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monster on a stick posted:BEGONE BUNDLE GAMES This is a bad opinion.
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monster on a stick posted:NULLED: Crazy Taxi - Crazy bad, I guess this is an old arcade game from the '50s. Not very fun. what the gently caress
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Breadallelogram posted:what the gently caress He asked himself if this is all he wants, and when he didn't get a resounding "YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH" from his inside It will all just happen again, way down the line. But not to me. 
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Jordan7hm posted:This is a bad opinion. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying the game is bad, it's just that it's a shmup with an interesting story besides kill aliens. I'm not that much of a shmup guy, I certainly will never play to finish the campaign thus nulled. I nulled some other games that I thought had potential like Cargo Commander under the "will I ever actually finish the campaign, or even load it up for fun on a regular basis." Rupert Buttermilk posted:He asked himself if this is all he wants, and when he didn't get a resounding "YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH" from his inside More like - it's a driving game, there are a lot of driving games out there that let you gently caress around with different cars with missions/races in San Francisco while running over pedestrians like Burnout Paradise or Driver: San Francisco (or GTA for that matter.) I'd honestly never heard of it before playing it, didn't realize it was a classic, but sometimes those classics are just that. I loved the original Civilization when it came out but would never play it now. VVVV - I'm not saying it is bad. I'm saying that there are a lot of these types of games now and you kind of have to pick which ones you like. I play LYNE for my chillax puzzle experience. monster on a stick fucked around with this message at 15:04 on May 22, 2015 |
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monster on a stick posted:NULLED: Splice - Art puzzle game, too many of these nowadays What the heck. e: not saying nulling isn't valid sometimes you just don't feel like a type of game but Splice is real good
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Oh, I know. It's an arcade game that got a fairly accurate Dreamcast port, followed by ports to every platform imaginable after that. And my entire response was a play on the Offspring songs that used to play over and over again in the original version.
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:Oh, I know. It's an arcade game that got a fairly accurate Dreamcast port, followed by ports to every platform imaginable after that. The Offspring songs are cut from the steam version, so I don't blame him for not getting it.
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Breadallelogram posted:The Offspring songs are cut from the steam version, so I don't blame him for not getting it. Yeah, I know, hence why I said 'used to play...'. I figured that's what the deal was. ANYWAY, yeah, Crazy Taxi was, a long time ago, crazy fun. I still love it.
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Finally I'm not the only one being called out for nulling good/classic games 
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Fart of Presto posted:Finally I'm not the only one being called out for nulling good/classic games What's up, too many games bro  For the rest of yas, I'm tempted to post my backlog so you can go "whaaaa you haven't played Psychonauts/Just Cause 2/Fallout NV/Overlord: Raising Hell" and I can say "yeah, maybe I won't now  "
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Psychonauts isn't that great now that we're past it, just watch a youtube of the milkman level. Not gonna post a bunch of details right now, but I've beaten 46 games so far this year and only acquired 41 new ones. Progress.
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The problem with Psychonauts is that there hasn't been a good 3d platformer on PC since it (I don't consider Tiny & Big to be that great), so it continues to be held as the standard when it pales in comparison to some of the iconic 3D platformers out there. We're supposed to be getting some indie 3D platformers in the future but they all look stinky to me
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Psychonauts is the same as literally every Tim Schafer game: really average but funny, smartly written, and visually unique. Psychonauts has a lot of clever moments hidden away, some genuinely great world building, and a cast of characters that's more memorable than most games I've played. It's okay by 3D platformer standards but there's absolutely nothing like it.
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Psychonauts isn't quite as good as some of the best 3D platformers out there but it's a genre I'm really into and I still have a lot of fun with it every time I play through it. I'd say it's still the best game Double Fine's put out. I have some hope that Yooka-Laylee will set the standard for 3D platformers on PC, if only because I really love Banjo-Tooie and Rare games in general. (even if GoldenEye's mid-to-late game level design makes me want to punch something)
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I really love how unabashedly the Yooka-Laylee kickstarter is basically just "pay us to make another Banjo-Kazooie game, we just had to change the names around because copyright".
