You do realize that your screen probably does not really show you 120 frames from the game engine even it you were fooled to buy a 120HZ screen, right? You are basically limited by the screen engine to 60fps no matter what you try to pull, and then the 120HZ screens only use interpolation to create intermediate frames (which is bad for gaming because it can have negative effect on the lag due to extra processing required by the screen).
Regardless, it's still probably be...
My top of the list would be Day of the Tentacle as a narrative mechanic, Prince of Persia as a plain gameplay mechanic, and Braid for mixing both. DOTT story integration was pure brilliance, but nothing else comes close to Braid.
It seems that people (including the article writer) don't understand what the term "underrated" means
un·der·rate (ndr-rt)
tr.v. un·der·rat·ed, un·der·rat·ing, un·der·rates
To rate too low; underestimate.
For example: to claim that games like the GOTY nominated Million copies selling "The Witcher 2" is "underrated" is not even funny. And that's just one ex...
Colwyn, another way to interpret your "i only buy multiplatform titles for the pc and i have to buy majority of the ps3 exclusives" is basically you distrusting the quality of your PS3 as a hardware product:
You mention you buy all the multiplatforms on the PC because you claim that the games don't work very well on the PS3, and you buy the exclusives on the PS3 - only because they're exclusive (so effectively because you can't play them on other platforms where...
What!?
While I agree that a lot of studios are dead, it seems that you somehow managed to come up with the best examples for alive-and-kicking studios:
Sega is publishing all the awesome games from Platinum (Bayonetta, Vanquish, Madworld etc) as well as the best RTS series for the PC (Total War series).
Eidos was bought by Square, and their game catalog include not only FF games but also Just Cause 2, Deus Ex, and the upcoming thief/hitman/tomb raider games, and even t...
Ok, I see your points. Perhaps I was to quick to judge.
So perhaps it would be better to say that while Mass Effect offers you to go in multiple paths, it punishes you if you don't choose to go to either extreme.
But it doesn't punish you if you choose to go paragon in one conflict and renegade in another, and it. And even when you are punished for the gray choices it still lets you create your own Shepard with an overall gray morality.
(The two Kotor ...
I have to agree with that: MS were fooled to buy Rare based on the success of games like Perfect Dark and Goldeneye (among the rest), but the "FPS department" in Rare already split to form Free Radical and so MS was left with a team professionalizing in Platform/Action-Adventure games.
And then it was MS themselves who were probably responsible for nailing the coffin in Free Radical as well - thanks to the imminent success of Halo and the revolution it brought to th...
@theeg
I can't tell if your comment is trolling or simply as ignorant as a 5 years old view of the world.
If you make every dollar worth 2 dollars, you will need to make that 10,000$ loan of yours worth 20,000$.
That 10,000$ is money you owe to the bank BELONGS TO SOMEONE and so that money will have to be payed fully. Otherwise it practically means that someone who put 10,000$ in the bank (from which you loaned) has now basically lost half of their money. ...
You don't have to believe their evaluation, but your trust funds and pension funds (if you have any) probably do - and that's where the big money lies.
Corporation stocks/bonds with a bad S&P financial rating (ha ha) are considered to be more risky or even "junk", and as a cautionary step most pension funds will not invest in these kind of stocks/bonds because they are considered "non-investment-grade&quo t;.
Thanks for saving the bother to browse through 5 pages for that stupid list. KOTOR especially doesn't make any sense now that The Old Republic MMO is out and played by millions.
If I had to choose a personal favorites I would go with Powerstone and Baldurs Gate. I would have also named Syndicate, X-Com and Deus Ex as my favorites - but all of those have been/will be revived :)
This article fails on so many levels...
First of all, regarding post apocalyptic games: Gears of War (especially the first game) is not post apocalyptic by definition. The "apocalypse" didn't happen yet in that timeline, so it's actually more of a "space marines war game" trope.
Then, there's the morality system in Mass Effect, which while not perfect is definitely not black & white. It only goes to the extreme if you make paragon/r...
The Ur-Quan Kohr-Ah:
"We are the Ur-Quan Kohr-Ah. We cleanse our destiny. You will soon die.
Make whatever rituals are necessary for your species."
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Saber Interactive didn't develop Halo, they only ported it to the 360. At best the misleading title should have said "writes Halo Anniversary dev"
Where's The Bard's Tale?
Any where's every Lucasarts graphic adventure game from the golden days?
I think it hurts even more to see that on the PS3 they couldn't even find 12 decent games, so they only listed 11 games in their "top 12" list...
Bubs for Dark Reign indeed. It was a revolutionary RTS back in the days.
A remake of the game just came out on Xbox indie channel by the way, available for as little as 400 points - all with network and internet multiplayer:
http://marketplace.xbox.com...
Another name I would add to the list is Battlezone (the 1998 remake espe...
Perhaps a selection of over 3000 games in a single digital storefront varying from full fledged retail games, through innovative and some of the most addicting arcade games, to a massive catalog of indie gems from aspiring developers for as cheap as a single dollar?
Or perhaps the best online matchmaking system for finding people with the same skill over multiple games? (Blizzard SC2 system is better, but that system is solely for a single game and wouldn't work in an FPS...
Nintendo is very dependent on Wii exclusives developed in house. Does it make the Wii a must have console?
It's ultimately not what games are exclusive to the system but what games the system ultimately has. 3rd party relations are the most important thing and having Mass Effect 2 on the console (even late) is a much better deal for gamers than having Socom 4.
Luckily, Sony 3rd party relations are much better than Nintendo at this point of time (and it fact it'...
@Hueynewton2012, what can I say? When year after year I get XBLA games that outperform retail games (and that includes highly acclaimed exclusives on both the Xbox and on rival consoles), why should I care in what format I'm getting them as long as they're good? Should I perhaps complain that I can buy them for a fraction of the price or a retail titles that in many cases is not on par? If you think that the fact that this February I can buy Alan Wake + I am Alive + Nexuiz + Warp, and...
@LightofDarkness
Of course I do. However, do you realize that most 120hz do not even support 120FPS INPUT? So no matter what the marketing label claims, they can only interpolate frames - they simple can't support 120 frames (@1080P) input no matter what the source can throw at them. Only a few (and very expensive) screens actually support "real" 120FPS input.
And even if you are lucky enough to have such a screen, most likely your actual input cable wi...