I'm also still playing Assassin's Creed 2 (since I bought it just a few weeks ago), and I'm actually gonna give it a 9, because I kinda enjoyed it more.
Believe me, the ending is the payoff.
It's so great and epic. I really want to spoil but can't.
And now Gamespot states AC: Brotherhood's ending is even more crazy. Hard to believe.
Believe me, the ending is the payoff.
It's so great and epic. I really want to spoil but can't.
And now Gamespot states AC: Brotherhood's ending is even more crazy. Hard to believe.
They definitely like those "What." endings, don't they?
And now Gamespot states AC: Brotherhood's ending is even more crazy. Hard to believe.
My cousin had decided not to get Brotherhood. I just told him this, and received this reply: "...shit". I think I can safely assume his mind has been changed.
Good thing, too. I only have a Wii and don't want to play the PC version, so I had to rely on his Xbox to play the first two games.
Absolutelty LOVED the first one on the PS3. I still loved this one, but not quite as much. Having to visit the same maps over and over get boring. But the gameplay is still mucho fun.
A great game, but loses a point because of the bugs that detract from the experience - luckily I didn't see a game breaking one but still had my fair share of glitches and crashes. Still, got an enjoyable 80 hours out of it, and I figure I can get another 10 to 20 hours of play time through two of the alternative plot lines and a lot more when I replay it in evil mode! Also, there's always the option of playing through it just by killing everyone and everything. And not forgetting the DLC packs, the first of which is out next month. Hopefully there will be a good, working patch out before then.
Disappointed. It has a great visual style, funny dialogues, but the gameplay is just so BORING and REPETITIVE. It certainly has it's moments, and exploring the world was fun for a while, but still, it all gets very old so quickly, that when I talked to Eubrick (the old adventurer) about how to kill Von Prong (hoping to get a quest to go and kill him) and got a set of quests which would send me all over the world for different items, AGAIN... I just thought 'screw it'. Probably will finish it a month or so later, after I rest from it, just to see the end.
Not to mention that the role-playing system is very one-sided, the adventure element (After all, this was supposed to be a hybrid of a Diablo-like RPG and an adventure game, i.e. adventure-like puzzles) is practically non-existent, most of the items are totally useless and the only interesting battles are the ones with Greem queens and with Sergeant Orque.
To be honest, I think Schafer and Gilbert are losing their touch. Psychonauts, DeathSpank, and I suppose Brutal Legends (suppose, because out of the three this is the one I haven't played myself, only heard others' opinions, so I can't really judge it), they have great ideas, visuals, stories, but the gameplay itself becomes so boring and uninteresting that eventually you have to force yourself to go further the storyline and it's only a matter of time before you give up.
Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness Episode 2 - 9/10
Man that was fantastic. Wish the final boss was a little more challenging, but it was great fun. So so so so sad it's not going to have another episode.
I enjoyed this far more than I expected I would given the premise. The story and dialogue was great and I was never bored playing it. Will eventually play though the other games in the series.
Comic Jumper: The Adventures of Captain Smiley - 7/10
This is, without a doubt, the funniest game I've played all year. Bar none. Sorry Telltale, Sam & Max came a good second, but Comic Jumper has the most wonderfully childish yet dark sense of humour I've ever come across in a game.
Unfortunately, the whole 'game' aspect is where the problems lie. It's basically a 2D sidescroller where you move with one control stick and control which direction you shoot with the other stick. Which is fine in practice, but the game decides that 'increased difficulty' means 'more enemies with their projectile attacks that are nearly impossible to dodge'.
So while the demo level (the first one) gives you a good example of how the game plays, it utterly fails to give you a grasp of how difficult it is. And it is difficult. Especially on the Manga levels, where everything's in black-and-white and you can't even see the projectiles half the time. This is not conducive to good gameplay. This is just clusterf**king.
When it's good, it's brilliant. When it's not, it's an anger-inducing smorgasboard of frustration. And that's how I'd sum up the game in three words. A hilarious clusterf**k.
Also, the 'He Ain't Even Married' achievement can go f**k itself.
