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What is your favorite Legacy of Kain game?
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<blockquote data-quote="Edge of the Coin" data-source="post: 1331" data-attributes="member: 582"><p>The first Kain game I played was actually Defiance. I had no idea what was going on at all, but I wanted to! So, I acquired all the others, and played them wildly out of order. So, my first experience of it was Defiance>Blood Omen 2>Soul Reaver 2>Blood Omen>Soul Reaver all on playstation/playstation 2. Then, I played them over again in order. </p><p></p><p>I actually like all the Kain games. Even Blood Omen 2. It was a huge derailment of the series (as was Soul Reaver) and it lacks polish, but there are things that I enjoy about it as well. I liked the "lore" system, it gave the player a <em>reason</em> to act like the homicidal maniac everyone treats Kain as, and I like what the addition of the Hylden added to the story. That fun twist that the big bad is actually an oppressed minority victimized by the guy who's your buddy all through Soul Reaver and half of Soul Reaver 2, aided and abetted by the blue angels you thought were cool. And yeah, those NPC conversations can be <em>hilarious</em>. Especially when they just start killing each other over a disagreement.</p><p></p><p> I like the way Raziel plays mechanically as a platformer character, the gliding is fun, but I never really liked him as a character--he's so whiny and self-righteous. I suppose he makes a good foil to Kain, and I enjoy Michael Bell's voice performance, but Kain's my main man. The aspect of Soul Reaver that I liked the best was, if you didn't kill any of the humans in the game, the humans start worshipping you. I thought that was really cool when I discovered that on my second playthrough (I totally killed humans on my first go). </p><p></p><p>The game I replay most often, and is therefore my favourite, is Blood Omen. I keep a PS3 hooked up just so I can play it whenever the mood strikes me (it runs smoother on the PS3 than on either PC or PSX). It has an atmosphere that the later games don't even try to replicate, and I've often wondered what the Silicone Knights sequel would have been like. I guess with Deadhaus Sonata, I will have an experience as near to that as possible, and for that, I am grateful. I just wish it was a standalone title. I'm not much into "games as a service" "always online" "multiplayer" stuff. If I wanted to interact with people, I'd go outside, LOL.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Edge of the Coin, post: 1331, member: 582"] The first Kain game I played was actually Defiance. I had no idea what was going on at all, but I wanted to! So, I acquired all the others, and played them wildly out of order. So, my first experience of it was Defiance>Blood Omen 2>Soul Reaver 2>Blood Omen>Soul Reaver all on playstation/playstation 2. Then, I played them over again in order. I actually like all the Kain games. Even Blood Omen 2. It was a huge derailment of the series (as was Soul Reaver) and it lacks polish, but there are things that I enjoy about it as well. I liked the "lore" system, it gave the player a [I]reason[/I] to act like the homicidal maniac everyone treats Kain as, and I like what the addition of the Hylden added to the story. That fun twist that the big bad is actually an oppressed minority victimized by the guy who's your buddy all through Soul Reaver and half of Soul Reaver 2, aided and abetted by the blue angels you thought were cool. And yeah, those NPC conversations can be [I]hilarious[/I]. Especially when they just start killing each other over a disagreement. I like the way Raziel plays mechanically as a platformer character, the gliding is fun, but I never really liked him as a character--he's so whiny and self-righteous. I suppose he makes a good foil to Kain, and I enjoy Michael Bell's voice performance, but Kain's my main man. The aspect of Soul Reaver that I liked the best was, if you didn't kill any of the humans in the game, the humans start worshipping you. I thought that was really cool when I discovered that on my second playthrough (I totally killed humans on my first go). The game I replay most often, and is therefore my favourite, is Blood Omen. I keep a PS3 hooked up just so I can play it whenever the mood strikes me (it runs smoother on the PS3 than on either PC or PSX). It has an atmosphere that the later games don't even try to replicate, and I've often wondered what the Silicone Knights sequel would have been like. I guess with Deadhaus Sonata, I will have an experience as near to that as possible, and for that, I am grateful. I just wish it was a standalone title. I'm not much into "games as a service" "always online" "multiplayer" stuff. If I wanted to interact with people, I'd go outside, LOL. [/QUOTE]
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