Archangel3371 said:

Dvader said:

Halo 3 done, best of the three. So can someone tell me what the hell the ending meant???

Gravemind has been destroyed, the Covenant and Earth have reconciled for the most part, only half of the ship escaped and it is believed that Master Chief is dead. He survived however and goes into cryo and just after doing this you see an ominous looking planet or ship appear in the vicinity of the remains of the ship he is in. This is what leads into Halo 4.

Yeah, I missed that last part the first time I beat Halo 3, since it takes place after  the end credits.

Foolz said:

Halo was original?

How many big open battlefield with vehicle FPSs are there, especially one with a multiplayer so deep.

Dvader said:

How many big open battlefield with vehicle FPSs are there, especially one with a multiplayer so deep.

Ah, quite a few on PC Pre-Halo.

I wish I could have just capitalised Battlefield, but sadly it was a year later.

Of course it still beat Halo 2 by a few years so I suppose I could still do that if i wanted to. Halo's multiplayer was great, though, so I won't. Unlimited sticky grenades more than makes up for lan/splitscreen only.

phantom_leo said:

Like I said, I don't really care about the game in the least --BUT-- McShea's review is one of the lowest out there. It is averaging 8's and 9's out of 10.

I forget who I heard say it (it was one of the gameinformer guys I think, but yeah they said they always worry when their score comes in 1- 1.5 below the average and then go back and re-look at their notes, gameplay to make sure they did not miss anything.

On giantbombcast their reviewers often say they play with other reviewers on multi-player games but avoid cross contamination before publishing their reviews and are often concerned that they are missing something when a game flops so bad (Steel Battalion Kinect in this case).  The reviewer was like, "when other reviews came out I was relieved that I had not completely missed on some basic part of the game".

I respect both of those two perspectives, that they don't want to get into a hivemind situation, but at the same time, they don't want to be the problem with the game.  I cannot imagine the stress of playing a game weeks before anyone else, not being able to fall back on gamefaqs etc... sucking at it and then coming to the firm conviction that it was the game's fault and not yourself.  So confident that you are jeopardizing and endeavor that no doubt cost millions of dollars and several people to create.

I swear the gaming industry would be so much bettter if all reviewers went to the 5 star method (so that people would not be freaking out between a 6.5 and a 8.0 for example).

So, what's everybody playing this week?

I plan on gaming all day today as well as watching the new Devin Townsend boxset. of his amazing 4 night concert in London. GG should have went.

Anyway, I've been playing Mirror's Edge. Its a cool game for how unique it is and it has a really cool graphical style, but there's not much variety to it. You're basically just getting chased through environments that all look the same the entire time. Good experience, but I'm hoping its almost done.

Also going to get back into Diablo 3 in a big way today. Haven't played it at all lately so I can't wait!

Dvader said:

GG why posting so many Wii games pics.

Wii cannot handle those games.

Eh I dunno if I'd call that not bad. Darksiders 2 and Borderlands 2 are going to be bargain bin purchases or Steam sale ones for me. RE 6 will be a rental.

As for what I've played:

Diablo III and LOTRO. Just a wee bit of both.

SteelAttack said:

. RE 6 will be a rental.

No dvader mode for you!

robio said:

For the love of fuck Dark Souls is every bit as impossible as promised. Why did I want this again?

Cause it is awesome.