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The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay
I've never seen Pitch Black or the sequel (prequel), so any references or plot ties to the movie are totally lost on me. I don't know if this game follows the film's plotline closely, runs parallel, or fills in gaps like the Matrix game.
That said, the game is a cinematic experience in and of itself. It has a good number of cutsences which are very well animated and acted (Vin Diesel acting anyway). The HUD is relatively uncluttered by health bars, ammo count, etc., making even the normal game feel like an interactive movie. There isn't much story to speak of, you basically just have to escape Butcher Bay prison. The title says it all. Once you do, the game is over.
And it's a short game. I beat it in about two fairly long sittings. It probably added up to about seven or eight hours.
I'm a fan of FPSs, and I was kind of hoping for the standard run and gun gameplay of most in the genre. I was wrong, though I won't say I was disappointed. There is just as much action, stealth, platforming, and RPG elements as there is gunplay. This is handled fairly well for the most part. Interacting with other prisioners is interesting and colorful. You kind of feel like you're really in prison for awhile, minus the assrape (though that is eluded to a couple times).
The only parts I had difficulty with were the stealth sections. You can hear heartbeats when people are close to you and some guards carry lights, but sometimes as soon as you round a corner (in "stealth-mode" or not) you're spotted, and subsequently screwed. Most of the time I just found myself running up on armed guards and either beating them to death or countering their strikes and putting thier shotguns up to their heads and killing them. These parts were frustrating to say the least.
RPG elements like accepting missions from other prisioners, and collecting moths (?) and cigarette packs add something different to the game, but alot of time to complete these you have to backtrack alot. It's not that big of a deal seeing how most of the levels are rather small, but the five to ten second loading times between sections of the level get rather tiresome.
The shooting levels are fun, but they're short and sparse. There are a very limited number of weapons (pistol, shotgun, assualt rifle, minigun) and most of the game you'll only want to use the assualt rifle. The controls are rather counter-intuitive and there's no way to customize them. You're stuck using the black button to zoom, while the right stick activates your night vison. Weird.
There's no multiplayer, which blows. The game is Live Enabled for some reason, though I can't find out why. If I ever do, I'll get back to you.
The Chronicles of Riddick is definitely a unique and fun game. It's worth a rental alone just so you can experience it, and unless you completely suck or get too frustrated with the stealth sections, beat it. The replay value basically lies in trying to find the cigarette packs so you can unlock game and movie art. If you're a Riddick fan (which I'm not), it might be worth buying to get all this stuff, which I'd imagine would require a few playthroughs.
Score: 473
I've never seen Pitch Black or the sequel (prequel), so any references or plot ties to the movie are totally lost on me. I don't know if this game follows the film's plotline closely, runs parallel, or fills in gaps like the Matrix game.
That said, the game is a cinematic experience in and of itself. It has a good number of cutsences which are very well animated and acted (Vin Diesel acting anyway). The HUD is relatively uncluttered by health bars, ammo count, etc., making even the normal game feel like an interactive movie. There isn't much story to speak of, you basically just have to escape Butcher Bay prison. The title says it all. Once you do, the game is over.
And it's a short game. I beat it in about two fairly long sittings. It probably added up to about seven or eight hours.
I'm a fan of FPSs, and I was kind of hoping for the standard run and gun gameplay of most in the genre. I was wrong, though I won't say I was disappointed. There is just as much action, stealth, platforming, and RPG elements as there is gunplay. This is handled fairly well for the most part. Interacting with other prisioners is interesting and colorful. You kind of feel like you're really in prison for awhile, minus the assrape (though that is eluded to a couple times).
The only parts I had difficulty with were the stealth sections. You can hear heartbeats when people are close to you and some guards carry lights, but sometimes as soon as you round a corner (in "stealth-mode" or not) you're spotted, and subsequently screwed. Most of the time I just found myself running up on armed guards and either beating them to death or countering their strikes and putting thier shotguns up to their heads and killing them. These parts were frustrating to say the least.
RPG elements like accepting missions from other prisioners, and collecting moths (?) and cigarette packs add something different to the game, but alot of time to complete these you have to backtrack alot. It's not that big of a deal seeing how most of the levels are rather small, but the five to ten second loading times between sections of the level get rather tiresome.
The shooting levels are fun, but they're short and sparse. There are a very limited number of weapons (pistol, shotgun, assualt rifle, minigun) and most of the game you'll only want to use the assualt rifle. The controls are rather counter-intuitive and there's no way to customize them. You're stuck using the black button to zoom, while the right stick activates your night vison. Weird.
There's no multiplayer, which blows. The game is Live Enabled for some reason, though I can't find out why. If I ever do, I'll get back to you.
