The rooms are pre-made but arranged randomly when you start the level. The environments are very simple and easy to navigate with little to no Z-axis fighting occuring apart from in a few rooms or if you have flying enemies attacking you.

The rooms are intentionally generic I think because you don't know what you will be fighting in there, and the enemy variety and combinations are what make ziggurat fun, along with your character build and weapons.

I was initially worried that the character build stuff was too shallow as there were only a few choices in the first game I played. However the system is quite interesting in that you can unlock new "cards" which are then added to the card pool that is randomly picked from when you level up or find reward crates in the maps. This slowly increases the build diversity as you play the game and has kept things very interesting on each new game.

You can unlock new playable characters in the same way. These characters have modifiers to certain stats or new traits that others are missing. One can move faster than others etc.

It really comes down to if you like random roguelike elements in your games. I think Ziggurat does it very well. The combat feels like Doom and the enenmies are very well designed in this regard also. They have great tells and you can avoid all their damage if you engage correctly.

The only thing I don't really like about the game is that the enemies visual design is all over the place and very silly in areas. For example there are giant carrots that chase you :P I think the game would feel cooler with a more concise design for all the enemies. 

Yeah I forgot to mention that sandstorm level in MW3, but you're right that was an awesome level. It reminded me of Heavy Rain from L4D, only not annoying. 

Just got a PS4 (my first console since the sega master system) only to realise I can't go and play all the console/ps exclusive games I missed because you can't play ps3 games on a ps4. Fucking what?

I can play PC games from the 80s on my current rig, yet I can't play anything prior to about 2013 for the playstation. Absurd. 

PS3's processor/architecture is supposed to be a development hell, it might have been too costly to integrate or emulate. PS3 can emulate PS1 and got emulation capabilities for PS2 later in it's lifecycle.
PS2 emulation is only for popular games iirc, the lower-level the emulation of the hardware the more precise but also orders of magnitude slower, more efficient higher-level emulation often need hacks for compatibility with some games. I guess Sony didn't want angry customers with their old obscure game having glitches.

But yeah, it's BS to the end user. 

it wasn't that bad. The Xbox/360 was easier since it didn't divide the memory allocation, and because you're building on one MS product to put it onto another. 

Ya feel the gentle slide of a greedy dick up your arse there Kona :D ?

Seriously what did you expect from Sony ?
You forgot what they pulled with the PS3 ? Linux, PS1 emulation... Features that were real quick to disappear.

At least they didn't claim this was going to be possible with the PS4 at any point. Right ? 

Do they use a serial key or something similar?

I found both and a expansion for PK on a second hand store for 1 euro, look almost as if they were new, but i can't find the key on them, and a videogame without a key has almost the same value as downloading it from Piratebay, so i am doubting about buying them, as i don't like to have a permanent reminder of a bad purchase in my home. 

They come from that era, so I would expect such. 

http://imgur.com/a/InefF neat :D 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMli33ornEU 

.. just posted exactely the same on General abuse thread :) 

Wrapping up my AW review, and beginning the slow descent into Dark Souls - as I rarely get to game for more than 10 minutes at a time, sessions will probably be few and far between. Got 30 minutes last night at a cost of sleep. 

Bulletstorm yesterday. Cool game actually. Some of the lines, while juvenile, are pretty fucking funny. Especially when general sarrano shows up. Pussyzilla and the part where a big ugly miniboss shows up and grayson says to trishka "hey trishka, your boyfriend's here" really cracked me up. Then a plank hits it in the head and he falls into the lava while you just stand and watch.

The developer did a much better job at this type of game than serious sam 3 and dnf.

Combat all pretty good, the levels looked fantastic, some of the best and biggest set pieces at the time (feb 2011) that had ever been done. Only thing wrong was the extremely linear progression and ridiculous clipping everywhere. But really it's no different to many games like COD. It's a shame Bulletstorm was a massive flop, there are far worse games that have multiple sequels. 

I picked it up on steam a few months ago for next to no money with 0 expectations and enjoyed the shit out of it. 

I've played through Bulletstorm twice now and really love it. It didn't get the love it really deserved and I think the humor and language were what held it back. 

I think BulletStorm could have greatly benefited from a more sandboxy/open-ended approach. There were some really amazing vistas I wish I could have gone to and run around, but invisible walls blocked my path :(

Even if it was more Borderlandsy in its approach but kept its combat system would've been awesome. 

I was thinking the same in comparing it to Borderlands while playing, Zwiffle. If only it had the Borderlands sandbox, I'm sure they could have still progressed the story the same but added more to it. I guess that kind of game is much more time consuming to create though. 

There was humour in it??

Ummmm okay then.

Also what Zwiffle said.

The combat was fun though. It's almost like the opposite of a polished turd - a gleaming solid core, drenched in an overwhelming amount of diarrhoea. 

I'll kill your dick. 

Would be mildly amusing par for the course if said in #terrafusion.

Between a couple of charismaless bellends in a game, meh. 

Yes ... #terrafusion is LOADED with charisma. 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLkHA-W8KFA 

Left 4 Assassin's Island? Or Dying Creed? You decide:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rusp3PRC-UA

90 minutes of gameplay, TBH after watching 9 mins of gameplay I'm pretty sold on it. Looks like it does what it says on the tin. 

Anyone here play Divinity II and it's expansion? I just got finished it and really enjoyed it. A good proper RPG with everything you want. Not the best around the time it was released, but worth playing. It was released in 2009 but updated in 2011 and merged with the expansion. Not quite as good as Dragon Age and Two Worlds II, and The Witcher had a better story as well, but probably better than the other fantasy rpg's around 2008-2010.

Only thing that really annoyed me was a lack of direction for quests, you really need a walkthrough for some parts.

The expansion is like a full game, 10+ hours, except I found there's just a few too many quests within the same pretty small area that takes up the whole game. Boss battle I could have done with my eyes shut I was so powerful, but then that's the satisfaction of rpgs isn't it.

Pretty easy 8/10.