i wanted to like this game so bad but even though it’s cool on paper, as a game you play and try to wring some enjoyment out of it’s pretty much dreck
are you playing the dc or ps2 version
PS2. Also playing Daedalian Opus which is very breezy. Pretty much ideal brainscratching in fact.
I finially got around to the new Doom. It’s too bad that the SB consensus is that it falls apart in the second half because boy does it make a good first impression.
Actually reminds me of Doom 3 more than the others, but I always liked Doom 3 more than most people.
falls apart? that’s the consensus? ok well i loved it all the way through and if anything i felt like it ramped up the whole time. maybe people didn’t like the handful of boss fights that come up later on? weird.
i will add that i think it’s radically different from doom 3 in that that’s a slow, very dark and often more monotonous experience — more of a horror thing. (and i love doom 3, so when i say monotonous it’s only with some recognition that it stretches on aimlessly for a while before you go to hell and it’s far more oppressively claustrophobic.) doom 4 is blood-pumping, demon-blasting action all the way through. maybe it’s just the fidelity of the setting? i like doom 3 a lot, but yeah, i think they’re very different sides of what doom can be.
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I’m halfway of the final case of Ace Attourney, I was right about the crime happening before 5:15, but I still need to know what Starr really saw that day. the last 2 cases are great and the music is pretty nice. I played this 'cause I wanted to play more Danganronpa but I watched way too much of 2 to play it right now, it is strange there’s no more games in court rooms or something like that. The main difference between both game is how in DR you endup more engrossed finding out how the crime was comited, in AT you are dealing more with contradictions and every character roll in the case, and be more dramatic in general. Good games, good games.
Passed the first final boss in Rabi-Ribi and now I have to put the game on normal because hard is annoying, I passed everything and I wasn’t pissed at it, but this boss is hard, has some shitty random attacks and has way too much life, I put the game on hard thinking it will have diferent pattern for the attacks, I should have done some research before hand. Anyway is a good game with tight gameplay and shitty everything else (ost is good though).
I should probably specify that I mean Resurrection of Evil, not Doom 3 proper
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Be the guinea pig of SB and get avian attorney!
I just started Fru for the Xbox One. I highly recommend it for anyone with the Kinect. Really cool game. I wish this had come out sooner in the system’s life.
Odallus’ veteran mode is pretty cool, surprised they never bothered to remix item locations for Metroid or something.
Post a picture?
I started up the new turtles game. Way better than the last one I played. By no means good. Honestly it’s sailing a lot on ascetics for me. I think it will be a fun 10ish hours to button mash through, but we’ll see. It certainly doesn’t feel like a platinum game, but neither did Star Fox.
In Picross related news I’ve almost finished the Mario half of Picross 2. Has some good puzzles in the last area.
In EDF news I am a bit surprised you still have to pickup all the pickups!
So nosing around the right places reminded me Cosmology of Kyoto was a thing, so I finally got around to that.
And it was certainly a thing! But one that scratched the right itches for me due to being a history nerd and the fact that I love dark Heiankyo shit for some reason, so basically meandering around the place with horrible and weird shit going on was fun.
Feels very much a product of its time that could only have come out of the early-mid 90s PC multimedia and edutainment craze with the heavy presence of point and click adventure games. If it had live action FMV it would have been a perfect storm.
This game looked so good but got such shitty reviews. Please get at us. Transformers devastation was so surprisingly good id love to know it is maybe sorta like that
Never played the Transformers game about the only Platinum game of recent memory I just couldn’t care less about to try but I hear it’s better. Frankly it’s odd that Ninja turtles is the one that doesn’t work as well. But they want all 4 characters on the screen at all times. So they want a mostly overhead camera.
Combat is loose so you’ll just mash in x or y, maybe b? I’m sure there’s supposed to be combo system to worry about. But even looking at a video of ‘high level play’ of what someone had to do to get a secret boss, it was simply chug sodas to up damage and hit them fast enough to trigger the secret boss. But the bosses kinda suck. They seem to just have huge health bars and they’ll Pose for an attack, I don’t think calling it ‘animation’ is fair as you’ll basically learn to coun seconds to react, 6? 8? depends but you get the idea. Then they’ll pop down an area attack, meaning you can’t just try to avoid the attack, you have GTFO, or perfectly time a defensive trigger. Also you’ll swap between turtles to pull of ‘ninjitu’ or just use meter and while they let you customize and the turtles can have any move you want, they don’t have special moves, nor do their weapons effect how they play.
There’s a ‘stealth mechanic’ reminiscent of bad stealth mechanics on the PS2, if the enemy is yellow and you hit them, boom gone, but if they’re red you’ll have to hit them a few times before they go away.
Movement is loose, you can just run anywhere, but it’s hard to walk, and there’s no reason to. You can double jump stupidly high, then parachute down, despite that near as I can tell there’s no fall damage. You can scramble up most walls endlessly.
So IDK this is very much a ‘b’ game. It’s quick and fun to play through. There’s an interesting achievement list that if you were to go back I bet could push this game and make it more than just the sum of it’s parts.
But it has the look of the modern comic, just not the writing. It’s a dumb little beat 'em up, with a layer of charm.
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I mean that’s basically a bug
It’s not as bad as scripted destruction scenes that the player can sit through because they don’t feel like participating; Naughty Dog catches most of those with one-way gates triggered in cutscenes. (By the way, I love how they treated willful player tardiness in the Uncharted 4 heist – as the bidding price goes up and up and up and Sully gets more and more desparate!)
I don’t disagree that they’re building the illusion of a one-way ride but I think the stealth play forces them to open up their environments in a useful way; I don’t really like the game but I like playing it more than Uncharted.
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well, the gamey parts of the last of us are very gamey, and that’s definitely part of the reason the game works so well, i think, even if it’s disguised. also naughty dog is very good at nudging players through and around stuff like this, generally. it’s practically part of their schtick. also also, if you’re really only halfway through the game, then i think it probably has a few tricks left, and maybe you should slow roll that verdict a little bit.