Believe me, the ending is the payoff.
It's so great and epic. I really want to spoil but can't.
And now Gamespot states AC: Brotherhood's ending is even more crazy. Hard to believe.
I'm at the point where I have to find those damn codex pages. Gonna take a while. And I'm NOT buying Brotherhood until I finish AC2.
I loved Hotel Dusk and was ecstatic when I heard that there was going to be a sequel and after playing it I'm not disappointed in the slightest. I think I'll actually read the novel that unlocks as you play the game now. And I hope that there will be another game in this series in the not too distant future.
The best entry in the series so far. It did a great job as a prequel, it was finally a full-featured Kingdom Hearts game on a portable, and the Command Deck system is the best control scheme the series has seen so far.
Loved it. It improved on the already-great Assassin's Creed 2, and the multiplayer is neat, too. The ending, however, was more of a "WWWWWWHHHYYYYYYYY?!" this time instead of a "What." like AC2's. I preferred AC2's.
I just finished the second half of the Dragon Knight Saga, Flames of Vengance.
And it was a blast, perfect ending to the cliff hanger ending to the first half. (Ego Draconis)
I was a little disappointed that I didn't play as the Dragon that much, as I love Dragons and some of my favourite time spent in the first half.
But that doesn't grade down from the fact that the game has a gripping story, and really funny gags through out the entire game. The quests was really nice thought up, and the mind reading ability was better used in the second half, as it's useful every time you talk to someone and gives you more options to finish a quest.
So I will grade it a full 10/10, it's an amazing game, and I have to play it though again as there was a lot of things I missed the first time around.
There is always something new to experience in the game, and there are many ways to play it and develop your character.
I can't wait till the next instalment, and see what Larian Studios comes up with next.
Don't buy it tho, since it went to Steam Cloud it's full of bugs and a lot of times you loose saved games.
Also, no more parody of Zombie Michael Jackson from Thriller
not finished per se, but I have unlocked all the tables, decks and TF2 items, as well as obtained all Steam achievements except winning a hand with a straight flush.
It's inexpensive, fun, replayable, easy to pick up and delivers enjoyable amounts of fan-service. However, the graphics seem to require higher specs even to prevent cursor lag than Sam&Max S3 does; bugs still crop up here and there; and after a time the ingame dialogue can get repetitive.
If this game were to have additional DLC available for it (in the form of dialogue or background characters especially, but also more decks and/or tables) I would buy them, and as it it right now I would say the game is well worth the money, but I have to deduct points for the bugs and higher specs, given that in the end it's only a poker game.
Puzzle Agent. I'd give it 4 out of 5/9 out of 10/900000 out of 1000000. It was great, but there really was no ending. It felt like it was the first episode of a full season (please please please...)
I've finally completed a couple of games! Let's see...
Wolfenstein3D - PC 8/10 For the first ever first person shooter they did pretty well. It's certainly quite a fun game. It can get a little repeatitive though; open door, clear room of bad guys, pick up all items, run around all the walls hitting spacebar in the hope of finding a secret... that sort of thing. Strangely though, it's that repeatitivness that has kept me entertained most of the time.
And Yet It Moves - Wiiware 9/10 I love the design of this game, but even more so I love the gameplay. Take a jump, stop the world, rotate it and land on what used to be upside down. There's quite a few interesting obstacles (sp?), my personal favourite being the swing. It got seriously difficult at the end though, not necessarily a bad thing, but there were a couple of parts that seemed almost too hard. Music was... interesting, but then I can't imagine any other style of music going with this game. As unusual as the music is, I'd say it fits the game like a glove.
I'd like to say I've finished Osmos as well, but the darn game is a lot harder than it looks.
It isn't that bad except for the fact that it crashes (or freezes) every 5 or so turns and if you are lucky enough, after 15 or 20 turns it will crash with an "Out of memory" message (And the game has a couple of annoying game related bugs)
If the game gets fixed, I'll say 6/10 mostly for balancing issues.
If they solve the imbalance (and bugs), then 8/10.
