Just to prepare for Fallout 4, I replayed Fallout 3 though Fallout: a tale of two wastelands as the original game did not age well as the RPG elements, game crashes, game bugs that crashes the game or run, and out-dated mechanics. Thankfully, mods help extended the life of old games and adds more replay value. However, the system is still dated, meaning even modded the game still crashes occasionally as the games where made on a buggy engine.
The player stars as the vault dweller who was frozen in time just as the nukes landed just outside his home. He (or she, even tho the male is heavily advertised at the start of the game) wakes up two hundred years to a war-scared Boston harbor, which is now over-ran with raider, super mutants, and new enemies know as the synths, A cyborg race inspired by modern Science fiction novels. The player must find their lost child, as Shawn was kidnapped by the institute while murdering your better half! Oh, it's on!
Game-play wise, it's basically fallout next-gen as it was intended, but more streamlined so the shooting mechanics and SPECIAL attributes. I personally welcome the change, as it doesn't require the annoying number system while it prevents players to become over-powered early on. For example, in Fallout 3, I was able to be over-powered as stealth was broken as balls as the perks and the stealth-suits and Stealth-boys kill the difficulty of the game. While the Stealth-boy might return later as DLC, stealth-boys have been nerfed to the point that the player use them just to escape. However, skills like Gun-nut and Science have been boosted as they can be used to make adjustments to your weapons in crafting, making silencers to your shotgun to even using the skills to make your settlements.
Oh right, the settlements! When you start the game, you meet The Minute Men, the small army of the game. The players can optionally make settlements that has benefits such as running shops, farming food for those with iron stomachs, providing shelters and giving them jobs, and recruit settlements to join The Minute Men. While it is tatted on to the game, it dose help give experience bonus while it dose seem like a time-sink. They also provide reoccurring missions that can help level your characters, but that tends to lead to tedious grinding and you're better off doing other side quest, even though they can give you weapons on the side.
While on the field, the players can also face special enemies from rad-roaches to raiders that can drop a special weapon or special armor pieces that the player can mod later. However, they can be very annoying as they tend to mutate, a way to pad out a simple fight and making them into boss characters. Be prepared with at least one heavy weapon, as they tend to appear when you least expect it. Seems luck was heavily boosted in this game, as having your luck on one makes it challenging. Just beware the death-claws, as they're still the deadliest in the series!
However, while I personally didn't mind the changes, there are some flaws with this game that can break the experience. For one, they gutted the karma system for a like and dislike system with the fractions system. And yes, the Brotherhood is back but it's not the one from fallout 3 but instead from New Vegas. Which begs the question, where has all the cowboys gone? It differently reestablish the gray of war where no one is truly evil, but not everyone is good, but to those it means being evil is pointless. I don't mind as I'm not entirely a genocide player, especially since Under-Tale shows how scary that is! This game dose the "more is less" approach, which can either improve or hinder a game. Oh, and it doesn't shag-shame you for sleeping with everyone and takes the Saints Row 4 approach. Post-Apocalypse anyways.
Another problem that the conversation has been dubbed down thanks to the voice acting, which is another hit-or-miss problem with the game. Only four conversation choices which no matter which you choose doesn't really matter and lays no real impact. Sure, speech dose help getting more info or at least give you an alternative option, but there needs to be more. It also doesn't help that your partner's AI can be terrible for stealth gameplay, block doorways and hallways, and tend to get you shot more than often. Thankfully, there's perk for that called Lone Wanderer that boost the player while they're alone.
If this isn't the game for the players that are in mind, I would recommend getting Wasteland 2, as it is based off the original Fallout series, but if one want a first-person shooter that is fun, this is one's game. This game might be literately be Skyrim with guns, this game is at least better optimized than the previous games before it. It's more next-gen fallout, just better streamlined and miles-may-vary type of game. Try it before you bye, and if liked, get it and finish it. Otherwise, Wasteland 2!
Thursday, December 3, 2015
Beastly Bash: WORST GAMES of 2015~!
