass Effect 2....amazing game from start to finish. Planet Scaning is ok with music from your harddrive. (ULTRAMAN!) Only thing that annoys me is the unskipable intro. I´ve started to score it with different music, and the best result is when you start playing Destruction of the Hometree when the text appears. When your timing is right it works from the point where the attack beginns until the sad sunrise before the main credits. And again Horner plays with your emotions. Why do you care that the intro is unskippable? (Though, if you keep hitting X, you can get through it extremely quickly). Do you find the opening of the game, where they train you how to use cover and shoot a gun, so compelling that you have to keep playing it over and over again? i tried out different things, mostly achievement-based,or different classes and after 10 times the intro isn´t so exciting.
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Post by General Silliness on Feb 19, 2010 19:08:07 GMT -8
General Knoxx previews are.....well......10 Bucks for all of that? Really? This thing has more content then most (if not all) of the Fallout 3 DLCs combined. And sooo much new stuff. It will take some time to earn those 250 AP. My guess is it comes on March 2nd. Nice March. Borderlands DLC followed by FFXIII followed by Dragon Age Awakening followed by God of War 3 followed by Just Cause 2 and maybe in between some Mass Effect 2 DLC and Battlefield BC2 as rental and maybe...maybe Resonance of Fate. Looks good, but difficult. No chance i´m gonna finish it before April. When the Madness starts anew.
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Post by General Silliness on Feb 23, 2010 20:09:28 GMT -8
I can confirm that the secret armory of general knoxx is one, if not the best DLC yet. it is indeed bigger then all of Fallout 3 DLC combined. i guess it will take 8 hours for story only and 20+ to do everything. the new areas are immense, missions are long and challenging, level design and pretty much everything is improved. This DLC, like Ballad of Gay Tony is much better than the original game. I would like to know how much time they needed to finish it.
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Post by General Silliness on Feb 25, 2010 12:25:02 GMT -8
15 hours in knoxx and still not all missions finished. but the optional final boss is stuff of nightmares.killing him will require 4 well prepared players and some tactics.
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Post by Jockolantern on Mar 1, 2010 14:01:23 GMT -8
Have no fear, folks. Mega Man 10 is every bit as outstanding as its two year-old predecessor. Cannot recommend it highly enough.
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Post by Chris Tilton on Mar 3, 2010 23:01:25 GMT -8
I'm about halfway through Bioshock 2. It think I'm going to stop now. One of the worst high profile games I've ever played. And that's coming from someone who absolutely adores the first Bioshock.
EDIT: To reiterate, it is not a broken game by any means. I find the gameplay, the story, and the environments to be an exercise in tedium. The game is just boring, and seems to be relying on the same sense of wonder from the first game, only without the wonder.
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Post by General Silliness on Mar 4, 2010 16:52:57 GMT -8
I'm about halfway through Bioshock 2. It think I'm going to stop now. One of the worst high profile games I've ever played. And that's coming from someone who absolutely adores the first Bioshock. EDIT: To reiterate, it is not a broken game by any means. I find the gameplay, the story, and the environments to be an exercise in tedium. The game is just boring, and seems to be relying on the same sense of wonder from the first game, only without the wonder. last two hours are quite exciting and pulse-pounding. But Multiplayer is a TON of Fun.Until you get the Lag. thank god i ordered the ps3 version of FFXIII....RROD-Time for me.
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Post by Chris Tilton on Mar 4, 2010 17:02:31 GMT -8
I'm about halfway through Bioshock 2. It think I'm going to stop now. One of the worst high profile games I've ever played. And that's coming from someone who absolutely adores the first Bioshock. EDIT: To reiterate, it is not a broken game by any means. I find the gameplay, the story, and the environments to be an exercise in tedium. The game is just boring, and seems to be relying on the same sense of wonder from the first game, only without the wonder. last two hours are quite exciting and pulse-pounding. But Multiplayer is a TON of Fun.Until you get the Lag. thank god i ordered the ps3 version of FFXIII....RROD-Time for me. I read the wikipedia entry to find out about the rest of the plot, and it sounds terrible. I don't think I'd find multiplayer fun if I think the basic shooting mechanic to be very unsatisfying.
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Post by General Silliness on Mar 4, 2010 17:11:24 GMT -8
last two hours are quite exciting and pulse-pounding. But Multiplayer is a TON of Fun.Until you get the Lag. thank god i ordered the ps3 version of FFXIII....RROD-Time for me. I read the wikipedia entry to find out about the rest of the plot, and it sounds terrible. I don't think I'd find multiplayer fun if I think the basic shooting mechanic to be very unsatisfying. i rented the game on a weekend and tried out the MP part after beating the solo campaign. Nice maps and interesting reward system for guns and plasmids. definately felt better then the main game shooter-wise.sure won´t help if you don´t like the game.for better shooting get yourself general knoxx dlc.