If the game concept suits you and if you buy it before the 31st, you'll get the first expansion for free (If you bought it before November 1st, you'll get the first two expansions free)
Back to the Future: The Game: Episode 1: It's About Time: 3/10
Simply awful. 3 points for incidental elements like voice acting and music and the like, but it seems they forgot the "The Game" part of the title and, at the last minute, hurriedly shoved some bits in where you get to walk between scenes.
The first two Pokemon Rangers were honestly decent games. This one was just... bad. It was repetetive and I couldn't wait for it to end and be over with. And the writing. THE WRITING. "That's unforgivable. I'll never forgive them!". Ugghhhhhhh.
Man oh man did I have fun with this game. I got it on Christmas and finished it a week later with 20 hours played. My only problem was that they made it too hard to be a good guy during the second half. I had to sit there just so my money would build up. Otherwise, a fantastic game.
Got a present, people were laughing and had their fun, i ignored this type of game up to now but i gave it a try, canceled it on Level 18 because it felt like Pogo Joe from the C64, you can't just loose, i was left with the question, why do casual games get background graphics you can't fully see and which adventures would deserve, game was Bejeweled 3 on OSX, rating enjoyable, understand why people get hooked, i'm off the hook again.
I love this game. It's one of the most imaginative and entertaining FPS's out there. Running around the Tron universe, beating up people with the disc, riding lightcycles (even if they do throw in power-ups and stuff), hearing all the computer jargon... It's just great.
If you can track down a copy, make sure you get the unofficial 1.42c patch and the Killer App mod, which between them include about a bazillion fixes.
Half-Life 2.
9/10. One point missing because I could've enjoyed it a hell of alot more if my PC weren't so laggy, by the last chapter I had to turn on subtitles.
Golden Sun Dark Dawn - 9.5/10 Absolutely fantastic game and a great follow up to the previous two Golden Sun Games. The characters were fun and the setting/music/graphics were as gorgeous as ever, and when a game makes me forget the first half of it is essential a giant fetch quest, it's doing things right. I don't think it quite hit the heights that Lost Age did (that game is rank 2 in my top ten games of all time and remains so due to being one of the most epic RPGs I've ever played, topped only by Shadowhearts: Covenant and Persona 4 which tie for the number one spot) but it's pretty dang close. Well worth the 7 year wait, that's for sure. I just hope Camelot doesn't leave us hanging for another 7...
King's Quest VI - 9.5 - The game was amazing! Extremely good after a disappointing fifth game. The game avoids dead ends quite well, and I would have given it 10 if there were none of them at all. Now only one game left for completing the collection, (in the Adventure Bundle,) and then it is time for The Silver Lining!
GRID - 9/10 - for me, the best racing game out on PC. The feeling of speed is incredible and the Flashback feature is very nice indeed. Amnesia: The Dark Descent - 8/10 - most horrifying game I ever played. Maybe it's a little bit short and sometimes repetetive, but absolutely worth it.
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I enjoyed it, though I felt it could have used a bit more variety. Gonna be sad when I finish Episode 2, though.
Really fun, can get repetitive and frustrating at times.
Replaying it as Deathspank.
Believe me, the ending is the payoff.
It's so great and epic. I really want to spoil but can't.
And now Gamespot states AC: Brotherhood's ending is even more crazy. Hard to believe.
They definitely like those "What." endings, don't they?
My cousin had decided not to get Brotherhood. I just told him this, and received this reply: "...shit". I think I can safely assume his mind has been changed.
Good thing, too. I only have a Wii and don't want to play the PC version, so I had to rely on his Xbox to play the first two games.
Absolutelty LOVED the first one on the PS3. I still loved this one, but not quite as much. Having to visit the same maps over and over get boring. But the gameplay is still mucho fun.
Imma give it a solid 7/10.
A great game, but loses a point because of the bugs that detract from the experience - luckily I didn't see a game breaking one but still had my fair share of glitches and crashes. Still, got an enjoyable 80 hours out of it, and I figure I can get another 10 to 20 hours of play time through two of the alternative plot lines and a lot more when I replay it in evil mode! Also, there's always the option of playing through it just by killing everyone and everything. And not forgetting the DLC packs, the first of which is out next month. Hopefully there will be a good, working patch out before then.
