The Timeless Question

Collapse · Post by **Collapse** » Wed Oct 20, 2004 10:30 pm

Choose. Support. Now.

Jim North · Post by **Jim North** » Wed Oct 20, 2004 10:47 pm

System Shock 2.

Joel Fagin · Post by **Joel Fagin** » Wed Oct 20, 2004 11:06 pm

Bah. Halo's just a first-person shooter. Or Halo 1 was, anyway. It wasn't anything really new, kind samey and plagerised numerous sources - not least of which Ringworld - for it's plot. Anyone who games on a PC would've seen most of it many times before.

Out of the choices to hand, I'd have to pick Halflife although I haven't seen it yet. Normally, however, I'd agree with Jim.

- Joel Fagin

Luprand · Post by **Luprand** » Wed Oct 20, 2004 11:40 pm

And now I have this awful image of Commander Chief or whatever his name is doing the rishathra ...

--Sij

Cope · Post by **Cope** » Thu Oct 21, 2004 1:05 am

We can't choose both?

Theamazingsquad · Post by **Theamazingsquad** » Thu Oct 21, 2004 1:19 am

Actually, I'm quite looking forward to the new Tiger woods 2005....
Or something....

Seriously though, I'd probably pick Half life 2.

YarpsDat · Post by **YarpsDat** » Thu Oct 21, 2004 1:35 am

Jim North wrote:System Shock 2.

System Shock 1.

I mean. I liked System Shock 2... but lack of the puzzles and cyberspace...

SS1 rocked really hard because of them, if they were is SS2 the game would be like, legendary. Without them, it was just a good game.

JexKerome · Post by **JexKerome** » Thu Oct 21, 2004 3:16 am

Yes, Halo is just a shooter, but what a shooter it is. It never tried to be anything but a shooter. Halflife is also just a shooter, and virtually identical to Halo: lots of action with a scripted storyline, both of which knocked my socks off first time around. Halo's claim to fame is not on the PC but rather on the console world, where nothing like it had come before and all pretenders to its crown have fallen short.

For me, Halo 2 is the game to wait for since I won't have to hideously upgrade my Xbox just to play (which is the reason I bought the Xbox) nor have to deal with cheaters on Live (Internet) play, since a modded Xbox cannot access Live and cheaters are quickly pointed out by the community and actively shunned/kicked out of games. I can also have some friends pop in and play split-screen (I own a 31" just for that purpose); something which cannot be done on a PC without either a) major planning beforehand, or b) major chaos setting up. Not to mention a) doesn't always eliminates b). Nothing sadder than having someone show up with a system that struggles to run Tetris yet insists it can play Doom 3.

SS1 I missed, and SS2 I missed too because of the upgrade issue. A friend who has it, though, told me it sucked that all weapons eventually disintegrated. No, my money for revolutionary FPS gameplay goes to Deus Ex; each situation has at least two different ways to be solved and it's really up to you how well you do them. In Halo and Half Life, you had to solve things the one way the designers had tought it up or you couldn't proceed.

So, bring on the Master Chief!

Esoterik · Post by **Esoterik** » Thu Oct 21, 2004 6:27 am

Halo 2 looks pretty good, but so far I'm enjoying Half-Life 2. Well, Counter-Strike: Source, anyway. The physics are pretty incredible.

EDIT: Yeah, and System Shock 2 rocks hard.

Collapse · Post by **Collapse** » Thu Oct 21, 2004 6:43 am

Yes, Halo is just a shooter, but what a shooter it is. It never tried to be anything but a shooter. Halflife is also just a shooter, and virtually identical to Halo: lots of action with a scripted storyline, both of which knocked my socks off first time around. Halo's claim to fame is not on the PC but rather on the console world, where nothing like it had come before and all pretenders to its crown have fallen short.

What?!? Half-Life is nothing like Halo. All you do in Halo is run and shoot. Half-Life contains a plethora of puzzles to work out. It's got a much wider variety of weapons and enemies. It ranges across a wide variety of environments. It has a much more complex plot, that isn't borrowed from a half-dozen books.

...personally, I think Perfect Dark (N64) beats the crap out of Halo in terms of gameplay, both single- and multiplayer.

I think Halo is fun, but it's not that special, and there are a lot of games that are a lot more fun.

Prettydragoon · Post by **Prettydragoon** » Thu Oct 21, 2004 6:46 am

Civ 2.

JPSloan · Post by **JPSloan** » Thu Oct 21, 2004 7:49 am

M.U.L.E.

Esoterik · Post by **Esoterik** » Thu Oct 21, 2004 8:10 am

November 16th guys!

HL2 is finally done.

Jim North · Post by **Jim North** » Thu Oct 21, 2004 10:25 am

YarpsDat wrote:
Jim North wrote:System Shock 2.
System Shock 1.

I've never gotten to play the original System Shock, sadly, though not for lack of trying. It's almost like every single copy of the game completely disappears whenever I try to look for it.

[geoduck] · Post by **[geoduck]** » Thu Oct 21, 2004 11:27 am

JPSloan wrote:M.U.L.E.

That or NetHack.

Dutch! · Post by **Dutch!** » Thu Oct 21, 2004 1:35 pm

Haven't played either...

That's this thread AND the Sims thread I can't participate in...

I don't fit in here, do I?

Isukiyomi · Post by **Isukiyomi** » Thu Oct 21, 2004 1:43 pm

Haven't played either and I don't plan to

Life Imitating Art · Post by **Life Imitating Art** » Thu Oct 21, 2004 3:34 pm

Half-Life, for my money. Which I won't be spending anyway, since I don't have any.

Luprand · Post by **Luprand** » Thu Oct 21, 2004 5:55 pm

I tried playing Halo and got severe motion sickness.

I watched someone else play Half-Life and got severe motion sickness.

I rode in the backseat of a PT Cruiser and got mild motion sickness.

I am a sad, pathetic little man.

--Sij

Warren · Post by **Warren** » Thu Oct 21, 2004 6:19 pm

[geoduck] wrote:
JPSloan wrote:M.U.L.E.
That or NetHack.

M.U.L.E. On the Commodore. No substitute.

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