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El Shaddai.

So I'm going to talk about it. The game was good. Damn good. But many people are saying that this is one of the games we should show to skeptics to prove games are art. I'm not sure I agree.

Don't get me wrong, I think all games are art, but El Shaddai didn't feel as much like an art game as a game with art in it. El Shaddai had beautiful backgrounds, characters and music, but what it ultimately lacked was any of the aspects of games that make them a unique medium to work with. That is to say, I believe El Shaddai could have been a more meaningful piece of art as a television series or a film.

Games like Metroid Prime offer a sense of atmosphere and immersion through interactivity in a manner no other medium can replicate, but in El Shaddai the marvelous vistas and beautiful corridors you move down feel less immersive and more detached, like I'm looking at a painting in a gallery.

My point is, games like Metroid Prime and Heavy Rain are not only great pieces of art, but are pieces of art which would not be as meaningful or satisfying in another medium. El Shaddai is a great piece of art, but while playing it, I felt more like I was moving through a lovely painting than playing a game.

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I finally finished Deus Ex HR. I've beaten all 3 of the Deus Ex games now and I still am really confused by the story.

 

Inside your head you have a memory implant used for smuggling data, that you never asked for, and want to have it removed. So you accept One Last Job to carry some data for someone in order to afford the operation. But then the Yakuza and a pharmaceutical company are after it.

 

Turns out the data is about curing a plague that has been affecting mankind and the pharmaceutical company wanted control of it. In the end you succeed in getting the cure out and removing the memory augmentation, thus gaining access to long lost childhood memories.

 

Also, you need gloves and a VR headset in order to use the internet.

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Inside your head you have a memory implant used for smuggling data, that you never asked for, and want to have it removed. So you accept One Last Job to carry some data for someone in order to afford the operation.

What's wrong with a flash drive, or like... e-mail?

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Its awesome. Its by far the "funnest" of the old RE games. It has the tank controls and ribbons for saving and all that crap, but you get a lot of ammo and healing items throughout the game. Tons of ribbons too. Youll have a lot of items left over.

Its also long as hell. It took me about 13 hours, though a lot of it is spent getting lost, its easily an 8 or 9 hour game to someone playing for the first time.

 

As for the story and plot and stuff, its kind of a self contained story(although it pretty much explains why Chris is so buff in RE5), its one of the most interesting of the RE games. It also has the most batshit insane villain in the whole series.

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Its awesome. Its by far the "funnest" of the old RE games. It has the tank controls and ribbons for saving and all that crap, but you get a lot of ammo and healing items throughout the game. Tons of ribbons too. Youll have a lot of items left over.

Its also long as hell. It took me about 13 hours, though a lot of it is spent getting lost, its easily an 8 or 9 hour game to someone playing for the first time.

 

As for the story and plot and stuff, its kind of a self contained story(although it pretty much explains why Chris is so buff in RE5), its one of the most interesting of the RE games. It also has the most batshit insane villain in the whole series.

Cool. I think I might check it out sometime! Fortunately it's download, so I'll have plenty of time to get to it.

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What's wrong with a flash drive, or like... e-mail?

 

'Cause they're watching the Net, man! And if they do find out about the data, it's not so easy to just hack a brain, duuuude!

 

Yeah, the brain is a way safer place to keep your stuff. It's also important to only be able to get that data out of your brain using pictures of looney tunes.

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Resident Evil 4.

 

I first beat it years ago on the gamecube, but it's been so long that I'm counting it anyway.

 

Still have that Separate Ways Ada side-mission thing to beat, though. That wasn't in the version I played before.

 

Oh and replaying this really made it that much clearer that RE5 was completely devoid of any creativity.

 

And don't get me wrong, I actually liked RE5. I wasn't one of the haters. But it's like RE5 spent too much energy trying to recreate the big set pieces of RE4 without ever trying to be its own thing.

 

I mean, RE4 truly feels like a Resident Evil game : monsters that grow eyes where there shouldn't be any, crazy transformations that result in large creepy arms with claws, etc... Even stuff like the door of a room automatically locking right after a boss drops right in front of you. That's a classic Resident Evil moment.

 

None of that was really present in RE5. And then there's the fact that pretty much every boss fight in it was against the same shapeless, blob-like mass of black crap...

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I've decided I'm gonna start putting pictures in here, like the purchase thread, to make it more interesting to look at.

 

On that note, I have this to add:

 

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Though I wouldn't exactly call it hard, I will say that it fixed the problem SMG1 had of just being way too easy.

 

It's obvious to me from playing this, however, that Nintendo has lost their way. I mean what kind of a world are we living in where people can make a game in which you have to hit a boss 4 times to kill it?! Bosses are supposed to precisely 3 hits! No more, no less. Anything else is a crime against nature.

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Ico.

 

Wow. Just... wow.

 

I already mentioned how it was much better than I expected it to be, but now that it's over, what an amazing game. It's even more mind-boggling when you realize that it's nothing more than a 5 hours escort mission.

I'm really glad I decided to play it first instead of jumping straight into Shadow of the Colossus.

 

The only complaint I have is that it can get a bit annoying waiting around because of how slow Yorda is when you need her to climb ladders.

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Well I'm kind of on a roll. Just beat Limbo. Which is probably for the best seeing as I'll very likely be getting my copy of Dark Souls tomorrow, and I don't think I'll be playing anything else until Arkham City.

 

Anyway, I don't know if there was 15$ worth of content in it, but I loved the hell out of it. Now to wait a year until (fingers crossed) Bastion also makes the jump to PSN.

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