Disappointed. It has a great visual style, funny dialogues, but the gameplay is just so BORING and REPETITIVE. It certainly has it's moments, and exploring the world was fun for a while, but still, it all gets very old so quickly, that when I talked to Eubrick (the old adventurer) about how to kill Von Prong (hoping to get a quest to go and kill him) and got a set of quests which would send me all over the world for different items, AGAIN... I just thought 'screw it'. Probably will finish it a month or so later, after I rest from it, just to see the end.
Not to mention that the role-playing system is very one-sided, the adventure element (After all, this was supposed to be a hybrid of a Diablo-like RPG and an adventure game, i.e. adventure-like puzzles) is practically non-existent, most of the items are totally useless and the only interesting battles are the ones with Greem queens and with Sergeant Orque.
To be honest, I think Schafer and Gilbert are losing their touch. Psychonauts, DeathSpank, and I suppose Brutal Legends (suppose, because out of the three this is the one I haven't played myself, only heard others' opinions, so I can't really judge it), they have great ideas, visuals, stories, but the gameplay itself becomes so boring and uninteresting that eventually you have to force yourself to go further the storyline and it's only a matter of time before you give up.
Man that was fantastic. Wish the final boss was a little more challenging, but it was great fun. So so so so sad it's not going to have another episode.
I enjoyed this far more than I expected I would given the premise. The story and dialogue was great and I was never bored playing it. Will eventually play though the other games in the series.
This is, without a doubt, the funniest game I've played all year. Bar none. Sorry Telltale, Sam & Max came a good second, but Comic Jumper has the most wonderfully childish yet dark sense of humour I've ever come across in a game.
Unfortunately, the whole 'game' aspect is where the problems lie. It's basically a 2D sidescroller where you move with one control stick and control which direction you shoot with the other stick. Which is fine in practice, but the game decides that 'increased difficulty' means 'more enemies with their projectile attacks that are nearly impossible to dodge'.
So while the demo level (the first one) gives you a good example of how the game plays, it utterly fails to give you a grasp of how difficult it is. And it is difficult. Especially on the Manga levels, where everything's in black-and-white and you can't even see the projectiles half the time. This is not conducive to good gameplay. This is just clusterf**king.
When it's good, it's brilliant. When it's not, it's an anger-inducing smorgasboard of frustration. And that's how I'd sum up the game in three words. A hilarious clusterf**k.
Also, the 'He Ain't Even Married' achievement can go f**k itself.
Funny, and very realistic (character animations are impressive), but nothing more than a hilarious poker game.
I'm at the point where I have to find those damn codex pages. Gonna take a while. And I'm NOT buying Brotherhood until I finish AC2.
I loved Hotel Dusk and was ecstatic when I heard that there was going to be a sequel and after playing it I'm not disappointed in the slightest. I think I'll actually read the novel that unlocks as you play the game now. And I hope that there will be another game in this series in the not too distant future.
The best entry in the series so far. It did a great job as a prequel, it was finally a full-featured Kingdom Hearts game on a portable, and the Command Deck system is the best control scheme the series has seen so far.
I thought it was too action oriented and the story was kinda bland
Loved it. It improved on the already-great Assassin's Creed 2, and the multiplayer is neat, too. The ending, however, was more of a "WWWWWWHHHYYYYYYYY?!" this time instead of a "What." like AC2's. I preferred AC2's.
And it was a blast, perfect ending to the cliff hanger ending to the first half. (Ego Draconis)
I was a little disappointed that I didn't play as the Dragon that much, as I love Dragons and some of my favourite time spent in the first half.
But that doesn't grade down from the fact that the game has a gripping story, and really funny gags through out the entire game. The quests was really nice thought up, and the mind reading ability was better used in the second half, as it's useful every time you talk to someone and gives you more options to finish a quest.
So I will grade it a full 10/10, it's an amazing game, and I have to play it though again as there was a lot of things I missed the first time around.
