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Exceptional. Spectre Knight is among the best controlling characters in a platformer...like ever.
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Exceptional. Spectre Knight is among the best controlling characters in a platformer...like ever.
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Indiana747
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(Jan) Quantum Break - XB1.
(Jan) Assassins Creed IV: Black Flag - PS4.
(Jan) Adr1ft - PS4.
(Jan) Dear Esther - PS4.
(Jan) Virginia - PS4. (platinum).
(Jan) The London Heist - PSVR
(Feb) Flashback(2013) - PSN.
(Feb) Rain - PSN.
(Feb) Lara Croft & The Guardian of Light - PSN.
(Feb) Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II - PS3.
(Feb) Far Cry Primal - PS4.
(Feb) Bayonetta 2 - WiiU.
(Feb) Sniper Elite 3 - PS4.
(Mar) Life is Strange - PS4.
(Mar) Nier Automata - PS4.
(Mar) Halo 2:Anniversary - XB1.
(Mar) Guns, Gore & Canoli - PS4.
(Apr) Alien Breed Ep.3:Descent - Xbox 360.
(Apr) Horizon Zero Dawn - PS4.
(May) Battleborn - PS4.
(May) Diablo 3:RoS - PS4.
(May) Deadpool - PS4.
(May) The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing - PS4.
(June) Killing Floor 2 - PS4.
(June) Mirror's Edge: Catalyst - PS4.
(June) Mass Effect:Andromeda - PS4.
(June) Nex Machina - PS4.
(July) Rise of the Tomb Raider - PS4.
(Aug) Zombi - PS4.
(Aug) Injustice:Gods Among Us -PS4.
(Aug) Shadow Warrior 2 - PS4.
(Aug) Valiant Hearts - PS4.
(Aug) Uncharted:The Lost Legacy - PS4.
(Aug) Lara Croft & The Temple of Osiris - PS4.
(Jan) Assassins Creed IV: Black Flag - PS4.
(Jan) Adr1ft - PS4.
(Jan) Dear Esther - PS4.
(Jan) Virginia - PS4. (platinum).
(Jan) The London Heist - PSVR
(Feb) Flashback(2013) - PSN.
(Feb) Rain - PSN.
(Feb) Lara Croft & The Guardian of Light - PSN.
(Feb) Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II - PS3.
(Feb) Far Cry Primal - PS4.
(Feb) Bayonetta 2 - WiiU.
(Feb) Sniper Elite 3 - PS4.
(Mar) Life is Strange - PS4.
(Mar) Nier Automata - PS4.
(Mar) Halo 2:Anniversary - XB1.
(Mar) Guns, Gore & Canoli - PS4.
(Apr) Alien Breed Ep.3:Descent - Xbox 360.
(Apr) Horizon Zero Dawn - PS4.
(May) Battleborn - PS4.
(May) Diablo 3:RoS - PS4.
(May) Deadpool - PS4.
(May) The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing - PS4.
(June) Killing Floor 2 - PS4.
(June) Mirror's Edge: Catalyst - PS4.
(June) Mass Effect:Andromeda - PS4.
(June) Nex Machina - PS4.
(July) Rise of the Tomb Raider - PS4.
(Aug) Zombi - PS4.
(Aug) Injustice:Gods Among Us -PS4.
(Aug) Shadow Warrior 2 - PS4.
(Aug) Valiant Hearts - PS4.
(Aug) Uncharted:The Lost Legacy - PS4.
(Aug) Lara Croft & The Temple of Osiris - PS4.
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31 Aug: Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (NS)
Gold trophies on all cups and classes (60 total) - Gold Mario and new title screen unlocked!
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5th January - Arkham Origins (Wii U)
12th January - The End of the World (Android)
18th January - Rayman Legends (Wii U)
31st January - Light House (Android)
1st February - Where shadows slumber (Android)
9th February - Pikmin 3 - Story mode (Wii U)
19th February - New Super Mario Bros. U (Wii U)
7th April - Deus Ex Go (Android)
19th June - The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
20th June - Yellow (Android)
9th July - ARMS (Switch)
14th July - Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze (Wii U)
20th July - Bulb Boy (Switch)
16th August - Shovel Knight (Switch)
29th August - Sonic Mania (Switch)
31st August - Splatoon 2 (Switch)
Completed Splatoon 2 single player last night. Kept dying on the final boss until it eventually said, 'you do know you can upgrade your weapons, don't you?'. Then did it more or less first time. That bit of knowledge would have made that last world IMMENSELY easier.
