|
I decided the summer sale would be a good time to clear out some of my backlog before buying anything: BEATEN: Mad Max - Arkham combat with cool car combat in the Mad Max world. Enjoyed it a lot. BEATEN: Victor Vran - I liked the unique combat system this game has that does something different from the usual ARPG. Plus you're Geralt of Riva. BEATEN: Telltale's Game of Thrones - Standard Telltale visual novel. I enjoyed it, but it's not as good as the others with it's cliffhanger ending and how tightly it's plot is woven in with the show. BEATEN: Painkiller: Hell & Damnation - It's an ok old school shooter. I had fun gunning down waves and waves of demons. BEATEN: Star Wars: Starfighter - This game is garbage. I only have it from buying the Star Wars Humble Bundle. The first person camera is awful. The missions are laughable except for the last one. Which I had to turn God Mode on for. At least it was short. Playing: Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War 2 - Base campaign only. Interesting mix of RTS and RPG. Playing on easy so I'm just slugging it out instead of doing a lot of tactical stuff. This leaves 25 games in my backlog. OhFunny fucked around with this message at 03:38 on Jul 4, 2016 |
#
¿
Jul 4, 2016 01:27
|
|
|
|
| # ¿ May 14, 2024 20:38 |
|
|
Beaten: Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II - Like I said before a fun tactical RTS. Beaten: Left 4 Dead 2 - I played this solo and found the levels repetitive and the combat a bit dull. Broken: Max Payne - Max won't jump for the final gap in the prologue of Chapter 3. Despite a couple dozen attempts I can't fix or get around the problem. I'm abandoning the game. The combat was decent. I found the grim noir style of the game over the top. Purchased: Dishonored - Picked this up at the Steam Summer Sale. Playing: Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne
|
|
#
¿
Jul 9, 2016 21:46
|
|
|
MrSlam posted:To blindly defend one of my favorites, I think the game hits its stride in multiplayer with friends. The challenge and variety comes from the shittiness/effectiveness of your teammates and the roll of the die. I certainly see why there'd be a more enjoyable experience in playing a multiplayer shooter with multiple people. Broken: Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne - I will say Max Payne 2 is an improvement over first game in all respects. The smoother control and gameplay being the biggest standouts to me. Unfortunately like the first game I ran into a bug that halted my progress. The NPC you need to escort through Part 3: Chapter 4 is hitting an invisible line it can't cross despite trying too. I'm moving on to Max Payne 3.
|
|
#
¿
Jul 10, 2016 02:30
|
|
|
Beaten: Saints Row: The Third - I'll start off by saying I liked SR4 more than 3 due having superpowers that let me wreak havoc like a supervillain across the city. SR3 was still a fun, over the top, ride though that had me chuckling at different points. Beaten: Max Payne 3 - The gameplay is great. I love the bullet time and the new recovery mechanic. The graphics are nice and colorful varied Brazil is a welcome departure from gritty samey New York. When it comes to problems though the Max Payne series hits 3 for 3 at me. Although thankfully it's not an issue that will effect those without 21:9 monitors or prevent you from beating the game. What happened to me was when a cutscene would play, instead of pillarboxing to 16:9 on my 21:9 monitor, they pillarboxed to 9:16 as if recorded on a smartphone camera or shrunk to 800x600. I skipped through the ones I could, so I only got the board strokes of the story. Playing next: Saints Row 2
|
|
#
¿
Jul 12, 2016 05:58
|
|
|
Abandoned: Saint's Row 2: I found the second Saint's Row gameplay to be dated, but the biggest driver in giving up and throwing it into the pile was having to do repetitive secondary quests to unlock the actual story missions. Abandoned: Star Wars: Empire at War: This is a bad RTS with bad building and unit control. Beaten: Dishonored: I really love the industrial/magic setting and atmosphere. It a setting we don't see a lot. I went with a High Chaos playthrough, so I approached it more as a combat game, instead of a stealth one. I'll probably try for a Low Chaos run closer to the sequel's release.