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Post by Hook on Mar 5, 2010 16:00:08 GMT -8
I'm about halfway through Bioshock 2. It think I'm going to stop now. One of the worst high profile games I've ever played. And that's coming from someone who absolutely adores the first Bioshock. EDIT: To reiterate, it is not a broken game by any means. I find the gameplay, the story, and the environments to be an exercise in tedium. The game is just boring, and seems to be relying on the same sense of wonder from the first game, only without the wonder. Oh, that sucks. No, that... that really sucks. Ok, getting the regular version. Also, care to expand a little?
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Post by General Silliness on Mar 5, 2010 16:55:28 GMT -8
Screw Bioshock2....PORTAL 2 has been announced as a full-fletched retail game. No other news needed.
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Post by Chris Tilton on Mar 6, 2010 9:41:35 GMT -8
I'm about halfway through Bioshock 2. It think I'm going to stop now. One of the worst high profile games I've ever played. And that's coming from someone who absolutely adores the first Bioshock. EDIT: To reiterate, it is not a broken game by any means. I find the gameplay, the story, and the environments to be an exercise in tedium. The game is just boring, and seems to be relying on the same sense of wonder from the first game, only without the wonder. Oh, that sucks. No, that... that really sucks. Ok, getting the regular version. Also, care to expand a little? First off, I don't feel any connection with being a big daddy, and I certainly don't feel like one when when I move and a regular splicer can actually kick my ass. There's no weight to my character, nor any personality that I can relate to. I know your guy was the silent type in the first one, but at least you could relate to be stranded in such a strange and fascinating place. There's Rapture itself. The mystery of this place and what happened and how it collapsed was part of the intrigue. Now we know, and trying to force that same mystery upon the player isn't working. Also, the locations you go to feel like "generic Rapture," if there is such a place. The locations feel like obvious level designs, and not real places that seem to have a purpose and personality. There's no interesting characters. Everyone you meet is your stock lunatic and/or double crosser constantly saying "do this," "go there," "get that generic key so you can proceed to the next level," ad nauseum. No one is memorable. And it's often unclear why you are doing what you are doing or why you are going where you are going. It feels like a platformer, only with no platforming where your goal is to get to a checkpoint simply because one exists. The shooting is unsatisfying. It was the weakest point of the first game, and it's the weakest point here. There's no feeling of impact when you shoot someone, or even get hit. Big Sisters, which attack you at very gamey predictable moments, are spastic bullet sponges that are tedious to fight as you fling the cursor around hoping you are hitting her. Defending a little sister from magically spawning enemies that somehow magically know the little sister is gathering ADAM is also boring and repetitious. It is also laughably inconsistent. Splicers almost always completely ignore AI controlled Big Daddies and little sisters (seems they only interact if you hypnotize them or its a scripted moment), yet they are all over you the moment they see you. The entire game makes no sense. The graphics are dated. It's using the same Unreal 2.5 engine that felt slightly dated in 2007, and feels really dated nearly 2 1/2 years later. It feels like everything was created with a random "Bioshock Level Generator." This game isn't even "more of the same." It's "more of not even nearly as good as the same."
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Post by General Silliness on Mar 6, 2010 12:36:22 GMT -8
Screw Bioshock2....PORTAL 2 has been announced as a full-fletched retail game. No other news needed. Coming this holiday. Portal 2 is the sequel to 2007's Game of the Year and draws from the award-winning formula of innovative game play, story, and music that earned the original over 70 industry accolades. Features single and multiplayer co-op modes. The single-player portion of Portal 2 introduces a cast of dynamic new characters, a host of fresh puzzle elements, and a much larger set of devious test chambers. Players will explore never-before-seen areas of the Aperture Science Labs and be reunited with GLaDOS, the occasionally murderous computer companion who guided them through the original game. The game's two-player cooperative mode features its own entirely separate campaign with a unique story, test chambers, and two new player characters. This new mode forces players to reconsider everything they thought they knew about portals. Success will require them to not just act cooperatively, but to think cooperatively my brain already hurts
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Post by General Silliness on Mar 7, 2010 16:14:45 GMT -8
Have more fun with Just Cause 2 Demo than with the whole first game.Being rewarded for destruction is very addictive.
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