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TRINE 2: Meh. Pretty game but all kinds of puzzles that extend the game length without really making me have more fun.
Giana Sisters: A sort of portmanteau of Super Mario Brothers and Link to the Past. Really fun platformer with beautiful graphics.
Forza Motorsport (x): Physics are great and I love the rewind feature when your opponents pit move you on some bullshit.
Trackmania Turbo: Fun little racing game that reminds me of San Francisco Rush but on rails.
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We went all in and got a PS4 Pro, the Skyrim gear, and Farpoint w/gun. This is an amazing setup. It has really made Skyrim a new game again. And Farpoint gets pretty exciting.....but I hate space spiders jumping at my face.
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First, I finally decided that "cut scenes" are not gameplay. They are boring as hell, and in the Witcher 3 this is exacerbated by long sequences of dialogue without any choices (even fake ones like Mass Effect's). That the story is good is highly questionable. Yes, they have excellent delivery, but the plot, etc... the quest to find Ciri is just and excuse to meet important NPCs andsolve their issues. The strongest aspect of the narrative is actually the ambiance and use of european folk lore.
Second, I finally feel what Barnes said about "open world garbage". The same sword and enemies can have different levels. Dissonance between main story and nature of the game (I have to find Ciri, and check every message boards on the whole realm!). At one point I entered the game's expansion appropriate level, and a whole bunch more message boards appeared. But the worst offender is how rare enemies are at an appropriate challenge level. This causes difficulty spikes or boring fights, but... really its worst sin is how un-thematically it is. I'm a Witcher, akin to a medieval Space Marine. Genetically modified to slay monsters. But a bunch of dumb bandits can kill me in two hits, and I have to chip their health, just because they're 10 levels higher than I am. Further emphasize that playing on the most difficult setting is bullcrap.
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Unfortunately, the whole thing is threatened to be derailed by a baroque and over-designed weapon crafting system that never should have been implemented. I don't want to figure out how best to optimize my weapons for each character, nor do I want to scroll through a long list of weapons I've collected to see what I can combine into something better. Just give me one better weapon (melee, ranged or both) to find for each character every once in a while and be done with it. Or give me one weapon that I can slap upgrades on or off, but enough with the weapon collecting nonsense.
Another nitpick is that I wish there was a greater variety of named enemies - I really didn't need to fight Blitzwing twice while only fighting Starscream, Shockwave and Soundwave once each - but my inner 8 year-old appreciated the fact that the game gives you a legion of nameless generic Decepticons that you get to straight up destroy.
Despite our quibbles we really liked it and were disappointed that a sequel isn't forthcoming, especially since they keep churning out garbage Transformer movie tie-in games in lieu of ones based on the G1 era. I read that Transformers: Fall of Cybertron is good so we may check it out once we get further through our backlog of other games.
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I've played the first few hours of Wolfenstein 2 and here is the verdict. It does not beat DOOM. Even though you start out IN A WHEELCHAIR rolling around and blasting the shit out of Nazis. So far it's really good- great even- but I'm also not as immediately taken by it as I was with The New Order or The Old Blood. There was a sequence early on that I thought was EXTREMELY off-putting and unnecessary- it may have been one of the most brutal scenes of violence I've ever seen in a video game. Including all of the tongue-pulling, eye-gouging, and skull-crushing in DOOM. I think the idea was to really sell the audience on the main villain, but I was kind of OK with "cartoonishly sinister Nazi lady" being enough to fire me up.
I don't know though, I play it and I just want to go back do an arcade level or trial in DOOM.
We played A LOT of Nidhogg over the Thanksgiving holiday...
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Spent some time with the mobile Animal Crossing Pocket Camp. While it looks and sounds like Animal Crossing, this is NOT the Animal Crossing you know and love. But if it funds development for a proper game on Switch, I suppose it will have done its job.
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Gary Sax wrote: I've heard that game goes places and largely actually earns its twists and violence. I want to play Wolf 2. But then I'm more into video game story than you are.
I actually really liked (and was surprised by) the story in the other Wolfenstein games- they really did a great job of selling the alternate history and making Blazckowizkc (sp) a really cool character lots of great supporting characters to.
So far “the scene” still bugs me...I just kind of think they went a step or two far with it...and then there is a quite grisly follow-up to it that I felt was also a little over the top.
But yes, there are some interesting rumblings in the story already.
My kids have been playing Blaze Rush non stop..:it’s some 3rd tier top down racer on PlayStation Now. It’s pretty fun to play with them- definitely an RC Pro-Am/Rock N Roll Racing vibe.
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Michael Barnes wrote: making Blazckowizkc (sp) a really cool character
Jesus, Barnes, you’ve been writing about games for over a decade; please learn how to spell Corey’s name correctly.
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There is no reason to play the board game ever again. It tracks all the fiddly nonsense and enforces the rules.
However even with the “New Story of Civilization” it’s all about military. Everything else, if you fall behind, you can catch up through good play. If you fall behind in military, it’s a death spiral that will make you miserable until you decide to resign.
That is not necessarily good or bad, just something you have to consider if you like in a game. I don’t like it — I don’t mind conflict but this is both unfun and unthematic: usually wars between closely matched powers are equally ruinous. Here winning by one point is enough to completely insulate you from consequences. Hard to excuse when Risk got it right 60 years ago.
That said, the app is great and I can’t stop playing.
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Enjoying TYPESHIFT and BONZA on iOS. Just wordgames. I am a softy for those.
ZELDA: BotW still going. I am duking it out with some boss inside a Giant Stone Camel now. Such is life.
The new party game in the house is JAKCBOX COLLECTION #4. Specifically CIVIC DOODLE, where folks team up on some drawing/art and vote for the best updates. Tons of fun.
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Enjoying TYPESHIFT and BONZA on iOS. Just wordgames. I am a softy for those.
ZELDA: BotW still going. I am duking it out with some boss inside a Giant Stone Camel now. Such is life.
The new party game in the house is JAKCBOX COLLECTION #4. Specifically CIVIC DOODLE, where folks team up on some drawing/art and vote for the best updates. Tons of fun.
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