An absolutely amazing game. I haven't played Redemption yet, but Bloodlines was one of my favourite games of all time, putting aside the bugs.

Seriously though, playing through the mansion quest at 3am with all the lights out and my headphones on was the only time I've ever actually been freaked out by a game.

I never drink alone. Yes, I consider talking over voice-chat services to be alone. However, drinking while playing multiplayer games with friends who are actually in the room is quite fun.....as long as you don't invite that inevitable hyper-competitive aggressive drunk...

As soon as you realize everything is about money, things start to make a lot more sense.

haloArtosa

Okay, there's absolutely no need for comments like this. Dislike Halo all you want, but it is, by no stretch of the imagination, the "worst game ever made".

My vote for worst would go to Gremlins for NES...it made no sense at all!

More recently, Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance was pretty freaking pitiful.....it's like they started making a game, then forgot what they were doing, and released it without actually finishing it.

Wait....you own a DS and you still haven't figured out that videos/screenshots/whatever do not do justice to DS games?

I actually played this game at PAX, and found the controls and graphics to be great. However, I didn't have the patience to actually play much in a crowded exibition hall with 30,000 people, since survival horror games are not exactly super fast paced.

I'm in the opposite situation, I just can't sit infront of a console anymore, it's not the time issue since I play some games for hours, nor mobility cos I mostly play in my room. It's just something about being tethered to a TV that I don't like.

What makes handhelds work for me is that there is no obligation to play through the game at any given pace or complete any given amount to satisfy the developers criteria for progress or completion (unless the game sucks that is). Whereas on a console once you go past the start menu it's as good as signing a pact in blood to see the damn thing through, something which I just can't do anymore.

Articuno76

You pretty much took the words out of my mouth. I got a DS only a couple weeks ago, and something about it just resonates with me. I do think it has to do with being able to play any amount of time I feel like, and not having any qualms about suddenly shutting it off in the middle of a level, etc.

There's definitely a place for more complex gaming on consoles and pc's, but I find I'm so busy with real life most of the time that the total sensory saturation in those platforms is a little overwhelming to the point that I just don't want to play very often. Therefore, the DS fits in nicely, allowing me to game but not demanding it...