Hell, I liked the anime for ffxv (which also was free on crunchyroll and on the high seas) more than I liked the actual game's plot. The anime at least had interesting story and was self-contained. About the only memorable thing that happened in the main game is when I caught the big tuna and when my bro went blind.
The movie thing just felt like a storytelling problem. For something so pivotal to the story it felt like it should have been interwoven into the game itself at key points.
"And who's this cockdrop?"
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I mainly linked the list as a reminded for all of the major AAA games that came out in 2013. I am so glad I don't bother with IMDB anymore. It's a glorified wikipedia any way.
Oh right... well (omitting some cause I didn't play them, IE Tomb Raider (or at least idk which Tomb Raider that one is)
Despite that, Blood Dragon I could not get into too. They went too heavy on the neon the gameplay didn't work for me.
SR2 will always be the best for me. Deadpool is just average, but you can tell it was rushed out the door in a mostly buggy free state. You can blame Activision on that one. It's a play the game once and never bother with it again deal.
I still don't care for either game, but I know the first game plays good. The PS4 version fixes most of the jank. It's problem is that the game foreshadows Sony's output for the next generation (slow and forced walking sections for the sake of "immersion" you can't skip) and how TLOUS II doubled down on the "dark and edginess". The sequel is a 2020 game still thinking it's 2008-2013, embracing the worse parts of the 7th generation of gaming.
The reasons a lot of people like Saints Row 4 and willing to defend it such an extent are:
Maybe I would too, but I play on PC. And Saints Row 2's driving controls on the PC are the worst in the whole videogaming history.
He still has his original 360 copy and plays it on his Series X. I already know about the PC port's issues.
My big issue with SR2 is there's a couple missions which just fucking SUCK. Notably the two missions where you have to use a sword to fight a boss and the sword controls are not good or inutive and there's literally no reason you have to use the sword other then the game makes you. You still have all your weapons but nope, use the janky ass sword. It's even more bizarre because the SR2 boss is flat out a terrible person so 'Honor" doesn't make any fucking sense here.
I didn't have any issue with that because Saints Row never really pretends to make sense (although SR2 has some occasionally brutal drama, so some parts of the plot are played surprisingly more straight than its sequels, and also surprisingly efficiently), and also because the PC port was so horrid that no artificial difficulty stood out more than basic driving, and also because... I spent all my childhood with that sort of logic. So many tv series, with the occasional episode that ends in a swordfight for whatever contrieved reason (oh no both our guns are jammed but look there's a sword on the wall on both our sides of the room), just like they'd end with whatever cool vehicle chase the plot would excuse (oh look darling someone forgot a motorbike with a side car here). I've been trained a whole life to roll with it, I was ready.
I still can't believe they just dropped the game without any sort of announcement or marketing, practically ensuring that it would go off to die (and since it already hit 50% discount, I'm guessing that's exactly what it did). I'll probably try it at some point though, but I feel like I might as well wait a few months and it'll be 75% off.
This was my brother's Christmas gift. He likes it well enough, but I don't see myself getting this game at all. I'll give credit to the grafitti and street aesthetics to at least make the game standout from all of the other homogenized and "realistic" racers, but Unbound is just a worse version of Heat and Nitro (Wii).
Heat wasn't a bad game, and I did have some fun with Hot Pursuit back in the day, but I can't really see myself getting another Need for Speed game except at a really heavy discount.
