I'm about 9 hours into it. I'm not liking it as much as Etrian Odyssey 4, but it's not a bad game. It really makes me want to go back and finish EO4.Quote:
Originally Posted by monroeski
I'm about 9 hours into it. I'm not liking it as much as Etrian Odyssey 4, but it's not a bad game. It really makes me want to go back and finish EO4.Quote:
Originally Posted by monroeski
Just beat Batman: Arkham Orgins
It was okay. I consider it the weakest entry into the Arkham series and the loss in quality due to Rocksteady handing the reigns to another development studio really shows. It felt like a rehash of Arkham City but with an awkward plot and nothing really original to offer. I was especially disappointed by the Riddler challenges which was treated like a hasty afterthought and busy work. This is the first time I had no desire to 100% the collectible side missions because of how boring and repetitive they were. All in all this game felt like a cash cow thrown together to capitalize on the Arkham IP.
I'd recommend it if you are huge batman fan such that you sleep in Batman pajamas and secretly refer to your car as the batmobile.
I haven't really beat a game in awhile. Too much work, not enough game time.
That being said, recently I've been playing Child of Light with the wife and it's a gorgeous game. Game mechanics are solid, it's very much a FF style RPG in a way. But man, the graphics and music are just fantastic.
Other than that, I've been playing one off games of something I've already beaten. Picked up Borderlands 2 to finally try out Tiny Tina's DLC, played a bit of SF:IV with some friends, and some Lego games with the wife.
I think I'm done with Prototype 2.
I've spent 6 hours with it and the game is a mess. It's the best way to describe this poorly mediocre and awkward game.
The controls are a mess. Often your character will flail about the screen instead of moving the way you need him to move to avoid not getting killed. For instance, you have to lock on to a target to grapple but before you can grapple you need to jump. However, you have to jump before you lock on to a target because if you lock on before hand the jump button will cause you to dodge and that will just move you into the path of the missile from the guy you can't see behind you. Its confusing as heck and in the end you'll just revert to mindless button mashing and avoid using the main akward "techniques" the game keeps ramming down your throat.
The porting to PC is a mess. Sound will randomly go out if you plug in headphones and you even have to discount your keyboard to prevent the game from crashing. It really is unbelievable but I guess with an opener like that it should be no surprise that game also fails from random stuttering and the occasional error bug that kills your game and drops you back to the desktop. I can honestly say that Prototype 2 is the buggiest port I've played in the last 5 years.
The story is a mess. The game starts with some army guy who's family dies from a virus outbreak. Distraught with generic grief he decides to go all lone wolf and kill the very super-powered mutant guy who he thinks is responsible. However, army guy ends up becoming a super-powered mutant himself once the other super-powered mutant guy sees his potential and convinces him that the private military kill squads in black trying to contain the virus are the real villains who unleashed it, until it turns out that said super-mutant guy is also a villain, but not really since... and..about then is when I stopped giving a ****. The game tries to throw so many plot twists and turns that at some point you get feed up and stop paying attention to the story. Sadly, once you do that you quickly see that the game itself is a recycle of the same 5 missions types over and over and over again.
Despite some flaws, I really liked Prototype 1 and I was a huge fan of Radical's (the developer) previous game The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction. In both of the games Radical gave us a well organized sand box with tight controls and decent story that made progression fun.
Prototype 2 had none of this and was just a god awful mess.
I'd recommend this game to anyone with poor taste.
Beat Wolfenstein: The New Order a few days ago. Pretty fun overall, though it suffers from a lot of cliches.
Started up Spec Ops: The Line yesterday. Controls are janky ("run" and "bind to cover" are the same button, for instance, and "melee attack" and "vault over cover" are the same as well) but it seems decent enough so far an hour or so in. Combat is just wave after wave of enemies thrown at you which I imagine gets pretty dull later on. If I didn't know already that the game is only 5-6 hours or so long I may not continue but as is I'll probably finish it up this week sometime.
Spec Ops, stay for the story. Combat is forgettable.Quote:
Originally Posted by monroeski
That's what I've heard, though I probably still wouldn't continue if not for the short overall length. May kick down the difficulty after not too much longer just to skim through it.Quote:
Originally Posted by fastitocalon
I do that frequently with games that I'm not entirely enamored with. I don't have time to "fight" games anymore lol.Quote:
Originally Posted by monroeski
Once you get used to them (and I cursed a lot in the beginning) the controls are OK. But as was said earlier, you don't play that game for the combat. You play for the story. *edit* In fact play on easy, even that becomes a chore later on. I would even suggest a "god-mode" cheat, but I don't think the game has one.Quote:
Originally Posted by monroeski
Before I beat it I actually grew to like the combat outside of the waves and waves and waves of enemies they threw at you sometimes. I did kick it down to easy eventually (the aquatic colosseum was just too frustrating), but I liked how the enemies weren't bullet sponges at all, you yourself are not a bullet sponge and can go down really quickly if not careful, the ammo scarcity made you have to push forward often to loot enemies just so you would have something to shoot, and the mounted turrets were actually placed in locations that you could take relatively easy advantage of (an issue I have with a lot of games is that you have to jump through hoops to get to a turret that was clearly placed for you to use, and then it's not that useful anyway).
