I loved the first two Arkham games (I haven’t played the third yet), they’re so much fun and they make Batman such a badass. That said there are a few moments in here that make me think of this:
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Fast Doom, Slow Doom
Doom II in 23:03. A wonderful dose of cacodemon nostalgia.
I played so much Doom II as a kid, I remember I had it split over 5 3.5″ floppies and the first computer I played it on churned it out at a painstaking handful of frames per second. The only way I could get it to play at normal speed was to reduce the window to the size of a matchbox. I still completed it though, multiple times. Though the rate it played at I would struggle to complete a pair of levels in 23 minutes.
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Dragon Age: Inquisition (again)
First review puts it at a 9.5 so I may end up eating my words.
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Dragon Age: Inquisition
The newest Dragon Age was pretty firmly pencilled in for a day one purchase until I watched a few preview/review videos over the weekend. The consensus seems to be that it looks amazing, the world is big, the engine is great, the particle effects are the bomb, but the gameplay is… not so great.
The original prided itself on treating your character differently according to race and background, in one of the previews I listened to the guy was playing a Qunari mage and no-one gave a crap. In Dragon Age II Qunari mages are masked and chained but you can head up the Inquisition as one and no-one bats an eyelid, that seems off. I loved playing my alienage Elf and getting crap about it, your character and class mattered in Origins, I hope it still matters here.
Some of the quests sound very much like generic RPG grind (collect 10 Ram Meat showed up a lot), and it sounds like they’ve stick with the quest acquisition system from Dragon Age II where coming across something gives you the quest which isn’t totally a bad thing but I hope there are plenty of situations where you have choice. Even though I rarely choose them there should be options to screw people over, extort them, rob them, keep things for yourself. RPGs have to be about choice.
Reviews of the combat were mixed, it seems to be geared up to hitting buttons on a controller rather than the tactical queuing of attacks though the camera seems to be able to do a hell of a lot when paused so which is only really useful for the tactical combat approach so I’ll see.
I guess I still want to play it but I’ll wait for a few reviews before I buy it, see if it gets more Origins-y after a few more hours of play.
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The game was rigged from the start
The opening minutes of Fallout: New Vegas:
It took me the entire clip to place Doc Mitchell’s voice (Saul from BSG) but the whole cast is worth a look – Chandler, Kristofferson, Perlman (of course), Chuck, Sadler, Odo, Worf, Danny Trejo, Rawls, Cyclops, and Wesley Crusher.
Assuming I can wait until Christmas I would like this, Black Ops and Starcraft 2 please Santa.
(via Laughing Squid)
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‘The Opposition’
Medal of Honor game goes on sale amid controversy
Dr Fox described the game as “un-British” and said it was “shocking that someone would think it acceptable to recreate the acts of the Taliban against British soldiers”.
In other shocking news, children for generations have been re-creating the actions of criminals in the game ‘Cops and Robbers’. Previous games let you play as Nazis and no-one gave a shit, you can play as (generically-named) baddies in Modern Warfare and other games. If they had created a fictional name no-one would care (though then EA wouldn’t have got a load of free press).
I can’t wait until we have a generation of politicians who grew up playing computer games, or even better politicians who still play computer games. They’re games. They’re entertainment. Growing up playing first person shooters is no more likely to send you on a killing spree than growing up playing Go for Broke is to make you recklessly lend money to high-risk borrowers leading to huge losses and ultimately the collapse of large financial institutions requiring vast government bailouts funded by taxpayers. Hang on…