 News | Forum | People | FAQ | Links | Search | Register |
Log in |
|
|
thanks for that in-depth response! Definitely giving me a push to avoid it like the fucking plague. Sounds awful.
I should add that Dark\Demon Souls games are only for the people who absolutely love repetition and replaying same parts for n-th time.
I'm quite surprised our most-casual-quaker Sock loves them :) Not sure why you'd want a PC port, the game doesn't need mouse or better resolution and there wouldn't be mod tools for it either. Long review for a long game: Saints Row 2 from 2008
http://www.etherealhell.com/etherealhell/reviews/2012/saints_row2.php 6.5/10. Fun but a bit ugly. PC petition : http://kotaku.com/5875833/the-dark-souls-pc-petition-has-namco-bandais-attention
Dark Souls can certainly have repetition if you die a lot because death can screw with your progress badly. In fact the previous title "Demons Souls' was worse! It did not have checkpoint (bonfires) and if you died you came back with half health! The game is about using the death mechanic to make you understand your actions better, living with the consequences of what you do in game, about planning your strategies better and probably the number one reason the rush of beating the odds and being triumphant over hordes of enemies without dying! The game hits all the right buttons for me, medieval environment, melee weapons, magic system, deep combat mechanics, RPG elements, crafting system and very clever level design. A friend from work recommended the previous game to me and I was hooked on Demons Souls for a long time (200+ hrs) and have probably spent the same amount of time in Dark Souls as well. I even added a ton of stuff to the latest game wiki because I wanted to pay back for all the help it gave me in the past. I would highly recommend anyone who likes a challenge to try the game, just don't expect it to be forgiving or give you an easy time. It has hard rules to learn and probably some of the best boss fights. There are certainly dark sides to the game and most of it centers around the multiplayer aspects. Let me tell you a funny story Me and a couple of friends got together one evening to fight a boss in Demons Souls. It was the Tower Knight which is very tough to solo as a melee class. (I have solo'd the boss once but it was a bitch of a fight) If you are interested - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyOa9_jNnEw) You also have to fight past a tons of enemies just to get to the boss without dying! Co-op works like if the host of the game dies, everyone dies and the host has to be in human form which means other players can invade your co-op game! We were about half way through the pre-boss mob fights when we got invaded. Some guy shows up in crazy crafted gear and a special spear. Surprise, surprise he kills us all really easily. We were just learning the game and had not done very much crafting or collecting of items at this point so it was really one sided. The kicker was we lost all our souls (game money) and could not even repair our gear! Need souls to repair stuff. Our gear was broken because the invader had a specially crafted spear that degrades all items gradually to zero per hit. Our co-op fun ended quickly that night and we had to go back to earlier parts of the game to collect resources. Eventually we got past the boss and carried on, but it highlights how much punishment death can mean in the game. with the source port out, has a port or maybe a patch been made to run it on widescreen or something? i believe there was a config file mama one could do, but i'm lazy. LAZY!
i thought i asked here, did some google search and i got stuff about the original dooms instead. i did something like this a year or two ago, maybe from the same website
http://www.widescreengaming.net/wiki/Doom_3 but the problem i had was that the game would reset itself everytime i started it. so i was hoping someone had already made a patch to just have it normal. the problem is that my desktop monitor always stretches non-widescreen stuff, and i have to change that manually with the montiro's menu settings, its not something i can do by going to the graphic cards settings. its crap like that. just thought someone here might have known though. :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfOOOAN9e9w
According to this trailer, they are taking their time with this one :) Which is prob a good thing... Frontlines: Fuel of War review
http://www.etherealhell.com/etherealhell/reviews/2012/frontlines_fuel_of_war.php A yawnable and done-to-death already kind of game, how many times in games do I have to invade some middle eastern shithole? 6.5/10. Might review Rise of the Argonauts next, something different. And Tomb Raider Underworld review
http://www.etherealhell.com/etherealhell/reviews/2012/tomb_raider_underworld.php 7.5/10 http://us.battle.net/d3/en/blog/4325959/Systems_Changes-1_19_2012#blog
very interesting post on changes in diablo 3. oh if only that game was not drmd to such disgusting levels. remember how you could "spawn" install diablo 1? So there is a hawken closed beta, you can sign up for it at http://playhawken.com. It looks like I need to get three people to sign up so they will 'reserve my callsign.' Use this link if you want to sign up please.
Reviewed Rise of the Argonauts (2008)
http://www.etherealhell.com/etherealhell/reviews/2012/rise_of_the_argonauts.php 5.5/10. Could have been good but they fudged the PC port. Nice little story and design. Cube World looks fun http://wollay.blogspot.com/
if you were interested in this but didn't want to shell out the cash (ie, like me) then this video of the game is probably what you are after. 45 minutes long, no annoying commentary etc.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUgaWnIYKq8 Fuck me, its beautiful. A very beautiful experience for sure, but I wish they would have done something different with the huge blobs of text! Maybe smaller blocks, fading between sections, some thought on how to present the text on the screen so it feels more gradual. Besides the subtitle nitpick the journey is amazing and I loved the use of the strong saturated lighting in the caves, gorgeous!
i remember playing this for free? it didn't have all those high-res textures though, but it was still very cool.
the youtube video isn't a full appreciation of the mod either as the story kind of changes a bit depending on what you do in the map, iirc.
|
|
| You must be logged in to post in this thread. |
|
| Website copyright © 2002-2025 John Fitzgibbons. All posts are copyright their respective authors. |