Posts by Mazy

  • Deconstructing Favela

    First I loved Favela. Then, after a bunch of really frustrating rounds, I hated it. Then I've fallen in love with it again. Like most great maps it caters for almost all ranges of combat, and gives you plenty of options when you eventually find yourself outside your comfort zone. Also it's probably the only MW2 map that really works in every game mode, with most other levels there's always one game mode where it just doesn't come together that well.

    I might be in the minority, and even though I've had a lot of fun with MW2's MP, then I'm ultimately a bit disappointed by most of the maps this time around. Might just be a matter of the times or taste, but COD4's layouts just struck a much better cord with me. Even though I'm an absolute sucker for lots of freedom and open maps, then I do think the MW2 maps took it in slightly too extreme direction, often making it more frustrating than fun in my case. But I always get the feeling that I would feel otherwise if I were playing it with a mouse and keyboard instead of a controller, most of my irritation usually comes from constant vertical fire, and not being able to readjust in time.

    Really anxious to see what the DLC will be like, hope you guys are going the same direction as you did with the COD4 DLC and not just refurbish campaign levels

  • Heavy Rain

    Just finished it, don't know if I'm overly sensitive and this will spoil everything but this game probably has one of the best

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    plot twists I've seen to date in a game. Really didn't see it coming at all.

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    I definitely recommend everybody that has a PS3 to check it out. Even if you think the premise of an entire game based on QTE is slightly dumb then I'm sure it'll win you over, did with me anyway.

  • Heavy Rain

    Anyone else playing it? I'm pretty floored by some of the action scenes in this game, can't remember being this carried away by a game in....well, it's pretty fucking intense sometimes

    Then it gets pretty damn dull at other times when you're doing insignificant actions, but overall I'm really enjoying it, not done yet. Gonna be very interesting to go through a second time too.

  • Battlefield Bad Company 2

    Haha, seems like they're taking this entire "So MW2 takes a dump on the PC market? We're going to save you PC market!" mentality quite serious, it's awesome!

    Haven't really commented in this thread for a while, but I did play the demo a bit, and I wasn't terribly impressed to be honest. But I also just played on my own, and unlike something like COD then you absolutely have to play with people you know in the BF games in my opinion, so that might be it. Also I just didn't really like the aesthetics of the map nor the layout, felt slightly weak as a demo level overall D: . Also why the hell do they pick that Gold Rush mode thing? Everybody knows that BF is all about the Conquest!

    Still looking very much forward to it though, and buzz on the street is that the single player campaign isn't so bad this time around.

  • Jesse Schell @ DICE 2010

    2 years ago, when my achievement points addiction was at its height, I would've loved to have these kinds of scores all over the place in everything.

    Nowadays, I really want less of these kinds of points since I know how destructive it can be when you get properly hooked on em, but I also acknowledge that its something that everybody is doing to keep people playing their games.

    On a side note, then I think stuff like this makes it even more interesting, and cooler, that Bioware decided to more or less take out the visible XP system from Mass Effect 2. It's something that is being put into almost any genre these days, and its actually pleasantly refreshing to see somebody do an RPG and not go that route, even if experience points are heavily associated with RPG in general.

  • Sid Meier's Civilization V

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    Hexagons. Shit got just real.

    Haha, totally, it's like a new dimension, or direction :G. Although Civilization is still one of my all time favorite game franchises, then it is starting to get kinda ridiculous with these new editions. This one in particular sticks out, since there's gonna be a Civ on Facebook later this year, and no doubt that's gonna be huge, but that does leave this one kinda sticking out since it's gonna be a full fetched retail title, and by the sound of it then it doesn't sound like its really gonna offer that much new.

    Has it really changed at all since Civ 3? They added the religion stuff and some more diplomacy stuff, but apart from that, hmmm.

    Anyway, I'll probably end up getting it again anyway, who am I kidding D:

  • StarCraft II

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    Yeah, I'd love to get one key edit: insta

    Haha, what? Is it a joke?

    I'd love to try out the beta too but I doubt my Macbook Pro will be up for the task and I can't be bothered to play it at work.

    Planning on getting a new rig at home later this year, mainly to play this~

  • Sonic back to 2D!

    I certainly hope that they plan to work on the inconsistency between the speed the character is travelling at and the actual animation. It looked slightly off in the reveal trailer they released and here it really looks bad.

    Oh and I see they took it down, guess it wasn't an intentional leak after all

    Anyway, I'm gonna keep my expectations flat on the ground, don't wanna get disappointed

  • Have a safe trip, Peris~

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    Man work is great, even better than I expected. I really hope to see more mapcore people at blizzard in the future .

    Irvine is very boring though, it really is corporationtown USA. I think I'll get a car in a while and move somewhere nicer, maybe close to the beach =).

    Yeah, read on up Irvine recently, kinda sounds like it's all business, very little pleasure. But when you're working at Blizzard, then who cares

    Oh and let the core in there, we need agents everywhere

  • Bioshock 2!

    Just finished it. I'll just say it again; I really had it wrong about this one, had totally written it off as a cheap cash-in, but it actually turned out to be a really enjoyable game, and game play wise I actually think it's better than the first one. Totally preferred the weapons in this one to the ones in the first one, plus the plasmids just seemed to work better in combat this time around.

    I'll admit it though, the story wasn't very well told or at least I had an extremely hard time keeping up with all the logs and bits and pieces of info towards the end of the game. Didn't detract from the game at all though, especially since it'd be hard to follow up something as spectacular as the first half of Bioshock 1 anyway.

    Definitely recommendable, even if you're on the fence about it