Or not.
I liked it the way it was, not the way it is.
But I don't have to play the new ones to be a fan of the series...I just won't play it past a certain point.

Played through the Half-Life series again recently. Love those games. Although, Alyx gets really annoying in episode 1 and 2. :/

"Silent Hill: Downpour" PS3 7-8/10

Tho it wasn't as good as the former "homecoming" i still enjoyed this game a lot. I was glad to see they'd kept the improved gameplay and combat movements.

What i wasn't as happy about was the mess of a map system. I never managed to find half of what was possible in the town, coz the map(s) were so confusing. I'm sure i missed out on a lot of fun coz i couldn't figure out where to go or where to look and because most of the foggy town looked the same.
And i'm not too sure an auto-save system works for a game like this. I never fired a single shot or used a lot of medi kits coz i never knew if a monster boss would turn up right ahead. Neither would the gamer know which door he would open that would change the story and take him to the next stage. That toatlly sucks when you can't save yourself.


Okay, now to the good things.

Where Homecoming was like a blend between Silent Hill and "Hostel" this version was a mix between Silent Hill and the asian horror/fantasy movie "Re-cycle". I really appreciated the total mindfucks it played on the gamer and the crazy surreal and horriffic second dimension.
The creator had certainly taken this a notch or two up in this edition. Some of the escapes from this dimension was seriously intense. One of the absolute highlights for me was the rollercoaster ride in the mines. Those miners coming to life... creeeepy. :D

There might've been less creepy atmoshphere than in some of the former games and i would be lying if i said there were a lot of different monsters in this one. But for me, i would've enjoyed it just as much, if not more, without a single monster at all. The best scenes in Downpour was the ones without any monsters anyway. :)

"Hunted - The Demons Forge".
I like the effort they put into the storyline of this one, even though it wasn't really all that groundbreaking.
A nice enough looking game, though pretty rough around the edges.
I enjoyed playing it though. The start was a bit dry but the fun increases as you upgrade your character/skills.
This game felt like it was absent an inventory and a trading/shop system.

I feel like while it was a good game with a decent to playthrough - it wasn't a really great game, it was fun but it just felt a bit like there could've been more to it. More variety in enemies and combat would've been a nice touch.
Levels were also pretty linear.
This is a good backburner game, for when you've got nothing else in particular to play - you'll get through it, and not hate it.

Last Game Beaten: Golden Axe 2 and Streets of Rage 2 on Sonics Ultimate Genesis Collection. Highly recommended

Saints Row: The Third. Really fun game as long as you're cool with what is essentially a GTA rip-off on hallucinogens. The customization options are pretty amazing - I made a really good Terminator as well as a pretty good looking Brock Samson from The Venture Bros.

Running around a city, throwing jarred farts, and beating people with a giant purple dildo is really fun if you're a twelve-year-old at heart :D

Don't bother with the DLC though - I made the mistake and paid $20 for the season pass and got MAYBE 4 hours worth of content :mad:

Hum.... I don't finish games in a while, to be honest xD
I think it was Limbo.
It was a cool game, short, but it had nice puzzles and a fantastic style.

Just beat the Resident Evil 1 remake on the Nintendo DS with both Jill and Chris, will always be one of my favorite games ever. It is really disappointing that they slightly changed the music for the DS version though.

I last beat Catherine (that sounds kind of wrong). Fun game if you don't mind repetitive gameplay. For me it was worth it because I enjoyed the multiple-endings, puzzle challenges and, uh, being able to reply to text messages . . .

8/10 for being something a bit different and just because I liked the sheep.

Max Payne 3


Was a bit let down with this one. It wasn't bad but I was hoping for so much more since I was a huge fan of the first two.

Finally beat Borderlands on the PS3... Graphics were great and it's fun, but part of what took us so long to beat it was that it really became repetitive... The end was pretty anti-climactic (two pretty easily-beaten Big Bads)... Regardless, looking forward to the new one.

Last Game I beat was Yakuza 3 and Tekken 6. Debating gettin Yakuza 4 but I'll prolly give in.

Alien Breed Trilogy - Well, finished the first one (evolution).
Not bad. Nice oldskool gameplay with polished graphics.
Basic, but fun.

Nothing wrong with a lil oldskool every once in awhile.

