Tabe Posted January 2, 2014 Share Posted January 2, 2014 I really think it's bullshit that multiplayer trophies are tied to the platinum trophies. I mean, it makes sense for some games (COD, Battlefield, the like), but for most games...come on. Let me get a platinum without suffering through your half-assed attempt to cash in on the multiplayer craze.Especially when you get games that shut down their multiplayer, making the platinum impossible. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Domino_Not_Deuce Posted January 2, 2014 Share Posted January 2, 2014 I had no idea that the new Broken Sword game had been released. George and Nico are the real video game super team. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Fresh Posted January 2, 2014 Share Posted January 2, 2014 I wish Activision would release Extinction Mode from Call of Duty Ghosts as a standalone download for $15. It looks like fun, but I have no interest in the rest of Call of Duty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cliff Hanger Posted January 2, 2014 Share Posted January 2, 2014 Scribblenauts Unmasked. Posted more details in the DC thread in the books section, but suffice to say this game was made for DC trivia fascists such as me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted January 2, 2014 Author Share Posted January 2, 2014 BTW - for those with a Gold Xbox Live subscription (and the hard drive space) - Sleeping Dogs is the Free for Gold game to the 15th. I assume this is 360 only as I have no idea how the promotion is working (if at all) for the One Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tabe Posted January 2, 2014 Share Posted January 2, 2014 Near as I can tell, I'm about 3/4 of the way through the single player campaign for Tomb Raider. Fun game, nice graphics, but the storyline is stupid. Lara's constantly heaving breathing gets a little worn out after awhile too. There's a couple spots where the solutions to puzzles* are a bit annoying. Like one I dealt with last night, I had figured out the solution but I wasn't doing it quite right based on where I was standing. I needed two things to explode at once and had to shoot from spot X and not spot Y even though the solution should still work from spot Y. The game also has a lot of "you can't climb this easy-to-climb thing" that you see in Uncharted. Dear 3rd Person Game Developers: Review Assassin's Creed for how to handle climbing things. Still, having a good time playing it after a month of ignoring it. * - I hate, hate, hate it that games give you companions and then those companions are useless when it comes to working out puzzles or whatever. You're in a group of 5 people trying to escape some deadly thing and your companions go mute as to possible solutions? AAAAARRRRRGGGGGGHHHHH. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muhammedboehm Posted January 2, 2014 Share Posted January 2, 2014 Actually Tabe I love that idea. So you have companions and they can help with the puzzles BUT there's also chances what they say or do just fucks everything up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zimbra Posted January 2, 2014 Share Posted January 2, 2014 The music levels in Rayman Legends are like pure concentrated joy. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Koch Posted January 3, 2014 Share Posted January 3, 2014 I'm also playing through Tomb Raider and the missus noted the same thing about Lara's 976 line style heavy breathing. Fun game so far though. Tried to beat the PSN version of Golden Axe without continuing. I used to be able to beat the game on one life. Damn old man reflexes. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimLivingston Posted January 3, 2014 Share Posted January 3, 2014 At 110 hours of Xenoblade Chronicles. Good lord, this game. This awesome, awesome game. Need to finish up Golden Sun: The Lost Age so that I can move on from my DS Lite to my 3DS XL, for which I have New Super Mario Bros. 2 and Monster Hunter Tri Ultimate. Also downloaded Project X Zone, which looks fucking sweet. Also need to get going on grinding my Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition 2012. Want to be ready for Ultra when it comes. Puzzle Quest 2 is my favorite $5 I've spent on iPad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jiji Posted January 3, 2014 Share Posted January 3, 2014 Permadeath games are making a comeback. Demon/Dark Souls, Don't Starve, FTL, among others. And Darkwood, which isn't out yet but looks amazing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimLivingston Posted January 3, 2014 Share Posted January 3, 2014 Yeah, one thing about New Super Mario Bros. 2 is that you really can't lose. You just keep trying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lamp, broken circa 1988 Posted January 3, 2014 Share Posted January 3, 2014 the souls games dont have permadeath Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jiji Posted January 3, 2014 Share Posted January 3, 2014 True, it's kind of a half-measure. I'm terrible at them, so it was more or less permadeath for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Death From Above Posted January 3, 2014 Share Posted January 3, 2014 The other thing is how much new "adventure" games hold your hand. Quest markers and all that shit. Been playing the original Fallout and fuck me, a decade of games that hold your hand and you're pretty ruined when you actually have to pay attention, and actually look around. