Rate the Last Game You Finished

[JuntMonkey]

Wallace & Gromit: Muzzled - 7.0/10

Not bad. The graphics were the best I've seen from Telltale, the reason being that the claymation style is well suited to Telltale's engine (in the same way, I think Pixar's Cars looks better than say The Incredibles because cars are significantly easier to render than humans). The environments were nice, especially the fair and its centerpiece. The puzzles weren't hard, but satisfying enough.

What grated on me was the dialogue. Too much of it (as is my complaint with most Telltale games). I want to be exploring and solving things, not clicking on people and watching a back-and-forth conversation for a minute each time. With shorter dialogue I give this at least an 8.

[jeeno0142]

Okamiden DS 10/10

I loved Okami on the wii and was overjoyed when I heard the sequal was coming. The art style is still just as gorgeous, the soundtrack is still just as beautiful, and the storyline still engaged me.

What with it being on the DS it was a lot easier to control the celestial brush, but I did find a minor niggle when trying to do 'bloom' and it picked it up as 'wind' instead. Controls were at first quite hard to get my head around, but after a coupkle of hours it all came naturally to me. I guess it's the same with any game though.

I loved all the characters, even the ones who I initially thought I would hate. They all grew on me. I was happy with the ending too. Although I was saddened that I never got to see Amaterasu and Chibi reunite. I was expecting to see that. It would have been adorable.

Overall, it's my new favourite DS game.

[Scnew]

Darksiders -- 8/10

Pretty cool game. It's like The Legend of Zelda, if instead of Hyrule you have the post-apocalyptic hellscape that once was Earth, instead of Link you have a Horseman of the Apocalypse, and instead of the hookshot you have... um, well okay, you still have the hookshot.

Pros:
-It may be a more mature Zelda clone, but it does a pretty great job at it.
-Really cool environments, character and creature design, and just the premise of fighting off angels and demons after the end of the world is great.
-Mark Hamill is a creepy ghost guy!
-Great boss fights (mostly). Riding around on a flaming horse fighting a giant sandworm, or throwing train cars at a huge insecty thing, woo!

Cons:
-Some enemies just take too many hits. Other enemies are going to hit you no matter how good/practiced you are. Playing on the hardest difficulty has enemies that go from being no threat at all immediately followed by something that can kill you in two hits.
-While the premise is really great, the voice acting was often not that spectacular, and story bits were sparse. You end up making a lot of assumptions about things that aren't really explained well.
-Not quite as good as a Zelda game, but then that's asking a lot!

[Chyron8472]

Originally Posted by Chyron8472

Mass Effect for PC from Steam.

8.7/10

Pros
Solid gameplay and combat interface
Fantastic voiceover work (bar none, it's excellent)
Highly customizable main character appearance and combat abilities
Unlockable achievements promoting multiple playthroughs
Story-affecting dialogue decisions
Quick-Save option makes manually saving progress near effortless

Cons
Minor glitches (apparently fewer than on 360)
Repetitive appearance to sidequest areas

Mass Effect 2 for PC from Steam.

9/10

Pros
(see above)
also:
Decisions from ME1 carry over to ME2.
Combat refined so powers are more effective / more fun
More team characters than ME1.

Cons
Fewer sidequests than ME1.
Whereas ME1 has a defined ending, the end of ME2 has somewhat of an Empire Strikes Back feel to it.
Story of ME1 is more mysterious and sinister.

[yoman45135]

Red Dead Redemption

Its good but not a very long game, theres not much to do after you complete it

Bad things are that unlike gta you cant drive trains, no cars even thought you see them around every now and then.


Its a good way to teach people whats acceptable and whats not...

Abusing animals is the thing i hated the most, (kicking dogs, Skinning animals etc)

[DrRocketGenius]

LA Noire - 7/10

It started as a promising game, but then it kept going. And going. And going. It's too overly long with not enough difference between the cases to make it worth playing. Not a bad game, but... I'd wait til the price inevitably goes down.

[Johro]

Originally Posted by DrRocketGenius

LA Noire - 7/10

It started as a promising game, but then it kept going. And going. And going. It's too overly long with not enough difference between the cases to make it worth playing. Not a bad game, but... I'd wait til the price inevitably goes down.

It just gets longer. When you replay after downloading new cases, all the DLC cases get put into the storyline. Personally, I think that's a pretty cool feature of the game...but for people that think it drags on... it just gets worse haha

[Nintomster]

Sam and Max: Hit the Road

Loved it. Just brilliant. The voices were great, the jokes were great, the puzzles were hard, but I could still get them (only used a walkthrough once). Sadly, that's the last of all the Sam & Max stuff I haven't yet seen...

[guitarsareboring]

Originally Posted by DrRocketGenius

LA Noire - 7/10

It started as a promising game, but then it kept going. And going. And going. It's too overly long with not enough difference between the cases to make it worth playing. Not a bad game, but... I'd wait til the price inevitably goes down.

