Apologies to all on my facebook page if this irritates you. I endeavour not to bother you too much with my ramblings, but I thought I'd at least make this for somewhere to put my thoughts upon the world, as well as story ideas, results from events in my life and possible new engineering theorems (though the jury is still out on the latter).
Thought I'd start up with something fairly PC and do-able by anyone out there. So yes, it's another of those memes. So kill me, I couldn't think of anything more to write here that wouldn't take up more than a few lines. Forgive the slight repetition in some of these, but my experience of AAA games isn't huge.
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THE ACTION/ADVENTURE VIDEOGAME RATINGS MEME
Rate your top 5 in each sector:
Storyline:
1) - Half Life 1 (Valve)
2) - Bioshock 1 (2K Games)
3) - Portal 1 (Valve)
4) - Final Fantasy 12 (Square Enix)
5) - Assassin's Creed 1 (Ubisoft)
Gameplay
1) - Portal 1 (Valve)
2) - Assassin's Creed 1 (Ubisoft)
3) - Mercenaries 2 (Pandemic)
4) - Half Life 2 Episode 1 (Valve)
5) - Ratchet and Clank 1 (Insomniac Games)
Main Character:
1) - Subject Delta (Bioshock 2)
2) - Ezio Auditore Di'Firenze (Assassin's Creed 2)
3) - Gabriel Angelos (Dawn of War)
4) - Adrian Shepherd (Half Life: Opposing Force)
5) - Kais (Fire Warrior)
Support Character:
1) - Balthier (Final Fantasy 12)
2) - Eleanor Lamb (Bioshock 2)
3) - Leonardo Da Vinci (Assassin's Creed 2)
4) - Alyx Vance (Half Life 2, Episodes 1 and 2)
5) - Misha (Mercenaries 2)
Villain:
1) - GLaDOS (Portal 1)
2) - Sofia Lamb (Bioshock 2)
3) - Frank Fontaine/Andrew Ryan (Bioshock 1)
4) - Al-Mualim (Assassin's Creed 1)
5) - Gilbert Alexander (Bioshock 2)
Setting:
1) - Damascus (Assassin's Creed 1)
2) - Florence (Assassin's Creed 2)
3) - Jerusalem (Assassin's Creed 1)
4) - Ivalice (Final Fantasy 12)
5) - North Korea (Mercenaries 1)
Cathartic Effect:
1) - Mercenaries 2 (What's that, American soldier? Calling me in? Have a DAISY CUTTER! >D )
2) - Mercenaries 1 (Surgical Strike on a SINGLE GUY >3 )
3) - Assassin's Creed 1 (Nothing beats leaping about the rooftops of an ancient civilisation with a bunch of angry guards in hot pursuit.)
4) - Garry's Mod (The LOL car flying after the cake. :D )
5) - Half Life 2: Death Match (All of you know what I mean. ;3 )
Weapon:
1) - Fuel-Air RPG (Mercenaries 2)
2) - Dark Energy Gravity Gun (Half Life 2 and Episode 1)
3) - Winter Blast Plasmid (Bioshock 1 and 2)
4) - RYNO (Ratchet and Clank)
5) - Portal Gun (Portal 1)
Vehicle/Mount:
1) - Challenger 1 Tank (Mercenaries 1)
2) - Anaconda Gunship (Mercenaries 2)
3) - Baneblade (Dawn of War: Winter Assault)
4) - Chocobos (Final Fantasy)
5) - Hovercraft (Half Life 2)
One-Line:
1) - "Please note that we have added a consequence for failure. Any contact with the chamber floor will result in an 'unsatisfactory' mark on your official testing record, followed by death. Good luck!" - GLaDOS, Portal 1
2) - "I am Andrew Ryan, and I'm here to ask you a question. Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow? 'No!' says the man in Washington, 'It belongs to the poor.' 'No!' says the man in the Vatican, 'It belongs to God.' 'No!' says the man in Moscow, 'It belongs to everyone.' I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something different. I chose the impossible. I chose... Rapture, a city where the artist would not fear the censor, where the scientist would not be bound by petty morality, Where the great would not be constrained by the small! And with the sweat of your brow, Rapture can become your city as well." - Andrew Ryan, Bioshock 1
3) - "Dr. Freeman..." - G-Man, Half Life Series
4) - "Sure, I've got a plan. Shoot some NKs, throw some grenades, verify the Jack - and then I'm gonna order my custom built Lamborghini with diamond-encrusted wheels." -Mattias Nillson, Mercenaries 1
5) - "Ooh, they're gonna have tae glue you back together again... IN HELL!" - Demoman, Team Fortress 2
Character Crush:
1) - Eleanor Lamb (Bioshock 2)
2) - Fran (Final Fantasy 12)
3) - Natasha Belmondo (WipEout: Fusion)
4) - Krystal (Star Fox: Adventures)
5) - Rosa (Assassin's Creed 2)