|
|
#
¿
Jul 26, 2016 21:23
|
|
|
Abandoned: Crypt of the NecroDancer - I'm really bad at this rhythmic roguelike. I simply can't progress very far into it without dying. Abandoned: The Last Remnant - The protagonist is a super annoying JRPG cliche and I found the "union" combat system poorly thought out and the story uncompelling. Abandoned: PAYDAY: The Heist - I didn't enjoy Left 4 Dead 2 and this game is similar to that, so after playing the first level I'm throwing it in the abandoned pile. Abandoned: The Witcher: Enhanced Edition - I really enjoyed Witcher 2 and loved Witcher 3. The Witcher 1 though is to dated and complex for me to enjoy it or attempt to slag through it.
|
|
#
¿
Aug 3, 2016 07:45
|
|
|
Eldred posted:The character Bard is unlocked by default and takes out the rhythm component. Maybe give him a try? I gave it a shot, but I got stomped on just the same. I've never play roguelikes before. I think the gene just isn't for me. Abandoned: Devil May Cry 4 - It's an okay hit and slash, but I just don't feel the desire to play it. It's not hitting that inch. Abandoned: Dragon Age: Origins - I've found nothing I like about this game. I don't like the characters, I don't like the setting, I don't like the combat, the graphics, the lore. I don't know what it is. I loved KOTOR, Jade Empire, the Mass Effect series. Maybe I'm seeing past the game and seeing the played out Bioware formula? Maybe the generic fantasy set just blows? I hammered away at it for 12 hours. Every starting area with every class and race. I know a lot of people like Dragon Age: Origins, but I don't see it. Abandoned: Divinity: Original Sin - I killed the entire starting town and stopped. These older CRPGs aren't my thing. This brings me to 45 games beaten. 9 games abandoned. 10 games in progress.
|
|
#
¿
Aug 4, 2016 05:28
|
|
|
Beaten: Pillars of Eternity - I beat this on Story Mode. I thought the story was serviceable, but only one companion really clicked with me. The art is beautiful though and the music is very nice. I'm not really a fan of the combat system and the party size. I also was uncertain on just what the stats did and what they affected. Beaten: DOOM - This was really fun to play through. My first FPS games were MoH and CoD and this departure from that formula is very refreshing. The game also gorgeous and wonderfully optimized. I also love how the DOOM Marine reacts to dialogue by smashing everything. Beaten: Wolfenstein: The Old Blood - Much like DOOM and The New Order I had an enjoyable time with The Old Blood. Recently Purchased: Batman: Arkham Asylum & City - I played these on the Xbox 360 years ago and decided to pick them up from the Humble Store Summer Sale. Love these games. Backlog: - Final Fantasy VIII, Final Fantasy X/X-2 Remaster, Grim Dawn, The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky, and Shadowrun: Dragonfall. I have a few hours into all of these. Grim Dawn will likely completed next after Batman.
|
|
#
¿
Sep 24, 2016 22:02
|
|
|
MrSlam posted:I'm playing through Batman: Arkham City right now and I didn't realize the main plotline was so short. I've been breezing through the missions waiting to get to a good stopping point so I could really set in on the numerous side missions and stuff. I went from the Courthouse to the Steel Mill to the Iceberg Lounge to the Subway to Wonder City thinking that it'll be great when I get to go back for the real story once we're done with this stupid cure nonsense. By the time I think we're almost there I'm two missions away from the end of the game. I just finished the main missions and was surprised how accurate this was. I remembered Arkham City being longer when I first played it on the Xbox 360, but I guess that's because I was doing a lot of the side missions and Riddler trophies before moving onto the next main mission.
|
|
#
¿
Oct 1, 2016 04:03
|
|
|
BEATEN: The Ultimate DOOM and DOOM II: Hell on Earth. - Played with GZDOOM source port. Some nice old school action with the granddaddy of FPS. Killing demon and the Moon and Earth and Hell. BEATEN: Spec Ops: The Line - Oh boy is there a line and oh boy do you cross. The deconstruction of the modern military shooter. We watch (and arguably cause) it's main character spiral downward into PTSD-driven delusions and insanity. Unable to tell what's real and fake due an unreliable narrator. One of the few games that isn't horror based that I found engaging, but not fun. There's no heroes here. Only men should have just... stopped.
