Gaming thoughts of the day

[Who Really Cares?]

Seeing 2 people say they wont buy a game because of an achievement...

[ThyDarkAngel]

^What game?

[Who Really Cares?]

Crashed Ice Its an XBLA game.

[ThyDarkAngel]

^Red bull?
Kinect??

An achievement is a perfectly good reason to not buy this game!

[Who Really Cares?]

Troll


Its actually good fun and works very well.

[Bluecast]

I don't care anymore if they have them or not. I do find it odd now when playing an older PS3 game and never hearing that chime or when I was playing some DLC on Darksiders II on 360 and never had the chime popup. It felt odd not to hear it. I keep expecting them now.

[Segata Sanshiro Jr.]

Wow Spec Ops was really good, finished it already. It takes a very very different approach to the story then COD, Battlefield, Medal of Honor etc.

The game actually encourages you to stop playing.

[ThyDarkAngel]

The game actually encourages you to stop playing.

Please elaborate, I'm a curious cat.

[Spokane]

I have been interested in the Spec Ops games for a while now, just too many other games on that list too.

[Bluecast]

[Segata Sanshiro Jr.]

The game actually encourages you to stop playing.

Please elaborate, I'm a curious cat.

Ok going to put it all in spoilers.

Theres a point in the game where your team is vastly outnumbered and outgunned by a military division. In order to gain the upper hand the player can choose to use a mortar equipped with White Phosphorus rounds. The squad itself argues if this is ethical and the conversation ends when the player character responds "No, there isn't" to the statement "theres always a choice".

If you choose not to use the white phosphorus, then you will inevitably die. The story can't proceed, even though the game keeps going, you just fight an endless amount of soldiers run out of ammo and get picked off by a sniper.

When this happens the loading screen will sometimes say "theres always a choice"

So lets say you want to keep playing and you use the mortar, after walking through the wreckage filled with fellow US soldiers writhing in agony and burning alive, you find its commander. Then he tells you "we were helping" at which point you find that they were providing relief to civilians. At which point one f your squad-mates mentions that they could have let themselves be captured or killed to avoid this.

Its not directly said "Hey stop playing" but the idea of "death' and the player to stop playing gets linked a few times in the game, so basically the NPC was saying "If you don't want to kill them, stop playing" by saying "We could let ourselves be killed"

[ThyDarkAngel]

Deus Ex should NOT be in that list.

[Bluecast]

I didn't make it. It's jut the covers are all so generic and now Bioshock fell for the machoism generic cover as well. It makes me laugh.

[south carmain]

I didn't make it. It's jut the covers are all so generic and now Bioshock fell for the machoism generic cover as well. It makes me laugh.

I guess that just means you can't judge a game by its cover

[Bluecast]

I wasn't. Just judging the cover. There is also the case of blue orange covers,shaves head covers,dual of the same character covers. So many generic ones. Seems not many try anymore.