Hey, sounds good to me; you're talking to the person who has played Star Ocean 2 at least seven times to see as many endings and different interactions within the game as I could. (Also, I want to play Dragon Age: Origin so much! I need to find out if my PC can handle it, since, um, I tend to avoid buying games for consoles I don't own myself on principle.)
I guess that what I really would love to see in more games are more choices for the players. I'd like to be able to nudge the characters in other directions if I want to, have it work in the context of the game's events, and not end up totally ignored in the end because the plot dictates that two particular characters MUST be together. I admit that this wouldn't work with a lot of games - it wouldn't really have worked for, say, most of the Final Fantasy series. But if the game was made in such a way that it could accommodate it, that would be awesome, and the more choices it gave me the better.
On a side note, what I've seen of ME2's various options for both genders have me intrigued, for the most part. (Most of the female-PC options and about half of the male-PC ones interest me, to be exact.) This is not the entire reason that I want to play that game too, but it's most certainly a factor! But I want to play the first game so that I can import saves, because the sort of continuity that Bioware promises between the games in the trilogy is highly relevant to my interests, and - once again - I avoid buying games for consoles I don't own. And while I might eventually have enough interest in various PS3 (or, shockingly, PSP) games to buy one of those consoles, I really can't justify dropping the money on a 360 for what will eventually amount to three games. So my other option is to upgrade my PC so it'll run ME2 passing well, and this will have to wait. (I wish that Bioware had a way to import the saves across consoles, as that would solve my problems nicely, but no luck.) I wonder if anyone's ever going to try to mod the game to make more characters into romantic options, or perhaps to make all romantic options open to both genders. (Scratch that - I know someone's going to try, but will they succeed?)
Heh... Kain/Valvalis* is pretty much the first real non-canon pairing that I ever shipped. Although I will never be convinced that her anger over his leaving Golbez's service is influenced by not wanting him to leave her presence, in some sense or another. *I default to calling her that because, well, I played that game so many years ago and so many times. Call her what you wish. :)
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I guess that what I really would love to see in more games are more choices for the players. I'd like to be able to nudge the characters in other directions if I want to, have it work in the context of the game's events, and not end up totally ignored in the end because the plot dictates that two particular characters MUST be together. I admit that this wouldn't work with a lot of games - it wouldn't really have worked for, say, most of the Final Fantasy series. But if the game was made in such a way that it could accommodate it, that would be awesome, and the more choices it gave me the better.
On a side note, what I've seen of ME2's various options for both genders have me intrigued, for the most part. (Most of the female-PC options and about half of the male-PC ones interest me, to be exact.) This is not the entire reason that I want to play that game too, but it's most certainly a factor! But I want to play the first game so that I can import saves, because the sort of continuity that Bioware promises between the games in the trilogy is highly relevant to my interests, and - once again - I avoid buying games for consoles I don't own. And while I might eventually have enough interest in various PS3 (or, shockingly, PSP) games to buy one of those consoles, I really can't justify dropping the money on a 360 for what will eventually amount to three games. So my other option is to upgrade my PC so it'll run ME2 passing well, and this will have to wait. (I wish that Bioware had a way to import the saves across consoles, as that would solve my problems nicely, but no luck.)
I wonder if anyone's ever going to try to mod the game to make more characters into romantic options, or perhaps to make all romantic options open to both genders. (Scratch that - I know someone's going to try, but will they succeed?)
Heh... Kain/Valvalis* is pretty much the first real non-canon pairing that I ever shipped. Although I will never be convinced that her anger over his leaving Golbez's service is influenced by not wanting him to leave her presence, in some sense or another.
*I default to calling her that because, well, I played that game so many years ago and so many times. Call her what you wish. :)