Sunday, May 9, 2010
Saturday, October 31, 2009
Bordering On Things
Still splitting my time between Forza 3 and Borderlands. I'm still finding both enjoyable, but I've issues with Borderlands. It's a good FPS, I love the style of it and the way it plays for the most part. But I can't help but take issue with some of the design choices they made with the game. I don't mind that it's mission based as opposed to a storyline, but this leads to repetitive issues. The main thing I dislike is going through an area, then being sent back on a different mission, in the same area, now I wouldn't mind so much but having everything respawn is just tedious at times, and that is probably my biggest gripe with the game.
Respawns are fine, but you should be given an option to respawn an area, and if you have to go back to an area for a mission it shouldn't be the same slog it was the first time. It's probably more of way of giving the player some extra experience points to level up, but it's the one thing that's sort of ruined Borderlands for me, it just makes it feel at times like an artificial way to increase the game length. Other than that at least it's not ridiculously hard and you do get some decent loot at times from redoing an area. Also at least there are decent weapons, I never thought I'd play a game with almost too many weapons to choose from.
Forza 3 I'm still a little mixed on, it's a great racing game, but I keep wondering too myself how it will compare to something like Gran Turismo 5. While Forza 3 looks good and plays well, I just find that it feels more arcade than realistic. I really like the amount you can customise the look of cars in Forza, while I'm not that great at the whole paint thing because I find it a bit frustrating at times, what you can do with it is insane.
Respawns are fine, but you should be given an option to respawn an area, and if you have to go back to an area for a mission it shouldn't be the same slog it was the first time. It's probably more of way of giving the player some extra experience points to level up, but it's the one thing that's sort of ruined Borderlands for me, it just makes it feel at times like an artificial way to increase the game length. Other than that at least it's not ridiculously hard and you do get some decent loot at times from redoing an area. Also at least there are decent weapons, I never thought I'd play a game with almost too many weapons to choose from.
Forza 3 I'm still a little mixed on, it's a great racing game, but I keep wondering too myself how it will compare to something like Gran Turismo 5. While Forza 3 looks good and plays well, I just find that it feels more arcade than realistic. I really like the amount you can customise the look of cars in Forza, while I'm not that great at the whole paint thing because I find it a bit frustrating at times, what you can do with it is insane.
Sunday, October 25, 2009
Finishing Things Up
After finishing Arkham Asylum I put some time into Need for Speed Shift, which I liked to a point but was fairly under underwhelmed with, I think the same goes for Forza 3 though. After putting in a bit of time into it, I doesn't seem to really bring much more to the genre. I'm not sure what I expected over all, something more akin to Gran Turismo, though the GT series has just always felt more solid and slick and just overall more well done. I really can't put my finger on what it is with Forza, sure there is plenty to do, race and customise, maybe I need to look further than just the racing.
I finished Enchanted 2 in the last couple of day, that really is a game worth playing and really does live up to the hype. I never played the original Enchanted for some reason, but 2 is definitely worth checking out. Probably one of the best action games to be released in a quite some time.
So upon finishing Enchanted 2, I thought I'd spend some time with Borderlands. I thought it would be a great FPS style game, but I' not sure how long till I get sick of all the running and backtracking. Also unbalanced are kinda bullshit, trying to play as the guy with the Sniper rifle should be easy but it's just a giant chose to start with, I ended up restarting at level 6 and going with the soldier because the game seems to be aimed more towards close combat, until you upgrade items and can pop people with the sniper file without the lame reload and other bullshit you have to contend with.
I finished Enchanted 2 in the last couple of day, that really is a game worth playing and really does live up to the hype. I never played the original Enchanted for some reason, but 2 is definitely worth checking out. Probably one of the best action games to be released in a quite some time.
So upon finishing Enchanted 2, I thought I'd spend some time with Borderlands. I thought it would be a great FPS style game, but I' not sure how long till I get sick of all the running and backtracking. Also unbalanced are kinda bullshit, trying to play as the guy with the Sniper rifle should be easy but it's just a giant chose to start with, I ended up restarting at level 6 and going with the soldier because the game seems to be aimed more towards close combat, until you upgrade items and can pop people with the sniper file without the lame reload and other bullshit you have to contend with.
