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It's World War Z but with Aliens. And Aliens is the reason i'm gay (will not explain further) so its pretty fun. If only I had friends to play it with lol
Borderlands 3
2019
oh jesus fuck yeah the gameplay is better but how did the writing GET EVEN WORSE
Borderlands 3
2019
The literal only reason I played this was because my friends liked 2 back in the day and wanted to give this a shot. They didn't like this so imagine how I feel.
Outlast
2013
POV: You are a small youtuber about to play trending clickbait garbage.
both this game and saints row 2 are the only games i know where you can be a female in them, but because youre canonically still the person from the first game and in that game you can only be male, you have to be trans. and i think thats beautiful
One of the great podcast games.
Insane how this is both a massive improvement on the combat and nemesis mechanics, and yet also a collosal letdown in terms of story and character.
The nemesis stuff is the only thing that elevates this above a bog standard Assassin's Creed.
Addictive busywork game that has less busywork than an Ubisoft game, and with pretty graphics, but the combat plays itself and the grimdark vibe feels pretty tryhard for Tolkien.
The fact that this game was met with acclaim and GOTY awards on release really shows how far triple-A games have come since 2014. A lobotomized take on the Arkham formula that stretches one halfway interesting mechanic into 15 hours of increasingly-dull mob fights. The combat is reasonably fun and engaging for the first few hours, and I actually died quite a few times in the early game. However, once you start filling out the tech trees, you become an unbridled killing machine, and it feels like you're playing the game on God Mode. Don't get me wrong, Shadow of Mordor is far from a bad game, but it's a deeply uninteresting piece of work, and that makes it difficult to recommend.
I should hate everything about this. I mean, it's an Ubisoft open world collectathon shooter drenched in enough ironic 80's action movie aesthetics to make the most jaded Redditor drool, but somehow it's fun, pretty, cool and short enough to never get truly obnoxious. The soundtrack alone is a win.
Far Cry 4
2014
this game thinks it's cynical in the jaded gen x coolguy way but it's actually cynical in the deeply uncool 45yo marketing executive republican voter with a tesla way
People will moan about a great game "only" being 10 hours and praise a game 100 hours long where you do the same menial tasks thirty times over.
genuinely the most ubisoft move in history to set a video game during the french revolution, use the "collective action" aspect as an aesthetic to market the game (wow co-op!), and then to use the ridiculous lore of the AC universe and ubisofts trademark head-up-ass conservative politics to completely discredit said revolution and side the player morally with the nobility
Assassin's Creed
2007
It's all fun and games for Altair until some shirtless man shoves you into a group of beggar women while some guy on the street is saying "I STAND BEFORE YOU TO DELIVER A MESSAGE!" for the 40th time.
Also, while the PS3 version has been well-documented as the version that doesn't play as smoothly, it's still the superior version because it lacks achievements/trophies. This sounds like a bad thing but I'm glad there's nothing to entice me into spending hours of my life finding every last Crusader flag. I don't have time for that. My time on this planet is finite.
Also, while the PS3 version has been well-documented as the version that doesn't play as smoothly, it's still the superior version because it lacks achievements/trophies. This sounds like a bad thing but I'm glad there's nothing to entice me into spending hours of my life finding every last Crusader flag. I don't have time for that. My time on this planet is finite.