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Topic	Exdeath Plays Every Game in the GotD 2020 Contest Part 2 (ft FO:NV, Ghost Trick)
Evillordexdeath 01/26/21 1:07:55 PM #163:	Apologies about the unscheduled hiatus. I had some other big things taking up my free time for the last few days. ctesjbuvf posted... I ended up getting Arkham Asylum, began on that yesterday beating the first area, so it should be no trouble beating it before you reach City, in fact I'll probably have plenty of time as it doesn't appear to be very long. Yeah, you've got loads of time. There's a big old Terraria between me and Arkham City, and that one will take a while. ctesjbuvf posted... I loved the first two, didn't care as much for the third. Haven't tried any since. Ah, the very first two Rayman games on the old Playstation consoles? I haven't finished any Rayman games, but from what I can tell Origins and Legends are quite different from the original, in particular being much faster-paced, but they're really great games both in terms of gameplay and presentation, so I'm looking forward to reaching Legends quite a bit. LinkMarioSamus posted... Seeing Gall rank New Vegas and ME2 as bad saddens me even if it's fairly understandable. I have lots of attachment to both games just off of watching LPs of them! Speaking of 2010 games, there's a rant I wanted to go on regarding Metroid: Other M. Although I don't bother defending the game anymore after watching ProtonJon stream through the whole thing last year - the story's an even bigger mess than I remembered! Suffice to say I do NOT think I would like the game if I revisited it. Haha, yeah, Gall you have a harsh rating system man. I don't know how many other people would say they're excited to play a game a second time through, but the game is bad. I forgot Other M existed when I did my snubs list for 2010, to tell you the truth. I guess I could've included it as a dishonorable mention if I wanted to do those. Yeah, I think the story's really bad and is told in a way that doesn't make good use of the series' strengths. Super Metroid is an exciting game for me in part because it makes good use of the form of purely visual storytelling that games allow. I actually think the final battle with Mother Brain is quite emotionally charged in that form, so I have a bit of a bone to pick with both Fusion and Other M for using such an overly verbal style with their stories. Gall posted... Finished Dead Space 1. Rumors of this game's slow pace are greatly exaggerated. Yes, I was wondering if I might feel the same. It seems like we had similar feelings on DS2 for the most part. I agree that the Ishimura was the most atmospheric part and that the games work better as shooters than as horror games. The hallucinations were the least scary part for me too, because they signal that you're safe from monster attacks so I always just relaxed when they were happening. I guess that's another example of a case where game designers don't make the best use of the medium. --- Portal 2 Release Date: April 19, 2011 Playing on: PC Previous Experience with Portal 2: Played a bit, watched some videos Expectations for Portal 2: Best game yet The dreaded AAA Western game. Actually I've been really looking forward to this one. I re-played Portal earlier in this project and loved every second of it. I know the second one is a similar, but more elaborate experience. You can probably make an argument for either game being better. Portal 2 has more puzzles, develops the setting more, and has memorable new characters, but it lacks some of the immediate elegance that the first game has. Sometimes it indulges more ordinary AAA instincts like showing off its physics engine in cutscenes. I've only ever played Portal 2 on a single day, at my dad's house shortly after the game came out. It was the first time my siblings and I had seen him in over a year. We visited for most of that day and I played maybe a couple hours of Portal 2 in the afternoon. I remember having a lot of fun with it, but I never got around to buying it for myself. Maybe I just didn't want to break the seal on that very specific memory of the game. I've never played the back half of this game, but it might be the most emotionally invested and knowledgeable I am about any game I've never finished. One of the only video game shirts I have is an aged Portal 2 one that's just the title and "man emerging from portal" icon, which is no longer visible. I know about what happens with GLaDOS and Wheatley, I know about Caroline and Cave Johnson, and I know about the spheres (my favorite Fact Sphere fact is "The plural of Surgeon General is Surgeons General. The past tense of Surgeons General is Surgeonsed General.") I know about the final puzzle, Cara Mia Oddio, and the ending. I love all of that stuff. I think both Portal games are top-tier when it comes to video game writing, but what I forgot until I played the first Portal again is that they're also just great puzzle games with inherently fun mechanics. I'm confident I'll enjoy this one a lot. --- I'm playing every game from GotD 2020! Games Completed: 16/129 Currently Playing: Portal 2 <cite>Evillordexdeath posted [p:949942153] in Exdeath Pl... [t:79138705]...