I still think QTE can be done well.

But it seems I'm on my own there. 

There should always be a "just show me the video version" option for QTEs. Seriously, they suck.

The first time I played Tomb Raider I had a lot of trouble with the QTEs. There seems to be some issues on the PC with certain video settings or something. The buttons simply don't respond. The second time I played, it wasn't so bad for whatever reason.

I highly recommend sticking with it. I absolutely hate 3rd person shooters, yet I would rank Tomb Raider 2013 as one of the best games I've ever played. 

Bluff Eversmoking is some fine video gaming in and of itself. Love that map.

BlOps2 took me only 8 hours, but then I discovered I got an ending I didn't like, and realized the game had 16 different endings. So that made me appreciate it a little bit more. That and I liked the ability to configure my abilities and inventory before every level.

I actually did "finish" Fallout New Vegas. Got my character to the base game max level, did most of the quests in each area, and completed the primary story arc for the NCR. Got 86 hours of that game, slow start but I really enjoyed it. 

Quakis it is worth persisting. The QTEs are fucking pointless shit (and very obviously so, god knows how they got left in), BUT they do get sparser later in the game and the pure atmosphere / spectacle more than compensates for them. 

havent played it for a while but it was one of the great games, and some of the community maps/packs (albeit mostly needing UT) were of staggering quality. 

Been Playing this game called

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Requiem:_Avenging_Angel

It's like a cross between Quake II and Undying and it's pretty good.

It's on Isozone, and it runs on Win 7 using wndmode.

http://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Requiem:_Avenging_Angel 

Was pretty good fun at the time. Turn to salt power especially. 

Great game. Received it on a CD when I purchased an ATI Radeon card for my old Macintosh.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_Cop:_LAPD 

I know I'm preaching to the choir here, but I've spent probably half of the last two days playing maps I made for Doom almost 20 years ago and it's hard to believe how well that game has held up.

As soon as the Quake map I'm working on is done, I may have to go back to Doom mapping for a bit. 

Oh Philippe, Philippe...
It is the Doom 3 Cacodemons. 

 

Any old Mac users remember Swoop by Ambrosia Software? Such a fun game. I still have an old Power Mac 8500 running Mac OS 9.2.2 and it's always a blast to set it up and play this for a few hours. 

Played lots of Ambrosia games back in the day though. Barrack, Apeiron, Bubble Trouble, the Escape Velocities.... 

actually looks enjoyable in this video -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncPK1r_igqk

I like the building your own fort aspect of the game a lot. 

So yep Tron Evolution did massively suck. 6.0/10. Not much more to say, they even fucked up the score.

Bioshock 2 - 9/10. Better than the original game. The gameplay was just more polished with better weapons and while the graphics were similar, there were more underwater vistas instead of just darkness everytime you look out a window. But overall not that different to the first game just more of the same.

Venetica - 7/10. Possibly even more. Just a pretty average RPG/adventure game. Graphics are a little dated, it's definitely not AAA, but also very much worth playing through. Pretty addictive 15-20 hrs.

Next on my list is either The Ball, Two Worlds II or MOH.

I think after I've reviewed everything from 2010 I'll stop doing these reviews - when I started there were only several games a year, 2010 there's 40, 2011 I've got a list of almost 70 games to play. Fuck reviewing all that, it'll be a chore just playing half of them. 

and just 32MB of RAM.

Holy f@ck! 

http://store.steampowered.com/app/302390/?snr=1_4_4__106_2 

kona, just review the one you think that are good or unique. 

kona, just review the one you think that are good or unique. 

A review of a really bad game is just as useful as one of a good game. Maybe even better. It helps me to avoid wasting money. 

Yes, but then Kona has to buy and play shit games just so you can avoid them. Sounds like a great deal for Kona. :) 

I was kind of assuming the game was already purchased. I wouldn't waste much time on reviewing a bad game either. Just say "this one sucked, move along". 

Yeah I could just do the ones that I think are really underrated. The hidden gems.

Buy over 60 games in 1 year? Screw that, I only buy the good ones, or the big ones like rpgs unless steam has a good deal going. The shit ones I torrent anyway, most of them just aren't worth the money they ask, even 5 years after release the publishers still think they're worth $20+. Nope. Sorry Willem I know you hate pirating hehe. 

Games have gotten pretty bad in recent years, at least from my perspective. So I tend to rely on Steam specials a lot also. I think the most I've paid for a game in the last 3 years was $20 for Tomb Raider 2013 (might have been $25).

I don't like much of what's been released lately so I just stick with old favorites and only try newer stuff when it's cheap enough that I don't worry about wasting the money if I end up not liking it enough to play (like Batman). 

It's actually quite good to be a few years behind and not playing a game on release. Gives it time for mods to come out, patches to fix shit, and the price to come down. I've never paid full brand new retail price for a game.

Anyway this weekend I played:

The Ball - 6.5/10. Looks great but puzzles get boring really quick. Decided not to finish it even.

Medal of Honor - 8/10. Pretty good, nice realistic setting, good combat. I miss FPS's. Short though at only about 6 hrs.