'Heart Of Gold'
A thread for the discussion of games: board, LARP, MMORPG, video, tabletop RPG, game theory etc. etc. and all attendant news, developments and ancillary subjects thereof, as well as coordinating/scheduling games either online or IRL. All are welcome to chime in, talk about their favorite games or learn about gaming of any sort.
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After a few days of playing GTA IV I find that the experience is less like playing a game, and more like blowing through a DVD season box set of a favorite show. It's just that damn good.
So it has a really good story? Awesome. The story for Vice City was good but pretty basic, if I recall.
I think it's a good story, YMMV. For me, though, the characterization is what is making the story for me, rather than the plot points.
Though it has to be said that, given that I'm about a third of the way through the story, there have already been two moments that actually made the usually disinterested-in-video-games-Jilli go "Holy shit!"
Peeve is making me very jealous with his GTA4 reports.
Dammit. I really want to go buy this game.
Hell, y'all are making me wanna go buy a console so's I can play this game.
Hell, y'all are making me wanna go buy a console so's I can play this game.
Me three, and I don't even really play video games! (SuperSmashBros & MarioKart being the exceptions. Oh, and Guitar Hero when I'm over at someone's house who has it. I think the last game I played that had anything like a storyline to it was Commander Keen.)
Though it has to be said that, given that I'm about a third of the way through the story, there have already been two moments that actually made the usually disinterested-in-video-games-Jilli go "Holy shit!"
Yep. I have NO interest in playing the game, but I am interested in how the plot develops.
Yep. I have NO interest in playing the game, but I am interested in how the plot develops.
That's one of the things I've always liked about the Tomb Raider and Resident Evil video games. They have plot and characters, and can be interesting to spectators and kibitzers.
I still need to finish Resident Evil 4. I only got halfway through or so when I played it a year ago. And now I'd have to start over because I don't remember what happened. And also killing zombies is fun.
Haven't played RE4 yet, but killing zombies was always fun.
My personal favorite was head shots using the magnum pistol. The zombies' heads would just pop open like an overripe melon, followed by a Peter Jackson worthy fountain of blood from the now-headless neck.