first level, looking for the gas station.

This whole realism in games is just going way to far, the next level will be getting a gas pump, then walking across the lot without getting run over. After that will be inside the convenience store, looking for a drink that doesn't have to come with insulin strapped to it and some kind of food that won't give you dysentery. The boss fight will be with the store; clerk getting them to actually stop smoking their tobacco product outside, ring up your items and 25dollah on the correct pump. 

 

I *am* fighting ghosty darkness zombies with a flashlight and a pistol.

So far the set up has been pretty weak, and the story and dialogue has been uniformly pretty not good. 

what the trailers looked like :( 

Amuses me that reading magazines and other cack like that when talking about Max Payne they go 'omg the story, the story, the gritty setting and story'

Only morons played Max Payne for the story. They played it for the fucking graphics and bullet time combat :P

I played a brief bit of Alan Wake and it felt like they'd ke[t the most irritating bits of Max Payne and removed the fun. 

*kept 

Probably one of the last games I would ever get around to checking out from the game library at work. It just didn't look very inspiring at all really, not sure what all the hype was about. 

I play max payne for the story and atmosphere. That's where the game shines. 

the gameplay was so awfully boring and repetetive that i stopped playing after chapter 1. 

Play Heavy Rain is completely counter-intuitive to someone who designs games.

It's just a continual QTE. What's wrong with YouTube? That way you don't have to piss about with the controller in order to see the story.

The best game ever in terms of story was Silent Hill 2.

It's nice to have a good story (I can't envision a game without thinking of it in terms of story) but it can't be your gameplay. 

I think the best game story was maybe Grim Fandango? Biased. 

I play max payne for the story and atmosphere. That's where the game shines.

I'll get me coat :E 

I don't know what that expression means. Maybe it is an acquired taste? ;-) 

Anyone else played this yet? I'm buying it tomorrow, it's supposed to be the bee's knees. 

Saw it at work. Based off what I saw at work and the fact that I'm in a torrid love affair with film noir at the moment, I am aching to get a copy of my own. The animation is gorgeous and the gameplay and world both look spot on, and there's a black/white mode if you want to play that way, which I plan to (unless it's unlockable.) 

You can change between black and white and colour anytime. I'm so giddy for this game ^.^ 

seen any more noirs lately? 

Diablo style dungeon crawler on 3DS looks like it has surprisingly high production values and dare I say it: 'fun'

http://www.ign.com/videos/2011/10/27/heroes-of-ruin-gameplay-walkthrough 

i like the damage feedback. i find that kind of thing is missing sometimes and it makes a huge difference. 

http://michelgagne.blogspot.com/2011/12/countdown-to-2012-itsp-half-price.html 

T'burd is after some more XBox360 games. She likes gaylord girly RPG-esque things, in her own words "Character customisation, that's all I want from games, I want to make me look pretty" :P, and is quite happy with older and therefore cheaper games. Things I know she's liked: Mass Effect series, Assassin's Creed, Witcher 2, Okami (weirdo Japanese thing anyway), Portal 2, Final Fantasy (up to 10), Tomb Raider, etc etc.

Any suggestions homiez?? 

 

and yeah second Fable. 

She's already done Fable on the PS2....and I think Witcher1 is PC only? If not then yeah she'd get that... 

But not Fable 3 - that one's a bit of a turd.