Drowsy Emperor

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.

RE 4 might have been a good action game but it was a very poor horror game.

I believe romance is an integral part of our games. Our otaku fans want it, and fans are of course always right. To promote inter species dialog we are considering the inclusion of romance options for uplift characters. I'm not supposed to speak about this but this is one of our companions. Allan has a gruff exterior, under which lies a sensitive and gentle soul. His favorite pastimes are studying small insects, making tools and writing dialog for video games. He's available for romance for male and female PC's.

I'm pretty sure it was the early 90's. Har har. I'm sure it was some Dawn of War expansion or other. Or a new C&C game. Those never failed to disappoint since EA dissolved Westwood.

XCOM is shaping up to be a potentially great game. I can't remember the last time when I looked forward to a strategy game this much

Well I got my hands on a basic Python book I already know how to make it print a simple sentence so I guess full game creation is just around the corner - tune back in when I'm lauded as the next Sid Meier. Thanks for the help everyone! Of course I'm still open for advice...

I forgot that as well when I was playing which led to some confusion. Its because you're only going to use it once or twice during the game total and that's for mines only. It makes more sense as a "feature" when you think of the game as primarily designed for gamepads. Walking slowly is just what you get when you push the thumbstick part-way forward, rather than a separate mode or keybinding. Edit: Actually, I thought of another HR question: Is there a way to regain charge apart from inventory consumables? (I still remember the first time I played the original game and got all the way past the Hong Kong hub before I realized that I could use those orange repair bots.) Do the recharging upgrades let you regenerate more than your minimum 1-"battery", or do they just make the recovery of that minimum go faster? They only make the minimum go faster. At first I was annoyed by this but then considering how strong some powers are, having multiple batteries recharge would break the game. If you could always afford to spend several batteries on cloak for example, you could walk through most levels in a couple of minutes.

Lies, dirty lies. Well ok, I suppose 1 out of 6 being not bad does help your case. My victory will be complete with the 3D re-re-re-release.