[Drai]

I was looking into a few games (ruled out Fable 2, Oblivion, Left 4 Dead, and Assassin's Creed) and I've narrowed it down to these 3. Right now I'm leaning towards Mass Effect because it looks pretty neat with how interactive you are with the characters, and bioshock in second because the setting looks really cool.

Just wondering if anybody has some positive, negative, or neutral reviews on the games.

Thanks

PS - I should mention that my brother is willing to sell me Fallout 3 for $35 (Canadian price - about half of what he paid for it) which puts it roughly in the same price range as Bioshock - $20, and Mass Effect - $30.

This post has been edited by Drai: 12 November 2009 - 03:32 PM

[Jacob the Malignant]

I'd go with Mass Effect just because the sequel is coming out soon, and all the choices you make in the first will influence events in the 2nd, which sounds awesome. And the game itself looks amazing So get Mass Effect just so you'll have it completed in time for the sequel.

If you don't go with that though, any of the others will do. They're all really good

and besides that, Mass Effect itself is also a kick $@! game

This post has been edited by Jacob the Malignant: 12 November 2009 - 02:23 PM

[Delta1212]

I have all three, though I really haven't spent as much time as I would like with any of them thanks to a combination of CN and school eating up my Xbox time.

I could play through all three a bit this weekend and right up an opinion if you like. What I have experienced has been all good, so you can't really go wrong as far as I can see.

[Kenadian_2006]

Mass Effect. Get it. Love it.

[Drai]

That's the general feeling I have so far, any of them would be a solid choice. Based on what Jacob said it would make sense to get Mass Effect now (actually I just checked and the same could be said about Bioshock).

If you want to take the time to play through them and write your opinion I won't object Delta

This post has been edited by Drai: 12 November 2009 - 02:50 PM

[Magicman657]

No Borderlands or Modern Warfare 2? For shame.

I'd recommend Fallout 3, assuming you'd be getting the anniversary edition (with all the DLC included).

[alpreb]

Bought Mass Effect off Steam (7.50 Euros including Danish 25% VAT last weekend, yay) this weekend. It is worth the money although the difficulty is way too low imo.

Fallout 3 was a disappointment for me, but I know my fanboyism from the older titles cloud my judgement. In the older ones I loved how you could mess around with the fate of the various town and cities and that some of them even with intercity relations. Else Fallout 3 is just a vast, vast improvement over the old ones and worth a whirl.

Only tried the Bioshock demo on an X-Box 360. Wasn't impressed.

[Emperor Kameron]

Mass Effect definitely.

Fallout 3 comes pretty close but Mass Effect is a breath of fresh air in the RPG community. Then again that's my opinion.

[Drai]

Magicman657, on Nov 12 2009, 01:01 PM, said:

No Borderlands or Modern Warfare 2? For shame.

I'd recommend Fallout 3, assuming you'd be getting the anniversary edition (with all the DLC included).

I'm getting Modern Warfare 2 for Christmas (it's a $70 game with taxes, I'd rather buy these ones for $35 or less right now). I don't think I'd be getting the anniversary edition, it looks like it's the regular one.

This post has been edited by Drai: 12 November 2009 - 03:30 PM

[ty345]

Get Bioshock. I didn't like the other two, so neither should you!

[Foggers]

Swap everything for a PS3. If you consider Fallout 3, you should consider Oblivion instead. Fallout 3 is okay the first few hours you play it but a bleak, grey, depressing post-apocalyptic landscape gets very dull very quickly. It's nice to take a long scenic hike in Oblivion and get lost for hours, finding many interesting things. And hunting deer is fun.

[edikroma]

Foggers, on Nov 12 2009, 03:59 PM, said:

Swap everything for a PS3. If you consider Fallout 3, you should consider Oblivion instead. Fallout 3 is okay the first few hours you play it but a bleak, grey, depressing post-apocalyptic landscape gets very dull very quickly. It's nice to take a long scenic hike in Oblivion and get lost for hours, finding many interesting things. And hunting deer is fun.

This. And then swap that for a PS2.

[anenu]

Fallout 3 - Good game but the developers didn't put as much in it as they did with Oblivion. Instead you get 4 major towns and if you play pure good or evil you destroy one of them. Other then the main quest you get multiple fun side quest but not that many truly engrossing ones and the little towns of 4-7 people in the incredibly hostile wastelands always struck me as weird. Now you can get the expansion packs that let you do a bunch more stuff but the two i got just let you do a quest line in a single area and don't really open up any new side quest or seem to enlarge the place at all. Overall if i knew when i bought it what i know now i wouldn't have waited for the GOTY edition with all the expansions.

Mass Effect - Awesome gameplay, epic storyline, cool character, and an amazing setting. Other then that the sidequest tend to get repetitive since all the worlds surfaces are copy paste and some people have problems driving the tank thing around (i find it easy). Pretty much an epic game and if you like KoToR or story based RPG's its a must have. Definite recommendation

Bioshock - never played it isn't a shooter or somesuch?


EDIT

Fable 2 - Epic game for crossing it off your list you suck.

This post has been edited by anenu: 12 November 2009 - 04:59 PM

[Dennis Von Bremen]

All good, but as was said go with Mass Effect due to the fact that a sequel is coming in a few months.

[Feanor Noldorin]

I know it isn't in your top3 but Borderlands is fantastic.

[Sargun]

Mass Effect was a bit of a disappointment. Fallout 3 far outshines the others, and Bioshock is an overhyped piece of engine.

That having been said, unless you're shelling out for all the DLCs for Fallout 3, I'd go for Mass Effect.

[Megabyte]

Bioshock and Mass Effect provide somewhat of a shorter entertainment value than Fallout 3 IMO, so get that one first.

[Esau of Isaac]

Fallout 3 is of much higher quality relative to the amount of time you will spend with it. There is more to do in a non-linear fashion than Mass Effect, which aside from its moderate length storyline possesses a very bare minimum number of interesting things to do. The combat feels more immersive and customizable in Mass Effect, but to a degree only based on the fact that there's more involvement from the player (as opposed to using VATS in Fallout 3 a majority of the time because of the somewhat clunky shooting mechanics). I put together a review for Fallout 3, if you'd like to get a pretty good idea of it. Which now makes me want to write one for Bioshock and Mass Effect

[Drai]

That was a neat review. I'm not sure if it's the kind of game that really appeals to me, but the more I hear about it, the more that $35 sounds worthwhile to put towards the game.

Oh, and I just went out and found Bioshock and Mass Effect for $30 used (in total, not each) so that solves my decision there

And for anybody wondering about CoD 4-2 and Borderlands, I'm not really up for spending $60+ on a game right now when I have so many good titles for cheaper. I'm likely going to ask for CoD for Christmas, waiting 6 weeks or so with these games to play won't be too bad.

Thanks for all the input.

[Esau of Isaac]

A good choice, Drai. Bioshock is a quality title that will probably serve to be a benchmark and inspiration for even more later titles down the road. It and Mass Effect together for thirty bucks is a damn good sale.

As for MW2 and Borderlands, I would definitely wait until the latter goes down in price. The former is one of the highest-grade games of the year, whereas Borderlands is probably not quite near. I would say that it has addicting gameplay to a degree, and at least stylish graphics with a few likable characters, but on the whole the game is not worth sixty dollars. Nowhere near. If you see it for half that, I'd certainly recommend you and some pals picking it up to have fun. But not before.