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[url=http://www.buzzfeed.com/mattbuchanan/an-xbox-that-bleeds-into-your-walls]An Xbox That Bleeds Into Your Walls[/url]

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[quote=Dirtbag59;986399]I think Walking Dead won the VGA award for GOTY. A testement to its greatness as well as the weak year that was 2012. I mean it's great to see an underdog win it but at the same time it has to be an indictment against the weak competition.

[B]Mass Effect 3 should have easily been the top game in 2012 and they blew it with the crappy ending, that's now okay but no where near where it should be (there are other issues too but the ending is the one that sticks out the most). I can't help but laugh at how I kept telling myself before the games release "theres no way anyone could screw up a Mass Effect game." [/B]

Either way I was happy to see the Walking Dead get some recognition as it's a great game. Speaking of which I need to get back into it as I'm still stuck in Macon. lol.[/quote]

All my friends rave about Mass Effect and over the Christmas holiday Steam had a deal on Mass Effect 2 for $5. I bought it and I'm HOOKED. I've put in almost 30 hours of game time on Steam so far. About 1/2 finished with the game and I am fully intending on replaying it.

Right now I'm more paragon than renegade with female Shepard. I'm going to replay it as male Shepard and be a total asshole (renegade).

My ex has Mass Effect 3 on Xbox and I've started playing that, but I want to buy it for the computer so I can play it at home on my own time.

I don't know what it is about Mass Effect. I'm not into sci-fi genre anything. TV, movies, games. I usually don't touch it. But this game has me hooked. Big time.

I heard the Mass Effect 3 ending was a blower. (Don't spoil it!) Which is kind of disappointing since the gameplay is stupidly good.

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I played Mass Effect one and it was so painfully control wise I just put it down. I could not aim at people; walking around was awkward etc...

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[quote=mredskins;987446]I played Mass Effect one and it was so painfully control wise I just put it down. I could not aim at people; walking around was awkward etc...[/quote]

Did you play console or PC?

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[quote=DynamiteRave;987450]Did you play console or PC?[/quote]

Console.

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They're so much easier on the PC. Exactly the reason why I prefer getting ME3 for the computer instead of PS3.

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Looks like I wasn't crazy.
[url=http://www.metacritic.com/feature/best-video-games-of-2012]Best Games of 2012 - Metacritic[/url]
[QUOTE]A far cry from 2011's heights

It's a good thing that 2013 looks likely to be loaded with great games, because, as we look over this year's numbers, it seems 2012 wasn't. Not even the late arrival of a great new installment in Ubisoft's Far Cry series could make up for the fact that the past 12 months paled in comparison to recent years, at least at the high end of the scale.

Just 14 console games—and 18 products overall, including PC and handheld (non-iOS) titles—scored 90 or higher in 2012. Those figures represent a huge drop from the previous year, when 23 console titles (and 32 games overall) met or exceeded the 90 mark. In fact, since we started publishing these year-end reports in 2009, we have never encountered such a low total number of great games in a single year.
[/QUOTE]

Anyway I'm kind of excited about The Last of Us but the game I'm really looking forward to right now is [URL="http://youtu.be/cEXjFZNH5dI"]Beyond Two Souls[/URL] which is a product of the same team that put together Heavy Rain. [URL="http://youtu.be/MHbF3FHPvL4"]South Park[/URL] and [URL="http://youtu.be/1U8KsQPIrY0"]Watch Dogs[/URL] also seem pretty interesting. Never could get into the Bioshock series but a lot of the things the developers have said in interviews really resonate with me so I'll probably give Bioshock Infinite a spin.

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As far as I can remember right now there are only 3 games I'm looking forward to that should be coming out this year. GTA, Watch Dogs, and South Park. I still watch South Park's new episodes even as the tone has changed from earlier in the series. I remember playing South Park on the Nintendo 64 at a friend's house a long time ago. This should be wayyyyy better than that. Watch Dogs looks cool too, I saw the game play trailer and was intrigued. And of course I don't need to say anything about GTA, I will say though I love the idea of 3 protagonists.

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I can't believe that hte game of the year ws based off a TV show and people are looking forward to South Park as a game.

