I'm Finished! (The Roll Credits Thread) [Archive] - Page 5

Australian Ninja

08-07-2011, 11:26 PM

Both games have shonky endings.

Fahrenheit because it came completely out of nowhere and hit a lot of people for six as a result.

Heavy Rain because it relies on a deus ex machina in addition to content omission (I've called this 'lying' in the past but I'm being more politic here :P) to justify the killer's identity.

I love both games but Heavy Rain left me feeling betrayed by the story's conclusion. Fahrenheit just left me shocked by the conclusion.

I was surprised by the ending, didn't see it coming - but expected red herrings and such. But the end is consistent with the character in the story, we just don't see all the sides of that character, and project upon him what we expect him to be.

What you are saying is that the "audience" was not in on the secret, so we were as much in the dark as the main characters?
The tension would have been greater if we the audience knew the identity of the killer earlier in the game, but I did not feel betrayed at all, I could not spot any inconsistencies in the character or the revelation, in fact if you read about actual so called killers and such, often they can be quite charming, and appear relatively "normal".

Tonez

09-07-2011, 10:59 AM

I was surprised by the ending, didn't see it coming - but expected red herrings and such. But the end is consistent with the character in the story, we just don't see all the sides of that character, and project upon him what we expect him to be.

What you are saying is that the "audience" was not in on the secret, so we were as much in the dark as the main characters?
The tension would have been greater if we the audience knew the identity of the killer earlier in the game, but I did not feel betrayed at all, I could not spot any inconsistencies in the character or the revelation, in fact if you read about actual so called killers and such, often they can be quite charming, and appear relatively "normal".

No that's not what he's saying.

There is no reason we needed to know the identity of the killer. What he is saying is that since they didn't want us to know the identity of the killer, there needed to be logical reasons as to why he was the killer. Reasons which in hindsight make us say "Oh of course."

Think of movies like Fight Club or The Sixth Sense. Part of the beauty of both those films is watching them again and seeing all the signs that led to the conclusion. It all makes sense when you watch it again.

Now replay Heavy Rain. There was nothing. Absolutely no clues that led to the identity. Instead at the end of the game, they turn around and say "Oh, here all these things we never showed you earlier that prove why this guy was the killer. See how clever we are."

It wasn't clever. It was cheap and a really poor piece of storytelling.

Munky

09-07-2011, 12:35 PM

Replayed the suicide mission of Mass Effect 2 this week (to keep Mordin alive) and Overlord, Lair of the Shadow Broker and Arrival.

Was plenty of fun and ME2 is a far more compelling game than Crysis 2 which I play for 30 minutes and get bored.

Arrival has set the stage for a powerless Shepherd at the start of ME3. I imagine it'll be a Gear of War style prison breakout on Earth as the Reapers attack.

Xanafalgue

09-07-2011, 01:37 PM

Brilliant ending. Midget missile dodging, possibly the best ending of the decade.

Spoiler?

Oh I didn't mind the cheesy action sequences, they were quite fun, but

WTF happened to all the Factions?

dimorphic

09-07-2011, 05:37 PM

Just finished God of War 3. A few people on here said to me that it wasn't very good but I've come to the conclusion they were on crack. I loved every second of it.

VanAce

10-07-2011, 12:19 AM

I just finished playing Braid. A very lovely game with some interesting mechanics and a touching story.

Gunblade89

10-07-2011, 11:42 PM

Finished Batman: Arkham Asylum What an excellent game!
I still have a fair few riddles to solve, which are fun to hunt down i'm finding.
I'm looking forward for Arkham City now.

SOX

11-07-2011, 02:31 PM

Finished MK9 and by finished I mean I got to the final Shao Khan and stopped playing.

ElPresidente

11-07-2011, 05:02 PM

No that's not what he's saying.

There is no reason we needed to know the identity of the killer. What he is saying is that since they didn't want us to know the identity of the killer, there needed to be logical reasons as to why he was the killer. Reasons which in hindsight make us say "Oh of course."

Think of movies like Fight Club or The Sixth Sense. Part of the beauty of both those films is watching them again and seeing all the signs that led to the conclusion. It all makes sense when you watch it again.

Now replay Heavy Rain. There was nothing. Absolutely no clues that led to the identity. Instead at the end of the game, they turn around and say "Oh, here all these things we never showed you earlier that prove why this guy was the killer. See how clever we are."

It wasn't clever. It was cheap and a really poor piece of storytelling.

Tonez is spot on as to what I was getting at.

Australian Ninja

11-07-2011, 05:07 PM

Finished Batman: Arkham Asylum What an excellent game!
I still have a fair few riddles to solve, which are fun to hunt down i'm finding.
I'm looking forward for Arkham City now.

You better be.

Just finished God of War 3. A few people on here said to me that it wasn't very good but I've come to the conclusion they were on crack. I loved every second of it.

I've enjoyed every moment that I'm not playing it.

Now pass the pipe!

Oh I didn't mind the cheesy action sequences, they were quite fun, but

WTF happened to all the Factions?

They all lived happily ever after perishing in a heroic explosion or ten.

Well, near as I can tell many of the poor bastards are stuck up trees and attached to various things still yelling "he got me with his wire thing" last time I looked.

Blackwater

11-07-2011, 08:34 PM

Shadows of the Damned.

So much awesome, ending sets up for a sequel which is something I would very much like to play.

Australian Ninja

12-07-2011, 05:21 PM

Shadows of the Damned.

So much awesome, ending sets up for a sequel which is something I would very much like to play.

Jealous Get

dimorphic

15-07-2011, 01:31 AM

Uncharted 1 is in the books, now I'm onto Amongst Thieves.

NiB

15-07-2011, 01:10 PM

Uncharted 1 is in the books, now I'm onto Amongst Thieves.

It's absolutely great...until the final battle

Australian Ninja

15-07-2011, 05:42 PM

It's absolutely great...until the final battle

It's tedious, but it doesn't take long.

Then you get to browse all the cool stuff you can't be ****ed unlocking.

Australian Ninja

15-07-2011, 05:43 PM

Tonez is spot on as to what I was getting at.

Some films do the same, basically you don't like not knowing who the killer is, or the lack of clues.

That doesn't make the game poor, just different.

SOX

15-07-2011, 05:45 PM

Nope, it makes it "poor".

