Total Biscuit rambles on about FTL mods and unfair gameplay;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEJgk7oZe6w&list=UUy1Ms_5qBTawC-k7PVjHXKQ 

Just some games I've recently played (and reviewed) all from 2010:

Transformers: War for Cybertron: 8.5/10 - awesome level design, but if you don't care about design, maybe it's only a 7.5 or 8/10.

Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions: 6/10

Alpha Protocol: 7.5/10 - a bit underrated, it's a good RPG. Mass Effect as a spy/espionage game.

Sniper: Ghost Warrior: 7/10 - actually pretty good looking game, almost equal to Battlefield BC2/CODMW2, which is suprising coming from City Interactive but the gameplay is very specific and not as good.

Mass Effect 2: 9.5/10 - obviously everyone here would have played this.

Lost Planet 2: 6.5/10

Gonna start on Dragon Age Awakening tomorrow. 

Early reports on Blues News indicate it's another fucking disaster as a failed PC port. Here endeth the news. 

The last one unplayable without patches as well? 

I currently play Dark Souls 1 and I'm quite enjoying it. Looking forward to trying 2 when the time comes.

I recommend you give it another try, it's worth it. And I mean in a sensible way, not a "square block into round hole"-retard type of approach like earlier. 

That's contrary to every other review I have seen 

ds2fix: http://blog.metaclassofnil.com 

Broken port isn't a valid PC game. Actually, why the fuck did I mention it on here anyway, should have been in the console thread. 

http://games.usvsth3m.com/2048/super-dickbutt-edition-5/ 

FFS play it! 

https://games.yahoo.com/blogs/plugged-in/call-of-duty--advanced-warfare-will-blow-stuff-up-on-november-4-170436537.html

As usual looks really good.. I am just wondering what it will really be ingame.. :/ 

Looks like homoerotic mega-scripted SHIT. Massive waste of good graphics and cool machinery. 

kevin spacey seems to be the main feature, since the trailer is full of closeups on his face. 

If anyone is interested, I've gone and reviewed/rated all the l4d2 campaigns. Read here: http://www.electricescape.com/etherealhell/index.php/reviews/left-4-dead-2-campaigns

It's a long, took a 4-5 months and I'm sick to fucking hell of l4d2 now. But there's some decent campaigns near the top. l4dmaps.com is just too generous with it's ratings, where most are given 9+/10 and too many gimmick campaigns are rated higher than they should be. 

Sir, You Are Being Hunted Hits V1.0
http://www.big-robot.com/2014/05/01/huzzah-sir-you-are-being-hunted-hits-v1-0/

Available for 17USD at the moment, anyone played it already? I don't want to spent money without first having played a demo (which might be available in some weeks). 

I have not, watched a bit of BaerTaffy play it, and it's not really the type of game I would go for. One of the many 'survival/collection' type games that are popular lately.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH-FwFwiztg 

Woot, finished Dark Souls yesterday. Great game, I enjoyed it a lot.
It's clearly not for everyone, though. An action RPG (but not of the horde variety) with little to no meaningful NPC interaction. This put me off initially, but after watching it a bit on Daz.tv, I decided to give it a proper try. Everyone always goes on about it being so difficult, and it certainly isn't a walk in the park, but I found the combat to be fair for the most part. It's a learning experience really, where you figure out each enemy and situation and adapt accordingly. Eventually it becomes very rewarding and it feels like a real achievement (unlike other games that hand the victory to you with little effort).

The gameplay and difficulty of the encounters is certainly interesting as it seems to vary alot between players. Depending on their individual skills, character builds and equipment, everyone has a different experience. For example, many people consider Ornstein & Smough the toughest boss fight in the game, but I didn't have any problems - beat them on the third attempt (second even, if you discount the one where I stumbled into the arena by accident). Other bosses went down on the first try even. But then there were some that gave me quite a hard time, e.g. that goddamn Demon Firesage. Of course, everything seems easy after having beaten it. Funny enough, the minions caused me more trouble and deaths than the actual bosses.
The combat itself felt very satisfying once I had figured it out. Guess I was lucky to find the Black Knight Sword early on which is pretty legit to say the least, and I ended up using it for most of the game.

The game's design is very nice. Some good layouts and interconnectivity. It's not apparent at first, but after having travelled through all the areas, one realizes how they all connect and create a big whole. I especially liked how one can often see certain areas in the distance, places that you thought to be far away, but then turn out to be quite close except for their entrances.

I have mixed feelings about the obscurity of certain things - meaning that apparently it's encouraged to look things up on the wiki to have an easier time. This did help me get through more smoothly (as well as asking poor rebb all kinds of silly questions), but at times it almost felt like cheating. Occasionally there were things I think I never would have discovered on my own. Then again, figuring everything out by yourself in such a harsh environment would have been to much for an individual player anyway - I suppose this is where the online aspect comes into play, e.g. messages and summoning. I played in offline mode, however.

On a technical note, even though everyone always says how bad a console port this is, it ran pretty well for me after some initial hitches. Lots of crashes at first while playing around with dsfix (no problems without, though), coupled with an extremely long loading time when starting the game. At some point I installed more RAM and suddenly the game didn't crash anymore even on high detail settings, although I don't know if this is even related. I can see how these kinds of technical problems can put people off. Though, on the other hand, one may consider this the first boss fight!

Anyway, glad to have played this and I recommend anyone interested to give it a try no matter the obstacles. 

Nice review neg. I don't really consider looking stuff up as cheating when it comes to RPG's, there's just so much to explore in some of them and decent equipment can be difficult to find... some developers probably expect a bit of sharing of information and strategies. Researching stuff online is just part of the fun of rpgs, imo. 

I was happy to gaze dreamily at Polge, but then Willem dropped into the frame.

This sounds like it is a combination of passion project, and effective promotional tool of UE4. I am hopeful. 

Translocator, Enforcers, 3 Domination spots please.

Or I guess I could just go on to the appropriate forums where Willem and Polge will be. 

Yet another crushingly boring step back for Epic. Okay so they are going to one-up QuakeLive just as effectively as UT outclassed Q3A, but it would have been nice for things to have progressed a little bit in the last 15 years / 4 incarnations of UT.

UT3(4) in a new engine?? I'd need to find a really shade of paint to watch dry to top that. 

will be exciting if they went back to what made the game was so good in the first place. Bold designs in levels and themes, this means bright colours, sky scrapers, space ships and floating levels in space, ancient temples and cathedrals. Robots, vampires, army guys and aliens. Exciting variety of music, techno, drum and bass, rock music, trance.

It has to be bold, it has to be bright, it has to be beautiful. If it fails on any of these points, if it is a brown boring mess like UT3 then it will fall flat on its face. Hard. 

"but then Willem dropped into the frame."

My sincere apologies. There really should have been a warning on the screen or something... 

...Willem was the chubby blonde, right?? 

Technically there was a warning, I didn't have the tab up until they announced you, then I went and looked. I should have specified that my dreamy gaze merely changed targets.

I posted a few threads on the forums, but they got lost among debates of Lightning Gun versus Sniper Rifle.