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General => Video Game Bored => Topic started by: Smooth Groove on August 14, 2007, 02:31:09 AM

Title: MAF, are you adding the Mass Effect novel to your reading list?
Post by: Smooth Groove on August 14, 2007, 02:31:09 AM
The 1up crew says that it's better than the Halo novels.  It's probably a masterpiece compared to the stuff you've read recently.   :lol
Title: Re: MAF, are you adding the Mass Effect novel to your reading list?
Post by: MrAngryFace on August 14, 2007, 02:33:22 AM
THE FLOOD sucked so if theyre judging it against that I dunno. If the novel follows the game at all probably not. The Flood has taught me that novels that cover what happens in the game are BAD
Title: Re: MAF, are you adding the Mass Effect novel to your reading list?
Post by: Smooth Groove on August 14, 2007, 02:36:14 AM
It's supposedly a prequel that tells the story of how the main villain in Mass Effect became a bad guy.  But still, reading videogame novels?   :lol
Title: Re: MAF, are you adding the Mass Effect novel to your reading list?
Post by: Van Cruncheon on August 14, 2007, 02:38:21 AM
the first halo novel is no worse than the average fantasy/sci-fi summa you folks read purportedly for entertainment, so let's not pull the snob card here
Title: Re: MAF, are you adding the Mass Effect novel to your reading list?
Post by: MrAngryFace on August 14, 2007, 02:38:41 AM
I read all sorts of books buddy.
Title: Re: MAF, are you adding the Mass Effect novel to your reading list?
Post by: Van Cruncheon on August 14, 2007, 02:39:07 AM
it's probably better than the first harry potter books!
Title: Re: MAF, are you adding the Mass Effect novel to your reading list?
Post by: Smooth Groove on August 14, 2007, 02:45:58 AM
Quote from: Professor Prole on August 14, 2007, 02:38:21 AM
the first halo novel is no worse than the average fantasy/sci-fi summa you folks read purportedly for entertainment, so let's not pull the snob card here

You pull the snob card with am nintenho & Nintendo fans even though you like fucking Rengoku 2!

Quote from: MrAngryFace on August 14, 2007, 02:38:41 AM
I read all sorts of books buddy.

I know. I'm just trolling.  I would rather make a PS3 troll w/Bioshock as ammo but Prole already made used up my ideas today.   :(
Title: Re: MAF, are you adding the Mass Effect novel to your reading list?
Post by: Van Cruncheon on August 14, 2007, 02:47:48 AM
rengoku 2 is fuckin' awesome, and has better graphics than any wii game to date. you didn't even bother to offer maf a superior genre experience to consider!
Title: Re: MAF, are you adding the Mass Effect novel to your reading list?
Post by: Smooth Groove on August 14, 2007, 02:57:56 AM
Fine, I recommend that MAF read some Harry Potter.  Children's novels for adults is a far more respectable genre than videogame novels.  Videogame novels are just half a step up from Choose Your Own Adventure "books". 
Title: Re: MAF, are you adding the Mass Effect novel to your reading list?
Post by: MrAngryFace on August 14, 2007, 03:06:08 AM
I dont like Harry Potter books, I read half of the first one and stopped.
Title: Re: MAF, are you adding the Mass Effect novel to your reading list?
Post by: brawndolicious on August 14, 2007, 09:54:25 AM
HP would not be above the ME books.

The ME books are about describing the overall political grey area of the setting (no real good/evil) so it'd be interesting to read to see how the game may be.

The game definitely looks like it'll be a lot more subtle and better paced then KOTOR since the story, from what I know, isn't completely bare-bones.