[JuZ]

Got PS4 some time ago, and lately I have been playing Last of Us Remastered. Damn, great game, loads of great elemenst and strong story. Obviously it has some faults but they are minor and I very much like to see more, maybe sequel or spin off.

Such a brilliant game.

To be honest I would prefer not to have a sequel in relation to the storyline. Another game within that world though, with the same mechanics (a spin off, like you say)... Yes please!

What I'm really looking forward is Mad Max, as I'm quite fan of movies (well, first two anyways). Hopefully it's worth a wait, at least they got time to work all kinks out before release... (originally it was supposed to be released this year but they probably postponed it to get it same time out as new movie, which I'm also waiting).

Black Mesa. Awesome. Though not without it's glitches, like pretty much all video games.
"You'd better reload, Dr. Freeman", said the scientist.

[EphelDuath666]

bought an Xbox One and need to get a replacement for it already, meh....because of very irritating coil whine. Hopefully the replacement won't have the same issue. The console itself is kinda weird too. Everything looks like a smartphone OS (windows 8 I guess) and you have to download Apps for certain functions. Also can't set up the Xbox One vertically so it uses up quite a bit of space and does't look so nice next to my vertical Playstations and Xbox 360, heh.

You need to download an update first if you want to use the console offline...I guess that is OK. But the fact that you can't check your achievements while you're offline kinda sucks. They don't even pop if you play offline so you don't know whether you got a trophy or not untill you go online. I'm not an always-online gamer so that's an aspect I don't like that much.

And patches can be HUGE. The update for Dead Rising 3 is 16 GB huge. And I'll have to download it again because I'll get a new Xbox One....yay...not, heh. Oh well... Did that at a friend's place because he has better internet right now so it at least didn't take forever.

Got a lot of free shit with my Xbox One so in all reality the console itself only cost me between 210 and 250 Euros, depending on how much all the stuff is worth.

Fired up Brutal Doom again. Good friendly violent fun.

If there's a ballsier minigun than this in an FPS, I haven't come across it yet.
Pinkies and below, enemies just go mush. And that firing sound effect...

While the added gore is certainly one of the key attactions of Brutal Doom, I find it a bit odd how some seem to disdain it as just an overly hyped, juvenile gore mod, without giving it credit for its gameplay tweaks. While the original Doom games are already fast-paced compared to the majority of modern shooters with their "realistic" movement speeds, health regeneration and cover systems, Brutal Dooms pushes it up to eleven. Rip and tear!

[EphelDuath666]

played through Alien Isolation and LOVED it. It is pretty lengthy, it is pretty difficult...no, it is actually pretty damn frustrating! But I enjoyed the hell out of it even if I died, what felt like, a million times. I think it really captures the spirit of the first Alien movie. There's not a huge epic story to it but it's not like the first Alien movie had an epic story. Crew finds alien eggs, dude gets impregnated, gives birth to an alien creature, crew has to survive...the end, heh. So you can't really blame the game for having a story that is not ALL that much better. But neither the movie nor this game depend on storytelling. It all comes down to suspense and tension and that's where both succeed.

Also played through Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishment and actually liked it a hell of a lot better than L.A. Noire, for example. There's plenty of witty humor in it, great puzzles, and it's just fun to solve all the cases in general. Even if you get a few wrong people imprisoned during your first playthrough (that's what I did, heh...didn't combine them clues too well I guess). Very, very good adventure game with actual good replay value, unless you're super good and solve all cases correctly on your first playthrough.

Next up will be The Evil Within, that should arrive tomorrow. Had to order the British version as the German version does not include original English audio and that's a total no no. Or a nicht nicht, as we say here. Nah, we don't say that. Br

[Victimlas]

Awesome! Been wondering about Alien Isolation. I will def try Sherlock! I actually loved L.A. Noire but Sherlock sounds even cooler.

I finished AC2 and now playing Red Dead Redemption and absolutely love it. Anyone that enjoyed GTA V should give it a whirl...and I am not normally into Westerns.

Do you have the standard or GOTY edition of Red Dead? If GOTY, it has a hardcore mode which lives up to it's title. However, it's much more satisfying to complete. Though I still completed normal mode first just to get oriented with the settings.
The Undead Nightmare missions are also fun and don't go for too long, worth checking out once you finish the main game.

My friends bought Shadow over Morder for PC when it came out and I've played it a bit when I've gone over to their place. I really enjoy the open format and the freedom of it, though they seem to have already moved on to the next Steam offering already.

[swervedriver]

Continuing my renegade-style playthrough on insanity difficulty of the Mass Effect series, now nearing the halfway point in ME3. Got the From Ashes and Leviathan DLCs, where especially the last one does a great job at expanding the Mass Effect lore.

Now, this next part will be a bit long and specific, sorry...

As renegade bitch-Shepard, I had one of the most memorable moments in my gaming history during the mission to cure the genophage. At the end you have several options how to deal with this, which depend on previous decisions made during this mission, but also on decisions made in the previous 2 games, so it's really a big culmination of the storyline about Mordin and his part in the genophage across the series. I really like the Mordin character, and to have his story so fleshed out is great.

