The "Which game delivers ... Best?" Thread.
 

This is the thread for people who get those odd little cravings... You know what I mean, you're sitting around reading a book or watching a TV show and you suddenly think "Is there a game that lets me..." like "I wonder if there's a game that lets me destroy entire cities in a Mech?"

But you have no idea which game would do that best, or even if such a game exists, sometimes Game reviews just don't tell you exactly what you want to know. But now you can come here and ask anyone for their opinions on the matter.

I'll start off then...

My birthday is coming up soon and I recently got a craving for lightsaber combat. I was looking at either "Star Wars BattleFront 2" or "Star Wars Jedi Outcast", BattleFront is much more recent and looks like it may have taken all that was good about "Outcast". But the latter has received better reviews on the websites that I looked at. And it looks like in Battlefront2 you spend much more time as one of the infantry than as a jedi cutting down swathes of storm troopers, which makes sense I guess. (This won't matter as much as it could if it is still fun being a storm trooper or a droid.)

So could somebody who has played both games give me their more educated opinion (Considering the fact that I have not played any of their prequels). On which game to buy, or if there is a game that does lightsabers much better elsewhere

I'd say... do Jedi Outcast. Battlefront 2 is fun, but Jedi Outcast is more fun... but Jedi Academy does ligthsabres MUCH better (in my personal opinon...)

Jedi Outcast II with the mercenary mods had me for a good 3 months or so. Damn, nothing beats a good lightsaber fight. I haven't played Jedi Academy or Battlefront(s), so I can't vouch for them.

I've actually only played Battlefront 2. It's a great game, but it gets to be more of the same thing after you beat the Campaign. Though, if you have online play for BF2, then it's great. Online Multiplayer is tons of fun.

But yeah, most of the time in BF2, you will be shooting guns, not using lightsabers.

I can say from experience that Jedi Academy has some of the best damn lightsaber fighting in existence. Everything done right in Jedi Outcast is done better in Academy, and they even give you a wider variety of lightsabers and lightsaber styles.

Battlefront, as Red Fighter mentioned, has much more blasters and not enough lightsabers for the lightsaber-fanatics out there. Not that it doesn't do it well, because from what little I've played it does, but Academy just *feels* so much better to me.

I've always been fond of kaijuu (giant monsters, think Godzilla or King Kong) and giant mecha, but a lot of games featuring those have pissed me off by either skipping out on the destruction, taking shortcuts, or outright not allowing you to blow up whatever pleases you. Mechwarrior 4, for instance - the mechs feel clunky, more like tanks than mechs, and you can't just plow through most buildings, or get into physical brawls. Most of the Godzilla fighting games, and games like Tech Romancer, they're just fighting games where sometimes objects get smashed in the background in very limited ways (it's either intact or wrecked, there's no middle ground.) Godzilla: Kaijuu Dai Kessen, for instance. It's just a street-fighter-like fighting game featuring Toho kaijuu. Rampage was fun, but the fact that you had to climb EVERY building to punch holes in it got tiresome after awhile.

Is there any games out there that deliver a truly immersive and complete giant monster/mecha experience?

I know what you mean, dude.

For all my life I've been looking for a good game that allowes you to play as a werewolf. ALL MY FRACKIN LIFE! The only one that came even close is Castlevania: Legacy of Darkness. That's about it. Everything else I've tried was crap.

Can't help you on your game searching though.

Um, I've played Hulk: Ultimate Destruction in demos, and that game lets you tear through semis right away and stuff. I don't believe you can destroy buildings, but you can run right up them and jump off at the top to land on stuff. It's frickin' insane.

Werewolf, eh...?

I believe I can help you there. Vampire: The Masquerade - Redemption. While the game ITSELF doesn't support werewolves as characters, there is a mod out there that alters the game systems to support werewolves with a wide variety of transformations.

Tell you what, I'll look up this mod for you and post a link when I find it. The game itself may be a bit hard to find nowadays, but if you hunt through bargain bins and game trade-in shops, you might locate a copy.

There's also an old game for the NES entitled Werewolf: The Last Warrior. It features a werewolf (of a sort) for a main character.

There's also The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind. With the Bloodmoon expansion, you can meet Werewolves on the island of Solstheim, and be infected with Lycanthropy. You'll turn into a werewolf every night, and can even participate in werewolf-specific quests as well!

The last one is probably the best in terms of of the werewolf-experience. I like how werewolves were portrayed in it, and the werewolf-specific quests rocked.
I'll make note of it and see if I can find a way to try it out. Thanks for the recommendation.