Old Dog New Trick, Lost Game, Lost Planet

3 questions:

Do You like 3rd person shooters?

Do you like Mech Games?

Have you played Lost Planet?

I have lamented on Raptr how there has not been a good Mech game this generation of gaming.

As for 3rd person shooters.....

I was vehemently opposed to playing 3rd person shooters for a long time. With only an occasional exception that would come along like Dynamite Duke, Buck Rodgers Zoom, and Heavy Metal F.A.K.K.

But I have been in love with First Person Shooters since 1987 and Operation Wolf. Even before that, Star Wars the Arcade games was very much like an FPS.

I used to hurt that I wanted so bad for games to come out like Op Wolf. I was so very tired of space alien vehicles and the like from the arcade era. "Gotcha" came out in '87. It promised much, but it was lame.   It got better in 89 when Mechanized Attack, and  Rambo 3 set the stage and the mold for Arcade games like Terminator 2 and NES games like Laser Invasion, and ultimately gave birth in '92 to Wolfenstien 3D

The most I did in 3rd person during that time was the Die Hard Trilogy in '96 on the PS1.

Before I digress...

I've played so much that I've run out of games to play...interesting games anyway. It's not been until the last year or so that I've developed any skills in TPS. I've dabbled in Gears, I'm invested in the Saints Row
series, Loved Space Marine, and so on.

It started when I was retrogaming on the PS2 and got into "Path of Neo" and just carried on from there with a life of its own. As I said, I've lamented and rued the lack of a good Mech game.

Then a couple of days ago I rediscovered Lost Planet.

I got it when I got my first 360 a couple of years ago, when my god son dragged me kicking and screaming back into the world of platform gaming. But I immediately dismissed it because it was an TPS and I didn't have the skills back then.

Now that this old dog has learned a new trick I'm having a blast, and have the best mech game I've found this generation so far to boot.