Coming back to LJ by Meme

[manic_deadpool]

It's been ages since I posted so I figured I'd have a stab at coming back to LJ. Will do a review of the last 6+ months at some point for people but for the time being I have a meme for the PC gamers out there

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[meus_profiteor]

Fallout 3 (XBox 360) - Combat seemed fun and I liked the whole thing of pausing the action, targeting limbs or heads, then sitting back as you proceeded to blow their limbs/head off in slow motion... however, so. Much. Walking. Every. Where. I lost interest very quickly after the first couple of missions.

Thief (PC) (the first one) - Level 1: Break in to a mansion and clean the place out of all its valuables. Avoid the guards by hiding in the shadows and knocking out the ones you can't hide from. Awesome.
Level 2: Part 1 - Sneak through a haunted mine filled with skeletons that you can't hide from or knock out, but if you kill them mean you fail the mission... then Part 2 - break a guy out of prison. 1. Lame and irritating. 2. Awesome. I can't even remember what the 3rd level was, but it must have been pretty pants as I think I gave up at that point.

Half-life 2: Episode 1 Wander round for ages with an ineffectual gravity gun whilst Alyx (the AI-controlled partner) kills everything for you, then when you do eventually get a gun you get a string of 'puzzles' that require you to push cars around to block Antlion nests using your gravity gun. Repeatedly. Incidentally, shooting the Antlions just causes more to spawn, so that's a complete waste of ammo. After checking up with an online guide I realised that these 'puzzles' made up the rest of the game. I gave up at that point.

Hour of Victory (XBox 360) - I just shot that guy in the knee. With a pistol. And he's dead. So why is the guy I've just shot in the face with a sniper rifle still standing? Bad collision detection, that's why :-( And this was just the first level.

Medal of Honor (PC) - One American single-handedly fighting the entire 3rd Reich. Lame. As. F***.

(With regards to these last two, maybe I've just been spoiled by the Call of Duty series).

Speaking of Call of Duty, perhaps an honourable mention should go to Call of Duty: World at War (aka CoD5), primarily for the mission 'Black Cats', (in which you play a gunner in a Catalina) which, even on the lowest difficulty, is Nintendo hard. I almost gave up at that point. There are also a couple of moments in other missions where my own troops would pin me against scenery and not move, would allow the enemy to run through the line in order to stab me, wouldn't advance unless I led the way personally and can't hit the broadside of a barn if they were stood inside it. Oh, and woe betide anyone that finds themselves a little hidey-hole from which to snipe the enemy... apparently it spontaneously rains grenades on Pacific islands, but only on people that stand still for 30 seconds. Certainly not the best of the series, but at least I bludgeoned on an finished the damn thing.

[elethomiel]

Your last paragraph reminded me of all those games where you play but one member of a squad yet all of the bad guys constantly and only shoot at you.