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Looking forward to cameos from Kammy O, Chrystal, Rosanna Light, and Kanker.
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BEGONE BUNDLE GAMES NULLED: The Basement Collection - I'm not a big fan of Super Meat Boy or it's style, and while these small games can be different from SMB as far as gameplay, none of them really grabbed me. NULLED: Blades of Time - Not as bad as the prequel apparently, but there are better games out there with "blade" in the title like Blade Kitten. NULLED: Cities in Motion 2 - A mass transit planning simulator. What's the fun of a city simulator without Godzilla coming to wreck your stuff, I ask? NULLED: Closure - Puzzle platformer where you play with light instead of dimensions or waiting two hours on a cloud or whatever, enough of these, begone! NULLED: Depths of Peril - A pretty bad ARPG with bots around killing things along with you. Awful graphics, controls, just a bad bad bad game. NULLED: Eets Munchies - One of those puzzle games made by people who want to recapture the magic of Lemmings. Got old very quick. NULLED: Enclave - Sweet Jesus no you can't get away with 30 minute openings explaining everything in the world especially when it boils down to "there's a bad dude but you're a good dude, go kill the bad dude" or something like that. I guess Dragon Age: Origins did but it was still somewhat succinct compared to this. NULLED: The Guild 2 - a medieval peasant or burger simulator but I have Crusader Kings 2 Also the tutorial starts out by saying "Pay attention!" which of course is an invitation to freely ignore the tutorial especially when it doesn't actually stop you from loving around.NULLED: Intrusion 2 - Jetpack shooter I guess where you kill alien robots and their Russian friends or something. Controls horribly and I found a reproducible crash the first time I launched it (like before you actually start a game) which is always a good sign for a quality game. NULLED: Karateka - Brawl versus one guy, run up five steps, brawl with someone else, etc. forever and ever. NULLED: Leviathan: Warships - Meh, tutorial makes the game look dull. NULLED: Sacred Citadel - Mash X to kill etc. Has co-op but I have no friends and on solo it's kind of dull. NULLED: Savant - Ascent - Twin stick shooter, big thing is that it's hard but so what, there are good games whose main thing is that they are hard. If I wanted to spend time on one of those games, I'd go play Dark Souls. NULLED: Snapshot - Puzzle platformer where the gimmick is taking photos of objects (like a crate) to move it somewhere else so you can jump and whatever. Seemed to get repetitive very quickly. NULLED: SpaceForce: Rogue Universe - a space shooter game, no longer for sale for mystery reasons, meh. NULLED: Starseed Pilgrim - Art game NULLED: Syder Arcade - Actually a decent shmup! Nice graphics, responsive, reasonably fun. Won't be playing it  but not bad.NULLED: Tsukumogami - Japanese only. Boku wa nihongo o wakarimasu, neeeeee? NULLED: Vanguard Princess - Japanese fighting game featuring girls, panties, and vending machines. NULLED: War of the Human Tanks - all I know is that at one point I got tired of the anime visual novel poo poo, held down the "enter" key, and it took about a minute for it to exhaust all the kawaiiiiii poo poo to get to actual gameplay. gently caress that. NULLED: Zafehouse: Diaries - Kind of an interesting premise, a bit like State of Decay but without the zombie fighting, it's all base-relationship building. Not my thing though.
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monster on a stick posted:NULLED: Savant - Ascent - Twin stick shooter, big thing is that it's hard but so what, there are good games whose main thing is that they are hard. If I wanted to spend time on one of those games, I'd go play Dark Souls. (I don't care about whether or not you null games. I null stuff I don't want to play too. This is a comment about your comment, not your nulling of the game.) This game is not hard, and I'm pretty sure it's not trying to be hard. It's an arcade game that takes like 30 minutes to beat (on the normal level or whatever, that's when I dropped it). It's got good music. That's basically it.
