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Today Dead Space is on steamsale; and either tomorrow or Sunday Mass Effect will be.
Today Dead Space is on steamsale; and either tomorrow or Sunday Mass Effect will be.
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Ah I see, the convo and party systems just aren't to your liking eh?Aylaine said:
I suppose the features that make me Squee like a schoolgirl can turn off other people. Thanks for expanding on your statement.
You can't be the best game of a generation if you're a dumbed down rehash of LAST generations best game.Looking For Alaska said:
If you like BioWare then you don't need to ask this question. If you haven't played a BioWare game rectify that immediately for your own good.
If you don't like Mass Effect, then you clearly don't understand what a good game is. Yes it has its issues, but is epic and incredible and is an example of everything gaming can be. Immersive, challenging, compelling, deep in gameplay and story. Oh yea, and FUN. It's FUN. Its an amazing RPG where you dont even realize that you are power leveling your character; without grind or fetch quests (well Wrex's family armor and geth data for tali, but that doesn't count 
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Hmm... tough choice. Well, pragmatically, Mass Effect will give you the most for your money (that game is ridiculously huge). It also happens to be one of the best games I've ever played, with a solid narrative and engaging gameplay (and the conversation wheel is a lot of fun to use as well). BioShock is also a fantastic game, with one of the best stories I've ever seen in gaming--particularly if you've read Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, which BioShock eloquently refutes by adapting elements almost directly from the book.
Sorry about that. Where was I... oh yes. I haven't actually played much of Dead Space, but a few good friends of mine fell in love with the game and have been raving about it, and I'm probably going to give it a go soon.
Therefore, since you say that money isn't an issue, I'd highly recommend grabbing both Mass Effect and BioShock--both games are a couple years old, so they shouldn't cost too much anymore (the only reason I don't include Dead Space is because I don't have enough experience with it to give you an informed recommendation). If you made me choose one, though, I'd go with Mass Effect--but only by a slim margin. I do this because ME2 is a better game than BioShock 2, and since you'll likely really enjoy the first entry in either series, it's probably good to grab the beginning of an excellent franchise (not that BioShock 2 is in any way bad, it's just not as good as ME2).
Okay, some examples of BioShock's Randian influences... well, the setting is adapted pretty faithfully from the book. Part of the book takes place in Ms. Rand's idea of a utopia, an objectivist valley hidden from society that is frequently likened to Atlantis (this should be sounding somewhat familiar). Also, there are a few times where characters admire the achievements of mankind, include lighters--which are described as 'fire tamed at man's fingertips' (that may be a misquotation, I can't be bothered to find one sentence in a 1,000 page book, but you get the idea), and that appears almost verbatim in the in-game Incinerate! advertisements. Basically, the developers took several of the points which Ayn Rand made and turned them against her: no longer is this secluded objectivist society a haven for free thought, for now it is the madhouse it would, in reality, become sooner or later. They took this excellent narrative and elegant response based on Ms. Rand's work, and they incorporated it into a game with excellent mechanics, level design, and atmosphere. It's a fantastic game.
Sorry about that. Where was I... oh yes. I haven't actually played much of Dead Space, but a few good friends of mine fell in love with the game and have been raving about it, and I'm probably going to give it a go soon.
Therefore, since you say that money isn't an issue, I'd highly recommend grabbing both Mass Effect and BioShock--both games are a couple years old, so they shouldn't cost too much anymore (the only reason I don't include Dead Space is because I don't have enough experience with it to give you an informed recommendation). If you made me choose one, though, I'd go with Mass Effect--but only by a slim margin. I do this because ME2 is a better game than BioShock 2, and since you'll likely really enjoy the first entry in either series, it's probably good to grab the beginning of an excellent franchise (not that BioShock 2 is in any way bad, it's just not as good as ME2).
Bioshock is a great game, I could never get into Mass Effect but I think that's just ME (bud dum tch), and I like Dead Space, but I've only ever done one session of it because nothing will ever be as epic as me and 5 of my friends playing that at 2 AM and pretending the necromorphs are Jehovah Witnesses and whispering, "let me talk to you about jeeeeeeeeesus" every time we saw one.
I've never palyed Mass Effect, but I love Bioshock (Duh) and Dead Space and I recommend those highly. Although Bioshock doesn't have a lot of replay value, you may want to keep that in mind.
I gotta go with Mass Effect... Mostly because I didn't like Bioshock and I haven't played Dead Space...
