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Topic Started: May 8 2009, 01:17 AM (21,275 Views)
kknd
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My friend has been recommending SF:FU to me for a while, maybe I should give it a shot...
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nate
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I wouldn't buy it unless you can get it super cheap. The first has a fantastic plot, but the gameplay is not great. The second has a good plot, it just seems like everything's going to end before it gets cooking.

If you can rent cheap or borrow, that'd be the way to go. Or if you can nab either for, I dunno, under $15?
Edited by nate, May 15 2011, 10:18 PM.
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SW:FU was one of the options at the top of the pile, just before I started NMH2. I will be playing this game next.
Edited by thinkfreemind, May 15 2011, 10:55 PM.
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nate
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Beat the first world of Donkey Kong Country Returns. Pleasantly surprised at how good it is. It appeals to my nostalgia of playing DKC at my old baby sitter's house, but it doesn't suck like when I downloaded DKC for myself last year. :lol:
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I'm getting close to the end of World 3. This game is ridiculously good. The level design is incredible, graphics are gorgeous, music is fantastic. It's just doing so many cool things at any given time with the levels that it's a blast each time you start a new level. And it's hard, but it's fair. The challenge is in the design, not control or cheapness. I've got more than enough lives and it saves at the end of every level, so I've got all the tools I need to succeed. It's not trying to screw you over, just make you step your game up.
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The pig! He mocks me unceasingly! :ack: :ack: :ack:

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nate
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Crap on a stick! Does this game need to be this freaking difficult?!? :x
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kknd
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it is huh?
I thought it was just me sucking at platform games
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nate
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95% of this game is challenging, but still fun. It's tough, but fair. 5% makes me want to tear off my own arm just to have something to smash shit with. It really hasn't been until World 8 that I've had problems with being upset. Sure, the giant bat was tough and World 6 gave me problems, but I was still having fun. But freaking 8-3 (the mine cart lava one) and 8-7 (the rising lava one) pissed me off to no end. The rest of the game was tough, but I was never upset. I was still having fun even though I was losing. Here though? It's just cheap deaths or situations where you need super-human coordination to pull off the platforming needed. Advance a little further to BAM! get hit out of nowhere. Memorize that spot. Rinse and repeat. I should NEVER have to die 60 times in order to beat a level. Maybe in a bonus world, but this is the standard campaign. Honestly, the vast majority of this game is best 2D platformer I've played level. I had a BLAST with it. Right now though? I've got such a bad taste in my mouth I don't even want to see the game again.
Edited by nate, May 17 2011, 07:53 PM.
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kknd
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I remember get pissed off at the game near the end too, that's why I didn't bother collecting the rest of the crap
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Now you're sounding like a guy I work with who hated the difficulty near the end and never finished the game.
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I'd sooner use the Super Guide to get me past a trouble spot and finish than not bother finishing. Either way, doesn't matter since I beat it like 10 minutes ago. ;)
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Metroid: Other M is terrible. It's just dilapidated hallways that you run down and mash 1 when you see enemies. And who on earth came up with this control scheme? Why are we using a freaking d-pad to run in 3D spaces? And why are we using this stupid ass visor vision that we have to rotate the wiimote for? It adds nothing to the game. Add to that the fact that this story/ dialog is TERRIBLE and you've got a really lousy product. Not only does the premise of the story not make any sense, but neither does anything anyone says. They're just saying things. It was like they had each team member write a line of dialog and then drew them randomly from a hat to make cutscenes. Plus, who the hell is this wispy, lightweight they're trying to convince me is Samus?
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Got rid of Metroid: Other M and picked up Dragon Age 2 since I'm tired of going to Blockbuster every day to get a new game. :lol:

I'm only a couple hours in right now and I absolutely love it. Spoken MC dialog? Yes please. New battle system? Double yes please. My ONLY complaint is that I played DA:O on the PC so I can't import my save file. I just picked the dwarf preset, though, since that was the closest to what happened in my game (I played a human, but whatever).

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Edited by nate, May 19 2011, 06:50 PM.
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Okay, so one thing that's frustrating the hell out of me in this game: Absolutely NO dungeon diversity. It's ridiculous. There's 1 house interior, 1 warehouse interior, 1 cave interior. And any time you go into any of those, you get that map again. Plot buildings like the Chantry have diversity, but even the local areas are cut and paste. For example, the Wounded Coast is one section of the map copied and tetragrammed together. Any surrounding areas you go to are that one subsection. So yeah, ridiculously lazy programming. Couldn't they have at least randomized this stuff if they weren't going to bother designing?

Other than that, I'm still having fun. I'm still in Act One, doing absolutely everything I come across. I think I've put in 9 hours or so.

I think it's really funny this game gets so much hate, though, because it's so different from DA:O. Especially when, prior to this game, everyone hated DA:O. Can't wait to see what happens with DA3. And it's lucky I'm playing these games on the systems I am. I can't imagine playing the first on consoles, and I can't imagine playing this one on the PC.
Edited by nate, May 21 2011, 09:13 AM.
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