Choice of four. Picking one.

june gloom on 15/4/2009 at 22:57

Quote Posted by Jason Moyer

I'd love to see someone do an open-world Bethesda style game in that sort of setting with the RPG elements, questing, dungeons, etc. but with Stalker's gunplay.

I will grant you that FO3's gunplay was kind of... lacking.

Bjossi on 16/4/2009 at 00:19

Quote Posted by bukary

Dead Space is great, but it will only take you 10 hours to finish it.

That doesn't really say much. For example I have put at least two times more hours than that into Dead Space so far, it has been well over 4 months since I bought it and I'm still on my first runthrough.

It pretty much boils down to how much time you have for gaming and what kind of a player you are. I'm an extremely slow player (not only do I take my time to explore and backtrack in search for stuff, but I simply don't rush through the Ishimura like I'm Rambo with god mode on) and don't have so much free time as I used to either, so naturally I will get quite a bit of juice out of "short" games like Dead Space. ;)

Slasher on 16/4/2009 at 08:27

My experience with Fallout 3 was one of increasingly frequent crashes, beginning with one system restart every two or three hours to one system restart every ten to fifteen minutes once I was above level 18. I still stuck with it and finished the main quest. :D

Rogue Keeper on 16/4/2009 at 08:37

As I mentioned earlier, it took me 3/4 of the game until I realized that about 85 percent of the crashes was caused by one unsuspicious, but ultimately conflicting mod... And I was swearing at Beth's address before like crazy. :o

So, a lesson for everyone who uses mods : check them twice before you jump to early conclusions.

june gloom on 16/4/2009 at 15:30

When I first tried FO3 it was fucking unplayable. But then 3 things happened: 1) the patch came out 2) I learned about disabling ffdshow (incidentally, morrowind.exe and oblivion.exe were already in the exclude list, himm I wonder) and 3) I realized that my drivers were bullshit and causing problems in other games so I reverted. Anybody who's experiencing crashes may want to look into the above 3 things as well as conflicting mods.

Digital Nightfall on 16/4/2009 at 18:16

I'm leaning heavily towards getting Dead Space now and then asking for Fallout 3 for my birthday in August. :thumb:

Thanks for the input, guys. Steam will probably put Zeno Clash up for even more dirt cheap before the end of the year, and I can always pick up Riddick sometime down the line if I find myself still interested.

Now the question is... Steam (download - $40), Amazon (mail order - $37), or Walmart (drive into town - $40)?

june gloom on 16/4/2009 at 20:08

I say Walmart. Even when I buy Valve games that require Steam it's always in a box, just so I can say it's there. I never use it again because I can just reinstall over Steam, but the physicality of it is reassuring.

Mercurius on 16/4/2009 at 22:21

Go for the instant gratification option.

Which means Steam is out :cool:

Aja on 17/4/2009 at 00:05

I can't feel good buying music digitally, but anything to reduce the number of ugly game boxes on my shelf is good. I say steam.

EvaUnit02 on 17/4/2009 at 00:32

Quote Posted by Digital Nightfall

Now the question is... Steam (download - $40), Amazon (mail order - $37), or Walmart (drive into town - $40)?

Why are you even asking this question? Dead Space Retail = SecuROM limited activation AIDS. Steam release = no 3rd party anti-consumer DRM.