Borderlands 2

Long time no read, fellow game-players.

But : I played a bit but did not find the time to write it down here. And besides, I am actually starting to play games more and more analytic, since after a year of intense catching up I think I am mostly up-to-date.

So I will try to get into that what actually amazes me about games : their mechanics, their rules and most of all, the additional level a game gets when multiplayer comes into play.

I bought Borderlands 2 in a steam sale, and I must say, besides being a dumb FPS, it actually is a very suitable game to study. So I hope I can remember and read all my thoughts and notes while playing it, cause you can see most of the concepts of newer and older (FPS) games coming together here in a funny yet absurd brutal way.

Stay tuned.

The Baconing - What the heck does that mean anyway ???

It was a cold morning in 2011 and some heavy talented comic artist and some goofy underrated devs (all fictional) met in a McDonalds after having drunk the whole night in a third rate bar in a east-european ... no seriously, what Hothead Games did there is actually quite nice.





Pardon me, what did that hit do ?

I only played it a few minutes because you have a problem what comes to my attention quite often in the last few games. You do not really see what you hit, or how do I describe it, you do not really feel or get the feeling for the hit you do on your opponent.

You start as a super hero, I did not get anything of the story, but I am having the feeling I am not supposed to, anyways.




So whats good ?

Besides of that major fault it is very nice, I dont get the 63 rating on metacrictic yet. It's comic graphic is epic, its interface marvelous, the "fuk-u-diabolo" aesthetic instant gratifying, its goofy voice over wants to play it just to hear more of it.

And when you start talking seriously to a cow then you know, this game is at least not the usual crap.

I will fire this game up again ! And try to rip the voice !

The Darkness II - Second, still interessted but calmed run

[ The Darkness II - Second Run - 6 hours now ]

So I continued to play quite a lot of this comic-style-horror game. And I like it.

I mostly like the story telling and the cell-shading. The textures are so cool, too.

The fighting is, well, you know the drill against AI opponents, it is always boring after the first or second encounter with a new enemy type.

There are end-bosses ! I like that. I like the dry humor of the creepy little companion you have with you.

I was stucked a few times at certain places, drove me mad, one time I had to lower the difficulty what feels like your genitals are cut off and then badly stiched back on when you raise it again.

IWUTE Test (I woke up too early test) - The Darkness II

The screenshots look promising. "The Darkness II". Never heard of it. Can not remember where I bought it. Probably in the 2k Humble Bundle.

Some horror FPS. Well. I should not blow brainz out before breakfast and coffee, but ah what the hell.


[ AFTER THE FIRST RUN ]
If you know nothing about it - PLAY IT WITHOUT READING THE REVIEW OF THIS GAME BELOW, PLEASE.

(btw, dont miss the "what happend in darkness 1" monolog ingame by this guy in the picture, its hillarious)