GreasyDogMeat

Call of Duty didn't do anything new, it just did everything right. Atleast for the time. Aiming down the site, proning, leaning around walls yet keeping a fast pace. Also one of the first games to really add an army you are fighting with. Allied Assault had tried it a bit but the most was either the set peice D-Day landing mission or three squad mates at once. Infinity Ward had actually split from the dev team who worked on Allied Assault I believe. On the top 50 list: F.E.A.R.: I liked it, but I don't think it should be on a top 50. It got too repetitive and the little creepy girl crap got old long before the game was announced. STALKER: Spoiled by repeatable note quests that had items popping up in the same place they popped up before. The atmosphere was fantastic though. Sacrifice: FINALLY, someone noticed this game! As someone who isn't a huge fan of RTS game I fell in love with this game's art style and innovation. Like some cloudy dream. Anachronox: Along with Chrono Trigger, best JRPG style game ever made. To hell with Final Fantasy! Oblivion: At #8!? I know some must find me a paradox for loving F3 but hating Oblivion, but I just don't get the praise this game gets heaped with. The landscapes are great I suppose. Just like STALKER though, I don't think atmosphere can carry a game. WoW: ARRRG! At #1!? I HATE MMOS! The Rest: Either agree, never played or not really into genre but can still see why its on the list.

-Pool of Radiance: It pulls from the original dos video game, the novel and the D&D module. I only wish the module author had pulled some of the conversation from the novels and put them in the game, allowing the player to take part. -Halloween 08': A large compilation from multiple mod authors. Looks amazing. Each house interior is some form of Halloween story or event. The quality from one house to another is drastic, but you will find some real gems in it. -Harp & Chrysanthenum: Module author is very skilled at creating beautiful locations. Now a member of Ossian I believe. -Moonshadows: Another Ossian member side mod. I also really enjoyed Grimm Brigade. It was the winner of the Grimm fairy tale contest some time back.

I just laughed... hard! Have you played any recent sequels/remakes to old franchises that are 10x their original!? Please point me to this latest game! No actually ; I've long since given up on recent titles, but bought FO3 for use of the GECK. The engine is great, and the land is awesome... (but I still think the art design was better in FO1, the heads were better IMO ~despite the 229 color limit and the fact that they had to take the 3d models and render them out as still frames). ~and I would have preferred the Mr. Handy droids to look a bit more like this... And the Enclave to look more like this... IMHO Mr. Handy looks a bit too shiny/clean, but the enclave armor looks awesome!

I kinda liked it too. Really makes Batman feel vulnerable, but at the same time like a badass which is a good thing. I don't think it will be an immediate purchase for me though. I have too much on my plate right now and it hasn't knocked off any of the other dishes.

I just laughed... hard! Have you played any recent sequels/remakes to old franchises that are 10x their original!? Please point me to this latest game! I would say the graphics are ATLEAST 10x better.

Uh, in F1 (I love this game, but I have to make this point) the game often wouldn't even acknowledge your choices. I think people remember the awesome slideshow ending of F1 and how it talked about the consequences of your actions, then play Fallout 3 which removed the slideshows and somehow twist this into a situation where Fallout 1 & 2 had these incredible changes to your actions and F3 was completely devoid of it. F3 often gave as many options to sidequests, but it lacked the slideshow at the end (a big mistake which Beth deserves crit for) to show a lasting consequence.

Hah, its one of the best kinds of fun I've had in a long time. Nothing is stopping people from replaying the classics. Worthy substitute is also debatable. Beth has the rights to the franchise now, anyone with any familiarity with their previous games who had watched the trailers should have known this was not going to be another turn based isometric rpg. F3 has likely brought in far more fans than another isometric sequel would have. Just look at the Beth boards and the gazillian newbies who are now interested in the classics after their first taste of Fallout was 3. Risks and changes to franchises are taken from time to time. The original Baldur's Gate, one of my all time favorites, plays very different to the turn based D&D games of the past like Pool of Radiance, but its also a very good game. F3 has changed the formula quite a bit, but its still a damn enjoyable game. I've seen franchises I loved taken in directions I hated. Instead of just purchasing the next title and bitching about how much life sucks I gave up the franchise (or bought it anyway because mods would save it: Fallout 3).