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Jordan7hm posted:(I don't care about whether or not you null games. I null stuff I don't want to play too. This is a comment about your comment, not your nulling of the game.)
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Closure is pretty decent as far as puzzle games go, I liked the "platform doesn't exist if not lit" concept. They managed to take it to some interesting places. Savant Ascent is a really quick play. I agree about Intrusion 2, it looked cooler in the trailer then it actually plays: slow and clunky. ADDED: Retro Game Crunch (for the two Metroidvanias), Haunt the House: Terrortown NOW PLAYING: Valiant Hearts, MGR Revengeance
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monster on a stick posted:NULLED: Cities in Motion 2 - A mass transit planning simulator. What's the fun of a city simulator without Godzilla coming to wreck your stuff, I ask? I feel like this is ultimately why I didn't play much of Cities Skylines. I'm not much beyond mediocre at actually building the city, and I have massive issues with traffic, but there's nothing to really get in my way that I'm not immediately given the tools to manage. I feel like I'd just have a lot more fun and be a lot more invested if something occasionally exploded and I had to deal with that. Bring back disasters in city-builders.
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Quest For Glory II posted:Closure is pretty decent as far as puzzle games go, I liked the "platform doesn't exist if not lit" concept. They managed to take it to some interesting places. I thought Contrast did a better job with a similar concept. It's a fun puzzle platform game if you ever have the chance. (And the Contrast guys are doing a Kickstarter for a game called We Happy Few which... well it's going to be different)
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monster on a stick posted:
Yo, If this is a thing you want to play I would be willing to coop it with you, I'm a sucker for beat'em ups, and I also have nobody to play it with.
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Quest For Glory II posted:We're supposed to be getting some indie 3D platformers in the future but they all look stinky to me Grow Home is real good. Also Intrusion 2 loving owns.
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It's been a while, 4 months. And my old pace for ~1 game a week hasn't kept up. That said it had to do with being less bored IRL so that's nice. Beat: Blackwell Unbound I'm intrigued by the story even more now, and the gameplay improvements are very pleasant. Onwards to nr3. Beat: Fallout: New Vegas - Dead Money [DLC] I liked what this DLC tried to do, and once you get to the casino it's really good. But it was just a tad too annoying for me to fully enjoy. If I do replay New Vegas I'll cheat my way through the first half, since I did love the second. Beat: Fallout: New Vegas - Lonesome Road [DLC] This DLC on the other hand was amazing to me, the vista's where incredible, setpieces are fun and while the motivation set by the villain is a bit weird at times I did enjoy what it was going for. It also gave me an amazing duster to look like a badass in. Beat: Fallout: New Vegas Not much to say, I loved this game and I already re-modded it for a slower replay where I want to see more stuff I missed. Beat: Broforce  Are you a bad enough bro to kill some terr'rists and liberate a country with explosions?Seriously though, while still in Early Acess this game is a ton of fun, and hilariously broken at times in the best ways. Can't wait for more content. Beat: Assassin's Creed Rogue I have yet to play Unity, but this game was great. You know it's just Black Flag 1.5 and it doesn't pretend to be much more. The NA/Canada wilderness doesn't make any geological sense but it's a blast to play through. I feel like this one could have been stellar if they made it the "main" game in 2014 and put Unity off for another year. Beat: Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance A really, really good Spectacle Fighter, It hasn't uprooted DMC4 for me yet because of some minor annoyances (that drat stick-wiggle mechanic) but it's a blast to play and ridiculous in the best ways. I am still way too much in love with the whole "Revengeance" part of the title. Beat: Grand Theft Auto V Great game, I liked GTa4 and episodes myself but this one blows it away. Not perfect by any means but the PC version runs great and the game is