All Things Video Games & Game Reviews

[Gonzo]

Hey guys...
Thought we could use a thread to help one another out with purchasing new and used games. Now that the next gen consoles are out and the holiday season will soon be upon us, many new games are going to drop. We've been throwing 'reviews' in several different threads or making new threads for each game. I thought we might like to converge and discuss them as a whole. Whether you're on PS3, 360, PS4, XB one or even a wii, PC and Mac, this is a repository for what you're playing and how you rate it.

Let's try to do a 1-10 scale for each game. Take into account the following:

Storyline
Challenge
Replayability
Graphics
Online functionality
Downloadable content
AI/npc's
Price
Length of gameplay

You can use all or some of those as a guide to score the game. If there are other aspects you'd like to tell as about with your game, please do so. These are just suggentions.

Please note what system, (if necessary i.e. It being exclusive to a system) you're playing on and let us know what you think.

1. Sucks, I'd rather watch Brodie Croyle play as our starter. This game is dogshit.
2. Don't waste your time. It's obviously been programmed by a bunch of chimps with syphilis.
3. I'd rather eat tapioca pudding out of my grandmothers colostomy bag, then stick my tongue in her stoma.
4. Meh, there's really better stuff to do, (like waxing my pubes) but I was lazy.
5. This is kinda like purgatory. It's not the best place to be but it could be worse.
6. Not bad at all... It's like I just scored a BJ from my hot first cousin.
7. Entertaining as all hell, kinda like the feeling where you just drank enough not to puke and can still walk.
8. Buy this game, I'm super-cereal. It's got stuff that makes my nipples tingly.
9. HELL F'ing YEAH! I'd talk more about it but I'm gonna be locked in place for a week just playing this ****er.
10. This game is like godfather two and the empire strikes back joined forces to **** your face off with wow. I'm taking all of my PTO days and going on FMLA.


EDIT: We can also discuss upcoming/all things gaming in here as well.
Enjoy!

[millz]

Originally Posted by Gonzo

I was going to totally give this game a shit review at first... I really was.
But I decided to give it another chance. I'm glad I did, actually.

Excerpt from Wiki to get you started:




After entering the ship, you can see that the shit hit's the fan. People are trying to survive an infestation of xenomorph aliens. You have to contend with them, the crazy people on board and the androids that have gone batshit nuts as well.

This game is hard. VERY Hard... You have to play by it's rules as well. There is absolutely no "run and gun" bullshit here. You break cover and you're done.
The aliens will be on you like white on rice.

The gameplay is all first person and the graphics are truly beautiful. The main character, (Amanda) is a smoking hot babe and she's is just like her mother.
The crafting system is a little difficult to understand at first but you'll get it after a few levels.
I don't like how you have to back-track a lot in the game but it's a necessary evil I suppose.
The Creative Assembly is the company that developed this game and they did a good job capturing the feel of the original Alien movie...
The technology on board that you deal with is exactly what they showed in said movie... Things like 'Tandy' style computers, tape recorders, cigarette machines, etc. It's all very retro.
The start-up screen is actually the old school 20th Century Fox intro and it looks like you need to adjust the tracking on your VCR.

All in all they did a good job with this game. If you love stealth, this is the game for you. There's a lot of sneaking around, puzzles to solve and things like that. You won't be disappointed at all. I really thought it wasn't going to be my type of game but I'm glad I pushed through and really learned how to play it.
If you plan on picking this one up, wait a little bit for a sale and check out some of the game play on YouTube and see what you think.

This one will keep you busy and it does have some very boring parts to it but all in all, I give it a solid 7.75 in my book. A good time-waster that is best played in short bursts.

This game kinda intrigues me, is it scary and like Outlast at all?


btw, great thread

[QuikSsurfer]

Originally Posted by millz

This game kinda intrigues me, is it scary and like Outlast at all?


btw, great thread

Not sure why Gonzo would write off Alien Isolation in the first place.. It's the best alien game to come out in years. The atmosphere is spot on - you really feel like you're on the ship from the movie.
It's a lot like Outlast with the cat and mouse style but you do actually get weapons and this is a nice crafting system -- mostly for noise distractions and stuff.
The alien is also animated absolutely beautifully.

Game is quite long and well worth it if you have ANY interest in Alien or horror games.

