Games: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly -- What's Hot and What's Not
Here's your opportunity to comment on games in general and specifically.
So much lately is being written in reviews and gaming forums, commenting on games that appear at the outset to be the latest and greatest. Some new games turn out to be much ado about nothing. Some new games seem to be yesterday's wonder with merely the dust knocked off. But which are the games that are truly creative, technically superior, and downright fun to play?
Sound off! Tell us what games you find to be intriguing, technically challenging, or unfortunately, God's gift to the insomniac!
Please let us know the WHY of what you think. Give details when you can. Help out your fellow gamer!
This thread is fair game for computer games, XBox, PlayStation, and Nintendo. Please, no gaming platform fanboy-type posts. This thread is about the games themselves.
So much lately is being written in reviews and gaming forums, commenting on games that appear at the outset to be the latest and greatest. Some new games turn out to be much ado about nothing. Some new games seem to be yesterday's wonder with merely the dust knocked off. But which are the games that are truly creative, technically superior, and downright fun to play?
Sound off! Tell us what games you find to be intriguing, technically challenging, or unfortunately, God's gift to the insomniac!
Please let us know the WHY of what you think. Give details when you can. Help out your fellow gamer!
This thread is fair game for computer games, XBox, PlayStation, and Nintendo. Please, no gaming platform fanboy-type posts. This thread is about the games themselves.
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But seriously:
-This is one game that is *not* one step behind the current generation of video cards, to the dismay of my 9500... but low graphics settings don't stop this game from being lots of fun.
-There's so much to do in the game; I just like exploring... it's the first great single player game in a long time, or maybe since its predecessor, Morrowind.
-It's a balanced RPG with a get-better-as-you-practice system of advancement.
-Then there's all the mods,
-the potential for more mods (the community is huge), and
-the potential to make your own mod!
As far as latest and greatest and goes, Oblivion is the real thing.
This game is old and has crappy graphics, but it was state of the art in 1999. It is one of the best games I've ever played. It never ends, has thousands of missions, roles, places to go.... I've never played every single role in the game...
The absolute best game I've ever played is Final Fantasy VII. That game got me hooked. I played for 57 hours I think, I felt like crying when Aeris died... And Tifa was hot...
Giants: Citizen Kabuto
Sim City series
StarCraft/Brood Wars
Dungeon Siege
EverQuest
Tyrian
Megaman 2
Sonic the Hedgehog 2
Galaxy 5000
tifa was hotter in the game
I've had a lot of fun lately playing Romancing SaGa: Minstrel Song. I'm the only one I know that likes the SaGa games but if you like the series it's a worthy addition and lacks the more annoying aspects from the earlier games (no consumable armor). I think it has like 12 different storylines that all converge around the end. I've played it for about 40 hours and I'm getting near the end of one storyline.
-drasnor
Oblivion. It's just so open-ended, and so pretty. There's just so much to keep you busy at all times. The only thing that I don't like is that there's no multiplayer to it. I already want to play through it again so I can be a badguy.
Tepid:
BF2. I had a blast when I was playing it a lot, but the idiots ruined it for me. It also seems that EA was more concerned with making money than fixing problems with the game. I'd probably play a lot more if I didn't play oblivion.
I agree! I played it through 3 times in a week and a half the summer after it came out. Once just normal, the second with my game genie (was fun starting the game with the best sword for cloud) and the third with the walkthrough. I loved it each time.......and cried at the end each time.
Oblivion
Despite it's flaws still one of the best games ever made (IMO). So much to do and see, and the mod community is just getting started. I wouldn't be suprised if a mod comes along within the next year or so that is even better than the original game.
First 2 games of the X-COM series (enemy unknown & terror from the deep)
Had a unique magic that was lost in the later games. Even with the dodgy graphics and the repetitive missions the core gameplay of this series has never been bettered or even matched.
Master of orion 2
Again, dodgy graphics couldn't stop this behometh of a space strategy game from eating up a huge amount of my free time. I don't think I've ever spent as long playing a game as I did with this beauty.
