Dungeon Siege Excellent. Rpg fluff.

Wed 9 Jun 2010 1:24am reply

Alpha Protocol It had potential.. Some of the acting is really great. But it's really painful to play. Worst things about it, saving is only possible at check points. Coversations are quick time events! Argh!!! There are all sorts of other bugs, like guards disappearing when loading a save and irritating movement glitches that reposition you to face a wall when you pass through some invisible barrier while walking and changing direction at the same time.
The balance is way off, I try on normal and got so sick of the glitches and the constant need to load from check points that I set it to easy, where you get to play dangerous missions with almost no guards.
The thing that annoys me the most though, are the terrible minigames. My god they are tedious! And actually stupidly hard when they flash a screen of numbers at you and you have to find the ones that didn't change while a timer counts down. So fucking pointless. Oh and when you fail it, you have to reload to the checkpoint way back when. Sounds like a fun evening..

It looks like obsidian has officially cemented it's reputation for releasing unfinished unpolished games.

Another thing.. This is quite unfair, but 3rd person shooters have a hell of a high bar to reach since Mass Effect 2. Compared to ME2 the controls are just so clunky I feel like I'm swimming in glue.

Sun 30 May 2010 2:20pm 1 reply

X-COM: Apocalypse No.. No.. Too ambitious. I guess it could have been good, if they'd spent 2 or 3 more years on it and thrown a lot of it away, and hadn't been so inconsistent in style across the game modes. I actually liked the real time / turn based battles. But it was so unpolished, and everything else in the game was less than half done and poorly executed. The balance was way off too. I doubt I finished it, if I did, it couldn't have been memorable.

Tue 20 Apr 2010 11:32pm reply

X-COM: Terror from the Deep Just no.. Damn lobster men against gauss guns.. What a waste.

Tue 20 Apr 2010 11:28pm reply

Dreamfall: The Longest Journey Because I fall in love with cynical girls that travel to impossible places.

Tue 20 Apr 2010 11:26pm reply

Culpa Innata I'm embarrassed I own this.. It's so awful.

Tue 20 Apr 2010 11:24pm reply

Space Quest I: The Sarien Encounter The original. The best. It was mysterious and scary when I was 8 or whenever it was.

Sun 4 Apr 2010 7:29pm reply

Indigo Prophecy It seems intriguing at first, but it's a string of quick time events, and cut scenes that can't be uninterrupted. Gah.

Sun 4 Apr 2010 7:27pm reply

Road Rash Doesn't hold up to time as well as I thought it would, but it's still great.

Thu 11 Feb 2010 3:02pm reply

Half-Life 2 but I never finished it

Thu 11 Feb 2010 10:30am reply

Police Quest I: In Pursuit of the Death Angel A true classic. I got stuck for MONTHS on the drunk driver.

Fri 5 Feb 2010 8:34pm reply

Mass Effect 2 Finished it. It's space opera. It's February, it's my game of the year.

Fri 5 Feb 2010 8:13pm reply

Elite Beat Agents Solve problems through the power of dance! What's not to like?

Tue 2 Feb 2010 12:32am reply

Guild Wars Prophecies I loved it at the time. But if you didn't play it then it's probably too late to enjoy. It was most fun when no-one knew what they were doing.

Tue 2 Feb 2010 12:31am reply

Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War This was the first RTS in YEARS that I liked, let alone loved. So classic.

Tue 2 Feb 2010 12:30am reply

The Sims 3 It's okay to say you liked it.

Tue 2 Feb 2010 12:25am reply

Syndicate This game is 100% nostalgia, it was amazing. You could replace your arms and legs and dream.

Sun 24 Jan 2010 5:05pm reply

Mass Effect Guns, leather, space opera. That's what it should have been anyway.

Wed 20 Jan 2010 7:38pm reply

Tapper It's a part of my history. I wasn't any good at it.

Wed 20 Jan 2010 1:05am reply

X-COM: UFO Defense I was scared shitless of sectoids on those first missions. I deeply, deeply cared when my soldiers died, but the missions were so hard I bit it and didn't reload. They mattered.

Wed 20 Jan 2010 12:53am reply

Peggle Unicorns playing with balls.

Wed 20 Jan 2010 12:44am reply

Left 4 Dead You get to vomit on terrified survivors.

Wed 20 Jan 2010 12:42am reply

Batman: Arkham Asylum It's fucking Batman. No other batman game has been Batman before.

Wed 20 Jan 2010 12:41am reply

The Witcher It's great! I mean I haven't finished it.. and Dragon Age is better and completely different.. but it's still really good.

Wed 20 Jan 2010 12:39am reply

Burnout Paradise It's stupid fast racing with gratuitously slow motion crashes. Excellent.

Wed 20 Jan 2010 12:38am reply

Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords Puzzles and questing. Also often comic dialogue.

Wed 20 Jan 2010 12:36am reply

Braid because it's about identity and he's called Tim.

Wed 20 Jan 2010 12:11am reply

World of Goo Because you know you need Goo.

Wed 20 Jan 2010 12:10am reply

Torchlight it's doesn't mess you around. pick a weapon and get down in those mines!

Tue 19 Jan 2010 11:35pm reply

Galactic Civilizations II: Dread Lords sooo deep

Tue 19 Jan 2010 11:26pm reply

Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines A classic for a reason. Mature and clever. Cheat if you have to (but not too much), it's the characters that matter.

Tue 19 Jan 2010 11:24pm reply

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords If only they'd finished it. Even lacking polish, it was better then the first one.

Tue 19 Jan 2010 11:23pm reply

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic light sabers and a great story, pity about Carth being a pain in the arse.

Tue 19 Jan 2010 11:22pm reply

King's Bounty: The Armored Princess I'm a big nerd.

Tue 19 Jan 2010 10:48pm reply

Dangerous High School Girls in Trouble! It's a board game about subverting the system, breaking rules and high school girls being dangerous.

Tue 19 Jan 2010 10:47pm reply

BioShock Because it's still a shooter.

Tue 19 Jan 2010 10:46pm 2 replies

Grand Theft Auto IV Meh

Tue 19 Jan 2010 10:45pm reply

Beyond Good & Evil Because my heart will always be Jaded. I think this is extra special because of the continuing heartbreak of a maybe one day never to be sequel.

Tue 19 Jan 2010 10:45pm reply

Dragon Age: Origins I finally finished it! Steam tells me it took 86 hours of gameplay. Truly epic. I almost never finish games this long, this one deserved it.

Tue 19 Jan 2010 10:44pm reply

Rez The other best music video game ever.

Tue 19 Jan 2010 10:43pm reply

Audiosurf Probably the best music video game ever.

Tue 19 Jan 2010 10:43pm reply

Sins of a Solar Empire Really great slow time strategy. Pretty, but fuck you need a lot of hours to play it.

Tue 19 Jan 2010 10:42pm reply

Osmos ambient, meditative. kind of nice.

Tue 19 Jan 2010 10:41pm reply

Portal It's a wonderfully sadistic psychological mind fuck. It also makes you fall in love with a cube with a pink heart on it.

Tue 19 Jan 2010 6:57pm reply