games that make you proud to be a gamer
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I think the game fitting best here is the Mass Effect Series, as both games manage to get really close to movies with their plot and of course delivery of this plot, with captivating cutscenes and good voice actors, while - and this is important - still being a good game, with often fluent transitions between cutscenes and gameplay. Everything that happens, even the prerendered 2D-cutscenes, integrate neatly into the whole package.
Half-Life 2, while also really good in the story and acting department, felt always far more like a "pure" game to me. For some reason, if I am actually able to move my character during what would otherwise be a cutscene with different angels and such, I get impatient with the exposition.
Of course, people could argue that Final Fantasy already bridged the gap between games and movies, but all the Final Fantasy games I saw so far could basically be emulated if you watch any movie and keep a chess set at hand for the commercial breaks.
Half-Life 2, while also really good in the story and acting department, felt always far more like a "pure" game to me. For some reason, if I am actually able to move my character during what would otherwise be a cutscene with different angels and such, I get impatient with the exposition.
Of course, people could argue that Final Fantasy already bridged the gap between games and movies, but all the Final Fantasy games I saw so far could basically be emulated if you watch any movie and keep a chess set at hand for the commercial breaks.
Mario
Zelda
Naruto Ultimate Ninja Storm series
Bakugan(it's actually fun on the DS... the game in real life sucks though)
Marvel vs Capcom 1-3
Devil May Cry
Zelda
Naruto Ultimate Ninja Storm series
Bakugan(it's actually fun on the DS... the game in real life sucks though)
Marvel vs Capcom 1-3
Devil May Cry
Team Fortress 2, Portal, and VVVVVV/Super Meat Boy; both the games themselves stand alone as great platformers with kickass soundtracks, but it's encouraging that such offbeat games can garner attention and popularity as opposed to being drowned out by Brown Gritty Shooter #23,934. Also, there's Minecraft, for similar reasons.
Guild Wars Nightfall, Bioshock, Tetris, DDR, and of course Street Fighter 3 Third Strike.
Guild Wars Nightfall perhaps the most. It takes a lot of artistic and intellectual genius and courage to create a game not specifically about 'what you know' and fashion it in a land and based on a people you do not.
Guild Wars Nightfall perhaps the most. It takes a lot of artistic and intellectual genius and courage to create a game not specifically about 'what you know' and fashion it in a land and based on a people you do not.
Bioshock, Fallout 3, Baulders Gate, Golden Eye, Banjo-Kazooie, Mother 3* and Earthbound*
*=Read with a tone of yes these two games alone should make anyone be proud they're a gamer.
*=Read with a tone of yes these two games alone should make anyone be proud they're a gamer.
huh, borderlands and L4D are good games and all, but...really?
OT: Mass Effect 2, Portal, Star Wars: KotOR, Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War and Call of Duty 4. IMHO, each one is the best at what it does, and are the benchmarks other games in their respective genres should measure themselves against.
They also happen to be my 5 favorite games of all-time, but I'd like to think that doesn't make them any less important
OT: Mass Effect 2, Portal, Star Wars: KotOR, Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War and Call of Duty 4. IMHO, each one is the best at what it does, and are the benchmarks other games in their respective genres should measure themselves against.
They also happen to be my 5 favorite games of all-time, but I'd like to think that doesn't make them any less important
A little while ago, I was playing Black Ops, and my dad sat down to watch for a while (I think it was the first two missions). He was absolutely stunned at the cinematic quality of the game and how everything he had ever played had been a joke compared to this. It got me thinking about the way that people don't really take games seriously as a way of conveying story and excitement, but I think that within the last 10-15 years, particularly with the massive graphical advancements in games recently, video games have evolved into a real form of art. I think that the Call of Duty series is a fantastic example of that, or games like Grand Theft Auto IV and Mass Effect. The kind of games that really take advantage of new technology and are making video games a more and more legitimized form of entertainment.
Need I say more?
Sure, why not? I haven't played a single game that has brought so many emotions upon me at the same time as this game. It's sad, It's joyful, it's horrifying, it's beautiful, it's interesting, all of which translate into one word: Amazing. That's the best word to describe it, and if Portal is heavy ammunition against the "Video games are only for children and can't be anything more than gore filled killhouses" argument, then Silent Hill 2 is achain belt of uranium slugs.
Yup. EVE, GTA III-IV, Minecraft. While I'm aware of the first and the last being difficult to communicate, probably. Edit before post: and something like Open Transport Tycoon Deluxe
(on a related note, again: I need to get my hands on Shadow of the Colossus. and a PS2)
(the amount of Bioshock in this thread already shocks me. Hateboy)
no, this is not far stretched
(on a related note, again: I need to get my hands on Shadow of the Colossus. and a PS2)
(the amount of Bioshock in this thread already shocks me. Hateboy)
I'll raise you a Goodfellas, just a bad example of the movie culture.teh_spartan said:
no, this is not far stretched
Oblivion
Mass Effect 1/2
Bioshock 1/2 (yes, I really did like near the end of Bioshock 2)
Prince of Persia (the reboot)
Fallout 3
Half Life 2 and expansions.
Mass Effect 1/2
Bioshock 1/2 (yes, I really did like near the end of Bioshock 2)
Prince of Persia (the reboot)
Fallout 3
Half Life 2 and expansions.
