Hard Reset: Extended Edition - 7.0. Alright but all a bit samey. Starting to forget it now actually, and I only played it a month ago.

Dead Island - 7.5. Clearly not built for solo play, with cinematics that show your team mates even though your not playing with them! The last 20% of the game became too hard for solo (due to escort missions) and really cunted me off. I had to get a trainer to continue. Enemies that skill up as you do makes it pointless bothering to gain xp. Melee was done fairly well though. Kind of like a melee borderlands but without the large scale.

PayDay: The Heist - Played the first level. Rubbish, with no point to even bother killing enemies because they just keep respawing. Looked average so I deleted it.

F.E.A.R. 3 - 7.5. Fun old style fps, but definitely weaker than Fear2. Shit all weapons (and only 2 at a time), limited enemy types, linear as hell levels. But still fun if that's what your into. A few tough battles too (not the final boss though). 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRoqsAsF4JI&feature=youtu.be 

I still have to play the last one, the one that that one guy worked on. 

Looks great, love the art style and subtle touches at humour. Coming May 2015? Damn not much time to do marketing for it and build up anticipation, are some of these marketing companies run by monkeys? 

Is best when it's not years away. A few months to save and the hype is strong with little room for disappointment. 

i haven't played a "new order" yet.
but this one is looking promising. Kinda remind me the 2009 wolf

just looked the video but without the sound, what are they talking about? 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0c6HBeBOw0 

 

My steam review:
http://steamcommunity.com/id/czg/recommended/265690/ 

Thanks for playing that game so I don't have to. Not that I would anyway. 

 

 

I hope 'cubespew' becomes a genre label 

damn, that's disappointing. i really like that visual style or solid colours with just lighting and geometry... the video made it look pretty cool. 

Looks. 

Yeah still waiting for a good Blame! inspired game. 

 

 

 

scampie don't hurt me

(no more) 

I played Dead Space 2 this week, great game 9/10 I think. A bit linear but it seems most people overlook this since the rest is so good. Only negative is I found most of the more powerful weapons to be a bit shit. Definitely fixed the fucked controls of ds1.

Also played Batman 2 (Arkham City), pretty cool, 8.5/10. But really no different to the first game, just more of the same. Having to remember all the combo's and pissing around with all the gadgets gets a bit old after a while. I played the main game which was about 10 hrs, add Catwomen's DLC but by the Robin DLC I was over it and quit 30mins in. I'd had enough of those zapper cunts. Not the kind of game I could keep playing for 100 hours. Awesome design though, looks great in dx11.

I'm on to Portal 2 now, only up to chapter 3 but I see this is an 8hr game... boy this might be a drag if it doesn't change up fast. It's just the same old puzzles from Portal1. 

there are some new mechanics, but it's still a very short game. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abrKxAHJ7qU
Just a old game review - Quarantine. The guy is hilarious though :D 

huhhh.. that game looks cool, but i can see why i didn't do better judging by the problems the dude mentions.

also, he is hilarious. i usually hate weirdo youtube people, but his anger is awesome. 

I only got to the end of chapter 7 in Portal 2, I couldn't take it any more, it's a bit too long. I see on youtube the rest of the puzzles looked annoying as fuck. I don't get the response this game got, it's not THAT great. Kind of boring, dating engine, puzzles just for the sake of puzzles unlike proper adventure/puzzle games that have a purpose. Oh and the loadtimes! Load times out of the 90s!

Also I couldn't take the crashing anymore, not sure if it's something wrong with my computer but the further I got the more it crashed, to the point it was crashing every 30sec. Probably not normal for Portal 2 to crash so much, but everything hardware-wise seems to be okay, temps all good, memory fine. No other games are crashing.

Was I did like - the characters were great, though the story itself doesn't really have a satisfying summary. I did like the huge scale minimalist design, very moody and atmospheric. It suits this game, but you can tell the engine isn't really good enough for modern levels of detail. I wonder if this why Valve has been so quiet in recent years?

L4D1/2 looked dated, but that wasn't really their game anyway, they just created a bunch of new levels for Turtle Rock's HL2 mod, and called it L4D2.

Portal was the same, it's just Nuclear Monkey's game Narbacular Drop, but Valve hired them and recreated it as Portal. Portal 2 is just a bigger version of Portal 1.

Dota 2 wasn't their IP either. All their multiplayer things like CS and TF are based on user-made mods.

Has Valve itself done anything original since 1998's Half-Life? I don't think they really have.

I wonder how much the fact that they know their engine is out-of-date and has been for about a decade now, plays into that? Too busy with Steam perhaps.