Leirith

15-07-2011, 10:05 PM

I finally finished Super Mario Galaxy 2 last night. The last star was super hard and took a lot of tries and a 15 minute discussion about our final approach mid-course with my partner who was playing Luma.

http://i180.photobucket.com/albums/x45/Leirith/photo.jpg

Natrak

15-07-2011, 10:36 PM

Nice work, such a great game.

Gunblade89

19-07-2011, 02:29 PM

Finished Assassins Creed 2 Great game, alot of things to do and collect.
The ending was pretty cool, going to have to get Brotherhood soon.

SOX

19-07-2011, 02:46 PM

Maybe give yourself some time between AC2 and Brotherhood. I did one off the back of the other recently and didn't really enjoy Brotherhood as much as a result.

Slippery

19-07-2011, 02:49 PM

Definitely take a break between them!

Gunblade89

19-07-2011, 02:59 PM

Good idea, I'm in the middle of alot of other games at the moment!
Need to finish up some more of those first.

Australian Ninja

21-07-2011, 01:20 PM

Finished Alan Wake. Great atmosphere and audio design and it's compelling while it lasts. I sensed early on that all the build up was never going to amount to any sort of pay off and I would complain about the ending of the game IF it had one.

Rather disappointed at the lack of any reason to play the game again. No extras, no nothing. And why the heck did I pick up all those coffee cans? Just so some list can tell me how many I collected? Not even some concept art!

Watchers

25-07-2011, 04:47 PM

Finished The Witcher 2. Amazing stuff. Great story, though they did simplify combat a bit (at least, from what I remember of the first).

9warbane

25-07-2011, 10:16 PM

Finished Max Payne 2, 5 hours.
They just had to kill every character.
Bring on 3.

MacGuyver

26-07-2011, 11:26 AM

Finished Vanquish, I thought it was a pretty good game but didn't really like the weapon upgrade system. It just meant that I had 2 guns with me which I rarely used because I wanted to level them up. I did play around with all of weapons so it's not like I stuck with the same ones from start to finish however.

I'm playing through it again to get collectibles and achievements so this time I won't bother so much with upgrading weapons.

Xanafalgue

26-07-2011, 12:32 PM

Finished Bastion :(

Azzaman

27-07-2011, 12:28 AM

Finished Assassins Creed 2 Great game, alot of things to do and collect.
The ending was pretty cool, going to have to get Brotherhood soon.

And I've just knocked it over as well. What an ending!

It really threw me when the alien started talking to the camera then it hit me about the prophet and she mentions desmond, insane.

I can't wait to fire up brotherhood, but from what everyone else is saying I may give myself a break from AC for a bit. That was a great game and I'm glad I've finally got it out of my pile of shame.

EDIT: Damn you Watchers, you're like my conscience or something. I was only gonna do the tutorial maybe just see how it starts, but no, you had to get typing ;)

ElPresidente

27-07-2011, 04:42 PM

Finished Max Payne 2, 5 hours.
They just had to kill every character.
Bring on 3.

Here's hoping the third game lives up to the sequel. But the total lack of involvement from Sam Lake or, indeed, anybody at Remedy does worry me. Not to mention the look of the new Max... not exactly noir (but then again, Veronica Mars reveled in the saturated hues of California and is nothing if not noir).

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2009/06/2009-06-23_11-52-48-6232009-580px.jpg

Tukenstein

27-07-2011, 05:20 PM

Finished Bastion :(

Hey, me too. Don't fret though, there's always new game +.

Slippery

31-07-2011, 06:38 PM

Finished The Witcher 2, sweet game.

Killed the dude in the prologue, went with Iorveth, Stennis Alive, Triss over saving Saskia, spared Saskia, Letho alive

dimorphic

31-07-2011, 11:24 PM

Uncharted 2 done and dusted. I didn't really have a problem with the final boss like a lot of people said they did, but I'm interested as to why Naughty Dog thought a boss was required at all?

Also, while this game is all kinds of awesome the hype it received I don't think was justified. There are several times where the gunplay mechanics break down and make things very frustrating.

Nonetheless it was a great game and I am officially ready for #3.

ScToTeE

02-08-2011, 09:01 PM

Overlord (PC)

I liked it. A tad glitchy though.

Sweating Bullets

02-08-2011, 10:19 PM

Also, while this game is all kinds of awesome the hype it received I don't think was justified. There are several times where the gunplay mechanics break down and make things very frustrating.

There were parts where the exploring took too long and you craved some combat. And there there were parts where the combat took too long and you craved some exploring. I don't think they got the balance right for it.
And I agree with you - was so over hyped.

ScToTeE

03-08-2011, 12:15 PM

VVVVVV (PC)

Great game. Embarassing stats (1068 deaths! :D) but what the hell. Not bothering to collect all the trinkets.

Xanafalgue

03-08-2011, 01:58 PM

And I agree with you - was so over hyped.

BS3 exclusives have that effect on a lot of people.

Xanafalgue

03-08-2011, 01:59 PM

That's right, BS3.

Leirith

08-08-2011, 11:47 AM

I completed the single-player portion of Portal 2 yesterday. I really enjoyed it and think Valve made an excellent follow-up to their original hit.

Natrak

08-08-2011, 12:18 PM

Finished Catherine, really enjoyed the game overall. Vincent was sometimes infuriating, but other times the game made me laugh out loud. Currently suffering from the tetris effect but with block puzzles.

Shorty

08-08-2011, 05:03 PM

Finished 007: Blood Stone a couple of days ago. A competent if not outstanding third-person shooter.

dinopoke

08-08-2011, 05:46 PM

I really liked the driving segments in that game even though they were heavily scripted and arcadey.

Surgeon.

13-08-2011, 09:34 PM

Finished Assassins Creed 2.

It was pretty great, but I'm in no rush to play brotherhood. Actually, I was getting pretty bored towards the end of the game.

Got the Armor of Altaïr, but couldn't be arsed doing the feathers and just watched 'the truth' on youtube.

borgster101

13-08-2011, 10:04 PM

Leirith

16-08-2011, 10:30 AM

Yesterday I completed a double of big RPGs! I watched the credits for Final Fantasy IV on DS roll late last night after completing the main story in Oblivion earlier that evening. Good times.

Australian Ninja

16-08-2011, 01:53 PM

VanAce

16-08-2011, 01:54 PM

Sounds a bit like Donkey Kong 64 to me.

