Steam summer sale 2013

[keg in kc]

Originally Posted by Pants

No doubt. One can't scoff at 80 hours of solid gameplay.

My 300 hours in Baldur's Gate 2 scoffs at your 80 hours of solid gameplay!

Technology has killed that aspect of gaming (I would say consoles, but it's the same on PC now). I used to think of a long game as something that takes me months to play. Then I look online and see kids complaining that ME2 was too long because it took them 40 hours to finish.

Ironically I recently loaded Baldur's Gate and I swear the first hour of the game, in 2013, was just as fun for me now as it was 15 years ago, for all the tiny 2D graphics, and crappy 4:3 cinematics that look like postage stamps on my monitor. There's still a feeling in that game of big things happening. It's hard to explain, but it's lacking in a lot of today's games.

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Originally Posted by keg in kc

My 300 hours in Baldur's Gate 2 scoffs at your 80 hours of solid gameplay!

I can't get over that isometric view, personally.

Just completely takes me out of the experience.

Originally Posted by keg in kc

Did you ever play either of the original Fallout games? Fallout 2 in particular was just an amazing game that's still playable to this day. Fallout 3 (which I did play, start to finish) felt pretty much like Oblivion with guns in a desert. Not that I didn't enjoy it, but it was a shadow of what came before.

Nope. Like I said, isometric = meh.

[keg in kc]

Originally Posted by Alex Smith HATER

I can't get over that isometric view, personally.

Just completely takes me out of the experience.



Nope. Like I said, isometric = meh.

Ah. Well, it's what I was playing in my late teens and early 20s, so it was never a thing.

I'm actually really looking forward to several isometric games coming out in the next two years, all kickstarter funded - Wasteland 2, Torment: Tides of Numenera and Project Eternity.