Resident Evil Addendum
I'm nicer than Yahtzee is. I suspect that I always will be. Take the case of RE5's inventory system. It sucks to have only 9 spots but what can you do. You either play the game or don't.
I was working through the game hoping that I'd be able to buy a inventory upgrade at some point but obviously at this point it's not going to happen. It would have been a nice feature if they had added a couple more spots in the inventory but it would then have screwed there dpad weapon equiping system. But I still think it could have worked but it would have required jumping to a 4x4 which would have added 7 more slots. Probably more than they wanted to add.
Either way, the unforgivable thing is the armor takes up a spot in your inventory. And costs 10 GRAND and sells for 1000$. If you are going to do things like this, tell the player ahead of time so that they can make useful decisions about things or at least allow them to sell things back at the same price if you haven't left the window.
Sure sure... 10k$ isn't that much money in RE5 but at the time it was all the money in the world for me.
Prince of Persia:
I've played and even killed the first boss. I'm not sure if I want to pick it up again. It's both too hard and too forgiving. If you can't line up for a jump and the only reason you aren't going back to the save points are because of the godlike lady who keeps you alive over and over and over... something is wrong.
It means that your controls are not as well thought out as they should be. But since there is no threat of death, you know that through simple choice of time sooner or later you'll just brute force hammer your way through the levels. It's really pretty annoying and frustrating.
But I want to see the end and the story along the way... *grumble*
Still not sure it's worth buying yet. Still a rental.
I was working through the game hoping that I'd be able to buy a inventory upgrade at some point but obviously at this point it's not going to happen. It would have been a nice feature if they had added a couple more spots in the inventory but it would then have screwed there dpad weapon equiping system. But I still think it could have worked but it would have required jumping to a 4x4 which would have added 7 more slots. Probably more than they wanted to add.
Either way, the unforgivable thing is the armor takes up a spot in your inventory. And costs 10 GRAND and sells for 1000$. If you are going to do things like this, tell the player ahead of time so that they can make useful decisions about things or at least allow them to sell things back at the same price if you haven't left the window.
Sure sure... 10k$ isn't that much money in RE5 but at the time it was all the money in the world for me.
Prince of Persia:
I've played and even killed the first boss. I'm not sure if I want to pick it up again. It's both too hard and too forgiving. If you can't line up for a jump and the only reason you aren't going back to the save points are because of the godlike lady who keeps you alive over and over and over... something is wrong.
It means that your controls are not as well thought out as they should be. But since there is no threat of death, you know that through simple choice of time sooner or later you'll just brute force hammer your way through the levels. It's really pretty annoying and frustrating.
But I want to see the end and the story along the way... *grumble*
Still not sure it's worth buying yet. Still a rental.