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 On 05/07/2013 at 04:04 PM by KnightDriver See More From This User » |
I tried some demos on Monday on Xbox 360 instead of playing Enchanted Arms. First I played Gears of War Judgment with a friend. It's only Overrun mode that's 4v4. It looks and plays just like GOW3 and that's just fine with me. More of great is good. Then it was Army of Two: Devil's Cartel which was a really good co-op experience. The shear amount of destruction in the game is glorious! Then I played some XBLA demos. Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon was hilarious and fun. I absolutely loved it! God Mode seemed to be just an endless hoard mode. Serious Sam DD XXL had controls that were unintuitive. Sacred Citadel was overly difficult and Double Dragon II annoyed me by consistently surrounding me with enemies to disrupt my fighting moves. Enjoyable however was Poker Night 2. It's just Texas Hold 'em but it's fun to listen to the characters responses especially the Venture Bros.'s Samson, Glados and Claptrap. Plus you can unlock a Samson skin for the Gunzerker in Borderlands 2. How cool is that! Then I played the demo for The Cave and got hooked and bought it.
The graphics and gameplay of The Cave remind me a bit of Cloning Clyde. The difference being that The Cave looks better and has more intellectual puzzles. All the dialog is by Ron Gilbert and is really funny. The only thing that annoys me with this game is that sometimes the solutions to the puzzles are inscrutable. You end up just trying crazy things to see what works which is not a fair test of your ability to deduce a logical solution from given facts. I've heard that this kind of thing is pretty common in games like this. It seems you have to accept that sometimes common sense doesn't work and you have to just try things to see what happens. Aside from this occasional frustration I really liked the game and will be playing a lot of it in the coming week.
The Cave got me thinking about the genre of Adventure Puzzle games. Some of the top ones listed on Allgame.com were the first two Oddworld games, Toki Tori, Shadow of the Colossus, Portal 1 and 2, World of Goo and Braid. I put all of these on my list. I own Toki Tori on Game Boy Color and I have Portal 1 as part of The Orange Box collection. I've played about an hour of Shadow of the Colossus, the demo for Braid and approximately half of Portal 1. I'm tentatively planning on playing all of these to completion after The Cave.
Braid was pretty neat, I loved the artwork. Portal was loads of fun, but then I reached chamber 18, and gave up for a while. Glad I went back and finished it. I played a demo for shadow of colossus a good dozen times, but never played the actual game.
The Fuse demo came out today, and I plan on downloading as soon as I can.
Ooo, the FUSE demo! I'll have to try that.
I've played The Cave for a bit on PS3. Seems like a point and click adventure game cleverly disguised as a 2-D platformer. I wish I had more time to play it.
You should try Toki Tori 2. I reviewed it here.
I just saw Toki Tori 2 listed on the Wii-U e-shop. I'll play the first one and see if I like it. I may be picking up a Wii-U in August when Pikmin 3 comes out.
I enjoyed playing The Cave a lot. Very funny. I got stuck and need to go back and try to finish it.
I downloaded God Mode without reading about it and promptly erased it after finding out it was a multiplayer only game.
It would be cool if it had a campaign. Otherwise it seems pretty monotonous.
I downloaded the Cave but haven't played it yet. It was free on PSN+. It seems really cool but I need to finish Psychonauts seriously.
Blood Dragon is great. I love it. In fact, I might play it right now....
Blood Dragon is the funniest game I've played this year. One thing that cracked me up was when I hit the button to heal up and I was out of healing. What happened instead was your character takes out a hand exerciser and squeezes away. Also, the fact that you can give the finger at any time is something that should be in every shooter.
I enjoyed the cave. I didn't find the puzzles too hard for the most part, but maybe that's because I'm an old-school adventure game fan. (although I admit a couple times I used a FAQ). The one thing that annoyed me about that game was the backtracking involved in some levels, especially the mining one.
I would also recommend most of the other puzzle games you mentioned. The portal games are great. Braid was very good, but also very hard. The first two oddworld games were also really fun and the first one was one of the very first playstation games that I played. I only recently played Shadow of the Colossus when they rereleased it on the playstation 3, and I enjoyed that one too. I don't think you can go wrong with any of these games!
Most of the puzzles in The Cave are not too hard, I agree. There's just a few that make me pull my hair out.
I'm going to get The Cave on Steam. Played the demo and thought it was great. I liked the demo for Blood Dragon,but it was awfully short. Long enough to sell me on it though. Just too cool and funny! Those Oddworld games were so unique. Nothing like them then or now.
I love the beginning of the Blood Dragon Demo when you are on the ground and you can't move because your computer implant has to tell you how to do even the most basic things. Your character curses at it over and over and it's just really funny.
Hope the entire game has that same sense of humor. I like that in an action game.
Reminds me of Duke Nukem.
I'm glad you got a kick out of the new Army of Two game, I love that entire series! The destructable environments and weapon modifications are so good in Devil's Cartel!
I have to check my collection, but at one point I had all the Army of Two games ready to go. For cheap I can go back and play all of them with a buddy of mine.
I downloaded The Cave because it's free right now on PS+ but I haven't played it yet. I own all those other games you mentioned (except the Oddworld ones, though I played at least one of those back in the day) but I've only beaten Shadow of the Colossus and Portal 1 & 2 lol. Toki Tori is great but gets really hard in the final world. I got pretty far in Braid too before getting frustrated in one of its worlds. Another loose end, I guess...
Let me ask you about PS+. If you get a game for free, do you still have access to it if you let your membership lapse?
No, you can only play the games while you're a member BUT if you renew after a lapse, you still get access to all those games you downloaded the first time. I've had two different gaps in my membership but I still have access to the games I downloaded the first time. And, of course, you can re-download things as much as you want. I think the service pays for itself pretty fast.
That's interesting, but I still like to own my games outside of a membership. It does sound like a cool program though.
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