Darkdrago's Game Corner

[Darkdrago666]

I'm not sure why I'm starting a thread like this, but I thought "what the hell?"

And so this is my game corner/thread, I suppose I could've come up with a better name for it. Honestly, it was the name I could think up.

But anyway, I'll posting what games I've been playing recently, some old, some new, depending on really what interests me, or whatever my roommate buys, and I'll give my opinions and thoughts on the games, if I enjoyed it or not, or if I outright despise it. I won't be "reviewing" games, I'll just say what I think within a hider or something.

This also means any kind of games are up for discussion, and feel free to tell me what you think of the games I've played, or my opinions on them(be constructive). And to clarify, I won't be stating what platform I've played the game on, since it will inevitably bring in a discussion about "Which platform is superior?"

Console Wars, or whatever Wars they are called, are needlessly stupid, idiotic, and pointless.

With that said!....

...I'll give it a try and see how it goes.

The Details:

The sequel to 2007's "The Darkness, the video game adaptation the comic book series, which shares the same the name. Developed by Digital Extremes and published by 2K Games. The game starts off 2 years after the events of the first with Jackie Estacado, former hitman, and the current host of the Demonic Entity simply known as "The Darkness", becoming the Don of the Franchietti Crime Family. Jackie has placed The Darkness under wraps, but when he can't shake out his thoughts of his dead girlfriend, Jenny Romano, he is unexpectedly attacked by The Brotherhood.


Pros/Cons:

+ Solid, fun shooter.

+ Controls are great, solid and fun.

+ Quad Wielding...Quad Weilding. A great mechanic that works brilliantly within the game's atmosphere, source material, and general feel.

+ Brutal, Bloody, and vicious, the combat is possibly the beating heart of this games, throwing car doors to slice your enemies, or impaling them with a pole. Executions are very satisfying and creative, even if you might see the same one more than twice.

+ Mike Patton does an outstanding job as The Darkness.

+ Great Story, with a twists to keep you on your feet.

- Very short single player campaign, even shorter co-op mode.

- Story is relatively weaker than the first one.

- Loses the original game's sense of exploration, for a more traditional run of the mill shooter style. Just doesn't feel like the original game

- The enemies can be quite the pushovers, especially early on.

Comments/Thoughts:

I loved the first game, there was something about it I loved. The story, the idea of it, I don't know and I don't care, it's one of my favourite FPS games, thats for sure, up there with Bioshock. So seeing the teaser trailer for the sequel, I was excited to see how they would improve upon it, and to a small scale, they have. Whilst the shooting wasn't the first game's strong point, Darkness II definitely improves upon it, becoming solid, fun, and fluid enough to enjoy it. While much of the exploration and story is weaker, I didn't feel it was a huge letdown, the combat was great enough to forgive the former aspects of it. If a game can let me rip out my enemies' spines out from their asses, then its a thumbs up from me.

Here are a few things to discuss.

What is your favourite game of all time?

What game dissapointed you the most?

what games are you looking forward?

what forgotten series would like to get a reboot, or a new game?

[Grif of Hearts]

JAAAAAAACCCKKKKYYY.

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What is your favourite game of all time?

This is a damn-near impossible question to answer. I've never really had a favourite before, and no game has ever been completely perfect. Although, I'd have to say the game series that I've whittled away the most hours on is probably the Pokemon series. Yellow was one of the earliest games I played, and it just sort of dragged on from there. I'm not sure if it's my favourite series, but it's the closest I can think of at the moment.

What game dissapointed you the most?

Spore, I think. Don't get me wrong, it was still a half-decent game, but so much was promised and so little of it was given. A lot of the features they had in the early game videos were removed by the end-game, and it just let me down. I think it was mostly due to the fact my expectations had been raised sky-high leading up to the game that nothing could ever meet them.[/B]

what games are you looking forward?