Australian Ninja

16-08-2011, 02:23 PM

Sounds a bit like Donkey Kong 64 to me.

I can't pass even the first area in that game.

I just end up swimming in circles, getting very mad screaming "WHY!!!!!" then go back to playing DKC on SNES.

And man, You can really see how they used that RAM pack to pack in those bland texture-less backgrounds all over the show.

Nic Xtreme

21-08-2011, 12:04 PM

After 70 hours of wonderful, memorable gaming, Persona 4 has unfortunately come to a ("True") close. I can't wait for the anime's release in October and I really hope Persona 5 is unveiled soon!

Sweating Bullets

21-08-2011, 06:02 PM

Managed to finished Dead Rising 2 with S ranking (completed Overtime mode)

Am playing through it again to get to level 50 and to get a few more achievements

VanAce

04-09-2011, 01:24 PM

I finished the first DLC for Borderlands with all achievements.

Leirith

06-09-2011, 10:16 AM

I finally completed Final Fantasy XIII last night, spurred on by the desire to start Xenoblade Chronicles. It was actually a pretty cool and epic ending.

VanAce

06-09-2011, 12:02 PM

The final cutscenes were so pretty and detailed. I finished it over a year ago but I recently went back to the game to do all the side quests and achievements.

Gunblade89

10-09-2011, 10:23 PM

After 70 hours of wonderful, memorable gaming, Persona 4 has unfortunately come to a ("True") close. I can't wait for the anime's release in October and I really hope Persona 5 is unveiled soon!

Congrats, I loved the true ending of P4.
Apparently preliminary planning of P5 is almost complete, can't wait.
Probably won't see it until sometime in 2013.

9warbane

11-09-2011, 12:07 PM

Thraxas

11-09-2011, 07:04 PM

Finished the story missions for Driver: San Francisco. I think the game is excellent, makes a nice change from all the driving simulators which suck the fun out of driving games.

tau

11-09-2011, 09:13 PM

Alan Wake... was fun, but the gameplay was a bit repetitive. Could've used less of the same go from a to b sections. Perfect length, since if it was longer I'd have stopped bothering, or only pushed through so I could see the ending.

Australian Ninja

12-09-2011, 05:25 PM

Finished Enslaved. Can easily be finished in half a day.

Climbing was easy which is better then being frustration. Combat was good but the camera can give you the shits. Good voice acting and the thing Trip and Monkey had going was good, especially with the facial expressions.

Yeah, some great mo-cap there, and some lush beautiful environments comparable to Uncharted. Shame about that terrible ending though.

Where do those poor people go the the bathroom? Not on the floor I hope.

I'd really like to see a sequel to Enslaved that improves on the flaws, with a few subtle tweaks it could be a great game.
Fix the camera (in combat), better boss encounters, less enemy repitition/ palette swap mechs etc, some unlockable junk... I don't know, fedoras for all or some such silly costume.

oogi2000

12-09-2011, 08:21 PM

Dead Island, 20hrs 45 minutes single player. Booyah.

Leirith

15-09-2011, 09:55 AM

Last night I completed Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World. The ending was a little stressful as I wasn't sure quite how it would turn out!

Nic Xtreme

17-09-2011, 02:36 PM

I just finished FFXIII. Whilst I enjoyed playing through game, with much love for the gorgeous graphics (oh the environments <3) and soundtrack, as well as the battle system (all hail healing after every battle + no MP) and linear environments (I hate wasn't time with battles as I go down both sides of a fork in the road to find treasure), I really didn't feel much of an attachment to the characters or the story. I mean, Vanille and Lightning were cool and all, but I wouldn't have given a shit if they had died. This really surprised me, because those are normally the strongest aspects of an FF game for me. So, it really wasn't a stellar entry into the FF series for me, though for different reasons than most others.

Regardless, I'm looking forward to FFXIII-2.

EDIT: ****, doing the missions is shithouse. Walk 1000000kms to a stone. Accept (only one at a time, of course), complete. Find another stone using the shithouse map that can't turn into a full Gran Pulse world map with connecting areas labelled. ****. Off.

Xanafalgue

17-09-2011, 04:36 PM

Finished Dead Island and From Dust today. Productive!

Xanafalgue

17-09-2011, 06:10 PM

Toy Soldiers: Cold War finished :D

9warbane

20-09-2011, 06:04 PM

Finished the first Phoenix Wright game, cheated a little by looking at a guide. A few times I knew what point I wanted to make but the game wants it on certain statement and evidence. Sometimes the motive was retarded (hur he ruined my perfect court record). At the end I think there were some spelling errors or I was just really tied. "I always carry a the bottle of bla bla" and another I can't remember.

Right at the end I showed Edge the wrong evidence not sure if it mattered.

ElPresidente

20-09-2011, 06:07 PM

Toy Soldiers: Cold War finished :D

How does it compare to the first one. I loved the original but was curious if this added enough 'new' to make it worth a purchase.

FF Freak

20-09-2011, 07:20 PM

Castlevania: lords of Shadow...both main game and the dlc

Emilbus

21-09-2011, 06:40 PM

Finished Xenoblade, took about 70 hrs. Kind of rushed towards the end and didn't bother much with side missions just because i wanted to continue the story along to see how it ends. Brilliant game from start to finish. The ending was surprising like the rest of the game.

Time to play Persona 3 now. :D

Xanafalgue

21-09-2011, 07:45 PM

Finally got around to finishing Enslaved just now, ending was brief but great.

How does it compare to the first one. I loved the original but was curious if this added enough 'new' to make it worth a purchase.

It's a lot more 'complete'; there are more options and it's just more fun all round. It's easier to control your units and your vehicles, which I had issues with in the first game (especially the ****ing planes). Give the demo a go.

Xanafalgue

22-09-2011, 11:15 AM

Oh finally finished Defense Grid too.

LOVE LOVE LOVE DAT GAME

Xanafalgue

25-09-2011, 10:58 AM

Finished Gears of War 3. It was great!

SpearrO

25-09-2011, 12:52 PM

I just finished Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, which I've been playing on and off since release. Wandering around renaissance Rome was spectacular. Revisiting Monterigioni in the modern day was exciting at first but quickly underwhelmed. The Lair's of Romulus & Leonardo's War Machines were as good as the Assassin Tombs from II, and the Brutus Armour reward is pretty damn cool. There were a few plot inconsistencies (if this cataclysmic event is so urgent in Desmond's time, why the hell didn't Minerva just pass the message on to Ezio and gain 500 years extra time to work on it), but I suppose we can ignore these. I really can't wait for Revelations. Is it worth getting the Davinci Disappearance DLC in the mean time?

