Breath Of Death VII
But first we go back to the 19p Steam games. This was part of a 2 pack by the same developer along with it's sort of sequel 'Ctulhu saves the world' for 39p total. I'm pretty sure it's an RPG maker game and I'm basically playing this to get in to the mood for Undertale. That's for later though, for now though I had to get through this first. It was a very simple RPG that I was paying half attention to whilst watching TV, there was really no need to pay full attention. It's pretty obvious what to do if you've played any RPG before, if Pokemon was baby's first RPG then this is for the sperm.
Some of the humour in it though was quite good and bought out by the setting. The human race is over and the undead, monsters and so on rule the Earth. You come across some interesting enemies and fun conversational lines that give this game some character beyond its simplicity. The only real issue with it is that I got to a point in the middle where I had to stop from advancing through the game and grind for an hour. This is a thing that's put me off so many RPG's in the past and in a game that took me less than 5 hours this is a significant time period spent there. As far as buying this one, yeah, why not, it's fine for 19p again, though maybe a bit longer than necessary. BTW Richard Herring, I've now seen a Bigfoot.
WWE 2K16
Glass breaks. There are 2 main modes to complete in this game, which I was originally going to do, that is until I realised the career mode takes hundreds of hours so I figured I'd forget about that, not mention it here so no one knew I was cheating (whoops) and just go through the Austin 3:16 story mode. I'm pretty sure I don't need to go in to too much depth about this one as whether it was No Mercy or something more recent everyone has played a WWE game at some point. The main part about the story though is that it follows Austin's career from WCW up until his retirement playing key matches in his career and lots of video packages telling you the story in between.
Weirdness in this comes from having to achieve certain moments in the match that happened in 'real life' and getting the cut scenes to explain out the story. It really separates the matches out in to sort of match segments where you don't really have to fight to get a win as generally most matches are ended by cut scenes, no pin or submission. Another issue, Austin, as a brawler is pretty boring to play as, I get that he was a big star and had a high profile career but in the ring to play as it's pretty dull. Still though it's an interesting look at the story of his career and when you get used to the 'match segment' style it becomes more fun. It's good once you get in to it, and that's the bottom line...
Gears Of War 3
If you think Gears of War 3 is the most repetitive game you've ever played give me a hell yeah... Oh, wrong game. A bit of back story on why I played this one then. Back in 2006 I got GOW on 360 and didn't like it at all, I thought it was really boring after less than 1 chapter and had no interest in playing any more games in the series. some 9 years later I got ultimate edition, a remake of the first game on Xbox one and really enjoyed it. I figured that my tastes must have changed or I was crazy or something. Anyway, some point in that time in between GOW 3 became available on games with gold and this winter it became playable on Xbox One with backwards compatibility so I had a chance to play it at last. Seems now though that I was right 9 years ago and not so much 6 months ago, it's so boring to play, shoot, cover, shoot, cover, shoot, cover and repeat, for 12 hours.
I have no idea why I played this to completion (well, I do, because of this stupid blog (not a word, according to the spellcheck on this blog)) but I wish I hadn't. More fun could have been had watching tea stains dry. It probably didn't help with the 'emotional' story having skipped the game in the middle and only reading the wikipedia synopsis. I didn't care that Dom died or anything to do with Marcus Fenix as he's a knob. I can see that it's made for co-op, it's pretty obvious, but playing it by myself really made me question why anyone would like this game. So, get off the Cole Train at the next station and avoid.
Now it's just a question of what to get through before Friday when Xcom comes out, assuming I can play it of course, I'd damn well better be able to! Also, how great is tipping point? What a ridiculous idea for a quiz show! Yay, I've passed 12 already a third of the way through time-wise, probably a good thing as they're going to be slowing down pretty quickly now.
Completed
Transformers: Devastation
Unmechanical
Pneuma
Killzone: Shadow Fall
Killer Instinct
Teslagrad
Defy Gravity
Cibele
Oxenfree
Out There Somewhere
Breath of Death VII
WWE 2K16
Gears of War 3
Underway
Xeodrifter
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