These games reminds me that the game industry really needs a lobotomy when it comes to crappy main-line titles that have hit this year. As the rules goes, no easy targets, which means Mario Party 10 wont be on the list since I personally felt like they been garbage since the Nintendo Wii days. No, these games has to be made by the mad men behind the corporate commanders who only exist the milk the cash cows, or in this case, to oil out the whiles in the world. No offence to the good game devs that remember that fun's the main focus of the industry, it's just the Xbox launch really brings the evils running about. And now the worst games of 2015!~
1) Alone in the Dark: Illumination
Ever since the "re-imagination" of the series within the dying age that was the Xbox 360, Atari has really butcher the series that invented the survivor-horror series which Resident Evil sorta copied from if Sweet Home didn't existed. The game is a buggy, unfinished mess, as it tries to cash in on the franchise where Resident Evil 6 fails in comparison. However, we all know how that ended up. They might as well bury the game as it is like the ET buried within the Sahara desert.
2) Hatred
Trust me that using controversy just to sell a game is one thing, but trying to sell a repetitive third-person shooter is another. Pushing the controversy aside as it's a way to help boost their sells, the game gets really boring very fast. While some say that it's this generation of Postal, even postal is more colorful than Hatred, as Postal Dude's personality helps breaks the ice of the gameplay as his banter helps absorb the players. If I needed to kick a buch of balls, I'll stuck with Saints Row 2 and 4; Thank you very much!
3) Star Wars: Battle-Front
While the games are either bad on a Technic level or a moral level, this is so wrong on a personal level to those who love the Star Wars franchise. This is a cash-grab from your favorite game business villeins EA Games while Dice handles the gameplay. This is the same issue that have ran the Spider-man games to the ground as Dice has been worn down on the franchise. A ten Dollar pay-to-win weapon, no real single player, four maps, and a ton of DLC content on its way. On a personal note, I would rather recommend the new Star-Wars movie that is coming out this mouth. Seems EA is not EA without the worst company of the year reward. I hope you guys missed it since Ubisoft won that last year, because bugs and yearly tittles...
4) Tony Halk's Pro Skater 5
There's a reason Tony hawk dyed down after the skate-board craze after the play-station days. Back then, this series as well as Underground was very popular, that is until Underground 2 released with mixed reviews and the series went down from there. This game is a buggy piece of sadness, eating away what little was good about the franchise, as if there was anything else left. Ugly graphics, bad settings, and uninspired music and so many technique issues. While it's not Tony Hawk's Ride, this is not a skating game. At least Actionvision worked with Platinum games with Transformers, so check that out instead? Still, Actionvison ladies and gentlemen...
5) The Devil's Third
This is a game that everyone forgot, and personally, it's a good idea too as this was at the last E3 stream on Twitch.tv! As I watch the frame-rate chug during the demo last year, I knew that this would be on the worst games list to the point that Nintendo stopped advertising the train wreck of a game. How did they turn the action-combat bad here? Repetitive melee combat, cliches out from some bad action flick, bad visuals and sound effects, and in the end comes as underwhelming experience! There is online multiplayer, but that is the worst part of the game as it is full of micro-transactions! Pay-to-win by buying power-ups as it milks the whales of their money. At least they did fix the frame-rate issues? No, it's still a mess...
6) Cartoon Fighters
Really? Someone is trying to resell M.U.G.A.N. on green-light and the game wasn't originally his? What kind of scams are people running these day!? For those who don't know, Mugan is a free fighting game where programmers make their custom fighters and install it into the game to compete into other competitors. There has been some creative to lewd characters on that game, but now some scam-artist is trying to pass it off as a fighting game not made by him. I seen some cratice stuff mugan as dose as making A great DBZ fighting system that even the original Street fighter dev couldn't manage when they tried. However, this is not how you mugan! I would have got the dev himself release the game with a workshop feature to add-on fighters. perfect timing since of STeam Link was released this year, so I'm calling you out, MUGAN devs! Make THIS FTP game happen! Otherwise, screw green-light...
