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[Strum la Frantique]

Batman: Arkham City - Done
Uncharted 3 - Making Big Progress
Skyrim - 11/11/11
Saints Row The Third - 15/11/11
Assassin's Creed Revelations - 15/11/11
Zelda Skyward Sword - 20/11/11

If you have any interest in multiplayer shooters like Battlefield 3 or Modern Warfare 3, then you're completely fucked. Thankfully I don't. The schedule will go out the window when Skyrim is released, there's no way I can finish it before Saints Row and Assassin' Creed is released. And then there's no way I can finish those three before Zelda. Four games on the go at once, that will probably last me to Christmas I reckon. That and I still have a Rage game that I hit every now and then, and I restarted my Fallout New Vegas game to finally finish that.

Post with comments about how much overtime you have to do to afford all these games, or how you're begging your parents for $500 worth of videogames for Christmas.

I hope the guards don't yell "Assassino!" every two minutes like in Brotherhood and AC2.

EDIT - Oh and you dorks probably have WWE 12 on that list, I'm looking forward to "It's exactly like the old games, THQ lied to us" topics. If it's actually good, I may buy it. Especially if they've sorted out their net code like they claim.

[ALL STAR]

The last lot of games I'll be picking this year are

Modern Warfare 3
Assassin's Creed Revelations
WWE 12
Halo Anniversary

I'm more than half way through Uncharted 3 so I'm going to finish that up before Tuesday, I've got Sonic Generations which is just something on the side that I can jump into from time to time. It's actually the first Sonic game I've bought in years and I'm enjoying it the modern sonic stages are awesome, well most of them are. It's worth checking out for something a bit different.

As for Skyrim I won't be picking that up for awhile I'm waiting to see how it turns out, I was never a big fan of oblivion the only way I could enjoy that game was by installing a bunch of mods and even then I couldn't get into it.

[Smacktalks]

I've finished Arkham City but i've neglected BF3 while I played through the challenge maps, so i'll move onto that next.

I was looking to pick up Goldeneye this week but i'm gonna leave it for now while I play through BF3. So my list is ...

Goldeneye
Modern Warefare 3
WWE '12

I'm tempted to go for Sonic Generations after my mate recomended it but I think I remember trying the demo and not being too keen on it so i'll give the demo another go.

As for Uncharted, I havent played the earlier games so i'll probably pick those up on the cheap and play through those first. Same kinda thing with Zelda, I bought the last Zelda game with my Wii when it came out but never played it, so i'll probably play that and see if I can bare the Wii long enough to go for Skyword Sword.

[Strum la Frantique]

There's a Platinum dual pack of the first two Uncharted games, but atleast here in Australia, I've seen new copies sold seperately that would have been cheaper than the pack. So keep an eye out. Zelda Twilight Sword is a great game, but as with all Wii games, don't play it on a big TV.

I'm picking up Generations on the cheap when it plummets in price in a couple of months because everyone is burnt by Sonic games that they won't buy it.

[Aero]

twilight sword?

after saints row 2, i'm happy to leave the third til after xmas.

[Strum la Frantique]

About 5 minutes after I had walked away from the computer I asked myself "did I write Twilight Sword?". I did.

EDIT - Oh and the wolf sections in Twilight Princess are fucking awful, someone deserves to be shot for those.

[ALL STAR]

Sonic Generations...platforming in a 3D on some of the modern levels is horrifc and I mean horrific that it is rage worthy. The first two acts of the game is mostly fine but the third act is back with levels from 06, Unleashed and Colours and it is a real shit bag of levels, the planet wisp level from Colours yeah fuck that level it last way to long.

The problem stems from the level design and controls, they open up the game but it just doesn't work with the way sonic controls, at times it feels like controlling a car on ice with barely any steering. I do wonder if they have ever played a Mario game to see what crisp controls are like, Sonic Team just seem to be in a bubble while everything else moves on.

The first two acts are good, the boss battles are ok, the classic stages are for the most part great and the modern stages are great as well but only on the first two acts which is 6 levels. The last 3 you will want to finish and never touch again.

Oh and Sonic is a douchebag in this game and so are his friends and I mean the modern version, classic Sonic is cool and so is Robotnic yeah Robotnic makes an appearence I still have no idea why they changed the name. So at the end of the game modern Sonic is like 'yo your future is going to be awesome' to classic Sonic, yeah modern sonic is totally a liar, and as for his friends they turn up of the the last boss to cheer him on, all the while Sonic is getting his ass kicked and no one thinks of helping.