just a ton of fun. Beat: Batman: Arkham City Bit late on this one, since I owned it for like 2 years now, but this game is better over Arkham Asylum in all but a few areas. I would have gone for 100% if I wasn't so bad at the combat I guess. Beat: Batman: Arkham City - Harley Quinn's Revenge Fun, if short, story DLC. I got my fix playing as Robin in the challenge maps but still a nice bit of content. Now Playing: Batman: Arkham Origins - Indeed a bit less smooth compared to AC, but so far I like it. Cities: Skylines - Over 100hours here, but they added tunnels recently so time to dive into it again. Pillars of Eternity - Gift from Syron, and looking forward to playing more of it. Zedd fucked around with this message at 13:47 on May 23, 2015 |
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SolidSnakesBandana posted:Nah man don't feel bad for looking up those quests. Also, New Vegas (the city, not the game) is kinda hyped up as far as content goes. When you first get there you this feeling of "drat, now the game REALLY begins????" but in fact you just go in for like 10-20 minutes (unless you start doing the casino quests there) and then leave to go do other things. Thanks for the tips, I'm currently pretty close to where I left off. Snuck into the area in Boulder City where all the Great Khans were holed up, laid a minefield for them, and watched them blow themselves up. After I accidentally blew up the captives/myself and had to reload. Stealth+Explosives is surprisingly fun, if a little hard to pull off. Then I tried to explore Vault 34 and ran out of ammo with how many drat enemies are in that area. I'm actually trying to do a run without companions this time around, since I remember getting pretty aggravated with their pathfinding the last time I played. They also tended to just up and disappear on me whenever I would fast-travel and I would have to hunt them down. Besides, I think having companions will tend to blow my cover more often than not. And it's hard enough keeping me from blowing my own stupid rear end up rather than have to worry about blowing THEM up as well.
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BEGONE BUNDLE GAMES NULLED: 99 Spirits - Guess the enemy? Very repetitive and not very fun. BEATEN: Abyss: The Wraiths of Eden - Totally not a Bioshock hidden object game. No really, just because it's a big art deco city called Eden underwater which claims to host an enlightened society and has been taken over by monsters doesn't mean anything. Seriously the plot has nothing to do with Bioshock, they just ripped off a bunch of the look. MAYBE LATER: Alien Zombie Megadeath - Actually kind of fun, any game where you can dress up as a snowman and shoot zombie birds cannot by definition be a bad game. I may eventually just install this for when I just want to shoot stuff up. NULLED: Amnesia: The Dark Descent - I get what this game is going for, it seems to do it quite well, but I get sick playing first-person games. (The only ones I've been able to get through are Portal and DX:HR, and the latter only because you could go into third person when taking cover.) Sad because this one I could get into. FINISHED: Audiosurf - Fun while it lasted but got tired of it and haven't touched it in many months. NULLED: Ben There, Dan That!/Time Gentlemen, Please! - The humor is ok, but it's not entertaining enough for me to want to finish even though it's short. I've given this a few chances since I got it a few years ago and it never stuck. NULLED: Borealis - You control a dot while five thousand comets are screaming to kill you, but the game tells you to relax because why the gently caress wouldn't you relax when it's a one hit death. It's like one of the devs wanted to make a chillax game and another wanted to make anything but. NULLED: Constant C - Puzzle-platformer where the mechanic is a time bubble around your character, kind of like that level in Braid with the ring, only you can't drop the ring and the platforming controls are awful. NULLED: Darwinia - I'm not exactly sure what this is, but it's not fun. NULLED: Drakensang - Just seems like generic fantasy RPG? Just from the initial playthrough and reading the reviews, it doesn't seem like anything special, and I have other RPGs (like PoE) that I really need to get to. NULLED: Epic Battle Fantasy 4 - One of those FF style games. I'm really not into them unless they are exceptional, and this one isn't. Maybe if I really dig The Last Remnant I'll take a second look at