• Rate the Last Game You Played v1: Stolen from the Films Forum
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Thread title, basically. Not every game has a subforum or megathread so there's no real place to about them no matter how much you have to say. So, get what you want to say about that game off your chest, or pop in for a reccommendation. I'll go first. Sleeping Dogs (Definitive Edition) A Martial Arts GTA-esque game, this game got a GOTY Edition with a graphics polish released on the current-gen consoles and PC. It's a crime thriller about an undercover cop infiltrating a Hong Kong triad to bring it down from the inside, you may have seen the film a million times but now it's a video game where you can do the kicking and the punching and the very sudden spikes of brutal violence that come out of nowhere simply because the opportunity presented itself in the scene. If you're ever in a situation where a kung fu fight might go down and there's spikes, hooks, exposed wiring, or railings around just say no and walk away before that mild-mannered hidden badass skewers you up the gooch with a railway spike that was laying around. Anyway, gameplay. It's GTA but with more hand-to-hand fighting and far fewer guns. The Arkham-style fisticuffs are responsive and satisfying but lacks some polish that that series has had time to get down, like how in Arkham City Batman can counter two mooks with a fighting move that works into that. Here you might get attacked by two guys and get hit in the middle of the counter move. Maybe. It's a bit hectic with me so it's hard to tell. Either way, very fun and most of the common cool Kung Fu moves are in there. The gunplay is so-so, coverbased GTA 5 style only there isn't a lot of it until the second half of the story missions. Regular dudes also take way too many bullets to kill without a headshot, it's kind of ridiculous. Driving is also very unrealistic, very much working on movie rules with how cars perform and have "plot armour", whatever your current car happens to be is able to turn police cars and such into a wreck with a few siderams. You can jump from one car or bike onto another and that's cool. All in all, gameplay-wise it's a satisfying game with the punchy-kicky combat getting more and more fun with each upgrade and new move. Presentation-wise, it's gorgeous. Hong Kong looks amazing. Characters look a bit waxy but it's not an AAA release with access to LA Noire faceripping technology. I don't have much more to add really, there's some good tracks on the radio, some of which I like to listen to outside the game but I've only listened to one station out of 8. Now the story, it's clichéd but the characters are likeable and hateable along the intentions of the writers so it's at least competant. Got some famous names like Lucy Liu and James Hong, and they don't feel like stunt-casts either. In summary, it's a competant game, largely imitating some of the genre-defining big boys with it's own unique flavour of being martial arts themed and pulls it off well. At 22 hours (and I still more to play with the 2 story-rich DLCs included) for £3 or $4.45 during this Summer Sale it's a bargin. It also has 'Girls Just Want to Have Fun' and 'Take On Me' in a Karaoke minigame tl;dr It's 100% Serious Yakuza or Diet Shenmue. GTA with more fisting and less firing. Now you show me yours.
Phantom Forces in Roblox. I have a thread for it. Basically a COD clone in Roblox, but actually genuinely good and fun. https://my.mixtape.moe/umgwah.webm Features the following: More guns than you can shake a stick at (seriously, the guns are the main reason to play); Shockingly high-fidelity gun models and punchy reload animations (by Roblox standards); Actual bullet projectiles affected by gravity, with velocity and penetration statistics unique to each gun; Progression system, unlock more guns as you level up and unlock more attachments as you use a gun; EXTREMELY shit maps, complete with spawn camping and bad objective placements; In-depth weapon customization (sights, accessories, attachments, ammo types); Crisp and clean character hitboxes and weapon sights; 3 gamemodes (TDM, Domination and KOTH); Cosmetic-only lootboxes with keys, both given out generously (with a metric-ton of really, REALLY gaudy skins); In-game currency to unlock guns and attachments early or purchase more lootboxes; Grenade spam; Netcode made out of strings and ducktape; Very smooth movement system, complete with vaulting, drop-shotting and crouch-sliding; Skill-based weapon handling including accurate aiming down sights, heavy recoil and inaccurate hipfiring; No matchmaking to speak of, prepare to mercilessly stomp kids in the pavement.
Shuyan Saga Interactive comic book/graphic novel with fighting mechanics designed for a smartphone. It has a generic Kung Fu plot. My review: Shuyan Saga is £15, took me 3 hours to 'play' through once, and has no Toph Bei Fong. Avatar: the Last Airbender on DVD is only £20, is longer, and has Toph Bei Fong. I bought it during the sale and got it for only £3, one pound for every hour.
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