revelthedog wrote:

When's the last time you put 100 hours into a game and got your moneys worth?

Oblivion, Burnout Paradise, Civilization, Sim City for sure. But yeah- I hear you.

All quite old games though.

I find these days I will either put 20+ hours into a game or give up after about 45 minutes.
Games are really having to justify my time, then I love them obsessively like Im Justin Lee Colins.

revelthedog wrote:

It takes time to get into yoss.

I put about four or five hours into it. I'd say that was a fair crack.

Yeah, I'd add that if you don't like it after the first boss, then WE DON'T LIKE YOU.

I believe I made it up to the first boss then died.

Bossgasm makes 'you died' x 50 worthwhile

I have some quite frankly horrifying omissions. To my eternal shame, I have still never played Final Fantasy XII. I'm really sorry Cinty, I WILL get round to it. The problem was that Crackdown came out on the same day, and took over my life.

I've never played an Assassins Creed game, despite them all being in my house. I'm led to believe that this is a series I would really enjoy, but I just have never found time for it. A similar one would be Mass Effect. If has the problem of appearing to me to be too big. Back in 2002 I'd probably have been all over it. These days I don't tend to play the timesinks, unless it's the kind of thing you don't finish - Minecraft and Rockband being the primary go to's.

Not played any God of War either. Again I think this would likely be up my street. Love hacky slashy stuff, Devil May Cry and Bayonetta are particular favs. It's fairly linear and short, so I should probably make time to play it.

I've never played Black Ops, and am entirely comfortable with that fact.

@dante

The problem with starting Mass Effect now is that you really need to play all three games but the first one really does show it's age. It is a bit clunky, more than a bit repetetive and has some horrific frane rate issues.

A mate (air hair lair)tried it a few months back and pretty much loved the universe but found the core gameplay too flawed to actually finish it.

I've never played Mass Effect, Red Dead Redemption, Need for Speed, or Forza or Gran Turismo beyond the first one.

I've also been pondering picking up a PSP Street so I can play Valkyria Chronicles II and Monster Hunter Freedom Unite, but I've bought PSPs twice before and they've always ended up being traded in pretty sharpish.

Red Dead is another one. Should get that done.

@Live, might give it a go then. I assume not much is too important decision wise in the side stuff?

Gran Tursmo for me too.  Played the first one in split screen but that's it.

Kow wrote:

Anybody who has not played Dark Souls should do so now and avoid putting it on some future list of anguished should have beens.

I've not played either. Hadn't even heard of them until seeing the crazy thread activity here, and even now I'm not really sure what it's about. Looks and sounds a bit like Symphony of the Night in 3D though, which would be great. 

If I can afford a 360 again it'll be one of the first game I try. I've sort of avoided soaking up any further knowledge of it in the hope it makes for a better experience

I've also never played a Gamecube. Never saw the appeal.

@code
Demon souls is ps3 only, dark souls is ps3, 360 and pc.

You are right not to look into it too much, it is best to know nothing of the story, enemies etc but check out the op of the dark souls thread for vital gameplay advice. The game tells you nothing really hence the heavily active thread.

Honestly Dark souls is one of the best games i have ever played. It is just so... Dark!

I was gonna say that. Great games on that machine.