re: Your top games of the year (regardless of release date)?

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Can you tell me more about this one?

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It's a very colorful RPG centered around turn based combat where you can capture enemies to serve as familiars. The main character is young boy around 12-13 or so who gets help from a fairy to help him find his mother.

The art and visuals are of super high quality and look a movie. LINK

If I had to compare it to something, it would be Dragon Quest gameplay with some Pokemon mechanics. It's a very fun game and has a ton of charm and humor. It's entirely kid appropriate, although it may scare very young children but no more than some of the earlier Disney movies.

Funny, I was thinking about making a thread on this exact topic. (Great minds, and all that. )

I'm just starting to get back into playing games regularly, following a break that lasted a number of years. So, I've had some catching up to do.

Anyway, here's my list (in no particular order):


Far Cry 3 (PC)
Mass Effect 1 (I started this back when it originally came out on the 360, but I bought the trilogy for the PC this year and finally finished it.)
Skyrim (PC)
Halo 4 (360, obviously)
NBA 2K14 (PC)


Also, forgive this thread-derailing question, but I have a question for anyone that has completed the ME trilogy. I thoroughly enjoyed ME1 and would like to move on to the second game, but (with all negative talk surrounding ME3) there's a strong possibility that I wouldn't continue on to the third game. So, my question is this: Does ME2 rely on ME3 for proper closure (unlike ME1)? In other words, can I stop at ME2 and feel completely satisfied with my experience? (No spoilers, please.)

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Great minds, and all that.

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In other words, can I stop at ME2 and feel completely satisfied with my experience? (No spoilers, please.)

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I'm in the exact position you would be in, since I've only played ME 1 & 2 and have yet to play 3 myself.

ME2 was pretty awesome and overall a big improvement over ME1, especially in the character and story development. I wouldn't say it ends on a cliffhanger, exactly, but it certainly ends unresolved. I plan to eventually play ME3 (on PC) despite all of the controversy around the ending.

The sad thing is I'm going to need to hack a save to try and recreate a lot of the choices I made in ME 1 and 2, because I played it on 360 originally and have since sold that system. I want to see how those choices over the 2 games pan out.

ETA: I just want to clarify by saying if the game had ended on a total cliffhanger, I probably would've picked ME3 up asap. It ends in a way that you know you and your crew have a lot of work ahead of you. I hope that makes sense. I can't think of another way to say it without getting into plot specifics.