Legolas
02-04-2005, 10:30 PM
Well, some of my friends wanted to get at my place to play something called "X men Legends" on PS2. Being usually distrustful of console games, I started planning another ROME TOTAL WAR campaign to distract me while they tied up my TV.
They started playing, I took one look at the graphics and went to my pc to play something else. But their constant laughs and screams made me decide to give it a try. Fast foward 6 hours and I was STILL playing. I dunno, cant really make a review of it, buy I LOVED the game, and made sure it stay at my house until finished. ALMOST made me want to own a PS2!! how about THAT!! :)
On the other hand, I finally got tired of R: TW and decided to pick up some old games and finish them, or die trying. Case of beers in hand, I got to work on Arcanum, Max Payne 2, and Morrowind.
Arcanum: man what a GREAT GAME!! and, sadly, at the same time, man what a LOUSY STINKING GAME!!! first of all, I cannot believe how much of a resource HOG it is. I mean, my rig is no pushover, I can actually run a pretty decent DOOM 3, and Arcanum made her stutter? bah!. Nice story, Great character creation sistem, bogged down by stuppid design. It has so many frustrating problems that at the end, I just finished it "because". I just wanted to get it over with. It actually makes me sad/
Max Payne 2: I really dont know what to say of this. Sure, the narrations is heavy handed, but that kinda goes with the style they were shooting for. Graphics I thought to be very nice, and the mixing of comic-book - detective story style of story telling satisfied me.
But the gameplay... not sure about that. I found it easy, too easy. And its short, thas for sure. Still, a pretty decent way to spend 10 hours...
As for Morrowind... I have tried to get into the game a number of times now, always to drop it more sooner than later. I have the "Tribunal" expansion too. This time, I decided to give it a good, long time and really try to get into it. I'll let you know how it goes. Too bad NOCD crack codes are apparently illegal, though, cause I cant seem to be able to find none.
They started playing, I took one look at the graphics and went to my pc to play something else. But their constant laughs and screams made me decide to give it a try. Fast foward 6 hours and I was STILL playing. I dunno, cant really make a review of it, buy I LOVED the game, and made sure it stay at my house until finished. ALMOST made me want to own a PS2!! how about THAT!! :)
On the other hand, I finally got tired of R: TW and decided to pick up some old games and finish them, or die trying. Case of beers in hand, I got to work on Arcanum, Max Payne 2, and Morrowind.
Arcanum: man what a GREAT GAME!! and, sadly, at the same time, man what a LOUSY STINKING GAME!!! first of all, I cannot believe how much of a resource HOG it is. I mean, my rig is no pushover, I can actually run a pretty decent DOOM 3, and Arcanum made her stutter? bah!. Nice story, Great character creation sistem, bogged down by stuppid design. It has so many frustrating problems that at the end, I just finished it "because". I just wanted to get it over with. It actually makes me sad/
Max Payne 2: I really dont know what to say of this. Sure, the narrations is heavy handed, but that kinda goes with the style they were shooting for. Graphics I thought to be very nice, and the mixing of comic-book - detective story style of story telling satisfied me.
But the gameplay... not sure about that. I found it easy, too easy. And its short, thas for sure. Still, a pretty decent way to spend 10 hours...
As for Morrowind... I have tried to get into the game a number of times now, always to drop it more sooner than later. I have the "Tribunal" expansion too. This time, I decided to give it a good, long time and really try to get into it. I'll let you know how it goes. Too bad NOCD crack codes are apparently illegal, though, cause I cant seem to be able to find none.