Cryostasis: Sleep of Reason is probably my favorite survival horror game of all time, but it was totally ignored when it came out. I don't think anyone I know has even heard of it. Dynasty Warriors has always been a guilty pleasure of mine. I'm just astounded by the fact they've managed to release virtually the same game every year and get away with it.

I never played Alpha Protocol but from what I've heard about it. The game had a great RPG system but failed in other areas like the execution of the game and the fact that it's very glitchy but that's to be expected from Obsidian. SEGA didn't give them enough time to finish the game hence the problems with Alpha Protocol.

Farmville was a great game :shifty:

Hexic HD on the Xbox Live arcade was a damn fun game and it was quite addictive too but none of my friends really got into it once they started playing CoD et al

I tried Hexic HD, didn't understand the controls and stopped...then I started playing COD.

You had to create a triangle with 3 colours, you could also shape them into "flowers" and it would give you a special gem that you could make more of and shape into a flower to make a black pearl, again if you made a flower of the pearls you won the game and an achievement. Came so close ince but I moved anti-clockwise and they all connected and I was ruined

'A' Turns it anti-clockwise
'X' Turns it clockwise
D-Pad or Joysticks to select and move the blocks.
Thats all there is to the controls

My vote also goes to Heroes of Might and Magic IV. Honestly as a HoM&M fan I really loved HoM&M III and I liked HoM&M IV too. I find it strange that most people seem to point towards disliking the hero system on the battlefield in HoM&M IV but I find it to add flavor and it creates another things to watch out for when you're in combat, you can't just rush your creatures out, you have to be tactful and protect your hero, which does make a lot of sense, war-leaders aren't immune to damage until all of their troops have been killed after all. The thing I would rather expect people to complain about HoM&M IV with is that the Campaigns become really easy if you allow your hero to level a lot, I remember when I started the first one which is the Stronghold one I had to try the first part of the scenario a few times before I managed to finish it because it was quite challenging, the next part was a little bit easier as my hero was more powerful so I could use it for combat properly, but by the time I hit the last part of the scenario I just ignored my castle and stormed the entire map with my hero alone slaying anything in my path including fully fledged enemy heroes with my hero alone...

So yes the Campaigns of Heroes of Might and Magic IV were really easy because of that but the individual scenarios you could play were good because you of course started with your hero at level 1 and when you played online (or just when you played multiplayer with a friend) then your hero would be countered by the enemy players heroes. And that created even more room for deciding on tactics, like do I take out a group of Titans first since no one likes a strong hit from a Titan, or do I neutralize the enemy hero who could quite possibly mess up my entire game ? And also it brings up the question "How do I protect my own hero in combat ?".

I however really hate HoM&M V. I'm not all that pissed about them changing the hero system back to the old one since a lot of people really didn't like the change from the 3rd game, but I really hated the amount of random variables introduced into combat in that game. Too many creatures have abilities like "50% chance not to hit this creature." When you can do the same battle in a strategy game twice, winning one time and losing the other, then that is a sign that the strategy game is bad. A strategy game should be about how good you are at coming up with a strategy to fight your opponents troops, not about how lucky you are. Imagine if in chess every time you tried to take out a piece of your enemies troops, if you then had to flip a coin and if you lost the flip then it wouldn't be his chess piece that dies but yours. That's what Heroes of Might and Magic V is like.

I realize to an extent there are factors of luck in HoM&M IV too, however those are very minor in comparison and were the same in the 3rd game. In HoM&M IV if you do a fight exactly the same way twice then the outcome will be the same at least a good 99% of the time, not only a few times if ever like in the 5th game.

So yeah, Heroes of Might and Magic IV was better than most say it was, I'd even argue it could out perform III and it most definitely is better than V.

I just remembered another one.

Blade Kitten.

I loved it. Thought the platforming was fun, the combat was fun, the world itself was interesting and the characters were well played out.

It's gotten abysmal scores though. :confused:

Buy it. You liked mass effect iirc ? This puts the game to shame. Better choice and consiquence, better dialouge system and imo better gameplay. E.g sneak past gaurds and quietly take them out, use traps/explosives or go guns blazing, one mission even changed its difficulty becuase I was detcted in a previous mission.

Stats actually matter, it realy plas alot like ME1 imo, you cant just headshot a guy from across the room right after you go in. Boss battles are a pain, but damn its a great game. I highly reccomend you check it out.

oblivion yea
oblivion had lots of bad comments terrible the more the time passed
i still liked the game