Amazing Games You Have Played Recently.....

[TheArcaneThinker]

What game has left you speechless and satisfied in the past few weeks ?

Mine are -

The Chronicles Of Riddick : Escape From Butcher Bay - I shall be honest... Its one of the best fps hybrids I have played.... It even managed to get in my top 10 list at 7th . It had everything , brilliant atmosphere , amazing combat , great story line , decent AI . It was a 9/10 in every way . I liked the original more than the remastered as it has no hud creating more immersion .

The game is truly underrated gem and this is the best review I could find out of the handful of reviewers who decided to review this gem .


Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy - The name's a mouthful . The story was there just to be there . The protagonist had no personality . Graphics were decent . Critics showed mixed reviews and pointed out flaws but no one... not one person said one thing about the gameplay , which in my opinion was a 10/10 . The lightsaber combat in the game was awesome and gave me a much better experience than jedi outcast ever gave . It was just so fun swinging sabers , fighting multiple jedies with other jedies . It was great game and I had a blast .

Star Wars Battlefront 2 : This game is a legend . Ever wanted to experience 64 player battles but didnt want to play multiplayer ? Then this game is for you . Huge battles on land and in space . The thing that made brought this game back to life for me was the republic commando integration mod , which imo is the best mod for the game . It takes the gameplay from one of the best fps games ever made , Star Wars : Republic commando and adds it to this legendary game , increasing the fun factor indefinitely .

Zeno Clash - Haven't finished it yet but has been fun till now . It has most bizarre and interesting world you will ever see in a game and the best melee hand to hand combat I have ever witnessed where each and every punch is satisfying .

Running with Rifles : This game in one word is EPIC . It has huge battles with hundreds of npcs. Its super fun . I was "blown" away by this game when I first played this game . One of the best indie games imo .

 

[Elfgore]

Call of Juarez: Gunslinger- Best game in the series. The first game I played for ten minutes and never went back. The second game was good, but got old very quickly. This game was amazing. Fast-combat, over-the-top story, and satisfying level-up system. Great game and worth the three dollars.

...huh, that's it. Was kinda hoping there would be more.

 

[ninja666]

It certainly didn't leave me speechless (because it happens very rarely to me when it comes to video games), but Resident Evil: Revelations gave me a nice time and an extremely fun experience. It craftily mixed action and controls of the new Resident Evil games with exploration, puzzles, and finding items of the classic ones. I recommend it wholeheartedly, especially since the sequel is right around the corner.

 

[gsilver]

I (finally) got around to beating Super Mario Galaxy 2 this weekend. It was a great experience.

 

[Anachronism]

I finished The Banner Saga a couple of weeks ago and was pretty much blown away by it. Character is a difficult thing to define in any piece of fiction, but it has character in spades, probably because the dev team was just three people. Gorgeous art, beautiful soundtrack and some of the best actual roleplaying I've experienced in some time. Often, there are no right choices, just a selection of ugly ones, and it's very hard to get things to end well. For me, one of the most satisfying roleplaying scenarios is making a mistake and having to live with the consequences, and The Banner Saga provides plenty of opportunities. Can't wait for the sequel.

Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy - The name's a mouthful . The story was there just to be there . The protagonist had no personality . Graphics were decent . Critics showed mixed reviews and pointed out flaws but no one... not one person said one thing about the gameplay , which in my opinion was a 10/10 . The lightsaber combat in the game was awesome and gave me a much better experience than jedi outcast ever gave . It was just so fun swinging sabers , fighting multiple jedies with other jedies . It was great game and I had a blast.

If Jedi Outcast comes to GOG as part of the influx of LucasArts titles (please please please) I'd buy it in a heartbeat. Never played much of Academy, in all honesty, but Outcast was an amazing game.

 

[Wackymon]

Just finished Brothers, a Tale of Two Sons.

Spoiler: I want to throw someone out a window.

I'm going through the five stages of grief. The game's expertly crafted to tear your damn heart out when he dies, and I didn't believe it. When he was buried, I didn't believe it. It wasn't until there was a whole cutscene, I was "Surely they'll pull something out of their ass."
And then I had to swim. On my own.
Then I fell into bartering.
And now, a mere twenty minutes after finishing it, am going through the anger phase. Why!? WHY!? I know why, but WHY!?[/spoilers]
I heartily recommend it to everyone.

 

[Hero of Lime]

Recently played through Banjo Kazooie on N64. They call it a classic for a reason! It's so good I loved everything about it. It's fun, the music is amazing, the controls feel great even after all this time, and it was satisfying collecting things.

I wish I could say the same for Banjo Tooie...

 

[Frezzato]

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The Chronicles Of Riddick : Escape From Butcher Bay - I shall be honest... Its one of the best fps hybrids I have played.... It even managed to get in my top 10 list at 7th . It had everything , brilliant atmosphere , amazing combat , great story line , decent AI . It was a 9/10 in every way .