|
|
#
¿
Jan 19, 2017 03:48
|
|
|
BEATEN: Batman: Arkham Origins. - I beat this before on the Xbox and now, like then, I didn't enjoy it as much as it's fellow Arkham entries. It's serviceable if you love these games, but coming back to it after Arkham Knight certainly didn't do any favors. NULLED: Shadow Warrior (2013) - I played the sequel first the gameplay was to much of a step down to keep me playing. NULLED: Killing Floor 2 - I feel bad nulling this since a friend gifted it to me, but I never got into the Left4Dead-style games and I also don't have anyone else to play a 4-coop game with. NULLED: Resident Evil 4 - The control system is so wonky I couldn't get through the first level. PLAYING: Alien: Isolation - I just finished mission 2 and the atmosphere, sound, lighting, and setting are all excellent so far. I've been kept on the edge of my seat. I turn around at unexpected noises, move slowly into next areas. A game hasn't made me so tense since the first Bioshock when I was younger. PLAYING: Neverwinter Nights 2 - I'm not very far in, mostly due to false starts as I made different characters before settling on one, but so far it's a typical Bioware/Obsidian RPG of the period. Which is a positive for me since I love KOTOR 1&2. One downside which will hopefully fade in time is the control system is clearly made for PCs and more complex than the KOTOR games were.
|
|
#
¿
Apr 16, 2018 23:07
|
|
|
Skwirl posted:There are mods to improve the UI for Neverwinter 2. I did install a mod to make the UI, dialogue boxes, and such bigger since they were to small at 1440p. It's more that the movement and camera feel difficult to control at times. Especially when indoors. I was in Highcliff Castle Ruins and getting my party stuck in the doorways trying to engage enemies. The indoor enivorments definitely feel more designed for the old isometric style. Where I was using the follow character node. The chief annoyance was party members sprinting out of rooms after clearing them and [I]all[/] the way down the hall to fight an enemy out there.
|
|
#
¿
Apr 17, 2018 04:47
|
|
|
InevitableCheese posted:Are you using a controller? I hate to see one of my top five nulled. =( I’ll admit it’s a bit dated, though. I tried it with both controller and mouse and keyboard, but it just didn't feel right :/ BEATEN: BRÜTAL LEGEND: - I decided to knock this one out ahead of the other games I was playing since it is rather short. Which also would be my chief complaint of it. The pacing of the story goes into overdrive after the midway point and rushes straight to the end. This resulted in a criminal under use of Tim Curry who voices the final boss. I understand Double Fine wanted the game to be twice as long as intended, but weren't able to reach that goal. Gameplay-wise this is a hybrid hack'n'slash/RTS with a sand box world. I didn't really enjoy this hybrid system, but it played well enough, and driving through the world was fun. I loved Jack Black's voice acting. Overall it's a decent game.
|
|
#
¿
Apr 21, 2018 08:18
|
|
|
Beaten: Doom 3: BFG Edition. There's not much I can add here that hasn't already been said, Doom 3 is good survival horror game, even if it isn't a traditional Doom game. I felt a certain BioShock vibe from it with the atmosphere, finding audio logs, how the encounters play. It's still a very impressive game visual even though it is fifteen years old. Nulled: Rise of Argonauts. This is a rather sub-par Bioware-style game. I probably would have pushed through and finished it, but it crashed on me twice, and I don't feel like dealing with that. Nulled: Tomb Raider 1-3 I got these in a Humble Bundle some time ago and decided to give them a try. I bounced off them very fast. Mostly due to the controls.
|
|
#
¿
Dec 11, 2019 01:53
|
|
|
Beaten: Super Mario Bros. Beaten: Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels Beaten: Super Mario Bros. 3 Beaten: Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island Beaten: Super Mario 64 DS Beaten: Super Mario 3D Land Beaten: Doom 64 I went on a big binge of the Mario games I never played and had a fun time. I enjoyed the 2D titles more than 64DS. SM3DL was very good as well, although there were some moments where I had difficulty with depth perception due to playing on a N2DS. Doom 64 had some excellent atmosphere, but I had needed to look at a guide at a lot of points since I couldn't figure out the puzzles.
