Évaluations récentes de La-Li-Lu-Le-Lo

Was telling a friend about this game and just recalled something: the underwater navigation, which is pretty much the core of the gameplay, is actually pretty enjoyable and a neat little challenge. When you feel like you're mastering it, the places you must navigate to get harder to squeeze by, and remain exciting especially as the pressure (hehe) starts mounting up on you.
There's this guy I follow on Twitter who writes a lot about writing, and I recall this thread of his about how storytelling is compelled by drama. Character wants to do <thing>, but he can't because <reason> and he must do <other thing>. He says this creates tension which creates drama and is the basis of good storytelling.

Iron Lung embraces that in its gameplay. I must go there, but I only have limited ways of deducing where I am, and where I'm headed. There are things that lurk in the sea of blood, but I can't see around myself except in a very limited fashion. There are other plot reasons to feel dread, but I will spare you the details so I don't spoil anything. Solid game.

Horrible, unplayable performance on a game that used to work properly on a wide range of computers. Now the frame rate is all uneven and the game just plays like garbage. Rest in peace, Counter-Strike.

God-tier art direction, really delivers the cyberpunk dystopia like no other game that I have played (does so infinitely better than Cyberpunk 2077, for instance), and makes me nostalgic for '90s sci-fi and '90s isometric PC games. The setting feels quite unique for the genre, and is very cyberpunk in the sense that this is a world that ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ sucks to live in, everyone is a lowlife struggling to survive, and violence is rampant and normalized. Unlike Cyberpunk, this game really wears its themes, and doesn't stupidly try to shoehorn modern 2020s/2010s culture in for reasons of "please buy this game, dear young person who is not into this genre"; rather, it shows the anachronistic fantasy from the '80s and '90s in all its glory (or complete opposite thereof).


But all that GOTY-material potential is hampered by the game being, uuh, essentially a twin stick shooter and not much of an RPG - despite having world-building like that of an RPG; lacking refinement on gameplay as well as level and encounter design; and having a lot of UI that is just too difficult to read. This is a game in which some of its individual parts are of divine quality, but the sum of those with the other, more amateurish parts, doesn't come together quite nicely.

Still, it's worth experiencing if you have the patience to overlook the flaws.

Diablo with guns and neon and chrome

I play with a controller, but still: this game is therapeutic.

Assetto Corsa is like the Civilization of car games, where instead of saying "just one more turn" to yourself at 10 PM and then noticing the sun rising outside your window, it's "just one more lap" around the Nordschleife (which unfortunately is not included in the base game, you need the DLC, but it's worth it; Spa is also pretty addictive).

The Ferrari 458 is an absolute beast, I'll tell you that.

It's Battlefield 3 but better (although the Paris map still sucks), with even a few elements of Squad lightly sprinkled in. 256 player matches are AWESOME, by the way, with maps getting more open and full of space for nice sniping duels and vehicle combat.

My opinion may be controversial for Battlefield fans, but I'd like BattleBit to be a bit more like Squad: I would prefer it to have suppression effects (as Battlefield 3 had, if I recall it correctly), with weapons being less accurate but more lethal. This would make it more justifiable to shoot in the general direction of the enemy without necessarily hitting them, but still give great importance to maneuvering around a suppressed enemy, and would maybe instill more teamwork and communication. This of course would encourage too much use of sniper rifles, so those would perhaps have to be limited per team as they are in Squad... but maybe that would be too much for a game that is simply trying to be a better Battlefield.

At any rate, BattleBit Remastered is a really fun game! Sniping is also extremely enjoyable, what with bullet drop and the ability to zero your sights to a given distance and all.

I originally bought this on Origin because it was dirt cheap, and even then tried to refund it, because the game literally is unplayable in whichever way you try to approach it:

- if you try to play it with a controller, there's an absolutely MASSIVE dead zone for the analog sticks, to the point where the right stick is almost completely tilted before the camera even slightly starts moving
- with keyboard and mouse, if you have vsync off, the mouse gets super low sensitivity only where you're walking in any direction; with vsync on, the frame rate gets weirdly low, like 40 FPS (feels faster than 30), but there is some massive input delay, much more massive than you'd be used to with most games. As I said, this game is not in a playable state, and EA should've fixed it before setting off on developing a remake.

Originally when I requested a refund on Origin, they took the game from my library but didn't refund the money, lmao. Since it was such a small charge I didn't bother going further after it, but, uuuh... ♥♥♥♥ EA for pulling that on me. I'm buying it now because I want to have the game in my library, but I wouldn't recommend you buy it. Go play Resident Evil 4 or Doom 3 instead, or play it on a console.

Platinum's other acclaimed sequel to Metal Gear Solid 4

This game still has it. It still has the magic tactical shooter sauce with thrilling infiltrations and combat that vaguely and abstractly feels like blurry combat footage from the '90s. I refuse to believe Crysis and Metal Gear Solid V didn't rip a few pages off Delta Force's book.

Do bear in mind that you really need the nostalgia glasses to overlook how this game has aged, as well as its controls that use the arrow keys by default (feels comfy to have your hands together in your desk like with a controller, though! Much more space for your mouse as you slide the keyboard to the left). But it's beautiful in the same way that an elderly man sees his wife as he looks at her, now aged, yet still, in his eyes, the same one that he always loved.

Just want to go on record and say that this is my favorite Splinter Cell, and its soundtrack is the only really good one in the series, the only one that makes it feel like a Tom Clancy game.

Requires external account to play. I already have an account on Steam which is perfectly usable. Activision should use that or get back to its irrelevant store. Immediate uninstall.