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I'll give you that modern games are generally too easy. They are films in disguise, really, with the barest amount of player interaction and thinking they can get away with and still be called a game. Gears is as guilty of this as any other franchise. I think we hold the players hand way too much... Because some devlopers want to make cinematic games, and they don't want to be constrained by their own game systems. QTE allows you to make any old "epic moment" you want, and not worry that there is no system for players doing the activity depicted in the cinematic. Just throw a button prompt halfway through your scripted movie so players think they are still playing a game.
Right, and most are completely pointless. If you don't hit the button, the game doesn't adapt or change to reflect that result. No, you just get to start watching the cut scene again and try to do it right this time. It's busy work.
i'm happy with easier games and the way games are now. games that are too hard just piss me off, i don't have time to replay shit over and over because it's too hard.
dark souls sounds off-putting so maybe i'll just put cheats on when i do eventually play it. Like Dragon's Lair started the trend.
Justification of technology, reducing the interactivity of the game as a side effect. Things like Heavy Rain are sort of justifying the genre I suppose, but I don't have the patience to play it for more than 30 seconds. I'm with the rest of you old-timers RE: having no time for games, and pining for my lost childhood.
For me, difficulty isn't a problem though. I like the idea of rock-hard roguelikes. A massive 30 hour campaign is daunting, but 90 minutes and then either winning or starting a new game isn't. I haven't played Dark/Demon's Souls, but if it's possible to sabotage a playthrough of a full-length game by angering an NPC, then it's not my cup of tea. bit expensive for me to get right now but screenies seem to support what czg said above re design. Will definitely put it on the list to get.
Hmm wondering if I should play Dark Souls on Xbox360 or PC...
PC : graphics better ok. Xbox360 : couch, large screen. As the game is recommended to be played with gamepad...which I dont really like... Anyone played it through with mouse keyboard ? Besides graphics PC has no other extra features right ? Mouse and Keyboard is very possible, i finished the game with it ( not started NewGame+ yet ).
You do need a mod to improve the mouse movement and some other things though : http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~petska/ The PC Version has the Artorias of the Abyss DLC ( new areas, enemies, bosses etc ) already included which i believe you have to buy separately on consoles. Ever since I discovered this shared virtual world I've been into it like Dracula into a throat.
Sure, it hoovers up memory and the graphics are relatively pants compared with modern games, but the people and building tools are quite nice. Sometimes they're sane. Mind you, I spend more time as a DJ on there than a builder. I've got a project on but the scripting is making me bonkers. (Here's a pic demonstrating some old building I did a few months ago, as well as referencing the DJ business.) Yours from the unfashionable end of the Interwebs, Martien Pontecorvo, Precipitate Flood & Maku Ibn-Selat Why would we need viagra when quake already makes our dicks harder than damascus steel?
just finished this lengthy game (17 hrs). at first it was hard to get used to good old xenomorphs again, but after a while the game started to go smooth. very detailed and atmospheric levels, proper no less epic ending and of course curved corridors by metlslime.
recommending this game! + Ruined forgeworld background is good
+ All weapons useful, satisfying and characterful (apart from GL) + Bomb squigs very cute, Bloodletters very cool + Violence is great- lots of blood and flying bodies + Very true to 40k universe + Intense gameplay, requiring a good mix of aggression and caution. + Progress and missions pretty smooth and natural. - Very clunky controls and running screenshake annoying. - Utterly on-rails progress (it's like a FPS side-scroller as far as lack of interaction with the cool backgrounds) - No interaction with anything nearby either. - Graphics strictly previous generation and quite bland. - Checkpoints often before cutscenes / a long way before tough fights - Save points at boss battle so bad I didn't complete the game - Voices boring and Ork voices grating.
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