well, i decided to finally catch up with the current trends a little bit and buy a game that was released only 3 years ago!! yeah, i got mass effect.

i'm a good 15/16 hours into it, and i like it. it really captures how i think space exploration would be like: a lot of rock, a bit of harsh weather and weird fucking sexy alien things in total recall style strip clubs. the game just keeps throwing quests down your throat though, and it gets annoying because they're pretty much all the same (go to planet find research lab kill turrets outside run in and deal with geth/angry cultists). the EXP system is pretty cool though, i like that i can get 96 exp by checking out the hull of my space ship, that sits nicely with me.

there's a lot of nice ideas in the game (i really love those monotone aliens who say how they're intending a sentence to be spoken before their dialogue, they're pretty cool) but the story is pretty boring and tedious, the characters largely there just to fill certain roles (dedicated soldier, good cop, archaeology girl, head hunter etc) but this game is pretty much all about the side quests anyway. i mean its really in depth, there's a lot going on and its easy to get pretty lost in it all, but its largely quantity over quality. i dunno, maybe itll pick up as the storyline missions go on, i'm not too far into it, i've mostly been going out surveying planets for weird teenage literature and alien dongs.

well, i decided to finally catch up with the current trends a little bit and buy a game that was released only 3 years ago!! yeah, i got mass effect.

i'm a good 15/16 hours into it, and i like it. it really captures how i think space exploration would be like: a lot of rock, a bit of harsh weather and weird fucking sexy alien things in total recall style strip clubs. the game just keeps throwing quests down your throat though, and it gets annoying because they're pretty much all the same (go to planet find research lab kill turrets outside run in and deal with geth/angry cultists). the EXP system is pretty cool though, i like that i can get 96 exp by checking out the hull of my space ship, that sits nicely with me.

there's a lot of nice ideas in the game (i really love those monotone aliens who say how they're intending a sentence to be spoken before their dialogue, they're pretty cool) but the story is pretty boring and tedious, the characters largely there just to fill certain roles (dedicated soldier, good cop, archaeology girl, head hunter etc) but this game is pretty much all about the side quests anyway. i mean its really in depth, there's a lot going on and its easy to get pretty lost in it all, but its largely quantity over quality. i dunno, maybe itll pick up as the storyline missions go on, i'm not too far into it, i've mostly been going out surveying planets for weird teenage literature and alien dongs.

it doesnt pick up at all

at all.

i also picked up star wars the force unleashed, the first one for the pc. i know this game got a lot of critiscism, but i think it's pretty good. the gameplay and controls are sometimes a bit awkward, and the game relies way more on the force then on lightsaber fighting, but still. i just think it's too bad you don't visit any classic planets like naboo or tatooine. it's also a bit strange that suddenly we have all these new jedi masters who never appeared during the prequel trilogy.

also been playing this today

shaak ti is in II and III and kazdan paratus isn't a master so there's really only rahm kota, and he was never on the high council which is kind of the only place we see lots of jedi together in the prequel films - conveniently off-screen. also the original death star, and in the current-gen console versions bespin

and i mean the game is called THE FORCE UNLEASHED i think the emphasis on the force might be a given ;)

been playing the version of force unleashed 2 that leaked 2 days early. it's pretty great - text is in russian but the voices are in english so it's not hard to follow. fucking major star wars nut, so there's no way i'd dislike it, but i really do like how much they've improved the game even if it's only like 4-5 hours long (aurgh...).

it doesnt pick up at all

at all.

oh well bess i better go back to mining RADINIUM or finding gas deposits in uranus or something

been playind dwarf fortress.. damn, it's HUGE..

been playind dwarf fortress.. damn, it's HUGE..

have you been playing it with a graphics patch?

man i can imagine a graphics patch for that game really just sucking a computers memory dry

Still playing Links Awakening, the uh singlescreen thing is probably what keeps me from enjoying it most but otherwise it's a blast. I went inside some random cave and there was a giant fish who did like a minute long dance sequence to 8bit mambo music and gave me an ocarina song. When I played the ocarina song I was warped to just some completely pointless pond area and a silent hovering ghost thing started following me around with no explanation. It doesn't do anything except make a spooky chiming sound whenever I change rooms, it's the best.

yes. i've been playing it with the mayday tileset. Also following the tutorial, I can't imagine playing this without following the tutorial first. I'm just amazed at how detailed and huge this game could be. From the tiniest details of internal organ and parts wounds to the realistic macrodesign of the world, its history and the geography.
It's just so awesome.

What do you mean by single screen thing?

What do you mean by single screen thing?

The way all the areas are broken up into screens of fixed height/width, without scrolling or whatever. It's a small thing but it makes all the individual locations seem kind of arbitrarily placed sometimes so you never get a real feeling of where you are. I don't know, maybe it's just me!

yeah I've had that same problem with other games, like nifflas's knytt series at times

I tried playing link's awakening on my other comp I'm currently not using because it started stinking when powered on for some reason. some of the stuff you guys mentioned is pretty good I guess but other than that I've found it tedious and not really entertaining at all. I don't think I like games anymore!