Also played Devil May Cry, I thought I'll get that custard outta the way before I play something longer (Dishonored, Metro, GTA5, Mass Effect 3 all coming up on my list). Nice gameplay and melee combat, but the rest is pretty average. Dante is completely ruined, turned into a dumb teenage boy. His moral choices in the game are actually wrong (you're going to save the chick over the entire human race, and then at the end you'd rather kill your teammate/brother than let him help civilisation recover... dafuq?)

The awesome fantasy horror world of the last DMC is replaced with a pretty shit looking city, with far too much post-processing and blurry texture effects over everything. The game does have some really creative ideas, though. The boss fights look cool, some nice level ideas such as the upside-down city.

I hated requiring gold orbs to resume gameplay otherwise it's game over and start the level again. Probably because I'm not that good at this fast-paced gameplay. Even story-mode I died enough times lol.

6.5/10 

http://store.steampowered.com/app/355790/Styx_Shards_of_Darkness/

And game on sale.

Hurrah for demos! But in this case it didn't grab me. Too much exactly more of the same, and the 4th wall breaking bs is, well, bs. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkjvzHfobjo 

 

This looks awesome, lots of humour and style.

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/e3-2017-new-wolfenstein-game-revealed-at-bethesdas/1100-6450709/ 

Graphics look fantastic in this thing. Pity it's multiplayer, but maybe I'll be able to play solo. Shame about the character voices though.

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/e3-2017-biowares-new-ip-anthem-gameplay-revealed/1100-6450741/ 

the last night 

Yeah Dishonored was good fun. Nice watercoloury graphics.

I liked using blink, cut a fucker up then blink away and repeat. It's a bit like the Batman games but far more fluid and better. All other powers and weapons were pointless. I used the gun all of a couple times then decided it was shit and never switched away from blink/sword.

The DLC's (the two with story, I didn't bother with the challenge mode one) were good too. It's a shame they weren't part of the full game actually. A bit like COD sometimes does with switching to different characters to tell different sides to the story. It could have switched between the main guy Corvo and Daud the original assassin that realises his wrong. Which would have made the story a bit more interesting because it was lacking tbh. I'm not a fan of the dumb mute player character.

Perhaps the notoriety system would have had an effect on the game ending then, where being good or evil decides if Corvo kills Daud. Instead it seemed to have no effect at all except Samuel calling 2 bad guys over to you in the last level, of which you just ignore and walk past.

The witches were fun in the DLC too, much more creative and challenging than the normal enemies. 

It does make a difference. On high chaos (=lots of kills), he kills Daud; on low chaos he spares his life. 

Yeah in the dlc. I mean in the main game though, it didn't seem to make much difference to anything did it? I think the kid had a darker line at the end or something. 

is an awesome band name. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riQ692rbs-E 

and I can't find anything to buy. I look around for an hour and the only thing new in my cart is Witcher 3 and I'm not sure I want to pay $24 for it because I didn't like the first two all that much. Everything else I picked is old stuff that I only chose to get a non-Steam copy. 

I've played through Witcher 3, maybe I can help?

I enjoyed it immensely but man, what a "life suck" it is!!! I play super casual though. 

They were okay. I just don't like 3rd person fighting/shooter games. They're usually awkward for me to control. Mainly because the developers don't seem to do "strafe" correctly and the character can only turn in place. If I remember right, this is how the Witcher games are. 

Yeah, I feel mostly the same way about 3rd person games... I tolerate it though for good games. 

 

Well I bought it. It's going to take over 2 hours to download though. Maybe I should install one of the other games I bought first, so I'll have something to do while waiting.

I now have over 50 games from GOG. It's probably getting close to exceeding the number I have on Steam. Funny thing is, many of them I already had on Steam and only bought them to get DRM free versions. 

A thoroughly mediocre game in every way... 

I found it a thoroughly good game for 90% of it. 

Sure is a beautiful game and engine. But it seems they decided to try and copy the COD method of chucking out a short 5-6 hour campaign, more action but perhaps more regular since this is only 1.5 years after Crysis 2. But COD usually has a much more in depth story and keeps things interesting with different environments and gameplay types. Crysis 3 added the alien gameplay later, but it was pretty rubbish (clunky weapons, fuck all ammo, bad AI). Bad final battle that I ragequit on. You find yourself relying on cloak too much just to skip every enemy in the later stages. The first half of the game was the best, but most of the guns in the first half are shit. Quite disappointing to be honest, especially when its over in half the time it took to complete the first Crysis. But damn, those graphics! I'd replay it just for that. 8/10. And it is still a FPS (my favourite genre).