So Borderlands has finally been released for the PC. I’ve been having a good time with it and overall I would recommend it as a buy but there are still some issues. The most annoying thing overall is that it seems to suffer from “consolitis” where all the menus and some in game stuff is plagued by being intended for consoles and not PC. One glaring example of this in game is that crouching is a toggle instead of something you hold down and there is no option to switch how this works. This is because on a console it’s hard to hold a key down while doing other stuff but of course on a PC it’s very simple.
Also the “matchmaking” service for online play is kind of lame. You can’t really find a server half the time. There is no indication of ping or latency to the host or other players. Players of all different levels end up together with no restrictions placed on this. I’ve had a very hard time getting into games where someone wasn’t either leeching experience and dragging the group down or so high that they made everything trivial. Overall though it’s still worth it.
I’m amazed it took me this long but I finally finished GTA4 this morning. I don’t mean all the additional achievements and such either, just the story mode in the game. I honestly found it kind of anticlimactic but overall the game definitely lives up to the hype. This is kind of an old title now I know but I just wanted to point out that this game has given me so many hours of entertainment it’s ridiculous. I spent most of my time in the multiplayer which is why it took me so long to finish the singleplayer campaign but lately the rooms have been dead as I guess everyone has moved on. I think I might have been one of the best players ever in GTA4 and I can’t wait for a sequel to get that multiplayer action going again. If anyone wants to play some matches on PS3 drop me a line.
So I picked up Fat Princess after finding out it had been released. I had no idea it finally came out since it was being delayed so much I stopped following it. The game was incredibly fun for the first day but now I’m kind of sick of it. It was already worth the $15 I payed for it though.
There are a total of 6 classes with 4 abilities each. This is because each class has an unlockable alter ego you can switch to whenever you’d like. Each of these classes has 2 abilities. Usually an area effect and a single target attack with some exceptions. My personal favorite is the priest as you can really push/hold the line when playing.
Much more fun than a night at the movies. I always compare gaming expenses to a $10 movie ticket but now that I think about it aren’t movies just overpriced anyway? Maybe I should find a new standard of entertainment expense vs reward to judge games by.
So I played a little bit of the newly released Monopoly City Streets game. Unfortunately I think they did a horrible job overall with it. There’s is almost zero actual gameplay involved. The most effective way of getting ahead right now is to signup multiple accounts, buy properties with your main account and then have your “trash” accounts buy them from you for overpriced amounts. It’s clear that the people leading the scoreboards are doing this as they’ve made billions or trillions of dollars which is impossible by playing normally at this point.
It’s really too bad because this could have been such a fun game if they had put any real effort or thought into the gameplay. Part of me thinks this might have just been some ploy from Google to help with their maps data somehow. I can’t figure out how but the gameplay is just so monotonous and boring that it doesn’t even make sense to release it as a game. Too bad.
Alright, I FINALLY got Left 4 Dead. This is in spite of all the complaints about L4D2 being made up of all the “content updates” that were promised for L4D. I just decided it was worth trying out especially because I picked it up cheap during a discount weekend on Steam. Anyway, on to the actual review.
The first thing I noticed was the lack of weapon selection. I thought maybe you would find new things as you went or something but I guess I was wrong. You do get some “upgrades” but they are basically the same weapons with faster reload/rounds per second, etc. This was really disappointing.
Graphically the game blows me away though. I love the dismemberment of zombies and the excellent job they did with the lighting. This is truly the first showcasing of a “movie video game” in my opinion. If they had gone all out this might have revolutionized a new genre.
Anyway, overall I think it was worth the purchase even with L4D2 coming out so soon. I’m amazed people complain so much when this is still a very complete game. I imagine it’s because it’s Valve so people always expect more from them or something.
Recently got the new Trauma Center game for the Wii and I have to say I’m quite impressed. This is basically the first Wii game that I’ve seen really take advantage of the controller setup. Other games have seemed more gimmicky than revolutionary when it came to integration of the controls with their game. Somehow this game also seems to have more precision with the controls which other games lack. I highly recommend it and give it a 9/10 and it would score higher if they had stuck to more of the realistic scenarios instead of throwing so many made up illnesses in that required minigames that unimerse you from the gameplay.