At the moment? Mass Effect 3, Bioshock infinite, Halo 4... erm... I'm not sure what else is coming out soon, actually. I haven't looked into much recently.

what forgotten series would like to get a reboot, or a new game?

Oooh. Eerrr... Ecco the Dolphin. I'm serious, that game was amazing.

[Darkdrago666]

IT DECIEVES YOU!!!!!!

Ecco The Dolphin <3

played it on Dreamcast, loved it since .

you forgot Alan Wake's American Nightmare, which I need to play sooo much..

I understand when it comes to favourite games, I have one or two for different genre, but I'd say as an adult, Mass Effect, Metal Gear Solid, Twisted Metal are possibly close though. Pokemon was fuckin awesome, but people forget Digimon World

and forgotten series?

I wish someone would reboot The Legacy of Kain series, Killer Instinct, Heart Of Darkness, and the Virtual ON series too.

Legacy Of Kain: Blood Omen is my favourite Playstation game of all time.

[Grif of Hearts]

I played it on the original Sega. <3 I could never get passed the second level I think it was. T'was a long time ago, though.

AW: American Nightmare is out tomorrow! Yay! <3

Ohgod, I had the 3rd Digimon world game for the original playstation. I used to play the damn thing non-stop. Agumon just slaughtered everything in a flurry of chaos and fire. I adored it.

And I don't think I've ever played any of those games you suggested a reboot for... ohgod, an Earthworm Jim remake would be epic. O:

[Darkdrago666]

GONNA FUCKIN GEEEET IT!!!!!

Earthworm Jim <3 childhood memories...so good .

Legacy Of Kain is one I would definitely suggest, it has arguably some of the best voice acting in any game, even now.

"Of all the methods I employ, this is perhaps the cruelest, causing my victim's body to shrink on itself, crushing bones and rupturing organs 'til the pressure inside burst the sac of fleshy skin, spraying its contents for all to see." Kain explains his Implosion Spell.

Sarafan: "Surrender, fiend, and we will promise you an easy death."

Kain: "I could promise you the same, but it would be a lie."

Believe me, Legacy of Kain is so quotable and the dialogue is great.

The dialogue and voice acting holds up well even with today's game, in fact its superior to alot of them.

[Darkdrago666]

Just some game's I'll be commenting on soon.

Binary Domain: 45% done.

Syndicate: 90% done.

Asura's Wrath: 0% done, hasn't come yet.

[Grif of Hearts]

I didn't know Syndicate was even out yet.

[Darkdrago666]

I didn't know Syndicate was even out yet.

Yep. it is .

and it's great, if alittle short though.

[Darkdrago666]

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The Details:

Syndicate is a FPS remake of the original tactical shooter of the same name. Developed by Starbreeze Studios and published by Electronic Arts. Story is as follows:

In 2017, the Eurocorp mega-corporation is born after the world's largest corporate merger. Eurocorp releases the DART chip in 2025, a neural chip implant that allows users to access the dataverse and makes most electronic devices obsolete. As a result of the DART chip, the world is no longer ruled by governments, but by large mega-corporations known as "Syndicates". However, only half of the world's population embraces the chip, while the "unchipped" are abandoned and denied the same benefits like their chipped counterparts. Furthermore, corporate espionage for dominance between the Syndicates has become the norm, resulting in the creation of "Agents": bio-engineered and chip-augmented enforcers who protect their corporate masters' interests.

The game begins in 2069, where the player plays as Agent Miles Kilo, EuroCorp's latest agent equipped with the new prototype DART 6 chip created by Eurocorp scientist Lily Drawl (voiced by Rosario Dawson). After a successful test run of the chip's abilities, the CEO of Eurocorp Jack Denham (voiced by Brian Cox), who is fond of Kilo like his own son. Despite Lily's worries he isn't ready, Denham gives Kilo his first mission to eliminate an Aspari Corporation scientist, Gary Chang, after receiving information that Chang has developed a DART 6 chip similar to Eurocorp's own


Pros/Cons:

+ Gameplay is surprsingly great solid, and a blast.

