WHAT GAME SHOULD I BUY? Episode 3: Revenge of the Nerds - Page 3

I salute you for owning Risen.

Take your pick from:

Tales of Vesperia
Two Worlds
Crackdown
GTA IV
Just Cause 2

30 hours? seriously? how can it be 3 discs and only 30 hours?

Well don't get an RPG if you only want it until Reach.


I recommend Wet or Bully: Scholarship Edition.

^ to quickly correct some things i said about Dragon Age 2 in the last post:

you play as a human named "Hawke" which can be male or female, but you can customize what he/she looks like as well as being warrior/mage/rogue

you can not transfer your DAO character to DA2, you do however transfer everything else. basically the choices you made in the 1st game, such as who died, who's still alive. no word on whether you will at some point run into an NPC version of your DAO character, provided they survived the final battle (that would be really sweet)

DA2 takes place over a period of 10 years. first part takes place 1 year before the events of DAO, then it jumps ahead at various intervals and towards the end is 10 years after the end of DAO

combat is said to be way more fluid and dynamic, they said melee combat has more of an action feel to it, so possibly that means maybe more of a somewhat DMC/God of War feel?

in game graphics and textures are supposed to be much better looking

i like the way they are going. now that you have an actual name, characters will call you Hawke instead of just "gray warden" all the time which just feels silly IMO. also, hopefully Hawke will actually talk this time, much like Shepard does in ME. overall looks like they are taking it down the ME path more, in regard to the character at least.

like i said think of it like Oblivion mixed with Mass Effect. its not as big as Oblivion, the map you can explore is not that big (Oblivion is just ungodly huge), and there is no free roam like just being able to wander around the whole world. how it works is all the parts of the world are just little areas connected and you select where you want to go on your map (which looks similar to Oblivions map) and you basically fast travel to them. whats cool though is as you are traveling (it shows your progress from one place to another on the map) you can randomly be attacked, in which case you are on a small little map and have to fight some enemies or do some other thing, then once done you exit that area and you automatically go back to heading towards your original destination. there are quite a lot of different areas you can go to in the main game, plus several more if you get the various DLCs.

and it is pretty long, or it can be if you dont speed through it. i just beat it again and took 45-50 hours, and i still had lots of side quests i didnt do. in one part where you are doing stuff for the dwarves for the main quest, you can easily spend around 8 hours just on that part alone. then you also have to do the elves quest which is close to that long, the human one which is pretty cool (and you get to fight a dragon at the end of that if you wish), and then a couple more quests to finish up the game that take a while. hell, the very first part of the game, which is called the "origin quest" where you first learn about the character you created, takes almost 2 hours in itself.

thats just the actual game itself. i havent bought any of the expansions yet that add more quests, but im going to once i have the extra money for them. my friend has told me they are all pretty fun. one of them even lets you play as the bad guys of the game.

heres a good review showing some gameplay

I'm sort of in a situation.

I want to get Fable II, since I can get Platinum Hits for 19.99.

I am also not sure to get Lost Odyssey, I have a craving for RPG's lately.

I already have FFXIII for those that will ask.

no problem sephiroth.

BTW, mages are godly in Dragon Age. on top of being able to do spells, you can even pretty much be a kick ass warrior thanks to a spell called Combat Magic.

woo-hoo legendary i know where to get tips now thanks
i know who im comig to in times of trouble

id say the music in the actual fighting is good but the world map music is so-so its nowhere near as good as the black mages for the ff series but copable to play with