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You are here: Home / Popular Culture / In Which Humans Ain’t The Dominant Species

In Which Humans Ain’t The Dominant Species

by Michael D.|  November 21, 20071:31 pm| 25 Comments

This post is in: Popular Culture, Science & Technology

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I don’t have much interest in video games – I played Second Life and quit after an hour. I tried Warcraft and couldn’t underdstand it for the life of me – but Mass Effect looks like a complete evolution in gaming. I’m watching a special on it now on Sci-Fi. Any of you played it? It just looks, well, simply incredible. Photorealism is your word of the day.

Amazing how far we’ve come since Atari, huh?

Disclaimer: Atari always rocked, in my opinion.

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  1. 1.

    over_educated

    November 21, 2007 at 1:36 pm

    WoW was a great game, if you were unemployed, living in your mom’s basement, and your idea of fun was managing a large guild of half-wits in a never ending quest ot acquire purple pixelated virtual items.

    Allthough I did have a lot of fun ganking news in Darkshore… LOL.

  2. 2.

    mitch

    November 21, 2007 at 1:41 pm

    I just bought it yesterday. Pretty awesome so far! But way more complicated than WoW ever thought of being…or, less user-friendly is probably a more accurate descriptor. But still pretty rad.

  3. 3.

    Zifnab

    November 21, 2007 at 1:42 pm

    WoW was a great game, if you were unemployed, living in your mom’s basement, and your idea of fun was managing a large guild of half-wits in a never ending quest ot acquire purple pixelated virtual items.

    A great game? By that definition it was in-fucking-credible.

    …but Mass Effect looks like a complete evolution in gaming. I’m watching a special on it now on Sci-Fi. Any of you played it? It just looks, well, simply incredible. Photorealism is your word of the day.

    I’ve got a friend playing it right now. If he’s not pulling my leg, its everything you could hope for. Solid battle system. Big environment – dozens of solar systems and planets to explore. Amazing graphics, especially on HD TV. And generally fantasticness all around. Although, it still lacks some elements worth mentioning.

  4. 4.

    Catsy

    November 21, 2007 at 1:45 pm

    For recent candidates in the realm of realism, I’d give a solid nod to Crysis.

  5. 5.

    JasonC

    November 21, 2007 at 1:49 pm

    *gasps for air* how dare you call second life a video game!

  6. 6.

    Bombadil

    November 21, 2007 at 2:03 pm

    Mass Effect looks like a complete evolution in gaming.

    Actually, in this case it really is intelligent design.

  7. 7.

    T. Scheisskopf

    November 21, 2007 at 2:30 pm

    Ahhh…the Amiga ate the Atari’s lunch. ;-)

  8. 8.

    Dreggas

    November 21, 2007 at 2:37 pm

    Mass effect, that’s the one bioware was working on if I recall correctly, glad to hear it’s that good.

    I want to try the conan MMO if only because it has “Rape” and “Pillage” features, or so I am told.

  9. 9.

    bago

    November 21, 2007 at 3:48 pm

    Assassin’s Creed is also pretty good.

  10. 10.

    salvage

    November 21, 2007 at 4:57 pm

    I’ve been playing it for a bit now and I’m going to write up a full review when I’m done but my quick short one goes something like this:

    I no longer have an Xbox360, I have a Mass Effect machine. Sitting on my desk, unopened are Kane and Lynch: Dead Men, Crysis, Assassin’s Creed and I haven’t even bothered getting the new Mario game because I know it’d just be tossed on the pile, ignored.

    You should know I’ve been waiting for some of those games for three years now.

    Mass Effect is easily the best RPG ever made, it will certainly be a contender for every Game of the Year award and if you have a 360 you have no reason not to pick it up and if you don’t have a 360 you now know what to do.

  11. 11.

    Catsy

    November 21, 2007 at 5:00 pm

    I have a 360. I just don’t use it for games, because by and large I can’t stand playing games on a console anymore.

    Pity they didn’t develop this for PC.

  12. 12.

