bugsonglass said:

half-life 2 is a great shooter and i liked the non-plot with all the 1984/Big Brother ideas.  however it was seriously vomit enducing for someone like me who is motion sick easily.

best opening section of any game ever ... hmmm, galaxy sure is a strong one.  i'll go for RE4.  travelling towards and entering the village for the first time has been one of the most memorable gaming experiences for me (but then again which section of RE4 wasn't most memorable).

GoldenEye the Dam level, Perfect Dark the skyscraper, Ceres Space Station Super Metroid, Village RE4, Zelda OOT the dream. Did I forget something? D'oh Mario Galaxy the Star Festival.

Super Metroid has the creepiest, Mario the most beautiful, RE4 the most intense and PD en GEoo7 the most ingenious openings.

Iga_Bobovic said:

bugsonglass said:

half-life 2 is a great shooter and i liked the non-plot with all the 1984/Big Brother ideas.  however it was seriously vomit enducing for someone like me who is motion sick easily.

best opening section of any game ever ... hmmm, galaxy sure is a strong one.  i'll go for RE4.  travelling towards and entering the village for the first time has been one of the most memorable gaming experiences for me (but then again which section of RE4 wasn't most memorable).

GoldenEye the Dam level, Perfect Dark the skyscraper, Ceres Space Station Super Metroid, Village RE4, Zelda OOT the dream. Did I forget something? D'oh Mario Galaxy the Star Festival.

Super Metroid has the creepiest, Mario the most beautiful, RE4 the most intense and PD en GEoo7 the most ingenious openings.

The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past.  Psychic Zelda FTW!

gamingeek said:

darthhomer said:

Foolz said:

*Raises flame shield*

Half-Life 2's opening has left me massively disappointed:
Be talked at. Walk, smash debris, walk, swim, smash debris, shoot two people, walk, listen to more people, smash more debris, swim, RUN AWAY from people, run away from more peopel, smash more debris, swim more, walk more, smash debris, run away, listen to people, kill a few more people, smash some more debris, and so on and so forth.

I have been reassured it gets more interesting, though, so I look forward to what the future holds.

Shut the fuck up and go pick up a can like the combine soldier told you to.

But yeah, I can understand. To be honest...HL2 is a good shooter...though it's not the best game of all time. I've never really liked the story in any of the Half Life games.

Whats your favourite game this year?

AC Gate open: 1/1/09

1pm GMT

Burnout Paradise GG, why?

darthhomer said:

Burnout Paradise GG, why?

 Just curious. Did you get the Delorean?

bugsonglass said:

half-life 2 is a great shooter and i liked the non-plot with all the 1984/Big Brother ideas.  however it was seriously vomit enducing for someone like me who is motion sick easily.

best opening section of any game ever ... hmmm, galaxy sure is a strong one.  i'll go for RE4.  travelling towards and entering the village for the first time has been one of the most memorable gaming experiences for me (but then again which section of RE4 wasn't most memorable).

Are you Japanese? Can you play Metroid prime?

gamingeek said:

bugsonglass said:

half-life 2 is a great shooter and i liked the non-plot with all the 1984/Big Brother ideas.  however it was seriously vomit enducing for someone like me who is motion sick easily.

best opening section of any game ever ... hmmm, galaxy sure is a strong one.  i'll go for RE4.  travelling towards and entering the village for the first time has been one of the most memorable gaming experiences for me (but then again which section of RE4 wasn't most memorable).

Are you Japanese? Can you play Metroid prime?

yes, i could play metroid prime for hours and hours without needing to stop and it never made me sick.  most  modern shooters don't do that to me.  i think HL2 has a narrower field of view (or something) which makes it worse.

this first started happening when the mouse-lock was introduced to shooters.  i remember playing Quake and having serious bouts of vomiting and diarrhoea before i realised that it was the game that was doing that to me.  then i was OK so long as i didn't play for more than 10 minutes at a time.  As graphics and framerates improved, this became less of a problem but it still happens from time to time. ... strangely enough one of the most recent games that made me motion sick was mario kart DS, but i somehow got used to it and had no problem after the first few times.

Iga_Bobovic said:

I has DVD player!

But my tv just broke  

Best opening to a game, MGS1, it was like a movie, I had never seen anything like it.

RE4 is fantastic, but so was the original as it was the first time you ever encountered a zombie.

SOTN, just cause it has the greatest dialog ever put in a game.

Galaxy is up there as well, easily the best Mario one.