June Gaming
I haven’t posted in forever, and I meant to do a big E3 blog but... sigh. Yeah, I didn’t get around to it. I have the day off (for annoying reasons rather than fun) so I decided to right a ‘what I’ve been playing’ blog.
Last of Us impressions up first. Spoiler Free impressions at that!
I’m in Pittsburg in the game right now. (That’s not really a spoiler.)
What I like:
• The way the set pieces are integrated into the story. There are enough switch ups, meet ups, and sudden changes in what’s going on to keep things from getting monotonous.
• The characters, dialog, and acting. Naught Dog is always great at making believable, or at least well written, characters.
• Game is pretty, and even though so far there’s been a lot of buildings in cities they still manage to differentiate the lighting and the layouts to make everything cool.
What I dislike:
• Zombies. It’s a miracle that they got me to buy and play the game to begin with.
• Level design tells. Yeah, they try to do a better job hiding it than other games, but when you walk into a cul-de-sac with a bunch of cars lying in random places you know a firefight is about to ensue.
• That’s not the North End, and Lincoln MA has no downtown. AKA: Naughty Dog did next to no research on locations for their game. It’s not open world, so I have no idea why they didn’t even try to make any buildings in Boston look like real buildings in Boston. Afraid of being sued maybe? One concept art piece has a real skyline in it. Too many vines in overgrown Boston as well, it looked too much like Uncharted vegetation. Real post apocalyptic Boston would be full of sumac and chokecherry.
The “I’d totally read that”: That fake comic book series that Ellie is reading actually looks really interesting. For a second I thought it was a real series, because of the Dark Horse logo. Now I’m kinda sad it’s not real.
What else I’ve been playing: X-COM: Enemy Unknown & Rune Factory: Tides of Destiny.
With the knowledge that PS+ accounts are carrying over to PS4, and with a ton of free games this month, I bit the bullet and re-upped (sorta, we all got those free 3 months during the hack) my plus subscription.
So I started downloading X-COM, Saints Row the Third and Dues-ex. BECAUSE FREE. Also, FREE! Actually, I heard great things about all three games from Giantbomb and I really like strategy RPG games like X-COM.
And guess what? So far X-COM is really great. I’d be playing it right now if it wasn’t 90 degrees in my living room.
Rune Factory I picked up over a year ago but never got around to playing. When Last of Us became too heavy I’d pop it out and put in Rune Factory to cleanse my mind.
What’s coming up for the rest of the year:
- • Dragons Crown, because Vanillaware!
- • Tales of Xillia. (Which is preordered.)
- • Puppeteer (Only $40 bucks!)
- • Rayman Legends (Rayman Origins kicked my ass, but it was awesome.)
- • Sometime in November I’m going to break down and purchase a new computer. My Mac will be 7 years old at that point. I will be replacing it with another new Mac. Once the new computer is here, I’m going to finally play the Witcher 1 and 2 in prep for when #3 finally comes out. That does mean I probably won’t be getting an at launch PS4. I will pick one up when InFamous Second Son is out.
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