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Something really resonated with me when I played the first game on the original Xbox. I was more than happy to buy it again when it was repackaged with Assault on Dark Athena.

I remember back in the day when only a handful of sites recommended it, but they didn't really nail what was so appealing about the game. To me, it will always be about the sheer brutality of the fights. Hand-to-hand was at such a basic, brutal level, it was about as visceral as a game could get for me. There were no fancy blocks or special moves, it was just about closing in, hitting the guy, and getting out before he could react. Jesus, and every once in a while you would finish a guy off with an icepick to the eye.

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As for me, I recently picked up Remember Me (I got Life is Strange as well but haven't started it), and the art direction in that game is, in a word, superb. There's trash and filth everywhere, and it's a game that makes me want to look up and around. The slums of Neo Paris are brilliantly constructed like a patchwork shantytown.

 

[FPLOON]

I've mainly just been playing Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix off of Kingdom Hearts 2.5[footnote]Three trophies away from the platinum... (Stupid sexy Data battles... I want my gold crown, globdammit!)[/footnote], so I guess that game's amazing by default...

Other than that, I've been enjoying the spiltscreen multiplayer off of my friend's copy of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3... especially when I would knife him while staying cover-crouched[footnote]That ragdoll physics...[/footnote] or when I stole his Jugganaut drop[footnote]That pending comeback to follow...[/footnote]...

 

[The Wykydtron]

I've recently played a Visual Novel called Devil on the G-String and it's hands down the best mystery story ever. It's one of those games where any particular part of the game is so good that it could carry any weaker part of the game but since EVERYTHING is so well designed it hits God Tier.

Y'know I think that's the best way to define great from good. When I can point to the characters, the plot, the soundtrack, the art and everything else as contributing to the game in its own way, the whole greater than the sum of its parts kinda thing. No "well the soundtrack was a bit eh but the plot was good" or some such.

The best part is them plot twists though. Holy fuck. Chapter 2. That identity reveal. Look I have never once gone full hands on head disbelief for like 2 minutes to digest the information before and I doubt I will never do so again. Oh Akabeisoft2, the string of perfected executed plot twists over the course of the entire game...

Play this game. I will even say as the unofficial Escapist Persona 4 fanboy that the mystery in Devil on the G-String is better than Persona 4's. That's how good this is.

 

[EyeReaper]

I've mainly just been playing Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix off of Kingdom Hearts 2.5[footnote]Three trophies away from the platinum... (Stupid sexy Data battles... I want my gold crown, globdammit!)[/footnote], so I guess that game's amazing by default...

Other than that, I've been enjoying the spiltscreen multiplayer off of my friend's copy of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3... especially when I would knife him while staying cover-crouched[footnote]That ragdoll physics...[/footnote] or when I stole his Jugganaut drop[footnote]That pending comeback to follow...[/footnote]...

Hey hey, a comrade in gaming then!

Having never played Birth by Sleep before, I really wasn't expecting much, but My god is it fun. I especially love using Maleficent's dragonfire to voip a line of totally-not-heartless. It's just too bad Terra (the person I started with) Is bland and kinda stupid. Hoping the other two are better.

 

[Windcaler]

GoD factory: Wingmen: Perhaps the best multiplayer space flight game on the market right now. Its arguably better then the legendary Freespace 2 on a mechanical level. Problem is very few people play the game lately but I got into a match earlier tonight and was reminded of how amazing the game is.

Warframe: I also play some warframe quite a bit. More so lately since they let us breed dogs and use them in missions. Its the only game I can be a cybernetic space ninja with all kinds of guns, functional melee, parkour that puts dying light to shame, a working stealth system, and all kinds of technological powers (or are they magic?) to destroy hordes of enemies while still getting a challenging and fun experience.

Saints row: The third: Its IMO the best of the series. It has just the right mix of gangster hijinks and silly fun put together. I did a new game the other day and decided to go with a super buff guy, english accent, with a mariachi outfit (because why not). Very few games make me laugh and just have fun like SR3

 

[Dandark]

I just recently started playing a F2P shooter called Nosgoth and I've been loving it so far. The gameplay is fun and fairly well balanced while the F2P system is one of the better ones I've seen.

It's an asymmetrical game in which two teams battle it out, one is a team of human vampire hunters while the other is a team of vampires. So far I've only played Team deathmatch which has two rounds, it's first to 30 kills or until time runs out and then the teams swap so that humans become vampires and vampires become humans.
My only complaint would be that it feels a bit easier to play as the vampires but it's still fairly well balanced and a good human team can dominate.

They are releasing an update with a new character class tomorrow and I can hardly wait, I've been playing it each day since I got it last week.

