Earthworm Jim HD, a similar game, is selling for about £5 via a download but no-one's lamenting that they aren't making more money from it. Just because Rayman Origins is a more recent game rather than a remake doesn't make it a much better game to cost 3-8 times the amount.
Is Rayman Origins any better than Limbo? Not necessarily so why should it cost more than the £9.99 that is being asked for Limbo? Or why should it cost more than the £5 that you...
I bought Enslaved, played 2 minutes of it and have not returned to it yet. An opening too reminscent of Uncharted 2 except with no weight to the character - and fighting lots of robots. It borders on looking prettyish but only in a slightly sub-par way. It feels like it's going to be too much like on-rails Heavenly Sword all over again.
It looks like a refreshingly different kind of game on the shelves but there's a reason that it hasn't sold too well.
Maybe it'...
Two by Rare:
Twelve Tales : Conker 64 (became Conker's Bad Fur Day).
Donkey Kong Racing
Limbo (Xbox360 / PS3)
It's not that there aren't other good indie games. It's just that none that I have played so far have made me regard them with the same reverence as playing an AAA title. Don't let the monochrome, hazy, screenshots put you off. This is not some overtly pretentious 'arty' game. It's dressed up like one but it's a 2D platformer meets puzzler meets atmospheric survival horror with some implicit dry humour in its scenarios whi...
For me, Ratchet and Clank is part of the problem. It's like the series honed in on aspects of Sonic Adventure 2 - shooting sections, rail grinding and then made a cod- pseudo 1950s-sci fi adventure game where it's all about collecting lots of stuff very quickly to give the false impression that you've achieved anything patrticularly significant- rather than a platforming game. At least when Rare used to do collectathons, you had achieved something by finding everything and their g...
The final boss on Resident Evil 4 is so much easier than all the other ones in the game.
Good post Acemanwise but remember that, for the second generation running, Sony had relatively poor launch titles. And it wasn't particularly attractive to have such a fat console, regardless of its features. The Xbox360 looked attractive at the start, the PS3 has only grown in to its attractiveness in the last 3 years or so. Sony didn't show that young, fun, lively spirit that the Xbox360 did. Their strategy was to put out a few arty commercials (some of which I rather liked) and the...
If you want:
1 To play the 3 Uncharted games
2 To play Heavy Rain
3 To play Little Big Planet
3 To have a bit of a go on Playstation Home (a virtual world chat room with customisable avatar and mini games)
4 To play Bluray films on your console (not that I am that bothered about that)
5 To use a PS3 controller which is quite a classic, if conservative looking, design.
6 To play online games free of charge (ideal for me as there ...
I'll take this opportunity to speak up for some distinct things that the first game did that I liked. The jetski sections, unliked it seems by some (and probably by Naughty Dog too as none of the following games had such stop and start vehicles) but I loved that section despite its tricky handling. It was an oasis of relative calm in the game avoiding exploding barrels and I missed not travelling up a river on a vehicle in the subsequent games. There was nothing autopilot feeling about it...
Regarding Uncharted 3, I think that it's generally a good sequel to Uncharted 2 with great multiplayer but, for me, there was something rushed about showing a whole vista of buildings at the end and then only allowing you to explore a minute part of it with a new type of enemy hurriedly introduced and then dispensed with in the blink of an eye. It felt too much like a reprise of the second game at the end except without a boss battle. I liked Uncharted 3's more Indiana Jones-like feel...
I think that Remedy have been spending so long making noir-like games that they should make a more light hearted game as an Xbox360 alternative to Uncharted.
Ironically, I bet that The Last of us doesn't feature any section that is as scary as that mutant section in the supposedly more light hearted Uncharted : Drake's Fortune.
Here’s my 10, going back to old school.
1. Aisle 10 (Hello Alison) – I could have gone for many a Jet Set Radio song but I might as well choose the same one as them as it is about the best.
2 Monty on the run
3 Superfrog title screen
4 Aquatic Ambience – Donkey Kong Country
5 Donkey Kong 64 rap
6 Isle Delfino theme – Super Mario Sunshine
7 Entering the crashed frigate – Metroid Prime
8 Dire Dire Docks – Super Mario 64 <...
Audio actually seems to have been taken more seriously in previous generations. It was always important for a platform game to have jolly music (think Banjo Kazooie). Platform games have had some of the most atmospheric music too such as in Donkey Kong Country. I believe that it is the innocence of that genre that attracts the genius music writers. The decline of that genre has resulted in a decline in audio in general. Some might say that RPGs and survival horror games have great music and s...
It's the demo's job to get me interested regardless of what else is in the game. It didn't impress me any more than my existing copy of 1080 Avalanche does so I'd rather just play my old game. I know that's not a typical consumer way of looking at things but it would have probably have had to have been wacky like SSX Tricky to have interested me. Anyone who wants to buy the game based on their own instinct or preferences - or the slew of 9/10 reviews, is free to do so. But...
The first screenshot might as well be called 'This is what Uncharted 4 will look like if Naughty Dog make it for the PS4'. It's not massively different from what the small section of jungle looks like in Uncharted 3 anyway so I'd expect Naughty Dog would do even better than that actually. Those graphics will be regarded as just early next-gen I would imagine.
This review agrees with me more than these 9 or 10 out of 10 scores that I have seen. From the demo that I played, the game seems to be jack of all trades and lacks its own identity. It felt a little bit 1080 Avalanche except more trick oriented. The skiers wear garish neon suits like nothing's changed since SSX Tricky but, sadly, it has changed - it's not as over the top fun as SSX Tricky. It's like a skiing game designed by committee designed to appeal to the majority.
PC gamers are generally just obsessed with sci-fi and RPG oriented games. They are bloody bores.
What a relatively tedious list of games. Quake 2 or 3 weren't even mentioned. Do PC gamers generally have anything approaching a magical imagination? Think of all the great games that there have been on consoles by comparison. You could make a top 10 for just 1 console that was better than the PC's 'of all time'.
On the whole, this generation has been a relative disgrace as far as I'm concerned. The first Bioshock game now feels like a distant memory, more a hanger on from the survival horror feel of previous generations than symbolic of this generation. True survival horror with weighty puzzles and unpredictable weirdness? Practically dead. True platform games rather than adventure games with shooting elements? Practically dead. It's a sad state when I have to look to the Playstation Store ra...