HI! Oh don't look surprised. It's a game of course I made plans to play it. Anywho. Skylanders Giants came out the other day and I must say I am severely disappointed in the upgrades they made. The original skylanders was a short game to begin with and Giants only has about 16 chapters so at a half hour each taking our time you are looking at eight hours of game play. I don't know about you but $60 game. 8 hours of game play. Not a happy camper.
Also the main reason I play this game is to play with my man however they have really added insult to injury with the multiplayer mode this time. In the original game the second player was at least allowed to open boxes but not anymore! If a second player gets near a box the primary player has to open it and it has been doing this at random for other challenges such as the feats of strength. It's less like having two players and more like having a side kick.
Next on the bitch list is the difficulty settings. I was excited because I just breezed through the first game murdering everything in my path so when I heard the second had a hard and even nightmare mode I was excited. And then it failed me. Hard didn't make the enemies harder to kill. It didn't even seem to make more of them when we were playing with the different levels. All Hard seems to do is increase the damage of the enemies effectively turning all your own pieces, giants included, into glass cannons.
Then they added potty humour. I don't know about you but I don't like potty humour. It gets old quickly and I know the game is aimed at kids but I wouldn't want my child laughing at these jokes either. I'd want them to have a little more taste so when I see they have a figure coming out called Hot Dog (awww its a puppy) and one of its attacks is a flaming bag of poo I just have to sigh. Or one of our giants has an attack called "B is for butt stinger" I can just imagine a bunch of 6 year olds running around saying that or teaching it to little siblings. I found it to be unnecessary and in poor taste.
Speaking of the giant aspect of the game I was really under impressed. They seem to just be larger, which gets in the way of each other more than anything, with more HP. They don't seem to actually be any stronger. Level 4 Tree Rex currently goes 8 damage with his upgraded blaster power. Not impressed. The enemies I'm fighting do like 80.
Oh and one last point that irked me wrong. The hats. There are TONS more of them. Yea! That's great except you don't find all of them anymore. You find some and others you have to buy in specific levels. Also if you don't buy them in that level you don't get credit for having found them all. So it can easily turn your three star or even two star level back down to a one star because your staring at these hats debating between a star and your next upgrade. I think they were trying to create greater replay value maybe? All it did was bug me. I'd spend five minutes comparing hats then get to the end and be told I didn't find them. BS! I found them! I CHOSE not to buy them.
Corset not really sticking to the new schedule.
Signing off.
ps: At least I'm posting eventually.
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Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Saturday, July 7, 2012
Alan Wake
Mild Spoiler Alert. Read at own risk.
So I've been meaning to play Alan Wake for a while now and it finally got cheap enough where I didn't mind prioritizing it before any other new games I'm pining for comes out. Before I get off topic, Alan Wake is a visually pretty game. It's not the best I've ever seen but it reminded me of watching FF: Spirits within. Great to look at, won't confuse it for live action. The game controls are simple enough and easy to get the hang of but the game it self I am finding to be a bit tedious and I can't say I have super amounts of sympathy for Alan. In the first chapter of the game we find out he doesn't like his fans, he doesn't want to write or even try and fix his problem, and he's willing to terrorize his wife for trying to help him. He has an explosive temper and it seems like half his issues would never have happened if he had put his big boy pants on and manned up. Now I know if he did this we wouldn't have a story so I forgive him but they could have given us something to cling to to like this guy other than he is determined to find his wife who get's kidnapped at the end of Ch1.
On a positive note I do like how they end the chapters. It declares it over and you get a song. Then as the next chapter begins you get a mini flash back and over arcing voices of "Last time on Alan Wake...." where we get to see a recap just in case we forgot. It's all skipable if you can't be bothered but it was cute to me. Now by the end of chapter two I think I have a pretty solid idea of how the game is going to play and I must confess a lot of people told me they spent a lot of time hunting for ammo and batteries and I find I'm always just about maxed with both. Unless you waste your ammo shooting into the darkness at random, you'll probably be fine. I'm an awful shot (doesn't auto aim...) and I haven't had a problem. Ditto with batteries. Unless you hold it down in max mode all the time, you're going to do fine. There is no need to overkill that way.