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Decisions
I ended up finishing Batman Arkham Asylum a few days ago and it is indeed a great game. There isn't much I can say again it, besides a few boss battles that were irritating but besides that it's a massive game with even more to do once you do finish it. Usually I'd stay away from anything based on a movie license in fear that it will be a quick cash in title, and usually rushed and sloppy. It's nice when something like Batman comes along and stomps on this theory.
I've been trying to get into Need for Speed: Shift over the weekend, and while it's a good game, there just feels like its missing something. It has a fair amount of modes, and you can customise your cars to a fair extent and there are a lot of challenges, but for some reason it just feels strange. I also dislike the AI, I've seen it do some annoying things, like beating you at the last moment to the finish like because you break on a corner where the AI will just ignore the racing line and smash through a corner at top speed.
I would keep playing Shift but my copy of Forza 3 turned up today and I have very high expectation of it, so I think I might put some time into that. Though I also need to start Uncharted 2 and finish WET at some point. Though I really do want to check out Uncharted 2, I need to get onto that.
I've been trying to get into Need for Speed: Shift over the weekend, and while it's a good game, there just feels like its missing something. It has a fair amount of modes, and you can customise your cars to a fair extent and there are a lot of challenges, but for some reason it just feels strange. I also dislike the AI, I've seen it do some annoying things, like beating you at the last moment to the finish like because you break on a corner where the AI will just ignore the racing line and smash through a corner at top speed.
I would keep playing Shift but my copy of Forza 3 turned up today and I have very high expectation of it, so I think I might put some time into that. Though I also need to start Uncharted 2 and finish WET at some point. Though I really do want to check out Uncharted 2, I need to get onto that.
Monday, October 12, 2009
Almost Forgot
One thing I almost forgot to mention in my last post was that I started playing Batman Arkham Asylum after reading so much about it. I have to say that this is one game in a long time that actually lives up to the hype that been around it. It's a really great action game and just seems to do everything well. The difficulty is pretty much spot on which makes you want to keep on playing because you aren't constantly redoing the same thing. It comes off as a fairly large game with lots of ares to explore and riddles to find and solve. Anyway I'll keep playing through the rest of it and see how it goes.
What I've Been Upto Gamewise
So recently between feeling like crap and noting wanting to do much, I did actually manage to redo my gaming set up. I put in a new 42" Panasonic Plasma, the old JVC 32" LCD just wasn't cutting it anymore for me, plus I've had it quite a few years. I also finally replaced my old Xbox360 Pro with an Elite, the fans are much quieter in it, the DVD-Rom is still louder than I like, guess I'm just spoiled by the PS3 which always seems to stay whisper quiet.
I recently finished playing though HALO:ODST. I'm not sure what I was really expecting from it as a game, but it really just feels like a bit of a rush job. The main city it's based in is just a constant mass of similar looking roads, huge buildings and crossroads and everything looks the same, getting lost isn't fun either. You do get out of the city once to raid some animal reserve, but after that it's back to tunnels to get to the hive. To say that shit is repetitive is a understatement.
Fire fight more is interesting but it just feels like more of the same main game, which actually just feels like fire fight mode anyway. In the end it's pretty much just another Halo game, which actually feels like half an actual game.
I started playing WET on the PS3 while I was waiting for me new Elite. I liked the demo so picked up the full version, I'm really not that far into it. The demo does kinda gloss it up by letting you play all the super cool bits. One thing I found was that after completing the first main mission, you go to Rubi's hang out, where you can complete challenges, timed challenges, challenges you must complete in order to proceed. They aren't extremely hard, it's just that being forced to run around a timed course to advanced is archaic and tired.
I'm also replaying Modern Warfare at the moment, since it's been a long time since I've played it, and I've also got a copy of Need for Speed Shift that I've not checked out yet.
