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| - | ***//Batman: The Telltale Series//** (also on: 360, PS3, XB1, PC, mobile) | ||
| - | * Ni Go Zero Ichi: Probably the most fully realized iteration yet of Telltale's one-studio subgenre of visual novels (//The Wolf Among Us// is also a close competitor for that title). Better than the Christopher Nolan movies. | ||
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| ***//Bloodborne//** | ***//Bloodborne//** | ||
| + | * sleepysmiles: I’m very pleased at the difficulty of this game. It seems like a natural step up from Dark Souls and not an arbitrary one. It’s pleasantly surprising how the simple removal of your block button adds so much tension to each encounter | ||
| + | * wourme: I was sold on Bloodborne the moment I encountered my first student. I still like Demon’s and Dark 1 better, but I’m glad I don’t have to choose and can simply play them all. | ||
| + | * zeno: i’m pretty comfortable with declaring bloodborne the best game i’ve ever played, but it’s interesting how so little of the music does much of anything for me. | ||
| ***//Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night//** (also on: PC, Switch, XB1) | ***//Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night//** (also on: PC, Switch, XB1) | ||
| - | ***//Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered//** (also on: PC, XB1) | + | ***//Death Stranding//** (also on: PC)\ |
| - | * 2501: Doesn’t fix what ain’t broken, but truly is one of the most gorgeous remastering jobs out there (as it damn well better be, considering what Activision’s charging for it) and makes the original //CoD4// almost impossible to go back to. I’d even go so far as to say that this aesthetic and technical enhancement is what finally cements //MW1//‘s status as one of the best FPS campaigns of all time. | + | * Tulpa: I played for 2 hours in the middle of someone else's save, and I spent a lot of time learning the controls in the moment, falling down hills, chugging energy drinks and throwing jars full of piss at undead horrors. Game rules |
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| - | ***//Death Stranding//** (also on: PC) | + | |
| ***//Doom (a.k.a. Doom 4)//** (also on: Switch, XB1, PC) | ***//Doom (a.k.a. Doom 4)//** (also on: Switch, XB1, PC) | ||
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| - | ***//Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD Remaster//** (also on: PS3, Vita, PC) | ||
| ***//Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age//** | ***//Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age//** | ||
| - | * Ni Go Zero Ichi: Confession time: despite being a big fan of both //Final Fantasy// and Yasumi Matsuno, I could never get into //XII// back on the PS2. The story didn't grab me (it's trying to have the political intrigue and historical scope of //Tactics// and //Vagrant Story// with the whimsy and adventure of //IX// and //Tactics Advance// and it doesn't quite sit comfortably at either end of the scale) and the game design quirks were maybe too quirky: the world, myself, and perhaps most critically the PS2 weren't quite ready for this game. My point in all of this being that the PS4 remaster, between a host of design tweaks and the benefit of a decade's hindsight, is considerably more approachable than the vanilla //Final Fantasy XII//. The //International Zodiac Job System// enhancements make the License Board far more coherent and tactical. There's a fast-forward button that should honestly just be mandatory for every RPG ever. The re-recorded soundtrack renders Hitoshi Sakimoto's compositions in the orchestral grandeur they always strove to represent. And so many of //XII//'s once-shocking ideas have, in some form, become integrated into the JRPG mainstram that it feels more of its time now than it did in 2006. | ||
| ***//Final Fantasy XV//** (also on: XB1, PC) | ***//Final Fantasy XV//** (also on: XB1, PC) | ||
| - | * 2501: Has a bunch of isolated ingredients for a theoretically compelling game, but that game absolutely isn’t this one. One of the more dull and pointless (albeit pretty) open worlds in recent memory. Combat is a spectacular bore, somehow both mind-numbingly simplistic and bafflingly incoherent. Good luck following, let alone caring about the story. The main course here is goofing around with sidequests and incidental dialogue from your Tetsuya Nomura-designed anime boy band, which admittedly does just hold the experience together... for a while. | ||
| ***//Grand Theft Auto V//** (also on: 360, PC, PS3, XB1) | ***//Grand Theft Auto V//** (also on: 360, PC, PS3, XB1) | ||
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| ***//The Last of Us Remastered//** | ***//The Last of Us Remastered//** | ||
| + | * Rudie: lol wat. murder dad will you stop murder? yes murder daughter. I believe you murder dad. | ||
| ***//Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes//** (also on: PC, PS3, XB1) | ***//Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes//** (also on: PC, PS3, XB1) | ||
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| ***//Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain//** (also on: PC, PS3, XB1) | ***//Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain//** (also on: PC, PS3, XB1) | ||
| * Ni Go Zero Ichi: The worst best (or best worst?) game of the decade. | * Ni Go Zero Ichi: The worst best (or best worst?) game of the decade. | ||
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| - | ***//Overwatch//** (also on: XB1, PC) | ||
| ***//Persona 5//** (also on: PS3) | ***//Persona 5//** (also on: PS3) | ||
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| * Ni Go Zero Ichi: It's like //Call of Duty// meets //Zone of the Enders// with a little bit of //Mirror's Edge//. Whoa. I'm hearing a lot of heavy superlatives directed at the campaign and while I don't think it beats out the first two //Modern Warfare//s, it is definitely Good. I like that the game periodically lets you exchange player-controlled snarky banter with your giant killer robot. | * Ni Go Zero Ichi: It's like //Call of Duty// meets //Zone of the Enders// with a little bit of //Mirror's Edge//. Whoa. I'm hearing a lot of heavy superlatives directed at the campaign and while I don't think it beats out the first two //Modern Warfare//s, it is definitely Good. I like that the game periodically lets you exchange player-controlled snarky banter with your giant killer robot. | ||
| * Felix: I am better at, and more engaged by, the multi in this than any other FPS since Quake 2. I'd have a hard time articulating what it does so well but it's certainly one of the best big-budget surprises I've had in a very long time. Plus, as everyone says, the campaign is basically perfect (if fundamentally mid-aughts and unambitious in its scope) too. | * Felix: I am better at, and more engaged by, the multi in this than any other FPS since Quake 2. I'd have a hard time articulating what it does so well but it's certainly one of the best big-budget surprises I've had in a very long time. Plus, as everyone says, the campaign is basically perfect (if fundamentally mid-aughts and unambitious in its scope) too. | ||
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| - | ***//Uncharted 4: A Thief's End//** | ||
| - | * Ni Go Zero Ichi: Better than //Uncharted 3// but not-better than //Uncharted 2//. It's cool that there are actual large areas now instead of just fancy-dressed corridors. I wish there were fewer sequences where you're not really doing anything interesting because the game is busy conveying the narrative, because as crackly-crispy as the dialogue is and as many interesting new ways as Naughty Dog comes up with to take advantage of the medium, the actual plot and storytelling would still barely pass muster as a straight-to-video //National Treasure// sequel. | ||
| ***//[[game:videoball]]//** (also on: Windows) | ***//[[game:videoball]]//** (also on: Windows) | ||