Homicidal Cherry53 said:
SpartanEvolved said:
I think that's a bit presumptuous. Halo 2 didn't exactly sweep the GOTY's, and there's gonna be a lot of competition this year. Halo 3 will be a contender of course, but considering the game isn't even out yet, and that this year is loaded with great titles, Halo 3 may not win.SpartanEvolved said:
SpartanEvolved said:
Exactly. Plus, there's Assassin's Creed, Crysis, GTA IV, and others. Plus, no one has even played half the games that could end up being GOTY contenders. Just saying, its not gonna be a default victory for Halo 3.Mai Valentine said:
I think more than Brawl can. Brawl isn't a GOTY kind of game. Its a game that will be insanely popular, and, while being well received by critics, has never gotten the ratings necessary to get GOTY's.SpartanEvolved said:
Idk. No one does exactly, but I've head estimates (some of them from devs or mods on their forums) between 40 hours and 70 hours.Strubes said:
I think its more because people can't figure out that its a beta version of the game, and they expect it to be perfect, so they get pissed when the graphics aren't up to par or there's some lag.Strubes said:
Actually, they say main story will be about 30 hours, and they have a bunch of other planets and areas to explore, which will take 40 hours, at most. So basically, it depends how you play. If you skipped dialog, forgot about sidequests, and never talked to your party, you could probably finish in under 30 hours, but if you take time to do everything, it could take quite a while...Strubes said:40 - 70 hours sounds awesome..hopefully that's just the main story, and there'll be a ton of other stuff you can do as well...who knows.
Watching the first 20 minutes of Mass Effect played by a cute BioWare representative, I couldn't help but be reminded of a ventriloquist I saw on America's Got Talent a few nights ago. Why I happened to be watching America's Got Talent is none of your business, but let it be known that I wasn't happy about it.
Now, the thing about Mass Effect is that it seemed, more or less, like a ventriloquist's dummy. Of course, it was a very nice-modeled, well-rendered dummy with nice textures, but nothing more. The game, much like Pinocchio, lacks life.
The gameplay looks like your standard FPS fare, which is to say that I didn't see anything great or remarkable. There's a variety of weapons and abilities to use, but my pants didn't get wet or tight because of them. Gameplay is kind of hard to judge without an actual controller in your hands, so I'm going to reserve judgment on that.
Where the presentation really fell short, however, is in the emotionless voice acting and subpar facial animations. Not only did the conversation lack the natural ebb and flow to which we were all looking forward, but it was as if the voice actor's took commas, question marks, and exclamations points out of their repertoire. The dialogue has about as much emotional engagement as a grocery list. Even worse, the facial animations match the shoddy voice acting: the mouths move, and that's about it. It'd be great for a Joan Rivers botox sim, but it doesn't really make for a compelling video game.
At worst, Mass Effect is disappointing. The best reaction I've heard all day was this: "It wasn't that bad, just more of the same." If "not that bad" is all you've got going for you ...
Ho hum.
