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First off, I'm going to say that these games are worth every penny I spent on them, and that they're so good, like so good, it's just...fdkfhdkfhd.
Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines
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A goth's wet dream. This game is so detailed, and the light effects are simply wonderful. It's the little things that bring this game up to awesome status though; the female radio announcer that plays in the background of some rooms with radios, the rats scuttling around in alley ways, the ability to join in the dance with the ravers in the Asylum (club), the sounds you make when feeding, the facial expressions and body movements, etc etc. The music rocks also.
While it does get choppy for me at times and the load times are a bit long ( I'm guessing I need more RAM), it's still such a detailed game, you can tell after your first 15 minutes in that the developers put alot of hard work into this baby. Let me get to what I was telling one of my friends about, and why I'm a wussy:
For one of the quests, you have to go to a haunted hotel and find a personal item of the ghost inhabiting the hotel to somehow exorcise it or something. To get there, you have to go through the sewers and unlock the gate leading up to the only entrance of the hotel (the water looks great btw). Well I go up expecting for it to be a little creepy, seeing as how it's a Vampire game. Well..I logged out of that hotel after 5 minutes in.
I went in, saw the chandelier start to shake and have purple sparks, and thought " ok, it's the ghost, I'll just not walk under it". So I side step it, and sure enough, the thing falls. Then the vases hit me every now and then. I take it like a champ and keep walking around. Lights start busting on and off, I hear a girl's voice say " he's watching you ". So I'm like " ...ok...". Then I get to one corridor and I think I see a purple flash of something on the second floor. I get kinda bugged out now from the randomness of it all (paintings of a guy/ 2 little girls aren't helping) and then I hear " he's near" when I'm by a boarded up door. I turn around and I see the image of a guy fading away, but his shadow is still there. So I slap on blood buff (enhanced stats spell) and pull out my tire iron. I swing a few times and hit nothing.
Then (so I won't spoil it) I end up...downstairs. Wasn't planning on going down here, but hey, whatcha gonna do. I get to this 4-way intersection and I'm going down one of the pathways (vertically) when I see this lady in white run past (horizontally) emitting a kinda scared gasp. I turn to follow her, but she's not there. I turn to the way she was running from, but no one is there either. I think " what would a white guy do? " So I go into the room that she was headed towards, really freaked out now. I hear oldie weird music playing and the lights flickering, that's when I start to hear the footsteps. Not my own, and they were coming from above. Then the breathing started. That's about when I logged out. Yeah, not a good idea to do that quest on a saturday night with headphones on.I heard the hospital part is even scarier than the hotel and some parts in Doom 3, so I can't wait until I get to there >_>;;;
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MGS3
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This game is funny as crap. Fun to play as well. Not only are the troops smarter, they have dogs. Reminds me of MG for the nintendo. Like I was just recovering from jumping over an electrical fence I de-activated, when I see this dog just chillin, breathing and having a good old time. I'm totally not expecting this, so I'm like " 0_0;; ". I slide to the right hoping he won't bite me, but I hear the classic " huh? HQ please respond! We have an intruder." That's when the dumb dog had to take a chomp at me as I tried to scramble over the fence. So you know what I did? Pulled out the .45 and plugged lassie full of lead. Then (cover was blow anyway) I killed the two gaurds who had saw me, switched to tree bark camo, and chillaxed on the mud/tree surroundings until the ruckus had died down. And the stamina thing is no joke, sucker goes down faster than hentai at an anime convention. I've eaten rock coral snake, milk snake, gator, and some other funky stuff. I need to try and kill magpies and frogs as soon as I find some more.
There are times during the fantastic cut-scenes that you can press R1 and see things going on from snakes perspective. I don't remember if they had this in MGS2, but it's a great addition if they didn't. Rain splattering on the screen , grass rustling, so many small things also work to enhance this game like whoa.Did I mention how much fun it is to use a solider as a shield, knock him out or slit his throat and let the blood spurt? Some games just have their own flow their own style, and Snake eater is busting at the seams with it. The ever-changing intro screen, the death screen (bad run in with a gator =x), the menu style, hell I even smiled when I first heard the confirm sound after pressing start for the first time playing the game.
Besides the cammo gear, there is another great addition: Survival Viewer. Rations? Rations are for suckers. Patching yourself up is the latest craze, all the cool kids do it. Your health recovers slowly over time, your stamina bar is what you need to watch out for. Although, if you're wounded you won't heal nearly as fast and your stamina will suffer.
So, they have the survival viewer. You have splints, bandages, stitches, disinfectant, etc etc. Gunshot wound? You'll need your knife to dig out the bullet, disinfectant to clean the wound, this one item to staunch the bleeding, and a bandage. Got a few cuts? Looks like you'll need some stitches and disinfectant and a bandage. Leeches all over your after crawling in the swamp? Use your cigar to burn them off, or they'll slowly drain your stamina for a given amount of time. And trust me, you don't want that stamina down. Your aim goes off (hands get shaky), you can't sneak as well and I'm not sure but I don't think you can run as fast either. I can't think of anything else right now, but if I do, I'll post it. The game is great.
