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In a word: Good I wouldn't say that it's light-years beyond the first, but it is a marked improvement from its predecessor. It has all the charm of the first game and a much needed(in my opinion) greater emphasis on puzzles, and generally requiring more inventive thinking. Some of the new bells and whistles are pretty sweet though, like the ability to get your minions mounts and the ability to directly control minions makes for alot of memorable moments. Can't honestly say this is a complete picture though, as I haven't even finished the game completely yet. But if it stays at it's current level of quality all throughout the game, it's definately worth the time.

Experience

This exactly. I <3 to roll through Return to Castle Wolfenstein from time to time, but have no compulsion to do the same with Doom3. The fact that in Doom3 you never tangled with more than like 2 enemies at a time was a serious fun-killer for me too. I seem to remember many times where you'd get swarmed by creatures. For instance the maggots always attacked in groups of 3-4, the spiders always swarmed you, and your first encounter with wraiths. Although these encounters were few and far between. There were several times later in the game that you would often find roomfuls of hostiles though. They might not have all been onscreen at the same time but there would be tons of them. I was a little dissapointed in the bosses though. The only one I thought was fun was the cube guardian. It was also kinda stupid how they removed certain guns from the multiplayer game. No BFG WTF? My Doom3 experience is based off of the Xbox version. It could be that the number of active enemies was lowered to compensate for the Boxs' lesser hardware capabilities. Not played much of the pc version, so as for what its like I couldn't say. In the Xbox version, the only types of enemies that you saw large numbers of were the floating, flaming skulls(I forget the name at the moment). The enemies would spawn 1-2(usually 3-4 with the insanely weak enemies) at at time and a new one would spawn to replace a dead one. That would happen a few times util they just stopped showing up. It wasn't really fighting multiple enemies at once, it was fighting multiple enemies in rapid succession(laughably weak enemies too, so they would only have been more than a joke if there were a dozen of them crawling all over you at the same time).

This exactly. I <3 to roll through Return to Castle Wolfenstein from time to time, but have no compulsion to do the same with Doom3. The fact that in Doom3 you never tangled with more than like 2 enemies at a time was a serious fun-killer for me too.

I love Doom. Doom2 Was alot of fun as well. Doom 3 was entertaining one time and that was it(Though it did have a decent expansion). But even raw fun factor aside, Doom holds a special place in my heart. It pioneered online gaming and just look at where we are now.

I learned something pretty interesting. Marty O'donnel(the man who composed the halo soundtrack for all 3 games) also wrote the "Mr. Clean" jingle and the jingle for the Flintstones Kids vitamins.

The music in Deus Ex wasn't bad. Probably not the best in the world but not the worst either.

mmm... that's weird because I don't remember any child on that game except that rascal on the market at Hong kong... anyway, I really loved the game, the setting was so inmersive, and the story so compelling, a true cyberpunk classic indeed. There's one on the quayside at NY after you take the boat from Liberty Island. He asks you for food. I think he might be the only other one though, oh -- and maybe in the tunnels under the subway too. Haven't played in a while. Let's see.....If I remember right, there's only 4 or 5: 1) The kid by the docks in battery park 2)The kid in the kiosk of Castle Clinton 3)The kid in Hong Kong 4)The parisian kid in the Paris reastaurant ...Can't think of any others off the top of my head.

Did it get changed much when it was ported to the DS? It seems like they'de have to do a fair bit of overhauling to get the game to work well on a gamepad rather than a joystick.

Well, I like the Zelda games, but that's the only one from that list that I'm very enthused about. But what about some of the other titles? I hear that one of my all time favorites, Kirby, has a pretty solid game on the DS. And I know that there's a DS version of the game "Mario 64" (which despite it's flaws, I enjoyed alot).

I've seen a parody called "Pyst", but not "Mylk".

I've been kicking around the idea of buying myself a DS once the holidays are over. I've read some consumer reports, and reviews and other stuff about the DS, but I wanted some real opinions from people I know I can trust. Is it worth having? I've seen some of the titles for it and it seems to have a pretty solid game library, Is it all it's cracked up to be?

I've beaten Myst but I've never played Riven. I bought a game called Schism, that is amongst the Myst style of games, but i've never beaten it.

I actually posted a link about this in the 'PC Gaming' section of the forums. I don't hold much hope for it.

Thanks for the recommendation, but i've already played it. I played for about an hour before I got so bored that I had to stop.

"Never believe that a small group of people, no matter how determined, cannot change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." Can't remember who said it. "Liquids under pressure don't boil when they should, Emotions tend to do the opposite." Read that one in a star wars novel, but I can't recall which one specifically.

Frank Herbert, Dune Spider Robinson, Callahan's Crosstime Saloon

I'm currently playing Halo 3 on LIVE. Even for all its flaws, it's an absolute blast. I'm also playing Gears of War, and Spider-man 3. I've started to play through the original Deus Ex again as well.

No? Well unto each his own as they say. But I personally had a blast playing all of the quests with each of them.

Nvidia GeForce 7300GT 512mb for me. I can run Oblivion on Lowish-Medium settings at a pretty solid framerate.

I like The NEXUS. I like the members of the NEXUS(especially some in particular). I like the thrill of a good action game. I like juggling bottles of Nitroglycerin.

They fixed many of the bugs when they ported it to the Xbox, but numerous patches still left the PC version buggy. The AI was decent, but there were absolutely no noticeable changes from the first game(Which was released 13 years prior). The augmentations were cool, but none of them (at least not to me) felt as thought out as those in the predecessor. In the original, I felt there was a usefull need for almost every single one of the augmentations. Not so much in the second game. The story line was good, but like the augmentations, I never felt that it was quite as fleshed out as it did in the original. In the first game, choices you made could wind up having a profound impact on how certain points in the game turned out(wether or not Jock died, If you recieved Gunthers kill Phrase or not, If Paul died, etc.). But in IW, things played out pretty much the same way no matter what you did(With obvious exception of the choices made in the last level). The weapon selection was reduced in the second game as well. You had a:Shock prod, Shotgun, Sniper rifle, Rocket Launcher, Pistol, (Various melee weapons), Flamethrower, and SMG(I think thats all, but I may have forgotten something.) In the original, you had: Shock prod, 2 types of shotguns, Sniper rifle, Gep gun(rocket launcher), Flamethrower, Crossbow, 2 types of Pistols, (Various melee weapons), Assault rifle(SMG),and LAW(One-shot and very powerful rocket launcher). I will concede that IW had a superior selection of various grenade and wall-mine types. I had lots of fun with them. I hated the removal of the skill system as well. You used to be rewarded for going out of your way to explore every nook and cranny of a level, but not in IW. You couldn't build your character to your personal play style(as much) and everybody had identical skill sets, without the option for improvment (in an RPG, I can't see that as being anything but bad). A guy who had just started the game could pick a lock just as well as a guy who was in the final stages of the game. I'm glad you enjoyed the game, and it had its merits. But as a long time fan of the original, It was a letdown to me.

I like that this thread grows so quickly that I have one or two more pages to read, every time I come back to it.

Real-Time Strategy: Star Wars: Empire at War FPS: Either Halo:CE or Doom(the original, not 3) RPG: Neverwinter Nights(the original, not the sequel) EDIT: I forgot to mention my all time favorite: Deus Ex. It doesn' t fall into any one category though.

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