Totally agree,

One of the very best games that came out that year and i personally had a lot of fun with it.

But exactly due to the repetitivenes i doubt i'll be buying the sequal. The expansions for the first one was more than adequate.

^^ I'll have to check out the expansions.

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Just beat Batman: Arkham Asylum for the PS3. Well, I beat Joker anyway; haven't discovered all of the Riddler stuff yet (not sure if I'm going to).

Ridiculously fun and well-made game. My only criticism (and I side with Zero Punctuation here) is that the Big Boss battles were repetitive... And The Croc was disappointing.

Other than that, honestly just pure fun to play.

Took me two tries to get The Riddler stuff. Now Arkham City...I don't think i'll ever get it all.

Call Of Duty Black Ops.

Now for Arkham City.

Went old school today and got my still working mega drive out, got to the last level on Streets Of Rage 2 and died :p

I also still have a working Megadrive but I'm angry at myself for not looking after my Master System converter for it better. I lost the screw to screw it into the megadrive unfortunately.

"Rainbow Moon" PSN

If you're into the older Final fantasy games you'll probably like this one. Got the same kind of combat system and a fairly big open-world map. The story is kindergarden simple tho.

Sounds like exactly my sort of thing thanks-I'll check it out when I get the chance.

The Darkness II.

fallout new Vegas and all of the assassins creeds so i can play ac3

Fable 3 and Gears of War 2. both pretty good games overall but just kinda short.

SILENT HILL DOWPOUR, I LOVED IT! all the endings were interesting, but I liked a darker one of them the most.

My favorite game and story of all time is GOD OF WAR.

But trust me I love many many games. I've worked since I was 12 years old and alot of that went 2 games and movies, like a jackass. well also to my old lady unfortunately. :D

LIMBO.

I'm not much of a gamer these days though.

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Actually, I think I beat Plants vs Zombies since beating LIMBO.

Finished The Walking Dead game, like I said before the gameplay is almost non-existent and even be frustrating. That said, it was a hell of a ride and I can't wait for Season 2. The story was great, I felt for some of the characters and was surprised a couple times throughout the game not only by what the NPCs chose to do but by the choices I made.

Dead Island main story with co-op (after going back and finishing the last, and most lackluster, little tiny bit of Bioshock).

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Bastion, great fun with an interesting story and some of the best narration I've heard in a game.

Well personally, I just got to level 45 in der riese in bo, so yay :cool:

"Tomb Raider" (2013) PS3 8/10

Great gameplay. Boring story. Zero replay value.

BioShock Infinite on the 360. Loved the complex story in this one... The ending seemed a little silly but after reading some analysis online (yes, I'm THAT big a dork), I appreciated it more. Makes me want to go back and replay the first one... It's been a while.

The last game I completed is also Bioshock Infinite. Truly amazing game!
Before that I completed Sniper Ghost Warrior 2. Very short game, but a load of fun regardless.
I'm going to tackle Walking Dead Survival Instinct next, played through a couple of missions already, and it is nowhere near as bad a game as they were making it out to be!

State of Decay, I can't wait to see what this dev comes out with when it brings a full retail game to the table because this $20 xbox live arcade game is one of the best zombie games I've played. The story is ok and there's some repetition if you try and complete all the objectives and get all the achievements but I expect that with open world games. I don't remember how many balloons I rescued in Spiderman 2.

Interesting concept in this one is leveling up your cardio, fighting, shooting, etc... and if you die your character is gone. You move on to another survivor and maybe get a chance to rescue some of the stuff your dead mate had on him or her. So be careful about sticking to one or two characters too much because if they die, get hurt, get sick, or just get too tired with no coffee or amphetamines to keep them going you will be stuck with fresh meat. Anyway, I think I ended up with 16 survivors after letting two die for achievements (stupid to have to do that...) which was plenty for me. Your resources are also finite, there's only so many cars in the city and you better do some scavenging because you won't be getting more ammo from the gun store once you clean it out. Good stuff.

I recommend this one, it can be buggy and the dialogue isn't great but the gameplay more than makes up for it. It really does include quite a few things I've been looking for in a zombie game for YEARS but haven't seen in the likes of your Dead Risings and Left 4 Deads.