The full paragon way means Mordin gets closure on his life's work as he sacrifices his own life to do so, which I already thought was really well done. Now, the renegade way means deceiving Mordin (and the krogan) by not informing him/them about a built-in failsafe that alters any cure to not be effective upon dispersion from the tower. He deduces this as you try to stop him going up the tower to release the cure, and the following discussion is really powerful, giving new meaning to the line "someone else might've gotten it wrong" and reaching its apex with Mordin's outburst "I MADE A MISTAKE!". That really showed how deep the Mordin character actually is. Not just a genius-but-crazy scientist, but one who excelled at his job of perfectly altering the genophage while deep down his personal convictions didn't agree with his work. All of that was expressed there, in that moment.

And then I shot that guy.

It felt really jarring to do this and watch Mordin struggle to release the cure in vain, but then... my bad-ass bitch-Shepard seems to feel equally distraught afterwards. Walking away, angrily discarding the smoking gun, and in subsequent conversations with Wreav and Eve (I killed Wrex in ME1 this time) and later on the ship with Garrus, my femshep acts with the same kind of remorse I felt after shooting Mordin and watching him die just before being able to release the cure.

For a game to evoke such strong feelings in me, but then also to reflect those in the main character... well damn, I never expected that! If you haven't experienced this particular outcome, look it up on youtube. The fact I'm able to write extensively about it is already indication of the sort of impact it made.

Sorry for the long waffle, but Ihad to share this. It was just so sad, yet so awesome.

[Victimlas]

That is really awesome, Pim! I played full Paragon, but now you've really left me intrigued, and wanting to replay ME3 differently. It is crazy what an impact a good story can have. I ended the series with Sheppard taking a breath, and that was one of my favorite gaming moments ever... the genophage cure was definitely one of my absolute favorite missions in all of ME.

Do you have the standard or GOTY edition of Red Dead? If GOTY, it has a hardcore mode which lives up to it's title. However, it's much more satisfying to complete. Though I still completed normal mode first just to get oriented with the settings.
The Undead Nightmare missions are also fun and don't go for too long, worth checking out once you finish the main game.

I have the GOTY and have been wondering how Undead would work. Sounds like just pure fun. I am playing normal right now getting used to everything but I do wonder if it's too easy at times, especially in the shootouts. I might have to replay hardcore.

[EphelDuath666]

which just goes to show how underrated ME3 is. Maybe underrated is the wrong word as it got great reviews. But it got a lot of shit thrown at it for its endings but a lot of people didn't seem to pay as much attention to everything that happened before the endings. ME3 had a much, much, much bigger emotional impact on me than ME2 or ME1. I mean when a game can literally make you shed a tear or two then the people behind that game must have done something right, I'd think.

Started to play The Evil Within. Was hoping to get a great psychological horror game that would make me shit my pants and blow me away with its story. What I got so far is a game that is more concerned with grossing me out rather than actually scaring me, one that also lacks a decent story (so far anyways). And it performs really bad on next-gen consoles too. The framerate's a joke. 30 FPS on next-gen consoles shouldn't be a problem. But the framerate in this game often dips into the lower 20s, very unpleasant for them eyes, I tell ya. And overall graphics look incredibly last-gen. I'm not a graphics whore but a next-gen game should at least run smoothly, especially if the game's graphics are underwhelming. Oh well, 5 hours in. Here's hoping there's still some greatness to be found in this game.

Bought Splatterhouse a few months back, tried playing it but found it too frustrating. The loading screen takes too long, the controls feel uneven (like endless button-mashing), and the AI difficulty is disjointed. A shame, as it has awesome graphics and a cool soundtrack.
Tried to revisit it recently and my assessment was much the same. I don't want any of my games to sit on my shelf unfinished, but it looks like this and Dead Island: Riptide might end up being the case.

I'm not quite sure whether to post this in the here or in the Youtube thread... Let's pick here, since I'm already there.
Now THIS is incredible...
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[EphelDuath666]

soooo, I finished The Evil Within. It's not a bad game at all but it kinda feels like it may have borrowed too many ideas from other games and lacks an own identity. There are a lot of good moments in this game, actually very good moments too (not as many though) but there are also many mediocre moments. There are only 2 or 3 chapters out of the 15 chapters where I actually felt like I'm playing a great survival 'horror' game and not just a splatter fest. I don't know, I just expected it to be more scary. 'Gory' ain't the same thing as 'scary'.

And this game makes the same mistake that Resident Evil 4 and 5 or Dead Space 3 made, for example. At some point the 'undead' enemies in this game start to have guns and the game shits such enemies at you over and over. You just don't create suspense that way. That's where the game actually turns into a survival action game...ugh. Oh well, still this game is sorta good I guess. It's one that lacks horror, suspense and a proper technical presentation and one that has severe gameplay issues. Maybe roughly a 7 out of 10, I'd say.

Deadly Premonition had a shitty technical presentation for its time and I still loved it because the game had a soul. A totally fucked up but good story with great characters. Alas, The Evil Within can't really provide any of these things either. Maybe I'll play it again at some point, now that I know what to expect. But right now I don't really feel the need to.

Now I hope that Kojima and del Toro will bring the goods! Silent Hills just HAS to be good....