The number one rule when growing up was if the game was based off a movie or TV show it sucked. Hence Jaws for NES and Rambo for NES; awful games that hours of lawn cutting was wasted on.

I did though like the NES Goonies II game for some reason:

[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrdTDBXU_eE]TAS Goonies 2 NES in 16:45 by Randil - YouTube[/url]

That game was ahead of it's time.

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^Yes, especially that CRAPPY GoldenEye game.

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My video game buying has kind of trailed off lately (I still want to get AC3 and Max Payne 3 at some point) but I'm really looking forward to The Last Of Us and especially the new BioShock.
I've played the first two BioShock games at least 4 times each and they just don't get old to me, mainly because of the story lines. I know #3 is going to be completely different but I'm okay with that as long as the tone is the same.

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[quote=ArtMonkDrillz;987635]^Yes, especially that CRAPPY GoldenEye game.[/quote]

Goldeneye was good? No?

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[quote=mredskins;987648]Goldeneye was good? No?[/quote]

Point is not all games based on movies sucked back in the day.

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[quote=Mattyk;987700]Point is not all games based on movies sucked back in the day.[/quote]

True. Pretty sure games like The Walking Dead are the exception to the rule. As far as SP goes, I am enthusiastic about it because Matt Stone and Trey Parker are involved with it. Usually you don't see that with a crossover game. I don't think it's going to be like those other cheap crossover games out there. Still though, there are other crossover titles out there that have gotten good reviews, like Resident Evil and Batman.

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goldeneye for n64 was/is my favorite video game of all time.

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as far a as cool game based on a movie; the warriors for xbox

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[quote=Mattyk;987700]Point is not all games based on movies sucked back in the day.[/quote]

Right but the days of NES and even SNES it was a safe bet games based on movies and TV shows sucked. Agreed?

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[quote=mooby;987704]True. Pretty sure games like The Walking Dead are the exception to the rule. As far as SP goes, I am enthusiastic about it because Matt Stone and Trey Parker are involved with it. Usually you don't see that with a crossover game. I don't think it's going to be like those other cheap crossover games out there. Still though, there are other crossover titles out there that have gotten good reviews, like Resident Evil and Batman.[/quote]

Resident Evil started as a game then became a movie. Which another good generally rule is if a movie or TV show is based off a video game it will suck too.

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[quote=los panda;987711]goldeneye for n64 was/is my favorite video game of all time.

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awesome, that's exactly how it was she would totally walk right into the line of fire

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[quote=DynamiteRave;987434]All my friends rave about Mass Effect and over the Christmas holiday Steam had a deal on Mass Effect 2 for $5. I bought it and I'm HOOKED. I've put in almost 30 hours of game time on Steam so far. About 1/2 finished with the game and I am fully intending on replaying it.

Right now I'm more paragon than renegade with female Shepard. I'm going to replay it as male Shepard and be a total asshole (renegade).

My ex has Mass Effect 3 on Xbox and I've started playing that, but I want to buy it for the computer so I can play it at home on my own time.

I don't know what it is about Mass Effect. I'm not into sci-fi genre anything. TV, movies, games. I usually don't touch it. But this game has me hooked. Big time.

I heard the Mass Effect 3 ending was a blower. (Don't spoil it!) Which is kind of disappointing since the gameplay is stupidly good.[/quote]

Mass Effect 2 is without a doubt, bar none, the greatest game I've ever played. I've done as many as 6 or 7 30+ hour play throughs and it could be as many as 10. I also enjoyed Mass Effect 1 but the combat was so clunky and dated that it's kind of a grind to get through, still love it enough to put it in that "greatest games of all time list."

**Don't worry no spoilers ahead**
As for Mass Effect 3, the best you can hope for is that you think the current batch of endings is okay. Thats my take on it but seeing as how Mass Effect 2 set the bar so high anything less then a B+ ending was an absolute failure.

The ending is basically the equivalent of rooting for the Caps all of these years where they have AWESOME regular seasons and then fall short in the postseason. In fact thats the perfect analogy, the initial endings were being knocked out in the first round by Monteal, the current batch is like the last postseason run where they lost in Game 7 to the Rags during the second round.

