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Actually I bought a cheap second hand PS3 for myself in August
and ramped up my PS3 library. My original plan was to replay Okami in HD 
and started with it in August still playing it.
And now I have a backlog of Shame of about 20 PS3 games all bought for 
around 5 Euros per game.
The PC at the moment has to wait until I buy an NVidia 1070 card in end 
of December I am to busy with the PS3 atm.
I guess once Okami is done I will start with one of the Yakuza games 
next, never played any of those.



Werner



Am 02.10.16 um 08:26 schrieb Spalls Hurgenson:
> Well, that's another 30 days gone. I'm already missing summer but the
> cooler weather is undeniably encouraging me to stay inside and play
> more games, so I guess there's some benefit.
>
> Anyway, here we are again with our usual monthly thread. It's been a
> while, so let's do a quick who-what-where-when for any newcomers to
> the newsgroup. The idea here is to list out any games you've played
> over the last month, for the edification and amusement of your fellow
> c.s.i.p.g.a readers. I - and a number of others - like to share a few
> thoughts on those games - but feel free just to leave the list if you
> prefer. Given the nature of this newsgroup, we've all a preference for
> PC games but should your habit have taken you to the darker corners of
> the hobby, we'll turn a blind eye... this time ;-). The main idea is
> to keep the conversation focused on the games themselves.
>
> Look, it's simple. Here, watch; I'll go first.
>
> --------------------
> Short and Sweet
> --------------------
> * Hunted: The Demon Forge (new)
> * Tomb Raider Underworld (replay)
> * Civiliztion: Beyond Earth (new)
> * Injustice: Gods Among Us (new)
> * Ghost Recon Future Soldier (replay)
>
>
> TL; DR
> ----------
>
> * Hunted: The Demon Forge (new)
> I can't remember when I bought this game, but I hope I didn't pay that
> much for the privilege. At best I can say it's an unexceptional
> brawler. It lacks any and all flair; it's all characterless and
> generic grimdark fantasy, with a 'roid-pumped hero and unnaturally
> buxom heroine as the leads whose main goals in life seems to be taking
> all the obviously wrong and bad choices that life throws at them. The
> combat is unexciting, with a lack of interesting combos and sluggish
> movement that drains all the energy from the fights. Fortunately, the
> enemy AI is equally as moribund. Unfortunately, your AI partner isn't
> any better, rarely backing you up and far more often just getting in
> your way. Simply navigating the level is a chore because your
> team-mate is constantly in your way. The game was obviously intended
> to be played as in co-op (a feature that has apparently been
> discontinued) and little was done to make the single-player more
> entertaining. Even taking into consideration its age - the game was
> released in 2011 - Hunted fails to impress with its graphics either;
> it looks like a game from 2005. It's a dull, unexciting game in every
> respect and not in the least bit fun.
>
>
>
> * Tomb Raider Underworld (replay)
> I actually started with Tomb Raider: Anniversary but various technical
> issues and a lack of polish frustrated me enough that I decided to
> skip ahead to the sequel, Underworld. In many ways, TR: Anniversary
> played too closely to the original (it's a remake of the first Tomb
> Raider game), and it felt very rough around the edges. Tomb Raider
> Underworld had a lot of problems too, but it hewed closer to modern
> game-play esthetics, and was the more fun for it.
>
> I was surprised at how good the game looked, despite being almost ten
> years old. Lara still looks too much like a sex-doll but the
> environments were very pretty, and Underworld featured a number of
> impressive set-pieces. I rather enjoyed how the developers managed to
> wrap together the divergent storylines of the previous games into a
> cohesive whole, although the ending did feel a bit rushed and
> unsatisfying.
>
> Not surprisingly, the major problem I had with the game was an issue
> that has dogged the franchise from the start: its awful camera. Too
> often I was forced to make blind leaps of faith because the camera -
> rigidly locked on Lara - refused to allow me a better view of my
> surrounds. It was often difficult just figuring out where I needed to
> go next because the camera was so stiff. Having played so many other
> third-person games with far better cameras, this old-school
> methodology seemed quaint at best and ludicrously unfair at other
> times. Still, I found the puzzles and platforming rather enjoyable,
> even if them both fairly simplistic and linear. I was less endeared by
> the combat, but fortunately it plays a less prominent part than in the
> earlier games. There's also almost an entire dearth of quick-time
> events, a well-received improvement over the earlier titles and it was
> disappointing to see them return in the later series.
>
> Underworld wasn't a great game, but it was largely enjoyable and
> probably one of my favorites in the whole franchise.
>
>
>
> * Civilization: Beyond Earth (new)
> In many ways, Beyond Earth is a disappointing game.
>
> That's an unusual thing to say, given that - like all the other games
> in the franchise - Beyond Earth was so additively engrossing that it
> has since been banished from my hard-drive. It is too dangerous a game
> to leave installed, since its "just-one-more-turn" gameplay speaks to
> my compulsive side; if I am not careful then before I know it, it is 4
> AM and I've been playing non-stop for 8 hours. One might - quite
> correctly - assume that this is a hallmark of a good game.
