@glots: a valid point about Shenmue and DP.
I just think Mass Effect 2 is narratively focused enough that it will lend itself to entertaining discussions and reactions from a very passionate Vinny and a cynical Alex.
I think Alex will actually end up liking the game, which is why I want him to play it...either on stream or off. Watching someone suffer was not the underlying point behind the question I posed.
As to your second point about having an opinion on a game without having complete it. I could not disagree more with that opinion and its sad to see it popping up now and then from people within the games industry.
A lot of time, money and passion go into even the shittiest of games. If you want to be able to speak about it with the intent of giving it some kind of review (whatever that means), at the very least, as someone reading/listening to you, I would expect you to have beaten the game.
I know its a different medium, but not THAT different: imagine if movie critics just saw the first half of films then reviewed the entire film based upon their first knee-jerk reactions. It wouldn't be very informative to the public. But, this ends up venturing into the subjective perspective on art, and if we get into that I can understand how reviews of anything are largely useless.
Just from my own history though, when I first played Undetale. I hated the gameplay and the opening section. It was frankly difficult for me to get through because the humour and gameplay mechanics were so terrible to me. However, after months of not playing it I gave it a chance and decided to play it for a few hours. Even then, I didn't like it immediately but it slowly grew on me and now I can safely say that Undertale is one of my favourite games of all time, in spite of some of the humour not working and the gameplay being largely shitty. A game is the sum of many things and only partially experiencing it then rendering a complete judgement on it is pretty ridiculous in my estimation.
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