My spare time, what little there is, has been filled a lot, sadly, with playing BioShock for Xbox360. The game is insanely amazingly fun. It is my opinion that first person shooters are only fun if the story is compelling, and this story is pretty compelling. Lots of mystery, a little bit scary, lots of cool power ups, decisions, choices. A cool motif/setting/plot of an underwarter capitalistic utopia where everyone pulls their weight. You have the idealistic leader who gets corrupted by power, and the inevitable corruption that destroys everything. I beat the game and immediately started another one because it was that fun.
I beat Halo 3 pretty handily, even on Legendary it wasn't as hard as the first two. The game was insanely fun but felt a little short. I thought the story ended well and wrapped up everything nicely. I heard some complaints that the story was weak, but I disagree. Especially if you beat the game on Legendary you get a good ending. One of these days I'll get xbox live maybe and play online. I've talked to a few of my neighbors about some how doing a neighbor hood network where we could all play but we don't have any wimax towers in our garage so that might have to wait.
Oblivion was another game that I beat a few months ago. That game was seriously the best RPG I've played since Diablo 2. Now I have never played WOW, for good reason, but I would classify it as a 1 player version of Wow. I've had a few Wowers accuse me of herasy but I think they're just being snobs. The game is a lot more realistic, one of my complaints with the Warcraft games... they're just too cartoony. Where as Diablo and Oblivion were very realistic. I'd play the game again but its pretty time consuming and time is not something I have a lot of.
The only other game that is peaking my interest is Mass Effect, which I've heard is like Oblivion in space. But I'll probably wait on that one and do some renting for a bit.
Posted by holtonian at March 7, 2008 11:55 AM