What are you playing?

I'd recommend picking up Soul Reaver far before either of the Blood Omen games. Then I'd suggest playing SR2, and then Defiance. The two Blood Omen games are definitely cool, but the SR games are just much better.

The reason Blood Omen 2 is so disappointing is based around few key factors:

1) Extreme technical issues. Blood Omen 2 features a sacreligious lack of polish. The hit-detection sucks, the framrate drops constantly and there are a number of clipping problems. On top of that, there are a number of cinematics in the game where the audio track is offset from the video by a full five seconds. Plus, the animations are stiff and repetitive and the sound effects are occasionally glitchy. There's just a ton of bugs.

2) The puzzle design is atrocious. Seriously, it's all lever and block puzzles. Boring, uninspired and very, very done.

3) The level design is 100% linear. You don't revisit areas, there's little to no exploration to be found and you don't have much of a choice as to where you should go next.

4) The story is a bit convoluted. It fucks with the Legcay of Kain plot a bit too much. Thankfully, Defiance cleans up almost all of the messes that BO2 made.

It's just not up to LoK standards. The bar set previously by SR1 and SR2 was just too high for BO2 to reach, especially considering that the BO2 team was a completely separate group from the Soul Reaver/Defiance team.

If you pick up Soul Reaver, you'll enjoy the hell out of it. That's the first one I played, and it's the game that got me hooked on the LoK series. SR2 fills in a lot of plot elements that you might be confused about. If you're really interested in the LoK series, here's the order I'd recommend.

Soul Reaver
Soul Reaver 2
Defiance

And then the Blood Omen games if you're interested in filling in the backstory. The Soul Reaver games and Defiance are the most important to the central plot, the Blood Omen games are just basically filler.

I've got Soul Reaver: Legacy of Kain sitting about 2 feet from me but I can't force myself to play it. I played the first 10 minutes of it and got bored.

That's because you're a poozer!

Seriously, though, SR2 has the greatest video game puzzles ever created. The only game that comes close is Sphinx. Play it, it's not even that long.

Hmm, well, I already started this game, but I guess I will have to pick up the other's and play them out.

I've been playing a lot of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City lately.

Oh yes, must add:

Beaten:

GTA:VC


Going to start playing soon:

GTA:III

Playing:
WC3
BF 1942 with Desert Combat
Counter-Strike
D2 LOD
MOH Frontline
KOTOR (again beat it already before)
GTA VC

Games I want To Buy When They Come Out:
Legend of Zelda
Halo 2
Half-Life 2
Battlefield 2
Resident Evil 4
World of Warcraft
GTA SA
FFXII
Goldeneye: Rogue Agent
Fable
Jade Empire
KOTOR II
Splinter Cell 3
Devil May Cry 3
Rollercoaster Tycoon 3
Metroid Prime 2

Game(s) That I Want To Buy Now:
Chronicles of Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay (heard this game is awesome)

playing:
doom 3 (pc) occasionaly
super smash brothers (gamecube)
ddrmax2 (ps2)
Xenogears (ps1)

recently beat:
transformers (ps2) lol its actually a fun game
ff7 (comp)
ff10 (ps2)
ff8(ps1)
ff3(gameboy)
black and white (comp)

Recently Finished:

Farcry
Doom 3
Ninja Gaiden (Again.)
Star Wars: KOTOR (Again.)

Playing:

Sudeki
Beyond Good and Evil
ESPN Football 2K5

How do you like Beyond Good and Evil? I'm thinking about getting it, but I can't tell if it is good or not.

playing:

warcraft 3 tft
prince of persia: sands of time
half-life: counter-strike
half-life: natural selection

in my computer gaming magazine beyond good and evil got a 4.5 star out of 5 so it is pretty good and i played it and it is fun but it is short but it is cheap now so u can still kinda get your moneys worth

Lol oh I thought Donkey Konga was like another Donkey Kong n64. I haven't heard much of what the game is about, I haven't heard of this Donkey Kong: Jungle Beat~

Konga is just a rythm game like DDR, only it's a drumming game. You get this weird controller that's a pair of plastic bongo drums and you pound on them in rythm with the game. I've heard it's fun, but certainly not the game that Nintendo should release in America in order to promote this bongo controller thing.

Everything I've heard about Jungle Beat has been unbelievably positive. It's an action game and you use the bongo controller to move Donkey Kong and make him perform actions. I don't know exactly how it works, but even the guys from the PS2 and XBox channels at IGN were saying that it was the most addictive game at E3 this year.

Beat Tales of Symphonia (Well I didn't, it was a friend's game, I was just playing as Genis in battles for about 20% of the game)

I wish I could get somebody to play that fucking game with me. It's hard enought trying to get two people to play Four Swords, much less a full-blown RPG.

How do you like Beyond Good and Evil? I'm thinking about getting it, but I can't tell if it is good or not.

"Can't tell if it's good or not"? Has the fact that I've been researching ways to fellate Ubisoft via the internet not yet convinced you that BG&E is a phenomenal game?

Recently Finished

Xenogears (PS1 - 92 hours...God dammit)
Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty (PS2)


Now Playing

Golden Sun: The Lost Age (GBA - 2/3 complete)
Mario Golf: Advance Tour (GBA - Not terribly far)
Soul Blazer (SNES - Just started)
Tales of Symphonia (GCN - Just started)
The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures (GCN - Off and on)


Up Next

The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (GB - Once I finish Golden Sun)
Fire Emblem (GBA - Taking a break; Will start again once my guitarist is finished with it)
Ratchet & Clank (PS2 - Once I finish Soul Blazer or ToS)
Pikmin 2 (GCN - August 30th, bitches!)

Currently Playing:
Pokerroom.com
Warcraft: ROC(PC)
FFX-2(PS2)
FFVII(PS1)
Halo(Xbox)

Waiting and dying for:
Halo 2(Xbox)

Currently Playing
Runescape (online PC)
Morrowind (Xbox)
Starwars Knights of the Old republic (XBOX)
Diablo II (PC) - Just a little though.

GameCube-Timeslpitters 2
Hunter The Reckoning

PS2-Madden 2005
Fight Night 2004
Driver 3
GTA Vice City

PS1-FFVIII
FFIX
Armored Core

Drive 3 is out!? Oh I'm definetly getting it.

i'm playing Counter-Strike ; Warcraft III ; Morrowind and Guild Wars...

Counter-Strike;Counter-Strike;Counter-Strike and Counter-Strike...

I am currently playing MapleStory (PC), Halo2 (already beaten)

Everythig else has gone to one side - websites, books, life, you name it - and right now I' playing KH2 absolutely straight. I've even made a groove in my new computer chair... and I only got it Friday night!

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