What are you playing now?

[Starwars]

I dunno man... I think it'd be kinda sad to be stuck modeling an ass while a project leader is shouting at you that it should be more curvy, more pouty, etc. "Come on man, dat ass is gonna be in more close-ups than her face goddamnit!"

 

And yeah, Miranda just looks plain *weird* in game. Like a mix between the model above and Shrek.

Edited December 29, 2010 by Starwars

[Malcador]

Ok, so a picture of the model. Changes nothing

[GreasyDogMeat]

The only thing that really sucks about the game is the sidekick and the level he has to play through, plus the clunky controls, but for the rest it's a decent game overall. Especially the Paris levels are quite memorable (infiltrating the Louvre, fighting through an entire apartment building with a hired killer). It's definitely much better than Legend.

Wow, that has to be the kindest thing I've heard about AoD. I'm still going to keep expectations low so that if it is decent I'll enjoy it more. Still got a ways to go as I'm still in TR 3. Game is much harder to figure out than I remember. I passed the first two without getting lost for long but I've been frequently wandering around in TR 3.

 

Finished Pinnacle Station DLC. Most boring DLC ever.

They decided to make a multiplayer Quake 3/Unreal Tournament style add-on to a single player rpg and it turned out as expected. Horrible. The only DLC I can think of that I've played that is worse than it would be Horse Armor for Oblivion, but at least with that you knew what you were getting.

Edited December 29, 2010 by GreasyDogMeat

[Nepenthe]

Ok, so a picture of the model. Changes nothing

Considering she does the VO too, I would go as far as call her the actress.

 

And yeah, just shows that it's still not quite possible to replicate nature's perfection digitally.

[sorophx]

I'm in the middle of Stranger's Wrath. Really good game despite having some frustrating moments.

how's the port? I heard some very bad things about it and Munch's in terms of performance

[WorstUsernameEver]

Anyway, more in-depth impressions:

 

* Characters are mostly to Bioware's standards, which means very good, but I'm not sure why some people hailed Mass Effect 2 as having the best companions of all their games.. they're certainly much better than ME though. Haven't recruited them all for now.

* Dialogue is generally superior to ME but there's still the whole "different paraphrases for the same sentence" syndrome.

* Combat is tighter but not really all that much better than the first one. I'm not a fan of TPS though.

* The ammo system is fairly useless design.

* The map layout is a bit boring.

* The choices are better than in the first.

 

And that's all I guess.

[Wrath of Dagon]

Game of the year clearly.

[HoonDing]

I loved that moment where Miranda gets all butthurt that she's supposed to be genetically engineered to be perfect, yet an earthborn FemShep that never had any higher education and used to hang out with gangs, trumps her in every way.

[Nepenthe]

I loved that moment where Miranda gets all butthurt that she's supposed to be genetically engineered to be perfect, yet an earthborn FemShep that never had any higher education and used to hang out with gangs, trumps her in every way.

But(t) it's such an exquisite butt!

[Orogun01]

Tried to finish my second playthrough of Demon's Soul. Remembered why I quit in the first place.

[Purkake]

Anyway, more in-depth impressions:

 

* Characters are mostly to Bioware's standards, which means very good, but I'm not sure why some people hailed Mass Effect 2 as having the best companions of all their games.. they're certainly much better than ME though. Haven't recruited them all for now.

Skip Subject Zero if you can.

 

 

Seriously

 

[Deraldin]

I received a PS3 for Christmas, so I've been going through the backlog of ridiculously cheap games I've picked up for it in anticipation of someday owning a system to play them on. I'm currently bouncing back and forth between Demon Souls, InFamous and Uncharted. I also have a copy of MGS4 LE, but after popping the disc in for 10 minutes I'm pretty sure that it's not actually a game, so it's staying on the shelf.

[Enoch]

Anyway, more in-depth impressions:

 

* Characters are mostly to Bioware's standards, which means very good, but I'm not sure why some people hailed Mass Effect 2 as having the best companions of all their games.. they're certainly much better than ME though. Haven't recruited them all for now.

Skip Subject Zero if you can.

 

 

Seriously

 

I think she's actually unskippable. You have to recruit the first batch of companions (IIRC, Moridin, Garrus, and Subject Zero) before you get the message from Martin Sheen about the in-progress Collector attack on whatever-that-colony-is-called.

 

I agree that, generally, she's not someone you'd want on your spaceship, but the mission to recruit her is one of the more fun ones, IMO. Some of those fights against the prison guards are pretty challenging, owing mostly to how the battlefields are laid out-- very tough to get a safe cover position that isn't immediately flanked.

[WorstUsernameEver]

Jack's mission was actually fairly fun. Generally, all of the missions are pretty fun, and the choices feel much more naturally realized than in Mass Effect 1. They finally embraced the action movie aesthetic, which is good.

[Nepenthe]

Jack's mission was actually fairly fun. Generally, all of the missions are pretty fun, and the choices feel much more naturally realized than in Mass Effect 1. They finally embraced the action movie aesthetic, which is good.

I like it too. I think it's a good way of seeing how well you are in control of your character, teammates and abilities. I had tons of trouble with it the first time (died probably as much as with all the other missions combined), but I've been able to breeze through on all subsequent playthroughs.

[Walsingham]

Gamed out at the minute. New Vegas, Alpha protocol, Civ 5, GTA V, Left 4 Dead 2.

[Malcador]

Wish I could have just spaced Jack.

[HoonDing]

If she were as powerful as in the cutscene where she escapes, maybe there would've been a reason to actually enlist her.

[Raithe]

Just finished off AC2... interesting cliffhanger style ending there. It does make me more interested in AC:Brotherhood..but I still doubt I'll pick it up at full price with that drm.

 

Did like the music though..nicely mood evocative.

[entrerix]

by the end of the game jack was one of my favorite characters. at the beginning of the game she was the second worst (behind jacob)

[Orogun01]

Samara all the way, metaphorically speaking

[Gorth]

Samara all the way, metaphorically speaking

Give me Samara, Grunt and Mordin and they can keep the rest

 

Playing EU III with the new Divine Wind expansion. Going for quite a challenge playing the Byzantine Empire, surviving the Ottoman hordes after they invaded Asia Minor and the Balkans.

[Bos_hybrid]

by the end of the game jack was one of my favorite characters. at the beginning of the game she was the second worst (behind jacob)

 

This is why we never get normal characters, no one likes them.

 

Playing EU III with the new Divine Wind expansion.

 

I got EUIII on sale for $5, is Heir to the Throne worth getting?

[Lexx]

I am playing some Max Payne 2 again in the moment. Still as cool as it was back in the days. Only the controls do feel a bit waggly nowdays.

[Gorth]

I got EUIII on sale for $5, is Heir to the Throne worth getting?

I'm a fanboy, so I can't give you an objective answer. Now go get it!