heh...I got stuck on the very last level of Metroid Prime, where you in the radioactive room with all the little metroids keep harassing you as you have to make through a jump puzzle area. You can't kill them off, they just keep coming back. An extremely frustrating level that sucked the fun of out an otherwise great game. I never did finish it and never had a desire to fire it up again. That last level was the opposite of fun for me, and didn't feel a need to subject myself to that pain just to say I "beat" it.
I just picked up GoW last week. As a long time UT / UT2003 / UT2004 PC game player, I was definitely interested to see what Epic has been delaying UT3 for. I've been enjoying the game and overall think they did a very good job with it. I think they made a traditional shooter a little different with the way the whole "cover" system works...and then of course the chainsaw action is fun to mess around with.
Is it worthy of all the awards it seems to win everyday? I don't know, but at this point, it has become easy and almost expected for whatever game award it's up for, it will win. Kinda like the Oscar and other movie awards...there is always one or two movies a year that all the award shows just fawn all over.
Either way it's a fun game and I'm enjoying playing it. I don't know if it's the best game EVAR, but worth it if you like a good shooter. Character development and story isn't the greatest, but I've seen worse. The gameplay makes up for it IMO.
I recently got a new LCD TV (40" Samsung). It only does 720p and 1080i. While similar sized 1080P sets looked impressive, it wasn't *that* much better IMO to justify the almost $1000 price difference.
I think it's good for MS to support 1080p, and there's no real reason not to support unless for some strange reason it hurts the more widely used resolutions of the games, including non hd versions (480i). 1080p users are such a small subset of still more of a niche group in HDTV users, although that niche is expanding quite quickly these days.
So yeah, it's cool, but since I don't see myself getting a 1080p set anytime soon, I'm indifferent.
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heh...I got stuck on the very last level of Metroid Prime, where you in the radioactive room with all the little metroids keep harassing you as you have to make through a jump puzzle area. You can't kill them off, they just keep coming back. An extremely frustrating level that sucked the fun of out an otherwise great game. I never did finish it and never had a desire to fire it up again. That last level was the opposite of fun for me, and didn't feel a need to subject myself to that pain just to say I "beat" it.
I just picked up GoW last week. As a long time UT / UT2003 / UT2004 PC game player, I was definitely interested to see what Epic has been delaying UT3 for. I've been enjoying the game and overall think they did a very good job with it. I think they made a traditional shooter a little different with the way the whole "cover" system works...and then of course the chainsaw action is fun to mess around with.
Is it worthy of all the awards it seems to win everyday? I don't know, but at this point, it has become easy and almost expected for whatever game award it's up for, it will win. Kinda like the Oscar and other movie awards...there is always one or two movies a year that all the award shows just fawn all over.
Either way it's a fun game and I'm enjoying playing it. I don't know if it's the best game EVAR, but worth it if you like a good shooter. Character development and story isn't the greatest, but I've seen worse. The gameplay makes up for it IMO.
I recently got a new LCD TV (40" Samsung). It only does 720p and 1080i. While similar sized 1080P sets looked impressive, it wasn't *that* much better IMO to justify the almost $1000 price difference. I think it's good for MS to support 1080p, and there's no real reason not to support unless for some strange reason it hurts the more widely used resolutions of the games, including non hd versions (480i). 1080p users are such a small subset of still more of a niche group in HDTV users, although that niche is expanding quite quickly these days. So yeah, it's cool, but since I don't see myself getting a 1080p set anytime soon, I'm indifferent.