29th March 2005, 1:34 AM
Yeah, I shouldn't have used the actual quote tag, just some quotation marks noting that's it.
Oh and, actually I didn't see all that, but I think I can understand why I thought what I did. Apparently OB1 didn't mean that, but those REAL quotes sure are easy to take that way, that's all. Really OB1, I never meant to slander you or anything. Honestly, I'm pretty sure that one of those, or all of those, are what I remember you saying.
Yeah, I know, I said it already and I'm pretty sure we understand each other here, I just wanted to reiterate it.
Oh well, I'll go to sleep now. All I can say is this could have been ugly, like a fight or something. (Weeeelll actually it sorta looks like something between you and ABF is brewing again :D, KIDDING!) Good thing it's all cleared up now.
As to what I think knowing now what OB1 apparently had meant by that, well, honestly I don't really have much of an opinion to say about it. OB1 brought it up actually, and I was just sorta defending my memory :D. Nothing has really changed, I mean I still think the same thing about TS2. It's decent, but no Perfect Dark, in either singler or multi, to me anyway.
Alright, back to the topic I was trying to switch it to earlier...
Multi is what kept me coming back to PD, this is true. That's true of pretty much any game I have that has both mutliplayer and single player though. I mean, I do play single player games from the start over and over if I like them, but not for a year straight like I do for multiplayer games, ever. That said, the single player parts of PD, to me, were just as good a reason to get PD as the multiplayer parts. The campaign was just incredibly fun on it's own merits. Some prefer Goldeneye's single player mode, and I can see why, but after playing both for a while and mastering every single thing about both games in all ways (:D), I must say my personal tastes go with PD. GE does have a level where, if you play it a certain way, there is a LOT of stealth and the only killing is done via throwing knife. I love that level. I also loved the library where you play on the hardest difficulty and you can actually both beat it and get a cheat by just RUNNING past every single enemy in the level, sometimes INTO them using a karate chop. THAT was fun simply because I never expected it to be so easy to avoid getting shot. Just "RRRRRRRRUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUNNNNNNN!" and then at the VERY end, shoot the window. The Facility was fun, but the cheat depended on dumb luck more than skill. Sure, you needed skills, but you had to hope the random placement of things went your way or it wouldn't work. (I actually found the caverns to be the hardest level to unlock the cheat on.) However, in PD I just ended up having a lot more fun. I loved rushing through Carrington's little sea shack with all those objectives, one of the most fun for me. Also, I loved unlocking the cheat of the streets. That one too required luck, but not that much. It was basically just a really fun run filled with gadget usage. There was also the one where you are supposed to spy on a meeting and then rush in to unlock a safe, and that was amazing fun too. I especially loved learning that I could start the safe cracking countdown and THEN immediatly start the cinema to freeze enemy movement while the thing was still cracking the safe. The institude invasion was bliss. I HATED the Mr Blonde level, but in a GOOD way, because it really required good skills. Seriously though, I really wanted to kill that woman... I loved the one where you stop the terrorists from suicide crashing the plane (seriously, I could see if they were religious zealots, but why would two SANE humans set the plane on a crash course and then just STAND there? seeing them run past me just firing randomly but not stopping to chat would have been cool). The following one where you wander all over the wilderness? Classic, total classic. Honestly, just overall I loved the levels PD had to offer more than GE. Some GE ones I still rank above the worst PD ones, of course, they are both awesome games, but I must put PD at the top of my list. Plus, PD had a level filled with soldiers wearing Mario's outfit! That's just cool! Okay, they did look like an army of hillbillies the way they made them though...
One thing to keep in mind here, I really don't CARE if a game has realistic guns or not, and as a general rule I have a general sense of unease whenever someone says "I wish this game had realistic guns!" because I honestly can only picture one very frightening reason for that wish.
Oh and, actually I didn't see all that, but I think I can understand why I thought what I did. Apparently OB1 didn't mean that, but those REAL quotes sure are easy to take that way, that's all. Really OB1, I never meant to slander you or anything. Honestly, I'm pretty sure that one of those, or all of those, are what I remember you saying.
Yeah, I know, I said it already and I'm pretty sure we understand each other here, I just wanted to reiterate it.
Oh well, I'll go to sleep now. All I can say is this could have been ugly, like a fight or something. (Weeeelll actually it sorta looks like something between you and ABF is brewing again :D, KIDDING!) Good thing it's all cleared up now.
As to what I think knowing now what OB1 apparently had meant by that, well, honestly I don't really have much of an opinion to say about it. OB1 brought it up actually, and I was just sorta defending my memory :D. Nothing has really changed, I mean I still think the same thing about TS2. It's decent, but no Perfect Dark, in either singler or multi, to me anyway.
Alright, back to the topic I was trying to switch it to earlier...
Multi is what kept me coming back to PD, this is true. That's true of pretty much any game I have that has both mutliplayer and single player though. I mean, I do play single player games from the start over and over if I like them, but not for a year straight like I do for multiplayer games, ever. That said, the single player parts of PD, to me, were just as good a reason to get PD as the multiplayer parts. The campaign was just incredibly fun on it's own merits. Some prefer Goldeneye's single player mode, and I can see why, but after playing both for a while and mastering every single thing about both games in all ways (:D), I must say my personal tastes go with PD. GE does have a level where, if you play it a certain way, there is a LOT of stealth and the only killing is done via throwing knife. I love that level. I also loved the library where you play on the hardest difficulty and you can actually both beat it and get a cheat by just RUNNING past every single enemy in the level, sometimes INTO them using a karate chop. THAT was fun simply because I never expected it to be so easy to avoid getting shot. Just "RRRRRRRRUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUNNNNNNN!" and then at the VERY end, shoot the window. The Facility was fun, but the cheat depended on dumb luck more than skill. Sure, you needed skills, but you had to hope the random placement of things went your way or it wouldn't work. (I actually found the caverns to be the hardest level to unlock the cheat on.) However, in PD I just ended up having a lot more fun. I loved rushing through Carrington's little sea shack with all those objectives, one of the most fun for me. Also, I loved unlocking the cheat of the streets. That one too required luck, but not that much. It was basically just a really fun run filled with gadget usage. There was also the one where you are supposed to spy on a meeting and then rush in to unlock a safe, and that was amazing fun too. I especially loved learning that I could start the safe cracking countdown and THEN immediatly start the cinema to freeze enemy movement while the thing was still cracking the safe. The institude invasion was bliss. I HATED the Mr Blonde level, but in a GOOD way, because it really required good skills. Seriously though, I really wanted to kill that woman... I loved the one where you stop the terrorists from suicide crashing the plane (seriously, I could see if they were religious zealots, but why would two SANE humans set the plane on a crash course and then just STAND there? seeing them run past me just firing randomly but not stopping to chat would have been cool). The following one where you wander all over the wilderness? Classic, total classic. Honestly, just overall I loved the levels PD had to offer more than GE. Some GE ones I still rank above the worst PD ones, of course, they are both awesome games, but I must put PD at the top of my list. Plus, PD had a level filled with soldiers wearing Mario's outfit! That's just cool! Okay, they did look like an army of hillbillies the way they made them though...
One thing to keep in mind here, I really don't CARE if a game has realistic guns or not, and as a general rule I have a general sense of unease whenever someone says "I wish this game had realistic guns!" because I honestly can only picture one very frightening reason for that wish.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)