Unreal (the original single player game, not UT)
My favourite FPS ever. The moment when you first step out of the prison ship onto the planet surface and see the grass stretching away on front of you is one of my all time best gaming memories. Probably didn't add very much to the FPS genre when it came to gameplay, but was a perfect example of blending classic gaming design with new technology to create something special.
I remember "in the old days" when I had an NES, SNES, etc. I'd finish a game, and be hooked the entire time. Now, I have so many unfinished games lying on my shelf, it's rediculous.
Doom 3, for instance. What a joke. All the hype behind it. It may have looked good, but god it was boring. I fell for that. Then I fell for it again with Quake 4. Grrr!
The last game that kept my interest was WoW. Granted, it's an MMO, so it's constantly changing, and there's a lot of human interaction. I just got back into Guild Wars, and it's a lot of fun too.
As for single player game that has my interest: Oblivion is amazing. I just finally picked up Kingdom Hearts. Fantastic game. I actually played a Demo of G.R.A.W. last night on my 360. I really liked it. I may pick it up soon.
I used to be a big FPS fan, but now it's a bunch of the same ol' shizzle. "This game is going to be totally inovative! Look! We added a monkey by your side!"
Although, I enjoyed Half-Life 2 immensely. That's, in my opinion, and awesome FPS. I'm super excited about Epsiode 1's release.
Sorry, just a bunch of random thoughts. I'll probably post more later.
I love FFVII, I've logged more than 100 hours on my playstation and about 50 hours using an emulator on my laptop. Right now I'm working on doing everything, which can take a while since it's pretty in depth.
It can be tedious, but they do exist. I'm part of a unit that has played 3 games in a way that's been dubbed "Tactical Realism," we started before the style of play even had a name. The [3rd ID] started in the beta 1.0 days of Day of Defeat. We left when Steam took it over and moved to Call of Duty, then United Offensive, and currently play Call of Duty 2.
We pride ourselves on our ability to use communication and strategy even in public play, shunning run and gun, grenade spam, and general asshattery on our server. We're not alone anymore, many other units have since spawned up following the same style of play in various games. MOH, COD, and the more recent RO caiter to our style of play, and I know BF2 and AA units exist as well.
If you're unimpressed with who you're playing with online, try googling the FPS's name with "Tactical Realism" after the name to find a unit/clan that's willing to give you a better experience online.
Thats pretty cool.
Yeah, it completely changed the way I look at online shooters alltogether. I've basically been spoiled with the gameplay, and I can't stand being in a server that isn't "tactically realistic."
The unit I'm part of (we hate being called a clan) actually takes it a step further, following WWII rank structure and command. We have a very stringent acceptance policy on potential recruits, some wait to be enlisted up to 8 or 9 months. We want someone that is devoted to our style of play and that's proven they're worthy of wearing our tags, we don't accept anyone on impulse. After a basic training class of a month or so, they're promoted to a PFC and slowly move up the ranks after proving their worth within the unit. Nomad (Thrax's better half
We have drills twice a week, consists of going over maps, techniques, squad movement, etc. and any announcements we have. The 5 year old unit was founded by a WWII reenactor from Florida, and carried some of the more interesting traditions of the Army with him to the game. For instance, in these drills we have our own CORD (Close Order Rifle Drill) that all members of the unit are expected to pass. Any major WWII memorials we perform the drill as a sign of respect as well, and after any matches its our way of saying "good game."
There is actually so much involvement with the tactically realistic style of play from United Offensive alone that it allowed us to re-create a campaign league from the day of defeat days we once competed in. I'm an administrator for The European Theatre of Operations, a dynamic campaign that allows tactically realistic units to compete in something other than a normal ladder league, ...think Risk's world map with each hex being an ingame COD map that's played upon. The results of the previous campaign directly affect the next.
