Zero Punctuation: Alan Wake
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Hmmmm, I thought combat would be a little more unnerving when you have to look at a monster for 4 seconds or so before you can even DAMAGE them. I guess the unnerving part IS brought down a bit when you can move backwards almost as fast as they move forwards, although would you have rathered they just not let you move and shoot at the same time like Resident Evil?
Little off topic: Would you revisit Team Fortress 2 after the Engineer update? It has truly changed into a different game, for better or for worse. Although it would most likely be buggy as fuck.
Little off topic: Would you revisit Team Fortress 2 after the Engineer update? It has truly changed into a different game, for better or for worse. Although it would most likely be buggy as fuck.
This is all true. But the difference here is Remedy made the Normal so easy that the scary bad men are no longer scary, even when a large group of them jump out at you. I played the game on Hard first, and even that was not terribly difficult, but it did add a bit more anxiety, making it really feel like a thriller. When 6 guys appeared at once I ran like a scared rabbit. If the game is too easy, you become so confident that you can easily wade through anything it throws at you, then that defeats the thriller aspect. I made that mistake with Dead Space. I thought it was a mediocre game because I was never fearful of what might come at me. I should have played that game on Hard. I learned from my mistake, and I played Alan Wake on Hard.Hiroshi Mishima said:
EDIT: The key indicator that you should play a game on Hard and skip the Normal is when there is no Easy difficulty, and especially if there is a "Harder than Hard" difficulty, such as "Nightmare".
There are exceptions, of course. Tenchu Z comes to mind; it had Easy/Normal/Hard, but still needed to play on Hard because Normal was like sending Rambo in to destroy a den of kittens. Devil May Cry is an exception in the other direction: Hard is actually Hard.
It isn't. Yahtzee is genuinely the first person (that I bother paying attention to) to have voiced a negative opinion, and since he does exactly that for a living, I'd recommend giving it a rent over the weekend. You can beat it in two days with some effort, and at worst you've lost $8-$10.Blue-State said:
Indeed. It takes more than referencing Stephen King to make an awesome game. Plus, the way they go about it isn't even a good way to do it. Me, I wrote a story and I gave the bad guy a name that had the initials "RF." That's how you pay homage to great writers.Amata said:Lol yeah, not that many of his books are about that. Quite a few of them are set in the same small town, but yeah, still. Plus the Dark Tower series is awesome.
A very good review though, even if we disagree on the quality of Stephen King's books.
This is the game everyone has been clamoring about as the Game of the year?
HAHAHAHAHAH.
Oh man, funny stuff. From the review, it's basically Stephen King meets Resident Evil meets Scooby Doo. And not in any good order.
Kinda disappointing like Heavy Rain. :/
HAHAHAHAHAH.
Oh man, funny stuff. From the review, it's basically Stephen King meets Resident Evil meets Scooby Doo. And not in any good order.
Kinda disappointing like Heavy Rain. :/
A dog guiltily shitting in a hat? I would pay well over the average price to see that in a game.
I think at this stage stephen king just wants to have his name on everything. I'm a fan of King but i think he's overdone it.
Is it a JRPG, perhaps? Because he's made it quite clear that he hates those. And Nintendo. So when he reviews Mario Galaxy 2 (correction, IF he reviews it, or any other game down the line, be it Zelda or Metroid) take it with a massive grain of salt.Hardcore_gamer said:
He has stated a number of times, the last I remember in the Brütal Legend video, that he does indeed not play such games. I suspect it is related to his emphasis on console games over PC games.Hardcore_gamer said:
Edit: Or that he plays them but seldom enjoys them.
