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Saints Row: The Third - 8/10. I was really not looking forward to playing this, the first game was enough of a chore to get through. But SR3 is much better in most areas. Most notably it doesn't look like shit, you don't have to play through hours of retarded minigames, it's not far too long. It really does the overdone action game so well, the main character (for me a women in both games because I always play the chick if I have the choice) is the biggest badass female game character I can think of.
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier - 7/10 It's just battlefield but a bit more of a slow pace. More stealth, more sniping. And less fantastic visuals because a few of the levels look pretty average. The engine itself looks good though, but goddamn the thing has some issues. I've had to quit about 4 times just to recover memory because the framerate became unplayable. But overall fairly fun realistic fps in the usual modern war settings. Don't upgrade to Windows 10, honey.
Solitaire, Minesweeper, and Hearts Games that come pre-installed on Windows 7 will be removed as part of installing the Windows 10 upgrade. An update for Ziggurat is out with new characters, perks, enemies and other things.
http://steamcommunity.com/app/308420/discussions/0/535152276586294216/ Ziggurat is fun to play... The mechanics are there for a decent authored game too. It would be super sweet if there was an editor. :)
Very nice free game:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/253030/ Simple game but nicely made unlocking upgrades as you go, chasing the sunset. Normally don't like infinite runner games, but this has a lot of charm. It was only free for yesterday! They were celebrating the iOS release by making the Steam version free for a day.
It was made by a friend of mine who I worked with at Raven. They have a world editor in the game! I made one with pink bunnies early in the game's life It's very nicely made, not my usual type of game but I'm quite liking it.
Looks like I saw the news late but still managed to d/l within the window of opportunity. problem with painkiller remake was less enemies and completely fucked hitboxes, making it a piece of shit.
I didn't care much about the missing levels Do you like Point and Click adventure games? Do you like gritty sci-fi? Do you like really creepy gritty sci-fi? Do you like stunning isometric visuals? Do you like Mark Morgan? If yes, then you'll love STASIS. I have completed the backer beta (took me 6 good hours) and I can't wait until the final game hits release at the end of the month.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/380150/ http://tevisthompson.com/saving-zelda/ is worth reading. About the lost spirit of the.original zelda game.
It's a long old read, so here's the tl:dr version:
"I liked thing as child. New thing isn't same as my nostalgic childhood memory of original thing, therefore it sucks". You're welcome. Dunno if point and click isometric adventures are my thing but that looks like it could convince me - very strong gritty style in the shots.
Very interesting stuff. Good on them. Also, lighting looks really good and the armour looks incredible.
not sure spending 1000s of hours on sword movement was the best choice of time given that the visuals of the game look decent, but certainly not the best of upcoming games. cryengine should be pretty capable.
http://i.ytimg.com/vi/_D48PCFshHg/maxresdefault.jpg I won't say no to a new IP rpg though :D Looks more interesting than the gameplay... I get the impression they get stuck on realism, which should be a source of inspiration but not a limitation.
Not saying knights should be able to fly or leap tall buildings in a single bound, but the combat itself seems to be very static. The fighters just come together to whack each other after which they break apart. Compare the game's combat dynamism to this scene: https://youtu.be/7L8ByreRfUo?t=70 Granted, it's the opposite extreme - everyone makes sure to hit each other's sword as much as possible and the SFX guy is having a field day, but they're also moving around a hell of a lot more. It'd be cool to see them go a bit more gamey. And see some gore... Just got finished DX:HR. Not as good as I was expecting actually. Maybe I'm spoiled having just played Rage. Well actually I did play Alan Wake in between but didn't enjoy that much (6.5/10). But coming in to Deus Ex, the 4th highest rated game of 2011 after Skyrim (duh), Portal 2 (very, very overrated, I couldn't even be arsed to finish it) and Arkham City, I was kind of expecting it to look a little better than it did. Extreme post processing, making everything blurry and glowing to hide a lack of detail. Cramped alleyways, dull grey corridors, there were only a few moments of visual awe, mainly from skyboxes. Most of the skyboxes were bad, like you could see jpg compression all over them. Only the last mission had some sense of scale to it, the rest was just small cramped areas. Enough of Detroit already!!!
It was far from a sci-fi Assassin's Creed in visual standards, to be honest. Considering the game has a fairly small area (and loads between areas?!) it should have looked even better than AC or Arkham City. The combat was okay, once I unlocked the cloaking I enjoyed it more. Cloaking and double-melee takedowns were certainly the way to play. The guns were pretty useless, apart from the shotgun I never seemed to have ammo for anything anyway. I think I really only used the handgun for headshots and the shotgun for closeup, I took a tonne of ammo for my upgraded heavy rifle in for the boss battle, and all I got was 3 robots to take out? People go on about no boss battle in Rage, but at least what it did have was a challenge, the DX finale was not challenging at all. In fact the entire last mission of DX was piss easy, where's all the shit to shoot? By far, for me, the police station at the start was the hardest part because I fucked it up and had them all on alert. Oh and taking out the bartender then having an entire club of assholes trying to rape me in the toilets as I crouch in the corner with a shotgun. The story was decent, the stealth was kind of fun, and I don't normally like stealth much. But the cloak made it fun. I didn't like sometimes how you could kill 1 dude away from the others and suddenly the entire base is on alert. The hacking got annoying pretty quick, I eventually just found a wiki full of all the codes so I didn't have to do that anymore. It did rpg upgrades pretty well, but by the end all of what I needed I had, so I had about a dozen praxis kits with nothing to really use them on. Needed more upgrade options. 8/10? Almost 8.5/10, but not quite. I think if this game was named something other than Deus Ex, it wouldn't be as well received as it was. It's one of those games that if you like it, you're in the elite pc gamer club (COD being the opposite). Just my thoughts on it :D
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