The Chronicles of Riddick is definitely a unique and fun game. It's worth a rental alone just so you can experience it, and unless you completely suck or get too frustrated with the stealth sections, beat it. The replay value basically lies in trying to find the cigarette packs so you can unlock game and movie art. If you're a Riddick fan (which I'm not), it might be worth buying to get all this stuff, which I'd imagine would require a few playthroughs.
Score: 473
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Pikmin
August 23, 2001
I anticapated the release of the gamecube because it was Nintendo and I'm a nintendo fanboi. The only launch title that had my interest was pikmin because I was into RTSs at that time and the game looked like a boner filled experience. I never got it because of what people would say. What would I tell everyone at the videogame store? That it was for my little kid? I had a important reputation to keep so I had to refuse getting the game. It has forever left a hole in my heart, until now....
April 21, 2005
I rented the title.
April 22, 2005
When I opened the game I felt a rush of pussy juice come out my mouth. I felt that the flower of the pikmin can finally be leashed by my power. I've played the game collecting bottle caps and making more pikmin. There are red, yellow, and blue pikmin but the yellow ones have more sex appeal. You play in a garden with mutatant lady bugs and the like. The pikmin like to jump off your shoulders onto stuff and get into trouble. I'm beginning to think they are my children.
April 23, 2005
The pikmin are talking to me but the manual never mentioned that they could do this. The yellow ones are the nicest, but the blue tell me bad things. They say that my dad keeps his gun in the closet because he wants to kill me one day. I dont believe him because red said its not a gun but a present. I just want to play a little longer...
April 24, 2005
The game isnt even on but I can see and hear the pikmin. Red and yellow are no longer nice, blue seems to understand me more. Blue said he can get rid of red and yellow if I get the gun in the closet. When I'm in the closet the door closes behind me and the light shuts off. I scream at the top of my lungs for help, but no one responds. After about 5 minutes of yelling I see the blue pikmin in front of me. He is talking but I dont understand what he is saying. He is doing this just to make fun of me because he is mean and has just playing with me all along. I put my hands around his throat and I can suddenly hear him. He is making practical jokes that are funny and are not aimed at me. I like blue again so I hold on a little longer, and we laugh together. After awhile blue started to get tired and leans against the wall, I press a little harder against his throat and he wakes up with shock. His head explodes all over the place and I get sleepy. I fall asleep in the warm closet full of cloths.
NINTENDO ANNOUNCEMENT
William Shakquer nick named "pooperscooper" has died today after manglation of the penis. Detectives are searching the house for evidence but find nothing except a Gamecube and pikmin. Nintendo apologies to the parents of William but does not feel responsible in any way to the incident. Nintendo requests the GC and pikmin be returned to their main offices in Toyko for furthur investigation. 666
PS ; MS likes to have most companies games with live enabled even if its just for patches or the like. They plan to have every game live enabled for xbox 360 including hdtv support and shit.
August 23, 2001
I anticapated the release of the gamecube because it was Nintendo and I'm a nintendo fanboi. The only launch title that had my interest was pikmin because I was into RTSs at that time and the game looked like a boner filled experience. I never got it because of what people would say. What would I tell everyone at the videogame store? That it was for my little kid? I had a important reputation to keep so I had to refuse getting the game. It has forever left a hole in my heart, until now....
April 21, 2005
I rented the title.
April 22, 2005
When I opened the game I felt a rush of pussy juice come out my mouth. I felt that the flower of the pikmin can finally be leashed by my power. I've played the game collecting bottle caps and making more pikmin. There are red, yellow, and blue pikmin but the yellow ones have more sex appeal. You play in a garden with mutatant lady bugs and the like. The pikmin like to jump off your shoulders onto stuff and get into trouble. I'm beginning to think they are my children.
April 23, 2005
The pikmin are talking to me but the manual never mentioned that they could do this. The yellow ones are the nicest, but the blue tell me bad things. They say that my dad keeps his gun in the closet because he wants to kill me one day. I dont believe him because red said its not a gun but a present. I just want to play a little longer...
April 24, 2005
The game isnt even on but I can see and hear the pikmin. Red and yellow are no longer nice, blue seems to understand me more. Blue said he can get rid of red and yellow if I get the gun in the closet. When I'm in the closet the door closes behind me and the light shuts off. I scream at the top of my lungs for help, but no one responds. After about 5 minutes of yelling I see the blue pikmin in front of me. He is talking but I dont understand what he is saying. He is doing this just to make fun of me because he is mean and has just playing with me all along. I put my hands around his throat and I can suddenly hear him. He is making practical jokes that are funny and are not aimed at me. I like blue again so I hold on a little longer, and we laugh together. After awhile blue started to get tired and leans against the wall, I press a little harder against his throat and he wakes up with shock. His head explodes all over the place and I get sleepy. I fall asleep in the warm closet full of cloths.
