Hooked on listening to this OST from last remnant. This game has quality music. Enjoying every minute and still doing side quests instead of continuing the story.
Took me about 90 hours but I got all of the non dlc achievements on New vegas. I'm going to play more Forza 4 as I kind of gave up on it a while back. I'm slipping back into being an achievement whore.
Tribes: Ascend Hardest online shooter ever. The guns are all very hard to hit someone with and people generally slide/jetpack around at 100-150mp/h. So yeah, you get the idea, hard but worth it. A really good twist on classic CTF IMO. Prototype 2. Got it for like 60% of full price on its steam launch. It seems ridiculously easy so far, but the first hour is very hold your hand where most of it is basically just pressing a button to make the scene progress disguised as actual gameplay. Besides that it looks as promising as the first. The graphics are a fair bit better, with the fidelity and liveliness of the world in particular being a lot better. The gameplay hasn't changed quite as much as I'd have liked. It seems that you start off more powerful in this one. Punching any normal person kills them instantly. Gliding is a lot easier, and destroying vehicles is also easier... I have no problem taking down tanks with just my fists. Choppers are also fairly easy, but I've only gone up against one at a time so far. Anyhow there is a lot more varied things to do to get the unlocks in this one, which is great. I guess you must end up very powerful once you get everything, I just wish you started out a fair bit less powerful so that you really feel the difference as you do in a typical RPG for instance.
Started Bioshock again yesterday. I bought it in January, played about an hour of it then stopped and didn't pick it back up again. I figured it was about time I played it properly since I have Bioshock 2 waiting for me on my PS3, I don't want to play it until I've done the first one. I have mixed feelings on this one so far. I'm a couple of hours in and with my headphones on I can say they really do set an atmosphere in the game. I don't really enjoy the combat so far. The enemies are really quick and the combat just feels clumsy and ham fisted. Not sure what to make of it yet.
Bioshock is basically a crappy, consolized rehash of System Shock 2. Unfortunately, System Shock 2 is so old now and you're so much of a dudebro with PC games, I doubt you'd be able to get into it. It's also an incredibly complex game most console kiddies would never be able to wrap their heads around. System Shock 2 is easily one of the top five or maybe even top three greatest games of all time on any platform, and most modern horror games and all FPS/RPG hybrids owe it a massive debt. Many games like Dead Space and Bioshock have tried to rip off its story, but they're nowhere near as good as the original. Your beloved Elder Scrolls games like Skyrim and Oblivion would not have been possible without the innovations introduced in System Shock 2. Shodan is also perhaps the best villain in any video game, ever. I almost shit my pants when she first showed up. No game has ever created such an effective sense of dread. No one in System Shock 2 is good, there is no hope, and you're basically just a pawn caught between two incredibly evil forces. I hope no one ever tries to make a sequel, because they'd only screw it up. Also keep in mind that this incredibly forward thinking game came out in 1999 when you console kiddies were still stuck in the dark ages. In many ways, it's more advanced than games coming out now. Such was the golden age of PC gaming.
Because console games are shit compared to PC games when they were in their prime. It's sad when a game from 1999 has much more advanced gameplay than anything coming out today. You're the one who brought up Bioshock, which is basically just a shitty, consolized imitation of System Shock 2 with dumbed down gameplay. Everything other than the graphics is a trillion times better in System Shock 2. You said something about atmosphere. System Shock 2 is better at creating atmosphere than any game in history. It did things with environmental audio that were ground breaking at the time, and even today are still damn impressive. And I would marry that game. It's probably the best game ever other than the original Half-Life. Many games today including Fallout 3 and Dead Space were largely inspired by System Shock 2 in one way or another. Your favorite developer, Bethesda, loved System Shock 2, and everything they've done since Morrowind was heavily inspired by its gameplay. SS2 was one of the greatest and most influential games of all time. Unless you've played System Shock 2, you're not a real gamer.
It makes you someone who doesn't read reviews, which all said to avoid it like the plague. Daikatana was the Duke Nukem Forever of its day.
I don't even think you even needed to read reviews for daikatana back in the day. That game was publicly bad.
I can't remember much of it, only finished HL once. Did play it a few more times but always moved on to something else before I got too far.
Anyway, it's shameful how few people here have played System Shock 2 or are even aware of its existence. It's one of the best games ever, and everyone should play it. It's one of the few games I consider a 10/10. I can find no fault with it. It's perfect.
I only played the demo in 99 and didn't get around to playing the full game until 2003. It was already a bit dated by then but definitely a groundbreaking experience.
I don't think the graphics really even pushed the envelope in 1999. They were better than anything on a console, but nothing mindblowing for PC. I think it used the Thief engine if I remember correctly. But the game makes up for the average graphics in so many other ways, it hardly matters. The atmosphere, storytelling, and gameplay were about as good as it gets. The game also lends itself well to multiple playthroughs, as it's a very different experience depending on which class you pick. A psi agent will have a very different experience from a computer hacker.