Slippery

25-09-2011, 01:26 PM

Oh finally finished Defense Grid too.

LOVE LOVE LOVE DAT GAME

But the computer narrator dudes voice is so annoying!

VanAce

26-09-2011, 12:43 AM

Oh finally finished Defense Grid too.

LOVE LOVE LOVE DAT GAME

I just finished the story in that too! I'll have to go back and play the campaigns and DLC I have for it sometime soon.

Nic Xtreme

01-10-2011, 03:42 PM

grimace06

01-10-2011, 06:28 PM

I also can't help but wonder what the game would have been like had Remedy stuck with the open-world idea...

Broken.

MacGuyver

01-10-2011, 08:52 PM

Just finished Gears of War 3 on hardcore, didn't mind the ending but would've liked some more explanation about a few things. Now to play it through on insane.

dimorphic

04-10-2011, 08:22 PM

Gears 3 on Hardcore.

Fun ride.

dimorphic

05-10-2011, 11:03 PM

Resistance 3 is dusted. I enjoyed it though the last few chapters were a bitch on hard. The ending wasn't super satisfying for the end of a trilogy either.

VanAce

09-10-2011, 07:24 PM

Just finished Resident Evil 4. With the talk of the new HD version I thought I would go back and finish the PC version that I had unfinished for about 2 years at least. O think the reason I couldn't finish it was due to the poor PC controls so I decided to play it with a controller which I found much better although still a little clunky. Overall a great game but not the best port.

Australian Ninja

11-10-2011, 05:19 PM

I just finished Alan Wake and I thoroughly enjoyed it. The game had some really memorable moments and I'd have to say it's easily one of my favourite games this gen so far. The story was decent enough, but I really thought the game shined in the location and its characters. While Alan is an unfit prick and I have no idea how he landed a wife, the other characters were great (Christmas lights!) and Bright Springs was a fantastic location. The combat didn't start out too well, but by the second half I was enjoyed using the various tools at my disposal.

I'm definitely keen for Season 2.

I also can't help but wonder what the game would have been like had Remedy stuck with the open-world idea...

I imagine all the tension they built up would be dissipated, with aimless wandering around, time wasting etc.

Who else stopped collecting the pointless coffee canisters about two hours in?

Well imagine you have ten times as much pointless shit to collect, add in some more explosions, a larger land mass/map and that is pretty much what it would have been like if they kept the open world idea.

I'm glad they went with a tight relatively linear narrative that kept things going, always pushing forward, like watching 24 or LOST on DVD, and knowing that you have to watch the next one, and the next one and oh **** it's dawn already and I have to go to work you maniacs, damn you, you bloody bastards, damn you to hell!

9warbane

15-10-2011, 04:22 PM

Finished Red Faction: Armageddon. Five hours and twenty minutes, not bad for $12. Very linear and mostly combat instead of blowing up buildings. Guerrilla is way better but I still enjoyed Armageddon, now to muck around in infestation and ruin mode.
Good port too, ran well. I had it all on max expect for AA and some other thing. One crash, a few framerate drops.
In then end when the chick dies I was expecting to see her later as an alien bug queen.

The DLC was a bit over a dollar and last about an hour, pretty shit really. A few missions as different characters a few hours a part to the starting events of the game. Wouldn't recommend getting the DLC.
The previous game Guerrilla came with DLC for free on PC.

Emilbus

15-10-2011, 10:40 PM

Finally knocked God of War 3 off the list. Great game, more weapons which was kind of nice switching between them all, as epic as they come. The Cronos fight was brilliantly done, definitely the highlight of the game for me. Also didn't realized Kevin Sorbo did Hercules voice till i saw the behind the scene video!!

Only gripe for me was the flying sequence, i'm horrible at those...i was getting Super Return of the Jedi escape from Death Star level flashback.

9warbane

16-10-2011, 05:07 PM

Finished Dead Island. 11 hours, act 2-4 I just ran past almost all the zombies.

Pretty crap game.

Nic Xtreme

16-10-2011, 07:38 PM

Just completed Assassin's Creed. I liked it, but the combat was pretty weak and I really didn't care for the story and main characters. It was all a bit farty IMO. Still, the exploration (after learning the inconsistencies of the controls) around the towns was quite enjoyable with the assassinations definitely the highlight of the game (as they should be!). Each target actually had a quaint little story behind them, as well as being centered around the finest of the cities' sights (the grave scene was particularly awesome). It all fell apart a bit after the graveyard assassination attempt, with the dodgy invisible wall forced combat followed by the incredibly predictable final battle.

Definitely keen to check out how much they improved the sequel!

grimace06

17-10-2011, 12:55 AM

I finished Gears of War 3. Can't quite decide which is my favourite game of the three.

FF Freak

17-10-2011, 02:51 AM

VanAce

17-10-2011, 12:04 PM

X-men destiny - pretty good story and even with the fact that you're not playing as an actual X-men character the characterization is good. However Silicon Knights just seem to fail with gameplay mechanics and haven't learnt much from Too Human it seems. Graphically it also seems like a PS2 game.

I expected it to be good characterization as it is written by Mike Carey who is very good when it comes to characterization in his comics.

I didn't know this was out yet I think I will have to pick it up once my pile of unplayed games goes down. I am a big X-men fan so I think I will check it out.

oogi2000

17-10-2011, 03:49 PM

Finished Ace Combat - Call of Duty Edition. What the **** happened Project Aces? Where is the tunnel mission? The destroy-the-super-powerful-Death-Star-wannabe-weapon mission? The developed characters? The plot instead of HUR-DUR-MODERN-WARFARE-DERP? Christ I hope they didn't pay this HERP-DERP-MILITARY-NOVELIST big money for this scraps of a Tom Clancy book.

Out of 12 odd missions, about 2/3rds of them were actual fighter aircraft missions. I bought the game to fly ****ing jets listening to Danger Zone, not fly around in some half assed helicopter gunner mission for 12 minutes holding the down the trigger for EASY MODO.

The DFM and ASM maneuvers were pretty nice inclusions, but then again they stripped out multiple objectives and squadron controls present in the previous entries.

