nin wrote on Jun 22, 2012, 10:00:

I actually thought The Missing Link was superior to the main game, at least where the boss fights are concerned. Missing Link did it right - by letting you fight the boss on your terms, like the rest of the game.

So question for ya - and I'm going to assume we're past the statute of limitations on spoilers here, so those that haven't played can just skip the rest of this...

I'd heard (not sure if it's true now) there was a way to not fight the boss in TML? Yet for me it was a straight shootout. Is it because I was on a murderous rampage through every other room? And had I been a bit um...less violent, I would have had another option?

nin wrote on Jun 22, 2012, 07:52:
If anyone missed out on last years DX, I can't recommend it highly enough. I played through The Missing Link DLC last week, and it's a winner also.

The Half Elf wrote on Jun 19, 2012, 21:14:

Creston wrote on Jun 19, 2012, 11:33:
Do the Batman games have the same sort of co-op that the older Lego games had (like Star Wars?)

Creston

No they do NOT have online multiplayer anymore, just local co-op which kinda sucks.

Seems the game is the first Lego game with voice overs. The Joker just isn't the same without Hamil.

Dmitri_M wrote on Jun 12, 2012, 00:36:

eRe4s3r wrote on Jun 11, 2012, 23:59:
And someone who refuses to use it is... not going to relevant to the world for much longer.

There are a great deal of good jobs that don't involve sitting behind a PC. I work with computers daily and I spend some time afterhours browsing sites related to my hobbies. But I'll be damned if I think spending time online is the only thing that makes someone relevant. I tend to make friends with people who don't spend any time online. They're generally more interesting to be around (less cat jokes and they're grounded) and seem to be way more active and actually do things in the real world.

I'm 30 and I've spent 15 years behind computers mostly due to work. I am actively looking at a total career change and my one priority is doing something that doesn't involve sitting behind a PC getting forwards of kittens from co-workers.

The internet is an incredible invention, but I find it really hard to drop that much hyperbole and positivity describing it.

I love it when it's useful. I hate it when it consumes normal social interactions. Yeah I don't have a facebook account.

Verno wrote on Jun 1, 2012, 13:20:
Are they really skeptical for the sake of being so though? There seems to be plenty of precedent in having low expectations. There's what, a handful or so of decent Star Wars games? Not many of them recent entries either. Put that against dozens of bad ones and LucasArts being really inconsistent in how it treats devs over the years.

Prez wrote on May 31, 2012, 21:54:
Now, GFWL sucks the balls off a camel, no doubt, but that wasn't much of an intrusion. While it would be to everyone's benefit if it was killed immediately and forgotten, it isn't enough of an intrusion to warrant boycotting great games like Batman AC. If Dark Souls is good (I knew nothing about it at all until today), GFWL isn't a reason for me to avoid it.

Agrajag wrote on Apr 27, 2012, 08:10:

eRe4s3r wrote on Apr 27, 2012, 07:51:
Well I didn't start Portal 2 after the first week either mainly because i played through it twice (100% secrets and everything) including coop and that was it. Nothing really life extending about the game, it was good while it lasted, but it has nearly 0 re-playability. Even new puzzles (few exceptions..) are always more of the same principles.

I guess, essentially this game idea is sucked dry now ;p

I disagree completely... If they did nothing but churn out new level packs regularly, I'd be in heaven, and would pay good money for them even! There's pretty much an infinite variety of puzzles you can create using "more of the same principles" we already know... And, for me, they never once got the slightest bit boring... Yes, after replaying the same levels over and over a few times, then it gets kind of boring certainly, since there's nothing left to solve (unless you've got a bad enough memory to have forgotten the solution by now!)... But, any new level that requires figuring out the new solution would be exciting to me, even if it only made use of the same old features from all the old levels...

NKD wrote on Apr 11, 2012, 10:07:
Plus they've got a mode that turns off all hand holding. You don't even get to see your ammo count.

NKD wrote on Apr 4, 2012, 13:23:

theyarecomingforyou wrote on Apr 4, 2012, 12:27:
Yeah, I can see why it got cancelled. KOTOR was the last decent Star Wars title. The rest have been terrible and the Battlefront series were particularly bad.

Why has nobody created a successor to Tie Fighter? Even though the current gen of consoles are incredibly dated they'd still be able to do justice to a space sim, as it's mostly empty space with a few stars painted in the background - they've be able to put more detail into the ships and gameplay. Somebody seriously needs to organise a Kickstarter for it, as I'm fed up of loads of shitty games trying to jump on the bandwagon.

I never really understood why space dog fighting sims died out. They are a very console-friendly genre by their very nature, so you'd think they'd do very well. Everyone loved Colony Wars and stuff on PS1.

Parallax Abstraction wrote on Mar 22, 2012, 23:09:
Rovio is the Nickleback of game development. They take a genre others have done far better things with before, make something in it that's serviceable at best, take no risks with it whatsoever, make it as dumbed down and mainstream as it can possibly be, iterate only as little as they have to each time, get rich off it and then prance around like their god's gift to the artform. Angry Birds was a lucky hit for them but to hear their CEO talk, you'd think he practically invented video games.

nin wrote on Feb 28, 2012, 10:24:

like the one where Palpatine comes back and Luke "goes undercover" as his apprentice

Wow, really???? I...just...

Why must my childhood be sodomized in such a way?

kanniballl wrote on Feb 27, 2012, 16:00:
I liked the Star Wars: Bloodlines threaad by Karen Traviss. She put together this real nice tapestry outlining the past of the Madalorian warriors (Boba Fett) during Legacy of the Force: Bloonlines.

Lucas threw away every single scrap when he did the cartoon... he didn't keep a single thing. Which annoyed her quite a bit since she was working with multiple authors to get it in there. You'd think they'd at least borrow an device or theme here and there. But no, some months after publication he said "Bzzzt... it's all wrong"


So she flipped out, and said something that ticked off a lot of viewers so they hate her now even though her books were some of the best in the Legacy of the Force series.

nin wrote on Feb 27, 2012, 11:06:

Star Wars: Clone Wars - Darth Maul Returns Trailer. Thanks nin.

I want to make it clear that was a link of disgust, and not of approval!!!!!

Creston wrote on Jan 26, 2012, 16:07:
Revelations is exactly the same game as Brotherhood, just with a less interesting city, far less interesting story, and far fewer really cool missions.