There is always something new to experience in the game, and there are many ways to play it and develop your character.
I can't wait till the next instalment, and see what Larian Studios comes up with next.
Great game, but I definitely felt that it dragged along in places. Much more interesting than God of War I.
BEST. ENDING. EVER.
Don't buy it tho, since it went to Steam Cloud it's full of bugs and a lot of times you loose saved games.
Also, no more parody of Zombie Michael Jackson from Thriller
You do know you can turn Cloud off if you want to?
Treat the cause not the symptom.
Btw I use more than 1 computer, I need it on
not finished per se, but I have unlocked all the tables, decks and TF2 items, as well as obtained all Steam achievements except winning a hand with a straight flush.
It's inexpensive, fun, replayable, easy to pick up and delivers enjoyable amounts of fan-service. However, the graphics seem to require higher specs even to prevent cursor lag than Sam&Max S3 does; bugs still crop up here and there; and after a time the ingame dialogue can get repetitive.
If this game were to have additional DLC available for it (in the form of dialogue or background characters especially, but also more decks and/or tables) I would buy them, and as it it right now I would say the game is well worth the money, but I have to deduct points for the bugs and higher specs, given that in the end it's only a poker game.
Wolfenstein3D - PC 8/10 For the first ever first person shooter they did pretty well. It's certainly quite a fun game. It can get a little repeatitive though; open door, clear room of bad guys, pick up all items, run around all the walls hitting spacebar in the hope of finding a secret... that sort of thing. Strangely though, it's that repeatitivness that has kept me entertained most of the time.
And Yet It Moves - Wiiware 9/10 I love the design of this game, but even more so I love the gameplay. Take a jump, stop the world, rotate it and land on what used to be upside down. There's quite a few interesting obstacles (sp?), my personal favourite being the swing. It got seriously difficult at the end though, not necessarily a bad thing, but there were a couple of parts that seemed almost too hard. Music was... interesting, but then I can't imagine any other style of music going with this game. As unusual as the music is, I'd say it fits the game like a glove.
I'd like to say I've finished Osmos as well, but the darn game is a lot harder than it looks.
3/10
It isn't that bad except for the fact that it crashes (or freezes) every 5 or so turns and if you are lucky enough, after 15 or 20 turns it will crash with an "Out of memory" message (And the game has a couple of annoying game related bugs)
If the game gets fixed, I'll say 6/10 mostly for balancing issues.
If they solve the imbalance (and bugs), then 8/10.
If the game concept suits you and if you buy it before the 31st, you'll get the first expansion for free (If you bought it before November 1st, you'll get the first two expansions free)
Simply awful. 3 points for incidental elements like voice acting and music and the like, but it seems they forgot the "The Game" part of the title and, at the last minute, hurriedly shoved some bits in where you get to walk between scenes.
The first two Pokemon Rangers were honestly decent games. This one was just... bad. It was repetetive and I couldn't wait for it to end and be over with. And the writing. THE WRITING. "That's unforgivable. I'll never forgive them!". Ugghhhhhhh.
Man oh man did I have fun with this game. I got it on Christmas and finished it a week later with 20 hours played. My only problem was that they made it too hard to be a good guy during the second half. I had to sit there just so my money would build up. Otherwise, a fantastic game.
I love this game. It's one of the most imaginative and entertaining FPS's out there. Running around the Tron universe, beating up people with the disc, riding lightcycles (even if they do throw in power-ups and stuff), hearing all the computer jargon... It's just great.
If you can track down a copy, make sure you get the unofficial 1.42c patch and the Killer App mod, which between them include about a bazillion fixes.
This game reminds me of everything that used to be good about Sonic. Hopefully this is Sega's new quality standard.
God of War was good. God of War II was better. God of War III was a fantastic way to end it. It was nice to see Kratos
9/10. One point missing because I could've enjoyed it a hell of alot more if my PC weren't so laggy, by the last chapter I had to turn on subtitles.
Amnesia: The Dark Descent - 8/10 - most horrifying game I ever played. Maybe it's a little bit short and sometimes repetetive, but absolutely worth it.