Video Game Thread
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AtheistPreacher
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Personally, I prefer Battlefield to Modern Warfare. Just my two cents. BFBC2 was the first online shooter that I played with regularity since Quake 2... that's how good it was. And yeah, I don't really see a point in getting both. May as well get one and stick to that.
Can't help you with Rage vs. Resistance 3... I currently don't plan to buy either of them and haven't been following very closely.
And needless to say from this thread, I'm ridiculously excited for Dark Souls. I watched 18 hours of IGN's 24-hour live stream of playing the game... that was really fun, BTW, even if sometimes they didn't quite know what they were talking about (for instance, they seemed ignorant of some of the details of weapon scaling, despite the fact that Demon's Souls had exactly the same system). They were pretty punch-drunk at the end, singing "Don't Stop Believin'" and killing random NPCs. But in any case, I'm sure I'll be playing that game for months on end when I get my hands on it this Tuesday. Anyone who likes a challenge should give it a try or three.
AtheistPreacher
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Haven't bought a B-Ball game in like 4 years. They just don't interest me as much anymore.
I did recently buy the new NHL game, though (NHL 12), and that one's pretty fun. I still prefer watching NBA to NHL, but for whatever reason I find the hockey video games more entertaining. Maybe it's because scoring a basket in b-ball is pedestrian, but scoring a goal in hockey is always an event.
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Dude, the jump from NBA 2K7 to 2K11 is unbelievably profound. If you haven't given it a whirl yet I highly suggest you do. It was considered as the best sports game of the decade when 2K11 came out in 2010.
AtheistPreacher
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My brother tells me that the controls have gotten looser and looser ever since 2K9, and that in the recent versions the animations are so long and uninterruptible that it feels sometimes like you're watching more than playing. That's just his opinion, but I tend to trust his judgment on these things. In any case, I'm simply not that interested.
Besides, I was philosophically against that whole ridiculous Jordan thing they did last year. He'll always be overrated in my book.
//r00t 4 Jazz
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I downloaded the Beta for BF3 and I do think it plays smoother then the COD/MWF games but obviously haven't tried MWF3 yet to see if it improved. I just wish you could change the button layout to be the same as COD it just makes more sense to me.
Archie Moses
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Does anyone have a take on Rage? I can't decide if I want to get it. It looks a lot like Borderlands and Fallout.
dipship31
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I thought Rage was more of a straight forward shooter as opposed to open worlds like Borderlands or Fallout, but maybe I'm wrong. The game looks good, but I'll be passing until next year some time. Too many other great games coming out that have more appeal to me.
Archie Moses
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I don't think it's open world like Fallout, but more like Borderlands.
//r00t 4 Jazz
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I haven't played Borderlands myself but from the commercials I thought it had a similar feel to it. But yes Rage is one of the reasons I bumped this thread myself. I searched to see if it had a demo to download but I guess not as I wasn't able to find it. Hence me thinking I should do the blockbuster thing to test if it's worth buying but I was hoping to avoid that.
prodigy
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I don't like Jordan any more than anyone else, but I must admit it was a good selling point to put jordan all over it last year. he will always sell. but this year it's not just about Jordan thankfully(i think i'll grab the magic cover), the legends mode should be a lot of fun with all the players they included
Safetydan
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Reviews are very good to great for Dark Souls, not that someone intent on playing the game would need a review to convince them. It's nice, however, that it's getting the recognition I feel it deserves.
https://www.metacritic.com/game/playstation-3/dark-souls
This review was my favorite:
https://www.next-gen.biz/reviews/dark-souls-review
The only exception was a 70 given by a swedish review site citing "endless frustration"
I also suggest watching this hour and a half "quick look" by Giantbomb which was very entertaining, even moreso than the IGN 24 livestream.
https://www.giantbomb.com/quick-look-dark-souls/17-4966/
This game looks insanely fantastic.
https://www.metacritic.com/game/playstation-3/dark-souls
This review was my favorite:
https://www.next-gen.biz/reviews/dark-souls-review
The only exception was a 70 given by a swedish review site citing "endless frustration"
I also suggest watching this hour and a half "quick look" by Giantbomb which was very entertaining, even moreso than the IGN 24 livestream.
https://www.giantbomb.com/quick-look-dark-souls/17-4966/
This game looks insanely fantastic.