Dead Space 3: gee, lot of average comments about this game and people saying it's just Gears of War. Rubbish. I probably enjoyed it the most. I love this setting, dark claustraphobic atmosphere-rich sci-fi and the last chapters in the alien setting - awesome!! In fact that last level with the planet being pulled into the moon as you fight on it is one of those "best levels of all time".

If people liked the older games being harder, why don't they just put the fucking difficulty up? I started on easy and there was still some tough sections even on easy. But then I realised I had a glitch that was giving me WAY more items out of those boxes, so by chapter 11 or 12 I was pretty much able to max out the rig and create any gun I wanted. So I put it up to normal because it was going to be too easy. The crafting system (once you get the hang of it) is fun, just a shame the military attachment is the only thing worth having.

For the last few chapters I ended up making a custom weapon that was even better out of parts I did legitimitely find (electricity based). The main difficulty in the game is actually just getting caught out in between reloading and the whole monsters spawning behind the player and trapping him in stupid QTEs. Oh and the mini games and on rails sections were pretty bad.

It's really a shame the industry slagged the game off for not being surivival focused enough, instead of just taking it for what it is.

metlslime are you still at Visceral Games? Dead Space 4 coming soon? :P 

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Blacklist - 7/10
Good fun shooter with some sneaky sneaky (because it's too easy to get overwhelmed if you just run in shooting). Good story, good visuals.

Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon - 6/10
The design was pretty shit, the bland neon blue/red theme did nothing for me. Other games have done this setting much better. The weapons are rubbish. Way too many flamer cunts which I hated in the main game. But then the ending was easy. There wasn't any cheesy 80s b-movie humour, DNF was funnier than this. Cutscenes and story boring. It was only a DLC but not far off the price of a full game, whereas this is under 5 hours. I think the idea could work well for a full game though, with full game budget and not cheaper DLC budget. Gearbox could pull it off. 

 

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Small game map iz small. 

It'll be really interesting to see just how open the game map really is in Prey. Apparently you just go spacewalk to anywhere you want with little restriction. That sounds so awesome but I imagine there will be some gating of some kind?

Anyway, seriously looking forward to playing it! 

Being one who bought Dead Space on release date, I was a bit dissappointed with the third entry. I did not like the chest high walls cover gameplay. I found dead space to be about dismemberment and having the odds stacked against you. Dead Space 2 was a happy mix but 3 ventured too far into action for my tastes.

However, I will say once you reach the snow planet it does get more interesting and back to some survival moments. I also enjoyed the side quests of investigating derelict ships along the way. There were certainly great improvements from the previous two.

I was fortunate to play through the game with a co-op buddy and they did have some interesting gimmicks with it. One was having strange visions only happen for one player. I recall my friend freaking out about toy soldiers marching on the floor and I was like :"What are you talking about man?".

It actually conveyed that I thought my buddy was going crazy! 

For me the best part of the game was the very first area where you can float around in space and travel to all the different derelicts and explore all those wrecks. I could easily play an entire game where you are a salvage person scouring an old space battlefield for anything of worth. That shit was great. 

Kona: I am still at visceral. I'm working on the star wars game they are developing.

(And for DS3 i definitely agree that exploring the ship graveyard is one of the high points of the game for me.) 

Sweet, hope it's a winner! I haven't played a really memorable Star Wars video game yet. Dark Forces was good, the two Force Unleashed games okay. Battlefront didn't seem to be single player, I gave it a shot for half an hour and deleted it. And for some stupid reason I skipped Knights of the Old Republic, which is the one I should have played, it sounds like it's a classic. 

Both Knights of The Old Republic games were great. 

Dark Souls clone in extremely boring engineering setting??

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMrGQ9J0lVs

One for Fric maybe.... 

I'm all for Souls style games but this one does nothing for me at all. Their last game didn't grab me either (the medieval style Souls game, forget the name).

Will read some reviews for sure, but i'm staying cautious. 

I played the Dead Space 3 DLC - good stuff. Could easily have been the beginning of the DS4 with its story. Anyway some other games:


Gone Home
Most overrated game in recent memory, 86% on metacritic. In fact it's not a game, it's a journal fetchquest house simulator (which looks crap at that, but it is Unity after all). The journals add up to about five minutes of cheesy narration about a lesbian meeting someone. I wonder if it was two males if this game would have got the same rave reviews. There's something up with the critics love for this game. Trying to be really PC, pro-feminism or something. The game can be completed in 45 seconds ffs. 4.5/10

The Wolf Among Us
Typical Telltale Games interactive story. No puzzles really, just follow the story along making some choices along the way, which don't really make a huge difference to the outcome. But I enjoyed it. Makes Gone Home look like a 10 year old stick figure drawing and this is a Picasso. Better than the Walking Dead ones they did just because that second season of TWD had such a despressing outcome. Not too different to the tv series I suppose. Based on some comic, but pretty much Once Upon a Time tv series in a darker noir setting - I don't imagine too many males watch that (I get forced to because of the gf). 7/10

Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons
Again, more emotional story than Gone Home even without any spoken word. Great art, simple puzzles, I enjoyed it. I didn't enjoy having to constantly hold down keys all the time, it's murder on your thumbs. But everything else in the game is good. Still only a 7.5/10 for me because it's just not my kind of game.