And god the final boss battle. ****ing you have to do 3-4 consecutive scripted dogfights in which the antagonist's plane is INDESTRUCTABLE, which takes approximately 5-6 minutes to run through, before you can actually maybe kill him. THEN he launches his cruise missile, which you somehow must shoot down in super slowmo dogfight mode which just makes it harder than what it should've ****ing been in the first place.

So in summary, **** you Project Aces and Namco, release Ace Combat Classics HD Collection (Containing 04, 05, Zero and 06) so you can wipe this stain off.

Australian Ninja

17-10-2011, 05:13 PM

9warbane

17-10-2011, 05:42 PM

It's not that bad.:o
Kill aliens, progress, OMG a new colour alien which is slightly harder to kill.
Killing them most of the time I used the gun the shoots 4 mine things that stick and then pressing reload detonates them. Towards then end of the game I just run past them. The most annoying thing is walling on a ramp of platform and there's a hole you don't see so you fall and have to go all the way up again and repair the hole to get past.

Guerrilla is way better.
Guerrilla had some puzzle elements with destroying a building in a certain time, I miss that.

X-men destiny - pretty good story and even with the fact that you're not playing as an actual X-men character the characterization is good. However Silicon Knights just seem to fail with gameplay mechanics and haven't learnt much from Too Human it seems. Graphically it also seems like a PS2 game.
Oh, that's out! Hardly heard anything about it since the reveal trailer.

Looking at reviews looks like something to get when it's cheap tho. :(

FF Freak

17-10-2011, 11:14 PM

Oh, that's out! Hardly heard anything about it since the reveal trailer.

Looking at reviews looks like something to get when it's cheap tho. :(

I ended up 7 day returning it after getting an easy 1k. Hoping the new spiderman game will be a lot better.

Cerebral

19-10-2011, 12:54 AM

Finally finished Tales of the Abyss, better than Symphonia and probably on par with Vesperia. but had a lot of really weird out of place lolrandom stuff in it.

Watchers

20-10-2011, 01:11 AM

Finished the co-op Portal 2 DLC with Slippery. Super fun, pretty challenging, and super free. Science was saved again!

Tukenstein

20-10-2011, 05:08 AM

Arkham City all done. =[

Gunblade89

20-10-2011, 08:06 AM

Arkham City all done. =[

That was quick, i've been taking my time.
How many hours did it take you?

TheMixta43

21-10-2011, 09:50 PM

Just beat Demon's Souls for the first time. Feels so good. Cannot wait to start Dark Souls now, I am prepared for the absolute worst.

Tukenstein

22-10-2011, 11:25 AM

That was quick, i've been taking my time.
How many hours did it take you?

I... don't know. 15 - 20? I was playing on hard though, so a lot of the time was spent dying a bunch. <.<

Sweating Bullets

22-10-2011, 04:09 PM

Just finished Arkham City - but there is heaps left to do in side missions and challenge rooms.

One of the best games I have played in the last two years.

Azzaman

24-10-2011, 05:38 PM

I just knocked off arkahm asylum (finally) great game! all ready for ac's pc debut now :D

VanAce

26-10-2011, 09:09 PM

Just finished the story on Jamestown. A fun little indie shooter.

9warbane

26-10-2011, 10:35 PM

Now do gauntlet and click on submit to leader board.

VanAce

27-10-2011, 02:11 AM

Done. No where near your score yet but that is because I kept dying while in Vaunt so I didn't get any of that score from it.

9warbane

27-10-2011, 05:54 PM

Not good enough, keep going!

Watchers

31-10-2011, 02:55 AM

Finished Renegade Ops co-op. Best. Ending. Ever.

Spazzola

31-10-2011, 01:03 PM

Got around to 100% Kill Team. Co-op certainly is more fun than solo and it makes you realise just how OP the Techmarine's turret is.

FF Freak

31-10-2011, 03:06 PM

After 4 years of owning the game I finally got around to finishing Lost odyssey.

SOX

31-10-2011, 03:07 PM

Finished Renegade Ops co-op. Best. Ending. Ever.

Better than Portal 2?

Mr.Mew

31-10-2011, 03:32 PM

After 4 years of owning the game I finally got around to finishing Lost odyssey.

One disc for each year?

SOX

31-10-2011, 03:58 PM

Finished Metal Slug 4 co-op. We only went through 90+ credits between the two of us...

Kind of bummed my mamebox doesn't record hi-scores once you switch the machine off.

Slippery

31-10-2011, 04:04 PM

Finished Renegade Ops co-op. Best. Ending. Ever.

This.

9warbane

31-10-2011, 05:13 PM

Finished Metal Slug 4 co-op. We only went through 90+ credits between the two of us...

Kind of bummed my mamebox doesn't record hi-scores once you switch the machine off.

http://highscore.mameworld.info/

SOX

31-10-2011, 05:21 PM

Cheery budday

Watchers

31-10-2011, 05:21 PM

Better than Portal 2?

Yes. 5

dimorphic

01-11-2011, 01:53 AM

BF3 campaign on hard. A whole lot of meh.

FF Freak

01-11-2011, 03:37 AM

One disc for each year?

lol not quite. I got through 3 discs my first time trying on my profile not linked to live. This time I did it over about 2 months on my live profile.

Also finished BF3 single player on hard. So many moments where I raged.

Natrak

01-11-2011, 05:41 PM

Finished InFamous Festival of Blood, a pretty cool piece of standalone DLC. Being able to fly with Vampire Cole is pretty sweet.

SOX

02-11-2011, 05:12 PM

Metal Slug X - holy crap that game has some slow-down. Actually managed to save some prisoners for once (massive points for doing so). Finished using 70 credits (me 28/other guy 42).
Super versions of weapons are cool, more branching paths and more interesting character morphs but has less interesting bosses compared to 4.

Probably try Metal Slug 3 next.

Australian Ninja

03-11-2011, 05:21 PM

Finished God of War: Chains of Olympus (PS3 version).

First run on normal, and started on God mode and about 2-3 hours into that.

I love this game as much as the other GoW games, well except 3, which I will have to force myself to replay again soon now that I'm less bitter about it.

I'm really impressed with how well they have upscaled the graphics for PS3, it wasn't until I read Wilks' Hyper review (after having completed the game) that I found out they actually improved the poly count of the in game models and did some work on textures etc. A really impressive effort, some parts you'd be hard pressed to tell if it was the GoW PSP games, or the original GoW.

