Gaming room (It's a geeks paradise)

[SeanMacGabhann]

I wish I could recommend Final Fantasy XIII to you Keef as I?ve been playing them since the mid-90s and was really looking forward to the first one of this generation ? but I can?t. Epic production values can?t hid a very linear RPG experience. There is a bit which opens out and makes you go wow and the combat evolves into something quite nice but ultimately it?s a bit flat

Fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas both use the oblivion engine but some people really don?t like the scary grey world compared to Oblivion?s trees?n?fields

Some people love the Mass Effect RPGs ? depends on your tolerance for sci-fi

Dragon Age is another Bioware epic ? people who love it love it but has mixed reviews

Two Worlds was an early Oblivion clone which was a bit of a disaster but the sequel is due and looks like it could be worth watching

[Keef]

My mate has been a Final Fantasy fan since the early games. I just never liked the whole turn taking combat thing. May give some of those titles a go. By the way, what is Red Dead Redemption like? Looks great, but never actually tried it.

[SeanMacGabhann]

Easiest thing to say is "Grand Theft Auto IV in the wild west"

But it has a totally different flavour. Being out in the wids is very similarto Obvlivion - but the actual quests are more like GTA. I think it's brilliant

[Keef]

Sounds great to me, have been meaning to buy GTA too.

[Keef]

Hmm, is it worth buyin the GTA IV classics edition, or should I get the complete edition, that includes the episodes from Liberty City? Can these extra episodes be downloaded from xbox live?

Also, Assasins Creed 2 is only a tenner, is it any good?

[SeanMacGabhann]

GTA IV on it?s own is a hefty slice of gaming ? I haven?t finished it. The 2 episodes are quite different in tone (and fun) but I haven?t bought them and won?t until I finish the main game (they come up as cheap deals every so often anyway)

Assasins Creed 2 I haven?t played but I don?t know a soul who says it isn?t excellent

[Keef]

Cool, so that's 3 new games I've ordered today, having actually gone to Amazon for the wife's birthday present!

[mockney piers]

First one was rechristened by ZP as "faffing about creed". Second one was supposed to be getting there in removing some ofnthe repetition and tedious travelling.

3rd one is supposed to have finally got the balance spot on. I reckon I'll wait for a price drop before I invest though.

[shell_8]

Red Dead Redemption is really fantastic - if you liked Oblivion (my all time fave, along with the Mass Effect series) then you will definitely enjoy this. The environment is huge and really beautifully created and the soundtrack was great. I would definitely recommend.

I'm a bit of an achievement whore and will always aim to get 100% completion on games like this. It was tough but managed it about 2 weeks ago and it was hugely satisfying :-)

[SeanMacGabhann]

I dunno Piers - from everyone I know Assasins Creed II completely overhauled the faffing about from they didn't just make it a bit better, they seem to have nailed it. This latest brotherhood installment is meant to be excellent but some think it's a small step backwards and other think it improves on II

But II >> I by some distance

Still it's all Pinball FX2 and Kinect Sports round mine at the mo so what do I know

[Keef]

The video review I watched said it had solved the issues of the first game, and that Brotherhood sort of continued where 2 left off. Anyway, ordered AC2, and GTA4 both now in the classics range at around a tenner, and ordered RDR for about 23 quid, which seemed okay. Should keep me going, especially with downloadable add-ons!

[paragon]

Keef - I have a PS3 copy of Red Dead Redemption which I can loan or swap for something else.

I didn't like it, but then I have never got into any RPG - Zelda, GTA, Red Dead I've tried quite a few.

As for black ops there is sooo much variety playing online. The stealth and tension in a search and destroy map is a vastly different experience to a free-for-all on a small map.

I've even got the Wife playing split screen zombies.

[mockney piers]

Lost cause paragon, lord knows I've tried.

Kerf, I tend to RPG on PC. Lord of the rings online has gone to free to play recently and sucked a few hoursmof my time, and can run ok on a laptop, though it does benefit from being on a nice graphics card.

All the old planescape torment, ice wind dale and baldurs gate games are great and a graphically very simple, just masses of stuff to expel and a billion quests.

[Keef]

Paragon, cheers, but I've got xbox. I think part of the problem for me might be my crap eyesight. Don't see the snipers who are killing me. Plus I'm more of an all guns blazing kind of chap, none of this subtle sniping rubbish ;-)

[mockney piers]

Limbo finished. So short, so wonderful.

Keef, I'm playing Call of Cthulhu on PC, it was only a fiver from steam or I'm sure you can pick up a second hand xbox copy from game, and I keep thinking of you. I reckon you'd love it.

Lots of occult, and strange gods and cultists and madness and stuff and a great atmosphere.

Plus if anyones a Lovecraft fan, you actually get to wander around Innsmouth. Coooool

http://uk.pc.ign.com/articles/703/703445p1.html

http://uk.pc.ign.com/articles/703/703445p1.html

[Keef]

Cool, I'll check it out, although my 3 new games finally showed up yesterday, so I'll probably be busy for a while.

[mockney piers]

Harms way on xbox arcade.

Free and rather fun.

The racing is a bit weak, but the shooting is good.

If someone fancies multiplayer, looks like a lark

[Captain Scarlet]

I love the resident evil games....anyone p;laying resident evil 5 gold? fancy some online Zombie hunting?.

[SeanMacGabhann]

I?ve heard similar about Harms Way so I?ll have a peek at that at some point ? possible 11am ish session there if you are free Piers

The last few puzzles in Limbo play quite differently to the early stuff but then as you realise you have come to the end ? so, so good. A real surprise in 2010

Captain S ? I never quite got the last couple of Resi games ? 5 in particular I was looking forward to (first on this gen) but it didn?t feel right to me so I never bought into them. For me, zombie multiplayer fun is ALL about the Left for Dead games

Keef: If I hadn?t played the 3 games you have just bought and still had them ahead of me I?d be soo excited. Danger is that one of them won?t grab you in comparison to the other two, which would be a shame. You lucky bugger tho

[Captain Scarlet]

Ive seen the left for dead game and was tempted to buy it esp as its made by capcom as well..Is it any good?

dont know much about it? currently playing red dead redemtion Zombie nightmare! thats great fun!

[SeanMacGabhann]

Download the demos. Both are on the xbox live service.

[Captain Scarlet]

SeanMacGabhann Wrote:

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> Download the demos. Both are on the xbox live

> service.

I'm a playstation 3 user sooooooo cannot download?

[SeanMacGabhann]

Aaah I see. Sorry for being presumptuous

I cant recall if they were released at all on ps3. Valves orange box was compromised so maybe not. I'll check it out tho

[Captain Scarlet]

SeanMacGabhann Wrote:

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> Aaah I see. Sorry for being presumptuous

>

> I cant recall if they were released at all on ps3.

> Valves orange box was compromised so maybe not.

> I'll check it out tho

Thanks Sean anyway...as it goes I have bought it today from game on ps3...just gotta wait for the wife to get off the telly to play!

[shell_8]

The Elder Scrolls V has just been announced: http://uk.gamespot.com/xbox360/rpg/elderscrollsvskyrim/news.html

Not sure I can wait till November though.

Oblivion is up there with my fave games of all time so i'm very excited about this one!