What Game Are You Playing At The Moment?

[Cretaceous Bob]

Originally Posted by standardman

Game of the year in January? Doesn't happen often but it's certainly a contender.

Consider this: Mass Effect has the same Metacritic score as Uncharted 2, recipient of many of last year's GotY awards. It is tied for 2nd best 360 game ever alongside The Orange Box and BioShock (also a popular choice for GotY). It's the 25th highest ranked game on Metacritic of all time on any platform.

You don't get much stronger than that.

[standardman]

I wasn't disagreeing, just pointing the oddness of what might be the game of the year popping up in January.

I realise most people played them on it, but calling Bioshock and Orange Box xbox games pains me a bit too.

[Junkenstein]

Originally Posted by Cretaceous Bob

Yeah, I finished it with a Paragon female Soldier that I carried over from the first game. It's soooo fucking good.

I love pretty much all of the characters, except maybe Jack. Garrus, Mordin, and Grunt are great characters, but my favourite from ME2 is my favourite from 1: Tali.
I think it speaks to the quality of the characters that I was fucking committed to getting everyone through that alive.

Me too, and that cant be attributed just to the amazing graphics or the story (Which is simple but effective). It's the atmosphere and charcter design that pushed me to play like a maniac at every chance i got. I was hooked to the faith of the normandy team. More than the first. The old charcters become even more layered and REAL than the first. And the new ones, well...

Thane, the Crying Freeman of the ME world? Jack, that is like a psychological study on what happens when a woman is abused repeatedly. Mordin, with his spock-like logic and his unexpected bursts of sweetness.

And Grunt? I loved Wrex, but the whole Grunt character arc made me fall in love not only with him, but with all the Krogan race.

The quotable lines, the deep moral and heartbreaking moments, all drenched in tight action. Amazing.

Bioshock 2 will have to be a real masterpiece to beat it.

[standardman]

Trine is on sale on Steam - 75% off. Which actually makes it decently priced for a change.

[brizzlewizzle]

Originally Posted by Cretaceous Bob

Yeah, I finished it with a Paragon female Soldier that I carried over from the first game. It's soooo fucking good.

I love pretty much all of the characters, except maybe Jack.

Jack is awesome. I'm just pissed that you don't get to have a lesbo fuck with her. It was looking so good, but then she backed away. bitch.

[brighteye]

Originally Posted by brizzlewizzle

Jack is awesome. I'm just pissed that you don't get to have a lesbo fuck with her. It was looking so good, but then she backed away. bitch.

That one was really wierd as she have done a threesome before. Makes you wonder if its personal or if female shepard have a bad hygiene or something.

[brizzlewizzle]

Well, just finished it, lost Mordin and Thane.. Not sure if I can be bothered going back and trying to get through with them. Thane will probably die between 2 and 3 anyway.

[Cretaceous Bob]

Originally Posted by standardman

I wasn't disagreeing, just pointing the oddness of what might be the game of the year popping up in January.

I realise most people played them on it, but calling Bioshock and Orange Box xbox games pains me a bit too.

I wasn't calling them Xbox games dude, I was simply stating that they were tied with Mass Effect 2 for 2nd best 360 game on Metacritic, and I think everyone can agree those are good games on any platform.

[standardman]

Originally Posted by Cretaceous Bob

I wasn't calling them Xbox games dude, I was simply stating that they were tied with Mass Effect 2 for 2nd best 360 game on Metacritic, and I think everyone can agree those are good games on any platform.

Oh I know, it's just odd that the best xbox games are pc games and most people play them as xbox games.

[Junkenstein]

Originally Posted by standardman

Oh I know, it's just odd that the best xbox games are pc games and most people play them as xbox games.

It's odd that most games are designed for consoles (xbox in particular) and it shows becau8se i had to buy a controller to play 'em without going insane... And it isnt even the type of game that changes this problem. ME actually plays perfectly with keyboard and mouse, so does Gears of War, while Red Faction or GTA IV are a mess (And GTA IV has so many bugs it makes me sick).

Pc gaming is being ignored, the excuse is always piracy (like console piracy didnt exist) and stuff like Brutal Legend, Uncharted or GOW 2 gets lost.

Sorry, got off on a tangent.

You liking Bioshock 2, S.? The atmosphere is even more cinematic this time. There are a few skewered things i gotta get used to (the whole drill fuel thing is annoying), but the mood is Terry Gilliamesque as ever (with a pinch of Kubrick).