Flawless Victory
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Flawless Victory
Ys Seven (PSP): Playing on Vita in Hard mode. Got three of the Dragon Stones, and found Mishera's Aerial Orb useful during a boss battle. It takes 100 SP (empties the ENTIRE damn blue gauge) but can do good damage, about 1500-3000.
Super Hang-On (arcade): Almost cleared the Africa course. Much better than the Genesis version (I think Sega should have delayed it and used a 6 Mbit cart instead of 4- look how good the 8 Mbit Out Run on Genesis is), because of its faster feel and HW scaling.
PixelJunk Nom Nom Galaxy - this seems like it was made to cater to the 'crafting' kids. The movement is really boring.
Helldivers - finished the tutorial. Seems kind of fun! Odd twinstick-y game. I like that they're incorporating 'contra code' style inputs for calling in weapon/support drops.
Firewatch - a pretty, moody game! Feels like the early bits of "Alien Isolation" in that they have a really meticulously crafted environment to explore. Not sure what it's adding up to, but the compass navigation is neat.
Danganronpa - Going back to my save from a year ago. Some of the dialogue grates on me but at least it's fast paced and I like the whole murder mystery thing.
The Order: 1886 - Going back to my save from two months ago. This still kind of sucks. I think I'm done with it.
Wolfenstein: The New Order - Going back to my save from a month ago. I must be getting close to the end. This game is good and has some kick ass weapons but I never felt it was memorable enough to warrant all the internet hype. I guess this gen has been weak for FPS so far.
Pillars of Eternity-This is pretty good. Some of the best writing I've seen in a game for one, and goes in directions it probably couldn't tied to the D&D license. The text bits are actually my favourite part. On the other hand, I don't have familiarity with its Not-D&D system and would prefer mechanics I already know and love to learning new rules that do the same things, so that's a double-edged sword and I wish there wasn't need felt to keep the lame shit like elfs and dwarfs, etc.
It seems a worthy successor to the Infinity Engine stuff, falling just behind the best of it (Torment and BGII). The older I get though, the more strongly I feel that crpgs (both western and chan) require a level of abstraction requiring imagination and implication vs explicitness for me to really enjoy, and the IE games seem just ever so slightly past where my ideal threshold is. So I prefer stuff like the Gold Box games to this.
I've got some time in it, but I'm putting it on the shelf for now, though, partly because I would prefer to wait until I have all the expansions, etc, with it, and really because playing it gave me the itch to finally go through and finish Planescape:Torment.
It had some good action but was flawed in many areas.Quote:
Originally Posted by NeoZeedeater
It starts strong but seems to fizzle out halfway through. Even some of the ridiculous set pieces later in the game never really managed to hold my interest for long. I think the game's just too long.
The game couldn't make its mind up on design, story, etc. I half way wonder if they bought another game and converted it, or thought they were going to lose the licence and so they never went 100% in.
It felt as much like Europe as the Xbox Riddick game did.
The game was made by a bunch of Swedes. I think they knew exactly what they were doing when they designed the world.
The only thing I really didn't like about it was the stealth part because I just wanted to shoot my guns