1st December 2012, 11:05 PM
Yeah it doesn't fit, but again, I just watched Robocop.
So in the end I spent enough to get Saint's Row. Yeah, it's the PC version of these games I'd normally prefer to play on a console, but they seem to work pretty well with a 360 controller plugged into my PC. (Down the line, I should consider a setup with my PC moved to my big ol' TV and my mouse and keyboard set up on some sort of TV tray.)
So far, Saint's Row seems... Well it's Grand Theft Auto, but with some neat stuff going on like... falling out of an airplane, shooting people on the way down, catching "the girl", dropping her again, flying through a jet after shooting out the window, snagging a second parachute, flying out the back, shooting more henchmen, and catching the girl again. That was the opening. I'll give the game this, it has style. It doesn't take itself nearly as seriously as Grand Theft Auto does, which is refreshing. What gets me though is that it still has those commercials for fake shows. Here's the deal. If your game is already a parody of action drama, then you don't get to have commercials for a second layer of action drama parody INSIDE your parody. That's why the "____ Movie" series failed in the end (among a LOT of other things, like making exactly the same jokes the movie they were making fun of already made, like, shot for shot). Anyway, seems interesting and I'll be able to tolerate basically being a murderer a lot better when the whole thing is very tongue in cheek.
Darksiders is Zelda with a heavy metal album cover skin. It takes itself a little too seriously for it's art style, but is great fun.
Metro turns out to be a real gem. It does push my PC to a limit, but seems great fun. I've been meaning to upgrade my rig anyway, this time a bit more significantly, so in a few months I may do just that.
So in the end I spent enough to get Saint's Row. Yeah, it's the PC version of these games I'd normally prefer to play on a console, but they seem to work pretty well with a 360 controller plugged into my PC. (Down the line, I should consider a setup with my PC moved to my big ol' TV and my mouse and keyboard set up on some sort of TV tray.)
So far, Saint's Row seems... Well it's Grand Theft Auto, but with some neat stuff going on like... falling out of an airplane, shooting people on the way down, catching "the girl", dropping her again, flying through a jet after shooting out the window, snagging a second parachute, flying out the back, shooting more henchmen, and catching the girl again. That was the opening. I'll give the game this, it has style. It doesn't take itself nearly as seriously as Grand Theft Auto does, which is refreshing. What gets me though is that it still has those commercials for fake shows. Here's the deal. If your game is already a parody of action drama, then you don't get to have commercials for a second layer of action drama parody INSIDE your parody. That's why the "____ Movie" series failed in the end (among a LOT of other things, like making exactly the same jokes the movie they were making fun of already made, like, shot for shot). Anyway, seems interesting and I'll be able to tolerate basically being a murderer a lot better when the whole thing is very tongue in cheek.
Darksiders is Zelda with a heavy metal album cover skin. It takes itself a little too seriously for it's art style, but is great fun.
Metro turns out to be a real gem. It does push my PC to a limit, but seems great fun. I've been meaning to upgrade my rig anyway, this time a bit more significantly, so in a few months I may do just that.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)