Posted June 07, 2011
I can't say much about KotOR, simply because I don't seem to hold the original (or the sequel) in as high regard as some other people do... The first game was decent for me, and the second felt like more of the same but with slightly better writing in some places. Neither has stood the test of time very well. At all.
Fallout New Vegas, however, is probably the best game they've released to date and a MAJOR improvement over Fallout 3, IMO. I haven't played any of the DLC yet, so I can't say anything about that, but I'm playing it (I believe) on the second highest difficulty with hardcore mode enabled, and it's one of the best CRPG's I've played in a looong time.
And I can't say anything about Alpha Protocol either, as I haven't played it (yet). But I gotta say, after the disaster that was Dragon Age 2 (it actually managed to ruin the first game for me in terms of re-playability... go figure :-/ ) I've more or less dropped BioWare and started looking to Obsidian and CD Projekt RED for RPG's that suit my preferences. And I expect that Icewind Dale III announcement from Obsidian any day now... ;-)
Edit: Oh, and I think DS3 looks like it'll be fun! It reminds me of the Dark Alliance games on the PS2, which were great sofa co-op hack-and-slashers.
Fallout: NV is a game I played at the wrong time. I had purchased Fallout 3 GOTY and Fallout NV and played F3 for about 80 hours and loved it. Then I played NV and was probably burned out from those 80 hours and just got tired of the game. I played it for about 35 hours before I just lost interest and started playing DA2 which is also pretty damn poor. But I still have NV on my PC and maybe I should go back and give it a second chance? It gets an automatic -1 for being made by Obsidian but I'll have to admit that ghe game is actually well made (apart from the terrible bugs).
Let's just say I will not preorder DS3 since Obsidian made it.
Still the "action"/"Stealth" bits feel like something tacked on, which is sad since it's where you spend a large part of the game.
Where the game shines is in it's conversations which work quite well, the story seems okay (gotten about halfway through it).
It's too bad that they offer you the ability to customize your character quite a lot, but in the end there's too many areas where you MUST fight, the plot doesn't leave you a way to stealth or talk your way out of everything, which is kinda sad.
The console versions had heaps of technical issues too, but I've luckily never had too much trouble on the PC with those.
In the end, it's an okay spy themed game with interesting conversation system and simplified stealth and action sequences. A bit more polish on the stealth and the ability to solve all problems more than one way and it could've been great. As it is, it's okay for what it is. A narrative wrapped up in a (casual) game.
Post edited June 07, 2011 by jepsen1977