|
|
#
¿
Apr 19, 2020 10:34
|
|
|
Beaten - BDSM: Big Drunk Satanic Massacre A twin stick shooter where you play as the Devil and fight the occupying forces of American tourists who've made Hell a tourist trap and bang some demon ladies on the side. It was a competently done game. Beaten - Frost A survival card game. You need to manage your cards to make it back to camp while surviving wolves, cold, starvation. An interesting concept. Beaten - Resident Evil 2 (2019 remake) The remake of the classic survival horror game. I very much enjoyed this. It's atmosphere, graphics, gameplay, and story are top notch. I don't play a lot of survival horror games and this had me feeling tense and jumping in moments of fright. From those early moments on my first playthrough where I desperately pumped an entire clip of hand rounds into a zombie only to have it rise again to judging weather to push onward into difficult rooms and boss fights without saving during my rank S+ attempt. I highly recommend. Beaten - Dishonored 2 It's been some time since I played Dishonored 1 and as with the first game I cut a bloody swath through the world. I do appreciate how much freedom Arkane Studios has given us and how many different ways scenarios can play out. Like how I solved a puzzle to unlock a door without speaking to any of the NPCs I was told could help me. That was nice even if I solved most of my problems in game with a sword, a gun, and some magic. Beaten - Night of the Full Moon Another card based game with some RPG elements. This time you're Red Riding Hood and you're off in search of your grandma. You can win gold, cards, items from your opponents and shop for HP, MP (maybe not the right term) and card upgrades at shops. There seem to be multiple endings on who it was who kidnapped your grandma. Beaten - Titanfall® 2 The overlooked FPS from the former leading makers of Call of Duty. The gameplay is an interesting blend of FPS, giant mech robot fighting, and parkour. Which integrated together very well during the single campaign and provide a nice fast paced experience. Beaten - Papers, Please This game received critical acclaim when it was released, but I frankly didn't enjoy it. I just didn't enjoy doing the busy work of a border guard. Beaten - Invisible, Inc. A stealth based game in the style of Shadowrun. It was ok. Beaten - MURDERED: SOUL SUSPECT™ A ghost noir game where you need to solve you're own murder. The story is fine, but I think I would have been better had it dropped the need to sneak up on ghost demons and beat them with quicktime events and focused more on solving mysteries. Beaten - Prey This is a game I should have loved completely do to it's story, setting, exploration, just everything. What soured me was it's god awful mouse and keyboard controls. I couldn't rebind things to where I wanted them and made repeated mistakes from clicking the wrong keys. An example would be when I'm in the inventory screen, usually I pres Esc to exit this screen, but Prey forces you use Mouse 2. Which is also bound to you're combat focus ability. So very frequently I would tap Esc, remember I had to hit Mouse 2. Hit Mouse 2 to exit but also trigger the ability and lose the mana points. I know this is an odd thing to rant about. Maybe I'll play New Game + with a controller and see how that is at a later date. Beaten - Resident Evil HD Remake The remake the survival horror game that started the famed series. I sat down and played this one with a guide on Very Easy as I found the limited inventory and not being able to drop items frustrating. The pre-rendered background is still very beautiful and gives the game a great atmosphere. If you like older style survival horror and haven't played this then you should. Beaten - Dragon Quest VIII The usual charm, combat, and straightforward, but with a couple twists story of most Dragon Quest games are all here. If you're a fan of old schools JRPGs or JRPGs in general than I would recommend this for you. Beaten - Radiant Historia: Prefect Chronology Where the aforementioned Dragon Quest carries onward the torch of classic JRPGs. Radiant Historia does something rather different. Here enemies sit on a 3x3 grid and you can (and must if not playing on Story mode) use abilities to knock enemies into each other and chain hits on them. The story has you jump between two different timelines to save the world. On Hold - Middle-earth™: Shadow of War™ and FINAL FANTASY XV WINDOWS EDITION I've placed both these games on hold until I get a new GPU as performance while playing them isn't where I want it to be. In Progress - Undertale Two hours in and this could well be the greatest game ever made. phew
|
|
#
¿
Aug 1, 2020 12:56
|
|
|
Beaten - Undertale The greatest game ever made.  Broken - Psychonauts Tim Schafer's quirky cult classic platformer. I had to abandon it after encountering a bug I couldn't resolve. The Cobweber Duster would remain stuck in it's animation after removing a cobweb. This prevented me from speaking to NPCs or switching items. Beaten - Shadowrun: Dragonfall - Director's Cut. The second of Harebrained Schemes three turn based tactical RPGs. I think it's a well made game with good gameplay with an interesting setting, and a well told fantasy cyberpunk story.
