Played a little more of DMC4 today. I've had a Devil Hunter level game going for a while, and I decided it was time to make a bit more progress on it. Just beat Chapter 17, so there isn't long to go now. I found out a new sword combo with Swordmaster style before that I never knew was there before. ...

Interesting. I had no idea there were aspects of the Wii U hardware that were actually behind the 360/PS3. Makes me wonder about Bayonetta 2. From what we've seen, it looks better than the first game, but you can never truly tell until you play it yourself. But with all the trouble that these 3rd pa...

I don't think that's strictly true. It depend what genre you look at. Shorter games have gotten more common, and genres that tend to be shorter have gotten more popular, but there are still a lot of really long games out there if you want to find them. Like pretty much any RPG for example, or an ope...

Yeah, the lack of the lock-on system in DmC is really stupid. It doesn't really break the game or anything, but there's no reason why it couldn't have had one when it has two dodge buttons, making one of them totally redundant. It would have improved the game quite a bit. I've never quite worked out...

I think the parry thing is a very deliberate design decision. They wanted to have the game play that way. They wanted to give the combat a certain flow and a focus on using the sword for everything. Like it's an extension of yourself. The stuff that Raiden and Jetstream Sam talk about through the ga...

That's a really cool documentary. It's so great the game finally did get made. You'd expect that any game in that situation would end up getting cancelled almost without a doubt. That's the story you tend to hear with stuff like this. But not only did it finally pull through, the end product was ama...

It's pretty fun. It's relatively short, and the story isn't great, but to play it's pretty good. Vergil plays very differently to Dante, and he's pretty unusual. His sword swings are super quick, and his play style has a lot more of a focus on passive skill (like the ghost swords) that direct attack...

Nier is an odd game for me. I was really surprised by how much I enjoyed it, and I found that the reasons I enjoyed it were things that I don't usually look for in a game. For one thing, being a JRPG, it's part of a genre which is usually one of my least favourites. Although you could argue that it ...

Yeah, all the achievements in the game are all for optional stuff. Things you have to go out of your way to do. A lot of them don't require you to do much though. They involve the benches quite a bit.

Played the demo to Valdis Story today. Read a review that said it was really good, so I thought I would check it out. Not just to see if I liked it, but to see if I could even run it. I was somewhat surprised to find it ran totally fine, but there never seems to be any consistency with what I can an...

04/01 - Castlevania: Lament of Innocence (9 hours, 10 minutes)

I always intended to join in with this last year, but I forgot about it once I started actually finishing games. I was really annoyed at myself for that. I won't make the same mistake this time round!

Where did you get God of War so cheap?

Through the entire game your character always feels pretty weak. You lose health really easily and your shield is pretty much useless, even if you focus all your upgrades on it. While getting more Vigors does give you some more options, I've never really felt overpowered at any point playing that ga...

I've never liked using the stick in GT for that. Never felt like it was the right, or most effective way to do it. I guess I could give it another go though. EDIT: I thought I'd add in what I've been playing today in here instead of starting a new post. I played quite a lot of Lament of Innocence. T...

You don't really need to know much about the MGS storyline to appreciate Rising. The story isn't exactly very serious in that game, and events are more or less unrelated. I suppose it helps if you know a little about Raiden's backstory and have a general idea of what the story of the MGS games is, b...

Played a little of Metal Gear Rising today. The level where you fight Monsoon at the end. Bloody hell, I love that boss fight. So exhilarating. Everything just comes together so perfectly at that moment. Also played a little of The Bridge. It was on sale not long ago so I decided to pick it up. Pret...

This is really terrible. I really hope No Man's Sky is still okay. It would be such a shame to have just heard about this brilliant concept, for it to be destroyed so soon after.

I hope everything turns out alright for the studio. It's such bad luck for a little indie studio to be hit with this.

Well it looks to be more of a Dynasty Warriors game than a God of War/MGR type of game. There's the name obviously, and the fact that Tecmo Koei are working on it. Plus, the crowds of monsters too. True, but I had only the games I have played at my referential discretion. Oddly, this trailer makes ...

I just finished off Okamiden, finally. Surprisingly great game! Even though it's not made by Clover, the developers did a really good job of emulating the feel of the original. The tone of it is spot on. It's as good as you would expect an Okami game on a DS could possibly be. As much as I'd love Ok...

Don't want to derail the thread too much, but the 2013 Cane and Rinse award for most epic post goes to Scrustle! :D I'm not sure about "epic". Unless epic means waffling on complaining about little nitpicks. And on that note, Jesus, who did they get to do the subtitles on Assassin's Creed...