Posted in gamelog on Jul 6th, 2010
Heavy Rain is an interesting game. I almost hesitate to call it a game, but that’s me being a little bit snarky and not giving it its due. It is a game. And there are points where it is really gripping and emotional and – dare I say it? – fun. But then there are points where the game becomes tedious and dull and somewhat inexplicable.
The game bounces between three types of scenes: intriguing choices (the most fun), quick-time-event boss battles (fun at first, but get kind of old), and mundane “normal” tasks (which get old really fast). In terms of story (what I would consider both the game’s greatest strength and its biggest weakness), I found that the first 75% of it was entertaining and interesting.
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Posted in gamelog on Jun 21st, 2010
I’m always a bit skeptical when games score as highly as Red Dead Redemption did on Metacritic, especially because I was not a huge fan of the critically lauded Grand Theft Auto IV. To add to my doubt, RDR is by the exact same studio that brought the world GTA.
So maybe my expectations, despite the game getting nearly perfect ratings, were lowered. In some ways, the game was exactly what I imagined it to be. In others, it completely exceeded what I expected.
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Posted in gamelog on May 30th, 2010
I finished the single player campaign of BF:BC2 last night. It’s the first game that I’ve beaten since Simon’s birth (although I’ve been playing several others) and I have mixed feelings about it. I’ll start by saying that I loved the first Battlefield: Bad Company game, so my expectations of the sequel were pretty high. And overall, I enjoyed the game. A lot. Had I played this game first, I might have enjoyed it more.
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Posted in gamelog on Feb 22nd, 2010
Not a very long game, I finished Dante’s Inferno late last night after about 10 hours of gameplay. I unlocked a few bonus features, as well as the ability to play through the game again with all of my powers, although I don’t know if that’d be enough for me to rent it again.
I’ll say this: I had fun. There were parts that made me a bit squeamish and there was definitely what I’d deem excessive amounts of nudity and gore, but the actual button-mashing combo-unlocking gameplay was exciting.
Spoilers after the break.
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Posted in gamelog on Feb 7th, 2010
I’m sure I’ll go back and play more – either another new playthrough or continuing my finished game to fill out some of the exploration and sidequests – but I completed a first playthrough of ME2 today with a male Engineer.
Spoilers after the jump.
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Posted in gamelog on Feb 7th, 2010
This is the category that I am giving to short posts that I write upon beating a game. This log is mainly for my own benefit, so that I can see when I beat games and what my thoughts on them were.
If you choose to read these, beware of spoilers. I will give [...]
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