With that said make sure you download the [B][COLOR="Red"][U]Extended Cut[/U][/COLOR][/B] so you don't have to see the horror that is the original endings. Like I said the fixes they made for the ending are okay but it's still not the type of ending that fans wanted from such a great trilogy.

My personal recommendation is turn the game off when you get to the final Earth mission and wait till around March where theres like a 1% chance that the latest DLC will do something to fix the endings, but thats just me. :D

Granted my problems with ME3 go beyond the ending but had they just made the endings right it would have been so easy to ignore the other problems.

On a side note though if you like Mass Effect you also might like Dragon Age Orgins. I personally hate games with a fantasy setting but this one has me hooked. I have been warned though not to play Dragon Age 2 so I'm taking that advice.

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[quote=mredskins;987717]Right but the days of NES and even SNES it was a safe bet games based on movies and TV shows sucked. Agreed?[/quote]

Angry Video Game Nerd has tons of videos on this topic.

Schwarzenegger Games
[url=http://youtu.be/0Ta-4H92CkA]Schwarzenegger Games - Angry Video Game Nerd - Episode 107 - Cinemassacre.com - YouTube[/url]

Star Wars
[url=http://youtu.be/F2bKVEVUOPg]Star Wars Games - Angry Video Game Nerd - Cinemassacre.com - YouTube[/url]

You can find the rest here.
[url=http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2B009153AC977F90]AVGN Episodes - YouTube[/url]

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Yall talked me into it, just orderd Far Cry 3 on ebay.

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[quote=Dirtbag59;987773]Angry Video Game Nerd has tons of videos on this topic.

Schwarzenegger Games
[url=http://youtu.be/0Ta-4H92CkA]Schwarzenegger Games - Angry Video Game Nerd - Episode 107 - Cinemassacre.com - YouTube[/url]

Star Wars
[url=http://youtu.be/F2bKVEVUOPg]Star Wars Games - Angry Video Game Nerd - Cinemassacre.com - YouTube[/url]

You can find the rest here.
[url=http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2B009153AC977F90]AVGN Episodes - YouTube[/url][/quote]oh man, i had total recall. it was so frustrating, so terrible. i never played any of the other arnold games

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[quote=Dirtbag59;987773]Angry Video Game Nerd has tons of videos on this topic.

Schwarzenegger Games
[URL="http://youtu.be/0Ta-4H92CkA"]Schwarzenegger Games - Angry Video Game Nerd - Episode 107 - Cinemassacre.com - YouTube[/URL]

Star Wars
[URL="http://youtu.be/F2bKVEVUOPg"]Star Wars Games - Angry Video Game Nerd - Cinemassacre.com - YouTube[/URL]

You can find the rest here.
[URL="http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2B009153AC977F90"]AVGN Episodes - YouTube[/URL][/quote]

You my friend has just slayed my boring Friday afternoon, thank you.

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[quote=Dirtbag59;987771]Mass Effect 2 is without a doubt, bar none, the greatest game I've ever played. I've done as many as 6 or 7 30+ hour play throughs and it could be as many as 10. I also enjoyed Mass Effect 1 but the combat was so clunky and dated that it's kind of a grind to get through, still love it enough to put it in that "greatest games of all time list."

**Don't worry no spoilers ahead**
As for Mass Effect 3, the best you can hope for is that you think the current batch of endings is okay. Thats my take on it but seeing as how Mass Effect 2 set the bar so high anything less then a B+ ending was an absolute failure.

The ending is basically the equivalent of rooting for the Caps all of these years where they have AWESOME regular seasons and then fall short in the postseason. In fact thats the perfect analogy, the initial endings were being knocked out in the first round by Monteal, the current batch is like the last postseason run where they lost in Game 7 to the Rags during the second round.

With that said make sure you download the [B][COLOR="Red"][U]Extended Cut[/U][/COLOR][/B] so you don't have to see the horror that is the original endings. Like I said the fixes they made for the ending are okay but it's still not the type of ending that fans wanted from such a great trilogy.

