This ended up more sounding more bitter than I expected
McDonalds stops serving breakfast at 10, which is retarded. People seriously go in to a McDonalds at 10:30 expecting lunch? Christ. This is a college town, FFS.
Sid Meier's Pirates! is a really shitty game. I think the rationale for renting it was "Oooh, Pirates are cool!" But this game is godawful. It's probably fun for the 10 minutes it takes to see everything the game has to offer, and then you repeat stupid baroque dancing minigame after idiotic dueling system for hours trying to get married to the governor's daughter, or promoted to Admiral, or some other inane goal. The rank system is a little odd-- whenever you dock at a port, the governor will give you a rank based on your serving his interests. For example, I sank nothing but Spanish Trade Galleons and Warships, and became a French Baron, an English Admiral, and a Spanish Major. The conversation trees for that were sad and funny with the Governor congratulating me for eliminating pirates, then stating that he was very disappointed in me for sinking all those Spanish ships, and then promoting me and giving me land. The game is full of goals, and minigames, and little management details the creators clearly thought would be cool, but it's like no one ever tested to see if these things made the game FUN. For example, I really started to suck in the late game, I could sink ships and such, but I couldn't win a duel to save my life-- turns out it's because I got OLD. I wasted so much time getting captured and such that I would never again have good health. I also defeated a lot of pirates in my time and took their sweet ships, but then lost them one way or another.. which sucks when you're too old and crappy to defeat any more pirates. My flagships got steadily better, then worse. The Little Batman, HMS Batman, and the Santa Batmaño were massive juggernauts to be feared, but in my old age, I was sailing in a tiny, 4-cannon sloop.
Killer 7 is a really screwed-up, trippy game. It's worth checking out, since it has a really interesting, if incomprehensible story. The gameplay does get old really fast, which is unfortunate. It kind of reminded me of a techno-noir Neuromancer or something. It's just so out there, one reviewer said, it's almost like you can hear the developers saying, "I don't give a fuck whether or not you like this game, this is how it is." At the end of the day, I respect them more for having tried something new than rehashing an old series that's been done to death. RE4 is still a much, much better game, though.
I've hear the FEAR demo described as amazing, so I'll give that a shot and see how it turns out.
Sid Meier's Pirates! is a really shitty game. I think the rationale for renting it was "Oooh, Pirates are cool!" But this game is godawful. It's probably fun for the 10 minutes it takes to see everything the game has to offer, and then you repeat stupid baroque dancing minigame after idiotic dueling system for hours trying to get married to the governor's daughter, or promoted to Admiral, or some other inane goal. The rank system is a little odd-- whenever you dock at a port, the governor will give you a rank based on your serving his interests. For example, I sank nothing but Spanish Trade Galleons and Warships, and became a French Baron, an English Admiral, and a Spanish Major. The conversation trees for that were sad and funny with the Governor congratulating me for eliminating pirates, then stating that he was very disappointed in me for sinking all those Spanish ships, and then promoting me and giving me land. The game is full of goals, and minigames, and little management details the creators clearly thought would be cool, but it's like no one ever tested to see if these things made the game FUN. For example, I really started to suck in the late game, I could sink ships and such, but I couldn't win a duel to save my life-- turns out it's because I got OLD. I wasted so much time getting captured and such that I would never again have good health. I also defeated a lot of pirates in my time and took their sweet ships, but then lost them one way or another.. which sucks when you're too old and crappy to defeat any more pirates. My flagships got steadily better, then worse. The Little Batman, HMS Batman, and the Santa Batmaño were massive juggernauts to be feared, but in my old age, I was sailing in a tiny, 4-cannon sloop.
Killer 7 is a really screwed-up, trippy game. It's worth checking out, since it has a really interesting, if incomprehensible story. The gameplay does get old really fast, which is unfortunate. It kind of reminded me of a techno-noir Neuromancer or something. It's just so out there, one reviewer said, it's almost like you can hear the developers saying, "I don't give a fuck whether or not you like this game, this is how it is." At the end of the day, I respect them more for having tried something new than rehashing an old series that's been done to death. RE4 is still a much, much better game, though.
I've hear the FEAR demo described as amazing, so I'll give that a shot and see how it turns out.