Even though there are aspects of the game that are shit it's still pretty good, worth picking up on the sales as it is the best Sonic game in years. There are rumours this will b the last of the current Sonic and they will be moving on to something totally new with Sonic I just hope they ditch most of his friends, to me the only ones worth keeping are Tails and Knuckles.

[Chillalex]

sonic has been bullshit for ages, which is sad. I love sonic 1-3, S&K but there's something gone horribly wrong since then, when they decided the speed and 90's " 'tude" of sonic were the main things that people want. The speed has translated incredibly badly - I just do not find stopping dead still the moment I touch something fun - and the character is just plain stuck in the 90s desperately trying to be hip with the kids, like some sort of blue anthropomorphic westwood character.

I think the gameplay needs more development now, something perhaps a bit more rhythmic than nastily designed staccato levels. I don't think 3D works well for sonic in any capacity - with all the detail and even just high levels of depth in the new "2D" levels it becomes harder and harder to concentrate on an ever-shrinking character that's capable of dying in 2 hits at extreme speeds. I always felt sonic is more naturally suited to fully 2-D, nicely produced art, maybe even something more akin to rayman origins.

but what do I know! I just feel strongly because I loved these games as a kid, but theyre just so piss poor nowadays and a reluctance to admit it.

As for the release schedule, it gets on my tits a bit that people think it's a great idea to release major games all in one release window. I'm sure there's a marketing reason for it - some bullshit i dont understand - but it seems a little blinkered to release a game around the same time as other massive games, some of very similar genres, and call it healthy.

I'm trying to not keep on top of it so much this time around... I'd love to get them all as they come out but I justt find i don't have anywhere near as much time to get through them all so I've learnt to sit back on some games and just work through them as I can.


I will say that of all of the big releases this year I'm most looking forward to zelda, I'd really love it to reproduce that feeling ocarina and wind waker had all those years ago.

[ALL STAR]

Well the release window for games has branched out a little more games are releasing during the earlier parts of the year, some games that are released are dead on arrival like Goldeneye released between Battlefield 3 and Modern Warfare 3.

Edited by ALL STAR, 08 November 2011 - 03:29 PM.

[Strum la Frantique]

Yeah they weren't even trying with that Goldeneye remake port...probably because it was a port of a remake that didn't set the world on fire to begin with. Activision has just thrown it out there, even directly competing with their own Modern Warfare 3. But yeah, keep in mind they have that game, and Diablo 3 early next year on their books. There fiscal situation for the next six months is rosey.

I don't understand why Sega hasn't released a full side scrolling Sonic game but gone all out with it. Why keep fucking around with the third person view if it simply doesn't work for the character? Whatever happened to Sonic 4 Episode 2? Why did they make that episodic when it's the Sonic game people want to play? Sega are fucking retarded.

Going back to Skyrim for a second, my interest in the game is not from past Elder Scrolls games. A friend lent me Morrowind when it was brand new and I had never heard of it. I wondered why every NPC said the same thing over and over again to me and never played it again. I played Oblivion years after it's release because I was poor and my PC was shit. I pirated that shit on PC when I bought a new one, and never ended up playing it. I bought the GOTY edition for PS3 kidding myself that if I could play it laying down I would play it more. I didn't. Fallout 3 was fucking awesome. I have a shitload of issues with the game (which can be found HERE), if Bethesda didn't ruin their own game it could actually be remembered as awesome and not that new Fallout game that isn't as good as New Vegas. It sounds like their questing, level progression and perk sytem is tighter. I hope.

[Smacktalks]

I went back to try the Sonic Generations demo last night but it had expired and there was a new version available so it looked like I might have tried a yet to be finished version last time. Anyway, I downloaded the new one and tried both the side scrolling and 3D levels.

The 3D version I thought was just as bad as every other 3D Sonic game. The side scrolling version played better but with the 3D backgrounds it's too much of a headache to look at when your running through the level. Then there's the fact that it says it's the old Green Hills Zone now in 3D, so it's not even original, it's just yet another remake.

Sonic 4 Episode 1 was alot better than this for me, they should have just released Episode 2 and stuck to what they know best.

If it's true that they are going to try something different with Sonic I'd prefer to see them give Sonic a back seat and make a game focused on Tails or Knuckles. That way they wont feel the need to put so much focus on speed and can try something completley different like Nintendo did with Luigi's Mansion.

[Strum la Frantique]

I think Skyrim has just won Game of the Year. It's review scores will be mostly 10/10's, a 9/10 will be a bad score.