Part of me thought it was too short, but at the same time I understand what you're saying. It could've done with some variation in gameplay, the action sequences were a touch underdeveloped.

[JuntMonkey]

Red Dead Redemption - 10/10, and becomes my 2nd or 3rd favorite game ever.

But not because of the authored narrative. The cutscenes and linear story that Rockstar put in there are by far the worst parts of the game. It's amazing in spite of that (and it's not like many games get that right anyway).

Originally Posted by Johro

It just gets longer. When you replay after downloading new cases, all the DLC cases get put into the storyline. Personally, I think that's a pretty cool feature of the game...but for people that think it drags on... it just gets worse haha

Can you play the DLC cases at any time if you download them after finishing the game, or do they actually have to come within the context of the game, meaning you have to replay the entire game when you get an additional DLC?

[DrRocketGenius]

Originally Posted by JuntMonkey

Can you play the DLC cases at any time if you download them after finishing the game, or do they actually have to come within the context of the game, meaning you have to replay the entire game when you get an additional DLC?

No, there's a Case Select screen.

[JuntMonkey]

Assassin's Creed 2 Deluxe Edition - 7.5/10

This game is wayyy overrated. It's ultimately just as repetitive as AC1, which was the main complaint with that one. I noted "Deluxe Edition" because it included the 2 DLC episodes, Sequences 12 and 13 which cannot be skipped. Those added 3 more hours of boring gameplay at a point where I already just wanted the game to end, so it hurts my final opinion tremendously. The game took me 25 hours and could have been 10 hours shorter (or had less repetitive content).

I was definitely still having a lot of fun at the 10-15 hour point and was pretty addicted to it, but it falls apart so hard when you're forced to chug through those final 10 hours.

[der_ketzer]

The Whispered World 6/10

The Good
- Awesome drawings, with a lot of details
- Interesting concept. Will we destroy the world by trying to stop that?
- Finally a cute pet for the main character
- The music was nice, but nothing special

The Bad
- The voice acting in the German and the English version is not too good. (Especially the main character)
- The main character is constantly depressed which really got my mood down
- The graphics are too detailed. Often you just do not see an object you need to interact with.
- Some of the puzzles are horrible --> Click the right spot on a black wall.
- Some puzzles are just puzzling --> I had no clue I was searching for a mouse? Why would I do that?
- Puzzles I have seen in too many games. Oh the key is in the lock on the other side of the door but if I just let it drop it on the ground I will never get it. I know you know this puzzle if you played more than 3 adventure games that are not by TTG.

The Ugly
- The Ending of the game. I should have seen that coming after playing Edna some months ago but I didn't. I wish I could just erase the last 5 minutes of the game from my mind and settle for quitting at that point. That would not have resolved anything but it would have been a more satisfying ending.
- No real choice at the end even though you are meant to make one. Why present a fake choice when you only can choose one of them?
- Stuttering cutscenes are no fun

Without this end the game would have still been a 8/10. This game somehow made my appreciate TTGs style a lot more At least in their games I always know what I am looking for. A f***** mouse. GOD!

[RetroVortex]

Mario's Picross 8/10

Its a fun game, but it needed more puzzles really.

Well, I guess since it is a Gameboy game, that can be forgiven mostly, but I was expecting a bit more out of it.

http://backloggery.com/retrovortex

Thats one game beaten, just 467 left to go!

[DrRocketGenius]

LEGO Harry Potter - 8.5/10

Everyone knows that LEGO games are pure fun. I got 100% in this one, and it was a huge pain in the ass to find the last few things, but I did it and I'm happy.

[DrRocketGenius]

From Dust - 8.5/10

It's pretty awesome. Though it's definitely frustrating at times, it's a very good game. And for $15? It's worth it.

[Elvenmonk]

I can't remember the last game I beat, but here's the last few I remember.
Persona 4 8/10 - It was alright. I liked P3 more, but Persona series is still my least favorite of SMT.
Brutal Legend 7/10 - What gets this raiting so high is it's story. While the RTS parts were not as fun as the hack 'n slash parts it still had a very funny story.
Catherine 9/10 - A great game, but hard mode drops it a point for me. Simply because the need to be so precise in hard mode is a bit much.

[DrRocketGenius]

Bastion - 10/10

Oh my God.

[VeronicanPlay]

Trine - 9/10

[Armakuni]

Final Fight Double Impact for the PS3, I give it 10/10

I don't normally give games such great ratings but Final Fight has always been my favourite beat'em up and I'd give the normal version 9 or 10 out of 10... so I had to give the PS3 version 10/10 for one simple reason - online multiplayer support!
Other than that, the game seems to be arcade perfect and I can't find anything to complain about.
But having multiplayer support really adds a LOT to the game, I love playing coop with people but hardly ever have people around... which is no longer a problem

Really, this has turned out to be the thing I like the most about the PS3 - the ability to play certain old classic games online, it's so damn cool.