My personal recommendation is turn the game off when you get to the final Earth mission and wait till around March where theres like a 1% chance that the latest DLC will do something to fix the endings, but thats just me. :D

Granted my problems with ME3 go beyond the ending but had they just made the endings right it would have been so easy to ignore the other problems.

On a side note though if you like Mass Effect you also might like Dragon Age Orgins. I personally hate games with a fantasy setting but this one has me hooked. I have been warned though not to play Dragon Age 2 so I'm taking that advice.[/quote]

The way you describe the endings reminded me of how the Sopranos ended.

Although I think some people actually liked that ending. I wasn't in that group.

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[quote=DynamiteRave;987864]The way you describe the endings reminded me of how the Sopranos ended.

Although I think some people actually liked that ending. I wasn't in that group.[/quote]

Originally it might have well have been a carbon copy of the Sopranos finale because it was basically one of those vague "lets not answer any questions" type deals. The current version answers a decent amount of questions but still is flawed to say the least. Anyway it will make sense when you see it. Like I said before theres a large amount of holdouts that hope something will be done to make it a little better through DLC but at the same time it doesn't seem likely.

Either way they're claiming that the latest DLC is a big one as they've brought back a bunch of the voice actors, all the writers, and the main composer but they now have a track record of overstating how awesome things are going to be.

For now though enjoy the game after reading this depressing post, lol :D

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[quote=mredskins;987800]You my friend has just slayed my boring Friday afternoon, thank you.[/quote]

I envy you. I've watched pretty much all of those episodes and he rarely if ever does new reviews.

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New PC game coming out called [B]Ecco the Reluctant Dolphin[/B].

You need to see this to believe it, then you still won't believe it.



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There was actually a Sega Genesis game named Ecco the Dolphin. I think it may even go back to the 2600.

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[quote=Monkeydad;989077]New PC game coming out called [B]Ecco the Reluctant Dolphin[/B].

You need to see this to believe it, then you still won't believe it.



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Was that Jesus getting pissed on by a John Holmes dolphin?

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Wtf did I just watch? o_O

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[quote=DynamiteRave;989210]Wtf did I just watch? o_O[/quote]

That's what I was just saying.

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I finished all the Far Cry 3 missions, pretty cool how there is alternate endings. Good game overall. Story got a little weird at times though.

I just started playing Sleeping Dogs.

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So is this a game changer in the Console wars...pun intended:

[url=http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=vg_roto_ouya_gtwy/177-1547646-2448223?ie=UTF8&docId=1001007241&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=right-4&pf_rd_r=10Z6E3KNQH6BV6WPGN6E&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=1485102522&pf_rd_i=507846]Ouya - A New Kind of Video Game Console[/url]

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I'm not typically a Bioshock fan because I scare easily. I couldn't even finish the first Bioshock, but I am pretty damn tempted to pick up Bioshock Infinite.

[url=http://www.buzzfeed.com/josephbernstein/the-most-important-game-of-the-last-five-years]The Most Important Game Of The Last Five Years[/url]

Bioshock 2 was complete poop.

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BS2 wasn't as good as the first one (except for being able to use plasmids and weapons at the same time) but I've enjoyed it all 3 times I've played it.

I know, I'm weird like that.

Clearly, I can't wait for Bioshock Infinite.

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Definitely looking forward to BSI.

By the way Sleeping Dogs rocks. For whatever reason this game was under the radar when it was released but it's a great GTA style of game set in Hong Kong.

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[quote=mredskins;993583]So is this a game changer in the Console wars...pun intended:

[url=http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=vg_roto_ouya_gtwy/177-1547646-2448223?ie=UTF8&docId=1001007241&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=right-4&pf_rd_r=10Z6E3KNQH6BV6WPGN6E&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=1485102522&pf_rd_i=507846]Ouya - A New Kind of Video Game Console[/url][/quote]

Should be interesting to see how this turns out. I imagine it being like a xbox live arcade type of deal, full of crappy indie games, but we'll see.

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[quote=Mattyk;993745]Should be interesting to see how this turns out. I imagine it being like a xbox live arcade type of deal, full of crappy indie games, but we'll see.[/quote]

I like some Xbox live games. But yeah unless it can make games on a GTA level it will suck at least for the advance gamer.