Drowsy Emperor

Western pro Wehrmacht propaganda is at fault. Nazis, while formally reviled are also treated as some sort of super soldiers that were only defeated because the Soviets had more men than they had bullets. You just need to look at the history channel. There are more documentaries regarding the Nazis than all other topics combined. And those documentaries alternate between Hitler hate and Wehrmacht circle jerk. Its no wonder many members of armed forces have the quiet adoration thing going.

I tried to start a game of MotB around Christmas last year, but I just couldn't get into it. I would love to play through with One-of-Many, but I just can't stomach the "highlevel" play I don't understand that, the combat system is on the same level of sophistication as the first game. Click and it dies. You're never really overpowered by your enemies to the point that you have to pay actual attention to the combat, much like in all NWN titles. The ultimate mage spells made mince of everything that my frenzied berserker couldn't massacre in under 3 seconds.

That's exactly how I played it, and I enjoyed ME2 overall. I'm just tired of invincible Space Marines. And it seems to be a staple now. Don't american boys have anything else to identify with? @Zoraptor: Shepard is less of a blank slate than some PC's you mention. He's half blank, half defined. The defined part is the problem. The male shep voice acting didn't help either. Although I would agree games want to keep the oohs and aaahs flowing so everything else generally gets thrown out of the windown - sense first. Can't really complain about that they're just games after all.

The other way the extra money goes to the publishers who are the worst sort of money grabbing, soulless business. I'd rather Double Fine get the cash. Of course, if the game ends up like a budget title considering the cash they have now (after all adventure games are cheap aren't they?) I have my rotten tomatoes ready.

You're right. What little personality Shepard has is downright idiotic. I've never found it so hard to immerse myself in a videogame character as with Shepard.

Good to see they're following trends in the food industry.

Very nice, although I'm yearning for a real simulation. If the game is really a standard FPS that just includes mechs I wouldn't bet on its long term longevity.

Finish the game quickly so you can start playing Mask of the Betrayer.

I was talking about the first Syndicate game. And I still hate it. And I'm pretty tolerant when it comes to old games. Bullfrog was a company with many good ideas, but the execution was often flawed. Syndicate is a prime example of that.

Any attempt to seriously analyse the logic behind Mass Effect stories will lead to Wrex sized brain tumor. You have been warned.

Played about 10 missions in Syndicate. I hate the game so far. Irritating controls, bad gameplay design, shallow, nonsensical world, horrible pathfinding, broken missions... I don't see this one staying on my hard drive for very long.

Both are 20 hour games. There's only so much you can cram in that, and BW's focus was more on the graphics than anything else. Only all three games taken together will make an RPG of decent length.

Instant Boo seal of approval.

Gears of War got a PC release I think. Some of the Halo games did too. The reason I never seriously considered buying the console though, was its high malfunction rate. Getting it fixed or worse having to send it to MS from these parts would be at best a pain in the ass, at worst a nightmare. Having ultimately played almost everything of worth from 360 on the PC I'd say it was no great loss.

Does the 360 even have any exclusives. Each time I looked through its list to see if it was worth getting I remember seeing that all the better titles got PC ports or were multiplatform to begin with.

I have it preordered on Steam. I probably can't justify it too deeply, but I'm rather excited for this game. I'm not sure if it'll be awesome, but I'm comfortable in the belief that it'll be rather good. In your defense let's just say you have nothing else to play. Whoops.

I wanted to buy a PS3 so much, but the game selection (the exclusives) never seems to get to the point that I'd consider the cost justified. I'm more interested in playing Team Ico games in HD than playing actual PS3 games. A damn shame really.

I admire that. Its the only fair approach towards the consumer. Unfortunately since big business has free reign to decide what the consumers deserve to get, exactly no one is surprised that we get turd in the end.

That's really horrible towards people who work and have a very limited time to play games.

I feel saddened by that. Anything Sony I ever bought was high quality and long lasting. My Trinitron CRT TV has been running for almost a decade now and has buried at least two Samsung TV's in its lifetime along with having superior picture quality. My PS2 dropped at least a meter from a table to a bare floor, busted a corner and damaged the button for opening the dvd tray and it still works perfectly. The original Dualshock 2 controller I got with it, outlived a more expensive Logitech counterpart by several years. That piece of trash broke down just after the guarantee expired, and it was poorly designed too. It seems anyone who tries to keep a high standard of quality for hardware is doomed to failure against garbage pushers. Of course, my Sony stuff is old now, maybe this is no longer the case. (I'll find out soon as I'm considering buying one of the Bravia series of LCD TV's)

A pity all that nice visual design (of certain locations) is wasted on such a fire-and-forget game. I suppose that's to be expected - just about the only thing mainstream games experiment with now (sometimes but not all that often) are graphics, everything else is taboo. Really its fascinating how they shoehorned something as unlimited by definition as art into less than a dozen types. You got your ****ty brown and gunmetal gray shooters, your cartoony WoW deformed fantasy, more or less successful attempts at bland realism and anime inspired versions of the latter two. PS: I'm simplifying the issue, but there's really too few graphical styles available.

Cute girls game if you pay them to. Otherwise, no. PS: Except apparently Asia Carrera. But she's nuts.

Considering that the game is setting is contemporary, the almost medieval set pieces and monsters (especially the castle sections) in supposedly modern Spain were more amusing than horrifying. IIRC there were even catapults of some sort? And flaming torches? There are obviously plenty of medieval buildings still standing in Spain but the idea that today's tourist attractions could be the lair of a parasitic cult is a bit out there. While the setting was a bit too wacky for me to enjoy completely - the actual gameplay was pretty good. I did actually play it all the way through so I can't complain all that much. I'm not likely to ever pick it up again though. I still have to wait for the other testicle to drop before trying to play RE1 for longer than an hour.

Nice. It was a notoriously unstable game on multiple core processors, I hope the got it going right.