The last game you played + 3 lines worth of review

[scorptatious]

Never thought I'd ever see you out of the Forum Games mParadox.

OT: Team Fortress 2
An awesome class based online FPS with a unique art style, a wide range of classes, a great emphasis on teamwork, several different game modes, great humor, and it also has trailers that come out for it long after the game was released.

 

[Rule Britannia]

Halo Reach

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Good, fun, community
Mostly balanced multiplayer gameplay (Fuck you armour lock)
Fantastic amount of personalisation with your multiplayer character

 

[Idlemessiah]

Mass Effect 3:

I'm a couple hours in.
Good writing, voice acting and combat.
Wtf constant disk swapping?!?!?!

 

[malestrithe]

Harley Quinn's Revenge

If Arkham City is like No Man's Land, this would be a one shot tie in. It really does not add anything useful to story, but nice to have. It could have been so much greater than it actually is.

I Am Alive Demo.

Boring is the best way to describe this. It did not get to the action fast enough to want to purchase the actual game. I know that the Road by Cormack McCarthy is popular, but a video game should not emulate that experience.

 

[Inconspicuous Trenchcoat]

Alan Wake

Played it for 5 hours at most on Xbox (rented), didn't like it. Bought it for $15 on PC. Still don't like it, but I'm DETERMINED to make myself like it! Lighting engine is sweet, combat gets old incredibly fast, the story is marred by terrible lip syncing and being too convoluted and/or nebulous for my tastes. Note: I really like Stephen King's short story collections.

 

[bafrali]

Rayman Origins

Charming visual style.
Ingenious level and sound design.
Coop with tons of fun.

 

[AlmostLikeLife]

Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Very good looking game.
Shouting is fun.
Quit killing me, dragons!

 

[Mysterious Username]

Poacher
Another freeware metroidvania game, I've downloaded like 20 of these. Probably meant for the hardcoreish crowd given how quickly the game expects you to catch on to the controls. I will never beat it because of bullshit wall jumping sections. No reason not to try it but if you're inexperienced at platformers you're not likely to enjoy much of it.

 

[Stryc9]

Dungeons of Dredmor + Realm of the Diggle Gods + The Expandable Expansion Pack of Expansioning.

Randomly generated maps + tons of skill trees to choose from = nearly infinite replayability.
Quirky sense of humor adds more fun to discovering new items and areas.
While it can be brutally unforgiving creating new characters is about 25% of the fun of the game.

 

[Senor Coolguy]

3D Dot Game Heroes

Entertaining references to the games of old.
A fun challenge to collect all of the hidden items.
Who's bright idea was it to add these frustrating minigames?

 

[-Seraph-]

Gravity Rush

A beautiful and vivid open world game, with a vast and inspired locations. Excellent and unique gravity manipulating gameplay that takes good advantage of the Vitas hardware, and just simply magical. Fun, endearing story and characters presented in short expressive cut-scenes and comic book style panels, all to one of the best soundtracks this generation.

 

[Kerboom]

Dragon's Dogma

It's a fun game, with some graphical mediocrity. The fighting is awesome, with a total of 9 different classes (three base ones with some mixtures) to play. There isn't much of a story, but what it lacks in storyline is made up for in fun. Eh, I need to fill half a line now... Banana hammock.

There, three lines.

 

[wintercoat]

Ghost Trick for tyhe Nintendo DS

A fun, addictive puzzle game with a rich cast of characters and an engaging story. The puzzles are mostly easy to figure out, with the difficulty climbing as the story progresses. Gameplay and story blend smoothly, the puzzles worked into the environment, having an impact on the stories flow, rather than being stopgates. The story has so many twists and turns, you won't want to put the game down until you're done.

That was rather hard actually. Only three lines is very limiting...

 

[LetalisK]

Morrowind

Pros: The magic, lore(notably all the books), graphics are better than to be expected (especially with mods), class system, and especially the freedom. Cons: Everything else, including but not limited to: buggy and glitchy as shit(even with unofficial patches), poor character progression curve, repetitive environments, boring combat(outside magic), generally bad faction quests, etc. Suggestion: Play for the purposes of nostalgia, want to get a greater appreciation for all the things you take for granted in modern games, or really enjoy playing MMOs by yourself.

Four lines, sue me.

 

[babinro]

Diablo 3

Addicting gameplay with great atmosphere and visuals.
The game works beautifully from level 1-60 and in my opinion completely breaks down at inferno.
Hopefully patches over the coming months/years will make the whole game great as Diablo 2 wasn't gold from launch.

 

[neonsword13-ops]

Gravity Rush

Wait, that's out now?

If so, I need to get it pronto!

OT: Disgaea 3: Absence of Detention (PSVita)

Hardcore, grid-based combat with super flashy special moves.
Hilarious characters and constant forth-wall break will make your sides hurt.
Super RPG level grinding!! Get all the way to level 9,999!!! Then restart at level one and repeat the cycle all over again!!!!

 

[Xannidel]

*EDIT* Broke the rules by doing more lines but I felt that it was necessary to add that many lines to a game so addicting.

Binding of Issac

An amazing and addicting game that has massive replay value with disturbing enemies and concepts. The story is pretty basic; your mom listens to a voice telling her to sacrifice her son, son finds trapdoor and escapes and works his way to fighting his mother. As you progress in the game and beating the game, you unlock new items and enemies and even new characters. The music is also fantastic and rather catchy. It is also pretty cheap and recently had a new DLC that permanently changes the game adding new enemies, items, bosses, floors and even a new character to unlock. The creator is also releasing new patches constantly to fix bugs and imbalanced items.
There is a demo on newgrounds that people can play to get a taste of how the game plays.

 

[-Seraph-]

Gravity Rush

Wait, that's out now?

If so, I need to get it pronto!

Might be if you check your local stores. I got my copy a week early because my7 local EB got them shipped early. Supposed to be out on the 12th, but the earlier the better. The game is beautiful and amazing, one of my favorite games of recent memory. Just...the music itself would have sold me on the game.