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.
over_educated
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.
mitch
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.
Zifnab
A great game? By that definition it was in-fucking-credible.
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.
Catsy
For recent candidates in the realm of realism, I’d give a solid nod to Crysis.
JasonC
*gasps for air* how dare you call second life a video game!
Bombadil
Actually, in this case it really is intelligent design.
T. Scheisskopf
Ahhh…the Amiga ate the Atari’s lunch. ;-)
Dreggas
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.
bago
Assassin’s Creed is also pretty good.
salvage
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.
Catsy
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.
Sarcastro
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.
sidereal
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.
MNPundit
Btw, the big furor over Mass Effect was its lesbian love scenes.
Ladies on Ladies only though, from what I understand.
Jon H
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.
Keith
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
Frank
I gave up after Pong.
empty
I must be Frank.
Slippytoad
Hey, whatever happened to Pong?
sal
Think they got an advance copy?
Krista
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.
thepanzer
Nerf rogues. : P
salvage
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.
YellowJournalism
Pitfall, baby, Pitfall.
BIRDZILLA
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