Morning Discussion
It's odd though; for some, the season hasn't even started. Friday Night Lights first runs on Direct TV and then jumps to a major network--in this case, NBC.
On NBC, Friday Night Lights begins its final season on April 15. If you haven't seen the series, I recommend it. It really is something special, even if you don't like football.
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DEAD SPACE 2
HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLY SHIT! THAT is how you start a video game!!!-
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I loved the game up 'til about chapter 10 or 11.. after that it feels like they had to rush it out the door, haven't had anywhere near as much fun as previous chapters. Quite a sharp rise in difficulty too which I was surprised at (i've not helped myself by only playing with the Plasma Cutter tho)
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You start out sitting in an EarthGov office being interrogated by an official asking you questions about Aegis VII, over to the left you can see events from DS1 being played out involving the Ishimura, the repair team, and the marker. They're focusing on the Marker's effects on the human brain, specifically asking what it was whispering to you.
You flash out of the office and into a psyche ward cell, where you're being held in a straightjacket. An unidentified male tells someone over the radio that he's found Isaac Clarke and he's still alive. Before he can get you out of the straight jacket, a Necromorph stabs him through the back, jumps on his head, and pierces his brain (no more than two feet from your face). He transforms into a necromorph right in front of you and the radio voice tells you to RUN!!!!!!!!!! You have to run out of your cell in the straightjacket all the while the rest of the psyche ward is exploding with necromorphs. Right when you make it out of the area, a necromorph jumps on you and you have to kick it into a closing door, crushing it.
Things have obviously gone to shit really fast.
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Looks like it's still on sale for $40
http://www.amazon.com/Dead-Space-2-Xbox-360/dp/B00309U0M6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1297352491&sr=8-1
Go Go Go!
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I agree on all points except that I think ME2's introduction was much more engaging. This is biased because I like ME better and could immerse myself in the story more. The intro of DS2 didn't scream epic to me, and I went back to play ME2 after to see, and I guess seeing the planet was the thing that put it over the top. The sense of scale is amazing.
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I agree that some parts are handled poorly - Unitologists seem to be basically universally psychotically unstable or evil for the sake of it, and that can't all be explained away by 'personality reviews' and whatnot - but on the whole I disagree. The Big Bad is fairly well done, most of the other characters feel believable (aside from Dana's manipulations and dramatised scheming), and most importantly Isaac himself has a better character arc than any character in ME2. I love the crew of the second Normandy, but not one of them has such a great change in their goals, attitude, and psychological health as Isaac - tell me honestly that you didn't think the Nicole interplay wasn't well crafted, with a stunner of a breakthrough in the mines and everything that happened afterwards.
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I didn't care about any of them enough for twists to bother me. That was the problem. You didn't get to actually know any of them. ME2 has character backstory and great side plots like the genophage. Everything in DS felt like "hay this would be a creepy environment/tense situation" never did it feel like there was a real purpose in any of it. It was just a bad carnival ride. I enjoyed the gameplay itself, but no one could have talked and the game would not have been different.
I guess ME2 appeals more because I can see my decisions affect the plot in some ways. Where as Dead Space is a hands off poorly done plot. Instead of sympathizing and wanting to beat the game, I just wanted to get through it. There's zero emotional response.
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Mostly out of vents, www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/2737-Dead-Space-2, yahtzee actually got that part right.
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