What are you playing?

[Xeogred]

I don't like The Dark Descent. The visual effects are nauseating too.

A Machine For Pigs was done by different developers and drops most of those annoying gameplay mechanics (but apparently that's why it has a bad rep). But this is the one I beat and enjoyed.

[prfsnl_gmr]

Play Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth (preferably after reading A Shadow over Innsmouth). It is the best first-person horror game.

[Exhuminator]

Have you run into any monsters yet?

While down in the wine cellar I saw the silhouette of a monster in the distance, and my character started freaking out, and I had to look away to reserve sanity.* Other than that, no other monsters.

I don't like The Dark Descent. The visual effects are nauseating too.

I don't like how when you're in darkness, the whole screen takes on an underwater blurry look to it. I get that it's supposed to represent an emotional reaction, but for the player it's not great.

A Machine For Pigs was done by different developers and drops most of those annoying gameplay mechanics (but apparently that's why it has a bad rep). But this is the one I beat and enjoyed.

The most annoying mechanic for me is having to constantly maintain an oil supply for my lamp, and search every nook and cranny for random tinder boxes. If Machine For Pigs doesn't do that, then it's already better.

Play Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth (preferably after reading A Shadow over Innsmouth). It is the best first-person horror game.

I always forget I have that game. I've got it on PC. Hopefully it doesn't go stupid with the sanity maintenance mechanics.

*So here's why I don't generally enjoy Cthulhu-influenced horror games; the sanity maintenance. I don't enjoy horror game mechanics that involve trying to keep your player from going insane, because they see something scary, or are in the dark for too long. This is a horror game, the point is to see scary things and be in the dark! Unfortunately Amnesia makes this is a central game mechanic along with constantly searching for light sources, another annoyance in and of itself. BUT Amnesia got really good reviews back in the day, so I'll keep plugging at it to see what the big deal was.

Meanwhile I'm going to install the original Crysis and give that a shot, while I'm on this PC games kick.

[Fragems]

Started up CoD Infinite Warfare and people were right this is a very solid game and probably one of the best single player campaigns the series has seen in at least the last decade. It was well worth the $20 I picked it up for through amazon.

I loved Advanced Warfare. Still have Infinite sealed from Christmas. Need to check it out.

Beats Advanced hands down no competition at all . Honestly I liked Advanced but aside from Kevin Spacey didn't care immensely for the story line. Hated BO3s campaign though and I'm so glad they managed to turn things around with Infinite although the whole marketing strategy with MW being locked to the deluxe version really screwed this game over in my opinion.

Still not a huge fan of the floaty flying sections but they have definitely improved them a lot over previous games and the space battle can be pretty intense with the amount of debris floating around.

I'm in the camp that wants CoD to either get off the yearly release cycle or swap to another setting already, but even I am thoroughly enjoying this entry.

[prfsnl_gmr]

Play Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth (preferably after reading A Shadow over Innsmouth). It is the best first-person horror game.

I always forget I have that game. I've got it on PC. Hopefully it doesn't go stupid with the sanity maintenance mechanics.

It doesn't. I only lost my mind once when I played through it. (I almost threw my controller against the wall a few times, but that is a different story.... )

[Xeogred]

I don't like The Dark Descent. The visual effects are nauseating too.

I don't like how when you're in darkness, the whole screen takes on an underwater blurry look to it. I get that it's supposed to represent an emotional reaction, but for the player it's not great.

A Machine For Pigs was done by different developers and drops most of those annoying gameplay mechanics (but apparently that's why it has a bad rep). But this is the one I beat and enjoyed.

The most annoying mechanic for me is having to constantly maintain an oil supply for my lamp, and search every nook and cranny for random tinder boxes. If Machine For Pigs doesn't do that, then it's already better.

Yeah, it doesn't have any of that crap. It may as well not have Amnesia in the title and be something else entirely... for the best. It's completely self contained and I wouldn't be surprised if there's no connectable plot point or anything.

For the record, A Machine For Pigs setting reminded me of Thief more than anything.

Crysis 1 is good dumb fun but get ready for aliens to ruin the late game, just like the monsters in Far Cry 1.

[Exhuminator]

get ready for aliens to ruin the late game, just like the monsters in Far Cry 1.

Seriously? They didn't learn the first time?

I legit bailed on Far Cry once the Trigens showed up. Lovely game until that point.

[Fragems]

Nope . I hope you like running.

[Xeogred]

The final boss was rage inducing. Have fun if you make it that far. I for one love that Far Cry 2 and the seqeuls had different developing teams than 1 and the Crysis games. Way better games in my book. For the Crytek stuff, Crysis 2 ditches the sandbox island stuff and is a linear scripted CoD kind of thing, but I thought it was pretty solid. No idea if I'd hit it up again though. It has aliens even earlier in, but they were finally integrated better... I kind of just recall the normal alien enemies being like super strong Halo Elite type units. All I remember from the first game is annoying ass flying blobs or something. It comes out of nowhere and was terrible. Haven't bothered with Crysis 3 yet even though I somehow got it for free... maybe with one of my graphics cards awhile back.

Far Cry 2 is such a hardcore game looking back on it, it's hard to believe something like that came from Ubisoft.

[Exhuminator]

The final boss was rage inducing. Have fun if you make it that far.

We'll see. I played for 2 hours tonight, and so far Crysis is a piece of cake. But I'm sure it's going to get harder soon enough.

I for one love that Far Cry 2 and the seqeuls had different developing teams than 1 and the Crysis games.

A lot of people say that Crytek are great technology developers but not great game designers.

It's crazy that it's already been 10 years since the original Crysis released. I remember when this game came out and everybody was freaking over the system requirements. It really doesn't seem that long ago. It's even crazier it's taken me a decade to get around to playing Crysis. Man I always feel like I'm playing catch up with other gamers I talk to. (And that's not to mention Warhead, 2, and 3. )

Far Cry 2 is such a hardcore game looking back on it, it's hard to believe something like that came from Ubisoft.

Hmm, that sounds good. I do have Far Cry 2, 3, and 4 on 360. Haven't played them yet (of course). I did nearly finish the original Far Cry, but Trigen ruined the fun. However, the Ubisoft developed Far Cry Instincts on Xbox was good enough that I beat it. Unfortunately Far Cry Instincts: Evolution (again on Xbox) was terrible, I rage quit that one.