"Metro: Last Light" Ps3 8/10

Way too short for such an expensive game and had a few frustrating parts where i had no idea where i was supposed to go and/or what i was supposed to do. Otherwise it was a great ride.

If it'd been a sandbox game i'd probably have given it a 10/10.

Halo 4.

I'm not a fan of Halo as a series to be honest...I played the first one about 3 years after its release and while know it may have been a little dated in gaming terms I personally didn't really see what all the fuss was.
It seemed a pretty generic shooter with a sci-fi skin.

I had a look at the second game in the series and decided against playing on because I thought it seemed astoundingly similar to the first and didn't seem to have moved on.

Never saw the third, the top-down strategy game (not really part of the series in my mind) or ODST - Though I thought ODST actually looked pretty good, so I may give that a go.

The next one I turned on was "REACH" which I played around with for about 15 minutes then switched off, it bored the hell out of me.

So I acknowledge the series has some die-hard fans, and I'm sure that it's probably that I haven't given everything that much of a chance but I'm a pretty impatient gamer these days, so that could be it.

I got Halo 4 from a friend. Heard it was something of a new start on the series.
It gave me enough information in the intro to have an idea of what was up.
It started out exciting. It looked a shitload better than any other HALO game I'd seen. I don't know from experience if they changed the tone and style of play that much (new 343 guys) but I enjoyed it.

At first I thought I was just going to have a look and blow it off like I had every other HALO game but this one actually sucked me in.
The storyline was cool, I like the friendship (?more?) between the chief and his AI...things evolved there in what I thought was a really great backstory/history of where humanity had gone, the voice acting was rock solid, and the FMV sequences were amazing.

The game itself is sharp and crisp, you move around in a smoothe and comfortable manner which to me is important in an FPS.
The combat feels arcadey in a way but that just "fits" somehow, allowing some high intensity and fast paced gun battles.
The maps are serviceable with a lot of cover to work with, and the use/?introduction of? the secondary functions like the sentry and the hard light shield allowed for some varied approaches to gameplay.

I liked the environments, and at no point did I feel like I'd spent "too long" in the one kind of area, in fact I even appreciated the desert scenes which I'd normally find bland and boring.

The only let-downs were a slight glitch that needed a level to be replayed a couple of times ("board the covenant ship", anyone?) to proceed, and in all honesty the vehicles...they're alright...just not really my thing in an FPS...though you don't *have to* use them most of the time, and even if you did it was fairly sparingly peppered throughout the game.

So yeah overall I liked this game, I don't know how differently these 343 guys do things from Bungee but they made me like the series and anticipate the next one.
Overall I'd give it a 7.75 out of 10.
Play it if you're looking for a user-friendly, solid sci-fi experience laced into a VERY shiny looking game.

"The Last of Us" PS3 9-10/10

Except for the beginning (after the awsome interactive intro) that dragged a bit,
this survival "horror" game/playable movie was absolutely brilliant.

Great charaters and character developement and terreffic voice acting was the key ingredient.
The story was pretty good and the graphics damn good.

Oh yea.. and it was extreeemely violent. Yay! :D

Hurry up and buy.

That game is the only reason I want a PS3.

Beat Bioshock.

A little short but it's a lot of fun and has a great story. Gonna have to check out the second one.

I found elements of the storyline were done a little better in #2, though the fact that the game is pretty much a carbon copy with some new enemies...kind've made it a lot less memorable.


I just finished "Spec ops - the line".
Re-opened my last saves to finish it with all the endings...though this whole multiple ending trend is getting to piss me off in all honesty.

I mean in cases like where there's one or two possible outcomes depending on your actions THROUGHOUT the game, fine - but I do not want to have to reload usually the last scene of a game just to see what'll happen if I did something a little differently right at the end.
That and, I don't need 5 or more fucking endings...

Anyways the game was excellent.
Great atmosphere good level of tension, and the dialogue and storyline were both among some of the best of this genre.
The combat is fairly standard CBS affair, though it's user friendly and the gunfights provide challenge and fun...I did die a lot, but the checkpoints are littered in a pretty fair way.
It's an unusual game/storyline, there's some subject matter here I've never really seen delved into in a game before. Pretty raw stuff too, like I was kind've shocked by some of it...though it only goes towards the overall tone of the game.
I enjoyed this one a lot. I think I'd actually give it 9/10.