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[Equus]

Dragon Quest IX (9/10)
I thought I'd have problems liking this one since the main character and all the members in your party through the story portion of the game are all characters you create, so there isn't party interaction or development.  The gameplay and the story, however, are more than solid and keep me going.

 

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Currently I've been playing a lot of Heroes of Newerth, which for those of you who don't know what that is is a newer version of DotA created by S2 games who bought the DotA gamestyle rights from IceFrog.
 
10/10 I would say.  Yes balancing is sometimes bad but that's the process every game goes through.

 

[g_hause]

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I played the demo with a friend and we found the controls just fine. Very easy to pick up and play... and then grapple stuff. We spent that entire demo just grappling stuff and tethering people to moving cars, our cars, trees, compressed air tanks that we would then shoot off into the air that would carry the tethered person upward-- I don't even know if there was a storyline, but that game should have been called "Just Grapple"

 

Tethering the compressed air tanks, good idea. The problem with "Just Grapple" is that after an hour or so it gets fairly lame. 

 

[sanakaku]

Marathoning Fear here in pc, playing on hard mode damn i already forgot the creepy scenes it still gets me every time.

 

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I own only the top X360 games (RDR / BC 2 / Orange Box / Bioshock / AC II, blah, blah) and I must say Borderlands (to my surprise) tops them all. I love grinding. I love searching every nook and cranny for more moola and ammo. I love being granted the ability of finding even better guns and more powerful shields. I love its combination of RPG and FPS elements. I love the perfect combat controls (akin to COD). And most of all, I love its superb art direction.

I should have purchased this from the beginning at full price. It's one of the few games that deserves it.

 

[JonnySayer]

Alien Vs Predator Claasic 2000 - 8.5/10 Crazy online, only cost £3, Alien tail whip is epic!
Team Fortress 2 - 10/10 Absolutely incredible online, loads of different playstyles can be used so is great for everyone!
Psychonauts - 11/10 Used to have this on Xbox, then a while back picked it up for a £1 on Steam, possibly the best platformer ever, and the funniest game I have ever played!
 
Strong Bad's Cool Game For Attractive People - 1337/10 Absolutely crazy game, got it on Steam sale for about £4! 

 

[freakmax]

I've been playing Fifa 10 on my PS3 everyday since it launched.
Great! 
 
9/10  

 

[feh1325]

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I own only the top X360 games (RDR / BC 2 / Orange Box / Bioshock / AC II, blah, blah) and I must say Borderlands (to my surprise) tops them all. I love grinding. I love searching every nook and cranny for more moola and ammo. I love being granted the ability of finding even better guns and more powerful shields. I love its combination of RPG and FPS elements. I love the perfect combat controls (akin to COD). And most of all, I love its superb art direction.

I should have purchased this from the beginning at full price. It's one of the few games that deserves it.

Have you picked up the DLCs?  The Secret Armory of General Knoxx is the only one that's worth it, in my opinion, and I got all three.  Which character are you playing?

 

[Landis]

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Tethering the compressed air tanks, good idea. The problem with "Just Grapple" is that after an hour or so it gets fairly lame. 

I'd imagine that once grappling lost its novelty that the game wouldn't be very good. But I'm keeping the demo installed just for when I feel like grappling things.

 

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I'd imagine that once grappling lost its novelty that the game wouldn't be very good. But I'm keeping the demo installed just for when I feel like grappling things.

I always watch this game being played at my friend's house. It seems like a pretty fun game, but certainly not worth spending 60 bucks on. So far the most amusing times are driving different vehicles off of mountains, and landing helicopters on small boats.

 

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Dragon Age.

 

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Helping the Mage Elf from becoming Tranquil was fun as heck. Couldn't put the controller down as I had to see what unfolded next. He being a Blood Mage surprised me considerably.

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Dragon Age is filled with such moments. The quests aren't generic as those found in other games. They're fun to execute, varied, highly addictive and chock full of personality. I also like that the game allows you to be homosexual. 

 The amount of choices in this game is indeed mindboggling.

Overall I'd give it 9/10. The only shortcomings of this game is that it's boring playing as a warrior due to not being able to perform non-contextual combat actions using the controller. Would vastly prefer it there was one button assigned each for attacking and evasive maneuvers. Also, while the character models themselves are highly detailed, the environments themselves could use some work.

 

[Katun]

Battlefield: Bad Company 2 - Xbox 360
 
11/10 would be invalid. So I guess I'll have to just stick with: 10/10.
 
*Score based on Multiplayer - NOT CAMPAIGN*

 

[jeffreyj900]

Resistance 2 [PS3], I'll admit to playing this for a LONG time (9/10).

 

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I own only the top X360 games (RDR / BC 2 / Orange Box / Bioshock / AC II, blah, blah) and I must say Borderlands (to my surprise) tops them all. I love grinding. I love searching every nook and cranny for more moola and ammo. I love being granted the ability of finding even better guns and more powerful shields. I love its combination of RPG and FPS elements. I love the perfect combat controls (akin to COD). And most of all, I love its superb art direction.

I should have purchased this from the beginning at full price. It's one of the few games that deserves it.

 
I agree with this fully. For some reason I never gave Borderlands a shot. Just seemed sort of cheesy to me, but boy was I wrong. I just finished up the main story and the Zombie Island DLC. I still have a few missions on the Knoxx left to do but I'm sure I would be all for starting the game over with another character and doing it again. It's that fun. 
 
9.5/10
 
 
Good thing for the steam sale, I have games for a while. Picked up Bio Shock, GTA4, L4D2, Mass Effect, RSV2, and Red Orchestra.
 
 
 
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Resistance 2 [PS3], I'll admit to playing this for a LONG time (9/10).

 
Ah man, you don't know how much I wanted this game to be good. Unfortunately it didn't live up to the first one for me. On single player and most importantly, multiplayer. I hope that Insomniac listens to the community and rethinks the path they are on.
 
Nowadays everyone wants a piece of the Call of Duty sales phenomenon that they all incorporate some Call of Duty-esque feature for the worse. They should just leave that to Call of Duty and stick to what made them such a unique contender which appealed to many, especially the skillful bunch. sigh..

 

[joomongj]

SC2 - 9.5/10. No introduction needed. Easily the best rts game ever made. Singleplayer was great and better than any other rts games I've played in the past but the real meat is the multiplayer. So deep and profound, if you're into this there's no end to how diverse one can employ their tactics. Every unit has a counter unit and the added economy enhancements over the predecessor makes the game even more intricate and complex than ever. Lookin' forward to seeing bisu, savior, flash, jaedong, boxer and other Korean professionals duke it out.