This week Default Prime writer Chris Stewart looks at his growing backlog and asks why it is he can't seem to play games all the way through any more... Is it his fault, or is it down to the industry?
"I have a problem. It’s nothing too serious and it’s nothing I can’t recover from, but damn do I have a problem. I am a serial game slacker; I buy games, play a few hours and then get distracted and don’t finish them for a long time, if ever. On my shelf right now I have a bunch of games that I started but only played a few hours of. These include: Final Fantasy XIII-2, Nier, Castlevania: Lords of Shadow, Batman: Arkham City, Dark Souls and many, many more. I can’t really understand why or how I ended up in this situation, especially when gaming’s better now than ever before."
"Dark Souls: Archthrones is like playing a brand new FromSoftware game, and that speaks volumes about just how much good modding can do," says Hanzala from eXputer.
Parrying has been creeping into more games, with almost every high-profile title of the last few years featuring it in some way. Why?
i understand the authors frustration i'm not the best at parrying in games. not that i can't complete a game that requires it but it is a definite harder thing for me than other kinds of techniques in games. which might be the main reason it's so heavily added in games nowadays. want to make your game challenging without having to do a lot of work? just add a parry boss. (what i mean by parry boss is a boss you have to beat by parrying such that their attacks will kill you otherwise)
I always think it's fine as long as such games also have the roll/dodge panic button. But I understand the will to parry, it seems so cinematic in a fight when you pull it off.
Based on one narratively fitting ending in Mass Effect 3, Prothean squadmate Javik is highly unlikely to return in the next Mass Effect game.
He was one of my least favorite characters. I wish they would have done the Proths different.