Yeah the .50 cal locations in that game = maximum mayhem.
I only got frustrated in the very last battle where both your friends are gone and you take out almost an entire battalion of well armed troops by yourself. And once you figure the rhythm of the battle its not too bad.
So what did you think?
Pretty good overall. Story was pretty good, wasn't super amazing to me like it seems to be to other people, but I was glad that it at least stayed away from all the cliches (I just about groaned out loud near the end of Wolfenstein multiple times). Having the messages during the loading screens change away from just being basic gameplay tips later in the game was a pretty cool idea.
I bought Borderlands The Pre- Sequel during the steam 50% off sale and then bought the Season Pass for $7.80 at a UK website that made a mistake in pricing ( I wouldn't have bought it otherwise). I've already finished the main story with Athena and I have to say it was a good fun game and I enjoyed the story. I love the lasers and use them almost exclusively. Right now I'm finishing up all the side quests I have left, and then I plan on trying out the Handsome Jack clone.
Just finished playing The Last of Us (remastered). I heard a lot of good things about that game but wow, I didn't expect that level of quality. Despite a few dents here and there the game is awesome, very well done and manages to tell it's story very well. the gameplay is simple yet effective and the story is post apocalyptic bleakness at it's best (I kept having emotional flashbacks to Fallout 3 and System Shock 2).
Just started playing Tales of Vesperia on the Xbox 360. Old game, but I just finally bought it. I got a lot of hours out of Tales of Symphonia, so I'm looking forward to this one.
I forgot about this thread lol.
Dragon Age: Inquisition
9.3/10
+GFX
+Story/Immersion
+Length (I got 60ish hours into it)
+Characters
-Tactical camera is severely underwhelming
-DA:O is still better
DA:I might be my favorite game of the year. DA:I and Divinity: Original Sin are locked in a battle of awesome.
I just beat Sunset Overdrive. I loved it! I went into it expecting some dumb mindless shooter and instead I got a smartly-designed, demanding, funny game that is one of the best I played all year.
I'm now going through and doing all the side quests I missed and seeking out the myriad collectibles scattered throughout the world. At the very least I plan on finishing all the side quests and getting all of the weapons in the game; I probably won't be messing with multiplayer at all and I don't think I'll be doing many of the challenges.
Finally finished Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition in it's entirety. Now I'm playing through BG2:EE, then probably ID:EE since I bought it a week ago. I guess I can thank Divinity: Original Sin for renewing my interest in the CRPG genre.
Since my last post I've beaten Skylanders Giants, Phineas and Ferb Quest for Cool Stuff, Spec Ops The Line, and Torchlight all on 360. I really enjoyed Spec Ops. Good story, and it didn't seem like endless enemies to me. A lot of 'em? Yes! But manageable. Torchlight I had already played a long time ago on PC, found out that at some point I had purchased it for 360. Giants was fun. I still think the original skylanders game was probably the best of the lot; but I have yet to play trap team. Phineas and Ferb was an enjoyable platformer. Sometimes it's good to just kick back and play a mindless, simple game; which it was.
Currently have about 63 hours into Just Cause 2. OMG! What a game! Like Mercenaries 2 but better. Like Saboteur, but better. Like Crackdown but....well... It's good though!
Far Cry 4
UGH/10
+Pretty
-Unskippable opening advertisments (I hate this)
-Texture swapping is extremely noticeable
-Ubisoft performance issues (Again!)
-No crossfire support
-Story is blah, characters are blah and make no sense whatsoever
-Wild difficulty spikes
So...Yeah.
Hmm and my best friend at work says he likes it more than FC3.
Been playing this lately with one of my friends, can confirm it is way better than FC3. We're not following the story and are just having fun roaming around taking over the map together and doing assassination missions.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wurm
I played it solo, and just did not like it at all. Ubisoft has this formula that they follow and it is so apparent and dull (yet addictive for some reason). I would say FC4 is #2 on the worst games I've ever beat list. With that said, as a gamer, I'm glad others like it if for no other reason than I like the diversity in PC gaming right now. Over the course of the year I played a card game(hearthstone), a crpg(Divinity: OS), a rpg(multi), sports games, racing games, TBS(Endless Legend), 4X(X series) and MMO's. It is awesome.
*edit* and Kama, you are wrong lol, FC3 is way better than this!!!1
I dunno man, have you played FC3's co-op mode? :)Quote:
Originally Posted by fastitocalon
No, I have no friends :(