Moving on, I do find the combat gets extraordinarily tedious. There is so much of the plot that could have and should have taken place in a car where your invulnerable or during the daylight hours. So romping through the woods repeatedly, or the train yard, or lumber yard... at night gets to be repetitive. Even when it starts chucking train engines at me I feel as if I just did all this five minutes ago.
The plot itself is interesting just don't say it out loud or it starts to sound silly and childish. Finding the manuscript pages is also a bit of a bummer. I seem to always find them out of order so I know plot spoilers before I get to them if I take the time to actually read the pages. For me this is a downer. Since the manuscript pages are coming true if I read it, it will happen so even the game is spoiling itself.
Overall I am not done yet and will give an update when I do finish/if I do. I'd recommend playing it if you are waiting on another game to be released but it doesn't suit my fancy as much as other games. In the last chapter I beat the plot was picking up tremendously but the fighting was getting to be extraordinarily exhausting in a bad way but yea or nay I am still reserving judgement.
Corset playing games.
Signing off
So I've been meaning to play Alan Wake for a while now and it finally got cheap enough where I didn't mind prioritizing it before any other new games I'm pining for comes out. Before I get off topic, Alan Wake is a visually pretty game. It's not the best I've ever seen but it reminded me of watching FF: Spirits within. Great to look at, won't confuse it for live action. The game controls are simple enough and easy to get the hang of but the game it self I am finding to be a bit tedious and I can't say I have super amounts of sympathy for Alan. In the first chapter of the game we find out he doesn't like his fans, he doesn't want to write or even try and fix his problem, and he's willing to terrorize his wife for trying to help him. He has an explosive temper and it seems like half his issues would never have happened if he had put his big boy pants on and manned up. Now I know if he did this we wouldn't have a story so I forgive him but they could have given us something to cling to to like this guy other than he is determined to find his wife who get's kidnapped at the end of Ch1.
On a positive note I do like how they end the chapters. It declares it over and you get a song. Then as the next chapter begins you get a mini flash back and over arcing voices of "Last time on Alan Wake...." where we get to see a recap just in case we forgot. It's all skipable if you can't be bothered but it was cute to me. Now by the end of chapter two I think I have a pretty solid idea of how the game is going to play and I must confess a lot of people told me they spent a lot of time hunting for ammo and batteries and I find I'm always just about maxed with both. Unless you waste your ammo shooting into the darkness at random, you'll probably be fine. I'm an awful shot (doesn't auto aim...) and I haven't had a problem. Ditto with batteries. Unless you hold it down in max mode all the time, you're going to do fine. There is no need to overkill that way.
Moving on, I do find the combat gets extraordinarily tedious. There is so much of the plot that could have and should have taken place in a car where your invulnerable or during the daylight hours. So romping through the woods repeatedly, or the train yard, or lumber yard... at night gets to be repetitive. Even when it starts chucking train engines at me I feel as if I just did all this five minutes ago.
The plot itself is interesting just don't say it out loud or it starts to sound silly and childish. Finding the manuscript pages is also a bit of a bummer. I seem to always find them out of order so I know plot spoilers before I get to them if I take the time to actually read the pages. For me this is a downer. Since the manuscript pages are coming true if I read it, it will happen so even the game is spoiling itself.
Overall I am not done yet and will give an update when I do finish/if I do. I'd recommend playing it if you are waiting on another game to be released but it doesn't suit my fancy as much as other games. In the last chapter I beat the plot was picking up tremendously but the fighting was getting to be extraordinarily exhausting in a bad way but yea or nay I am still reserving judgement.
Corset playing games.
Signing off
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