The Evil Computer Games thread

I found a copy of Fable I bought but never played. I may have a go at it.

seanbmc wrote: »

Just finished Splinter Cell Conviction, good game and lots of fun. Just it seemed like the campaign was a little too short for my liking, but there is still a lot of other things to do.

Also think I might start Mass Effect 2 again, one of my favourite games in the past while.

Still never completed it and bought it on release...

Higher storage capacity doesn't necessarily mean nicer graphics anyway, usually that comes down to good art direction. A game can have several gigabytes worth of textures, can be rendered in super-super-HD and still look like an appalling mess.

I haven't played Fallout 3, but I'd imagine it's visually similar to Oblivion. That was a nice-looking game! The environments were well designed and you had lots of scenic views to enjoy. It's the animation that severely let it down, though. If you switched into 3rd-person mode your character would float around the landscape, twitching like a puppeteered corpse with each controller input. The immensely creepy-looking procedurally generated faces of the game's NPCs were terrifying, too. Something stirred beneath their polygonal flesh! *shiver*

Banjo Fella wrote: »

Higher storage capacity doesn't necessarily mean nicer graphics anyway, usually that comes down to good art direction. A game can have several gigabytes worth of textures, can be rendered in super-super-HD and still look like an appalling mess.

I haven't played Fallout 3, but I'd imagine it's visually similar to Oblivion. That was a nice-looking game! The environments were well designed and you had lots of scenic views to enjoy. It's the animation that severely let it down, though. If you switched into 3rd-person mode your character would float around the landscape, twitching like a puppeteered corpse with each controller input. The immensely creepy-looking procedurally generated faces of the game's NPCs were terrifying, too. Something stirred beneath their polygonal flesh! *shiver*

Ha I dug out my copy of Oblivion a few days ago. Much better than Fallout IMO. Fallout doesn't have anywhere near the variety that Oblivion does (and Oblivion doesn't really have a lot). It's mostly a grey,brown, yellow mess. Never understood the appeal of the game, it takes a lot of effort for me to play it and I like RPGs.

Shadowrun!

Football Manager. How I missed thee.

Anyone else looking forward to Reach?

I'm playing through Mega Man 4, Castlevania and Super Mario 64 at the moment.

Castlevania is awesome despite the fact that I cannot beat Frankenstein.

Super Mario 64 is as awesome as always. Good fun.

Mega Man 4 is disappointing. I thought it'd be better. I am enjoying it but the fact that enemies respawn the minute the screen pans away from them annoys me especially if you have to avoid multiple enemies and you jump away and then jump back and they've all respawned. It's still fun though, very good game. Just a few gripes.

BlandKitten wrote: »

All of the Halo's are great games in that you can just pick them up and play. There's no need to learn what's going on, you just point your gun and shoot.
With Halo 3 it's the multiplayer that keeps people coming back to it. To this day it's still played by millions of people worldwide, three years after its release. There aren't many games out there that can say the same.

Reach is adding a bunch of crap more, and with tons more customization you can count on the community to continue making more great map and game variants from it for years to come.

Well those are my excuses anyway. To each his own :pac:

This is very true. I didn't even like Halo 3 very much but I still think it's cool. You can play Halo with friends of any skill level and still have fun. Plus, the effort that goes into Halo is really above and beyond other FPS games. People still aren't able to record their COD or GOW matches, or create their own maps like in Halo. Also, I don't think anyone ever feels conned when they buy a Halo game in the way that, let's say, someone who has bought CODMOD 2 finds out there's another one already coming in 3 months does.Edit: I forgot about Halo ODST...

Fact is, I took this picture three years ago of my ULTIMATE PWNAGE of someone, and it's still on Bungie's site. That's amazing:

I'm almost tempted to get Halo Reach and pay Microsoft 60 doubloons to play online.

D4RK ONION wrote: »

That's easily fixed with a doorless room with everything they'd ever need in it... but a toilet. Yeah not so great now, are yeah Sim?!

You know whats great craic? Isolate one Sim that's pìssing you off in a room they can just about stand in, with nothing but a window into the kitchen, so they can watch the other Sims eating while they slowly starve to death...
Think I belonged in Stalin's Russia tbh...

Smartly Dressed wrote: »

Assassins Creed 2. Just spent about 3 days straight playing it.

My only complaint is that the missions are way too easy.Having said that 'm really looking forward to brotherhood coming out.

My DS has started to act up. >.<