Completely missed that I could still tell my teammates to attack specific enemies in Mass Effect 2. In Mass Effect 1 they had an icon for that in the pause menu on PC, in Mass Effect 2 they did not, so I assumed that function got removed, instead they just merged it with the go-to function.
In Half Life 2, I think the G-Man is supposed to be visible in the background in a few spots in the game doing stuff, missed all of that.
Sneaking in Fallout 1 and Fallout 2, never used it.
Whenever a game offers a gambling mini-game, I skip it, not sure what I might have missed.
Assassins Creed 2 (PC), the PC version uses cryptic symbols instead of button names for the Xbox360 controller, so whenever it told me to press cryptic symbol for "back" I had no idea what button it meant. So I missed on all the descriptions of the places you go to, only figured it out after being done with the game and then wanting to collect the glyphs.
Generally speaking, it happens a lot to me. Whenever something works or me, I generally stick with it and avoid any further experimentation, especially when there is potential punishment involved (i.e. get rocket launcher, then never use it as it might be to valuable to waste on common enemies).
Considering so many games deal with the identity of your character and going against what it assumed by the player, I was wondering if there are any games in which it is revealed you were actually playing as a robot the whole time, in a Blade Runnerian twist. Does such a game exist? Will such a game exist? Is such a game a good idea?
There exist a Blade Runner game and it pretty does that (has multiple endings, it doesn't do it in all of them). Also Infinite Space does reveal quite a bit of things about your identity that aren't exactly obvious at the start.
I know taking a minute of your time to redeem a code is not a matter of life and death, but hear me out:
The biggest problem with redeem codes is not entering the few letters, that only takes a few seconds, but the whole shit around them. Getting to the point of entering them might require creating a separate EA, Ubisoft or whatever account. There have been cases where the printed codes where invalid and you had to wait days for support to fix that. Sometimes codes might already be used without your knowledge. Entering the code rarely happens right at the start of the game, but instead in some submenu or shop system that you have to find and figure out, which then of course requires knowing that the code exist in the first place. Sometimes a single game comes with multiple codes. After downloading and installing those bonuses there is often no feedback that they are properly installed and ready to use or what they even do, i.e. extra items or side-quests might not become available or usable till much later in the game (i.e. running around with armor you can't use yet in an RPG). Extra stuff might break the game balance, feel out of place or add confusion and so on.
So while I think they should use QR codes or maybe even a barcode on the Bluray to streamline the process, that would only fix a tiny part of the problem. The only way to fix the problem as a whole is to get rid of the redeem bonuses itself.
A little disappointing that it's just a remake of the original, not a new game, especially considering that the original already had a full 256 color VGA remake with cartoon graphics back in the day. This one doesn't look all that different. Either way, it would be nice to see some life in Larry again, it's a kind of game from a time back when games could cover topics a little broader then just two military factions shooting each other.
So duders. I also hut upon the idea. Maby a wired xbox controller or a Wireless receiver would work just as well or better?
A Xbox360 controller doesn't give you throttle control, so it won't work in many flight games (can be somewhat worked around with Xpadder), it also has a circular gated range (i.e. the diagonals are [0.7, 0.7], not [1.0, 1.0]) which will also trouble many flightsim games, precision is also lacking when it comes to small movement, which are needed in some situations. So while it can be made to somewhat work, it's really not ideal for games designed with a joystick in mind.
So my question for all of you is - where is the best place to play games?
Depends on the games you like. For hardcore strategy, simulations and indie stuff the PC still wins.
Is the driver game gone? Can I put a disc in my PC and start playing a game without install the way I can on my 360?
Steam mostly fixes both of those. It will keep your graphics drivers up to date and the install is done on the download, the download itself can of course still take a few hours, but it happens in the background. Given the amount of patching and firmware upgrading that is happening on consoles these days, the PC doesn't look that bad any more. The PC has improved a little and the consoles got worse a lot.
Can I play all games with a game pad?
Almost all modern games, yes, with a tiny few exceptions (i.e. Mass Effect is mouse/keyboard only). Games that are 5+ years old on the other side are almost always mouse/keyboard-only and gamepad support requires mapping with Xpadder or similar mouse/keyboard emulation tools, this can be an issue if you want to replay some old PC classics you might have missed.
Is it worth the upfront cost difference? How much are you spending every five years to keep your PC up to date?
I'd say something around $600 for a full PC. However you can upgrade almost any normal PC with a $70 graphics card to make it fully game capable. The days where you had to throw $1000 every two or three years at a PC to be able to keep playing games are gone, as most PC games are console ports and console hardware doesn't get any faster till it makes a generation jump.
The 0 score is of course meaningless as an actual review, but it tells you when something iffy is up with a game that regular reviewers didn't bother to complain about (i.e. things like problematic DRM, day-one DLC and other issues).
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