Reply With QuoteGears of War 2, I have to say it is one of the more exciting games ive played in a while. I just got over a Halo Wars addiction. Too bad the Covenant wasnt a playable campaign.
EvE Online,
and Oblivion. Sounds odd, but I never really played that game much. Picked up the GOTY edition lately for $20 and now that I have a PC that can handle the game at high res/smoothly, it's amazing. (Main reason I didn't get it before was the old rig couldn't really play it)
"We live in a society absolutely dependent on science and technology and yet have cleverly arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. That's a clear prescription for disaster."
-Carl Sagan
Gears of War 2, I have to say it is one of the more exciting games ive played in a while. I just got over a Halo Wars addiction. Too bad the Covenant wasnt a playable campaign.
Star Ocean The Last Hope. A flawed game with much wasted potential.
“Our opponent is an alien starship packed with atomic bomc,” I said. “We have a protractor. Okay, I'll go home and see if I can scrounge up a ruler and a piece of string.”
I've been messing with Darkfall, though I'm not terribly fond of the anarchic nature of its PVP system.
Fortunately there's a copy of Resident Evil 5 here just begging to take my mind off of Darkfall.
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Care to elaborate a bit? I was looking forwards to it being released here in Europe. Still waiting on Tales of Vesperia as well.
I'm currently playing mostly on my PSP as I am away from home now.
Got Patapon 2 (Japanese people be crazy in the head to make such odd, but fun games). Resistance, which is quite good. And Star Ocean 2, which is really good.
Gears 2 here too.
Although I think I'm near the end..
-Des!
I know this puts me way behind the times, but I just picked up NW Nights 2 Gold with the Ex-pacs on a nice deal from Amazon, and since I'm not playing any MMOs, I've been disappointed with the latest crop of PC RPGs...This is the first one that seems to have it right. Nice pace, able to switch views such that you can play in the style that suits you best. Resting isn’t painful the way it was in past DnD games...NWN2 really seems to be the RPG I’ve been looking for. I think I was eyebrows deep in WoW when it first came out, so I'm finally getting to it. I like it much more than The Witcher (I’m trypically not fond of being forced into 1 player), and NWN2 blows Sacred 2 out of the water for story and playability (Which is monotonous and buggy in Sacred 2), which are the last 2 PC RPGs I've tried. NWN 2 Patching was painless, despite taking a while, and so far I haven’t run into any bugs. Granted they’ve had some time to patch most of them out.
I'm not surprised. The combat is fun though right?
If it is anything like the third game, the story, voice acting, and cutscenes are highly annoying. I still want to play it though.
Crazy hehe. I found the witcher to be better, as it was far more fluid (NWN 2 didn't really have much of an optimized engine), but it certainly was less DND based than NWN 2.
You might want to check out Drakensang, it is released on Steam now as well. It seems to be a tad more advanced again than NWN 2.
A small thread on it at the FOH forums, http://www.fohguild.org/forums/other...rakensang.html
Some links to some mods there that make it a bit better (run speed in partiqular). It looks better and runs better than NWN 2, but the story is a bit... generic. But still enjoy it. A very long game too apparenly, so lots of gaming for the money if you like it. I think there is a demo for it as well.
Drakensang, like NWN, is based on a pen and paper rule system (Das Schwarze Auge / The Dark Eye). However, unlike NWN, it does not offer any help with character progression beyond the initial templates that you start out with. I.e. you can pick a pre-made character to start with, but any progression beyond that is entirely up to you. The game doesn't give you any pointers, so you're expected to understand the rule system behind it.
There's also the problem that you can get "stuck" in areas that are too difficult for you to handle, and the only way out is to reload a previous save. Certain areas cannot be accessed again after you leave them, making it impossible to finish certain quests or uncover secrets if you didn't bring the right kind of party to begin with (you can only swap out party members in the main city). Patches helped a little with that.
The main quest of the game is acceptable, if somewhat bland. Unfortunately side quests often take you so far away from your initial task that by the time you're done with them, you may have forgotten what it is you were supposed to be doing.
Finally, expect to battle your way through hordes of identical mobs, as that is the game's primary way of creating a challenge. There are few fights that diverge from that pattern.
I played (suffered) through the German version of the game when it first came out last year, and it was probably the least enjoyable gaming experience I've had in ages. The game certainly had its moments, but all that stuck were the bad parts.
Got Drake's Fortune and Little Big Planet in the mail today. Those sneaky brits sell their games a lot cheaper than you could get them here
I'm still having too much fun getting into EQ2 though. Lvl 25 and I've taken to finishing grey quests for the AAxp before I move on into thundersteppes. Antonica alone is enough fun for now, can't even begin to imagine what lies beyond.
I think I'm a little excited.
And I'm glad that fucking moon blew up. And millions of grimlings and robe-shades along with it. And snakes. Snakes on a MOON.
Anyway, starting to realize how the game works. Been over a year since I played EQ2, and there were still all the quests in the journal... I was quite lost to say the least.
Best thing though, being able to wear a robe visually (I play a monk) and not gimping my stats with it.
You might also want to try a new character on either Faydwer or Kunark. Those newbie areas are far more fun than the old ones.
Yeah, I have a lvl 2 Sarnak Necromancer coming up, but she's been sitting there ever since I tried EQ2 the last time sometime last summer. Having too much fun on my monk for the time being. I'm having so much of a blast in fact, that my PS3 is just sitting there collecting dust, being beaten up by a 5 year old game.
That's because our currency fell through the floor recently. Until then, we were paying far more than you guys for games...Those sneaky brits sell their games a lot cheaper than you could get them here
Eve.
I'm ruminating on getting Halo Wars and Gears 2, as well as Star Ocean 4. I need a BIG, LOOONG epic RPG that I can't manage to kick the shit out of in a couple of days played. I'm glaring at *you* Fable 2. (yes yes I know, Fable wasn't supposed to be considered "deep". Damn them for calling the thing "fable" then).
Where are you Final Fantasy? You're my only hope.
ZZ
Have you tried Lost Odyssey yet?
I'm not really playing anything new yet. Killzone 2 when I have over an hour to play, SF4 when I have less than an hour to play.
I did pick up two other games I will probably be talking about soon, but first I finally started playing Disgaea. I like it so far, although I will probably only play through the story and put the insane optional stuff off until later. The item world by itself is a huge timesink.
Not yet. I'll look into that. It just chaps my ass at the thought of buying "used" games, but $60 a game is friggin annoying for the new shit. And I don't like the idea of renting games, I dunno why. LOL
ZZ
Lost Odyssey is $28 from Amazon. You can usually find sealed copies of older games for the same price that the usual suspects charge for used ones if you look around some.
I bought Lost Odyssey used for like $30 (no problems), and it was worth every penny. Despite its flaws (e.g., random encounters), LO is far superior to Star Ocean 4 and it will last you well over 30 hours. I'd rank it as the second best RPG on the 360.
“Our opponent is an alien starship packed with atomic bomc,” I said. “We have a protractor. Okay, I'll go home and see if I can scrounge up a ruler and a piece of string.”
Is Tales your favourite Torcer?
Still no sign of it being released in Europe yet...
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