this. BEATEN: Grim Legends: The Forsaken Bride - another hidden object game, these are getting kind of old, especially when you have to be pixel-perfect to find some stupid object in those "hey find 57 objects in this one screen" sections that is invisible otherwise. Also hire another goddamn voice actress. NULLED: Lone Survivor: The Director's Cut - not my thing. NULLED: Monaco - Looks ok but no co-op games please. NULLED: Natural Selection 2 - first person sorry. NULLED: NEO Scavenger - Meh survival game. NULLED: Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising - Meh CoD clone, also yes I'm sure the US would get involved in a Russia vs. China shooting war, immersion ruined. NULLED: Operation Flashpoint: Red River - Requires GFWL. You know, maybe it still works in single player but I really don't care, and as I've mentioned before I can't do first-person games. NULLED: Project Night - survival horror game which isn't very scary because zombies do the limbo in front of you while you scratch your head.  NULLED: RADical ROACH Deluxe Edition - Hey a scroll shooter where you control a roach. Hey controller support. Hey you use the D-pad to move WTF NULLED: Red Faction: Armageddon - The gameplay isn't bad, the "destroy your environment" seems done well, but it just seems - bland? Generic third person linear space shooter isn't a bad thing but it's not a good thing either. NULLED: Saint's Row 2 - I will be perfectly honest, I did not launch this game, but I have played the first part of SR3 and hated it. All other GTA-style games pale in comparison to Sleeping Dogs and Red Dead Redemption. NULLED: Silent Storm Sentinels - I tried the tutorial which didn't really give me a guided tutorial at all, just a guy on a screen with clunky controls. BEATEN: Solar 2 - Fun little game, there are missions but I just went straight for being a black hole and wiped out the universe NULLED: Sonic Adventure DX - No lie I would have been all over this if I was a Dreamcast owner and lived through the glory days of Sonic. But I wasn't, so this game doesn't really mean anything to me. I had fun playing it though. NULLED: Splatter - Blood Red Edition - Does a twin-stick film noir zombie shooter appeal to you? Then really this is the game for you, it's pretty good. I can't say that I am and would play it to completion, but I really do need to clean out my library so sorry dudes. 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monster on a stick posted:NULLED: Saint's Row 2 - I will be perfectly honest, I did not launch this game, but I have played the first part of SR3 and hated it. All other GTA-style games pale in comparison to Sleeping Dogs and Red Dead Redemption. Saints Row 2 is absolutely nothing like Saints Row 3. Please play video games before you decide you never want to play them.
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monster on a stick posted:NULLED: Silent Storm Sentinels - I tried the tutorial which didn't really give me a guided tutorial at all, just a guy on a screen with clunky controls.  Excuse me, but Silent Storm is a Good Game e: just saying you might be throwing the baby out with the bathwater by giving up on some of these games before actually playing them dhamster fucked around with this message at 23:37 on May 24, 2015 |
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The Colonel posted:Saints Row 2 is absolutely nothing like Saints Row 3. Please play video games before you decide you never want to play them. How is it different then? dhamster posted:
I didn't say it was a bad game. I said the tutorial wasn't very good. Unfortunately I'm trying to clear off a massive backlog of games I haven't touched and yeah games have to grab me right out of the gate otherwise into the nulled bucket they go. Each of the games I've nulled will have somebody, somewhere insisting it is a Good Game and I've missed out, but I still have close to 80 games that I haven't touched with a good portion of those ones I have paid actual money for.
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monster on a stick posted:How is it different then? It's clear the developer originally tried to imitate GTA, but after SR2 they just said "gently caress it" and went crazy overboard. I love the later incarnations of SR, but SR2 was also pretty fun. Most people who swear it's Gods gift to gamers, especially praise if for its "dress up doll" capabilities. Give it a go if you are in need of an open world shooter, but don't feel bad for skipping it.
