Re: Games Beaten 2014
Posted: Sun Jan 12, 2014 4:43 pm
1. Back to the Future: The Game - PC
2. Syndicate - PC
3. Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag - PC
Total for 2014: 3
Syndicate - PC
I am surprised to say that I really liked Syndicate. It had a nice cyber punk world, that will remind you very much of Deus Ex, it has some really smart gunplay where you have to think as well as have quick reflexes and graphically it is a beautiful game. I think having the Syndicate name more than likely hurt the title than it did give it brand recognition as all it did was piss off fans of the originals as it has nothing at all to do with them.
Big downfall of the game is the extreme overuse of bloom (I fixed this somewhat with SweetFX, but it can't be fixed any settings or cfg tweaks). The below image happens so often it is not funny.
The second big breaker for the game is that it is clearly made for a console because the mouse controls are so broken it is not funny, feels like you are playing with a roller ball. No real fix so I eventually played through with my xbox controller.
Once I squashed those two issues, the bloom only half squashed, I really enjoyed the game.
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag - PC
A big step up from III, I don't feel like I even need to go into the details too much as so many people have spoken about the game. But I will point out the things that stayed with me.
The game is utterly beautiful, it is not as well optimized as it should be on the PC.
The combat system is much improved over III, which somehow took a big step backwards from past games in the series.
They took the boat system from III and just ran with it, was actually fun to roam the seas in this game.
There are far too many missions that have you follow someone from the shadows for 5 minutes.
The game was actually too big at times, when I first started I was loving collecting everything, but when you realize the size of the games map as well having to jump off your boat to swim to a small island to get a item, then swim back, the inspiration to collect as much as you can fades away fast.
There are some really great characters in the game, however for whatever reason Ubisoft never lets them really develop, so many of the games 'filler' missions could have been used to get to know the core characters better. Too often in the game someone dies or a event happens and I could not give two shits about the character they are happening to.
I think it is the best game in the series since II.
2. Syndicate - PC
3. Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag - PC
Total for 2014: 3
Syndicate - PC
I am surprised to say that I really liked Syndicate. It had a nice cyber punk world, that will remind you very much of Deus Ex, it has some really smart gunplay where you have to think as well as have quick reflexes and graphically it is a beautiful game. I think having the Syndicate name more than likely hurt the title than it did give it brand recognition as all it did was piss off fans of the originals as it has nothing at all to do with them.
Big downfall of the game is the extreme overuse of bloom (I fixed this somewhat with SweetFX, but it can't be fixed any settings or cfg tweaks). The below image happens so often it is not funny.
The second big breaker for the game is that it is clearly made for a console because the mouse controls are so broken it is not funny, feels like you are playing with a roller ball. No real fix so I eventually played through with my xbox controller.
Once I squashed those two issues, the bloom only half squashed, I really enjoyed the game.
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag - PC
A big step up from III, I don't feel like I even need to go into the details too much as so many people have spoken about the game. But I will point out the things that stayed with me.
The game is utterly beautiful, it is not as well optimized as it should be on the PC.
The combat system is much improved over III, which somehow took a big step backwards from past games in the series.
They took the boat system from III and just ran with it, was actually fun to roam the seas in this game.
There are far too many missions that have you follow someone from the shadows for 5 minutes.
The game was actually too big at times, when I first started I was loving collecting everything, but when you realize the size of the games map as well having to jump off your boat to swim to a small island to get a item, then swim back, the inspiration to collect as much as you can fades away fast.
There are some really great characters in the game, however for whatever reason Ubisoft never lets them really develop, so many of the games 'filler' missions could have been used to get to know the core characters better. Too often in the game someone dies or a event happens and I could not give two shits about the character they are happening to.
I think it is the best game in the series since II.
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