[Gonzo]

Originally Posted by QuikSsurfer

Not sure why Gonzo would write off Alien Isolation in the first place.. It's the best alien game to come out in years. The atmosphere is spot on - you really feel like you're on the ship from the movie.
It's a lot like Outlast with the cat and mouse style but you do actually get weapons and this is a nice crafting system -- mostly for noise distractions and stuff.
The alien is also animated absolutely beautifully.

Game is quite long and well worth it if you have ANY interest in Alien or horror games.

You hit the nail on the head there.
I was originally going to chuck it down the drain when I was playing it for an hour and had no idea where to go and what to do. It reminded me a little of Fallout and I am not a fan of that particular franchise.
However, I took a break and went back, (which I always do with games that piss me off) and gave it a second chance. It's the most fluid, intelligent game I e played in a long time. It does have some serious 'shit your pants' moments and I'm glad I stuck with it.
Watchdogs is an example of a game I gave hours to and wish I hadn't. Lol
Alien is worth the effort.

[Gonzo]

Originally Posted by millz

How beautiful is it and where would you rank it?

AC3 was my favorite in the series - Black flag was good too, kinda pissed I traded that in for watch dogs.

There are games I want to trade in for it, far cry 4 and gta but they only offer less then 5, less then 10 for watch dogs, killzone, bf4, etc.

It's really frustrating and I'd rather dish out that lil bit of extra petty cash instead of giving away my whole collection for 1 or 2 games.

Not going to rank it just yet but the game is impressing me quite a bit.
There's so much to do. Actually, there's a little too much to do. You can't go fifty steps in any direction without a task, especially when Ubisoft is up and running. I played some multiplayer the other day. It was ****ing cool except one of the guys playing kept running right into battle as opposed to stealth. Pissed me off a little.

[Dayze]

how do the Assassin Creeds of late differ from the first installment. I owned the first one when it came out long ago, and got tired of it very very quickly. it was very very repetitive, and I felt like the only thing I was actually doing was running around in game, not really 'doing' anything.

[ThaVirus]

I thought AC was easily the worst one. Like, it isn't even close. That game blew dicks and if I hadn't bought AC II and AC: Brotherhood at the same time I likely would never even have finished the series.

All of them get kind of repetitive, but nowhere near as bad as the first. That one had no flavor, no flash, pizzazz! Even Altair, the main character, was such a bore.

I thought AC: Brotherhood and AC: Revelations were the best, for what it's worth.

[QuikSsurfer]

Originally Posted by Gonzo

You hit the nail on the head there.
I was originally going to chuck it down the drain when I was playing it for an hour and had no idea where to go and what to do. It reminded me a little of Fallout and I am not a fan of that particular franchise.
However, I took a break and went back, (which I always do with games that piss me off) and gave it a second chance. It's the most fluid, intelligent game I e played in a long time. It does have some serious 'shit your pants' moments and I'm glad I stuck with it.
Watchdogs is an example of a game I gave hours to and wish I hadn't. Lol
Alien is worth the effort.

Glad you're enjoying it. Game definitely has plenty of shit your pants moments
Getting pulled out of a locker or getting company while I'm hiding in a vent really reckted me

[Gonzo]

Originally Posted by QuikSsurfer

Glad you're enjoying it. Game definitely has plenty of shit your pants moments
Getting pulled out of a locker or getting company while I'm hiding in a vent really reckted me

Oh that's no shit. The Vents really ****ing suck as far as shitting yourself is concerned. I really thought I was safe there. Next thing I knew I was ****ing done.
It's probably the best horror game recently released. Much better than The Evil Within. That ****ing thing pissed me off.
Btw, are you on PS4?

[Mr. Flopnuts]

So I just got EA access to get a discount on Dragon Age and it gave me access to a bunch of EA games. I'd never played FIFA before and I just played a couple of games of FIFA 14. That game is ****ing hard!

[QuikSsurfer]

I'm on Xbox one.

EA access should also let you play 6 hours of dragon age right now.

[Gonzo]

My eyes are bloodshot, my thumbs a sore and I haven't eaten in two days.
I think I can speak French now. That's a plus, chicks dig that.

Anyway... Let's get to it.
This ****ing game had more glitches on release day than anything I've ever seen. It was so bad that Ubisoft shut down their "uplay" bullshit and all multiplayer was out for 24 hrs.
I was running around France in the late 1700's and marveling at the crowds, the musicians, street performers etc but then they'd just disappear, change genders and clothes, weird shit like that. However, I've noticed the glitches have decreased quite a bit. Let's get into it a bit now.

