@Demoskinos: Yeah, at a discount and with the DLC makes the value proposition a bit more appealing. That's how I feel about Assassin's Creed: Revelations as well.
@believer258: Yeah, I think I've loved Bioware writing before, but maybe that was more concepts rather than content. The demo just had lines like "WHAT DO WE DO?" "SURVIVE" Those kinda things were a bit face-palm-worthy. Maybe that doesn't speak for the whole game, though.
@buft: I never enjoyed Zelda :p As for Oceans maybe the difference is the amount of time spent building the team as ME2 is a multi-hour experience whereas Oceans is a 1.5 or so. Also, the variety in those scenes in Oceans might have been more than what is happening in ME2, which by the end felt like clearing the room of bad guys to get to the objective. I can see that might be a bit too reductive but its how I felt and might be why its hard to muster that excitement about ME3.
@xdaknightx69: This is a blog post. When attaching blog posts to forums you get "off-topic" or "general discussion" as options. They're both pretty vague. If you want to discuss the topic, feel free. If not, why post?
@xdaknightx69: I was hoping to spark a discussion of the evolution of the series and where its heading in its final installment. 'PLAY IT IF YOU FEEL LIKE IT' is kind of reductionist.
So Mass Effect 3 is coming out and I feel a sort of responsibility to 'finish the fight' but I can't seem to muster a real sort of excitement for it. I remember playing the 1st game and loving it but that could have been because it was free and I was going in relatively blind. I liked exploring the galaxy, unraveling the mystery of the reapers, and digging into the rich fiction of the universe. The 2nd game, on the other hand, took out most of the exploration elements in favor of a more streamlined action experience. When I think back on the story most of what I remember is assembling a team and something about collectors kidnapping people to make a humanoid reaper (which made for an extremely silly boss battle). I seem to remember feeling like everything was getting a bit repetitive in ME2, with all the game play boiling down to ridding corridors of enemies and pressing the button prompt to collect/activate the objective. When I played the ME3 demo I just realized how uninspired the combat was, how bizarre cut scenes were, and how generic the dialogue was. The way the game starts also made me feel as if all the actions I took trying to stop a reaper invasion were for nothing seeing as they just waltz into Earth's atmosphere without incident. Am I just jaded? What should get me excited about ME3?
@Ghostiet: Red Dead Redemption is up there but mostly in retrospect. I've tried to throw it back in and it didn't quite hold my interest but maybe because I wasn't playing as John Marsden anymore. I will say that its one of the few games that felt like it was made for adults without feeling excessive in any respect. The setting and atmosphere is up there with the best and does a lot for how I remember that game.
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