The funny thing about God mode in the god of war series (hardest difficulty) is that it's still too easy. It's basically like playing DMC / N GAIDEN / BAYONETTA on the easiest difficulty. Probably a good thing really, otherwise I'd never complete the hardest mode and unlock the crap videos of devs staring at computer screens while some crap music plays and you scream "IS THAT IT?" at the TV.

grimace06

05-11-2011, 09:11 PM

I beat Uncharted 3.

Glad it's over.

VanAce

06-11-2011, 09:52 PM

I finished Sam & Max Season One. I quite enjoyed it as it had plenty of laughs and was interesting enough throughout. Bosco was probably the best character. My favourite episode was number 2 due to the silliness of the sitcom which you had to star in.

dimorphic

07-11-2011, 01:34 AM

Batman: Arkham City.

Brilliant game, awesome ending.

FF Freak

07-11-2011, 07:33 PM

Uncharted 3. Was a little disappointed with the last few chapters but over all was happy with the game.

Australian Ninja

08-11-2011, 06:39 PM

Uncharted 3. Was a little disappointed with the last few chapters but over all was happy with the game.

So you got the "Melancholic Adventurer" trophy then?

BRJC

12-11-2011, 01:48 AM

Borrowed Space Marine from a mate the other day, gave it a playthrough.

Found it quite entertaining, gave quite a visceral feel to hacking and slashing through hordes of orks :D. It should even appeal well to fans not from a WH40K background, and definitely stands up on it's own as an entertaining but not great shooter. 7/10.

Spazzola

13-11-2011, 06:25 PM

After all this time, I've finally got around to 1k'ing Kung-Fu Panda. I've actually really enjoyed this game, despite it's flaws. Now to decide whether to return to Bioshock and finish getting my brass balls, or to finally knock off the Dragon Age: Origins DLC.

VanAce

13-11-2011, 08:50 PM

Portal 2 completed. A great game which I believe improves on the first one (which was also great) a lot.

Gunblade89

15-11-2011, 12:49 PM

Finished Uncharted: Drake's Fortune
Fun game despite a few flaws, looking forward to playing Uncharted 2.
It seems most people consider it the best of the series.

Australian Ninja

15-11-2011, 05:05 PM

Finished Uncharted: Drake's Fortune
Fun game despite a few flaws, looking forward to playing Uncharted 2.
It seems most people consider it the best of the series.

I want to play Uncharted 2 again before 3, but my brother still has it.

Australian Ninja

17-11-2011, 07:59 PM

Finished No More Heroes (PS3 version). Great game, if only I had something to play right after it. Like the sequel I bought before this game for example..............

Man I had such a good laugh playing this game. The only game (other than sam and max) that I can play for laughs and still enjoy it as a proper game.

Watchers

17-11-2011, 11:15 PM

Finished the first Infamous. Dat ending. Can't tell if I like it or think it's incredibly stupid.

Australian Ninja

18-11-2011, 05:02 PM

Finished the first Infamous. Dat ending. Can't tell if I like it or think it's incredibly stupid.

My vote as always, is for stupid.

Not an Infamous fan, and I'm passing up the second game, even though it is very tempting I know there will be a point about 1/2 way through when I'll be screaming "Why the **** did I buy this!"

9warbane

18-11-2011, 05:40 PM

I liked the ending.

Finished Space Pirates And Zombies, 47 hours. Would of like the last battle to be larger considering all the recruiting you do before it but I suppose the game is designed to only have a maximum number of ships on screen at once.

Gunblade89

23-11-2011, 01:29 AM

Finished Batman: Arkham City although i still have half of the side missions to do and some riddles/trophys.

Great game, it's the sequel Arkham Asylum deserved.

dimorphic

23-11-2011, 02:38 AM

Halo: CE Aniversary on Legendary.

Best campaign ever.

Sweating Bullets

23-11-2011, 11:33 PM

I loved the ending of the first inFamous! I don't know why but I am playing through the first one again at my GFs house as I moved the PS3 over there. I really should have just started on the second one.

Just finished Assassin's Creed Revelations. Not too bad honestly. A tad rushed to the end especially the last cut scene. Might try the multi and mop up achievements after I finish Skyrim

Australian Ninja

24-11-2011, 04:27 PM

Finished NMH2. Overall liked the gameplay of No More Heroes 2 better than the first, some nice improvements in the combat, but I think I liked the boss battles of the first game better. Still, loved both games and will replay them again very soon.

AyatollaofRocknRolla

25-11-2011, 12:51 PM

Finished Gears of War 3 on Hardcore last night. Definitely the best campaign of the three. Now back to Skyrim.

Shorty

25-11-2011, 04:56 PM

Saints Row: The Third with the "happy" ending. The game even lets you replay the last mission to see the "sad" ending.

Gunblade89

26-11-2011, 01:09 PM

Spazzola

26-11-2011, 04:22 PM

Knocked off all the DLC for Dragon Age: Origins and I'm only one cheivo from the 100% (one of the sacred ashes branches from Origins). I loved Awakening, it was enjoyable despite being more of the same. I suppose something about the story sucked me in and refused to let go. Darkspawn Chronicles didn't do much for me and Golems of Amgarrak was a let down. Thankfully Chronicles was short.

Amgarrak's boss was hyped up to be this unstoppable fiend which was only weak to a glitch abusable by archers, or mages in general (on hard and nightmare). Switching to a dual wielding spirit warrior, I found it to be piss easy. All it took was some kiting, a few health pots, some stamina pots when I felt like using whirlwind for shits and giggles, and ding, cheivo unlocked. I ended up soloing it once it changed into its second form because my party got wiped, since the AI are useful for little more than meat shields and healing.

Australian Ninja

30-11-2011, 01:04 PM

Finally got around to playing the last two stages of Madworld last night after months of doing nothing with it.

A much as I love this game, I really wish I had that second analogue stick to control the in game camera. The main reason I died in an otherwise easy game was due to enemies attacking me from off screen, which got pretty damn annoying in the later stages.

Overall though, I love this game and after a time will replay it, shame it's so short but then there is always the incentive to complete as many kill bonuses / score multipliers etc in each stage. The cut scenes were a bit meh, but the in game commentary from Proops and DiMaggio was comedy gold.

Steven Blum (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Blum#Animation_roles) was awesome as Jack, and I recognised his voice right away, he plays jack very much like his Wolverine, which is a very good thing.

