There is some good stuff out there, and brilliant if you are prepared to go old-school.
Werthead Send a noteboard - 27/03/2012 02:10:20 PM
Good Old Games just re-released ANACHRONOX which is one of the greatest CRPGs ever made (MASS EFFECT started looking like it might displace it, but the ending took care of that). The graphics are shoddy these days, but the gameplay is brilliant and some of the ideas are solid gold (like your mouse pointer being an in-game arrow-shaped robot with its own backstory). Plus you have a shrinked planet and its 2 billion inhabitants as a party companion.
Otherwise KNIGHTS OF THE OLD REPUBLIC is excellent, and now once again the best SF RPG BioWare has ever made (again, MASS EFFECT looked like it might displace it before it threw it all away). It's end-game 'twist' actually makes sense, is masterfully foreshadowed and works brilliantly.
If you have a gamepad or joystick, FREESPACE 2 is also worth a look (especially since the source code has been released and its available legally for free). Before the Reapers, the Shivans were the most terrifyingly engimatic, faceless alien race in SF gaming and - aha! - are now back in that place once again. No ten-minute exposition scene from a glowing kid here. They just come in, kill everything (sometimes themselves as well), do some crazy weird stuff and vanish.
For strategy, the GROUND CONTROL games and HOSTILE WATERS are excellent SF (the latter even has a former DOCTOR WHO, Tom Baker, narrating it) and great games overall.
Otherwise KNIGHTS OF THE OLD REPUBLIC is excellent, and now once again the best SF RPG BioWare has ever made (again, MASS EFFECT looked like it might displace it before it threw it all away). It's end-game 'twist' actually makes sense, is masterfully foreshadowed and works brilliantly.
If you have a gamepad or joystick, FREESPACE 2 is also worth a look (especially since the source code has been released and its available legally for free). Before the Reapers, the Shivans were the most terrifyingly engimatic, faceless alien race in SF gaming and - aha! - are now back in that place once again. No ten-minute exposition scene from a glowing kid here. They just come in, kill everything (sometimes themselves as well), do some crazy weird stuff and vanish.
For strategy, the GROUND CONTROL games and HOSTILE WATERS are excellent SF (the latter even has a former DOCTOR WHO, Tom Baker, narrating it) and great games overall.
Mass Effect 3 and the Ending From Hell (massive spoilers if you haven't finished the game)
- 18/03/2012 07:13:16 PM
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The ending was extremely terrible considering the rest of the game.
- 18/03/2012 08:27:24 PM
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It is possible to reconcile the Quarians and Geth. They end up sharing Rannoch. *NM*
- 24/03/2012 04:25:18 PM
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Yeah, you need to make a Paragon choice in the final conversation.
- 27/03/2012 02:12:18 PM
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Rewriting/destroying the Heretics and Tali and Legions loyalty from ME2 also count. *NM*
- 01/04/2012 09:10:13 AM
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Yes. Unfortunately you need those things too.
- 07/04/2012 01:51:11 AM
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That sucks. Luckily I had my saves saved. *NM*
- 07/04/2012 09:48:53 AM
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Yeah. I mean I could have downloaded a save, but I didn't realize it was that important.
- 07/04/2012 06:09:42 PM
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I hope indoctrination ia the case and we get dlc. The ending(s) was a serious dissapointment. *NM*
- 20/03/2012 04:53:18 PM
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Yeah. I had an immediate, powerful, and visceral dislike of the ending.
- 24/03/2012 04:31:33 PM
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That ending took effort.
- 26/03/2012 11:48:28 AM
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There is some good stuff out there, and brilliant if you are prepared to go old-school.
- 27/03/2012 02:10:20 PM
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Thanks for recommendations.
- 30/03/2012 04:46:42 AM
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I can't stand Obsidian.
- 30/03/2012 09:25:27 AM
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Granted, I had the benefit of playing the game long after release...
- 30/03/2012 09:31:58 AM
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Yeah, New Vegas has been patched now.
- 31/03/2012 09:52:29 PM
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I played all of these games on the console...
- 31/03/2012 11:50:26 PM
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If they'd done that they would have been fired or sued.
- 04/04/2012 12:09:15 AM
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I think Morrowind and the 2 expansions and Oblivion were the some of the last PC games I played.
- 04/04/2012 03:29:11 AM
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I had a main-quest bug in SKYRIM involving Parthunax and the Blades.
- 05/04/2012 10:56:19 AM
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I was only given 2 options at the end
- 06/04/2012 11:35:50 PM
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Exactly, it was entirely not clear which was which
- 17/06/2012 04:34:31 PM
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Re: Exactly, it was entirely not clear which was which
- 17/06/2012 10:36:57 PM
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Re: Exactly, it was entirely not clear which was which
- 17/06/2012 10:52:11 PM
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Re: Exactly, it was entirely not clear which was which
- 18/06/2012 09:12:17 AM
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ME2
- 18/06/2012 12:39:05 PM
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Only the face was bugged (it's patched now), everything else is (and was) imported correctly. *NM*
- 18/06/2012 08:09:12 PM
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I can finally read this thread. 
And I believe I'm in the "that was pretty good" camp.
- 07/04/2012 04:31:45 AM
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And I believe I'm in the "that was pretty good" camp.
- 07/04/2012 04:31:45 AM
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I take issue with one of your issues 
- 08/04/2012 12:20:00 AM
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- 08/04/2012 12:20:00 AM
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Re: I can finally read this thread. And I believe I'm in the "that was pretty good" camp.
- 09/04/2012 01:02:02 AM
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And I believe I'm in the "that was pretty good" camp.
- 09/04/2012 01:02:02 AM
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Re: I can finally read this thread. And I believe I'm in the "that was pretty good" camp.
- 09/04/2012 03:08:35 PM
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And I believe I'm in the "that was pretty good" camp.
- 09/04/2012 03:08:35 PM
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It's possible your Rannoch decision was bugged.
- 10/04/2012 08:36:08 PM
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Could be. I'm a little hesitant to go around crying bug, but that's always a possibility. *NM*
- 10/04/2012 09:30:40 PM
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