What's your "pet" game?
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Tiberian Sun Firestorm.
It was an excellent game with excellent control and tactics, a great campaign and the best soundtrack I've ever heard in a game.
I'm still waiting for a sequel and forever shall be. Nothing EA produces could ever be considered a real sequel to the Westwood legacy.
It was an excellent game with excellent control and tactics, a great campaign and the best soundtrack I've ever heard in a game.
I'm still waiting for a sequel and forever shall be. Nothing EA produces could ever be considered a real sequel to the Westwood legacy.
Soul Reaver 2 was brilliant but badly badly broken. I loved this game but I could never get past the air temple, or more specifically, after finishing the air temple the town gate which would never rise up. grrr.
As for modern games I'm obsessed with Fallout: NV. It's again, terribly broken and unplayable at times, yet for some reason I love it anyway.
As for modern games I'm obsessed with Fallout: NV. It's again, terribly broken and unplayable at times, yet for some reason I love it anyway.
my pet game... hmmm
Its got to be Baldur's Gate 2
not only was it a favourite when I was young but I still go back and play it once or twice a year.
Fantastic Characters, intercharacter dialog, fun combat that required thinking, fantastic storyline... its created a fanboy in me.
Still haven't played -any- mods for it, the riggy-digg version is still the bread and butter of my gaming experience.
Its got to be Baldur's Gate 2
not only was it a favourite when I was young but I still go back and play it once or twice a year.
Fantastic Characters, intercharacter dialog, fun combat that required thinking, fantastic storyline... its created a fanboy in me.
Still haven't played -any- mods for it, the riggy-digg version is still the bread and butter of my gaming experience.
Just Cause. The first one, of course (My computer refuses to run the JC2 demo at more than 10 fps.) It had no variety in side missions, the main character was... I'll leave that at that, the vehicle controls were terrible, and it had too many graphical glitches to be named. The only thing keeping me is the hellishly awesome map and parachuting off of a motorcycle onto a plane, then jumping out and grappling hook(ing?) onto a car.
Fallen Earth. I'm not blind to its flaws, but the things it does right - mood, atmosphere, the sense of being in a real world rather than just a gaming evironment - it does these so well the faults become irelevant. My progress through the game is ridiculously slow because I don't want it to end, and I keep my subscription going even when I'm not playing for months at a time.
I also suspect that my love of FE is one of the reasons I can't get into Fallout 3, and why I'm so critical of that game.
I also suspect that my love of FE is one of the reasons I can't get into Fallout 3, and why I'm so critical of that game.
In terms of the spirit of the original post, I would say Mount&Blade but my evangelism on this forum in that game's favor has snowballed to the point where people have played it, loved it, and talk it up around here.
Patrician 4 has become my latest "best game nobody around here seems to have heard of".
Patrician 4 has become my latest "best game nobody around here seems to have heard of".
I second the opinion on LOZ:Wind Waker, it was one of the first console games I ever played (Super Mario Sunshine being the other as well as another "pet" game of mine).
However, rather strangely, my friend introduced me to an old PS2 game just a few months ago that I've developed quite a love for. It was the rather buggy, rather confusing, Primal.
She was rather nostalgic about it (she and her dad used to play it when she was younger) and even she could admit it had flaws but I loved it regardless. In fact, it used to be the game we'd play whenever I chilled at her's after school.
However, rather strangely, my friend introduced me to an old PS2 game just a few months ago that I've developed quite a love for. It was the rather buggy, rather confusing, Primal.
She was rather nostalgic about it (she and her dad used to play it when she was younger) and even she could admit it had flaws but I loved it regardless. In fact, it used to be the game we'd play whenever I chilled at her's after school.
I don't hate the game. The "deep enough to get by" combat hardly explained away the fact I played through the game twice. I suspect that the reason for this is found in my delight in removing loot from corpses - a fondness I've had since Diablo 2. Still, midway through my third playthrough I lost interest. And when I say I lost interest I mean exactly that. It was quite sudden, in the middle of the battle I just got bored. At that moment I knew I never needed to play the game again having already wrung all the delight the game could offer long before.OptimisticPessimist said:
I personally do not have a game that exactly fits the criteria, but I do have examples that are close enough.
Icewind Dale. Yes, I'm well aware that Baldur's gate is seen as the better of the two franchises but I played Icewind Dale first.
Neverwinter Nights 2. People often say that the game was worse than the predecessor or that the ending was terrible but I simply cannot relate. The story and characters were so much more engaging in 2. As for the ending, well I was taking my stalwart band to face down a being of pure evil energy that had already toppled empires who surely could muster as much fighting power as 9 level 20 characters. When a suicide mission ends with everyone getting away without so much as a scratch, it kinda makes on question just what makes it suicidal. Sometimes the hero needs to die in the end.
Alpha Protocol. I love Deus Ex and Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines. As such I was prepared to excuse most of the problems other people had with the game.
Mechwarrior 4. I raged for a time at the changes to the mech design system but in the end I came to realize that the change was for the better. It made each chassis unique for reasons beyond appearance. I spent hundreds of hours tweaking and testing mechs that generally defied the conventional wisdom of the moment. From my Cauldron Born armed with light autocannons, LRMS and lasers (I used it on the hotter maps. People decried the seemingly woeful firepower at it's disposal and generally ignored the fact that the UAC/2 might only deliver 1/4 the damage of an ER large laser (the weapon most favored for the job) it fired 5 times as fast. Combine that with the fact that the shots would constantly disrupt their aim and you have a mech that won far more shootouts than people would figure was possible), to my "undergunned" Highlander (63% of the alpha strike damage of the most popular equivalent mech but I could start the fight at 4x the range of them and did 100% of my damage at a range where they could only deliver a fraction of theirs all while having equal armor and vastly superior mobility), I loved building the mechs as much as piloting them.
Like a woman who collects cats, I have more than 1 pet game; American McGee's Alice, Serious Sam 2, Baldur's Gate, Dungeon Siege, Morrowind, 1503 AD, Heroes of Might & Magic 4, & Neverwinter Nights.
YES, but unfortunately I don't have it anymore, so Oblivion will have to do. Which is just fine by meDuctTapeJedi said:
Gears of War series, Over 30 days playtime on the second, a shitload on the first I've put a lot of time into that franchise. I love it.
The Fable series, though possibly the second more than the first (I haven't gotten to play the third). Fable is what got me into videogames in general and RPGs in particular. I just love the setting, the lore and the snarky British humour. Plus, for all its' flaws, when the series does something right, it does it well. Perfect World from Fable 2 is one of my favourite videogame sequences ever. Though that may be because I've analysed it so much that I've written an essay on it. XD
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