video games # 2

NOT a simulation! An arcade game!

And Backfire, methinks you are wrong... BG2 has a far more complex, engaging and non-linear storyline than any console game.

i think he meant simulations more along the lines of F1 and what not.

i actually havent played that one. that may be the exception though. but in the ones ive played, storylines usually take a back seat to leveling up and hunting for items. i have actually been meaning to get baldurs gate 2, ive heard great things about it. however. i dont think any game will ever top final fantasy 3(6) as far as story line and character development goes.

BG2 has the most amazing line in conditonal character development with several thousand outcomes depending on what or who youyr character is and what or who the five people you are travelling are (what sex is important...) and where you go at various times. It beggars belief how much they put into that game!

Neverwinter Nights is less good on that... but that is because it is more of a multi-player tool than a game; the provided campaign is nice but the design and Gamesmastering elements of it are its speciality.

I agree, a lot of PC RPGs are shallow but that is because they are just unsuccessful attempts to ape console ones. Bioware did something very different with Baldur's Gate.

yeah, im having trouble getting into neverwinter nights. and when i mean character development, i didnt mean leveling them up or any of that, i meant the way movies develop a character, where you begin to care for them and see them as real people with real feeling rather then just characters in a game. thats something i think most pc rpg's lack.

Yeah, it is because Neverwinter Nights is not written with character development in mind. It also always assumes that you are not the only hero there; the campaign is written with many parties possibly playing at once in mind. So you cannot have the player driven storylines that BG had which is a shame, but then again it is vey impressive in other ways.

So, let's see how Knights of the Old Republic turns out...

what about dancing games? farming sims? 😄

Not enough mad Japs making PC games, for sure...

yeah, baldurs gate was cool from what i played, i borrowed my friends copy. it was fun. and its cheap now, i think ill purchase it sometime. or maybe get it for xmas 🙂

okay; Metroid Prime. first some days back it got 9,8 on ign.com which is, together with GrandTurismo3, the HIGHEST score on ANY next-gen console EVER.
now today, what I consider an even greater happening: 9,7 on the under-rating hyper-strict gamespot.com! and EGM(electronic gaming monthly, biggest multiplatform magazine out there) editor Marc McDonald gives it 10.

without exaggerating, this points to Metroid Prime being one of the best single-player games ever. the reviews it has got is really THAT out-of-this-world gobsmacking.

i wouldnt doubt it. nintendo always finds a way to surpass peoples expectations.

I'm renting Star Fox Adventures: Dinosaur Planet right now. I've made it to the CloudRunner Fortress (some of you may know what that is if you've played the game. I think Tex did).

It's a fun game. 🙂

A new game called the legend ofgf Robin of Sherwood, pretty cool stuff, the same as those who made Desperado a cool western game.
Robin of sherwood is very entertaining and a bit challenging

Any comedy?

I asked my mother for a Gamecube for my birthday this Sunday. She laughed at me and told me I was too old for it. I disagree.

What good games do they have for GameCube? I want it because Zelda comes out next year, and I HAVE to have it.

mario, metroid, resident evil games, animal crossing. im also asking for gamecube for xmas.

Animal Crossing. What is that all about? I saw a comercial for it, and it looks pretty cool. It's like a real time game or something, isn't it?

yeah, its like you basically live a life within the gamecube. you have to buy a house and go to work, kinda like the sims

gamecube is a no no

ooh, its not cool-looking enough for finti.