</cite> <quote>Apologies about the unscheduled hiatus. I had some other big things taking up my free time for the last few days. ctesjbuvf posted... </cite> <quote>I ended up getting Arkham Asylum, began on that yesterday beating the first area, so it should be no trouble beating it before you reach City, in fact I'll probably have plenty of time as it doesn't appear to be very long.</quote> Yeah, you've got loads of time. There's a big old Terraria between me and Arkham City, and that one will take a while. ctesjbuvf posted... </cite> <quote>I loved the first two, didn't care as much for the third. Haven't tried any since.</quote> Ah, the very first two Rayman games on the old Playstation consoles? I haven't finished any Rayman games, but from what I can tell Origins and Legends are quite different from the original, in particular being much faster-paced, but they're really great games both in terms of gameplay and presentation, so I'm looking forward to reaching Legends quite a bit. LinkMarioSamus posted... </cite> <quote>Seeing Gall rank New Vegas and ME2 as bad saddens me even if it's fairly understandable. I have lots of attachment to both games just off of watching LPs of them! Speaking of 2010 games, there's a rant I wanted to go on regarding Metroid: Other M. Although I don't bother defending the game anymore after watching ProtonJon stream through the whole thing last year - the story's an even bigger mess than I remembered! Suffice to say I do NOT think I would like the game if I revisited it.</quote> Haha, yeah, Gall you have a harsh rating system man. I don't know how many other people would say they're excited to play a game a second time through, but the game is bad. I forgot Other M existed when I did my snubs list for 2010, to tell you the truth. I guess I could've included it as a dishonorable mention if I wanted to do those. Yeah, I think the story's really bad and is told in a way that doesn't make good use of the series' strengths. Super Metroid is an exciting game for me in part because it makes good use of the form of purely visual storytelling that games allow. I actually think the final battle with Mother Brain is quite emotionally charged in that form, so I have a bit of a bone to pick with both Fusion and Other M for using such an overly verbal style with their stories. Gall posted... </cite> <quote>Finished Dead Space 1. Rumors of this game's slow pace are greatly exaggerated. </quote> Yes, I was wondering if I might feel the same. It seems like we had similar feelings on DS2 for the most part. I agree that the Ishimura was the most atmospheric part and that the games work better as shooters than as horror games. The hallucinations were the least scary part for me too, because they signal that you're safe from monster attacks so I always just relaxed when they were happening. I guess that's another example of a case where game designers don't make the best use of the medium. --- Portal 2 Release Date: April 19, 2011 Playing on: PC Previous Experience with Portal 2: Played a bit, watched some videos Expectations for Portal 2: Best game yet The dreaded AAA Western game. Actually I've been really looking forward to this one. I re-played Portal earlier in this project and loved every second of it. I know the second one is a similar, but more elaborate experience. You can probably make an argument for either game being better. Portal 2 has more puzzles, develops the setting more, and has memorable new characters, but it lacks some of the immediate elegance that the first game has. Sometimes it indulges more ordinary AAA instincts like showing off its physics engine in cutscenes. I've only ever played Portal 2 on a single day, at my dad's house shortly after the game came out. It was the first time my siblings and I had seen him in over a year. We visited for most of that day and I played maybe a couple hours of Portal 2 in the afternoon. I remember having a lot of fun with it, but I never got around to buying it for myself. Maybe I just didn't want to break the seal on that very specific memory of the game. I've never played the back half of this game, but it might be the most emotionally invested and knowledgeable I am about any game I've never finished. One of the only video game shirts I have is an aged Portal 2 one that's just the title and "man emerging from portal" icon, which is no longer visible. I know about what happens with GLaDOS and Wheatley, I know about Caroline and Cave Johnson, and I know about the spheres (my favorite Fact Sphere fact is "The plural of Surgeon General is Surgeons General. The past tense of Surgeons General is Surgeonsed General.") I know about the final puzzle, Cara Mia Oddio, and the ending. I love all of that stuff. I think both Portal games are top-tier when it comes to video game writing, but what I forgot until I played the first Portal again is that they're also just great puzzle games with inherently fun mechanics. I'm confident I'll enjoy this one a lot. --- I'm playing every game from GotD 2020! Games Completed: 16/129 Currently Playing: Portal 2</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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