But that's what I meant...editing in all those string bends and pulls and crazy effects creates the illusion of speed, making him sound faster than he really is. Luca Turilli's alright, but all those guitarists put way too much emphasis on speed. That's not to say he's bad (I like very little power metal), but that he falls under the same cliche as Herman Li.
John Petrucci and Yngwie fall under the category 'older guys who are still alive'. Besides, Yngwie's not that good. Anyone who plays long enough can play as fast and as clean. I have a friend (who's only 20) who can play Icarus Fanfare without a hitch. Tons of tech death metal guitarists can do neo-Barochian phrases just as good, and he doesn't hold a candle to John Maa.
[QUOTE="Trickshot771"]IMO, Two Worlds is a game that's aimed towards older gamers who grew up on RPGs that are similar to it. It doesn't hold your hand like Oblivion.nyc05
Agreed again.:P
As great as Oblivion is, it definitely isn't a "hardcore" RPG. Two Worlds is more old school and it, like you said, doesn't hold your hand like Oblivion. I don't feel the need to truly compare the two because they offer different experiences. Both games are great in their own way, and while I do wish Two Worlds was polished up....alot, it's still a very good game in my opinion.
My beef with it is that it feels like the devs didn't even try to fix it. Advent Rising, another buggy game, was being pushed by Majesco on a team with only 15 programmers and then marketed improperly. I could understand why it was in shoddy condition. Two Worlds, on the other hand, was pushed back a few months and we still ended up with this buggy pile of bugs.
I played it for 10 hours before giving up. I swear to god they could not have hired any QA testers for that game, it was ridiculously buggy. I'm not complaining about framerate, either. The game mechanics were actually really cool, but when you can ACCIDENTALLY BREAK THE MAIN QUEST, you can't forgive it for something like that. It would've been a significantly better game if they had taken the time to fix the hundreds of bugs.
I have to step in and say that I agree with the mod. Having one gem is worth having ten awful porn games. It's the same way with the movie industry. A lot of 'not rated' or nc-17 movies are there purely to get as much sex and gore and dirty language onto the celluloid as possible. But for every dozen or so of those, there's also some extremely good movies out there. Dellamorte Dellamore, which is not rated (and not for being foreign, it's done in english), has quite a bit of implied necrophilia and a sizeable amount of gore, but it is by far one of the best black comedies I have ever seen.
I have an unbelievably awesome idea for a game, only I can't do anything with it unless console makers decide to allow 'AO' rated games. I could theoretically make it for the PC, but I can't expect a decent amount of sales on a PC only title which can be easily pirated and won't be making much money anyways on account of it being AO and thus available to a limited number of customers.
That being said, I'm importing the UK version of 'The Witcher' because I support freedom of expression.
On a side-note, would The Statue of David be considered high art if he were wearing clothes and or a leaf?
Game has bad story but good gameplay *House of the Dead, Resident Evil 4* Great Game
Games has good story but bad gameplay it's a Bad Game.
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I think The Longest Journey disagrees with you.
This man couldn't be more right. TLJ is a point and click adventure with the best story I've seen in a game so far. It doesn't have a whole lot going for it in the gameplay department. Neither does it's sequel, Dreamfall, but they both have such good stories that it doesn't even matter how twitchy the camera might be, how hard the puzzles are, etc.
That's not to say that all games with good stories have stories that good. But as a general statement, games with really good stories and not much else can still be great games.
No lie, a lady told me this at work today while I was stocking shelves on the ground: "That's the easiest way to get to heaven, is on your knees..." I didn't want to point out to her the incredible implications of that statement, for fear of me losing my job.
Nah. Linkin Park and Evanescence aren't metal either, btw :P If you need proof, listen to Dark Tranquility's Fiction, Behemoth - The Apostasy, Machine Head - The Blackening, or Nile - Ithyphallic. Anyone else super excited for the new Soilwork album? :Dd51man
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