|
|
#
¿
Aug 8, 2020 19:34
|
|
|
Beaten - Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon 2 The sequel to the spin-off. The retro 8bit game brings more characters, new levels, bosses in another excellent homage to the classic Castlevania games. There's also a corgi driving a mecha that wears a top hat. Beaten - Technobabylon A point and click adventure game set in a cyberpunk future where one of the characters interfaces with the internet in a Ghost in the Machine kinda way. Snippets of the story seemed interesting, but I started to mostly skip through the dialogue to finish it quickly though. I don't enjoy point and click adventure games. You could say it didn't click with me. Beaten - XCOM: Enemy Unknown This took me a couple of restarts to finally get into, (and lowering the difficulty to Very Easy) but once I did juggling the research, engineering, soldiers, etc really made me feel like a commander running not just a turn-based tactics game, but a whole war effort.
|
|
#
¿
Aug 18, 2020 07:39
|
|
|
Broken: Prince of Persia: Warrior Within Broken: Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones This is very disappointing. As I loved the first game very much and played it a lot on my Xbox. I wasn't allowed the sequels due to them being rated M and from what I managed to play the combat and platforming were real steps up over Sands of Time. Even though the edgy tone of Warrior Within is cringe and I didn't get far enough into The Two Thrones to judge the story. I made it about halfway into Warrior Within, but in the Water Maiden section there's a rope you're supposed to use to get over a large gap. Despite several attempts it simply drops the Prince. I can swing back, but not forward. I reloaded the save and then the save before that, but can't resolve the issue. I had some other issues such as crashes, portals being active when they shouldn't, the cutscene with Dahaka not triggering so the wall it's suppose to break to allow you to advance is intact, and having the Sand Wraith model load in after the first chase. Like Warrior Within. I reached an impassable point to The Two Thrones in The Fortress. Where you're suppose to slide down a chain. Except the Dark Prince gets stuck and can't slide down far enough to survive the drop or trigger a stealth kill on the enemy standing below.
|
|
#
¿
Aug 22, 2020 08:14
|
|
|
Null- The Red Solstice This is kind of like DoW2. Where you control a small squad of soldiers in missions and upgrade them. Unfornately I found of the gameplay a lot worse than DoW2 and gave up on it at mission 2. Beaten - Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition I enjoy Metroidvania games a lot, but this one didn't quite click me. The combat is a little too loose. I found myself rapidly tapping the attack button to race of enemy HP down before my own instead of being able to dodge. The platforming was nice though, but there's some real hard points that feel more obtuse(?) than challenging. Like I actually had to look at a guide to figure some points out. Beaten - Titan Quest Anniversary Edition & Ragnork Expansion I picked this back up. I originally stopped playing on reaching the Emperor because my gear wasn't good enough to progress and I didn't feel like grinding better stuff out. I downloaded the TQ Defiler and made myself super OP and ran through the rest of the game and expac on a powertrip one-shotting everything. Who's a god now motherfuckers? Beaten - Dragon Quest III The JRPG that defined the entire gene going forward. I don't know if "holds up" is a proper description since the game doesn't feel dated to me. Certainly not in comparison to Final Fantasy I. Which released the same year and is outdone at every turn by DQ3. Where not only class choice is decoupled from gender choice, allowing greater party customization, but also has proto-multiclassing. As you keep learned spells after changing classes. If you're a fan of classic JRPGs and haven't played the granddaddy of the gene I'd recommend it to you. You'll probably go "oh this is where that's from" at some of the story beats as well.
