NXT Gamer's Duncan reviews Ninja Theory's Enslaved.
"The greatest compliment I can give to Enslaved: Odyssey to the West is that it made me care. It’s not often that a game manages this. Sure, many games are good at eliciting excitement or fear. But empathy? That’s rare."
GB: "With this feature, we talk about 15 games on the PS3 that should be remade for the PlayStation 5."
Little Big Planet 1 and 2 deserve a mention, IMO.
Good call on Motorstorm, a game released 2 gens ago but still looks and feels so good. Motorstorm 2 and Motorstorm RC were gems as well. They followed up the Motorstorm games with the brilliant Driveclub, which still manages to put modern racing games to shame. Imagine closing down a studio as talented as that ... (!) Incredible.
A little 'arcade-gem' back then was The Last Guy, a top down 'follow the leader' snake-like game where you had to find and lead survivors to safety during an alien invasion, on terrible looking 'Google-earth' maps. Graphics were poor, even back then, but would love that same gameplay with modern maps and graphics.
Street Fighter 4, once it finally had a full roster, was quite good, but it was always an ugly game, sadly. Imagine bringing that back while using the current SF6 engine.
Some good choices here and Resistance: Fall of Man is my most wanted PS3 remaster/remake. Not sure about their claim it was Sony's answer to Gears of War though.
I’d rather have sequels than remakes. Look at Dead Space 1 Remake. Would’ve been cooler if we got a new entry and it failed with sales sealing the fate of a sequel rather than just replay the same game and it fail in sales and we never get a new entry.
Remakes are great for things like PS2 and earlier games to really get a crazy new graphical coat, but I think we should ease up on all these remakes and actually do sequels.
I rather they remaster and port over to PC and current gen all the games permanently stuck on PS360. Those games don't need remakes, they need to be given a chance to live again outside of their confined consoles and then give a few proper sequels. Like Sleeping Dogs, Motor Storm, LA Noir, should get another entry.
From Xfire: "It's not unusual to see the occasional bad PC port, but these ones make the bad PC ports look great in comparison."
To be fair with GTAIV, it was a very CPU bound game, released at a time when the vast majority of PC gamers still believed that the CPU was nearly irrelevant, and that you only needed a good GPU. 95% of "gaming" builds back then were using turds for CPUs.
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Spoilt for choice with this and Castlevania, both brilliant games.
Im attracted to both games but if i had to buy one of them first it would be Castlevania cause gameplay wise it seems much more complex than Enslaved and that i like.And also i love the art design on Castlevania. (image below)
But still i recommend both games for action adventure hack n slaher fans out there.
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it's amazing that enslaved is a multiplat yet is better than all 3rd person exclusives before it. Ninja Theory rocks!!!!!!!
I liked Enslaved a lot but I think the pro reviewers are hyping it a bit much (which I guess counter-balances some of the Castlevania fans who feel the need to bash it.... no one on this thead yet but in other forums i have read).
For instance who did you really care for in this game and how is that any different then caring for say...Master Chief and Cortana (sure she was an AI but at least not a selfish little brat). Monkey was cool and I felt bad for him being in the situation he was in, but not sure I felt that bad for anyone else in the game. ....well some fish...but thats really it.
Edit after reading reveiw:
I agree with his assessment of the animation and how you can "read between the lines" on what the characters really think despite what they may have said. The animations are excellent.
Also, I did not experience any of the tecnical glitches he mentioned.