Sorry if I let you down with the quick one last week, but more so that I may have done a disservice to Infamous, as it was genuinely really good, definitely one of my favourite games from this fledgling console generation. Anyway, I'm blasting through these games now, granted I'm not playing any mammoth AAA's that'll take me forever (Wolfenstein aside), but nevertheless it's quick and I've enjoyed it thus far. The need for speed (get it) has forced me to play a lot of indie and smaller games that I'd have been very unlikely to play otherwise. The likes of Transistor, The swapper, Apotheon, Counterspy and DLC quest (plus 2 I'm gonna be talking about in a bit) I wouldn't have played, but I've enjoyed them all, if anything it's the bigger games that have let me down like Wolfenstein and the Order.
All that said, I didn't start the week with an indie game but it was a smaller game as I keep hearing people go on and on about Resogun. This is a Sony made space shooter (think the likes of Defender) that came out with the launch of the PS4, but as I've discussed before, I only recently got one, and only even recently-er run out of games to play thanks to Sony taking an extra week to give me my April PS plus games and Microsoft giving me supposedly the worst pool game ever (and I don't care about pool anyway, let alone pool videogames). I digress, I picked it up and went for it. It takes place on a cylinder as developer Housemarque moved away from the sphere shape that made them famous with the Super Stardust series. They also added in a 'save the last humans' bit where you get bonuses for rescuing them and safely escorting them to another ship. It's great when you get another life or bomb, but when you get points, urgh, lame.
As you may expect with any game of this nature it's very twitch based and reactions are key as well as learning the patterns of enemies towards the later levels. The first couple I breezed through easily but by the time I reached 4 and 5 (there's only 5 levels) I was there for hours (well, over 1 hour anyway) learning the movements of the enemies and it was so gratifying to blast my former fury enducing enemies to pieces (the particle effects are great BTW).
Despite all this awesomeness and the element of returning me to my childhood playing Truxton for hours on end (look it up, it's amazing) there is a serious problem. You look at the game and might say (I might anyway) 'hmm, there's only 5 levels, oh well, at least there's all these other modes on this 'ere menu to keep me going' except that's not the case. Despite the fact that it's right there in the main menu for you to play, it turns out all these other modes are DLC. It doesn't say anywhere that this is what's going on until you go and try to play them. This annoyed me to no end as I was looking forward to going back and trying all the other modes, after all, on Geometry wars the other modes were the most exciting parts, only to be left annoyed.It's not cheap content either, you're talking £6-£7 for a couple of the modes when the game itself is only £10 in the first place.
I'd love to recommend this game to you as the arcade mode is great, but the fact of the matter is this game is not the full version and they try and trick you into spending more money on it which I don't appreciate at all. Do us all a favour and if you must buy this, for god's sake don't buy the DLC, we shouldn't have to put up with this BS.
So, Maybe it's time to chill out a bit and move on to Ben there, Dan that and it's sequel, Time gentlemen Please. Now, I picked these up on Steam a couple of years ago as they were literally the cheapest games on there, and there was 2 for the price of 1! Huzzah! I played the first one for a few mins but moved on to other things, but I decided now it was time to come back. So, they're both point and Click adventures of a very low quality, graphics and power wise, but the stories and lines are great.
I'll start with the first one, as it was obviously just a quickly made game as it was only a couple of hours long and dead easy. The 2 characters were trying to watch Magnum P.I and got abducted by Aliens and you have to get them back through picking up items and finding out where to use them and all that usual point and click stuff. What makes it funny is that the 2 main characters of the game are the 2 people that made the game (Dan and Ben (can't remember their last names (sure I could look it up but, meh))) and they are constantly breaking the fourth wall, as well as referencing a deluge of other games, TV shows and movies and just like TV shows like Spaced and Community, it fills me with a sense of geeky pride that I get a high majority of these jokes. There's also a fun smattering of crude and farcical humour in there too, as well as some pops at British life (it's a British made game, so extra points on that) to round it off.
The second one is much the same as the first with some differences. For example it's gone from 2 hours to 5 and is significantly harder. Now, I'm not one who grew up with point and click adventures, I didn't get a PC until the late 90's and by that point I just wanted to play Championship manager on it (and command and Conquer, of course) so I guess I must have missed something in crazy logic school, but there's no way I'd have ever been able to finish this one without an online guide. I feel bad for saying it, but it's the truth, probably a third of this game I navigated purely using a guide as I was frequently getting stuck.
Oh well, to be fair the plot was equally ludicrous and a follow on from the first game, where you had to go back in time and stop yourselves from giving Hitler an army of dinosaurs (unrelated to the ones pictured above as they're from the first game) and conquering the world all because you let someone invent the coat hanger early. The comedy is still the same and they very slightly upped the graphics and sound this time around (though don't get too excited, you still have to play it in a boxed window, albeit a somewhat larger one).
You can see the difference, right? Point is though, get them and play them. They've gone slightly up in price as they're now £2.99 on Steam, although that is for both of them. They're definitely worth a buy.
That's all for this week just 1 more left. I believe my PS plus games should be up by now so I'll check what they are and get back to you in a week. Cheers.
Completed games
Transistor
Worms Battlegrounds
Saints Row 4: Gat out of Hell
Wolfenstein the new order
The Swapper
D4: Dark Dreams Don't Die
Apotheon
Sonic Adventure 2
The Order: 1886
Shovel Knight
CounterSpy
Ori and the blind forest
Freedom Planet
DLC Quest
Infamous Second Son
Resogun
Ben there, Dan that
Time Gentlemen, Please.
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