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salads Posted January 3, 2014 Share Posted January 3, 2014 Arcade games were hard because they wanted your money, then early console games added difficulty and experience points to artificially extend them because they were really expensive. When people talk about hard games and how good it felt to beat them that's usually because those games are good enough to get away with it. In games like SMB (or perhaps Souls for a modern example) you have fun even in losing so you go into the game happy in the knowledge that you probably won't win and then one day you do because you've been getting better over time and that's a wonderful bonus. 90% of games aren't that good so if they are hard you play them, you lose and you don't get the satisfaction of overcoming the odds because the only enjoyment is from progress and that alone is not worth the high effort investment. For these games, making them easy is best for the player who wants to avoid frustration and for the developer who wants their work to at least be seen. I haven't played NSMB2, but it looks to me like it's designed for handheld play by being a score attack game you can always pick up and play rather than about getting from the left side of the levels to the right. Being sent back to world 1-1 or having to farm for lives would make the game less appealing for five minute bursts. They leave the Actually Trying To Kill You to the console games where you're more likely to sit down and plug away until you get through rather than be likely to end the session on a down note. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tabe Posted January 3, 2014 Share Posted January 3, 2014 I'm ok with no permadeath. I'm 41, I don't have the reflexes to get through games anymore if they have permadeath. And I have no interest in paying for a game and not seeing all of it anymore. But, hey, I did at least beat the very first Super Mario (many times) back in the day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CSC Posted January 3, 2014 Share Posted January 3, 2014 I say this as a 26 year old father: Kids these days have no idea how hard video games were and they learn nothing. My 3 year old plays some interactive learning tools on the tablet for about an hour a day but Im talking about slightly older kids, playing actual games. My partner has two boys from a previous relationship aged 5 and 7. They each have a 3DS with New Super Mario Bros. This might be the easiest Mario game in the history of the world. There are no penalties for dying. No continues. No starting back from World1-1. Completely agree, It took me a couple nights to beat the game and by the time I was at World 3 I had accumulated over 60 lives and had absolutely no fear of dying. I feel sad that children will never know the joy of hitting that turtle *just right* on the staircase up to the flagpole to squeeze a few merciful lives out of the game and delay your inevitable death for half an hour longer. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted January 3, 2014 Share Posted January 3, 2014 So who else is addicted to Marvel Puzzle Quest? I loved the first Puzzle Quest on the DS an I am a Marvel junkie. It is crack. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Casey Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 So, if you have Xbox Live Gold, Sleeping Dogs is your free game until January 15th. And wow, that game is fun and addicting. I was actually going to buy it a few weeks ago, glad I didn't, since it's free and all. First game that's ever made me dizzy, though. My only complaint is the camera/wonky angles at times, especially while driving. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raziel Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 So from the football thread I know people play it... Is Path of Exile as awesome as it looks? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shylock Posted January 6, 2014 Share Posted January 6, 2014 I just bought and played most of Assassin's Creed 3. And while I like some of it the whole bug-ridden nature of the game is off putting. Mission icons not showing up or just flat out disappearing (I lost the last assassination contract I had in New York because of this), other such things like that. Another example: I just did a mission where they spotted me (red icons above their head, but not yet "detected") and the icon went to white and the guy just kept looking at me and wouldn't go back to his old post even though they usually turn away after a while. Is Black Flag plagued by the same problems? I'm interested in getting it eventually, but if it is I might put off until I find it for as cheap as I found AC3. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
