I’s like some shorter campaigns in general. I mean, in Campaign mode you can just choose to start on part three, but in many ways I’d prefer Valve to release say, three campaigns of half the length of the current ones than two of the same length.

Tell Graham I said cheers. Or maybe it’s cause I used the name “Dexter”, so I got Craig and John on my side…

Surprisingly, I didn’t even know I won. And what’s this little figurine thingy?

Jeez, PCG really made my day.

It wasn’t even a proper pogo stick, it was a stupid looking purple and green plastic one which was heavier than a car and didn’t work because the spring was the kind of spring you’d get in a cold war russian steel factory.

But it is a conversation starter.

HOLY FUCKING SHIT THANKS FOR THE CITY OF HEROES COMPETITION PRIZE.

Love,

J-Man.

I want to ride a Yao Guai!

One of those motorcycles sitting around all over the place would rock too. You get a vehicle in the other FO games, why not this one? It would make your repair skill even more useful.

Last character I played in FO3 ran into a unique wasteland trader. No special name, but he had a pack mule and a friggin PET Yao Guai! I WANT!

(Wrex voice) That was fun.

I agree that another type of vehicle entirely would be preferable. Some kind of speeder bike thing would be especially cool, I think, because you’d still have a sense that the rest of your team existed. The only giggles I’ve ever gotten from driving the Mako were when I was bouncing drunkenly over some mildly uneven terrain and suddenly realized that somewhere in the silly tank thing, Wrex and Kaidan and Shepard had to be flying around like dice in a box. While this was hilarious, it can’t be a good thing for an RPG when it’s hard to visualize your characters in their situation, and the resulting juxtaposition is ludicrous enough to make the player laugh.

@Bumface: The threshers aren’t that bad once you learn to recognize their hangouts: large, flat space with a few low, circular plateaus and a tantalizing anomaly in the middle. Then you just go in reverse toward the anomaly until the thresher appears, and bombard it while simultaneously gunning your forward accelerator. This way you can reliably get out of their zone before they can pull that adorable “shoot out of the ground right underneath you” trick.

@J-Man: Bioware developed Mass Effect. For shame!

Yeah, I’m not crazy about playing Left 4 Dead with strangers either. I’m fine playing with internet friends I haven’t met, though. Even so, it’s pretty rare that seven people I know all feel like playing Left 4 Dead for two hours at exactly the same time as me, so Versus just isn’t very convenient.

I won Fallout3 from the first 12days of christmas competition at your day job so I can’t wait to play it. Actually, I have wanted this game for years but bought L4D rather based on the reviews and hype L4D was getting at the time.
The day I won the competition, my girlfriend had to take the copy she bought me for christmas back to the shop 0_o how much of a mixed blessing is that..and how very typical. Anyway, the box should arrive to my house here in Sweden within the next week or so and again I can’t wait to play it.

Happy new year! to you and everybody else that reads this blog of awesome.

I didn’t mind combat with NPCs, but the rocket turrets and thresher maws had me practically sleeping.

Regarding the vehicles, Bethesda did a wonderful job with their horses in Oblivion, I can’t see why err… whoever developed ME can’t just simplify things. Take out the combat, or the jets, and you’d have a much easier going in the MAKO.

I didn’t hate it, partly because I found most of it easy to drive straight through without pause. The bigger actual grievance for me was squadmates not going where they’re told, claiming to be blocked when they’re not, and using their powers unwisely.

Although it wasn’t the combat aspect of driving the MAKO that bugged me, it was just navigating some of the preposterous fractal landscapes. Oddly, I found myself jonesing for a Landmaster. It’s been years since I’ve played StarFox 64, but that’s where my mind immediately leapt: a vehicle with some weight and stability, but proper hover jets.

Instead, the MAKO handles like a souped-up moon buggy, regardless of the gravity. Given that astronauts bitched about what a pain the real thing was to drive, someone should have realized this might not be such a great idea. Oh, and to whoever tacked on that quarter-second of perpendicular thrust: thanks, I only wish more driving games came with a “detach from traction surface in favor of uncontrolled midair floundering” button.

It’s a measure of how spectacular the rest of the game is that despite all that complaining, I still give Mass Effect an unqualified recommendation whenever a Steam friend asks about it.

It didn’t feel wall-free to me, because there were too many enemies for me to just go wandering, which I would have enjoyed a ridiculous amount. I also felt the boring side-characters whotalkedreallyreallyfast were incredibly annoying, although I had a weird fondness for the South African (APR, I think?) who kept calling me “China.” I liked him more than all of my buddies, even Frank Bilders.

Actually, the game definitely did provoke an emotional response especially when [SPOILERS]your buddies betrayed you[END SPOILERS].

It’s an unrestricted (wall-free) shooter with good explosions, an atmospheric setting, a (for games) fairly interesting (in terms of ambiguity) storyline, which made it a whole lot of fun for me.

Sure, there’s probably a million different improvements I could suggest (some of which probably aren’t technologically feasible), but the absence of them didn’t stop me enjoying the game a lot.

Feel free to disagree. :)

I think I had Wrex in my team, and my mind seems to have wiped all memory of the other characters names >_> fantastic RPG though

If I had to find something to complain about, it would probably be that I didn’t find the romantic subplot very convincing. I haven’t seen it through to its conclusion, so it may get better, but at the moment Liara reeks of one-dimensional nerd wish fulfillment. That may come along with the genre influence; the only TV scifi I’ve ever seen offer well-drawn love interests was Battlestar Galactica, and it’s by no means batting a thousand. (Six? Anders? Try harder please.)

The Kaidan/Shepard homoeroticism, on the other hand, you could cut with a knife.

And Science blows. What do you need it for besides disabling turrets (which you can destroy), or unlocking safes (which you can lockpick)? Completely useless.

Put a big spoiler in, I’m never going to buy Fallout 3 anyway xD

I had to check the Fallout Wiki to find out just what exactly was so special. Now I feel all happy inside, like I’m apart of one really big thing.