Posted January 09, 2009
Hey there,
I blatently stole this from the GoG Update 1 thread but I thought it would be interesting to see what games people would use to clear their gaming palette and why. The why is esepcailly important so that we can learn about some other games that may appeal to us but we've never heard of it.
Mine would likely be The Wheel of Time. I'm a huge fan of the books (thought I never joined internet debates about them) and I came across the game being developed. The story is a little tangetial from the books but if you play it for inself rather than constantly comparing to the book series you'll find a deep, satisfying, shooter. Being able to pick an enemy up with a whirlwind and through them of a cliff is great fun and was done long before the gravity guns of current games. Having a spell that fires through everything (Literally. It will pass through enemies, friends, walls, the entire level) and hits for a lot of damage is also fun. There was a depth and complexity to the spell interactions that later games have forgotten. Someone fires a Seeker at you (it will chase you down forever getting faster and faster) you could acivate a Fire or Air shield, use Reflect to send to back the originator, you Fork if you accept the damage but then send it back anyway - this can be use in conjuction with Fire/Air Shield to negate the damage. You could use Absorb to absorb the projectile and pinch all uses of it from the bad guy and put them in your arsenal. You could use Swap to swap locations with someone so that the Seeker is now chasing them. And there are still several other ways to deal with it but I decided not to keep listing them :p
Any spell you have bad guys may have. And they will use them... Not always intellgently but not badly either.
I may change from "Emergency Game" to "Desert Island Harddrive" so that I can list other games later.
Karl
I blatently stole this from the GoG Update 1 thread but I thought it would be interesting to see what games people would use to clear their gaming palette and why. The why is esepcailly important so that we can learn about some other games that may appeal to us but we've never heard of it.
Mine would likely be The Wheel of Time. I'm a huge fan of the books (thought I never joined internet debates about them) and I came across the game being developed. The story is a little tangetial from the books but if you play it for inself rather than constantly comparing to the book series you'll find a deep, satisfying, shooter. Being able to pick an enemy up with a whirlwind and through them of a cliff is great fun and was done long before the gravity guns of current games. Having a spell that fires through everything (Literally. It will pass through enemies, friends, walls, the entire level) and hits for a lot of damage is also fun. There was a depth and complexity to the spell interactions that later games have forgotten. Someone fires a Seeker at you (it will chase you down forever getting faster and faster) you could acivate a Fire or Air shield, use Reflect to send to back the originator, you Fork if you accept the damage but then send it back anyway - this can be use in conjuction with Fire/Air Shield to negate the damage. You could use Absorb to absorb the projectile and pinch all uses of it from the bad guy and put them in your arsenal. You could use Swap to swap locations with someone so that the Seeker is now chasing them. And there are still several other ways to deal with it but I decided not to keep listing them :p
Any spell you have bad guys may have. And they will use them... Not always intellgently but not badly either.
I may change from "Emergency Game" to "Desert Island Harddrive" so that I can list other games later.
Karl