[ALL STAR]

I've dropped Halo Anniversary in favour of Skyrim, I watched some of the Giant Bomb 12 hour playthrough and I was sold on it. That and the fact I'm burnt out on shooters I've finished up MW 3, still need to finish up Uncharted 3 and I really can't be bothered playing another shooter anytime soon.

I just ordered Skyrim from Shopto paid for the order at 15.03 and it was dispatched at 15.05, they send an image of the parcel which is neat, I've used them a few times now and I really can't fault them.

[Strum la Frantique]

You definitely won't be disappointed with Skyrim. With the strides Bethesda has made from Fallout 3 to Skyrim, I'm keen for Fallout 4. I find the post apocalyptic world more to my personal taste than the high fantasy. This world they have in Skyrim though is the most fully realised RPG open world ever created, it just has character and personality everywhere. Exploring it has numerous rewards, living the world as a world is really the best way to play the game otherwise you will struggle for coin. Shit sells cheap and is expensive to buy. So grab a pick axe, or a wood cutters axe and start making some shit to sell early on.

Zelda Skyward Sword leaked a few hours ago. Assassin's Creed out on Tuesday. I did manage to finish Uncharted 3 though, my thoughts on that experience are mixed. On one hand I love Uncharted, on the other I would have liked a different plot than "find the mysterious city, oh wait maybe we should have never come to this city" plot, because that was the plot of the first two. The series needs a drastic change of pace and scenery, maybe even a rest while ND brings back Jak and Daxter, they do have a collection on the way...

[Aero]

zelda? wonderful... where the fuck is my wii... love you Jits lol

[Strum la Frantique]

IGN gave Zelda a 10/10, saying the motion plus controls were perfect and a revelation gameplay wise. My experience with the game so far has been...not quite on that level. It's good, but motion plus controls still leave a little to be desired and in many ways hamper your control of the game. The bird controls best holding the remote in a paper aeroplane type fashion, but they've assigned buttons to the face of the remote, so you have to awkwardly hold it in many cases to do what you need. A lot of it means you can't lay back comfortably and game, you have to sit upright on the edge of you couch to play. I also think they've been given a free pass on the the no voice acting bit, it's the 21st century, Wii supports dual layer discs, the game needs voice acting. I don't care if fanboys will get upset with the voices given to characters. The text conversations play against the mostly well done cutscenes...of which there are a lot of.

I think my main complaint is levelled at the Wii remote itself, it's a terribly designed peripheral. It was when it first came out, and it's just archaic now. The button layout is fucked, making playing a game difficult. The controller isn't ergonomic in the slightest making it uncomfortable to hold. The motion plus add on has a silicon sleeve, and obviously the idiots at Nintendo weren't aware holding silicon makes your hands sweat, making it even more uncomfortable.

[ALL STAR]

I've never understood why people are so against Link talking, it's like they just want the same Zelda game over and over again, in this day and age voice actor can dramatically add character to a game world they just need to give it a chance. Imagine Red Dead or Uncharted without voice acting you lose some of that atmosphere and character from those games.

When it comes to reviews from IGN I don't particularly trust them because more often than not they over rate games then a week later they have there second thoughts artcile where everyone is like yeah it wasn't really a 10 was it. Plus the fact that IGN will give out a nine or higher all too often.

Skyrim and Assassin's Creed have both arrived this morning 3 days before release date which is awesome but now I'm torn about which one to play. I want to jump into Skyrim though Assassin's Creed is oh so tempting. This AC should be interesting though, as up to this point I have only watched one CGI trailer and that's it so I don't know what to expect from the story/ setting etc, for games I'm really interested in I'm tending to avoid trailers, I like going into games totally fresh so even early game stuff will be suprising.

Just opened Skyrim and the map stinks it's made out of the same material as wallpaper.

Edited by ALL STAR, 12 November 2011 - 12:56 PM.

[Aero]

you can take the motion plus add-on out of the sleave.... or but a new motionplus controller with it built in...seems like a harsh waste of money tho... other than that, i'll agree, the wii controller is a dick.my nephew did get a 3rd party one that was near half the size (cos he himself is tiny) and its actually much better and slightly rounder... not 100% sure it works as well tho...

[Strum la Frantique]

Hmmm I suppose there isn't anything stopping my ripping it out of that sleeve is there, I'm going to do that.

EDIT - I preordered the big box version of AC Revelations, the one that comes with the encyclopedia. I figured I need it to make sense of the wish washy history riddled plot. I've played every game in the series bar the portable outings because they're shit, and I have no idea what the plot is. I've read news stories about a new Assassin's Creed game for 2012 because in the game that is when something happens. That was news to me.

[salizzle]

what, sonic 4 is pretty bad. awful even.