Metal Gear Solid V The Phantom Pain
5-6/10, fun gameplay, great music and visuals but lackluster in every other category. The story loses its focus right after the first mission and you're forced into grinding generic missions with more or less the same objectives and the story is non existent for about 80% of the game, the characters have 0 depth and all but maybe one are interesting, the villains are a joke as are the 'bosses'. If only it followed the theme of the trailers and didn't get bogged down in the open world mechanics. No idea what Kojima was thinking, not even the cut ending saves the story.
Fallout 4
6/10 - Expected something more.
Bioshock 2 8/10
I accidentally killed one of the little sisters and now I get a bad ending. :(
Other than that, the new plasmids don't feel spectacularly better than Bioshock 1 and neither do the new weapons. The new environment is a treat though.
Serious Sam 3: BFE
9/10, looking forward to SS4.
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Deus Ex - 7/10
Will need to play it again with GMDX so i can understand the what was changed with Revision's map changes (which were apparently few and far between). Playing the game for the first time with Biomod/Revision might had not been the best idea.
However, everything else is pretty damn good.
[QUOTE=Highwind017;49208942]Deus Ex - 7/10
Will need to play it again with GMDX so i can understand the what was changed with Revision's map changes (which were apparently few and far between). Playing the game for the first time with Biomod/Revision might had not been the best idea.
However, everything else is pretty damn good.[/QUOTE]
playing deus ex for the first time with the revision mod
im sorry for u
Max Payne 3 - 9/10 Best movie I've ever played.
Replaying to complete it on all the difficulties, the latest being Hard setting.
MW2 6/10
Still not completely sure why Sheperd bothered to kill the 141. The missions were pretty cool in general though. I don't like the cliffhanger-ish ending with Makarov still being a problem and all.
Halo 5 8-8.5/10
The story was good but it was very obviously a bridge story and they could have done a better job of tying the ending up rather than just an abrupt halt.
The legendary is almost as good as Halo 2 in difficulty and despite the coop forcing someone to play the main characters I had a blast with friends. Skulls were a decent challenge to get in some cases and the Intel is fun to look for.
[URL="http://store.steampowered.com/app/317400/"]Portal Stories: Mel[/URL] - [B]7 out of 10[/B]
A community-made prequel for Portal 2. The visuals are great, specially considering it's a mod. Though they look more generic, lacking a little bit of Portal 2's visual storytelling.
The puzzles are excellent. They're very hard and, in my opinion, very creative. You really have to think outside the box to solve them.
The story was a letdown. Wouldn't exactly call it bad (not all of it, at least), but it fell really short of what Portal 2 did. The characters were nowhere near as interesting and deep, and the story was boring. It's like they took Portal 2's story and threw out everything that made it good.
Dead Space 2: 6/10
Dead Space 1 was better imo; 2 didn't have enough variety (objectives, enemies etc) to qualify for any title other than "more of the same".
There were a lot of design fuckups too, especially the final boss. The final boss instakills you if it touches you, you have interface screw throughout the fight and there are a large number of endlessly spawning mobs.
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines (with latest unofficial patch)
Even though the game has a few obvious weaknesses (bulletsponge enemies, too much RNG in combat and less than optimal gunplay) I did enjoy it quite alot. The atmosphere is just super dope from the start and many side quests require you to pay attention to detail. The main quest progresses mostly linear until before the end, when you get to pick a faction ending, but it makes up with a good mysterious plot which makes you doubt every character involved and still offers some room for personal choices, just not very radical ones; you could in a way compare it to the classic Deus Ex in that regard.
Fallout 4 - 8/10
Good game. Alot to do, factions, but the main questline got boring really fast. Nobody cares about Shaun aswell. Companions are sometimes annoying. AI is OP in combat.
Transistor - 5/10
Just meh all around. The art style is beautiful but the story and combat just made me wanna do something else. Not to mention no point to the backdoor trials other than music tracks that I rarely listened to since it'd stop playing after you left the room. :s:
Etrian Odyssey 2 Untold: 9/10.
Technically I beat it months ago, but I only beat the extra dungeon and final boss recently (which is about 1/7th of the game).
The best Etrian Odyssey yet, even if the name is a bit of a handful.
The gameplay is great, the combat is complex, detailed, and difficult but easy to understand 99% of the time. If you die, it's your own fault. The environments and music are pretty good, the story's not too shabby.
And they introduced some game mechanics that all games should have. Whenever you get to a choice, the default is no option chosen rather than whatever option happens to be first, so you can skip through dialogue you've already seen without worrying about "okay I'll explain it again the 5th time" or "oh, so you want to stick your hand in the blender, okay". And skills tell you specifically what stats they use for their damage.
The grimoire system is pretty great too, much improved over the first Untold. Basically, grimoires let your characters choose extra skills regardless of class, or buff their own skills. There's an element of chance to it, but that sense of gambling is kind of fun. Plus, if you desperately need a grimoire of a specific skill, you can read a QR code to gain another player's guild card. You can then trade for the grimoires they attached to the card any number of times you want. And some poor sods grinded out max level grimoires for every skill and put the QR codes online.
Only real issue is that it gets grindy towards the end, but it's a JRPG dungeon crawler, what do you expect. Plus, you can abuse the DLC to gain levels pretty quickly.
By the way, the way Atlus handled the DLC was fantastic. Basically, the DLC is released in waves, and if you go online the first week or two the DLC is released, you get it for free. There are some that were never free, but they're just the "okay let's be honest, you want to cheat" DLC that let you get an infinite amount of rare buffs. And one thing of DLC that's "defeat all the bosses from the previous Untold game, again", so it's not really new content either.
The only thing I didn't do was beat the final DLC boss, but looking at what you need to put into the strategy, [I]fuck that[/I], that one's for masochists.
Spawn: Armageddon - 8/10
Just replaying.
Firewatch. Short, but real good. So maybe 8/10.
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