What are your thoughts on Jade Empire?
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I really loved it...Great story, characters, music(I just LOVE JE's music), and the combat system was actually pretty fun. Not quite as good as Mass Effect or Knights of the Old Republic, but it's still great. Definite recommendation from me.
My favourite Bioware title (even though what follows may make it seem otherwise).
For reference; I like the first part of the Mass Effect trilogy best, of the three.
Combat is real-time.
Character "creation" is more character "selection".
Being a bioware title; it is an essentially linear affair and yes: it's the hero's journey.
Environments and people can be rather sterile, bland and "scale-model-ly" in presentation, but you can sort of "feel" the intention behind them.
Get prepared to be somewhat annoyed with how the in-world language, that was developed for the game, is left pretty much unused, and the NPCs who speak it are insted looping: "wiir wiir woowoowiiir", over and over.
The Closed Fist philosophy is is not evil per se -- It's a matter of not helping somebody by fixing their problems for them, but to force them to stand up for themselves, and if they get curbstomped; then they deserved it for being so weak, as far as you are concerned -- It is the Ayn Rand of Wushu, which admittedly is evil enough, in my book, but others will see things differently.
For reference; I like the first part of the Mass Effect trilogy best, of the three.
Combat is real-time.
Character "creation" is more character "selection".
Being a bioware title; it is an essentially linear affair and yes: it's the hero's journey.
Environments and people can be rather sterile, bland and "scale-model-ly" in presentation, but you can sort of "feel" the intention behind them.
Get prepared to be somewhat annoyed with how the in-world language, that was developed for the game, is left pretty much unused, and the NPCs who speak it are insted looping: "wiir wiir woowoowiiir", over and over.
The Closed Fist philosophy is is not evil per se -- It's a matter of not helping somebody by fixing their problems for them, but to force them to stand up for themselves, and if they get curbstomped; then they deserved it for being so weak, as far as you are concerned -- It is the Ayn Rand of Wushu, which admittedly is evil enough, in my book, but others will see things differently.
Be adviced it can be a hassle to get the damn thing to run on Windows 7. Once that was out of the way, many an evening flew by kicking things and laughing at my character's frog-face in conversations. There are a few things the game never bothers telling, such as the F key (by default) initiating a bullet-time state handy for beating up some of the elusive ghosties.
My playthrough is currently on hiatus due to a very annoying boss battle with 2 giant golems and 2 human minions in a small room...make what you will of that.
My playthrough is currently on hiatus due to a very annoying boss battle with 2 giant golems and 2 human minions in a small room...make what you will of that.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8sVKOrLXcYXanex said:
Darn right, listening to his opinions made it worth bringing him along quite often.