tin_robot wrote:Guardians of the Galaxy (PS5) A bit of a surprise for me this one. A rare example of a game that gets progressively better. Which is a good thing really, as I wasn't particularly enamoured of it at all at first. The fights (of which there are many) are clunky and repetitive, the Mass Effect Lite conversations are sometimes overly long, and don't appear to change the outcome of anything enormously. As I said in the "currently playing" thread, I kept going only because my kids bought it for me. Yet, somehow, the whole thing blossoms over the course of play. The fights remain repetitive, but the fiddly mechanics become a little more elegant as you grow more accustomed and the options open up a little. The conversations, whilst still applying a handbrake to the momentum at time, prove to be essential to building up a sense of your relationship to the wider team. The great revelation though is not in these obvious, and sometimes clumsy, mechanics, but in the subtle stuff that's in there.So, yeah, not a masterpiece, but defnitely worth my time. I found myself at the end hoping that other games learnt lessons from this one - definitely not a view I was expecting to have at the start. Ratchet and Clank - A Rift Apart The first Ratchet and Clank game I've actually finished, which says something I guess. (Though whether it's about me or the game, I'm not sure). I usually get bored at some point and drift away, but this one kept me in there for the duration. That said, it's not anything particularly game changing either. The much vaunted "rift" stuff feels fairly inconsequential in reality. Occassionally connecting to a rift to get to another part of the map feels like a slightly less exciting version of the swingshot. The rifts opening to other dimensions at various points are so scripted as to again feel unexciting. It may or may not be a technical achievement, but it didn't do much for the gameplay. Still, the game's fun, the ridiculous roster of weapons similarly so. (Topiary Sprinkler ftw) I had a good time with it, but it was ultimately slight, and left me craving something a bit more substantial. I guess it's the gaming equivalent of (very expensive) fast food.Spoiler:
b0r1s wrote:Nice one Tin. GoTG is not the best game in the world but I loved the setting and the team and yes that spoiler bit was very well done. I also found some of the cut scenes between Drax and Peter, as well as the flash backs, were really well done.
yourfavouriteuncle wrote:I want to Tuckergif the fuck out of these posts but you’re both lovely people with a solid history of fine cultural taste so I’m chalking this one down to live and let live.
it’s amazingAndCallMeCharlie wrote:Thought fire watch was meant to be good? Can’t you all go somewhere else, discuss, come to a consensus and then come back and tell me what to play?
b0r1s wrote:Guessing you didn’t go back?yourfavouriteuncle wrote:I want to Tuckergif the fuck out of these posts but you’re both lovely people with a solid history of fine cultural taste so I’m chalking this one down to live and let live.
FranticPea wrote:The Gunk
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