The Video Game Thread

[thesaint258]

I don't want to bag on ME, cause I really enjoyed it, but it's about as open as a set of train tracks.

That's true, but it feels more open than something like FFXIII. You also have a lot of choice when it comes to the order in which you do things.

[Colly Wolly]

So I'm having a really hard time getting into Fallout 3 as it seems too open. I tend to like a good balance between openness and having a narrative, like Mass Effect. I gave it a good couple of hours before I put it aside and started playing Mass Effect again to try to get a level 60 character to import to Mass Effect 2.

Keep munching on that salad while your succulent and juicy steak gets cold. Seriously, Mass Effect 2 is so good that you should just get into it dude. GO GO GO!

[MartyFunkhouser]

Keep munching on that salad while your succulent and juicy steak gets cold. Seriously, Mass Effect 2 is so good that you should just get into it dude. GO GO GO!

I know, I need to just play Mass Effect 2. It will probably be another couple weeks before I get my hands on a copy of it. I just finished up getting my character to level 60 in preparation for Mass Effect 2.

[1337coug]

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I don't know if I'll even try MW3 with what I'm seeing of battlefield 3.

[Coach McGuirk]

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I don't know if I'll even try MW3 with what I'm seeing of battlefield 3.

Agreed. But it is going to come down to their multiplayer platform. crossing fingers, cause it looks freaking awesome.

[Moliere]

Not sure where this belongs, but I just took some european chocolates to a YM in the ward. He wasn't home but someone was home but they wouldn't answer the door. I called the YM on his phone and he told me it was his moms boyfriend that was home but he was busy saving the world (meaning playing an online video game) to answer the door. Crazy!

[Coach McGuirk]

Here is some multiplayer action. I'm mixed on what I see here.

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[thesaint258]

Master Chief won't be stuck in space much longer...

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[falafel]

Here is some multiplayer action. I'm mixed on what I see here.

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Looks pretty sweet to me. Short clip though. What do you see that you don't like?

[1337coug]

Here is some multiplayer action. I'm mixed on what I see here.

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I don't see anything I don't like. A friend of mine recently rented battlefield 2 and I gave it a shot for the first time, and the destructable environments add more to the game than I ever imagined it could. With graphics like that, I don't see how this is anything short of a must buy. MW3 still has some convincing to do, especially since they want me to pay a subscription fee now for the full experience.

[Coach McGuirk]

Looks pretty sweet to me. Short clip though. What do you see that you don't like?

Im not big on vehicles rolling through multiplayer. You can see the effects where all you see are explosions. I think the buildings being able to break apart could be cool, but could also end up very very bad.

[Donuthole]

I'm not a gamer. At all. In fact, outside of a little 007 on the N64 in my freshman year of college, I've never played a first-person shooter game. But I found this write-up of LA Noire to be both hilarious and fascinating.

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/6625747/la-noire

[cougjunkie]

I'm not a gamer. At all. In fact, outside of a little 007 on the N64 in my freshman year of college, I've never played a first-person shooter game. But I found this write-up of LA Noire to be both hilarious and fascinating.

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/6625747/la-noire

Grantland is Simmons and Klostermans new website. I heard him pimping it on PTI.

[MartyFunkhouser]

Grantland is Simmons and Klostermans new website. I heard him pimping it on PTI.

It is weird to see that site as I'm a huge Klosterman fan and not so much a fan of Simmons. I've always though Simmons was a wannabe Chuck Klosterman.

[falafel]

I'm not a gamer. At all. In fact, outside of a little 007 on the N64 in my freshman year of college, I've never played a first-person shooter game. But I found this write-up of LA Noire to be both hilarious and fascinating.

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/6625747/la-noire

You, a non-gamer, read that whole thing?