3.5 should be very good IMHO. 

i guess it depends on if you define 1 as utter crap or 1 as average. :P 

1 should be crap, 2 below average, 3 good, 4 excellent and 5 amazing. 0.5 increments to add further adjectives :) 

I quite like reviews that don't bother with some score at all but just give it in words. It's not hard to say 'crap'. :p

A rating is good to get an overall average opinion, but anything more than the five star system is pretty meaningless. 

I rate 2.5 as average. So anything below that is deleted.

5 = amazing
4 and 4.5 = great, definitely worth keeping.
3.5 = just good. playable just the once unless you're really bored, or at had a flaw which prevented it from getting a 4 (ie no ending or getting lost).
2.5 to 3 = average so it's debatable whether you'd play a level on that score. not worth keeping.
2 = crap. not worth finishing.
1 = utter crap. rare, i've never rated anything that low because i'm not silly enough to download it in the first place, let alone keep it. 

agree but if you have ratings, they should mean something. Part of the problem with most commercial game reviews, I dont think I've seen anything scored less than 80!

kona, yeah I thought thats what you meant but describing 3.5 as so-so gives the impression that its not really worth bothering with.

anyway, enough semantics from me. 

The new Deux Ex will have in-game advertising. Deux Ex. In-game advertising. Oh dear. 

how do u become a moderator im desptrate for the colours thx:) 

http://store.steampowered.com/app/98200/

I'm totally hooked :D Will definitely pick this up! 

Gift me your 2nd copy? :) 

http://eseanews.com/index.php?s=news&d=comments&id=9969

Valve's CoD? Based on this report, it sounds like it will give CoD/BF3 a run for their money. 

A really good RTS at the moment. Hopefully without too many tech requirements.

Got DOW2 and can run that on min spec. 

...bought The Witcher instead. 

:o 

Age of Empires Online comes out on the 16th - free to play with some caveats. Micro transactions to unlock some restricted civ gear, certain gameplay modes, etc etc, but at least it's free to try out.

Age of Empires is one of the best RTS brands out there, btw. Not as pro-gamery as SC or SC2, but still a very solid RTS. 

got the EE version a week ago off GoG for 10$. 

I've heard StarCraft 2 is quite good...

Can run it on a cheap laptop on min settings with no problems. 

Finished it. Ending was pretty good especially since I managed to jump out of the penultimate "boss" "arena" and not fight any of the mercs.

Good game overall. Graphics setting atmosphere gameplay mechanics and all the extras all very good. Let down by being too repetitive, too long travelling across map, and too few friendly npcs outside towns. If it was tightened up it could have been a classic.

Next on the list: Dead Space 2, Crysis Warhead, Bulletstorm.

Next to buy: Crysis 2, Alice 2, Singularity. Maybe Bioshock 2 or AVP3. But then Rage will interfere with all of that. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCWycw6PFhw

Same feeling as being a Star Wars fan watching the prequels. Sometimes you wanna get up and scream, and you wanna curse and you want your entrance back, but you will still watch them. And you will grudgingly buy the special edition DVD set. That's how I felt playing this. 

whenever I try and get back into fc2, I take a mission and look at the map, see its on the other side of the fucking world and just quit :P

Which is a shame, because the shooting and stuff is really fun. 

I played the demo of the first one, and that was it :P

I always thought it was just an excuse for gamer pervs with watch some t&a, if I want to watch t&a I'll go to cardo's house. Only recently I've been getting into platformers/adventure games more (arkham asylum, darksiders, etc) so might look back at some TR games, anyone got recommendations for the best one of the series? 

Skip bulletstorm, it's complete shit. 

short breakdown:

TR1-TR4 are all good, but keyboard-only controls and really dated graphics. Challenge comes mainly from lining up for jumps on a block-based terrain and puzzles/traps.

TR: Legend was the relaunch by a different dev with WASD controls, nice looks, and sort of a James Bond movie feeling.

TR: Anniversary was a (very good IMO) remake of TR1. Pretty challenging platformer.

TR: Underworld is like a cross of the last 2.

I'd get any of the last three unless you're hardcore. Don't dismiss them as all tits, they're actually good games if you can get past that. 

Very glad the only series I'm condemned as a fanboy to buy are Doom and Quake. And they barely release any games so it's quite easy :p 

Started playing this cos my geek gamer girl told me to. She's too scared to play it herself.

Anyway. It's Doom3 bit with horrible control feel and perspective. Kinda. Okay the setting and the monsters and omg scariness are really well done. It's very stylish. But I wish more of the challenge came from errr scary monsters and less from wrestling with the annoying inconsistent and generally counterintuitive controls. Mandatory aim mode, no jump, no crouch, some things you can do in aim mode, some things you can't, non-bindable weapon switching blah blah. It's like they tried to make it scary by being a bugger to control, which they don't really need to as the rest of it works really well...

Up to Part 3 so far anyway...