As many of you know, the Steam Summer Sale is going on right now. I bought the fantastic deal that was the Indie Bundle I mostly for the title ”Lone Survivor” which I have been very interested in for a while (it is very good by the way, might post about it later). What I did not expect was how much I would enjoy another game included in the collection called “Cave Story+”.
I had heard about this title back when it was a flash game but had not noticed it much before now, and had never played it before, but I am loving the experience so far. I was skeptical at first but the more I played the more I came to love the atmosphere, art style, and gameplay. Even the music is great. The hub world track is so enjoyable that every time I returned I found myself getting lost in its melody. The puzzle-solving aspects are fun, the boss battles are great; hell, all the enemies are cool. I enjoyed the multiple weapons and their basic leveling system where you lost experience as you were hit. It is overall a world where I just want to spend more time.
I know I am late to the game and pretty much everyone has already played this title, but if you are like I was and have not given this game a second glance, I cannot recommend it any more highly.
With the announcement of Battlefield 4 being released a year after the new Medal of Honor game, I cannot help but be furious. It seems they are going the Call of Duty route and releasing a new shooter every year, and if Call of Duty is any indicator this is going to be a kick square in the nuts of innovation. After Call of Duty 4 revolutionized the series it seems like Activision has done little to push the genre forward because the developers only have two years to put out the next installment.
I understand that they are two completely different companies and surely DICE is too conscious of the fans to let something like that happen to their series, but it comes down to a matter of time. Two years just is not enough to update the graphics or come up with new game mechanics because all the time must be spent developing the story and making sure all the new weapons, maps and leveling systems must be balanced and functional for the online world.
Also in all honesty, Battlefield 3 was pretty much just a more expansive version of Medal of Honor. The graphics were very similar as well as the weapons and based off the similarities I am just worried that it will continue with Call of Duty down the path of mediocrity. I am tired of our beloved first person shooters being downgraded into yearly map-packs with a sixty dollar price tag. The added story mode is not normally much of a help because for the CoD franchise the storylines have been in shambles since Call of Duty 4, and while Medal of Honor had a decent campaign Battlefield 3’s was very lackluster as well which does not leave much for the next game to build from.
All I can say is that it is a great shame that all these FPS games are being shoved down our throats with little improvement and yet we have to wait forever to receive games like Half Life 2: Episode 3 or Kingdom Hearts 3. I realize these are completely unrelated, but I’m just saying it would be nice if developers could find some middle ground that allows them to improve and innovate on a title while not taking an eternity to be release the product.
@jbuchan76: Couldn't agree more. I guess the problem for me is that it is becoming unavoidable in my life, probably because my friends are narcissists and want me to be like them
@stryker1121: Thanks for the heads up man, i was already following ChuckD and Shaq, but I'm checking out the others now. I also like your suggestion on how to use it, that seems like the proper way to me. Everyone else just calls me a stalker for it.
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