Pretty funny article actually. Good work.
At Christmas I had the pleasure of watching my 14 year old brother play MW3 on his one unbroken controller (he broke the other one by throwing it on the ground after a bad session on COD:Black Ops) and the amount of racist, childish, homophobic insults flowing from his mouth was astounding, especially given that he is a fairly intelligent kid and has a multiracial friendship circle.
Oh and he rage-quitted every game t...
Someone obviously owned a SNES and then converted to Playstation.
I hate to break this to you Laxman, but she probably knew long before now.
I eat a bowl of Alpen every morning for breakfast and then, like clockwork go off and have my morning constitutional. It is often nice and firm, comes out in one go and rarely needs more than three wipes.
It burns like a motherfucker when I pee though...
Games I will probably be playing in the new year:
Skyrim
Assassins Creed Revelations
Arkham Asylum
Dead Space 2
Battlefield 3
Dear Game Designers
Stop releasing all the good games at the same time. Its a pain in the ass.
Yours
Dave
My friend let me play some of his Skyrim account. Within 5 minutes I had killed 3 guards in 2 towns, only because they got in the way of me doing what I want.
I was not allowed to play any more.
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I love how I get lambasted for commenting on the non-realistic games, by commenters who are using the realistic games as a counter argument. I actually think that BF3 or MW or whatever actually have the ammo requirements right.
As for those who think that a real soldier will go into battle with 90 spare bullets, here is some numbers for you to crunch:
The standard loadout of a British soldier in Afghanistan will walk out the gates of his FOB carrying (at a mi...
The idiots complaining about the 8 out of 10 from Eurogamer for BF3 and Uncharted 3 should take pause for thought.
I love it when people accuse a reviewer of either not knowing what they are talking about or selling out. What always gets me about these sorts of comments is how personally offended some of the posters are.
Also, what is the big deal about an 8 out of 10 score? I am not a massive fan of 3rd person action adventure games, so I am unlikely to give any game of that sort above 8. 8 out of 10 is still an impressive score. If you were to look at it from a normal distribution poin...
Agreed. I think boss battles work especially well when they are a sort of extended set piece - like in the first Half Life where you have to lure the gargant into the electricity transformers to kill it or even in Dead Space where you have to shoot the slug off the ship.
Anything that presents a new angle to the game is welcome. Bosses should be equal parts challenge and fun.
Difficulty curves are a tough one. I think the problem a lot of games have is a lack of a curve. Some games (notably but not exclusively sandbox games) will have very little in the way of a difficulty curve per se, and will instead rely on the core gameplay or story to be entertaining enough to captivate the player and keep them interested well into their 30th hour. Other games do increase the difficulty, but then it suddenly jumps and makes parts of the game an exercise in frustration to get...
While I agree with the points, I think it is more to do with the fact that players largely no longer have the patience to sit and work at a challenge for hours on end. Even I am guilty of it, looking up Game FAQs on the internet if I am stuck at a boss for more than a few goes or cant find the game progressing maguffin within 10 minutes.
However, I would suggest that the author might lack a certain amount of experience in gameplaying, as before you had checkpoints in games yo...
I would suggest that the answer lies somewhere in between a gamer being anyone who plays angry birds and a gamer being someone who is familiar with the industry, including the trade shows, company/brand names and development pipeline.
I would suggest that a 'gamer' be someone who would list 'computer games' (or some other variation on that) as one of their main hobbies. Within that you could have your casual, hard core and pro gamer banding, depending on a gi...
I did like the game. I actually loved the game when I was playing it. As I said at the end of the article, from a gameplay and graphics standing, it was up there as an 8 or 9 out of 10. It was just the plot that was absolute dog turd. It was just so stupid that it actually took some of the fun out of playing the game.
Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
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Thanks for all the great feedback guys.
I am not a troll. I do however have only a limited amount of time I can dedicate to computer games (the quality of the writing should make it obvious that I dont get paid for it) so when a highly anticipated game comes along that gets great reviews and is well received,I am going to spend my valuable free time playing it dammit.
So maybe the game was not awful, maybe it was mediocre, but I think we have the right to de...
I am assuming you never played any of the X-Wing games on the PC. Or Conflict Freespace. Or Tachyon.
FPS space combat games are mega.
There were other annoyances that didn't make the list, like people not throwing down ammo or health, or medics standing around not reviving me or others when it is quite clearly safe to do so.
I do hate snipers, even though I accept that if they are good enough to kill at long range then fair enough I suppose. My problem with chopper pilots isnt with noobs, its with people who should know better!