GAEMS!
Finally played FEAR 3 (I refuse to type F3AR, fuck you) and the entire thing leaves with so many mixed feelings.
The series is actually one of my favourites. Why? awesome feeling gunplay and scares = my type of game.
I found the second game to be a bit of a letdown, but that stemmed mostly from the fact that it felt like a console game ported to the PC.
So I was pretty cautious of this one. In fact I never bought it, I simply rented it, and in doing so had to play it on a console. To my surprise the gameplay still felt great. Really fun time.
What I disliked is more nitpicking and storywise, I guess.
I never wanted to see Point man, it just doesn't seem necessary to me, and I loved the sort of mystery, thankfully they didn't give him a voice...but who they did give more of a voice to is Fettel, and it is annoying.
The idea of them teaming up is sort of eyeroll inducing on its own, but whatever, I can get with that (given the co-op focus)...but in this game he's almost a joker who does nothing. Doesn't feel evil, doesn't scare me any more. Makes wise cracks. Yawn.
I didn't like it. nor did I like his redesign.
I dislike how convoluted the story has become. You could argue it was never really anything other than that...and I wouldn't argue with you...but each game tries to just pile shit on and it hasn't really worked for me.
And the big one for me...it just isn't scary. The atmosphere comes through at certain points in the game...but it never really lasts. Not like the first game did.
I can remember being quite shaken at multiple points while playing through the original. Not so much here, which is a shame.
Maybe it's the direction the games have to take. Whatever.
In the end it is a game that plays a lot better than I expected. It's FUN, no doubt about that, but all it TRULY made me want to do was go play the first one again.
...and then perhaps give project origin another shot. The more I think about it the more positive memories I have about it.
Closing thought: these games are still a million times more fun than this Call of Duty shit, so I can't complain too much.
oh, and speaking of Call of Duty, who the fuck needs those games when shit like this is on the horizon?
un-fucking real. LOOK AT THAT SHIT.
I actually got an invite to the Alpha test and got to play the game for about a week. Didn't spend as much time with it as I'd hoped, but man was it shaping up nicely.
Game is going to be incredible.
posted by D. at 8:59 p.m.
4 Comments:
I'm going to give 3 a shot. Like you i have fond memories of playing through the first one. I loved that game. It seemed to have the right balance of action, atmosphere and intrigue.
Project Origin on the other hand was crap. I played halfway through it before i said fuck it.
Battlefield looks awesome but after playing through EA games call of duty "killer" MEDAL of SHIT! and trying out the supposedly awesome talked about frostbite engine, it left me with throw up in my mouth. Medal of Honor was pure garbage.
I hope they step it up with battlefield, that game looks good.
Knock on call of duty all you want, their engine is solid and the game play is dead on, not to mention addicting as hell.
Also who gives a shit whether your playing a war game by Activision or EA your still supporting the corporate whores who are ruining the game industry.
cause at least I'm not supporting a company that thinks it's okay to charge 15 bucks a fucking pop for a fucking map pack. Shitty uninspired maps, no less.
learned my lesson after paying for just one of them.
The bad company 2 Vietnam expansion added maps AND weapons AND vehicles and was 15 bucks. That's value.
Now this call of duty elite shit. They nickle and dime people to death and these fucking idiots keep paying for it.
absolutely only reason to play those games is multiplayer, and I am so burned out on it that I don't think I'll even get the new one.
Only way I do is if Ryan does and we can play together again. Otherwise, battlefield 3 and Bad Company 2 will do.
I still hope you get modern warfare 3 cause the kids and I would like to play online with you.
UPDATE.
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