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Mass Effect 2
Melodic:
Don't get me wrong, I really liked System Shock (and really, really liked System Shock 2!). But I can't help but think that it is one of the few games that has ever been truly limited by the technology it premiered on.
Alex C:
Agreed. That kinda ambition doesn't really match up well with 640x480 max resolution. Plus, there's some niggling control issues here and there that could be cleaned up with some hindsight and revisions. I can't fault them for the final product though. Amazing game. Glad I searched it out back in high school before I got too spoiled by modern standards. I remember reading about it at release but considering I was 12 at the time I wasn't really in a position to insist that my parents get me a PC capable of really playing it in its full glory.
Johnny C:
those control issues are probably intentionally to make the game more punishing
i hate punishing games
Johnny C:
--- Quote from: Alex C on 07 Apr 2010, 18:45 ---Also, every time someone says that this game is the first fully realized story-shooter I mentally light li'l candle for Deus Ex (and to a lesser extent, System Shock).
--- End quote ---
has anyone said this
Alex C:
Not in here. There's articles like this though, and while I assume that the writer is likely familiar with games such as Deus Ex and System Shock, many of their readers won't be, or at least many of them will only be passingly familiar with their existence via the success of Bioshock. You definitely run into forums and conversations where people are divided into camps that believe Mass Effect 2 to be a somewhat logical extension of steps developers were already experimenting with and those who view the whole thing as akin to a virgin birth. Granted, I'm biased, because a lot of the people in my WoW guild fall into the latter camp and my guild is primarily made up of idiots,* so perhaps I'm overestimating the prevalence of that sort of thinking.
*I love them anyway, and they put up with my stupid bullshit, but we're still all idiots in there.
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