Posts by Thrik

  • Battlefield 3

    Hah, good. I've not actually played a PC game really since my Team Fortress 2 addiction so my hardware is very much of that era. I will upgrade for a superior BF3 experience once I've gotten over being made redundant and finding a new job.

  • Battlefield 3

    So, is this going to run like crap on my 4GB of RAM, Q6600 (2.4GHz), and ATI 4870 1GB? Would it run acceptably on lower settings while I magic some money out my ass for new components?

  • Battlefield 3

    What a superb trailer. While I am still in it primarily for the multiplayer, any CoD fan who isn't grabbed by the balls after that trailer needs lining up and shooting.

    Also I love how they've been prickteasing with the traditional Battlefield theme since the very first teaser trailer.

  • Uncharted 3

    Quote from Mr. Happy

    Uncharted is great fun and I really enjoy playing it. Who gives a shit if it's like indiana jones, that's just cause it's the only thing like indiana jones besides indiana jones. The actors/writing is really funny too. The experience of the game is fucking awesome and it's really easy to be immersed in and enjoy. These games make me giggle like a little girl.

    Being careful to avoid enemies is useful and fun, but I tihnk that 'adding stealth' to make the combat 'more strategic' is a trope or cliche worse than cover shooting. Stealth and strategy aren't the same thing.

    Well it depends how you use the stealth. Numerous times I'd spend time studying the movement patterns and whatnot of enemies before even tackling the area, just like when playing Metal Gear Solid or Commandos. I would say that's certainly developing some kind of strategy as I have a rough idea of what I'm going to do and when long before actually doing it.

    Of course I'm sure there're countless games that have stealth mechanics but don't use them particularly well, but Uncharted 2 does a great job of often letting you see an area you need to get through and study it beforehand.

  • Uncharted 3

    I think the gunplay in Uncharted 2 is amongst the finest I've played this generation. While you can certainly play it Gears of War-style where you just go around attracting a hail of bullets while shooting shit up, it's infinitely more satisfying if you make use of the extensive stealth mechanics added to Uncharted 2 (and seemingly extended considerably in Uncharted 3 which excites me a lot) to approach combat in a more strategic and tense way.

    I played through Uncharted 2 for a second time using purely the tranquiliser gun, and it was extremely fun. It's possible to get through the majority of the areas in the game without ever setting off an enemy alert, which means you don't get the reinforcements that appear when you're spotted and can take much more time carefully taking everyone out. Was a lot like playing Metal Gear Solid, actually.

    Obviously the premise of the game isn't the most original in the world with blatant allusions to Indiana Jones at every turn, particularly with the climax of the original. But then who cares? There's never been a really good Indiana Jones game anyway apart from point-and-click adventures in the 90s, so a game that captures the essence of what made Indiana Jones great (wit, compelling enemies, a touch of the supernatural, lots of hand-to-hand combat, etc) is good with me.

    Uncharted as a series is probably overrated because no game can stand up to the absolute reverence the second title in particular gets, but to say it's not a damned good game is behaviour deserving of a good slapping around IMO.

  • RAGE

    Quote from dux

    I never had texture popping so didn't really think about that Anyway, just finished it.

    Worst ending ever.

    I've not even played it and I've not missed the fact the game's texture streaming issues on PS3 and PC have been like the single biggest topic of discussion.

  • Battlefield 3

    As I recall it there's little more satisfying than sneaking around and killing the shit out of campy snipers in past BF games.

    It's a shame there's no longer a commander role as he could quite easily bombard particularly troublesome snipers with artillery.

  • Battlefield 3

    Still just a beta issue though that'll effectively have never existed for us non-beta-playing types. It's not uncommon to leave stupid/obvious things until last to fix, the psychological reasoning for this I don't know but it happens all the time at work.

  • R.I.P Steve Jobs

    A genuinely inspirational man, someone most entrepreneurs can only dream of living up to. A great loss indeed and very sad it was at such a relatively young age by the hand of one of the worst kinds of ways to go.