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So I installed a windows update last week that caused my computer to poo poo the bed. So I said gently caress it and did a clean install and as such, had to reinstall everything on my computer. The good news is that I am now only going to install games I am playing through. Beaten: Batman Arkham City - Man, what a fun game. I really enjoyed this one, although I am going to admit to not exploring AC very deeply, I need to do the DLC, and I am going to take a short break and then maybe do NG+. I don't think I am going to 100% but we will see. Currently Playing: 10,000,000 - I like this so far, I'm about an hour into it. Not much to say beyond that. GalCiv 2 - Been feeling the need to play a 4x so I figured this was as good as any. I started this a long time ago, but never got to far into it, so we will see how it goes. Freddie Fish and Luther's Maze Madness - I have young kids that LOVE the Humongous Games, so I am playing through this one with them. Highly recommend getting the big bundle during the summer sale if you have young kids.
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Fart of Presto posted:It's a slightly less serious GTA clone, and while the PC port was bad, installing the Gentlemen of the Row mod fixes most, if not all bugs plus adds tons of customization stuff. Fine, I'll give it a try, though it may have to wait since I'm currently playing Pillars of Eternity, and I'm a completionist so that may take a while
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BEATEN: Wild ARMs - Hasn't aged the best, although I still think the 2D engine looks great. The combat, there's just not a lot to it. I don't have much more to say even though this was a 40+ hr game (that I beat in 20 hrs), so that I guess tells you how I ultimately felt about it? BEATEN: Trine 2 - Absolutely gorgeous art direction, as everyone knows. The physics were a little odd. I never really knew if I was doing what the game wanted me to or if I was brute forcing or cheating my way through levels. Summoning planks in the air and then jumping on them as they fell and jumping again was my favorite trick. BEATEN: Valiant Hearts - The story was merely okay, I think I was more impressed at how they depicted the senseless death of the war than the actual story of the main characters. As far as the gameplay components, I wasn't a huge fan. It's an adventure game but it's completely brainless. It felt more like doing errands than progressing through a game. BEATEN: Paradox Lost, Super Clew Land - Two Metroidvanias from the Retro Game Crunch collection (the only reason I bought the pack, so I consider it complete). Super Clew Land is an interesting experimental vania where you are a tiny creature that eats and evolves to gain new abilities to reach new areas. Paradox Lost was a meatier metroid-esque experience where you have a time gun and warp between three time periods saving time prisoners. I ended up beating both in about an hour each, but Paradox Lost was only at 25%, so getting to 100% on that one would probably take about 3-4 hrs which is a typical Metroidvania length. So, pretty good value on the whole, especially with the other games in the pack (I'm intrigued by Shuten, a samurai shmup where you steal weapons). NOW PLAYING: Advance Wars. And Metal Gear Rising Revengeance, the 200th game to beat or bring near completion on Steam since June 2014. About halfway through the game right now. It's been a looong year. For this coming June I will take it a little easier and focus on my longer games, like-- well I'll just list them: IN JUNE: Talos Principle, Shadowrun Dragonfall, Half Minute Hero 2, LISA, Fortune Summoners BACKLOG STATS: Steam: 332 of 590 (56.3%) Console/Non-Steam: 36 of 84 (42.9%) Steam Games Beaten Since Backlog Quest Started (June 2014): 199 (33.7% of total backlog) Total Games Beaten Since Backlog Quest Started (June 2014): 235 (34.9% of entire PC and console gaming backlog)
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And now.. BEATEN: Metal Gear Rising Revegeance - I give it a B grade. First half absolutely spectactular, second half a big disappointment. Cutscenes, great all the way through. Armstrong's cutscenes? The best. The Armstrong FIGHT? Lame as poo poo. Having to repeat fight two bosses in a row? Boring as poo poo. Sundowner? Easy as poo poo. The two following chapters? Short as poo poo. I don't know how to feel about it. I guess it's good that it ended when it did. But both MGR:R and, oddly, Marlow Briggs, have the same thing in common which is that they both start at lightning speed and it's amazing, but because a game's a marathon and not a sprint, it can't keep that energy going through the entire campaign. BEATEN: Haunt the House Terrortown - More of a toy than game, the object is to scare all the people out of four