Our first campaign was a realistic one, the allied forces attempted to break Normandy and France from axis forces. We had 5 units "storm" the beaches of Normandy (the COD Dog1 map) and allied paradrops further inland. After 12 or so weeks, the axis forces had finally pushed the allied advance out of the sector. The second campaign will start soon with something that would have reasonably happened had the Luftwaffe been more successful, German troops storming the beaches of Britian in "Operation Sealion." With over 1200 members, 13k forum posts, and 3 million website hits in just one year, I can safely say it was a success.
Basically, I'd say that Tactical Realism is something that is hot. Its showing itself in more games, people are demanding it. Modifications like Day of Defeat, Resistance and Liberation, 1944:D-Day, Red Orchestra, etc all caiter more and more to "realistic play." The FPS you play dramatically changes when you have a new reason to play it, and its something that makes even older games continually interesting. You build a community as strong as the one here if you stick with it. The 3rd ID's 5 years of existance has done just that.
yes, what he said...except i think the graphics on a good card cranked way up kick arse!
Guild Wars: Factions
you can read all about it on its website...but I've been stuck in it hard time... I even missed reading Short-Media forums for 2 days
i also picked up NFS:Most Wanted...gonna try it out um sometime if I ever get away from my assasion..................
Don't get me wrong, I think the graphics are amazing but if you compare it to Everquest 2 it's not as good (But still good).
Rock of the Marne.
Nous Resterons La!
Anyway, I used to be part of a virtual army which used Operation Flashpoint for all it's missions and campaigns, the army part being the "Seawolves Armed Forces (SWAF)" where every game you were in you'd have to write up a report at the end and submit it, everyone had ranks, medals depending on what was done and where, honours, even JAG, which was interesting.
It's weird going back though. The blocky pineapple arms made me giggle :P
Since I'm on the topic of games, it's nearly the end of the year and I'm finishing up my coursework. I thought about buying myself a little treat and am kinda stuck between these: -
GW: Factions. It looks really cool, but atm I'm a bit bored with the original. I was hoping the new installment with new stories, missions and classes might get me back into it.
NFS: Most Wanted. It's about £20 and I wanna game that looks pretty.
FFXI. It's an MMO capable of eating up my Summer holiday and it's FF. Hope it's good.
Any reccomendations?
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IRT to the thread, I bought Oblivion and it's awesome
CS Source is a good game too. Pretty graphics and good framerate even for mid/low end machines. Everything should take a page from Valve's book :P. Just bear in mind it's not 1.6. I still make that mistake and get my arse handed to me :P. Speaking of HL2 mods, are there any reports on Team Fortress for Source?
BF2 is a good game. Or atleast sometimes it is. I think it really comes into its own when you play with friends. By yourself on a public gets a bit samey for me. Personally, I'm waiting very impatiently for Quake Wars
Its a great game and all, but it gets old rather quickly. I found myself playing it soley to beat it, rather than enjoying it at the higher up levels. The game's saving grace at the end was a fairly fun cinematic sequence (which could have been used more throughout the game IMO) ...other than that its the same thing over and over again.
Game runs like this...
You have a position on a "blacklist" of racers, you want to climb to #1 to get back a car that was unfairly taken from you during a race. To do so, you have to complete races and increase your wanted level through a points system.
The wanted level stuff is fun at first, and really makes the game worthwhile, the cop AI isn't TOO bad, but after you've made it to the 4th or 3th place on the blacklist you're about ready to get the game over with. The best car in the game IMO is handed to you by the 4th place, a Lambo that can be beefed up to have max handling and acceleration, with nearly full top speed. Makes the game less enjoyable from that point on because you're just going through the motions to get your damn M3 back (the car that was origionally taken from you.)
The worst part about the whole game is that this Police Sergeant "Cross" is going after you the entire time, but never actually chaces you in his "hardest to outrun" car until the end of the game. Its somewhat of a letdown because the guy's a jackass to you throughout the game.
My recommendation, take your money elsewhere with a game that's going to be having more replay value, espically for those long summer nights.