What are you playing?

[Cronozilla]

Playing Knack, and at the moment it is leading in first place for my 2013 Worst Game of the Year award. I'm feeling something akin to genuine loathing for this game...and the people who made it.

See, I'm really disappointed with Knack.

I expected it to be an awesome game with a similar feel to Jak and Daxter, Ratchet and Clank, etc. with a good story... I don't think I've heard anything positive about it.

Oh well, when I get my PS4 it'll probably be about $10 and I can play it then

I've played a bit of Knack recently and wow, I really didn't expect it to be this mediocre.
The largest problem is it feels like one enormous missed opportunity. The game also feels too difficult for the wrong reasons. You know a game wasn't designed very well if your attacks stun you longer than the enemy it hit, or if your main stun attack usually makes you land right in front of an enemy, rather than hitting them. Or how the enemies are made to attack in alternating patterns while also sticking together, because it's the simplest way to make it so the player can't attack. Or ...

You get the point.

I'd pay $5 to have it and grind through it, but it's really not a good game. However, I DO hope it gets a sequel where they actually put time into it and really develop some proper mechanics for this game. It has a lot of potential. The style is great, it's very reminiscent of Astro Boy in a way; you have this character that has the potential to be a very new and dynamic platformer beast. If this had a deeper combat system, wasn't so archaic, and Knack actually had the ability to do more than two things at any given time, it could be incredible. The pieces are there ... the effort is not.

Trying to play Resogun right now, and this whole human saving thing in Resogun is pissing me off. They don't ever give you enough time to rescue anyone and the distraction of trying to even find where the hell they even are onscreen and then get to them in time is pretty much the only reason I'm dying in this game. Otherwise, this game would be cake. It just feels like artificial difficulty

If you pay attention to the enemies, the ones that glow green come in waves and defeating them are what releases the humans. When the last one dies, there is actually a energy line that shoots to the human cage that's being opened. So, if you pay attention to that, the game becomes significantly more intuitive, and a lot more fun. I didn't notice any of this until the other day and the game immediately became more interesting.

Though humans do still die, since you don't always have time to get to them, that's why saving the bombs and overdrive is important for when you really need to get somewhere onscreen.

[graffix_13]

Trying to play Resogun right now, and this whole human saving thing in Resogun is pissing me off. They don't ever give you enough time to rescue anyone and the distraction of trying to even find where the hell they even are onscreen and then get to them in time is pretty much the only reason I'm dying in this game. Otherwise, this game would be cake. It just feels like artificial difficulty

If you pay attention to the enemies, the ones that glow green come in waves and defeating them are what releases the humans. When the last one dies, there is actually a energy line that shoots to the human cage that's being opened. So, if you pay attention to that, the game becomes significantly more intuitive, and a lot more fun. I didn't notice any of this until the other day and the game immediately became more interesting.

Though humans do still die, since you don't always have time to get to them, that's why saving the bombs and overdrive is important for when you really need to get somewhere onscreen.

Also, some humans are only released if you hit a certain multiplier for the level. It's annoying when you lose your multiplier and then a human dies because of it.

[Luke]

Road Rash, Genesis. Hopefully will beat this again soon this year.

[BoringSupreez]

With the impending release of Ground Zeroes, I figure it's about time I reclassify Peace Walker from "backlog" to "games beaten 2014." I'm up to the tank boss and so far it's great fun. I don't know why I never beat it back when it was new.

I chose the HD Collection version for the 60 fps and comfortable controller even though it makes me feel kind of bad to know I'll probably never beat my PSP copy.

[isiolia]

I plan to get to that one after Portable Ops, but I've had company through the weekend so little time to play.

Not especially digging the recruiting/squad stuff, but I guess it makes sense for the story.

[BoringSupreez]

I plan to get to that one after Portable Ops, but I've had company through the weekend so little time to play.

Not especially digging the recruiting/squad stuff, but I guess it makes sense for the story.

Portable Ops is easily my least favorite Metal Gear game, and Kojima seems to have added it to the non-canon pile alongside MG2 on NES and Ghost Babel (he didn't work on any of those). The story wasn't engaging and the gameplay was tedious. If you want you could very easily skip PO and go straight to Peace Walker without missing anything storywise, since so far I've only seen one fleeting reference to PO: "finally we can leave that crap in San Hieronymo behind." The title sequence boots up the plot as if it were the direct sequel to MGS3.

[prfsnl_gmr]

Portable Ops is easily my least favorite Metal Gear game, and Kojima seems to have added it to the non-canon pile alongside MG2 on NES and Ghost Babel (he didn't work on any of those).

It's too bad about Ghost Babel. That game is awesome.

[BoringSupreez]

Portable Ops is easily my least favorite Metal Gear game, and Kojima seems to have added it to the non-canon pile alongside MG2 on NES and Ghost Babel (he didn't work on any of those).

It's too bad about Ghost Babel. That game is awesome.

Yeah. Some people work into their own canon by saying it's Raiden's VR training before MGS2.

I've heard people say the exact same thing about The Twin Snakes, but that's to explain it out of the canon.

[isiolia]

Portable Ops actually is counted as canon for some reason (unless it's been more recently downgraded), and also seemed to not skip a beat with regard to story after finishing MGS3.

I may wind up skipping it if the squad stuff becomes too involved. It's not supposed to be all that long though.

[Gooseberrysoda]

Love your avatar. How is Resist and Serve?

never saw this. thanks- resist or serve is extremely hard to control, overly dark, and poorly animated, but it does survival horror really well- you really feel like you're desperate to find bullets, health packs, etc. It's also an exciting (and sometimes funny, if not always intentionally) x-files experience.