Awesome, I wonder if it's dedicated to me. Murphys Law suggests it's probably the worst game of all time. 

and my bike is a Kona. 

I agree that the humor and voice acting suck whale spleen, but the gameplay is solid (apart from some melee enemies being able to hit you from longer range than they should) and the first area is gorgeous.

I found it was most enjoyable with voices and subtitles off. Seriously, you'd think people would have learned after DNF to not take a 3d realms title and say "what if we made this halfway between serious and over-the-top tasteless, to the point where it's not funny but still embarrassing to show your Asian friends?" 

It was okay in the original game in an excentric-chinese-swordmaster tongue-in-cheek sort of way. The new ones try to pick up on the humorous tradition, but instead of making the main character "likeable silly", they made him stupidly annoying. It's over the top and mostly unfunny, feeling like it's aimed at 12 year-olds. Kind of like the writing in Bulletstorm. 

The gameplay wasn't all bad; mostly arena-based though and the levels were linear. Which is a shame considering the original game allowed for some nice exploration. 

The new ones try to pick up on the humorous tradition, but instead of making the main character "likeable silly", they made him stupidly annoying. It's over the top and mostly unfunny, feeling like it's aimed at 12 year-olds.

Just like Duke Nukem Forever, then. Awful. 

Muuuuuch better than DNF. 

So why was this one panned anyways? I just played through the space section and it was fucking phenomenal. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezuDHfDhrP0 

Cod people are weird with anything that's not just the standard military stuff. Check out the like bar on this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeF3UTkCoxY

lmao. 

for the next few days. This is the dlc with all the near future stuff https://www.origin.com/en-gb/store/buy/battlefield-4/pc-download/addon/battlefield-4-final-stand 

Is anyone else here a massive phaggot for the Samorost/Machinarium games?

In case you didn't know Samorost 3 is out: http://samorost3.net/

Look at that style. Unnnngghhhhhh. 

 

It was panned in actual because of technical problems undermining it on PC, the initial MP balance was off (took far too much work to unlock basic things that were quickly within reach in earlier games - they patched this, but didn't apply it retroactively, so they just lost those players), people had acclimated to weaker weapons in the franchise so this one's MP felt "melty" with how quickly you could die, and the levels on the whole were a little bit bigger on average, with more vertical elements, which combined with a few inventory decisions made camping much more viable than it had been in a while.

I've not heard any actual serious complaints about the campaign, I thought it was pretty good, with some really great moments. Linear as all get out, but largely in situations where that isn't a huge problem. I did love the space fight sequences, the underwater bit was actually kind of creepy, the dog wasn't overused, and when you get a hold of the super weapon near the end? I found that rather satisfying.

Now, that's not to say it is worth $60... I got a review copy... I might still play its MP once in a while if that patch had applied retroactively. But yeah, the sp is pretty good for that sort of game. 

Get this game. This is basically a mix of Super Metroid, Dark Souls and Castlevania. And it is totally bloody amazing. 

It's Dark Souls with just one dimension removed, but oh god do I hate that character design. Looks cool apart from that. 

This is basically a mix of Super Metroid, Dark Souls and Castlevania

It's more a mix of Dark Souls, Dark Souls and Dark Souls, tbh. 

In fact, fuck it 20 years ago. 

I'm not hugely fond of the aesthetic of salt and sanctuary.

The game doesn't look appealing to me and castlevania and dark souls are two of my favourite games 

is such a lovely crafted one. I really love the previous two.
Thx Kinn for the reminder!
To all others, go get it!

Salt and whatnot, good, but no DS vibe in any way to me.

Hail 2D and handpainting! 

That art style is a very a poor imitation of Braid.

Who the fuck imitates Braid in 2016? 

Braid was great... the art style was made by people far more artistically competent. 

Braid had a very well-designed and cohesive art style.

However, I prefer my 2D games to be proper limited palette pixel art at 240p resolution with a realistic-looking CRT scanlines effect. That is the pinnacle for me. Nothing else comes close imo. 

Braid had a very well-designed and cohesive art style.

Yes, it did. Salt And Sanctuary doesn't. 

aging badly
and done a million times before