Spazzola

06-12-2011, 04:55 PM

Finally knocked off all three of the endings in Armored Core: For Answer. As with all AC games, I spent way more time in the menus than is probably healthy for my strained eyes. Summing up my AC fanboyish glee with the customisation available: it didn't fail to disappoint.

As for the gameplay and storyline, I can't help but feel that this game is really short. Knocking off the final playthrough in a few hours was a tad unfulfilling, though so was the 'destruction' ending. Spoiler: Tag with a Russian accented douche and blow apart 100 million people in a matter of minutes. Woo.

Though for any who may play this, go ORCA. Viva la revolution and all that jazz.

I also wished they'd put a bit more thought into the achievements. Offline cheivos are to destroy this huge fortress, do that ending and achieve these ranks. Online is...who honestly wants to play 10k matches and score 10k kills? What the **** were From Software thinking? Maybe if they'd made them like 'achieve a rank of S in x missions/mission x using only energy weapons', or 'with a mech under x weight', etc. At least that'd encourage people to try more of the weapons and configurations.

Anyway, I enjoyed myself, though I can see this returning to the stack for a while since I can't be bothered with another two playthroughs to unlock the last missing missions, nor can I find the motivation to finish all the missions to an S ranking.

Watchers

06-12-2011, 08:30 PM

Finished Saints Row 3. I'm sad that it's over :(

NiB

07-12-2011, 05:36 PM

Finished Arkam City...considering everything they improved from Asylum in terms of general gameplay I was a little disappointed with the boss fights, especially the end one.

FF Freak

25-12-2011, 02:27 AM

finished Infamous 2 - good ending. Prett good game and considering I played through the first over 4 months I finished this in almost 2 weeks.

Spazzola

05-01-2012, 01:18 PM

Finished Saint's Row 3. I really enjoyed myself with it and look forward to going for the 100% - I loved the dialogue and the somewhat zany crap it threw at you, plus the endings really ramped to a climax. I originally saved the statue and thought it was a nice 'happy' ending, though the final mission after killing Kilbane was just hectic - my preferred ending, especially with that media announcement :D What does concern me about it is that without the side missions being used as filler, the story would have been way too short. Even now, I felt many of the missions (such as the zombies and the dismantling of the gangs) could have been spread across more missions. It often felt like each bit was over before it truly began.

I liked the menu system and thought the upgrade system was well done - it helps to encourage post-story gameplay and really allows you to improve on your specific play style. I'm a fan of being a one man army which it allows for with health and ammo upgrades, while also catering for people who like to bring along backup or have a ****ing jet delivered to the fight. If the story-based DLC is anything like the main missions, then I look forward to buying it. Though what they did with the season pass does seem like a bit of a kick in the nuts (you get the story DLC, but the swath of cosmetic DLC is seperate).

Watchers

05-01-2012, 03:58 PM

I barely did any side missions, and my play time was over 20 hours, so I dunno what you're complaining about. The variety in the story missions is what makes that game fun, artificially padding out the length by doubling up on missions for the sake of it would be dumb.

Australian Ninja

05-01-2012, 05:06 PM

Spazzola

05-01-2012, 05:40 PM

I don't mean more missions for the sake of missions, I mean developing the narrative a bit more. It is probably a case where I enjoyed the game to such a degree that it felt shorter than it really was. I'm left craving more, but there is no more to be had :(

Xanafalgue

06-01-2012, 03:25 AM

I finished super mario 3d land (?) last week. It was so easy. Finished it in under 5 hours - what a challenge. I've probably spent more time trying to connect to online races in Mario Kart 7.

It looked pretty though. But Nintendo really needs to come up with some new ideas.

Gunblade89

10-01-2012, 06:56 PM

Finished Ocarina of Time 3D, it took me alot longer than i expected since i had forgotten what to do a few times.

Overall it's a great remastering of a classic game, now onto Skyward Sword.

SOX

10-01-2012, 06:57 PM

Xanafalgue

17-01-2012, 12:23 AM

Finished Darksiders, FFXIII (lol) and Vanquish.

dimorphic

05-02-2012, 06:37 AM

Uncharted 3 done and dusted.

Gunblade89

09-02-2012, 10:41 AM

Finished LA Noire last night, it was an enjoyable game.
I enjoyed the atmosphere of the 1940's, brilliant facial animation and graphics.
The last few chapters weren't the best, since there wasn't many interrogations.
The ending could have been better as well.

9warbane

12-02-2012, 03:05 PM

Finished Lost Kingdoms II, pretty short (6 hours) but I didn't get everything.
Great improvements over the first game, no random battles, discarding cards to find the one you need and deck editors through out levels.
Story was kind of crap as well as animation. Did a LP of it, wasn't all that great.

Gunblade89

02-03-2012, 09:39 AM

Finished up Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, one of the best games this gen.

dimorphic

12-04-2012, 10:25 PM

Gunblade89

13-04-2012, 10:09 AM

Game, set and match HAWX 2. It was decent, nothing special and I'd have been dirty if I bought it for full price. But for $5 it was a solid eight hours of entertainment. The multi is actually quite good too.

I've had this game sitting on my shelf for 12 months without playing it.
I liked the first HAWX so i should really just play it already...

VanAce

13-04-2012, 11:05 AM

I finished Bioshock the other day. I enjoyed it and I think I will have to check out Bioshock 2 once gaming backlog has dropped.

Ad-Rock

14-04-2012, 10:34 AM

Portal 2. Awesome.

Natrak

16-04-2012, 04:03 PM

206.something% finished Fez, there's just one last puzzle left that seems to have confounded the rest of the internet as well. Loved the game.

Leirith

17-04-2012, 08:38 AM

I finished Costume Quest last night. It ended a little abruptly, but it was amazing while it lasted. Anticipation for Double Fine Adventure builds.

DECEIT

17-04-2012, 11:09 AM

Finally sat down and finished the last half of Gears of war 2. Had it since launch (as i do gears 3) but had never finished it. Bring on Gears 3.

Australian Ninja

17-04-2012, 06:19 PM

Finished Bayonetta I hadn't played it for awhile but decided to finish it up. The final boss was fairly easy once i figured out her patterns.
Excellent game, i love the style and over the top action.

I'm going to have to replay it sometime, as i got mostly stone awards :p
This also reminds me i need to finish God Hand!

