[losondro]

Finished Pokemon Black 2! Now I can say I have played all 6 generations.

[SideswipePrime]

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Originally Posted by Locke

Wow the Heavy Rain twist was dumb. Wow this ending is depressing.

David Cage, man.

P.S. Don't play the other game he wrote, Beyond: Two Souls. It's worse.

[Locke]

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Originally Posted by SideswipePrime

David Cage, man.

P.S. Don't play the other game he wrote, Beyond: Two Souls. It's worse.

What, dumber or more depressing?

As the first game I played to completion on my PS3. I must admit, I'm kinda disappointed. I get what it was trying to do, and it really did have some interesting ideas but the execution was really lacking. Not just the point and click style gameplay (but that really sucked, I'm sorry), but it also highlighted to me that graphics haven't come as far as perhaps I believed with the HD gloss. From glitching, to just generally bad animation some of the most key emotional scenes came off as totally hilarious to downright awful. And honestly the voice acting wasn't much better, what the hell was with Jayden's voice? Why cast that guy?

I can't help but think this might have worked better as a movie or TV show, I know all the fun is shaping your own story kinda thing, but I have a problem with games that build themselves around their novelty, rather than integrating their novelty into their game. I found Mass Effect became like that the further the series progressed.

I would be interested in seeing this done again - especially with all the crazy promises from the PS4 but I honestly don't think the world was ready for Heavy Rain, and the elements that did function in the now were just lacking.

[SideswipePrime]

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Originally Posted by Locke

What, dumber or more depressing?

As the first game I played to completion on my PS3. I must admit, I'm kinda disappointed. I get what it was trying to do, and it really did have some interesting ideas but the execution was really lacking. Not just the point and click style gameplay (but that really sucked, I'm sorry), but it also highlighted to me that graphics haven't come as far as perhaps I believed with the HD gloss. From glitching, to just generally bad animation some of the most key emotional scenes came off as totally hilarious to downright awful. And honestly the voice acting wasn't much better, what the hell was with Jayden's voice? Why cast that guy?

I can't help but think this might have worked better as a movie or TV show, I know all the fun is shaping your own story kinda thing, but I have a problem with games that build themselves around their novelty, rather than integrating their novelty into their game. I found Mass Effect became like that the further the series progressed.

I would be interested in seeing this done again - especially with all the crazy promises from the PS4 but I honestly don't think the world was ready for Heavy Rain, and the elements that did function in the now were just lacking.

Dumber. In the end, none of your choices matter. The only one that has any sort of impact is the one at the very end. The story is also told out of order, but not in any way that makes sense, You'll suddenly be playing as Jodie (the main character, as played by Ellen Paige) when she was a kid, without much rhyme or reason. It makes the story feel extremely disjointed. Granted, the game looks very good, and the acting is pretty well done, as Ellen Paige is a talented actress, as is Willam Defoe. Also, one thing that bothered me personally was they portray suicide in a positive light when Willam Defoe's character puts a bullet through his head, so he can be with his dead wife and daughter again after he opens a rift to "The other side".

[Locke]

Disjointed must be their thing, because that is how Heavy Rain felt for me too. Playing so many characters, all dealing with the case but also their own personal issues made it really hard to keep up and follow at times. And for a game so convoluted, it's amazing just how silly the actual way it all came together was.

[ZeoRangerV]

Abe's Oddysee. Probably not the best time to pick it up again when there's a HD remake due really soon, but oh well. Going for saving all 99 Mudokons and I'm on about 43/43 so far so I'm doing pretty good.

REALLY need to pick up Zelda: ALBW again too. I haven't had any time for it in about 2 weeks now.

[Dr Kain]

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Originally Posted by Locke

Wow the Heavy Rain twist was dumb. Wow this ending is depressing.

How was it dumb? Not that I don't agree with you, but I want to know why you think it was dumb.

BTW, the choices do matter because if Madison dies by the doctor or in the fire, she won't be there in the end. Same goes for the FBI dude. If you get caught by the police, well then it is bye bye son.

Anyway, I did a speed run through Super Metroid.

[Locke]

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Originally Posted by Dr Kain

How was it dumb? Not that I don't agree with you, but I want to know why you think it was dumb.

BTW, the choices do matter because if Madison dies by the doctor or in the fire, she won't be there in the end. Same goes for the FBI dude. If you get caught by the police, well then it is bye bye son.

He was talking about Beyond Two Souls.

And for me the twist just came from NOWHERE there were times when it worked but others are simply baffling. Even with that aside, for such a serious game, the killer had truly ridiculous motivations like he'd fallen right out of some cartoon.

Between Norman Jayden and all the billions of unanswered questions surrounding his drug addiction, and his virtual reality headset and the goofball final twist, it reminded me of Prisoners so much.

[Klonoahedgehog]

Turnabout Academy is definitely the best third case in any Ace Attorney game, my one complaint is that one of my favorite Characters has a more pointless cameo than Mentor Ji in Megaforce.

Seriously he should have been the prosecutor on the game.

[Locke]

So I gave Resistance another run, it's just kinda bland more than anything else. The first level really is horrible, but at least later levels give you shit loads of health and ammo so you aren't getting constantly stuck, cause seriously, this game is deceptively hard.

With no proper cover systems, huge blocks of enemies and barely any health it's pretty fucking painful to get past each checkpoint. You're being smashed at all angles by enemies who seemingly never seem to reload or need to, and it's usually just a test of endurance as to who can hold out longer. I dread to think how bad this'll get when the inevitable bullet sponge bosses come along.

I get that not everyone was fond of the cover FPS revolution - myself included - but this game lacks the precision of a cover based FPS while also lacking pretty much all of the fun of something more classic like the Painkiller franchise.

The level design, and monster design is awesome and I don't wanna come across overly negative on a game that isn't really worth being overly negative about but just eh.

Definitely the highlight so far was riding the tank, it controlled like total ass but after spending so long dying and sneaking around it was really nice to get a sense of power given back to me.