>
> But for all that Beyond Earth shares its brethren's habit-forming
> qualities, it does not go beyond them. It feels all too familiar in
> all the important areas, and the few changes it boasts are superficial
> and unappealing. The units and factions might all have new names, but
> it still doesn't stray the least from the tried-and-true formula. Were
> this a simple remake of the series - where you build up eponymous
> civilization from the stone ages -  this might not be so noticeable
> but set in a high-tech 22nd century interstellar future, it's hard to
> rectify this with building up your entire society - again - from a
> single city.
>
> That is not to say the developers did not attempt to shake things up,
> but the new features aren't particularly well done. They feel more
> like they've re-skinned the old game, renaming the old familiar
> options with confusing new - and poorly explained - terminology. I
> have a good idea what a catapult or cruiser does in classic
> Civilization, but Beyond Earth has units with names like AEGIS,
> CARVR, and Throne, and I've no idea what those do? Instead, I'm
> constantly forced to resort to the badly designed (white text on a
> dark background? Whose idea was that?) glossary just to figure out
> what unit does what. It's tech-web is similarly over-designed,
> offering little sense of progression. Is my civilization truly more
> advanced now that I have figured out "Transcendental Math" or
> "Mechatronics", or does it just offer some generic stats upgrade? Too
> often I can't tell. Its factions and affinities, and its marvels and
> virtues are likewise a mess of confusing ideas that never quite gel
> together well.
>
> So while it was a welcome return to the Civilization's gameplay loop,
> ultimately Beyond Earth felt more like a hacked-together mod than a
> refinement or advancement of the franchise; a conglomeration of new
> ideas tossed into the mix simply for the sake of adding something new
> rather than because it made for a better game. The compelling nature
> of its gameplay remains solid, but ultimately I think I'd have been
> better off just playing Civilization 4.
>
>
> * Injustice: Gods Among Us (new)
> There are certain genres of games for which I am just not suited.
> MOBAs are one; so too are realistic driving simulators. For all that I
> can admire the craftsmanship that goes into designing such games - and
> have an earnest desire to appreciate them - I just do not find them
> that compelling to play. Punch-n-kick brawlers are another example;
> they are colorful, fantastical, and frenetic, often with rewarding and
> challenging gameplay, but I have neither the temperament to master or
> even long endure their game-play.
>
> Still, Injustice: Gods Among Us looked as if it might have been the
> sort of game to keep me playing through to the end, if only for its
> over-the-top combat and action-packed (if somewhat predictable)
> comic-book storyline. I mean, who /wouldn't/ want to play as Superman
> and punch an opponent into outer-space? I mean, that's the sort of
> thing a lot of us have probably wanted to do ever since we read our
> first issue of Action Comics!
>
> Alas, it wasn't to be, and I'm not sure I'm to say whether it was
> because of my own failure or the game's. When it comes to brawlers, I
> tend towards button-mashing anyway, but even given my primitive grasp
> of brawler mechanics, I didn't think Injustice's combat was
> particularly well done. There were just too many options and powers,
> and rather than  super-powered I felt overloaded with options. Even
> were I not, the game felt gimmicky, too overloaded with action
> cut-scenes, weird mini-games and quick-time events. I never felt as if
> I were given an opportunity to hone my skills because every other
> fight it seemed that the game changed everything on me.
>
> Ultimately, I gave up on actually playing the game and just watched a
> let's play of the cut-scenes, which was okay. It certainly didn't
> encourage me to keep playing, or try other brawlers. On the other
> hand, that got me into reading the comic prequels, which I found far
> more enjoyable than either game or video, so I guess something
> worthwhile came from the experiment.
>
>
>
> * Ghost Recon Future Soldier (replay)
> It's hard to review Future Soldier because there's so little
> substantial about the game. It's an absolutely forgettable Call of
> Duty clone that suffers all the problems of its better-known
> inspiration, and a number of its own problems besides. It has the same
> dull story-line, with cliched and idealized super-hero soldiers,
> ultra-linear levels, brain-dead AI and brown-is-real graphics. You
> can't open a door on your own, and dare not stray far from the
> expected mission path lest you get an automatic game-over. It
> fetishizes guns to an obnoxious degree, even for a military
> first-person shooter. Nominally a co-operative shooter, its levels do
> little to encourage teamwork. It gameplay is full of unrealistic
> gimmicks and annoying gameplay restrictions (most apparent in the
> enforced stealth sections). It is unexciting, trite and predictable
> and so unremarkable that its barely worth writing a review for it.
>
>
> --------------------
> And that's how it's done! See, not hard at all. Now you try. Tell us
> all:
>
> What have you been playing... IN SEPTEMBER 2016?
>