thirdworldgamer

For some reason I never tire of staring at this newly purchased Halo 4 Play Arts Kai statue of Master Chief. It's just perfect . Unlike other Play Arts figures you can barely see those "action figure" joints, so it looks incredible. The armor detail is really well done, too. Got it from Datablitz SM Marikina last week. Just amazing.

I've been playing DmC for the past few days and I think it's a fantastic action game. I don't know how Ninja Theory could have prevented the backlash they got for rebooting the franchise....there was really no demand that the Devil May Cry series be redone. That said I've played a big portion of their game and I came to the conclusion that everyone who mocked them originally should apologize, and eat a big plate of crow. The last DMC game I know of, DMC4, sold pretty well. I remember I didn't like how the previous game made you fight the same bosses over and over, and the story was pretty bad, too. In DmC, the story is quite well told, and the cutscenes were alright. I didn't find anything really cringe-worthy; yeah the new game loves to use the 'F' word but it was OK in the context of what was going on. There's also some sort of 'love story' i think, but it isn't as unbearable as DMC4's. Also, I love how creative they were with t...

Everyone else was giving this game 10s and 9s. I don't think it deserves it. The game's design seems to boil down to this: 1) Make 15 or so giant, empty, desert maps. 2) Populate maps with 5-10 different enemy types. 3) Put waypoints on map 4) Put townspeople with quests for each waypoint 5) Profit = 100 hours of gameplay The game's sidequests (and even its main quests) all feel the same---go through mob, get item/kill monster, return to quest giver. That's it. Nothing really happens when you do it. Well there are probably a few major cutscenes here and there but you don't feel like anything really changes in the world. And that's what bothers me about this game. I like the idea behind treasure drops like Diablo 2 in this game....but at some point it feels like a chore to go over stat after stat after stat. It's just tiring for me. Maybe I've just outgrown this type of game. I don't have 400 hours of free time anymore to devote to this ki...