I'm going to have to grab this now. I wanted to get Enemy Unknown but now that Enemy Within is out I'll grab it instead since it has the full game, bug fixes, the big expansion, etc. This is really cool, I think I'll like this game a lot.
I played the demo of this and really loved it, I'd like to get the full game sometime. This is a super ambitious arcade game and it seems to come together pretty well from what I played in the demo which is really cool. The graphics are choppy and the combat is wonky but I thought the art direction was nice and all those strategy sim systems were really neat so I loved the game for how ambitious it was. I'm definitely going to have to grab the full game now.
I haven't played Brothers yet but I'm going to try to finish it soon before goty deliberations come up because I've heard a lot of good things about it. I'm really happy I have both Dark Arisen and Witcher 2 now, I've been talking about getting those game for months now, and now I finally have them. I want to play Dark Arisen first between those two I think.
If I can get a Wii U next year I'd like to get ZombiU, Super Mario 3D World, Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate, Windwaker HD, and Pikmin 3. There might be a couple I'm forgetting but I'm certainly excited for future games for the system, I'd like to see what the next big Zelda will be like on Wii U.
There can only be one winner in the 8th gen. Knights of the Old Republic.
I don't think I'm going to buy the 3rd game. Maybe next year when Halloween time comes around I might try it out but I'd bet there will be better horror games for me to go check out. It's already dirt cheap to buy DS3 new so it'll still be cheap next year, but it all depends on if I'm interested in giving it a shot, it sounds like that game turned out pretty rough.
I hope you can get that game sooner rather than later, it looks really cool. I need a good platformer right now and that game just looks like the perfect fit, I hope I can get a Wii U sometime next year.
The choices made during Dragon Age 2 have some similarities with Mass Effect but the game is structured differently and feels different. DA2 has a clear 3 act structure you move through and you make big decisions in each act that affect what happens to people and factions in the next act. Mass Effect never had any clear acts it just flowed together and decisions made it into the next game. DA2 is a much more contained story and digestible and the main character's story is wrapped up in that one game. In some ways it's better than Mass Effect because you don't have to play through 3 whole games to see things wrap up, or not wrap up. The Dragon Age universe is pretty interesting and you get a good sense of it in DA2 and the story wraps itself up by the end.
I'll be interested to see the story in Witcher 2, it seems like it's right up my alley since I'm a fan of dark fantasy and political intrigue.
The Dead Space 2 story ends on a positive note and has a good outro, but the whole game leading up to it is along the lines of a tragedy drama all centered around survivor's guilt and I thought that was really amazing for a game to go there. That survivor's guilt is built upon Issac's relationship with Nicole and what happened to her, but I also felt some of that guilt going through the Sprawl and seeing all the people who had been killed by the necromorphs. The children in the elementary school sequence were the strongest moment of that effect and I thought it was well done. They could've made this game a silly monster of the week game where you just run around killing the Moby Dick of necromorphs like a space marine but instead they made it really uncomfortable and cerebral. It worked well for me and turned out to make a pretty good story and tragic atmosphere that made me feel creeped out, sympathetic, and both suspicious of Issac and hopeful for him at the same time.
The Wise Man's Fear is a pretty excellent continuation of the story. I love the way the characters develop during that 2nd book, I think you'll like it.
I'm going to have to play The Witcher 2 sometime soon, it looks really good. Of all the next gen games coming Witcher 3 looks like one of the coolest by far. Dragon Age 3 looks pretty cool but there's reasons to be suspicious of how it'll turn out. The Witcher series seems to have a much better track record.