    Sarcastro

    November 21, 2007 at 5:39 pm

    You kids got it so easy these days. When I was a kid we didn’t have any fancy Sony Playstations with high resolution 3d graphics, NO…. we had the Atari 2600 with games like Space Invaders and Asteroids and the graphics SUCKED ASS! Your guy was a little square, you had to use your imagination! And there were no multiple levels, there was just one screen forever and you couldn’t win the game; It just got harder and faster until you died… JUST LIKE LIFE!

    Props to Ernie Cline.

  13. 13.

    sidereal

    November 21, 2007 at 6:05 pm

    You kids got it so easy these days

    Hey, I still play angband. In fact, I jump back and forth between Assassin’s Creed, Angband, and Starcraft fairly regularly. Turns out visual quality doesn’t matter much compared to fun gameplay.

    And Mass Effect is slick. Up there with Assassin’s Creed for game of the year. Even over Halo 3. It must make Sony very sad that the three best games of the year are all on the Xbox360, two of them exclusively.

  14. 14.

    MNPundit

    November 21, 2007 at 6:17 pm

    Btw, the big furor over Mass Effect was its lesbian love scenes.

    Ladies on Ladies only though, from what I understand.

  15. 15.

    Jon H

    November 21, 2007 at 6:21 pm

    The only games I care about are Baldur’s Gate, Planescape:Torment, Marvel: Ultimate Alliance, Civ IV, and the old Infocom games.

    I also have a Call of Cthulu-based PC game which I haven’t played yet.

    Nah, I’m not a gamer.

  16. 16.

    Keith

    November 21, 2007 at 6:40 pm

    The Mass Effect reviews I’ve been reading have generally been “woulda been brilliant except for the flaws”. I didn’t like KOTR, so I’m on the fence with it, but I’ll probably catch it on my next wave (finished Halo 3 and skipped Bioshock with that wave, just got Assassin’s Creed and Call of Duty 4, and the next wave will be Guitar Hero III and Mass Effect). Fortunately (and I usually don’t say this), CoD 4 supposed to be pretty short, so I can hopefully try out ME before the end of the year.
    But on the downside, I’ve got maybe 5 hours left of Oblivion, and I’ve afraid I’ll never get to it with the quality of games coming out lately being so outstanding

  17. 17.

    Frank

    November 21, 2007 at 8:14 pm

    I gave up after Pong.

  18. 18.

    empty

    November 21, 2007 at 9:48 pm

    I gave up after Pong.

    I must be Frank.

  19. 19.

    Slippytoad

    November 21, 2007 at 10:32 pm

    I gave up after Pong.

    I must be Frank.

    Hey, whatever happened to Pong?

  20. 20.

    sal

    November 22, 2007 at 7:47 am

    It is your mission. As Commander Shepard BushCheney of the SS Normandy, you will take your elite recon squad across a galaxy in turmoil, in a desperate race to stop the return of an enemy without mercy. To stop this enemy, you must act without remorse, without hesitation, and outside the limits of the law. Your only imperative is to preserve the safety of civilized life in the galaxy – at any cost. You must become the tip of the spear of humanity, for you alone know the full extent of what is at stake if you should fail.

    Think they got an advance copy?

  21. 21.

    Krista

    November 22, 2007 at 10:33 am

    Definitely enjoy my Civ — just got the new expansion pack for Civ IV. Am dying to try Guitar Hero, but can’t justify actually shelling out for the entire freaking system. Sigh.

    Master of Orion is a good time too.

  22. 22.

    thepanzer

    November 22, 2007 at 12:22 pm

    Nerf rogues. : P

  23. 23.

    salvage

    November 22, 2007 at 12:45 pm

    Pity they didn’t develop this for PC.

    It will be out on PC in a year I think, generally any game made by MS exclusive for the 360 is set to be put on PC eventually (Gears of War, Lost Planet, Halo 2 etc).

    The PC versions will have superior graphics and all the rough edges will be smoothed out by us early adopter’s bitching on forums so it’s not so bad waiting.

  24. 24.

    YellowJournalism

    November 22, 2007 at 9:53 pm

    Pitfall, baby, Pitfall.

  25. 25.

    BIRDZILLA

    November 22, 2007 at 11:18 pm

    I had a ATARI 2600 at one time and a NINTENDO i now have a GAMEBOY ADVANCE and EX PLAYED POKEMON FIRE RED AND CUAGHT ARTICUNO

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