Everything I've heard is that it's good, but I'm waiting for a price drop to grab it myself.
Well yeah, its what, $30?
Yep. Once it's half that I'll start thinking about it.
I assume you mean X-com, but not Enemy within (new X-COM DLC)I got it for free with the pre-order of Bioshock: Infinite. I considered it paying 25.00 for each
I'm not supposed to buy any new games this close to the holidays, so I forewent buying Enemy Within when it was 25% off from Amazon on Wednesday. I'd better get it for Christmas, dammit.
This is the fundamental problem with the design of FEAR: It wants to be a horror game, but that is entirely impossible as long as you get high power weapons and fucking bullet time. That doesn't mean it's a BAD game... in fact, it's actually pretty good. But it fails to be a horror game on a very fundamental level and it's not until the third game that it even gets close to doing it right.
It's not a bad series. It's just utterly in conflict with it's horror trappings and shooter mechanics.
Who else would have it?
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Downloaded the demo for Sonic: Lost World.
It plays better than any of the 3D Sonic games I've tried (since it's essentially the old 2D Sonic games + Mario Galaxy). I had a hard time at first because the Sonic games I like are from the 90s, and back then the spin dash was king. Spin dash in this is pretty much garbage. However, holding R lets you zip around at super speed, and once I got used to that, I had fun. Not sure if I'd ever buy it, but it might be worth a rental.
Funny enough, I got Dillon's Rolling Western from Club Nintendo and that game does Sonic the Hedgehog in 3D-style controls better than any of the actual Sonic games. Sonic Team might want to check it out.
It plays better than any of the 3D Sonic games I've tried (since it's essentially the old 2D Sonic games + Mario Galaxy). I had a hard time at first because the Sonic games I like are from the 90s, and back then the spin dash was king. Spin dash in this is pretty much garbage. However, holding R lets you zip around at super speed, and once I got used to that, I had fun. Not sure if I'd ever buy it, but it might be worth a rental.
Funny enough, I got Dillon's Rolling Western from Club Nintendo and that game does Sonic the Hedgehog in 3D-style controls better than any of the actual Sonic games. Sonic Team might want to check it out.
Turn on your potato and download it.
We also need a 3rd, we must play true coop and finish this masterpiece.
I've had Darksiders II since the THQ humble bundle, and never played it. So today, I thought I'd give it a try.
I have some complaints. The game is clearly a terrible port, but I knew that going in. There's no way to set up video options before starting the game, the game just starts and forces you to sit through the opening cutscene and then you can finally pause the game at the beginning of the tutorial level to change the resolution. Oh, changing the resolution or increasing the anti-aliasing or ANY video options require that you quite out of the game and do it all again before they'll take effect, so there's that.
I could talk about the terrible level design, at least in the first two levels. Maybe it opens up eventually, but the introduction is nothing but a ton of hallways with no possible deviation, no exploration, and no secrets.
But the biggest sin is the camera. My kingdom for an FOV slider. The camera is stuck so close to Death that I feel like I'm riding on his back. I can't see shit, and even turning a corner in their stupid hallways is a chore because I have to manually sweep the camera from side to side to see where I'm going. I realize these guys are proud of their (poorly textured) character model and his animations, but I don't need to be close enough to take a selfie with every swing.
It's goddamn claustrophobic.
I have some complaints. The game is clearly a terrible port, but I knew that going in. There's no way to set up video options before starting the game, the game just starts and forces you to sit through the opening cutscene and then you can finally pause the game at the beginning of the tutorial level to change the resolution. Oh, changing the resolution or increasing the anti-aliasing or ANY video options require that you quite out of the game and do it all again before they'll take effect, so there's that.
I could talk about the terrible level design, at least in the first two levels. Maybe it opens up eventually, but the introduction is nothing but a ton of hallways with no possible deviation, no exploration, and no secrets.
But the biggest sin is the camera. My kingdom for an FOV slider. The camera is stuck so close to Death that I feel like I'm riding on his back. I can't see shit, and even turning a corner in their stupid hallways is a chore because I have to manually sweep the camera from side to side to see where I'm going. I realize these guys are proud of their (poorly textured) character model and his animations, but I don't need to be close enough to take a selfie with every swing.
It's goddamn claustrophobic.
A Square-Enix feature.
Well nobody's going to like you but it won't matter as you crush them under your heel.
Got Disgaea 4: An Unforgotten Promise a month or so back as the third of a buy 2, get 1 free thing at Gamestop. I heard the series was good, never played any of it before.
I like the humor and voice acting, but I'm having a hard time grasping the gameplay. There's a lot of weird quirks in its approach to tactical combat, with the towers and the combos that sometimes work, sometimes don't. Might have to look up a guide or something.
I like the humor and voice acting, but I'm having a hard time grasping the gameplay. There's a lot of weird quirks in its approach to tactical combat, with the towers and the combos that sometimes work, sometimes don't. Might have to look up a guide or something.
Disgaea is a strange beast. The thing about it is its playstyle is really for the hardest of hardcore grinders. The level and stat cap is something insane, you can enter items to beat levels and make them stronger, there's all sorts of side things like allowing new classes/laws/etc through the courts (not sure if that's in 4), etc etc etc.
I love SRPG games like FFT, Tactics Ogre and the like. Hundreds of hours in most of them. I cannot for the life of me get into Disgaea. I tried the original, 2 and 3, and none of them got more than 6 or so hours before I got bored.
Wow that's IDENTICALLY how I feel about the all of those games.
What I wouldn't give for a re-release of the Ogre Battle games as we only got Part 5 (March of the Black Queen) in the states.
Well, I echo the love for those games and their ilk; tactical RPGs like that are my favorite genre, which is why I'm trying so hard to give this a chance.
I'm gonna keep going for now, but I keep wanting to stop after each battle.