SoulChicken

Heavy Rain it was fucking awful.

Well it turns out it might be Bad Game :buyme:IMMERSION UPDATE:buyme::buyme:IMMERSION UPDATE:buyme: :tdown::tdown::tdown: Finished it. Basically the game went downhill immediately after I picked it back up. This is a terrible game/interactive experience. Its not even a choose your own adventure, the vast majority of the pivotal moments come down to skillz at QTE, not based on choices you make. Plus the story is a weak straight to video 90s serial killer thriller post silence of the lambs. Fine until the really stupid parts. The good things I saw in the first four hours were clearly a mistake and not the intention (oh hello there indigo prophecy). If this had been an adventure game and not a mashfest, it could have been pretty good way to do an adventure game. It's a mashfest, at least in every crucial moment that matters.

What Is Game? Not Heavy Rain No plot spoilers. I played this for 4 straight hours yesterday. It's a pretty good not video game so far. The controller movements are a bit silly but kind of laid back and natural. So you keep doing these little things that control the character on the screen, tiny things like turning a light off or opening the fridge. Even though I do funny things whenever I get the chance does lull you into a feeling that you have some connection to this world. Of course its all a trick, you have only a tiny bit more involvement than watching a film but its quite an enjoyable and engaging trick. Its all worth it for that moment when you something "big" happens, that you react to or make a decision with one of those small stupid button taps or stick swivel without really thinking about it and you are involved. Compared to the thousands of imaginary triggers I have pulled on imaginary guns, nothing was quite like the one bullet I shot last night. Shit! What did I just do! The more obvious Dragons Lair-God of War style QTE's (move left now to avoid that oncoming car!! Hit O to dodge the punch!) are pretty silly and I guess are the "game" aspect but you aren't playing a video game so I let them go. What works (so far) is making a hard decision in real time. I dont know how much of it was illusion because I just kept moving on but it felt pretty cool. Although the illusion was totally broken when my reaction to this dude doing something reckless was "You know what, I'm going to go to the police with this instead." If this was a Video game (well a good Video game) I could have done that. Instead here they even let me hit the X button marked POLICE in his onscreen thoughts and the dude just looks at me and goes "no you are wrong, I am doing this, that actually wasn't an option." The fucker second guessed me. Not a video game. Quite fun nonetheless. Very pretty. Sometimes your character says stuff to you to give you hints (while searching for something CSI style) and sounds like Guybrush Threepwood telling you cant use a monkey on a pillow. So I think its a pretty cool experience so far. (There is some pretty cool CSI/Ace Attorney stuff that would be a really nice way of controlling an adventure game.)

The best series on the DS!

I am getting this today because I believe in the future of Video Games. Countdown to visceral immersion begins now.

Yorda in ICO is the closest thing I have ever had to a girlfriend.

I have discovered I like saying Narbacular Drop over and over. Thanks thread.

Definitely. It has got some red LEDs in it, which true PC gamerz know makes it more better for Video Games. Big shout out to my man Fatal1ty, if you don't know now you know son. "Detective, does that mean he's a... a... Vampire?" DUN DUN DUURRRRR "We have to get to the LAN Party!" Nooooooooooo!

HELL YES. LAZERS!

LOST is still great (once we got last week's Kate episode out of the way), it happily holds the title as "The only thing SoulChicken watches on Television."

So Fable 3 is a babby game for babbies. I'm no longer interested, as much as I enjoyed the art style and humor of Fable 2, the terribly short story really irked me. That said, I did enjoy getting married and then sacrificing my wife in the temple of shadows. I bet I still play Fable 3 though. Shit.

What is not game?

cake for everyone! Happy birthday Tabacco and Moose

Yeah it wasn't. It was really fun and the evident excitement you guys felt to be casting a pod again was shared by us all. Soon Steve will learn that no, Chris hasn't finished speaking yet.

Even though the first thing my husband has done when coming home drunkevery evening for the past fifteen years is punch me in the face, I'm hoping tommorrow he will bring me flowers instead! Dare to dream.

Holy shit. No fucking way. Video games just evolved ladies and gentlemen. edit: Oh wow, in a way this is more entertaining/depressing than when I first saw the Subject Zero trailer. It seems Peter's solution to his past problems is to talk about really mundane ideas but in the same over dramatic tone of voice.

Fortunately, that approach was limited to that and once I switched it off the Renegade journey was in the same spirit of the original. Even better maybe. It is really wierd that it is there and its like they know it's wierd, so the very first thing you get told you can do is get rid of it. Wierd.

I've got a pass. I'm a 33 year old manchild. I have no idea what I am getting myself into. Given none of my friends play video games, I'm going on my own, so it will be good to meet up with you guys.

You're not my real dad!

Hot Scoops!

I still want to know what is game!?

Another step closer to MoonShock at least.

Seriously guys, seriously. It's time. Steve's game ships next week, Chris is clearly pining for his thumbs outlet (words and words on Mass Effect 2, clearly most suitable for his beloved readers eardrums, not fooling anyone) and most importantly... WHAT ABOUT JAKE. THINK OF VIDEO GAMES RODKIN. He needs this. He needs you Chris, he needs us Chris, he needs video games. I fear he will soon forget what a video game is and he'll start crying in a meeting about pirates and monkeys and treasure, not understanding at all what the adults are talking about and feeling so so lonely and afraid.

http://www.annakie.com/me/ A bunch of save games for importing, its pretty easy to find the shepard you were/ or would have been.

I picked up Samara last night, my last hire before IFF and I've just been going around lazily like I did back in the Citadel in ME1. I really think all the stuff that Chris loved in the Citadel in ME1 is here in ME2, its just split over 3 cities. I got a bunch of little quests to do for people and got that same vibe I did in the Citadel. Probably spent the same amount of hours doing all that walking and talking as I did in ME. Illium was the most rich in this regard. When I really think about it I can't think what the Citadel had in ME1 that isnt here in ME2 and done just as well. Yet I do feel a little of there being something different... The game definitely rushes you along and it took me forcefully putting the breaks on and decide to saunter around before going to the IFF thing (or whatever its called.) The first game kind of encouraged you to do this where as this game made me feel a little guilty for not rushing to save the galaxy. I wish I had more to do with my gang of buddies now I have them together, I'm enjoying things so much, I dont want to jump back on the collectors story train and end the game yet. I guess thats whats making me look forward to another playthrough, play on a harder level to make the combat more challenging and pick up my gang in a different order so the ones I picked up towards the end in this one get more play. I dont want it to be over : ( edit: I loved hearing the old Mass Effect music play when I bumped into Ashley on that planet. Then I remembered how much I regretted not letting her die on Virmire because she is shit. Another favorite moment was in Omega when I walked back to the Normandy, you look through this grimy long window and its right there, my massive spaceship! Then there's a couple of panes missing so you can look through there and see it clearly. I guess it just made my ship feel very real and properly docked on the outside of this space station. Kind of the cool factor of seeing a massive Navy ship docked in the real world.