Re:Bought This Turd Instead Of Valkyria Chronicles
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While Valkyria Chronicles is a good Turn Based Tactics game, it's not even close to an RPG and is set in a very fairy tale like, anime, fantasy land with a story and character interaction that is 100% on rails.
While FO3 isn't the deepest or most non-linear RP experience available, it offers magnitudes more in these departments than Valkyria Chronicles does, in addition to a much more gritty, post-apocalyptic setting.
From an RP perspective Valkyria Chronicles is the very definition of braindead. Every conversation is a "press X to continue" type situation. The only decision you get to make in the development of your squad is what order to buy equipment and new levels for them. As mentioned the story is 100% episodic and the only choice you have in how it plays out is to not watch the cutscenes that are marked as optional.
I like both games personally, but they have very little in common with each other.
My opinion of FO3 probably would have been much different if I had bought it for PS3 though. Have had almost 0 issues with it on PC.
Just draw/holster your weapon (can't remember which way this toggles, I got caught up in Guitar Hero and Rock Band so it's been a little over a month since I last played ME) and you can pan around your character to your heart's content w/ the right stick.
I'm no Bioengineer/Geneticist, and I certainly don't consider myself a social or intellectual conservative, but this seems like a much worse idea than human embryo harvesting (or cloning for that matter).
Just seems wrong on so many levels, what with the potential for species hopping super viri and psycho, deformed man-imal hybrids if they ever brought these things to term.
Maybe I'm just a pop-science/sci-fi victim though.
Most of the good aspects of writing in The Witcher (the setting, lore, and backgrounds of the main characters) were lifted from the books as I understand it.
The quests/story/plot of the game came off as typical, cliched, adult fantasy RPG fare to me. The dialog in the english version was actually pretty substandard IMO (but was probably due to doing the translation on the mega-cheap).
I'm not saying it sucks by any means, it was a good game, but it definitely wasn't significantly better than Mass Effect, Orange Box, or BioShock.
Fuct used to be an actual clothing company back in the early - mid 90s that used that a better executed version of that rip off of the Ford logo. Still have a rapidly disintegrating "genuine" Fuct t-shirt and cap with that logo on them but they probably ought to be retired.
Kind of funny that these guys have ripped off Fuct who had ripped Ford in the first place.
Course I dunno if Fuct is even still around or would have cared about people creating knock off's of their merchandise in the first place anyways.
Yup, I was noticing lots of issues with getting signed in the week of 12/16 - 12/23. I've been busy with holiday celebrations, work, and catching up on some reading since then so it hasn't really been an issue for me, but I would be pretty pissed/disappointed if this was my first experience with XBL...
That being said, I've only experienced one other disruption in service with XBL since I got my 360 in June. Overall I've been pretty darn happy with the experience.
I haven't quite finished The Witcher yet, but so far I find the haphazard translation of the dialog pretty distracting and find the VA just passable. I also find it to be dragging on quite abit. I generally love huge games as long as they have good pacing.
A decidedly adult and beautiful game, with lots of significant (read game changing)choice, but the problems with dialog kill a lot of my enjoyment. I bet the Polish version is much better though.
Mass Effect, without a doubt. Sure it had some issues (inventory UI is horrid, minor to noticable framerate spikes and texture popins, not enough compelling uncharted world content) but they are outweighed tenfold by every other aspect of this game for me. I spent 60+ hours on my first playthrough and could think of nothing else I wanted to do but replay it immediately after finishing. I don't think that's happened for me since Fallout 2.
Honorable mentions, in no particular order go to Forza 2, Portal, Mask of the Betrayer, and Bioshock.
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While Valkyria Chronicles is a good Turn Based Tactics game, it's not even close to an RPG and is set in a very fairy tale like, anime, fantasy land with a story and character interaction that is 100% on rails. While FO3 isn't the deepest or most non-linear RP experience available, it offers magnitudes more in these departments than Valkyria Chronicles does, in addition to a much more gritty, post-apocalyptic setting. From an RP perspective Valkyria Chronicles is the very definition of braindead. Every conversation is a "press X to continue" type situation. The only decision you get to make in the development of your squad is what order to buy equipment and new levels for them. As mentioned the story is 100% episodic and the only choice you have in how it plays out is to not watch the cutscenes that are marked as optional. I like both games personally, but they have very little in common with each other. My opinion of FO3 probably would have been much different if I had bought it for PS3 though. Have had almost 0 issues with it on PC.
Just draw/holster your weapon (can't remember which way this toggles, I got caught up in Guitar Hero and Rock Band so it's been a little over a month since I last played ME) and you can pan around your character to your heart's content w/ the right stick.
I'm no Bioengineer/Geneticist, and I certainly don't consider myself a social or intellectual conservative, but this seems like a much worse idea than human embryo harvesting (or cloning for that matter).
Just seems wrong on so many levels, what with the potential for species hopping super viri and psycho, deformed man-imal hybrids if they ever brought these things to term.
Maybe I'm just a pop-science/sci-fi victim though.
Most of the good aspects of writing in The Witcher (the setting, lore, and backgrounds of the main characters) were lifted from the books as I understand it.
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The quests/story/plot of the game came off as typical, cliched, adult fantasy RPG fare to me. The dialog in the english version was actually pretty substandard IMO (but was probably due to doing the translation on the mega-cheap).
I'm not saying it sucks by any means, it was a good game, but it definitely wasn't significantly better than Mass Effect, Orange Box, or BioShock.
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Fuct used to be an actual clothing company back in the early - mid 90s that used that a better executed version of that rip off of the Ford logo. Still have a rapidly disintegrating "genuine" Fuct t-shirt and cap with that logo on them but they probably ought to be retired.
Kind of funny that these guys have ripped off Fuct who had ripped Ford in the first place.
Course I dunno if Fuct is even still around or would have cared about people creating knock off's of their merchandise in the first place anyways.
Have you actually played Mass Effect as a renegade?
I thought they did a great job here making the renegade choices not senesless puppy kicking/baby eating in nature on a whole.
I agree wholeheartedly with you that KotOR dark side and JE closed fist were pretty "stupid evil" though.
That being said, I've only experienced one other disruption in service with XBL since I got my 360 in June. Overall I've been pretty darn happy with the experience.
Aside from a bit of bugginess, both of these games were excellent and under appreciated.
I thought I was the only one completely freaked out by the haunted hotel in VtM:BL.
I haven't quite finished The Witcher yet, but so far I find the haphazard translation of the dialog pretty distracting and find the VA just passable. I also find it to be dragging on quite abit. I generally love huge games as long as they have good pacing.
A decidedly adult and beautiful game, with lots of significant (read game changing)choice, but the problems with dialog kill a lot of my enjoyment. I bet the Polish version is much better though.
Mass Effect, without a doubt. Sure it had some issues (inventory UI is horrid, minor to noticable framerate spikes and texture popins, not enough compelling uncharted world content) but they are outweighed tenfold by every other aspect of this game for me. I spent 60+ hours on my first playthrough and could think of nothing else I wanted to do but replay it immediately after finishing. I don't think that's happened for me since Fallout 2.
Honorable mentions, in no particular order go to Forza 2, Portal, Mask of the Betrayer, and Bioshock.