Well, this year have gone and passed. Year's revolutions where at least almost met and Christmas is coming soon! I'm going off for the rest of the year until January to prepare as the holidays can cause a man to go crazy at this time of year. Until then Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, Happy New Years and at least have a designated driver when you head out with your family.
1) Alone in the Dark: Illumination
Ever since the "re-imagination" of the series within the dying age that was the Xbox 360, Atari has really butcher the series that invented the survivor-horror series which Resident Evil sorta copied from if Sweet Home didn't existed. The game is a buggy, unfinished mess, as it tries to cash in on the franchise where Resident Evil 6 fails in comparison. However, we all know how that ended up. They might as well bury the game as it is like the ET buried within the Sahara desert.
2) Hatred
Trust me that using controversy just to sell a game is one thing, but trying to sell a repetitive third-person shooter is another. Pushing the controversy aside as it's a way to help boost their sells, the game gets really boring very fast. While some say that it's this generation of Postal, even postal is more colorful than Hatred, as Postal Dude's personality helps breaks the ice of the gameplay as his banter helps absorb the players. If I needed to kick a buch of balls, I'll stuck with Saints Row 2 and 4; Thank you very much!
3) Star Wars: Battle-Front
While the games are either bad on a Technic level or a moral level, this is so wrong on a personal level to those who love the Star Wars franchise. This is a cash-grab from your favorite game business villeins EA Games while Dice handles the gameplay. This is the same issue that have ran the Spider-man games to the ground as Dice has been worn down on the franchise. A ten Dollar pay-to-win weapon, no real single player, four maps, and a ton of DLC content on its way. On a personal note, I would rather recommend the new Star-Wars movie that is coming out this mouth. Seems EA is not EA without the worst company of the year reward. I hope you guys missed it since Ubisoft won that last year, because bugs and yearly tittles...
4) Tony Halk's Pro Skater 5
There's a reason Tony hawk dyed down after the skate-board craze after the play-station days. Back then, this series as well as Underground was very popular, that is until Underground 2 released with mixed reviews and the series went down from there. This game is a buggy piece of sadness, eating away what little was good about the franchise, as if there was anything else left. Ugly graphics, bad settings, and uninspired music and so many technique issues. While it's not Tony Hawk's Ride, this is not a skating game. At least Actionvision worked with Platinum games with Transformers, so check that out instead? Still, Actionvison ladies and gentlemen...
5) The Devil's Third
This is a game that everyone forgot, and personally, it's a good idea too as this was at the last E3 stream on Twitch.tv! As I watch the frame-rate chug during the demo last year, I knew that this would be on the worst games list to the point that Nintendo stopped advertising the train wreck of a game. How did they turn the action-combat bad here? Repetitive melee combat, cliches out from some bad action flick, bad visuals and sound effects, and in the end comes as underwhelming experience! There is online multiplayer, but that is the worst part of the game as it is full of micro-transactions! Pay-to-win by buying power-ups as it milks the whales of their money. At least they did fix the frame-rate issues? No, it's still a mess...
6) Cartoon Fighters
Really? Someone is trying to resell M.U.G.A.N. on green-light and the game wasn't originally his? What kind of scams are people running these day!? For those who don't know, Mugan is a free fighting game where programmers make their custom fighters and install it into the game to compete into other competitors. There has been some creative to lewd characters on that game, but now some scam-artist is trying to pass it off as a fighting game not made by him. I seen some cratice stuff mugan as dose as making A great DBZ fighting system that even the original Street fighter dev couldn't manage when they tried. However, this is not how you mugan! I would have got the dev himself release the game with a workshop feature to add-on fighters. perfect timing since of STeam Link was released this year, so I'm calling you out, MUGAN devs! Make THIS FTP game happen! Otherwise, screw green-light...
Well, this year have gone and passed. Year's revolutions where at least almost met and Christmas is coming soon! I'm going off for the rest of the year until January to prepare as the holidays can cause a man to go crazy at this time of year. Until then Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, Happy New Years and at least have a designated driver when you head out with your family.
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