+ Breach Mechanics add some cool ability. you can make an enemy commit suicide, persuade them to fight for you, or backfire their weapons to give you an opportunity to kill them.

+ Slowing everything down with Breach makes you feel like a baddass.

+ Executions are realistically brutal.

+ this game in general makes you feel like a badass.

Looks stunning. Visually smooth too.

- Surprisingly short, expected it to be longer.

- Bosses can be annoying and really frustrating at times.

- It's easy to spam the Breach ability for slow motion.

-sometimes the enemy are alittle bit stupid.


Comments/Thoughts:

I expected it to be very similiar to Deus Ex, but Syndicate is almost nothing alike with that game. I enjoyed playing this game, despite it's short length, but it is longer than other FPS's out there, but not by much. The look of the game, is stunning, and the opening of the game throws into immediate confrontation with enemies. The gameplay plays like a good, solid shooter, instead of a melee attack, you can execute certain enemies(further into the game, some enemies cannot be executed, some will reverse it). The Breach mechanice works like a charm too, but be warned, you can spam this quite often, mostly to slow down enemies and pick them out like a badass, in fact, this game makes you feel like a baddass, untill you enter a boss fight, then you feel less of a badass.

[Darkdrago666]

Forgot I did a thread like this xD.

Well some quick thoughts on games I've played so far!

Asura's Wrath

Felt more like a Interactive Movie than a game, which was a surprise in my opinion. However, the quick time events are fun, and don't feel like a pain like many other QTE stuff from other games. The Story was great, the better aspect of the game in my opinion, you felt engaged, I know I wanted Asura to succeed when I played it. Capcom being Capcom you do have to buy the DLC for the true ending of the game. The boss battles are worth it though, trust me.

Dragon's Dogma

I was slightly excited for this game, but when I played, I was surprised. Dragon's Dogma could easily be one of my favourite games of 2012, the gameplay is brutal, and fun, and the Boss Battles? some of the best I've played, especially Grigori's battle...that was pure amazing. Definitely a worthy buy I must say.

Details:

The Spin-Off title of the Metal Gear Solid franchise focusing more on Action Oriented gameplay, and a new Leading Character(Not entirely new, it's Raiden from MGS2 and 4). The story is set a few years after Guns of The Patriots, and see Raiden as the main guy once again, working for a PMC Group called the Mavericks as they act more like a security force, until another PMC Group, Desperados, attacks them.


Pros/Cons:

+ Combat is great. Fluid, fast paced, and fun, a Great Hack 'n' Slash Title.

+ Raiden is surprisingly well developed. His more aggressive side was a nice change.

+ The Story was great, this is a Metal Gear Title, thought better than I thought it would be.

+ Blade mode is both fun and brutally awesome to use. My favourite mechanic in the game.

+ Boss Battles were great too, and the villains were surprisingly Metal Gear Like, mixed with great Cutscenes, and decent dialogue.

- Campaign is short, Around Six and half hours long.

- Last Boss is super cheap and annoying if not prepared.

- More variety for the Unique Weapons would've been great.

- Something personal, but I would've loved it if it was set around Gray Fox.

Comments/Thoughts:

I'm a big fan of the Metal Gear Franchise, while I wasn't too keen on the new direction for a new Metal Gear game, I quickly warmed up to it. Playing it, I thoroughly enjoyed every minute of it, Gameplay was great, the story I loved, and the settings, were awesome. The villain group, The Desperados were great, especially Jetstream Sam, a battle in a desert with him?...was my highlight. I did rage a little at the final Battle, he was incredibly cheap and unforgiving, I was saving up for the Fox Blade and ended spending my points on upgrades to defeat him, helped slightly.

I would say that people should give this game a chance, it's not terrible, or shit. It's surprisingly good.