 

[Tsun Tzu]

I finally got around to playing Walking Dead Season 2 and spent the whole of my Saturday off of work playing it, on into the wee morning hours...

It's just gut punch after gut punch. They don't care. They take your little black heart, stomp on it, run it through a cheese grater composed of solidified orphan tears, and stuff it back down your throat. Telltale can spin a yarn, that's for damned sure, and Clementine is an awesome protagonist.

I want to assure you, gents/ladies, that I didn't cry. I merely may have slightly teared up a little bit of a smidge and/or gotten choked up just shy of at all at the ending I chose, as it was a really powerful and well done scene.

To recap: Game good. Didn't cry.

...Externally.

*whimper*

Haven't had a game get to me like this one did in ages.

I'm likely overselling it here, but it was damned immersive to me. It's far more likely, however, that I'm just a total pussy.

 

[Xerosch]

I just started playing Kentucky Route Zero, The Cat Lady, Resonance and Downfall.

All four games are pretty retro and rough around the edges, but they have something that sucks me in completely. Especially 'The Cat Lady' which starts with a depressed woman who wants to kill herself and gets cursed with immortality and 'Kentucky Route Zero' because of it's dreamy art style.

It's a nice change from AAA titles that bore me in the last months.

 

[zumbledum]

ill go with Endless Legend , though im not sure how relevant it is as it is both old and i think was well reviewed but it just got dug out of my steam back catalogue and its a surprisingly great 4x with a lot of quite unique mechanics very fun and diverse factions and a sort of tactical combat, its replaced civ 5 as my go to strategy fix.

also one finger death punch, just because its about as close a perfect "game" as you can get, simple elegant and perfect.

 

[laggyteabag]

I just got the Heroes of the Storm beta, and I am happy to report that it is everything that I hoped it would be.[footnote]Comparisons based on League of Legends as it is the only other MOBA that I have played.[/footnote]

* The fact that you start with your three basic skills means that you aren't doing that silly dance at the beginning of every game in which you are grinding for experience.
* There are map objectives that promote team fights and actually make the maps interesting.
* Talents actually improve your abilities in a meaningful way as opposed to items which rarely ever did that aside from extra damage. Also, having the choice between 2 different ultimate abilities can really help adapt to your situation.
* You join a queue as the character that you want to play as, instead of waiting to get into the lobby to argue over who goes where and who plays what. This means that everybody gets to play as who they want, and games start immediately after you are finished searching for a game.
* There is a reason for people to go into the jungle other than to grind XP and grab a buff. Monsters killed in the jungle join your lane to help push.
* No runes, mastery points or any other out-of-game silliness.
* Each character gets 3 free colour variations and a free[footnote]You have to reach level 10 on that hero and pay 10,000 gold. Gold is the in-game currency.[/footnote] skin, so you don't have to pay a thing to look snazzy.
* No premium currency. You want that skin that costs 800 tokens, but you can only buy tokens in packs of 500 or 1000? NO MORE IN HEROES OF THE STORM! The geniuses at Blizzard came up with a brilliant solution: The costs show up in your regional currency, not in some arbitrary currency that forces you to buy more than you need.

 

[communist gamer]

Ill have to go with Deus ex (the first one). While the game play is far from perfect, it's playeble and poses a chalenge. The story is jaw-droping good, the world imersive and the game itself a lot of fun

 

[Katherine Kerensky]

Choice of Robots, the Heroes Rise trilogy, and Mecha Ace.
They're a bunch of choose your own adventure games from Choice of Games on Steam. They were brilliant.
Choice of Robots made me cry a bit. Well, so did the Heroes Rise games, especially on the third game.
If you like reading, they're definitely worth a go. I think I need to play through them a bunch more times, and I'm really looking forward to The Hero Project 2. And the new feudal-style one that is meant to be out now or soon.
I think Choice of Robots is my favourite of the bunch. Good enough that I memorised and then wrote down the route I took so I could replay the feels later.

 

[Super Cyborg]

I've been on a SMT binge for a bit.

Persona Q, which I did beat about a week or so ago. My first time playing an EO type game. I went in expecting the story to be mediocre, with focus on just random character nonsense. The character interaction stuff was great, making the characters shine from their perspective games, and the scenes that could happen in the dungeons motivated me to keep on. I actually want to play P3 again because I like the characters more now, and there was some really neat stuff. I did the Persona 4 route. The story ended up being really great as well.

I'm currently on day 7 of Devil Survivor Overclocked. Really intense story, so many options that you can't find out about everyone on the first play through. Game Play is great, and the end difficulty seems about right, that as long as you make new demons, it is just the right difficulty. Problem is that Money takes forever to get, and getting skills for new players or demons can be a pain. Really hard to get auto skills when you can only get them from story missions, and most of those missions have you juggling so many things, it's hard to get everyone to crack their skill. Still a great game.