locations (museum, ship, theater, mansion?). Almost like a Ghost Trick for kids, you're a ghost that possesses objects that each have different animations that unlock as the scare-meter fills up. There are a ton of objects you can possess, and the animation is really nice and the art style is super cute. It's just an hour long game that's a sequel to an old free Flash game, so I wouldn't pay full price for it (and I didn't), but it was fun. BEATEN: Phantom Breaker: Battle Grounds - I'm not a brawler afficianado, but this is far and above the best brawler I've played on Steam, better than Double Dragon Neon certainly. The combat is so responsive and fluid, that combined with progressive levelling and skill additions, you become practically a whirling tornado of fists, swords and kicks. Also can I say it's got actually GOOD chiptune music? The chiptune music is actually good, which is not something I can say for a ton of Steam games with chiptune music. Here's the big rear end list of games I've beaten since June 1st 2014. I'll just edit this post if I beat any more by Monday: quote:999 ADDED: Outland, Broken Sword 5, Qbeh-1, Terrian Saga: KR-17, Vessel JUNE GAMES: heavy hitter month!! Shadow of Mordor, Sherlock Holmes Crimes & Punishments, Shadowrun Dragonfall, LISA, Talos Principle FINAL TALLY: Steam Games Completed/Near-Completed (Total): 335 of 597 (56.1%) Steam Games Completed/Near-Completed Since June 1 2014: 202 Console/Non-Steam Games Completed Since June 1 2014: 36 of 86 (41.8%) The 7th Guest fucked around with this message at 06:33 on May 31, 2015 |
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Terrian Saga's not really worth your time, it's pretty mediocre.
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Beat: Grand Theft Auto 5. I came in with quite low expectations of this given the controversy around the writing and themes therein. In the end, I thought this was the best of the series. The stunning graphics, solid gameplay, attention to detail and a surprisingly good story make this my favourite entry in the series and my 8th favourite game ever (yeah, I have a list  ). Managed to spend some 60 hours on it and I would go for the 100% but GTA5 is no different to it's predecessors in that there are many, many collectibles and no way of finding out where they are other than just finding them. It stops you having an rear end-Creed style map carpeted with icons but I would have appreciated a short series of missions to unlock them on the map Bully-style. Also it's never stated clearly what you need to do for 100% which I always thought was an anachronism rather than something that adds to the game. Maybe teenage me with time but no money would have liked this.Anyway, given what I'd read in many chin-stroking articles about whether it's really OK to enjoy GTA, I'm not sure what I expected but I got another GTA game with not much out of the ordinary other than the 2edgy4me torture scene. There's definitely the sense the GTA thinks it's cleverer than it really is. It leans more toward parody of real life than the intended satire of it. I didn't play much online, I could lose weeks to it if not for the fact that like most games these days, it goes by XP over Elo/TrueSkill. I miss the old Halo games, when going up a level means you performed better at the game, not that you sunk another 3 hours into it and doing badly meant you lost ranks rather than being temporarily denied gratification. I'm now back on the brilliant Kerbal Space Program with even harder settings than my previous harder-than-hard, having added FAR (realistic aero) and RemoteTech (you have to have a comm relay to control satellites and a time delay instead of it working by magic) to my usual array of things like Life Support (having to supply your Kerbals with food and water and air). I've balanced it out with some future-tech parts packs on the business end of the tech tree. Also every time I start reaching beyond Kerbin and its moons, a new update would drop, so now the game is out I can keep this save forever. I don't really play more than 50 hours a month even if I have nothing else to do because any more is just too intensive, I thought I'd rack up 5-6 hours a day while my girlfriend was away last week but I just get fatigued. So the games are really piling up now, I really ought to finish my Crusader Kings 2 game and some serious time sinks like Just Cause 3 and Dirt Rally are looming large. I also have 26 games in my wishlist, some of them are ones I'll try if the price looks right for my boredom level like Frozen Cortex and the Talos Principle, there are few not-so-groundbreaking but I know I'll like if I have the time like rear end Creed Rogue and Arkham Knight. Also throw in a few early-access-please-be-good games like Take on Mars, Habitat and Maia and my calendar is pretty full for the next 2 years.