NINTENDO ANNOUNCEMENT
William Shakquer nick named "pooperscooper" has died today after manglation of the penis. Detectives are searching the house for evidence but find nothing except a Gamecube and pikmin. Nintendo apologies to the parents of William but does not feel responsible in any way to the incident. Nintendo requests the GC and pikmin be returned to their main offices in Toyko for furthur investigation. 666
PS ; MS likes to have most companies games with live enabled even if its just for patches or the like. They plan to have every game live enabled for xbox 360 including hdtv support and shit.
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Silent Hill
After discovering there is a Silent Hill movie coming out in 2006, and owning all of the games, I decided to play through all of them back to back. This was the first step in my long jouney through hell.
Let's get one thing straight: this is by far the most terrifying fucking game ever created. I started playing around 5 pm, and by dusk I was ready to shit my pants. Everytime the phone rang, or my cat scratched at my door, I wanted to run out of the house and get to a well lit and populated area and curl into a ball and wait for daybreak.
This game gets on your nerves, under your skin, and in your head. It uses what you don't see to make you terrified, which is the mark of a true masterpiece. This is no mere Resident Evil clone, this is really the stuff nightmares are made of.
You play Harry Mason, a regular guy going on vacation with your daughter. As you drive to your destination, a cop passes you on a motorcycle, then a little girl appears in the road and causes you to swerve off the road. You wake up in your wrecked Jeep, and your daughter Cheryl is missing. You search an alley, and as it gets inexplicitly dark out, your attacked by strange, vaugely huminoid creatures (who I've loving named "retards"). You wake up in a cafe, either saved by the cop you saw on the road, or realizing you've hallucinated the whole thing. You take off onto the fog-infested streets of Silent Hill looking for your daughter.
The world is fully 3D, with a few set camera angles that add to the tension and atmosphere. Think Hellrasier. The game alternates between different versions of the resort town Silent Hill, each one darker and more surreal than the last. You'll find yourself with a pocket flashlight providing the only illumination, allowing you to see about five feet in front of you. The evironments are horrifying: lots of blood stained walls, occult imagary, and a whole lot of "what the fuck is that?".
You go through an elementary school, a hospital, an amusment park, sewers, "nowhere", and the town itself. Each of these have muliple alternate versions triggered by events you perform, and they get creepier and creepier as you progress. There are also a few locations that aren't essential to completing the game, but exploring these can affect what ending you get (there are four in total), adding to what is already a large replay value.
You're armed with a pistol and a weed knife at the start of the game. Along the journey, you'll also pick up a shotgun, rifle, lead pipe, axe, hammer, rock drill, and other various melee weapons. Melee weapons are often your best bet when taking out foes, because Harry has never fired a weapon before the start of the game and is a horrible shot. The enemies in the game are things straight out of Lovecraft. You don't know exactly what the hell they are, you just know you better run. Fast.
There are multiple puzzles in the game which are some of the most ingenious ever made. A few of them are rather difficult and require creative thinking. If you don't have patience and some degree of puzzle-solving skill, you may get stuck. But the completion of them really is a reward on it's on. There are also alot of key puzzles, requiring full and detailed exploration of the maps. These elements push Silent Hill more towards the realm of an adventure game than a shooter, like that other crappy horror series everybody loves.
I beat this game in a little under five hours (full stats below), but this wasn't my first experience with it. It was the first time I completed it beggining to end, however. When the game first came out, my friend had it and I'd smoke pot and watch him play and try to give him a hand with the puzzles, but a barely ever really played the game itself until last night. The fact that I would just sit there and watch someone play goes to show something: this game is very much like a movie, almost as entertaining to watch as it is to play.
I really can't find any flaws in this game. It set out to do one thing: scare the living piss out of me. And it did that and more. This game gets my highest score.
Score: 666
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GAME RESULTS
Mode- Normal
Game Clear- 1
Ending- Bad
Saves- 40
Continues- 5
Total Time- 4h 58m 15s
Walking Distance- 4.780 kms
Running Distance- 16.107 kms
Items- 151/204
Defeated Enemy by Fighting- 103
Defeated Enemy by Shooting- 35
Shooting Style
Short Range Shots- 0.36
Middle Range Shots- 0.33
Long Range Shots- 0.06
No Aiming Shots- 0.25
RANK
3/7 stars
After discovering there is a Silent Hill movie coming out in 2006, and owning all of the games, I decided to play through all of them back to back. This was the first step in my long jouney through hell.