Fun campaign, though not as endearing as the original's in my book. Felt like it was plain reskinned or a bit tricksy compared to what I recall of the first. The Splatoon bosses felt like long lost Mario Galaxy levels to me. Enjoyed finding the scrolls and Containium though; they were properly head scratching.
Lots of replay value in theory given you can tackle the levels with various weapons but doesn't seem to be any incentive to do so, given the upgrades you get remain locked in this mode.
12th January - The End of the World (Android)
18th January - Rayman Legends (Wii U)
31st January - Light House (Android)
1st February - Where shadows slumber (Android)
9th February - Pikmin 3 - Story mode (Wii U)
19th February - New Super Mario Bros. U (Wii U)
7th April - Deus Ex Go (Android)
19th June - The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
20th June - Yellow (Android)
9th July - ARMS (Switch)
14th July - Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze (Wii U)
20th July - Bulb Boy (Switch)
16th August - Shovel Knight (Switch)
29th August - Sonic Mania (Switch)
31st August - Splatoon 2 (Switch)
Completed Splatoon 2 single player last night. Kept dying on the final boss until it eventually said, 'you do know you can upgrade your weapons, don't you?'. Then did it more or less first time. That bit of knowledge would have made that last world IMMENSELY easier.
Fun campaign, though not as endearing as the original's in my book. Felt like it was plain reskinned or a bit tricksy compared to what I recall of the first. The Splatoon bosses felt like long lost Mario Galaxy levels to me. Enjoyed finding the scrolls and Containium though; they were properly head scratching.
Lots of replay value in theory given you can tackle the levels with various weapons but doesn't seem to be any incentive to do so, given the upgrades you get remain locked in this mode.
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Quite a slow paced episode and good references to LIS. Good start. If you're a fan of LIS you've probably already got it.
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04/08: Theatrhythm Final Fantasy: Curtain Call [3DS]AndrewBrown wrote: ↑July 31st, 2017, 6:16 pm 05/01: Everybody's Gone to the Rapture [PS4]
13/01: The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks [WiiUVC]
17/01: The Order: 1886 [PS4]
28/01: Undertale [PC]
29/01: Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles [Wii]
15/02: The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword [Wii]
18/02: Battleborn [PS4]
08/03: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild [Switch]
12/03: Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove [Switch]
13/03: Fast RMX [Switch]
17/03: Blaster Master Zero [Switch]
14/04: Snake Pass [Switch]
19/04: Injustice: Gods Among Us [360]
04/05: Mario Kart 8 Deluxe [Switch]
17/05: NBA Playgrounds [Switch]
17/05: Injustice 2 [PS4]
29/05: Thumper [Switch]
01/06: Resident Evil (2002) Jill Campaign [PS4]
06/06: Resident Evil (2002) Chris Campaign [PS4]
11/06: Shantae: Half-Genie Hero [Switch]
17/06: Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition [PS4]
25/06: Rise of the Tomb Raider: 20 Year Anniversary [PS4]
06/07: Cave Story+ [Switch]
18/07: Oceanhorn: Monster of Uncharted Seas [Switch]
22/07: Splatoon 2 [Switch]
29/07: Overcooked Special Edition [Switch]
08/08: Dying Light [PS4]
11/08: Pokémon Moon [3DS]
18/08: Sid Meier's Civilization Revolution 2 Plus [Vita]
21/08: The Evil Within [PS4]
24/08: Uncharted: The Lost Legacy [PS4]
27/08: Observer [PSN]
Best month ever, more like these please!
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31/08 - Double Dragon IV (PS4)
Thoughts on the podcast, of course, but one of these I really enjoyed, and the other I endured. Nice, though, to see two different takes on what Double Dragon can be, a few decades after the series began.
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Horizon Zero Dawn
It was ok. Very pleasant to play. Environments were lovely to just walk around in. The script was a bit wooden and I found myself longing for Bethesda-type conversation menus (yes, that is probably a first). Combat, the meat of the game, was entertaining enough. The only big time-sink game I have left on my hard drive now is Deus Ex MK, which I'm happy about (I prefer shorter games).
It was ok. Very pleasant to play. Environments were lovely to just walk around in. The script was a bit wooden and I found myself longing for Bethesda-type conversation menus (yes, that is probably a first). Combat, the meat of the game, was entertaining enough. The only big time-sink game I have left on my hard drive now is Deus Ex MK, which I'm happy about (I prefer shorter games).
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What an absolute classic this game is, plays as well as it did in the arcades. Won my first online match too!
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Kintaro can fuck right off.
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Know that pain oh so wellratsoalbion wrote: ↑September 3rd, 2017, 12:35 am02 Sep: Mortal Kombat Arcade Kollection: Mortal Kombat II (360)
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Kintaro can fuck right off.