|
|
#
¿
Sep 6, 2020 21:10
|
|
|
I haven't posted in this thread for a while, so here's what I've finished on Steam since last posting in August 2020. Beaten - Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen Many goons like this game due to the wide customization offered, but I found that combat real janky. I can't remember a lot of the middle part of the story. Beaten - Total War: Warhammer I beat the Dwarf world campaign. That's good enough for me. I've discovered I'm not really into 4X games. Beaten - Dragon Age: Origins This one sat unplayed for a long time after a lot of false starts where I'd stop playing after the second big story piece. I finally got into the groove with the right character and had a fun time (apart from some crashes I had to search online for fixes for that wiped out hours of progress). It's an interesting world Bioware builds here and while a lot of their formula is recognizable now I think they executed it pretty flawlessly. Beaten - Resident Evil 3 Remake The criticisms of short play time and lack of good puzzles compared to RE2make hold true, but I had a fun sprint through Raccoon City. Beaten - Resident Evil Zero It's a very pretty game. Maybe the prettiest fixed angle camera game made, but man that inventory system is real bad. The story is a real low of the series too. Beaten - Resident Evil 4 I know this is hailed as a revolutionary game that pioneered the third-person shooter, but man there some things that really dragged it down for me. Those things being all the quick time events. I really hate these kind of quick time events, because I die to them a lot and they killed me a lot here. The controls are kinda wonky and the mood really changes once you make it to the castle. Still a great game. Beaten - Resident Evil Revelations This was originally a 3DS game. It's fine. Beaten - Saints Row: Gat Out of Hell I loved SR4 and 3. This really didn't do it for me. At least it was short. Beaten - Hades Fantastic. Beautiful game. I got all the achievements. I got it on Switch and PC. I've tried rogue-likes before and I just really hate losing my progress. Here though the story is interwoven with your failure and there's meta-progression systems that make each run easier. The characters have so much dialogue and really great arcs and the length of the runs kept making me mutter, "one more time". 120hrs+ well spent. Beaten - Persona 4 Golden Excellent. A classic JRPG. I also got all the achievements in this game (do not this). The cast of characters and supporting characters are (with a few expectations) believable fully realized people struggling with themselves and really make you care about them and helping them overcome their various insecurities and hangups. The rather low stakes of a murder mystery had me engrossed in solving it and following the story in a way that more abstract plots do not. Beaten - Resident Evil 5 RE fulling embraces action-horror and throws in an Ai partner to boot. The game sure is a product of the late-2000s. Beaten - Age of Empires 3 The Home City system here was interesting. Although I found it easily titled missions heavily in my favor when I could just summon soldiers, resources, and cannons out of nowhere. The story and missions aren't much to write home about. Beaten - Torchlight I just turned cheat codes on and pushed down through the last few floors. It's a boring game compared to the other ARPGs on the market now. Beaten - Resident Evil Revelations 2 Here we go. RE returns to survival-horror and shockingly enough a good execution of the AI partner system. You can switch between the characters and they have different skill sets that complement each other. The lower stakes of the plot (escape this island) and greater focus on the characters' relationships to each other is nice after the mostly action-driven focus of the other games. Loved that final boss kill cutscene too. Beaten - Resident Evil 6 Hoy boy. So the premise had promise. There''s selectable campaigns that follow different past RE characters as they each (and they're AI partners) go through the same events from different paths. Some of these paths cross over with other characters paths, but man the story escalates way to high and way to fast. The villain is a real idiot with nothing interesting about them. The game goes full on action. No true horror or survival elements here. I feel this could have been good with some more some more time, but I think storywise this is the low of the RE series that I have played. Beaten - Dishonored: Death of the Outsider I had a funtime slicing and shooting through this world again. I'll be sad if this is the end of the Dishonored series. Beaten - Enslaved: Journey to the West This is a very pretty game for a PS3/360 era game. The characters have a realism in looks, voice, expression that I wasn't expecting from a game this old. The platforming is super easy. The game doesn't allow you to jump to your death. The combat, if a little simple, holds up today. A real gem. Beaten - Return to Castle Wolfenstein Needs no write up. A classic old school shooter. Beaten - Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War A RTS that's a real departure from the style of Starcraft and Warcraft 3. While it has base building and hero units. The marco of the game is finding and holding resource points instead of mining with workers. The mirco focuses on building and equipping unit squads with different weapons or abilities. It was a fun ride. Beaten - Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War: Winter Assault Nothing different gameplaywise. Single-player has two campaigns with two factions each that further split depending on with of the four you chose to finished the penultimate mission with. Which is an interesting decision I haven't seen before. I finished things with the Imperial Guard. Beaten - Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War: Dark Crusade Again not anything different in the gameplay of the units, but in an interesting move instead of a campaign with set story missions you have Risk-like board. The faction you choose starts at a different place on the board and you need to capture territory and the enemy factions home territory to win. You gather hero units and equipment for your main hero as you fullfill objectives. I conquered as the Chaos Marines. Beaten - Company of Heroes I wasn't really feeling this. A straight WW2 tactical RTS. Beaten - South Park: The Stick of Truth It's a serviceable RPG. If you're a fan of South Park I'm sure you'll enjoy it, but a lot of the humor fell flat for me. Beaten - Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel! A real step down from Borderlands 2. The villain is boring, the environments are boring, the space slam gimmick is boring, the boss fights were boring and easy. There's to much backtracking. Beaten - Devil May Cry 4 It took me about halfway through the game for things to start feeling good. Since so many abilities and moves need to be unlocked.
