[quote name='uncle5555']Preface: Must be getting jaded in my old age (more than usual that is or not as tolerant of lower quality games these days) or games aren't as good as they used to be.
So I started going through the glut of demos I had to play here recently and had a few observations (based on initial feedback found throughout this thread)
Okabu - Art direction is awesome and quirky looking, but after the second take the guy to the cannon to open the door piece, I was like
this game and deleted it (this is based on not knowing what it was about to begin with). To say the least we weren't off to a good start.
Rocketbirds - I tried to like it, I really did. I dug the music and the pseudo 3D gfx, but the play control (played it with the d-pad) sucked horrendously, the main chicken dude moved like a block of wood, and the roll move, what was that all about (is it even possible to get to that air duct when you first enter the base?) Laughable VA'ing, as in so bad, it's just bad. I saw a lot of good there, just wasn't enough to persuade me it was worth buying.
Cuboid - My first and only response was do I need to play yet ANOTHER Qix clone....and the answer was no, deleted after beating the first level.
Crazy Machines Elements - Guess I shoulda played the tutorial level last night, but it was late and I was tired, gave it literally 3 minutes (2 of which were loading screens) and deleted it. Guess it's a game for people with more patience than I had last night.
The Baconing - I like the Death Spank games, (but not love them) this one feels like its better than 2, but not as good as 1. Which I'm ok with. My only issue is after the first boss slaughtered me mercilessly, the game defaulted to easy mode and I finally defeated him, but I was like wtf, why make the boss so damned damage resistant (not to mention the freakin' respawning enemies) then not give me enough health to tank the guy or at least run away long enough for my food items to work properly (you get attacked by archers and the boss if you go to far away, which is cheap) Other than that one main gripe, I'll be buying it when it gets cheap (just like the last two).
Beat Hazard Ultra - Sorry Frisky, this game was not THE shit, it was just shit. There are much better twin stick shooters out there to be had and with all of the it "plays your music" hype, apparently the demo selects two mp3's from your list in alphabetical order and plays them only (with no chance to choose anything else) which had to be two songs I d/l'ed from the PSN from some game that gave the soundtrack away for free, and which frankly sucked (not their fault I know, but for a feature so touted that was a stupid move on their part to limit that). Was wanting to play it with a Menomena track from the Mountain Dew commercials a few years back (hell even a NIN song on my HDD), well that didn't happen to say the least. Yeah 10 minutes and deleted (7 minutes spent screwing with the song selection menu to get it to play what I WANTED to hear), won't be buying this either.
Real Steel - Oh Yukes' how far you have fallen, from the awesome Berserk games and the woefully overlooked
Eve of Extinction (on PS2 check it out).....to this. (I don't play their WWE games) Yeah played one round got KO'ed and was like this game sucks (the stamina bar gets used up to quickly), shed a tear for Yukes' then deleted it.
Last up is...
Ugly Americans - I've been "fortunate" to see the show a handful of times via my nephew, and honestly if you're going to rip off Smash TV do it right or not at all. It was funny (for a bit) but the humor can't deter the lame gameplay that is contained within. Some things just weren't meant to be made into games and this is one of them.
Probably played one or two more last night during the demo purge, but can't remember what they were except Bodycount, (ouch...
#) (a blessing in disguise?) Just wanted to give some other opinions on some games that have been mentioned here lately and what I thought of them.[/QUOTE]
You deserve to be beat for dissing Beat Hazard. Iv not played the PSN version yet but the Steam version is godly.
