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This. I played Skyrim, DA, NV and am currently on Far Cry 3. In each of those games, there was more than one way to skin the cat. If you kept moving and shooting, you had a reasonable chance of survival. Too often in Witcher 2, you had to run exactly this gauntlet in exactly this way, or you had no chance of survival.
I played it just before starting the final phase of ME3 so in my world that's how they did go out.
They need to spin this off into its own stand-alone pirate franchise and just drop the "Assassins Creed" stuff from the game entirely. When you're sailing around engaging in naval battles, plundering ships, and following treasure maps, it's awesome. When you're following people, eavesdropping on people, or trying to cope with the broken stealth system (i.e. all the stuff that makes it an AC game), it blows. It's hands-down the best AC game I've ever played, but that's mainly because you can skip or ignore a lot of the typical AC content.
While I am an unashamed fan of TW2 I can totally understand why it doesn't work for everyone.Andy Dufresne said:
There were a couple sequences like that (avoiding the dragon in the prologue, the Kayran in chapter 1 and dodging the archers in chapter 2) but that wasn't a problem for me because for the most part you could approach situations in multiple different ways and it seems to me that in some situations there would only be one option to deal with a particular enemy.
To each their own but that sequence occurs less than an hour into the game. Is really giving it a fair shake?
you should check out the other thread about the game: http://forums.footballguys.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=682798&page=1
Thinking of revisiting as well but have too much in my queue to justify it.
They're all here:
Agree that ME1 got repetitive with the identical layouts "I WILL DESTROY YOU!!!". ME2 is soooooo much better on all fronts.
While I recognize the flaws count me among those who didn't mind the ending (although I only played the extended cut so never saw the original ending).
Looks like you are a fan of horror survival. If you like Bioshock and horror survival I cannot recommend Dead Space and Dead Space 2 highly enough. The mechanics in DS1 are a little clunky (it gets much better in DS2) but the storytelling is simply top notch. Play it late at night with the lights off and some surround sound going and it can be downright terrifying.
So clunky, that I've played through the first chapter and haven't had any interest in going back. Maybe I will eventually. I'd hate to let the games go to waste.
Seriously? My only real problem was if I was sometimes it became difficult to get a good perspective if I had my characters back to a corner. Otherwise it was pretty standard PC controls. WSAD to move, right mouse to aim, left mouse to shoot, E to interact, R to reload etc. Pretty much identical to every other PC game.
Not sure how you can make that an entire game unless they beef up the story and content. If they go that route they should give you the choice of ships for each mission, that would be a lot of fun learning the best strategy for each ship type.IvanKaramazov said:
I would bet it is unless you are on a new platform. Not sure how they can do that 360->1 and PS3->4.
I did all of that. Turning off V-Sync definitely helped, but I just couldn't get into the game. (I tried again during Oct when I was playing some horror games for Halloween) I'm sure I'll try again. Right now, I have way too many games in my queue to get bogged down on one that doesn't interest me right now.
It is a definite for PC and they are still trying to decide how to apply it to consoles.
Between the extended cut, the Leviathan DLC (interesting but might as well youtube the cutscenes rather than pay full price), and the Citadel DLC, the ending is perfectly serviceable now. The "green" option is still ridiculous IMO, but there would have been 0 outrage if Bioware had come out of the gates with this instead of trying to rush the game out the door.
The Pc version of Dead space is almost unplayable. Way different than the console version control wise. I had it on the easiest difficulty and would routinely get owned by the simplest enemies because it took forever to turn. I was able to play the console version on hard with minimal difficulty.
I think the side missions, while repetitive, immersed me more than me2 into the rpg element of playing as space adventurers. The planets and driving around them were like everything I imagined watching star trek as a kid. The stock elements of it were similar to me3 using the multiplayer maps for side missions just with 2007 detail. It was cool for the time. I agree me2 side missions had more interesting plot points but not as fun exploration wise.
Ill start jonesin for a Mass effect runthrough around April. Last year I went April 1st to June 16th with most of the Dlc from all 3 games included playing about 2 to 3 hours a night.
I have heard that complaint about turning around on the PC version before but it really wasn't a problem for me at all. Then again I play with a thumb controlled trackball so maybe that makes it easier.
I can dig that. It was part of the charm for me. They did such a good job with the creepy vibe.
Agreed. My only real regret with the franchise (I played the ending of ME3 after all the DLC had come out so I was fine with it) was that they never combined the Mako exploration of ME1 with the story/variety of side missions in ME2/ME3. Driving around on those planets was extremely awesome, it just needed to not always end in "enter 1 of 3 stock building layouts and kill 10 enemies".
Exactly. I think they listened too much to the mako complainers and it got scrapped for a mining mini game instead. That was interesting for the first few tries b ut got extremely tedious real quick.
There has been some big names leaving the company lately too. I don't know if they're jumping ship looking for something independent or if things are really that bad internally. Either way, it doesn't look good from those of us on the outside looking in on what's been considered the worst company for two straight years. At this point, I'm not 100% sure I want to buy Titanfall. It's definitely something I will want to try first. EA has been really good at screwing up a good thing for a while now. I'd like to see them get back on track, but I'm tired of giving them the benefit of the doubt.
You have been in gaming long enough to know that's EAs move. If they see a company doing well, they simply buy that company (sometimes by hostile takeover) and milk it dry before moving on to the next up and coming developer.
I don't think we drove the same Mako. That thing is notorious for having some of the the worst driving controls in a game for a reason.
To be fair to the above, the mining mini-game wasn't much better than driving the Mako. It got very tedious fast.
I had a blast with the Mako despite the ridiculous controls. They just seemed to work for me. But they should have tweaked it instead of scrapping it. Add that to the list of EA influenced things that took a good thing and made it more homogenized. I know people consider ME2 the best of the series but not me. I prefer ME1 to all 3 of them as far as delivering on the overall product.
Yep. The bases and planets were mostly the same but the people were pretty unique. Plus it had some old time text RPG elements built in probably more out of necessity than intent but still a nice touch.
Driving the Mako sucked AND the mining game got old way too fast. I say this without a bit of shame; but once I realized what the mining game was all about I went straight to the wiki to find out which planets were worth mining in whatever sector I was in.