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Certainly brought it all flooding back.
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>OBSERVER_
(to give it its full name)
I was gurning and moaning my way through Observer, which is the dystopian-Krakow-2084 game where Rutger Hauer is a detective who mindjacks murder victims to try and determine their killer. It was pretty decent, the strong points being the dystopian vision, but the mindjack bits were a bit pants, being your typical corridor-horror stuff.
Then halfway through I walked into a room which had a Layers of Fear poster, and the penny dropped. And disappointingly, so did the quality of gameplay. The rest of it was entirely corridor-based drudgery (doors locking behind you, floor and ceiling flipped, lights flickering, children/women laughing/crying etc). It was a poor second half of a promising game.
The detective bits weren't faultless (a bit too much pixel hunting) but were ok, and the setting was great (a tenement building in a poor area of town). Bit odd that all the tenants had US accents (east coast, southern , the works). Rutger Hauer was decent. It was a real struggle to finish though.
(to give it its full name)
I was gurning and moaning my way through Observer, which is the dystopian-Krakow-2084 game where Rutger Hauer is a detective who mindjacks murder victims to try and determine their killer. It was pretty decent, the strong points being the dystopian vision, but the mindjack bits were a bit pants, being your typical corridor-horror stuff.
Then halfway through I walked into a room which had a Layers of Fear poster, and the penny dropped. And disappointingly, so did the quality of gameplay. The rest of it was entirely corridor-based drudgery (doors locking behind you, floor and ceiling flipped, lights flickering, children/women laughing/crying etc). It was a poor second half of a promising game.
The detective bits weren't faultless (a bit too much pixel hunting) but were ok, and the setting was great (a tenement building in a poor area of town). Bit odd that all the tenants had US accents (east coast, southern , the works). Rutger Hauer was decent. It was a real struggle to finish though.
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Torment Tides of Numenera(PC)-
In the end my greatest fear became true Tides of Numenera is essentially a remake of Planescape Torment, it's the Force Awakens to Planescape's New hope, which isnt entirelly bad much like Force Awakens Numenera is a servicible game that both homages and captures some of the magic of the original but like force awakens it never really shakes the feeling of been there done that but in this case it's worse because it copies the plot and themes of Planescape much more closelly. The original dealt with heavy themes like the point of existence and identity and did so masterfully by utilizing the RPG format, this game tries to do the same but it's less successfull because it tries to copy the original so closelly so you just end up with a lesser version of what you had before, the ending of Planescape was this grand moment that I put as one of the best endings to well any story I've witnessed but the ending of this game it ends almost abruptly and then credits, without getting into spoilers the different in main character is really important I think as to why the original worked so much better, you played as a set character the Nameless one who had amnesia and is trying to understand who he was while here you're just another castoff try to understand someone else's memories, cant go into more detail without spoiling things but that's a big difference.
Now just because it doesnt reach the level of Planescape It doesnt mean it's bad, in fact im confident in saying that out of all the CRPGs that came out since the "revival" with Kickstarter this is by far the best written one and honestly it's the best written game I played all year because while the main story lags behind torment it's still thought provoking and interesting but more important everything outside the main story is really interesting, one moment you're dealing with a robot with a mid-life crisis because it cant have children, another you're tackling an interdimensinal hivemind that is trying to eat your universe and sometimes your helping solve a mystery of a ghost woman whose personality is slowly taking over the body of all women in the city. The world is just filled with really creative and out there stories for you to find and enjoy it's a world where countless civilizations have risen and fallen, where magic and science are the same a place that feels like has been decaying for millenia but that still awes(in fact something constantly on the back of my head while playing this was how cool would it be to have a soulsgame set in this type of setting). Also much like the original game combat is very much a choice you can avoid every combat encounter if you want and come up with different solutions and the combat itself is servicible it's not amazing and it has a big problem that because you use might,speed and intelect points on many things other then combat if you're caught unprepared combat can turn into a slog or a bloodbath as you cant improve your dice rolls. Two gameplay aspects outside of combat and dialogue that I really liked though were the merecasters, where you jump into someone elses memories in a choose your own adventure book format and try to change the past, those were really fun and interesting also you have a sort of hub world inside your mind that you can access when you die and as the game goes on it expands, I really liked that but I thought it was underplayed I wish they'd used it more.
Despite my disapointment with the main story I still really enjoyed my time with the game especially in exploring the world and talking to it's characters which is the most important thing in this type of RPG and even though It's main story isnt on the level of it's predecessor It's without a doubt one of the best narratives out of videogames this year and I'd really recommend it for people that want to get into this type of game, that like RPGs more for the roleplaying aspect rather then combat especially since this isnt a very long game at all especially for an RPG I took less then 30 hours to finnish it and I wasnt speeding through it or skimming through text I was taking my time exploring it so it's not that much of a time sink.
