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the vanilla game with no dlc, quite fun if your having a drought of games to play. It IS fairly repetitive but the shooting mechanics are solid and some of the rarer beefier weapons are very satisfying to use (im looking at you, revolver with a chance to cause explosions!).
I imagine its a lot more fun in coop, but the single player kept me interested long enough to finish it :) I might as well post about this one I uploaded a few days back for those interested;
http://taw.duke4.net/2011/02/game-reviews/vvvvvv/ I liked it, kind of felt like a Diablo FPS almost, and the visuals were nice and refreshing, but yeah, best played in coop of course.
And yeah VVVVVV is awesome. borderlands sounds like my kind of game, i think. :)
even if it only lasts a few weeks, that's worth the current price (30 CDN). i went to were grils lather school jackets and tell them to call me at this number 8579142.
Borderlands was a blast, one of the few games in the past couple of years that I really spent the time to explore every nook of every level. It's fun both SP and coop, give it another shot Zwiffle. The beginning *is* kind of slow and boring but it picks up.
Anyone else having trouble creating an account so they can..you know, PLAY THE FRIKKIN' GAME? =)
its been stuck on the "creating account" message for 10 minutes now and there is no way to cancel it, w00t Crytek :P Yeah, got in myself a few minutes ago.
I like it! Its modern warfare 2 with super powers thrown in =) Everything feels really beefy, which is great. Suit powers are actually useful and I found that I was using all of the available modes and moves. The ground stomp thing is hilarious if you can get one off in a group of enemies. It suffers from slight consolitis however, the fov feels very narrow, and the "Press start to continue" message when you first get to the menu is a little disconcerting =) I had to up the mouse speed a fair way also, but the game itself is fine. Only other annoyance I had was that the graphics options menu is a complete joke. You have 3 preset options, "Gamer", "Advanced" and "Hardcore". There are no slider bars or drop down menu's for various effects, frankly from Crytek I expected there to be a buttload of graphics options... :P Saying that though, I threw it on Hardcore and the game ran at a steady 60fps, and it doe's look very pretty. All in all, colour me impressed by these first impressions. However they do need to add more graphics customization options! Returning to a previous Crytek game, Crysis keeps crashing on what presumably is the final section, when the Admiral nukes the island, it always crashes during that cutscene. Have just upgraded to V1.2 and it does the same...
Actually apart from the boss combat I thought they were pretty cool...
Fixed, was a DX10 problem. in too many levels you have to sit around just waiting too much and maybe it would be good if you were forced to think more carefully by somehow punishing the player for letting the wrong color pixel in the wrong cup.
not having an eraser made it more challenging I thought -- some of the later puzzles require some thinking about which order to fill the cups (since filling one cup might require blocking off another one.)
There was one level I found annoying, might have been the last one, where the level spirals around and you have a single grain of sugar. Even when you understand the concept you have to repeat it way too many times to complete the level. Would be interesting to see a "best time" feature on some of the levels, I could see ways i could have been more efficient but wasn't motivated to replay them. A time to beat might have helped. that the thinking part was usually very quick and then waiting for the cups to fill was very slow, it didn't feel very Zen to me just annoying. Maybe a fast-forward button would work ok.
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