
Skeledom
This game could've been great, but Bungie did what it did. Now I'm only left with both very fond and very horrible memories of playing it.
I thank the friends I made through playing Destiny 2 and the friends I became closer with via Destiny 2. I thank Bungie for the good in this game like the art-direction, music, raids and dungeons and wish they didn't have to put in all that other bullshit.
I may come back to this just for some nostalgia, but I don't think I'll ever put another serious hour into this game again.
While there are characters I like playing as, I'm not much of a Marvel head. I do like some of the uniqueness of the game, but it does often get overshadowed by the same kinda feelings from when I played Overwatch, where healers are way too strong in ult instances and unfortunately the characters I like playing as have some really bad problems that can make them feel completely invalidated by so many other characters. Needs a lot of work but it's compelling enough to play casually until the game inevitably makes you wanna stop. For me, it's mostly after like 4 or 5 matches.
This should've been the easy usurp of Hot Pursuit for it's specific niche within this type of racing game, the layup was right there, however the shoddy performance, especially on PC, the weird, dumb dialogue and the strange progression of car unlocks and customisation make this an unfortunately forgettable entry in the series.
All it had to do was be Hot Pursit with an open-world that actually did stuff and good customisation. What they did was just kinda lackluster once you takeaway the visual noise.
I shouldn't have waited so long to play this amazingly charming game. While my main complaints come from the usual pixel-hunting and point-n-click-adventure-game obscure solutions to puzzles, those problems are MASSIVELY overshadowed by how loveable this game is. I'm definitely going to have to replay it again someday.
Despite having zero characters, story or even so much as a theme, this game has more charm, personality and sense of speed than the vast majority of racing games out there. While I'm yet to play the other Burnout games, this one is my first and it's a masterclass in car-go-fast gaming.
I'm sure there are OG Shadow Warrior fans that hate this new direction for the series, but as someone who doesn't have that perspective I like what this game was trying to do by going further into the melee combat and making Lo Wang the goofball dork he is. Not a bad FPS game by any means.
I wish I could've had the patience to stick with this and learn it at the time. This game is insane in the things I've seen you can do within it, but my god I suck at fighting games too much just to routinely get my ass handed to me by the few killers that have been playing this thing since release.
I was unfortunately one of those "Fuck Hello Games" people back when I got burned by this game on launch. I will not treat this space to "preserve my original feelings" of this game with these hours clocked. I would rather come back to this when I've played a more up-to-date version of the game, whenever that happens.
Nice and fun platformer-shooter game, if a bit milk-toast in character writing and dialogue. While I haven't played any of the other Ratchet and Clank games, I've seen the original and this remake is definitely missing some of those big expressive character animations that make the original look really charming.
On Christmas 2011 I got an XBOX 360, this game and Modern Warfare 3. I didn't get another game until my birthday in August 2012, not out of choice but because it's all we could afford. I squeezed every last drop of content from this game, to the point where I completed every quest and the only thing I could do that wasn't going on an NPC killing spree was those repeat "Kill this bandit in this random dungeon/bandit camp for 100 gold" misc quests.
I think it's because of how much I exhausted this game why I don't think I could ever go back to vanilla without either modding the shit out of it (something I don't want to do because setting that up is tedious) or if I ever get a VR set up.