assfax Posted January 6, 2014 Share Posted January 6, 2014 Metroid Prime 3. Things that are dumb: when you have to do one of those long, involved, Ghostbuster containment unit routines for a simple switch. Also don't like how unreliable the grapple-whip lock on was on that hectic part where you're trying to blow up an AA gun and all these asshole flying guys come in and tip the shit back. The z-targeting also loves to decouple from the goddamned badguy you're trying to keep in view. There also really needs to be a quicker way to switch to the scan visor. Holy shit that's getting tedious. Especially if you are investigating shit and then the big giant head pipes in with some bullshit that makes you wrench your thumb all the way down to hit the tiny button near your wrist. Other than that, fucking great. Does seem like I end up just rapid firing because the charge shot is only worth it if both you and the target aren't moving. First time an enemy gives you a phazon overload seems like a cheap game over when you didn't know what the hell was happening. AND there's no way that robotic guild navigator isn't going to be super goddamned evil and fuck you over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JLSigman Posted January 6, 2014 Share Posted January 6, 2014 So from the football thread I know people play it... Is Path of Exile as awesome as it looks? Yes. And it's actually honestly free, no F2P walls of crap. I play through Steam with no problems except occasional lag. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tabe Posted January 6, 2014 Share Posted January 6, 2014 I finally finished Tomb Raider last night. Keep in mind that I *DID* like the game as I give my thoughts: - beautiful graphics. This is a really good-looking game. It's not Uncharted 2 or Ni No Kuni but it's really, really good. - as I mentioned before, the pornographic breathing/gasping/grunting of Lara is realllllllly annoying after awhile. - those ultra-gruesome death animations that turned people off? Loved 'em. - the game was reaaaaaly repetitive. Hey look, ANOTHER sequence where Lara is sliding down a hill on her back and has to shoot obstacles in her way. Or it's cutscene #371 that involves Lara bouncing and falling until she gets a fingertip grip on something. - I know it ain't mean to be realistic but Lara carrying an unsheathed axe the entire game on her leg, and then falling/bouncing/tumbling dozens of times without ever cutting her leg off, was just stupid - I liked that the bow & arrow remained a useful, viable weapon throughout the entire game. I was still killing bad guys with it on the very last level - Wish they'd made Lara little beefier. She weighs like 90 lbs in the game and really needs to be more "athletic fit" than "model thin". - Way too many sequences of Lara bouncing from huge heights and landing back first on concrete without injury. Makes the one or two sequences where she's actually hurt and has to seek out medical attention stick out really badly - The storyline is a convoluted, incomprehensible mess. It's all over the place and ends up just being stupid. Something about an ancient queen cursing an island and her crazy followers kidnapping a friend of Lara's. It's a mess. - stuff that just doesn't make sense: Lara has to do all this highwire act stuff to get from point A to point B but her other crew members don't. Or she has to do all this crazy stuff to get up to someplace and then CARRIES A PERSON while coming back down. - the final boss fight was way too easy. The fight before that one was a lot tougher - I ran into more than one occasion where I had to look up a puzzle solution on Youtube - only to discover I was actually doing things correctly just not from that one single pixel the game wanted me to be standing on. There's also a few occasions where the game simply doesn't give you enough visual information for the solution it's expecting - As I mentioned before, waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too much "you can climb here but not here" stuff, like in Uncharted. You're telling me Lara, who can scale mountains, can't climb onto a dock from waist-high water? Or climb a gate that's 10 feet high and has footholds? Somebody call Ubisoft and ask to license the engine used for the AC series. - Another gripe: there's plenty of times where you're expected to make a jump that's really long - longer than jumps that you'll have tried earlier and failed on. Hate that. - the game takes awhile to get going. The last third is really intense and fun though. So, anyway, a good - but not great - game. It's a blatant ripoff of Uncharted but doesn't reach that series' heights. I think they've laid a solid foundation for a great Tomb Raider 2 though. 7/10. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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