In the end my greatest fear became true Tides of Numenera is essentially a remake of Planescape Torment, it's the Force Awakens to Planescape's New hope, which isnt entirelly bad much like Force Awakens Numenera is a servicible game that both homages and captures some of the magic of the original but like force awakens it never really shakes the feeling of been there done that but in this case it's worse because it copies the plot and themes of Planescape much more closelly. The original dealt with heavy themes like the point of existence and identity and did so masterfully by utilizing the RPG format, this game tries to do the same but it's less successfull because it tries to copy the original so closelly so you just end up with a lesser version of what you had before, the ending of Planescape was this grand moment that I put as one of the best endings to well any story I've witnessed but the ending of this game it ends almost abruptly and then credits, without getting into spoilers the different in main character is really important I think as to why the original worked so much better, you played as a set character the Nameless one who had amnesia and is trying to understand who he was while here you're just another castoff try to understand someone else's memories, cant go into more detail without spoiling things but that's a big difference.
Now just because it doesnt reach the level of Planescape It doesnt mean it's bad, in fact im confident in saying that out of all the CRPGs that came out since the "revival" with Kickstarter this is by far the best written one and honestly it's the best written game I played all year because while the main story lags behind torment it's still thought provoking and interesting but more important everything outside the main story is really interesting, one moment you're dealing with a robot with a mid-life crisis because it cant have children, another you're tackling an interdimensinal hivemind that is trying to eat your universe and sometimes your helping solve a mystery of a ghost woman whose personality is slowly taking over the body of all women in the city. The world is just filled with really creative and out there stories for you to find and enjoy it's a world where countless civilizations have risen and fallen, where magic and science are the same a place that feels like has been decaying for millenia but that still awes(in fact something constantly on the back of my head while playing this was how cool would it be to have a soulsgame set in this type of setting). Also much like the original game combat is very much a choice you can avoid every combat encounter if you want and come up with different solutions and the combat itself is servicible it's not amazing and it has a big problem that because you use might,speed and intelect points on many things other then combat if you're caught unprepared combat can turn into a slog or a bloodbath as you cant improve your dice rolls. Two gameplay aspects outside of combat and dialogue that I really liked though were the merecasters, where you jump into someone elses memories in a choose your own adventure book format and try to change the past, those were really fun and interesting also you have a sort of hub world inside your mind that you can access when you die and as the game goes on it expands, I really liked that but I thought it was underplayed I wish they'd used it more.
Despite my disapointment with the main story I still really enjoyed my time with the game especially in exploring the world and talking to it's characters which is the most important thing in this type of RPG and even though It's main story isnt on the level of it's predecessor It's without a doubt one of the best narratives out of videogames this year and I'd really recommend it for people that want to get into this type of game, that like RPGs more for the roleplaying aspect rather then combat especially since this isnt a very long game at all especially for an RPG I took less then 30 hours to finnish it and I wasnt speeding through it or skimming through text I was taking my time exploring it so it's not that much of a time sink.
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Enjoyed the socks off that. I can't fathom 16hr completion average on HowLongToBeat.com. Those playthroughs must've looked something like the last half-hour of my game. But how much missed?!
The combat never truly flourished for me, though it did improve as I upgraded. I do entirely understand the first few hours putting people off though. The pace (and pacing) of this game is something I'll be mulling over for some time to come.
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I reckon the Venn Diagram showing 'How Long to Beat gamers' and 'People who like to Mooch about in their games' just resembles a figure eight.
Glad Prey was enjoyable. The demo sunk it for me as I couldn't get on board with a) smashing everything looking for mimics or b) letting the mimic attack you first and then dealing with it. Both approaches being undermined by the terrible, terrible weapons (wrench and gloo gun). Just hassle.
Glad Prey was enjoyable. The demo sunk it for me as I couldn't get on board with a) smashing everything looking for mimics or b) letting the mimic attack you first and then dealing with it. Both approaches being undermined by the terrible, terrible weapons (wrench and gloo gun). Just hassle.
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Yeah, I can't deny that that bothered me too. Naturally, there are other options (and quite quickly too), but Mimics were frustrating to fight in ways similar to the Spider Splicers in BioShock. Sadly, they're also much more common.
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The Bunker (PS4)
I enjoyed it! Loved the Eighties feel and thought they nailed the setting and the main character. I thought it held up well, story-wise.
I enjoyed it! Loved the Eighties feel and thought they nailed the setting and the main character. I thought it held up well, story-wise.
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