Sauwelios wrote:I also still want to get Rise of the Tomb Raider (on PS4 or 360) and Arkham Knight, and have preordered The Last Guardian. [...] Dishonored was great, too.
Ultimate Philosophy 1001 wrote:Metroid prime 1 and 2 is the best game ever made.
Its got a perfect blend of combat and puzzles.
I played a tomb raider demo once, wasnt as good as metroid prime, Tomb Raider's atmosphere reminded me too much of a cheap B movie. James Bond and Indiana Jones were made as a deliberate mockery of B movies, and that is why they have a better atmosphere than actual B movies. The only B movies that are any good are movies with an urban setting.
The second reason the tomb raider franchise isn't that good is because it doesn't actually make you feel like a female. In Metroid prime you actually feel like a female. Tomb Raider is rather bland.
I played a top-down version of Tomb Raider but it was rather bland. The intro cutscene wasn't even animated, just cardboard cutouts saying generic scripts. It somehow got a 4/5 rating but I don't know why. The maps were bland and procedural looking, and the game had no substance felt like a chore. You could easily exploit AI by finding a ledge and jumping on it, then the enemies could not hurt you.
James Bond goldeneye was a good game but I were to make a remake I would add a trap system, because in the movies there are a lot of traps and not non-stop gun shooting like in the games. The James Bond goldeneye remake for the XBOX 360 was very bad, it was actually worse than the goldeneye remake for the Wii, which was more good than it was bad. The XBOX 360 goldeneye was bad because I played the demo and it had no puzzles, just repetitive call of duty style point A to Point B gameplay.
Yeah, I never played that spin-off. And in any case, to me Tomb Raider is about being alone (after all the enemies are dead) in a tomb or temple or the like and especially wall-scaling through it (I also loved this in Assassin's Creed 2 and Prince of Persia Sands of Time, 2008, and The Forgotten Sands). Anniversary and Underworld even made shimmying fun by allowing you to go faster by tapping a button (meaning both interactivity and speeding up of what's otherwise just lamely holding a direction). For some reason they took that out with the reboot...
I liked Goldeneye back in the day, especially the first level, but after Deus Ex I cannot go back to such unstealthy FPSes.
MagsJ wrote:Mahjong and solitaire..
Pandora wrote:MagsJ wrote:Mahjong and solitaire..
Moonlight Mahjong!![]()
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I loved playing nvChess, they had really cool graphics, but they don't have an app for it.
Witcher 3 - Blood and Wine wrote:Geralt: Silk kerchief. Monogrammed d.l.C. A noble's accessory, clearly.
Amorphos wrote:i am struggling to find first person games either shooters or rpg, many like witcher is 3rd person. nothing matches skyrim or fallout 4 - that I have found. nor anything like them. any ideas people?
AutSider wrote:The comparison seems to be that they are both rather dark (Gothic less so), that they have a similar combat system (Gothic's is clunkier, apparently), similar open world design with focus on story instead of sandboxing, and that they are both difficult and challenging.
Amorphos wrote:i am struggling to find first person games either shooters or rpg, many like witcher is 3rd person. nothing matches skyrim or fallout 4 - that I have found. nor anything like them. any ideas people?
It feels like the game is against you, especially at first. You will die, countless times. You will imagine satisfied game devs. You will get better and you will defeat the most demoralizing foes. You will feel like a boss. And you will be, because you learned everything the hard way and learned it well.
The fantastic thing is the story that develops in the player's head as you become familiar with every odd corner of the world, the haunt of every enemy, his movement & attack patterns. You won't progress until you appreciate these things. As far as plot, all you'll get are a short intro sequence, fragments of conversation, and minimalist lore that the developers never push in your face. Still, the world feels alive. And it does feel like the player has some forlorn purpose there.
WendyDarling wrote:Sauwelios,
Changing platforms to play a great game is not a question for a die hard gamer. Just sayin'.
WendyDarling wrote:Amorphos,
Might & Magic VI-VIII, inspired the Elder Scrolls series indubitably, (PC-Windows 2000, ME, or earlier required) unless you download from GOG, but the old discs play much smoother on old systems. Old games are why I still have an old, gaming-only PC and Win.95. If only I'd kept my Atari package, that would be a blast about now.
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