Axeldeath

Shopping [✔] Baking [ ] Improve attitude [ ] Play video games all day [✔] At least I'm ahead by a bit

1 rep for the guy who remembers this game. Shadowrun.

Was that the one where you could switch soldiers via being some sort of body-possessing spirit?

Many mods already do this on PC, only the very hardcore enjoy it. I could perhaps see something like the ARMA series having a hardcore mode similar to what you suggest though. Also- You've played games online so you should know that this would never work in a pub.

Bump because Skyrim. I just touched them up a bit with Photoshop.

No this. Darn furrehs.

That ground texture made me vomit a little in my mouth, same res as a COD explosion.

I never said more of the same in a sequel is a bad thing, take a look at the change from Fallout 1 to Fallout 2. Exact same mechanics, exact same graphics and the exact same gameplay as Fallout 1. But a way bigger world, way more content and innovations with the mechanics they already had. Contrast this to the change from MW2 --> BO --> MW3. Same MP with a few extra game modes, another "story" with the exact same length as the others, a few extra maps and the removal of older maps to be sold as $15 DLC later in the year. Unless you buy the games for the SP you may as well be playing MW1's multiplayer.

There must be cheaper ways to get Genesis. I could get the MP3 download but it's not real Genesis maaaaan.

Thinking about importing a copy of Genesis' album "Selling England by the Pound" from Germany, but it's $300

Games with no story are usually great when they focus on gameplay (see every old platformer ever), but it's when the devs put some half-arsed story in there that the game becomes bad. If you can't do it right, don't do it at all.

Are you serious? You think that lack of innovation and shameless cash-ins are a good thing?

I'm not saying HR wasn't an amazing game with great story and nice level design, but the only thing it has over the original Deus Ex was it's graphics and it's shooting (for those that prefer skill-based shooting). Don't get me wrong, Human Revolution is a great game but it's nigh impossible to live up to the original seeing as it's one of the greatest PC games of all time. Seeing what they've done with HR gives me very high hopes for Thief 4 (or THI4F as they like to call it >_>)

Sorry, I think that's against the law. Just re-download from Steam.

Well, it's because both games are trying to be different things. In Skyrim they're trying to replicate real life by basically sticking a country in a box, all of the miniature stories and guild stories etc. aren't there to overwhelm the main story, they're there to create the sense of a real, living world. One that you actually want to defend. These smaller stories that don't revolve around the main plot don't further the stories progression, rather they richen the environment and recreate a world in which a player can get fully immersed into. In comparison, the original Deus Ex wanted to create a far more focused story. Also, I disagree with you saying that the smaller stories where there to develop the main plot. Most of the time they were just there so you could get the number to a door or the pin to a credit card, which falls onto the gameplay side of things. It all just comes down to personal preference, if you prefer a game with a focused story and excellent RPG gameplay, play Deus Ex. If you prefer a game that has a far less focused story but makes up for it with many smaller, interesting stories. That also has enough of these stories to last you for weeks, play Skyrim. If you prefer an actiony shooter with pretty graphics, get Human Revolution.

Fix'd

I bet the Hunstman could land a few arrows in various knees

This. I also agree with Kirk about Bioshock 2. Eat your heart out, Axeldeath. I always go for games with good story, but unfortunately games and good story rarely mix. Most games with a good story end up being full of cut scenes which removes the, y'know, game part of it. Very few games have the ability to present a good story without turning the game into a movie, games such as Bastion, Half Life, Half Life 2 and Silent Hill 2 are games that utilize the medium's true potential by combining storytelling, and gameplay. I placed Bioshock amongst those who combined story and gameplay well (but not great) but Bioshock 2 seems like a parody of the first one. I doesn't contain any of the depth or detail that the original one had and therefore fails to tell a compelling story. On the gameplay side of things, hardly anything changed since it's predecessor (which was rather lackluster in the gameplay department anyway). Human Revolution is a game that aspires to be as good as the original Deus Ex, I believe it trumps it story-wise but Human Revolution's story is hindered by the rather lacking in the first place. When it's there it's good but it's just not there enough. The original Deus Ex made up for it's lack of storyline with a compelling environment that caused the player to deduce what happened through notes or cosmetic details to create miniature stories that gave the world far more depth and intrigue than HR did. Of course the gameplay in Deus Ex is far better and deeper than Human Revolution but it also requires greater intelligence to understand and is less easy to get a grip of than HR. Skyrim is very similar to the original Deus Ex, in that it not only tells many stories with a greater, over-arching plot. It also leaves subtle hints to smaller stories that take place within the universe without you actually taking part in them, as with all TES games the story lies not in the main plot, rather it takes place all across the game's world. It pales in comparison to Fallout: NV's stories, but it is still very competent and in it lies the true way that storytelling in games can suceed, rather than almost every other game's failure at emulating films and novels, both of which are far more competent at telling stories in a linear fashion than the horrible attempts made by most developers.

Grab and run, man!

I give it a cool out of awesome.

No problem, just because I can

We're talking about the original Deus Ex. OT: Battlefield 3.

I just changed over to my new PC and I am yet to download adBlock Plus... OH GOD THE GIFS ARE BACK D:

Final Fantasy.

*Right click* *Block element* The fate of all the .gif avatars on this forum.