True. But Shadowrun and Fire Emblem are both classified strategy RPGs. In SR you create your own character, choose a race, gender and class and then as the game progresses you can spend experience points leveling up whatever skills you want, where as in FE you're stuck with existing characters and you can only choose which weapon you want to equip on them (most classes only have 1 or 2 weapon types, where as in SR you can put points to spells, summoning, adept skills, decking, pistols, shotguns, SMGs, rifles, melee weapons, thrown weapons etc and be able to use everything, so you need to consider more carefully what to equip on your character) and level them to a different class every 10 levels if you want. In FE skills are picked automatically and you can't use them your self, they trigger automatically, unless they are spells. Your only choices really are which characters to group together, and should you level up your priest to be a pure healing priest, a warrior priest, or a mage priest etc. Where as in SR you don't have a "buddy leveling system" like that and your party is only made up of 2/3/4 people, so you don't create battle partners, although you can divide the group to a fighter+buffer and a fighter+buffer.
dsheinem wrote:
I thought RE4 was one of your all time favorite games, which is a mix of 3rd person action and zombies. TLOU would fit that basic description, but it also does so much more with the genre...
I'm gonna play the devil's advocate here: watch
errant signal's last of us review if you want to decide whether it's up your alley or not. He summed up the game "The Last of Us: Pretty good movie, pretty okay game. Pretty weirdly mishmashed result that throws you back and forth between the two. You could approximate the experience by watching The Walking Dead and then switching to Tomb Raider or Uncharted every 5 minutes. Does that make for an overall good game? I don't really know."
Though I think Bioshock Infinite and TLOU are overhyped, they are still way more mature and intelligent than most mainstream games and you should support that. But where as with Bioshock Infinite I could fall back on the fact that System Shock 2 and Bioshock were better, there's not much to go on when it comes to zombie games. The Walking Dead I guess, but at least all the shock games were FPS(+RPG in SS2's case) so you could more easily compare them to each other, but Walking Dead is a point&click adventure game, a genre that is one of the strongest (if not the THE strongest) when it comes to good writing and stories in video games, so it's a bit unfair to compare that to a 3rd person action game. As far as action game with zombies go, TLOU is the most ambitious.
noiseredux wrote:
Bioshock Infinite gets talked about as a GOTY.
ah yeah I forgot about that one. That looks good, but I don't see it getting played this year as I still haven't played the first two.
System Shock 2 has the best (and by far the most challenging) gameplay. Bioshock has better gameplay than Bioshock Infinite. All games have not so good gunplay. System Shock 2 makes up for it with RPG and survival horror elements and the level of strategy and depth the game has, Bioshock somewhat makes up for it with cool, tactical plasmids. Bioshock Infinite falls short on this department.
Bioshock and Bioshock Infinite are tied for which has the best art direction, it's a matter of taste really (underwater city vs city in the skies)
System Shock 2, Bioshock and Bioshock Infinite are pretty much tied on the story department. SS2 story=BS story, BSI tells a unique story.Bioshock (and SS2) however are better at relating the gameplay&environment to the story
Infinite is the most linear as far as level design goes. All the remnants of RPG elements from System Shock that Bioshock had, have been removed from Infinite.
System Shock is too oldschool and hardcore for most people. Bioshock 2 improved the gameplay of Bioshock, but had a weaker story, it's really just more polished version of BS1, but a bad sequel as far as ambitions go.
If you're unfamiliar with the series and have limited time to play games, go for the first Bioshock and System Shock 2. SS2 for gameplay, BS for art and visuals. Infinite is only "greatest FPS evar" if you're not familiar with those two (among other games).
noiseredux wrote:games like TLOU are generally the sort of games that I might look into a couple years after release when they're in a bargain bin (like what happened with Dead Island... and like I said, was still disappointed).
Don't compare Last of Us to Dead Island. They are not in the same league.
