vlad321 said:
Scoobes said:
daggy said:
Reasonable said:
daggy said:
Reasonable said:
Deus Ex all the way. Well, with System Shock 2 right behind it, with STALKER riding it's coattails.
Borderlands is fun but nowhere near that level.
Fallout 3 is also very good, and perhaps it's because it was too sandbox, but it just didn't manage anything like the central narrative Deus Ex or System Shock 2 had.
I suppose Bioshock was okay too, but for me it was way to light on the RPG and was basically an attempt to keep the feel of System Shock 2 but make it way more accessible and FPS orientated. They did a pretty decent job, but I felt it lost just a little too much from the RPG side.
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Bioshock is a straight FPS with some customization, not a hybrid.
As for Fallout 3, it's not a hybrid because the shooter mechanics are almost unexistant. There is pretty much no twitch gameplay, and reflexes/hand-eye coordination are not needed. Headshots will not do more damage, and the AI is so pitiful that they're like sitting ducks.
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Yah, I guess that's what I was trying to say. I wish there were more full on FPS/RPG hybrids as I actually really like them, but they always seem to end up more praised that bought, which I guess gives developers pause.
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To be fair, there have been almost no real hybrids. The only hybrid I can think of that was a flop was Deus Ex: Invisible Wars.
This year we will have Stalker: Call of Prypriat and Deus Ex 3, so it's not that bad.
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To be fair, that was because Invisible War became less of a hybrid and more of an action game. Annoyed a lot of fans.
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If you read what Deus Ex 3 is expected to be you will beocme livid and want to murder people. It is saddening how much Deus ex has fallen because of consolification.
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Urg! I've been avoiding reading up on it, and now I don't whether to ignore it completely or take a peak! Oh, well, at least I've still got my copy of DE. I played it again recently, and graphics aside I was impressed how well it held up, the plot and depth of content particulary easily eclipsed anything in more recent titles.