EDIT: Sometimes you even see a small window with an animation of Snake eating a snake or stitching up his wounds. :wub:
Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines
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A goth's wet dream. This game is so detailed, and the light effects are simply wonderful. It's the little things that bring this game up to awesome status though; the female radio announcer that plays in the background of some rooms with radios, the rats scuttling around in alley ways, the ability to join in the dance with the ravers in the Asylum (club), the sounds you make when feeding, the facial expressions and body movements, etc etc. The music rocks also.
While it does get choppy for me at times and the load times are a bit long ( I'm guessing I need more RAM), it's still such a detailed game, you can tell after your first 15 minutes in that the developers put alot of hard work into this baby. Let me get to what I was telling one of my friends about, and why I'm a wussy:
For one of the quests, you have to go to a haunted hotel and find a personal item of the ghost inhabiting the hotel to somehow exorcise it or something. To get there, you have to go through the sewers and unlock the gate leading up to the only entrance of the hotel (the water looks great btw). Well I go up expecting for it to be a little creepy, seeing as how it's a Vampire game. Well..I logged out of that hotel after 5 minutes in.
I went in, saw the chandelier start to shake and have purple sparks, and thought " ok, it's the ghost, I'll just not walk under it". So I side step it, and sure enough, the thing falls. Then the vases hit me every now and then. I take it like a champ and keep walking around. Lights start busting on and off, I hear a girl's voice say " he's watching you ". So I'm like " ...ok...". Then I get to one corridor and I think I see a purple flash of something on the second floor. I get kinda bugged out now from the randomness of it all (paintings of a guy/ 2 little girls aren't helping) and then I hear " he's near" when I'm by a boarded up door. I turn around and I see the image of a guy fading away, but his shadow is still there. So I slap on blood buff (enhanced stats spell) and pull out my tire iron. I swing a few times and hit nothing.
Then (so I won't spoil it) I end up...downstairs. Wasn't planning on going down here, but hey, whatcha gonna do. I get to this 4-way intersection and I'm going down one of the pathways (vertically) when I see this lady in white run past (horizontally) emitting a kinda scared gasp. I turn to follow her, but she's not there. I turn to the way she was running from, but no one is there either. I think " what would a white guy do? " So I go into the room that she was headed towards, really freaked out now. I hear oldie weird music playing and the lights flickering, that's when I start to hear the footsteps. Not my own, and they were coming from above. Then the breathing started. That's about when I logged out. Yeah, not a good idea to do that quest on a saturday night with headphones on.I heard the hospital part is even scarier than the hotel and some parts in Doom 3, so I can't wait until I get to there >_>;;;
http://img92.exs.cx/img92/6317/raveromgoth1.jpg
MGS3
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This game is funny as crap. Fun to play as well. Not only are the troops smarter, they have dogs. Reminds me of MG for the nintendo. Like I was just recovering from jumping over an electrical fence I de-activated, when I see this dog just chillin, breathing and having a good old time. I'm totally not expecting this, so I'm like " 0_0;; ". I slide to the right hoping he won't bite me, but I hear the classic " huh? HQ please respond! We have an intruder." That's when the dumb dog had to take a chomp at me as I tried to scramble over the fence. So you know what I did? Pulled out the .45 and plugged lassie full of lead. Then (cover was blow anyway) I killed the two gaurds who had saw me, switched to tree bark camo, and chillaxed on the mud/tree surroundings until the ruckus had died down. And the stamina thing is no joke, sucker goes down faster than hentai at an anime convention. I've eaten rock coral snake, milk snake, gator, and some other funky stuff. I need to try and kill magpies and frogs as soon as I find some more.
There are times during the fantastic cut-scenes that you can press R1 and see things going on from snakes perspective. I don't remember if they had this in MGS2, but it's a great addition if they didn't. Rain splattering on the screen , grass rustling, so many small things also work to enhance this game like whoa.Did I mention how much fun it is to use a solider as a shield, knock him out or slit his throat and let the blood spurt? Some games just have their own flow their own style, and Snake eater is busting at the seams with it. The ever-changing intro screen, the death screen (bad run in with a gator =x), the menu style, hell I even smiled when I first heard the confirm sound after pressing start for the first time playing the game.
Besides the cammo gear, there is another great addition: Survival Viewer. Rations? Rations are for suckers. Patching yourself up is the latest craze, all the cool kids do it. Your health recovers slowly over time, your stamina bar is what you need to watch out for. Although, if you're wounded you won't heal nearly as fast and your stamina will suffer.
So, they have the survival viewer. You have splints, bandages, stitches, disinfectant, etc etc. Gunshot wound? You'll need your knife to dig out the bullet, disinfectant to clean the wound, this one item to staunch the bleeding, and a bandage. Got a few cuts? Looks like you'll need some stitches and disinfectant and a bandage. Leeches all over your after crawling in the swamp? Use your cigar to burn them off, or they'll slowly drain your stamina for a given amount of time. And trust me, you don't want that stamina down. Your aim goes off (hands get shaky), you can't sneak as well and I'm not sure but I don't think you can run as fast either. I can't think of anything else right now, but if I do, I'll post it. The game is great.
EDIT: Sometimes you even see a small window with an animation of Snake eating a snake or stitching up his wounds. :wub:
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