I recently finished playing though HALO:ODST. I'm not sure what I was really expecting from it as a game, but it really just feels like a bit of a rush job. The main city it's based in is just a constant mass of similar looking roads, huge buildings and crossroads and everything looks the same, getting lost isn't fun either. You do get out of the city once to raid some animal reserve, but after that it's back to tunnels to get to the hive. To say that shit is repetitive is a understatement.
Fire fight more is interesting but it just feels like more of the same main game, which actually just feels like fire fight mode anyway. In the end it's pretty much just another Halo game, which actually feels like half an actual game.
I started playing WET on the PS3 while I was waiting for me new Elite. I liked the demo so picked up the full version, I'm really not that far into it. The demo does kinda gloss it up by letting you play all the super cool bits. One thing I found was that after completing the first main mission, you go to Rubi's hang out, where you can complete challenges, timed challenges, challenges you must complete in order to proceed. They aren't extremely hard, it's just that being forced to run around a timed course to advanced is archaic and tired.
I'm also replaying Modern Warfare at the moment, since it's been a long time since I've played it, and I've also got a copy of Need for Speed Shift that I've not checked out yet.
Sunday, September 20, 2009
Why Always Bloody Why?
Why is it as soon as you want to do something, like play a bit of a game on Xbox Live, everything falls apart and nothing want's to goddamn work. I know I do have a bit of a strange set up for my networking for my Xbox, but most of the time it's fine. I recently had to switch my network setup over to a Linux laptop because my PC graphics card decided to die AGAIN after being sent back once and being "fixed".
Anyway for some reason, everytime I know hook up a CAT5 cable to my Xbox360 the controller doesn't want to connect for properly. So becoming so sick and tired of this constant shit I ordered the Wi-Fi Adapter. So hopefully that will fix one thing. Also I'm actually considering replacing my noisy Premium unit for an Elite, more so the new Modern Warfare 2 Elite that's being released. Noisy consoles piss me off so goddamn much, how can my PS3 be whisper quiet but the 360 sounds like a goddamn jet. Really I'm sick of having rebuy Microsoft consoles, people bitch about the Playstation and its history of quality, but I've never had an issue with any of mine, and they seem to be made to a much more solid level . I hope they don't skimp too much on the new slim, but I doubt they would want to compromise something like that.
Also I picked up Trine from PSN last night. It's not a bad game, puzzle based platformers aren't usually my thing because platforming can be done so badly. It's a little repetitive in bits, I mean the levels seem a bit same old same, but the use of the 3 characters to navigate them and solve puzzles is quite interesting at times, if slightly frustrating, but at least the spawn points aren't too far from each other. I'll see how it goes a I get further through it.
I'm actually really bored with a lot of thing at the moment, I just wish one of the few games I'd ordered wold turn up for goddamn. I've a feeling I'll be waiting a week or more though for a few of them.
Anyway for some reason, everytime I know hook up a CAT5 cable to my Xbox360 the controller doesn't want to connect for properly. So becoming so sick and tired of this constant shit I ordered the Wi-Fi Adapter. So hopefully that will fix one thing. Also I'm actually considering replacing my noisy Premium unit for an Elite, more so the new Modern Warfare 2 Elite that's being released. Noisy consoles piss me off so goddamn much, how can my PS3 be whisper quiet but the 360 sounds like a goddamn jet. Really I'm sick of having rebuy Microsoft consoles, people bitch about the Playstation and its history of quality, but I've never had an issue with any of mine, and they seem to be made to a much more solid level . I hope they don't skimp too much on the new slim, but I doubt they would want to compromise something like that.
Also I picked up Trine from PSN last night. It's not a bad game, puzzle based platformers aren't usually my thing because platforming can be done so badly. It's a little repetitive in bits, I mean the levels seem a bit same old same, but the use of the 3 characters to navigate them and solve puzzles is quite interesting at times, if slightly frustrating, but at least the spawn points aren't too far from each other. I'll see how it goes a I get further through it.
I'm actually really bored with a lot of thing at the moment, I just wish one of the few games I'd ordered wold turn up for goddamn. I've a feeling I'll be waiting a week or more though for a few of them.
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