Maybe in magic land where opinions become facts. I actually had more *gasp!* FUN in Fallout 3 than I did in Fallout 2. Is fun one of the things that counts? This is why I get so defensive over Fallout 3. Teh hataz speak as if Fallout 3 sucking is a stone cold fact. Obviously someone who enjoyed the game is some sort of mental inferior in their early teens.

Never said that Beth did or did not do such a thing. I don't really care if they did, because in the end it turned out better than it did in Fallout 2.

Not to , but to write "Overall, it would be easy to write a report worthy of an EU bureaucrat listing all the silly and stupid things Bethesda has shoehorned into Fallout 3. The biggest problem is not so much that it isn

When I had that original thought, I was thinking along the lines of a fantasy D&D game in which a Bioware plot arc would work well. Bioware may be disapointing lately, but the Baldur's Gate saga still holds a special place in my RPG heart. As for Fallout, yeah they would probably not be the best choice. Their current approach to 'mature' is 'the new sh*t' Manson over blood & sex. Their actual game might turn out to be decent, but the trailer really puts an emphasis on sh*t.

First game I ever preordered was Resident Evil 5 this year and I didn't even know about the bonus (Surprised when the Gamestop guy handed me this little placard of Chris & Sheva). The bonuses generally aren't a big deal. Either way though I'm currently preordering/planning on preorder: -Wolfenstein -Brutal Legend -Alpha Protocol -Halo ODST

Oblivion was my first Bethesda game. It was a big disapointment when it came to quests and how they stood up to other RPG games from Bioware, Obsidian and BlackIsle. One thing stood out though, and that was the world. Bethesda are masters of creating this beautiful environment that you want to explore. I felt that the ultimate RPG would be a world crafted by Bethesda, a plot arc by Bioware and the character interaction/dialogue done by Obsidian. Fallout 3 was a big step in that direction. It is certainly still a long ways off of course. One of the many reasons I'm quite excited about Fallout New Vegas is it will combine that Obsidian writing with a large open Beth style world.

Alright, you've convinced me with your master debating!

I don't have much sympathy to anyone who 'waited a decade for F3 only to be horribly disapointed'. Anyone who played Oblivion beforehand should have known what they were getting into. I set my expectations lower than dirt and ended up finding an excellent game that I've enjoyed more than Fallout 2. I lucked out. If not, though, I had taken the risk realizing that mods would come to save the day as they had with Oblivion. Any type of online Fallout is not up my alley though. Heh, part of the reason I was also willing to give Beth's F3 a chance is because a number of the original devs of Fallout were/are working on Fallout Online.

One of the best movie trailer mashups I've seen. Why GTA 4 is the best game ever! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWGc76W6Vzo

I think part of finding absurdist comedy funny is having some real world connection to the particular sketch. I don't know if you could call the Biggus Dickus sketch absurdist (is it?) but I personally connect with that because I remember a hilarious moment in high school during chemistry class where a serious video about chemistry had the chemists talking about 'balls and how they are handled'. I forget the context of it, but it had most of the class roaring in laughter.

3:10 to Yuma is one of the worst movies I've ever sat through. It was more like a fantasy than a western. Guy gets a gutshot and shrugs it off. Another guy runs around jumping from building to building with a prosthetic leg. Unlikable characters.

Supposed to be a throwback to the 40s era comics, where Superman and even Bugs Bunny took a peice out of Hitler's a$$. Problem is that the audience has changed. People back then trusted and respected their goverments and leaders. Nowdays the last few presidents haven't been worth much trust or respect, including the current.

Perhaps, but I purchased the game based on the mission from the demo, which was the US campaign. It pissed me off to realize that in reality, the US campaing was only 5 short missions long. While each CoD game has given the 'glory' to a different army (Russians in 1, US in 2 & Brits in 4), each army atleast got roughly the same amount of missions.

No kidding. One of my biggest disapointments of CoD 4. Could have atleast made the US campaign longer.

There is only one western. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.

Obsidian realized that real spy work is kinda boring. It can be kinda interesting though. Ever read The Man Called Intrepid? (Basis for James Bond)

I like to listen to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqlQOt_eiQw while running in small circles. What a long strange journey its been. Can you blame the guy for wanting to rest at the end? LOL, I think they meant MILLION years ago instead of BILLION. We were kinda cute 250 Million (Er Billion according to video) years ago. Yeah, I just tried to correct a Fatboy Slim video... so sue me.