• 7Nov 09

  Machinarium=Wow and InFamous=omfg!

  Recently I read this post written by dark_messenger about Machinarium, a simple point and click adventure with a very simple and cute story. I gave the game a try as you can just go to http://machinarium.net/demo/ and start the demo in the browser itself. I got hooked to the game instantly, and got the full version. It is strictly a 2D game with pure hand drawn artwork. It is brilliant!

  

  The puzzles are awesome, there are small mini games and the best part is there are no dialogs at all! I mean, I like listening to characters in the story, but here the characters are telling their problems in simple gestures or pictorial thoughts. The game is not very long, hints are nice, the game includes a walkthrough as well for which to open, you have to play a boring mini game... intelligently put. One more thing which I liked about the game was its story, its not epic, its a simple story of a robot who is searching for his lost girlfriend. If you have free time, do give this game a try!

  I also finished InFamous, and my reaction is: Mind Blowing! I started infamous some time back, and I had way too many games at that time for whom I abandoned infamous in the middle, however my room mate insisted that I continue the game as it gets better, so I continued... and MAN, the game does get better and better. The powers are awesome! the story is brilliant, and the thing which is best in the game is ... its variety in the type of missions.

  

  Honestly speaking, even GTA4, though an awesome game, any time enjoyable, does have missions which are repetitive. InFamous has an arsenal of different powers and I dont know, how many types of missions. Infamous city is ok, and the people are a little lifeless, also the animations are crappy. But these things simply dont come in the way of the gameplay, which is why, this game ROCKS! must play for all PS3 owners.

  • Posted Nov 7, 2009 11:23 pm GMT
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• 29Oct 09

  Brutal Legend and Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2

  Man these two games are so awesome! I recently finished both of them yesterday, and man, I liked every single moment of these games! Brutal Legend characters and the world is so brilliant! Jack Black as usual did his part well, also was good to see other rock stars doing voice overs. The mix of genres of gameplay was a welcome change and every mission felt refreshing. Collectibles are nice. Only problem with the game was that it's verrrrry short!

  

  You are still left in the world to continue doing stuff in the open world, which is always fun, but still, it should have been 2 or 3 times longer easily. When I came to know it has RTS elements, I was sorta scared, cause I am not a big RTS fan. But this game does it so nicely! You can take part in the fight, and moving yourself as the hero in middle of the battle and controlling troops is well implemented. You cannot do much, for e.g. you cannot select a set of infantry... simply not possible. But then the game is not designed in a way that you will need that.

  Now comes Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2, I am stoked! I am ecstatic! This was f*king awesome! It is a perfect game in my eyes. No complaints what so ever. When I played Ninja Gaiden Sigma before, I did not appreciate its hard difficulty and sadistically put save points. Not to mention the graphics were VERY ugly. But Sigma 2 corrects all that, not very hard, comfortably put save points, and the graphics are so nice!!!!!

  Check the images above out, they are in the underworld, during the last levels. The last image shows an area where puddles of blood are there, man it looked so engrossing and intriguing! The last level's art stuff is mind blowing. The whole game's graphics are amazing! I really liked this game! In my all time favourites list.
  
  I also finished R6V2 in splitscreen co-op with my friend. I know, old game but co-op is always fun . So what games did you play recently?

  • Posted Oct 29, 2009 1:48 am GMT
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• 26Oct 09

  Rants

  1. Valve: Where is Episode 3? seriously man, u said that u will release half life in episodic fashion, and I cannot believe, we ate that bullsh*t rite up. I have lost respect for you and the trust is gone, you cheated me.
  
  2. FunCom: Can I play Dreamfall chapters before I die?
  
  3. Sony: Do you know, how awefully hard or fkin expensive it is to buy a PSN game in India? Do you even give a sh*t about us?
  
  4. Sony: I love your weird ads, but lets learn from Microsoft how to promote a product, shall we? It will be fun, I promise!
  
  5. Microsoft: Why are your accessories costly? and dont follow standards? it just makes you look like even more evil! Money hungry beaurocrat.
  
  6. Microsoft: Your hardware is full of garbage which breaks down before I start sweating. Study this thing called 'Quality Testing', and then release it next time, k?
  
  7. Nintendo: Sick of mario games now. please make new characters.
  
  8. Pre-order shipping merchants: You guys make pre-order a joke in India. By the time we recieve it, its already in big stores. You think we gamers are full o' sh*t, don't you?
  
  9. Game Developers: Enough of interactive cutscenes and button mashing crap! No one likes them... SERIOUSLY NO 1 LIKES THEM! STOP IT! ITS SO FKING ANNOYING! ruins everything, its so incredibly annoying!
  
  10. Game Developers: Can you stop copying the Gears of War's train level? How about something original for a change.. huh?
  
  11. Game Developers: No more World War II, please! nuf said.
  
  12. Game Developers: Why gigantic breasts for female characters? It does not look good, seriously! This is a guy speaking, it honestly and sincerely does not look good! Learn something from Valve who created Alyx Vance (I continue to disrespect Valve btw).
  
  13. Id Software: Hey! Ever heard of releasing a game? It's fun you know.
  
  14. Publishers: Do you have any idea how much money you will make if one of you buys the rights of Duke Nukem and release Duke Nukem Forever? Or are you guys just sea otors in suits?
  
  15. Gamespot: Your RSS feeds are useless. Some of the important things are never included in your RSS feeds.
  
  16. Game Developers: Your terminology is getting mislead over years. There will be this one stupid multiplayer mode and you will say, 'Oh oh! see see, we got co-op in our game'. Please be clear, we used to understand co-op as the full campaign in cooperative mode. And what is this bullsh*t about that co-op campaign will ruin the single player cinematic experience of a game (CODMW2, UC2)? Absolute bollocks! Just say you were incompetent to do it.

  17.chatspeak haters: Care to read this post.

  18. Fanboys: Oh, theres a big post coming for you guys too, not just a line of text

  • Posted Oct 26, 2009 2:10 am GMT
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