indigo wrote:

Ni No Kuni

Ollie, Esther and that fucking vagrant that they consort with, surely the blandest cast of characters to ever grace a videogame? Sorry Drippy, you did your best but you can't carry this turgid nonsense all on your own.

Gameplay wise it's decent, but the battle system always felt clunky and (like the plot) the sidequests quickly became unbearably dull and pedestrian..... so 20hrs in, I feel like I've wrung as much enjoyment out of this one as I can. No happy ending for you this time Ollie boy, I hope Shadar makes you his biatch.

Extremely pretty game at times though. Loveliest world map I've ever seen,

I'm up for buying it off you if you want to get rid of it mate.

Pity.

revelthedog wrote:

Pity.

Nah. It's a bit shit really, think of it as time saved, to spend doing something that's not shit.

stonechalice wrote:

I've just given up on any racing game ever made in the history of videogames. I've just seen footage from GT6 and Driveclub and I can't quite believe it. People are gonna go out and buy these games. 'Games' which haven't changed in any way apart from graphically since the first Gran Turismo. It's actually comical. How can gamers insist that this age old rip off cash in 'move thumb left and right and squeeze triggers a bit on corners' to have fun is quite beyond me.  So many whine about innovation in CoD and FPS games in general, they should have a peek at the racing genre. Dear God it's staggering. Fucking abysmal. The most depressing thing about games right now for me. I'm fine now, carry on...

I'm getting hyped for Gran Turismo 7, due in 2078.

Authentic racing games have absolutely nowhere to go. So the devs make a game every year that plays exactly like every other racing game released in the last ten years. 

This is really bothering me.

Non-authentic racers are showing a bit more innovation at least - AI and physics in Motorstorm, open worldiness of BP, autolog etc. of HP, MP of Blur, dynamic courses of S/S... So there is some hope for the genre as a whole.

But yes, hard to yet know where Drivel yet fits on the spectrum, and GT = yawn.

I guess i was meaning authentic as simulation-style rather than arcade-style. Not quite sure what the right terminology is!

I gave up on 'authentic' racers a while ago.  They look great and that's it.  Forza and GT are so fecking boring and the fact that I have to spend several hours tinkering with my set-up just to compete online isn't my thing.

PGR 4 was the last racer I played which I had tonnes of fun on.  Oh and Forza Horizon was good (although grated after a while).

I have played about two minutes of that, based on a masturbatory huzzah around these parts when the spiritual successor was teased for PS4.  What a confused mess it was.

I quite enjoyed shooting the odd cyclops in the peeper.

It's far better when you're just wandering around soaking the atmosphere and trying to climb everything and find all collectibles. Main missions are just lame.

Not quite given up on but I can see myself ditching it soonish.
Remember Me. My last game from Lovefilm rental.
It's a master class in how to make a game that will fail in terms of sales.
Firstly the visual production design is rather goddam lovely. The dichotomy of Parisian baroque melded with future architecture and hologram signs makes a genuinely interesting visual spectacle.
But the game is boring and so full of video game cliches. 
For instance the public space that has your goal, a bar, in a part of the map that only you and your super duper climbing vaulting skills can access it. Who the fuck would open a bar on a roof that you have to shimmy up four drain pipes and jump and dangle to several ledges to get to?

The combat takes the very best bits of Batman AA as inspiration then completely ignores the reasons they where so good to begin with.

It's a pity really as the story concept is rather interesting and had tonnes of potential.

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And the camera is shit.

God that was easily worst game of the year for me. Utterly dreadful.

Fire Emblem Awakening - Just not my cup of tea at all (I knew it wouldn't be but the praise was so high i thought it might sway me) - No idea how to play those kind of games.

Dark Souls.

Sue me. I picked it up again at a good price (€20 new) but I just cant get into it. It wasn't the difficulty, I just couldn't find the will to go back to it after a while. I found the same with Oblivion so maybe its the fantasy genre that I dont look. Always thought Hawk the slayer was rubbish but maybe I'll give Krull a try and discuss it later.