|
|
#
¿
Apr 5, 2021 22:31
|
|
|
Beaten: Metro: Exodus I really enjoyed Metro: Exodus. A lot of varied and beautiful environments. Good gameplay. I enjoyed the characters. It's a great game. Beaten: Control Control was alright. I wasn't really in a mysterious solving mood, so I just engaged with it as an action game and went through the main story. Beaten: Final Fantasy XIII I would put FFXIII at the bottom of my personal FF games tier list. It's just not what I want out of a FF title or a JRPG. Corridors, encounters, cutscenes. Beaten: Metro 2033: Redux I'd had already beaten the original Metro 2033 game some years ago. I really enjoyed it then, but this go around I decided to try and speed run through the Redux version as a challenge. I nearly ran out of oxygen filters at a few points, but I made it. Broken: A Plague Tale: Innocence This is unfortunate. I was enjoying A Plague Tale, but there's a bug in Chapter VI that gets you stuck in a tent, and despite reloading and then looking up fixes for it. I just couldn't resolve it.
|
|
#
¿
Jun 5, 2022 19:37
|
|
|
Beaten: Horizon Zero Dawn It's a beautiful game with a unique setting and good characters. The combat isn't to my taste however. Aloy is very much a hunter, so setting up traps and fighting with a bow are her primary means of fighting. Where I like to just go in swinging with a sword. Beaten: Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade Loved it. Square Enix has done everything right with this remake. I can't think of what not to praise. Beaten: Borderlands 3 I really enjoyed Borderlands 2, but this one felt underwhelming. Story isn't the main focus of a looter-shooter, but this one was pretty bad. They killed my old main for a very unlikable new character and the ending is on par with ME3 in my view. The humor doesn't really land the same as it's predecessor either. I don't know that's because its stale or my tastes have changed. Beaten: Deponia Doomsday This is a point and click adventure game. Which I discovered while playing I don't enjoy and the main character is an unlikable rear end in a top hat. I suppose it has a nice ending message?
|
|
#
¿
Jul 17, 2022 15:26
|
|
|
|
| # ¿ May 14, 2024 20:38 |
|
|
Beat: NIOH - A Souls-like from Team Ninja. Nioh differs in significant ways from the Dark Souls series. It has randomized loot like you find in ARPGs and you select areas from an overworld screen instead of there being a few large interwoven maps. You also have stances you can switch between that change your movement and attacks. There's a lot of differences from the base Souls formula. It took me a while to get into the groove, but nice I did I had a great time. Beat: Disgaea PC - I played the Disgaea 1 Complete edition before playing this version of the game and I would recommend that over the PC release. The PC does not include a lot of features that were backported from the newer titles for the Complete edition. Things like the third camera angle or healers gaining experience from healing friendly units. The PC version also has major bug where the base unit panel does not display on the map. This is a major problem for players who might not know the shortcut to bring your cursor straight to it and have to search for it tile by tile. Beat: Disgaea 2 PC - This is the first time I've played Disgaea 2 and compared to Disgaea PC it has no major bugs. It's an improve in most aspects over the prior game. Although I am not a fan of the Felony system vs just stacking statisticians (these are systems that boost experience gains although felonies also... *long talk about Disgaea systems here* ) Anyway it was good and I had a fun time. Beat: Chrono Trigger - What I am suppose to say about Chrono Trigger? It's a masterpiece. Nulled/Broken: Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning - The game kept crashing to desktop at one specific point along the main quest route where I had to enter a new area. It seemed merely ok from the few hours I played.
|
|
#
¿
Sep 30, 2023 12:55
|
|