1. Shadow of the Colossus - Like playing a painting simply. I wish I could wipe my memory clean of this and play afresh
2. Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn - Responsible for helping me to construct the greatest character to roleplay I have ever had in gaming
3. Metal Gear Solid - As a child helped introduce several extrastential concepts to me in admittedly its own crazy nonsensical way which honestly I can say is one of the things responsible for me diving into learning philosophy and more importantly discussing it.
2 Posts left today. Whew, working through them fast
Well it seems I can't spark much conversations as I only have 4 posts left. (3 after this one)
My intention was to use my blog as a talking point. Asking what all your games of this generation are and why?
Despite the fact the generation isn't over yet I feel like we should celebrate Nintendo attempting to lead the charge into the Next-Gen with the WII U without actually having to buy one of the little buggers.
3 Posts left. Better compliment Ryan's beard one last time
Asylum was brilliant and the claustraphobia surrounding its setting was one of the things that made it for me. But AC is my choice just over the sheer number of hours I put into it. I play that game too much. Every day I'm on there to spend an hour or so on the challenge maps honing my skills
ME2 was great as well. It was great to see how the characters had evolved in the two years without your influence making them seem more whole and less like a bunch of groupies. At the time though the way the gameplay was headed concerned me as it felt we were heading a little bit too Gears of War. I only recently played ME3 because of this and I have to say I was pleasantly surprised. Sure it was melodramatic as hell but by this point I was so invested in the ME universe and it's characters that I ate all up laughing all the way. It wasn't brilliant by all means but it still had me engrossed the whole time. The ending was pretty poor but it was always about the journey. Much like with TWD it didn't matter too much to me how my decisions tallied up in the end, it was about how I justified them as I went to myself and my friends.
I did love Fallout 3. It was amazing to have Liam Neeson as my father and Malcolm Mcdowell as the president. Neeson's presence did serve as my main motivation to plough through the main quest but in games like Fallout and the Elder Scrolls, I find the ability to play your own story over the developer's without feeling scorned by the game for doing so is what makes them so special to me.
I'm sorry you feel the way you do about TWD and MGS4 Canteu. Understandable true but I find they're games you can't just take for face value. They're games that demand injection from you as a player into them as well as taking what they dish out to you. If you don't do that then you are just watching a movie.
Both great games admittedly and the personal story my character went through in Skyrim from socially awkward academic to power hungry maniac to mass murderer then to become a guilt ridden mess on a desperate quest for redemption did make the game unforgettable for me. I felt if I were to tally up all the Bethesda games of this gen I would always pick New Vegas (Even though not technically Bethesda) as my time with it stands tall over my time in Skyrim.
Uncharted 2 I did love for finding a great fun blend in making a cinematic gaming experience. I never got round to playing the third one. Was it good?
I find them quite hard to compare myself. TWD for me was more of a means to show a new way to experience a story more over than being a standard adventure game. While I did enjoy LA Noire, the sheer amount of case after case makes it hard to get as invested in each one by the end like I was at first on the traffic desk, hypothesing while I played.
When it comes to LA Noire I would recommend lots of breaks between cases as sometimes it can be easy to lull into the gameplay and let it carry you forward without having to think much for yourself unless of course you deeply care about ratings. Whereas with TWD I marathoned the entire series in one day making it all the more intense. Even resorting to putting off eating my lunch in Episode II to further emphasise with Lee.
I have been watching and reading Giantbomb for a few months now and have decided to finally take the plunge into your forums, for better or for worse, to discuss all things gaming and of course reiterate my admiration for Ryan Davis' beard.
I wrote a little blog post about my best games of this generation which was forcibly put up on this forum as part of the way it works on this site I guess which you can find here.
As a way of auditioning for this forum's consent to stick around I figured a conversation starter would be more beneficial than just shouting HELLO WORLD to you all. I suppose we can either discuss either here or there or you can just ban me right away for breaking some sort of rule. If I have with tail between my legs, I apologise.
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