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I went through yet another pile of garbage and a few highlights, and nulled most of it. Nulled: 99 Waves to Die A no-nonsense twin stick shooter. Power-ups pop up here and there while enemies keep spawning in waves. My guess is, it goes on for 99 times. Nulled: Accidental Runner There is a reason this game is not for sale in the Steam store anymore. It's amazingly bad! Like really, really, really, really bad. But the developer is kind of cool in that if you bought it through an Indie Royale bundle and have linked that bundle to your Desura account, he'll give you a free Steam key (offer valid until June 30th). I did that, installed the game and my head exploded after 2 minutes. Nulled: Air Control This is either an elaborate prank, and avant-garde comment on our mass transportation system or a clueless developer getting his first project through Greenlight by mistake. Nulled: Alien Zombie Megadeath A 2D platform shooter. Typical bundle fodder. Nulled: BookWorm Deluxe An old PopCap classic. Just like any other word game puzzle, it really helps if your first language is English or you don't play it late in the evening when your mind is all mushy (hey I should have used "mushy"!) Finished: dUpLicity ~Beyond the Lies~, Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos, East Tower - Akio I have so much fun with these Visual Novels where you can set all the dialog to auto-skip. Within 10 minutes I can see 2 or 3 endings and only do a couple of choices each time, and I have absolutely no idea what's going on. Too bad emoticons and backgrounds prices for these types of games are not that high anymore. Nulled: El Matador Whoa, janky Max Payne overload! Bullet time, over-the-top bad dialog and plenty of 80s action flick action. Grab it next time it's on sale for a buck. Finished: Escape the Museum Really old school Hidden Object game with a bit too much pixel hunting and blurred graphics in the 800*600 resolution game. "Finished": Fine Sweeper Mine Sweeper with lives and a few refinements. I got this through a bundle, otherwise I would never have checked it out, but it's pretty drat good. The game is still the same, but the fact you have lives, right clicking a number will auto clear everything close by and some moves are still 100% guesswork, makes this basically Mine Sweeper++ I marked it finished as I got as far as I cared to go before getting stuck (level 27). Finished: Grand Theft Auto V The first GTA game I've ever finished and I had a blast doing it. The island itself is a work of art, especially when I realized so much of the city you'll never really see, when you zoom past it. But jump out of your vehicle and just walk around and notice all those tiny details. Pretty drat impressive. I tried a bit of online, but didn't care one bit. Could be GTA fatigue setting in after playing SP for 70+ hours. Nulled: Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number I was so looking forward to this but wow what a let down. Music and style is still the same, which I love, but there are a lot of design decisions that are just plan bad in this one, like the huge rooms, where you suddenly is killed without being able to see who did it and from where. Enemies turning around and spotting you/killing you, no matter what you do. Enemies getting stuck in the landscape and still being able to kill you. Finished: Pixel Puzzles 2: Birds I honestly don't know why, but I really enjoy these jigsaw puzzle games (except for the Zombie one). Nulled: Spoko and Poko Do you remember that old Game & Watch game where you had to save people from a burning building by bouncing them off a trampoline? This is like an updated, retarded, badly controlled version, where you have to bounce rocks into your mining cart while collecting gold pieces. Ugh. Nulled: Star Trek Lens Flare: The Co-Op Game, starring Chris Pine and that guy from Heroes. Don't play this in single player mode as your AI buddy is worse at pathfinding than Superfly Johnson. Nulled: Steam Heroes A Match 3 game with a steam punk story and voice work by the developers. Yes, it's that bad! Nulled: The Talos Principle I know, I know... But it's just so drat boring. The puzzles were okay but I just didn't feel it. I guess part of it is also interacting with the terminal but I found that to be incredibly annoying. Most of all it reminded me of Portal, and I have to confess, I only finished Portal 1 and 2 because I felt I almost had to, due to them being highly praised and living meme generators etc. This one... nothing. I guess I'm dead inside?
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