I'm in the middle of two games. Fallout 3 -- I've been playing since, oh, January? I keep getting distracted by sidequests and resetting when Dogmeat dies. I'm a big fan of post-apocalyptic fiction, so the setting is perfect for me. I love games that let you role-play as either good or evil (although I wish more games did it like Mass Effect -- you could, if you played it right, be both good and bad, which is more true to life) so it has that going for it, and I love doggies. Yes, all these things are incredible superficial, shoosh. I do enjoy the plot, but honestly I'm having more fun with the sidequests. There are just so many fully formed personalities roaming around in this game, so much stuff to do -- I'm loathe to actually FINISH it. When I exited the vault and stood on the overlook, saw the broken and battered landscape, the half standing houses, the pitched over power lines, the crumbling bridge in the distance, I was awed. Never has a game been so stunning that I literally sat and stared for several minutes before being able to pick up the controller again.
So yeah, I like it.
Also playing Lost Odyssey, which is decent enough. The characters are likable and the combat system works without being to difficult. There are enough sidequests and collectables to appease the completionist in me. There's also A Thousand Years of Dreams -- 30 or so short stories complemented with sound and still illustrations that flesh out Kaim as a character. I could stand for more games to do something like this -- I'm a reader, I have no problem with walls of text, as long as said text is engaging. If you like RPGs, it's worth a play.
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Date: 2009-05-28 09:02 pm (UTC)and resetting when Dogmeat dies. I'm a big fan of post-apocalyptic fiction, so the setting is perfect for me. I love games that let you role-play as either good or evil (although I wish more games did it like Mass Effect -- you could, if you played it right, be both good and bad, which is more true to life) so it has that going for it, and I love doggies. Yes, all these things are incredible superficial, shoosh. I do enjoy the plot, but honestly I'm having more fun with the sidequests. There are just so many fully formed personalities roaming around in this game, so much stuff to do -- I'm loathe to actually FINISH it. When I exited the vault and stood on the overlook, saw the broken and battered landscape, the half standing houses, the pitched over power lines, the crumbling bridge in the distance, I was awed. Never has a game been so stunning that I literally sat and stared for several minutes before being able to pick up the controller again.So yeah, I like it.
Also playing Lost Odyssey, which is decent enough. The characters are likable and the combat system works without being to difficult. There are enough sidequests and collectables to appease the completionist in me. There's also A Thousand Years of Dreams -- 30 or so short stories complemented with sound and still illustrations that flesh out Kaim as a character. I could stand for more games to do something like this -- I'm a reader, I have no problem with walls of text, as long as said text is engaging. If you like RPGs, it's worth a play.