AVP, Borderlands, or warband?

[Dowly]

Warband has the most replay value, also I like the concept.

[Ducimus]

Originally Posted by Dowly

Warband has the most replay value,

How so? I saw some gameplay clips of it, but it looked like just short skirmish's. What genre does it fall into really? Alot of titles seem to sit between two different genre's these days.

edit: More specificaly, what do you do in between fights?

[kiwi_2005]

What about a 4th choice - You might like R.U.S.E full game is out, demo was out few months back.

Haven't played the game but it looks massive - RTS

R.U.S.E. is a one-of-a-kind real-time strategy game that allows players to bluff their enemies to lead their nation to victory, controlling the action using views that range seamlessly from the heart of the battlefield to the full theatre of war.

R.u.s.e gameplay




http://rusecommunity.com/

[Dowly]

Originally Posted by Ducimus

How so? I saw some gameplay clips of it, but it looked like just short skirmish's. What genre does it fall into really? Alot of titles seem to sit between two different genre's these days.

edit: More specificaly, what do you do in between fights?

I'm REALLY bad at explaining things, so you better go read a review or two to see what it's all about.

EDIT: DO NOT TOUCH R.U.S.E.

[kiwi_2005]

Originally Posted by Dowly

I'm REALLY bad at explaining things, so you better go read a review or two to see what it's all about.

EDIT: DO NOT TOUCH R.U.S.E.

Okay RUSE SUX. Forget my post above Ducimus! Back to my cave for me.

PS: how come its sux is it the gameplay? ubisoft, a console port or all of em?

[Dowly]

Originally Posted by kiwi_2005

PS: how come its sux is it the gameplay? ubisoft, a console port or all of em?

It's extremely arcady and suffers from idiotic things like AT guns only being able to shoot armored targets etc.

[Ducimus]

Warband sounds alot like Rome TW then. Just a bit more... interactive on a personal level i guess.

So what would be the 2nd runner up then? I'm guessing AVP. Borderlands.... aside from the cel shading (WHY?!), sounds alot like Farcry 2 to me, and probably repeditive after awhile?

edit: BTW dowly, your comments on AvP compared to L4D is what got me started on this kick. lol.

[Dowly]

Originally Posted by Ducimus

edit: BTW dowly, your comments on AvP compared to L4D is what got me started on this kick. lol.

Hehe, aye figured as much when I saw you asking around in the AvP thread.

Tho, I was talking about AvP2 in the L4D thread. The MP is pretty much the same in AvP3, but with very few good maps and it has the match making BS that seems to be the trend in games these days.

[kiwi_2005]

Originally Posted by Dowly

It's extremely arcady and suffers from idiotic things like AT guns only being able to shoot armored targets etc.

I was pretty impressed with the video out earlier this year, yeah but I should of known better.

[NeonSamurai]

The heck? Warband is almost nothing like the total war series.

Warband is an RPG sandbox game, with sorta realistic combat. You can recruit people to form armies which you can loosely control, join a kingdom and gain a fief to support your armies, do quests, trade, and what ever the heck else you want. It also has limited skirmish type multiplayer if I recall.

Simplest thing is just to download it from taleworlds.com and I think you can play to level 5 to get a feel of it for free.


As for AvP from playing it at my friends house i don't think it has much replay value to speak of.

Borderlands is fun but rather repetitive after a while. Best played with friends though, and not pickup groups.

If you want a single player game, Just Cause 2 has a ton of stuff to do (its a huge sandbox world) and you can do lots of crazy things in it, but its not realistic.


Anyhow some reviews for the last 3 from ZP
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/vide...ns-vs-Predator
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/vide...48-Borderlands
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/vide...2-Just-Cause-2

[Ducimus]

Originally Posted by Dowly

I'm REALLY bad at explaining things, so you better go read a review or two to see what it's all about.

Yeah i was just doing that. I have to ask (sorry), just a couple of things.

1.) Is it sandbox?
2.) Do you build a character?
3.) some of it sounds a bit like a total war game, like rome total war. Any simulartiies there?
4.) Is most of the game played from a map, or in 3d?

As to RUSE. I watched the trailer last night. It lost my interest the instant the ubisoft logo flashed on the screen. Probably chained with their online DRM i'll bet. (edit: oh yeah, and a crapload of bugs)

[Dowly]

Originally Posted by Ducimus

1.) Is it sandbox?
2.) Do you build a character?
3.) some of it sounds a bit like a total war game, like rome total war. Any simulartiies there?
4.) Is most of the game played from a map, or in 3d?

1.) Yes, you have one world where you can move freely on the strategy map (point somewhere and you see your guy running there from bird's eye view thingy)
2.) Yup, the usual RPG stuff, choose from what kind of background you come from etc.
3.) Yes, it's almost like TW games, except during the fights you go right into the midst of it controlling yourself on the battlefield.
4.) Battles and when visiting castles & cities are from 1st/3rd person view, moving outside happens on a 3D map I described on point 1.

[Arclight]

Originally Posted by Ducimus

Probably chained with their online DRM i'll bet. (edit: oh yeah, and a crapload of bugs)

For the record: it isn't crippled by OSP. Ubi didn't even make it, just publishing, but obviously it's their logo you'll see first. They're trying very hard to make it look like they made it.

Apart from that, yeah, RUSE sucks imho.


I think Warband would be the best choice from the options I've seen so far. Don't ask me why, it just is.

[mookiemookie]

I say wait a week for Fallout New Vegas.

[Arclight]

Or that.

Kinda wondering how Obsidian did though. Alpha Protocol was not exactly impressive on the technical level, but I think in this case they were more tightly supervised by Bethesda.