The story centers around an assassin named Arno with the worst luck ever... His dad is killed when he's 10, his adopted dad was killed when he was 19 and his girlfriend/adopted sister blames him. He gets locked up in the Bastille where he learns the assassins have been watching him and his father held a high ranking position with the organization. Arno joins the assassins to learn more about his lineage and the most boring storyline unfolds therein. A real snorefest, really.
Try try to get you interested but fail miserably. What makes up for it is the secondary storyline regarding the revolution. The crowds are fired up, pissed off and ready to behead some ****ers. It's your job to spark the french pussies with their pitchforks and baguettes.

Graphics: The graphics are some of the best you'll see on next gen. The city is beautiful and the interiors of some of the buildings are so amazingly detailed I literally stood in some of the buildings for minutes marveling at it. HOWEVER, some of the areas are very much last gen. Vague, non-detailed and boring. I have no doubt that there's so much detail within the game that something had to suffer. When you're walking around the city, you'll notice what I mean.

AI: Paris is alive in this game. Hundreds of thousands of people, cats, birds, dogs, pigs etc. Just absolutely amazing and I am not wow'd very easily when it comes to AI. I could damn near hear the console groaning and creaking under the immense weight of the game. The franchise has improved on this in ways I never expected. You can listen in on thousands of conversations.

Gameplay: We've all bitched and moaned about the same old boring mechanics.... Every fight is exactly the same in past AC games. Block, attack, smoke bomb, rinse and repeat. Well, it's improved a bit. A BIT... Different enemies have different difficulty levels and they'll take your ass down if you are not careful. You can use pistols, rifles, two handed weapons, swords, a new arm dagger thingy that shoots blades etc. Smoke bombs, cherry bombs, poison gas, flashbangs and grenades are all available.
The climbing mechanics are much more realistic as well. You can now climb down a building! Holy shit, right?
There are hundreds of missions, btw. The main story and several secondary missions. The multiplayer is a big part of the game and I highly recommend it. More on that shortly. The character customization is awesome. Several different outfit combinations and several different colors. You can dress him up in Chiefs red or pimp purple. Some cool shit there.

Multiplayer:
When Ubisoft went online yesterday, I tried it for the first time. It worked perfectly. You can't talk to the other players but Its not really needed. You can play missions with up to four total players and each mission has its own difficulty level. It's very cool to team up and complete an assassination together. The players I've played with so far have all been pretty decent. One guy kept going all Rambo and getting killed so I let him die and completed the mission myself. Lol

I can certainly go on and on here about this game. There's a lot to it and I can see the average gamer getting a month or two of good gameplay out of it. It's that immense. Yes, it's best in short doses, IMO. A few hours here and there because it can get frustrating.
In closing...yes, it's another AC game with many of the same AC style missions however, it's the new flagship of the franchise. If you plan on picking this one up, wait a few weeks for the bugs to get totally worked out.
I'll score this a little differently then average it out:

Graphics: 8.5
Gameplay: 9
Storyline: 6.5
Multiplayer: 9.5
AI: 9
Total average: 8.5

[kcxiv]

Someone gifted me Saints Row IV. Played some today, so far it seems pretty cool.

[Gonzo]

I need something here guys... Gimme the info on the new Farcry? I've heard good things and then I've read here that it's just the same old shit.

I was not a fan of the series. I prefer 3rd person style games but 1st person can grow on me.
BTW, GTAV Next Gen review coming soon.

[SAUTO]

Originally Posted by Gonzo

I need something here guys... Gimme the info on the new Farcry? I've heard good things and then I've read here that it's just the same old shit.

I was not a fan of the series. I prefer 3rd person style games but 1st person can grow on me.
BTW, GTAV Next Gen review coming soon.

I picked far cry 4 up yestday had thanksgiving with a bunch of friends last night so Im about 20 minutes in right now lol.


Looks good though so far. Hoping the multiplayer ends up 2 players on the same console like 3 was , but don't know haven't gotten that far yet and me and my buddy would have gotten killed had we sat upstairs playing all night....

[SAUTO]

And I'm only on a 360 still...


Need to upgrade one of these days, after my car and truck projects.