Yeah, the second to last boss in god hand is harder than the final boss, I finally finished it off last year, but only by spamming the sidestep and one specific move that can be pretty much used to beat both bosses. I don't know any other way, otherwise I probably would not have finished it at all.

Still pissed about no "new game+" though. (new moves don't count!).

Ad-Rock

19-04-2012, 09:40 PM

Braid

Lovely game, but not as difficult as I'd been told to expect and hoped.

Tonez

20-04-2012, 01:16 PM

Braid

Lovely game, but not as difficult as I'd been told to expect and hoped.

Try getting all the stars. That'll get you scratching your head.

Australian Ninja

20-04-2012, 05:23 PM

Try getting all the stars. That'll get you scratching your head.

I'm already scratching my head, but it ain't getting me any stars.

Mr.Mew

21-04-2012, 02:27 AM

Finished Deadly Premonition. Not sure what to think about the end, not quite what I expected to occur after all the gameplay that came before. It's like the Chinese dragon in True Crime: Streets of LA all over again. Regardless, oddly charming game, felt like 8 years ago playing some unknown game on the PS2 (which is good, for me, etc.).

Natrak

22-04-2012, 04:38 AM

Kid Icarus Uprising. Kind of an incredible game.

dimorphic

22-04-2012, 05:03 PM

The Darkness 2. Fantastic game, visceral and a very good, strong story.

But goddamn it's short.

anfronike

23-04-2012, 10:03 AM

Finally finished Mass Effect 3 after playing it all weekend. I loved most of it apart from the anti-climactic ending. I'm sad to see it go.

ElPresidente

23-04-2012, 11:00 AM

FF Freak

23-04-2012, 02:53 PM

Finished the Last Story. it's rare to find good JRPGs now a days but this is one of them.

ElPresidente

23-04-2012, 06:01 PM

Does it take the same progressive approach to mechanics that Xenoblade did or is it more just a good example of the traditional JRPG approach?

Natrak

23-04-2012, 09:30 PM

I would say so, random encounters are nowhere to be found and environments aren't littered with enemies to engage like in JRPGs that do away with them, instead battles are more like designed setpieces (occasionally you'll also come across a glyph on the ground that you can use to engage in optional battles).

Combat is real-time, implements some elements of a cover system and is based on drawing aggro with the player character's special "Gathering" ability. While gathering your character can revive fallen teammates and will heal when attacked. You can also fire arrows from first person, which can be handy at the start of a battle in particular to deal damage to any specific enemy you might want to drop quickly (like a mage, for instance).

You can also pause action to issue orders to your teammates when a skill meter has been filled. It's a really enjoyable and very unique combat system that seems to get better and better as the game goes on and you're given more abilities.

The game is also paced a lot faster than JRPGs and doesn't seem to really require any sort of grinding. It definitely has traditional JRPG elements, but it's a far cry from something like Lost Odyssey. The biggest thing the game has going against it is that most of the characters are duds and the story doesn't seem nearly as good as what Xenoblade Chronicles offers. Still, I'd recommend giving it a go, the combat is a lot of fun.

Cerebral

23-04-2012, 09:59 PM

All I want to know is how varied the thick british accents are

ElPresidente

24-04-2012, 09:47 AM

Stuff.

Cheers for the summary, I'll give it a look in.

Australian Ninja

24-04-2012, 05:58 PM

Cheers for the summary, I'll give it a look in.

They reviewed it on Good Game recently if you want to see a short video that gives you a reasonable idea about how it plays etc:

http://www.abc.net.au/tv/goodgame/stories/s3464682.htm

I''ll be buying it for sure, but not until later in the year when I've finished some other games (and the price will inevitably drop).

JGC

24-04-2012, 07:53 PM

Finally got around to play Dragon Age Origins.

Don't think i can be stuffed for another walkthrough though. If i could only find my Baldurs Gate CDs though.

FF Freak

26-04-2012, 12:40 AM

Finished Resident Evil Revelations. Decent game that would probably have been better if I had the circle pad pro. Found some sections infuriating.

Ad-Rock

07-05-2012, 07:07 AM

Skyrim. Done all the major quest lines and guilds, got nice armour, have gone on mass killing spree etc.

It may not be a game that you can see the credits roll in, but I'm done with it til at least the xpac arrives.

xander_cade

07-05-2012, 02:41 PM

Last game I finished was Binary Domain. A few weeks ago. Before that, Mass Effect 3.

Revoltix

08-05-2012, 10:28 PM

Finished Need for Speed Carbon on 360

Ummm... yep... NEXT!!

Gunblade89

11-05-2012, 12:31 PM

Finished Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception i really enjoyed it. Although the gunfights got repetitive after awhile.

Uncharted 2>Uncharted 3>>Uncharted 1

Natrak

11-05-2012, 09:21 PM

Finished The Last Story, 'twas pretty great. Funny that two of the most forward thinking JRPGs this gen are Wii games.

Ad-Rock

14-05-2012, 10:00 AM

I went back to Skyrim for a couple of days until D3 arrives. Used an exploit to get 100 in all skills. Provided a few more hours of totally op entertainment.

xander_cade

14-05-2012, 11:03 PM

Finished Medal of Honor today.... now back to Dante's Inferno.

Australian Ninja

15-05-2012, 03:48 PM

Finished THOR on Wii, which is a totally different game to the other console versions.

I was surprised how much I enjoyed this game, it's short, the combat is simple - but you get to be THOR kicking a lot of ass fighting hordes of enemies and yelling "Have at THEE you giant frosty mother ****ers!" whenever you like.

xander_cade

15-05-2012, 10:34 PM

yelling "Have at THEE you giant frosty mother ****ers!" whenever you like.

LOL awesome, I'll be sure to do that if I get around to Thor on Wii.

Australian Ninja

17-05-2012, 06:06 PM

LOL awesome, I'll be sure to do that if I get around to Thor on Wii.

Also, flicking the Wii-mote (or nunchuk) to throw THOR's hammer is pretty sweet.

One of the very few times that a motion thingy actually enhances a game a little bit.

The other examples of motion control enhancing the experience on wii being No More Heroes 1+2 and NO OTHER WII GAME EVER!

Somehow I've ended up with THOR on DS, Wii and PS3, none of which are exceptional - but they are fun and three whole different games - so I can't complain.

FORSOOTH! Verily he dost speaketh the truth!