june gloom on 27/9/2009 at 22:28
Hell, FALLOUT 3 come on!
Gorgonseye on 29/9/2009 at 11:09
Quote Posted by dethtoll
Hell,
FALLOUT 3 come on!
Fallout 3 wasn't a real FPS.
Point taken on the other two though. I'll amend it with the re-use of the phrase, "
interesting" instead.
Edit: And thank you for the grammar correction, frankly I don't know the grammar rules as well as I should.
Sulphur on 29/9/2009 at 15:42
Well, 'interesting' isn't a phrase either, so I'll have to agree with you there.
june gloom on 29/9/2009 at 16:29
Quote Posted by Gorgonseye
Fallout 3 wasn't a real FPS.
It's in first person and that's enough for my point to be valid.
Kuuso on 29/9/2009 at 16:44
That actually looks quite interesting. Any idea, if it's a good game?
ZymeAddict on 1/10/2009 at 01:59
Huh. I thought the brute in that commercial was CG for sure. Interesting to see it was actually animatronic.
EvaUnit02 on 17/12/2010 at 09:52
I'm playing through ODST at the moment and the actual "flashback" missions are fairly decent. At first the fragmented Rashomon style storytelling and the narrative framing device employed were mildly compelling, but then the weight of grinding set in. That aside the story itself is poor and characters are paper thin, but that's a given with a Bungie game.
The in-between mission hub is awful. A lazy design decision to pad out a pretty short expansion pack. I'm wandering around this maze of a city (built in the grand Bungie tradition of copy-pasted level design), trying to just get to the next instalment of actual content. I also don't give two shits about the motion comic chronicling the tale of some incredibly thick African girl.
I've realised another key reason why none of the sequels (aside from maybe Reach) are as compelling as Halo 1 from a gameplay standpoint. Combat against the Brutes serves no real challenge at all and thus is pretty dull. They're weak and it's easy to counter their tactics. Contrast them with the Elites, who were pretty challenging, clever opponents. If a Brute are no stronger than your average human, it makes you scratch your head when you consider the series' fiction. WTF were the Prophets in Halo 2 thinking when they ousted the Elites as the core of the Covenant's military and replaced them with the Brutes?