Dead Island Riptide
A game obviously not tested in solo mode, because there are parts in this game that are damn hard by yourself. It's obvious it's intended for up to 4 player co op. The survival sections are awful. However it's a nice sandbox island setting, good graphics. It gets complaints about being no improvement over the first Dead Island, but most franchises don't change much with sequels. It's a new setting and story. That's all COD or Assassins Creed ever get. The last 1/3 of the game became very fun as I finally crafted some better weapons (maybe I should have done that sooner) and had a fucking blast with an electrified katana and weapons laced with fire and poison. Big miniboss cunts that are near impossible when first encounter become a piece of cake as I'd shotgun them with poison, they'd sit their puking their guts out while I headshot the fuck out of them. 8/10 for the last half, just a shame the first half ruins it, but I guess if you like a difficult game it's okay, or grind all the side quests which I didn't really do. Perhaps I could have found that katana sooner if I did. There's trainers for those surivival missions though :D

Call of Juarez: Gunslinger
More from Techland (behind Dead Island). The Call of Juarez franchise has been a bit dead, although I always enjoy them because I love a FPS. The last one was rubbished so it probably didn't help sales for Gunslinger. But, it's actually the best in the franchise and has had an overhaul. Completely new story and characters and no longer trying to be like other games or trying to be bigger than Techland can really do. Now they've just gone for a simple, linear FPS, and it rocks. Graphics are Borderlands style, every level looks great. Gunplay is fun, the guns are meaty - shotgun feels good but most of the time you'll be going for headshots with the dual wield pistols or rifle. Bullet time works. The story is great and creative as the whole game is narrated, and often pulls you straight out of a gunfight to change things up. While the story was a bit all over the place and I wish there was a bit more humour, the way the game is told is one of the most creative I've seen in a game. It's similar to that Dungeons and Dragons quest (was it a DLC) that was in some game a few years ago (might have been Dragon Age) where the dudes keep changing the quest. I played it all in one sitting (about 6 hours) - doesn't need to be longer though. 8/10 

 

 

I mean if the sister was up in the attic dead, and it became some sort of suicide awareness message, it might have meant more imo. 

...that he went into politics because he heard that's the way to get a "mandate" 

The only good thing about Gone Home is the story, and even then it's not that good. 

They should have added gunplay. 

Their last game was Lords of the Fallen. I enjoyed it. Felt solid enough, although too short/not enough world to explore while at the same time providing a ton of different gear in short succession. Almost like they ran ran out of time designing the world and just dropped all the player content in.
Bit of a DS-flavored snack.

No idea about The Surge. The setting does indeed look fairly boring, but then again, I only ever saw material from the starting area. Will probably give it a try at some point. 

It is ridiculous how many Assassin's Creed games there are. They're alongside COD and the many annual sports titles as the cheapest cashcows in gaming. I've played 1, 2, Brotherhood, Revelations, 3, Liberation. They should have wrapped the series up with the end of Desmond. Now they're just spewing them out every year and they don't even have any kind of main story arc, at least with the next one I've played: Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag.

It is the best so far though. Lots of sailing around, although I did get a bit sick of that and the shitty handling of your ship. Way too many "follow without getting caught" and "eavesdrop" missions. I'd be happy if they just did away with those completely. Needed a bit more exploring (I know it's an open world with lots of things to do, but none were proper side quests). I miss some of the times you'd go "dungeon crawling" in the earlier games.

But it was a nice change of pace to have a proper open world and the ship stuff. Good story again (as always), just a shame the main thing with the ancients is not relevant anymore but perhaps they'll figure out how to continue the main story arc in the next lot of games. I've still got the next 3 games to get through. More of the same I'm sure. Then they skipped a year and the next one based in Egypt might be out by end of year.

The two DLC's were nice as well. One was only 40 minutes, the other about 3 hours. 

You can't have a sci-fi game without guns. It would just be weird if it was all melee. I'll definitely play it though. If the developers are big fans of Dark Souls, then it stands to reason that the things they liked about DS would be the same as everyone else, so they would have replicated those in their game. It's due out next month.