I'm sure I will. My girlfriend is pretty well versed so she's been kind of showing me the ropes. Have a level 22 Undead Mage and a level 5 Night Elf Druid. Must say I'm getting pretty addicted and this almost saddens me. I promised myself I would never but here we are 10 years later. WoW you tricky mistress you...
Oh don't worry, after you've been around Azeroth (and pre- and post-kaboom Draenor) a few times that feeling of addiction should pass.
One of the things that I find utterly captivating about WoW is its incredible world design and great aesthetic. After you've played for a while you can just
tell when you see a WoW screenshot because it has such a unique and distinct look to it. When you go between areas it feels like you're somewhere completely new, unlike several other games (*cough* Gears of War *cough*) where you couldn't tell one area from another. Guild Wars 2 is another game that got that right, albeit 8 years after WoW came out.
It's the best. No story has ever captivated me like ME. I have shed more tears in that series more than any other video game ever. It's really an emotional attachment I have with it. The Multiplayer in 3 was just a WELL added bonus (if you've never played it you are truly missing out). The ending just leaves a lot of questions and it's a bit frustrating yes. It could have been worse but it felt poorly thought out and possibly rushed. The whole game though in ME3 was truly Epic.
At least they tried to slap a few bandaids on the original ending. I dunno, I'm still pushing slowly through the first game, so we'll see. :p
I also ended up sharing the love and buying my dad Mass Effect 1 and 2 for his birthday yesterday. He seems to like ME1 so far, so we'll see how that goes.
That's not a bad idea but I have a good feeling it will be a proper port this time around.
I've become so cynical when it comes to PC ports that I generally refuse to buy things at launch unless they're specifically designed for PC, especially after I witnessed Watch Dogs stuttering on my rig (which is so far above the recommended hardware that it's kind of silly). I think the only game that I bought on launch day recently was Alien: Isolation, but that game had a great PC version so kind of lucked out.
Considering Rockstar gleefully kept putting out expansions and patches for the PC version of GTA4 without fixing a damn thing and totally bungled a semi-recent GTA:SA update (the updated release broke things like 1080p support, which the original PC release--released in 2005, no less--had!), I'm not giving them my money until I know for sure that they aren't going to be a bunch of shitheads again. It's a fantastic game, but if they fuck up the PC version I'll be more than happy just switching on the ol' 360 and playing it there. Hell, the 360 gets a better framerate in GTA4 than my gaming PC does for some stupid fucking reason.
Fortunately with Dark Souls we have guys like Dante to fix their horrendous shortcomings (like FFXIII's pathetic excuse for an options menu graphically).
It seems to me like Dark Souls had a solid foundation that was hampered by inexperience and budget constraints (after all, the PC port was very much an afterthought, as a response to a fan petition). I think a large part of the PC port's problems stem from the fact that it's more or less a straight port of the Xbox 360 version of the game. All of the signs are there: it only really supports 360 controllers, it's locked to 720p at 30hz, and the real kicker: GFWL. However, the fact that DSfix is able to defeat all of those limitations so easily leads me to believe that the devs knew what they were doing, they just didn't have the resources or experience to use their engine to its fullest.
The framerate uncapping alone is evidence of that. There are a lot of games that run at a fixed 30hz on PC because they will break
hard if you unlock the framerate. NFS:Rivals is a very good example of that,
as TotalBiscuit proved.
I'm just glad that From Software really buckled down and made a solid port for DS2.
Do you play Dark Souls II?
I have it but I haven't really gotten around to playing it. That's on my list of possible games to play after I finish up the Mass Effect trilogy.