Let's get one thing straight: this is by far the most terrifying fucking game ever created. I started playing around 5 pm, and by dusk I was ready to shit my pants. Everytime the phone rang, or my cat scratched at my door, I wanted to run out of the house and get to a well lit and populated area and curl into a ball and wait for daybreak.
This game gets on your nerves, under your skin, and in your head. It uses what you don't see to make you terrified, which is the mark of a true masterpiece. This is no mere Resident Evil clone, this is really the stuff nightmares are made of.
You play Harry Mason, a regular guy going on vacation with your daughter. As you drive to your destination, a cop passes you on a motorcycle, then a little girl appears in the road and causes you to swerve off the road. You wake up in your wrecked Jeep, and your daughter Cheryl is missing. You search an alley, and as it gets inexplicitly dark out, your attacked by strange, vaugely huminoid creatures (who I've loving named "retards"). You wake up in a cafe, either saved by the cop you saw on the road, or realizing you've hallucinated the whole thing. You take off onto the fog-infested streets of Silent Hill looking for your daughter.
The world is fully 3D, with a few set camera angles that add to the tension and atmosphere. Think Hellrasier. The game alternates between different versions of the resort town Silent Hill, each one darker and more surreal than the last. You'll find yourself with a pocket flashlight providing the only illumination, allowing you to see about five feet in front of you. The evironments are horrifying: lots of blood stained walls, occult imagary, and a whole lot of "what the fuck is that?".
You go through an elementary school, a hospital, an amusment park, sewers, "nowhere", and the town itself. Each of these have muliple alternate versions triggered by events you perform, and they get creepier and creepier as you progress. There are also a few locations that aren't essential to completing the game, but exploring these can affect what ending you get (there are four in total), adding to what is already a large replay value.
You're armed with a pistol and a weed knife at the start of the game. Along the journey, you'll also pick up a shotgun, rifle, lead pipe, axe, hammer, rock drill, and other various melee weapons. Melee weapons are often your best bet when taking out foes, because Harry has never fired a weapon before the start of the game and is a horrible shot. The enemies in the game are things straight out of Lovecraft. You don't know exactly what the hell they are, you just know you better run. Fast.
There are multiple puzzles in the game which are some of the most ingenious ever made. A few of them are rather difficult and require creative thinking. If you don't have patience and some degree of puzzle-solving skill, you may get stuck. But the completion of them really is a reward on it's on. There are also alot of key puzzles, requiring full and detailed exploration of the maps. These elements push Silent Hill more towards the realm of an adventure game than a shooter, like that other crappy horror series everybody loves.
I beat this game in a little under five hours (full stats below), but this wasn't my first experience with it. It was the first time I completed it beggining to end, however. When the game first came out, my friend had it and I'd smoke pot and watch him play and try to give him a hand with the puzzles, but a barely ever really played the game itself until last night. The fact that I would just sit there and watch someone play goes to show something: this game is very much like a movie, almost as entertaining to watch as it is to play.
I really can't find any flaws in this game. It set out to do one thing: scare the living piss out of me. And it did that and more. This game gets my highest score.
Score: 666
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GAME RESULTS
Mode- Normal
Game Clear- 1
Ending- Bad
Saves- 40
Continues- 5
Total Time- 4h 58m 15s
Walking Distance- 4.780 kms
Running Distance- 16.107 kms
Items- 151/204
Defeated Enemy by Fighting- 103
Defeated Enemy by Shooting- 35
Shooting Style
Short Range Shots- 0.36
Middle Range Shots- 0.33
Long Range Shots- 0.06
No Aiming Shots- 0.25
RANK
3/7 stars
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So in other words it has really shitty puzzles that follow no logical path?There are multiple puzzles in the game which are some of the most ingenious ever made. A few of them are rather difficult and require creative thinking. If you don't have patience and some degree of puzzle-solving skill, you may get stuck.
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No, they're logical, they just require full exploration of the environment and a conception of creative puzzle solving. It's akin to Sanitarium's puzzles, or even Myst's to a degree.Stainless wrote:So in other words it has really shitty puzzles that follow no logical path?
Yeah, the game is five hours long, but it has mulitple endings and multiple pathways. I didn't exactly go into the game fresh, because like I said I've watched my friends play it before and had already put in my hours solving most of the puzzles (and they were good enough that I remembered the solutions to many of them), so it might take someone who hasn't a significantly longer time. Unless you're a pussy and use a strategy guide, in which case you're better off slitting your wrists than playing any game at all.
It gets a perfect score because of it's sheer entertainment value. It's also the absolute best game in the genre. RE4 was great, yes, but it wasn't very scary and was more of an action horror game than a survival horror.
