Posts by Erratic

It's one of the most enjoyable. The combat doesn't just have two dimensions with AI being either alerted/unaltered and you actually have to work for your silent take downs unlike something like DX:HR where there's like a 10 meter radius around each guy and if you're within that press CTRL and you can take a guy down (which is limited but not really). Also the fact that everything is resource based just automatically makes your actions meaningful. Areas with clickers forces you to use all the games mechanics to get through which Uncharted has nothing like, there's a few valid comparisons maybe with human enemies but the stealth still goes beyond just taking down the first couple guys in a fight, since you can lose guys during an encounter that sets them back into a semi-alert state. Also the encounter spaces are really quite open and designed to support a bunch of different options, some worse than others, and all not relating necessarily to a strict stealth approach. That's probably why the game works so well, you can fail and still make up for things and get into interesting, tense situations. Fucking up in most stealth games usually just sucks.

I played on Hard so some of this is probably amplified a bit during my playthrough.

Finished it last night. Biggest surprise is how it's one of the best stealth games out there. Forgiving but still a challenge trying to stay hidden from everyone and when the inevitable happens and shit breaks loose it just enters into a more interesting phase of cat and mouse and re positioning and using all your tools available that are also fairly scarce resources. Lots of little decisions you gotta make during combat feels really good.

Probably one of the best games of our time but Red Faction: Guerrilla is still game of the generation.

Grounds for banning.

I like that these things actually look like traditonal pieces of electronics now instead of shiny oblong dildos

I think they're supposed to be actual players, hence the non chalantness. Threw me off at first as well

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A small list of Source Engine games:

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

Day of Defeat: Source

Dota 2

Half-Life 2

Half-Life 2: Episode One

Half-Life 2: Episode Two

Left 4 Dead

Left 4 Dead 2

Portal

Portal 2

Team Fortress 2

Thats one hell of a list

EDIT: Man, valve really cant count to three, haha.

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You missed the best source engine game, Dark Messiah.

Dredd is really good. Simple and the most straight up ending to a movie.

Warcraft 4 where are you

Arma did this years ago

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Best thing was the mocap suit dog.

metro is now crashing on me since I updated my nvidia drivers which I updated so max payne 3 would stop crashing during cutscenes, oh save me sony from these wretched pc gaming tatters with your blessed ps4

People need to watch Brotherhood, turn off all that jj abrams, low budget sci fi, cable tv shit and watch it. It's better than The Sopranos ok and maybe even the wire cause it doesn't make you feel like a piece of shit after every episode.

I mean look at this sad ass imdb page http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0457229/ it doesn't even have like the dvd cover art for the pic. what a disgrace

I'm about 3 hours into it. I didn't really get into the original Metro for some reason but I'm liking this. Not sure there's too much difference between them, but the gunplay feels a bit more satisfying and some of the levels so far have been pretty neat. There;s a spider enemy that has a really simple mechanic but makes for a lot of tense situations.

Curse those fun games being fun.

Look at all these BUSINESS PROFESSIONALS with their serious person phones

I fell asleep during Akira. Biker gangs hanging out in canals and shitty bars was cool, then I feel asleep and woke up and he was huge and destroying a city. I must have missed something.

It's warren spector but he's totally wrong

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literally haven't bought a CoD since cod2. that's right ladies and gentlemen, cod2

cod1 was pretty amazing though im not gonna sit here and hate. its just like this different game from this different dimension where cod would have kept being cool and not sell out like a boss

I always felt that where IW took cod was pretty much exactly where they wanted it to be. There's a lot that franchise did that felt like it was uniquely theirs and uniquely a game that came from a particular place. The first cod was some land mark shit and all their games were backed up with great levels and solid input, no fucking around in that department. For a long time it was some some of the best shooter combat out there. And the mix of simmy elements with the responsiveness of a quake game was some unbeatable stuff. It's been run into the fucking ground at this point, obviously, and it's a shame cause it casts a cloud over what was at one point, a franchise that was justifiably at the top of the heap, beyond just sales numbers.

I laughed when the 'X' prompt showed up jittering all over the place. I guess cause she was cold. lol

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It means that in my opinion some people seem to have lost the capacity to just switch off and enjoy games as an entertainment medium instead of over-analyzing and critiquing them. There are people out there who will formulate opinions on a COD game solely based on it being a COD game, without playing it. I didn't think I made it that hard to understand.

Yep. We look to games now to solve our age old existential crises. Books failed, movies failed, music failed, now it's up to games to take charge and illuminate these problems. I don't want to waste time just playing something, my time is too precious for that. I want something that will change my world view. We have to stop with the man shooters and make meaningful faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaart