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[Jave]

I broke down and got Dyad on steam... but it's not like I wasn't warned, so I've only got myself to blame for that one.

 

I don't think I've ever seen a game so completely unable to handle having new mechanics thrown into the mix while also desperately needing new mechanics to make things even remotely interesting. It's the most fundamental failure of design imaginable. The fact that the creators namedrop Torus Trooper as their inspiration just displays a disgraceful missing of the point.

 

Everyone in the gaming press are high as kites, that's the only way I could understand someone actually enjoying this pointless piece of junk.

[mik]

Whoa. I want Torus Trooper now.

[Jave]

You can get it for free on Kenta Cho's website, and it'll run on practically anything.

 

http://www.asahi-net...ex.html#windows

[SaitoH]

Finished Guacamelee! with all the luchador mask pieces. Spent just over 9 hours getting everything; fantastic game.

[aspro73]

Finished Bully and Serious Sam 3. Now on Chapter 4 of the Walking Dead 9toward the end).

I've been listening to the Player One spoilercast after each episode, it's a wonderful complement.

[Killer_App_23]

Almost finished with Ratchet & Clank all 4 one, then debating wether to get Luigi Mansion 3DS or Guacamelee. Probably will end up getting both =P

[TheKurichan]

I did a Pete Dodd and bought Fire Emblem for 3DS off the estore, even though I have no money. Fuck you video games. It's a great game though.

[aspro73]

I think I'm going to go with good ole console bombast this week and play Resistance 3. 

[Owozifa]

I got a gift copy of Still Life so I've been playing that. (It's funny how much you feel like playing something that's a gift.)

 

It's an adventure game from the guys what made Syberia and it shows. Nice backgrounds, pretty ugly characters even for a game from 2005. I'm used to that playing adventure games, but what kind of irks me is that this is supposed to be a murder mystery game and there have been moments when I'm doing some investigating and it feels good, but the interface seems clunky and not designed for analyzing the crime scene like you'd think it would be. Some of the puzzle design is also very mechanistic. Decoding combinations and all of that.

 

It's funny but while I like those kinds of puzzles honestly, it doesn't really fit the setting of this game. In Syberia messing with that kind of ludicrous mechanical crap made sense, but here I'm trying to catch a killer and for some reason everything is locked behind some crazy combination! Coroner would love to give me the file on the murder victim, but he forgot the safe combination. No problem he wrote it down! But for some reason this safe doesn't use numbers it uses symbols that correspond to numbers that you have to decode, which is insanity! Who makes safes like this?

 

Adventure games.

[Owozifa]

I enjoy all kinds of adventure games. That said, I'm not sure I'd rush to recommend you Still Life as an underrated classic. Too many slide puzzles. Too much frustrating interface. And the ending? Well, let's just say this is a murder mystery where you don't end up solving the mystery. What a wet noodle.

[Compeau]

I played some Chu-Chu rocket last night.  It's exactly how I remember.  I wonder why they never made a version for DS/3DS/Vita?  It seems perfectly suited to touchscreens.

[SickBoy]

I was playing Uncharted: Golden Abyss while on the road over the past week... I think I'm pretty much done with Uncharted. I'm enjoying it well enough and it certainly holds its own against the other games in the series, but I'm not in any way feeling greatly excited about it. UC2 really hit for me... I wish I could put my finger on what it had to make me love it.

 

Makes me a little concerned about The Last of Us, which could disappoint if it's mostly Uncharted with some freaky creatures.

Edited by SickBoy, 07 May 2013 - 11:21 PM.

[Compeau]

I was playing Uncharted: Golden Abyss while on the road over the past week... I think I'm pretty much done with Uncharted. I'm enjoying it well enough and it certainly holds its own against the other games in the series, but I'm not in any way feeling greatly excited about it. UC2 really hit for me... I wish I could put my finger on what it had to make me love it.

 

Makes me a little concerned about The Last of Us, which could disappoint if it's mostly Uncharted with some freaky creatures.

 

How do you feel about the shoehorned-in Vita controls?  Every time I had to use the touchscreen to do a rubbing, I got taken out of the game.

[SickBoy]

Yeah, they've been pretty silly so far... perhaps worse is the early reaction to it from other characters: "holy crap, you're doing a charcoal rubbing? THAT'S AMAZING!"

[Compeau]

Yeah, they've been pretty silly so far... perhaps worse is the early reaction to it from other characters: "holy crap, you're doing a charcoal rubbing? THAT'S AMAZING!"

 

Just wait until you get to the part(s) where you have to point the camera at a bright light, but it won't register until you fiddle around with it for five minutes.

[SickBoy]

Wife and I had a quick getaway in the U.S., and I appear to have lucked out by finding a copy of Life of George (the Lego iOS game) on clearance at Barnes and Noble. It was open -- which probably helped -- but thanks to the power of YouTube, I was able to confirm that everything that was supposed to come in the box was there. Fun little game, especially for $7.50.

 

Also tried the demo for Monaco on XBLA (more space in the Xbox fridge, thanks PS+!) and I kinda dig it. I bet it's 80 times more awesome in multiplayer, but I question whether any of my friends would really give it a fair shake.

 

Otherwise, still plugging at Skyrim (I think I just plowed past 50 hours... that's a big time commitment for me, although I'm at a stage where I think I'm going to start focusing on the main quest pretty exclusively... I ran out of lockpicks and that annoys the hell out of me.)

[Jave]

Call me a glutton for punishment, but I re-downloaded Ninja Gaiden 3 Razor's Edge. I needed an adrenaline fix, and since I already own it, the problem solved itself.

 

This time, though, I'm not above temporarily flipping over to easy when some part of this game has my ass. I think it's telling, though, that starting back at the beginning, I did in 2 hours what took nearly 10 on my first go around. It's absurd how often the game grinds to a halt over certain setpieces.