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CoD:MW3 and FFXIII-2

These games have really long names, ha.

MW3 single player campaign is as short as it was criticized. I started it around 1pm and finished it at 1am. Total play time should be less than 8 hours. In fact it was a very nice experience, to fight in NYSE building, watch Eiffel tower collapsing and shoot enemies with super modern weapons. I can imagine some player would be pissed off if they bought this game for single campaign. This is a game designed for online play.

I tried it on Xbox live the next day, and found it wasn’t a game for me. It is so easy to kill or be killed in this game, 3~5 bullets, less than 1 second. Usually even before you realize which direction you’re being shoot, you’re gone. It’s very different from GeoW3, in which those “Gears” are much more tough and can eat more bullets. I’m not a CS lover so I’ll just return this game and continue my FFXIII-2.

I’ll talk about FFXIII-2 later after I beat it. So far it’s better than I expected. Time travel plot is always attractive to me, though I’ve prepared for a broken ending because it’s quite difficult to make a time travel story logical.. The battle system is OK, and Sera is good-looking. What else do you expect from a “FF*-2”?

Super Mario 3D

最近通了3ds上的mario，总的来说相当失望。个人认为是敷衍之作，跟ds和wii上的mario正统作品比相差太远。

手感应该说还是保持了水准，3d操控方式，视角转换也没什么问题。致命的缺点就是几乎毫无新意。依靠3d特性做出来的机关都相当无聊，关卡里面视觉效果是更加3d了，但玩法没什么变化，感觉就是在玩一个有3d效果的旧mario。而且由于3d的原因画面还没有以前的作品亮丽，我感觉是得不偿失。

再说游戏内容，整个游戏几乎只有狸猫和乌龟两个变身，远逊于ds的巨人和小人变身的乐趣。马银里面奇思妙想的关卡和boss战也不见踪影。更不要提wii上的多人配合。3ds上第一作正统mario只有这个水平实在让人失望。我要考虑把3ds出掉了。

Gears of War 3

Defeated Gears of War 3 last weekend at normal difficulty. As always, not a very long shooting game. Walkthrough length was about 15 hours. This one put an end to the trilogy story. Frankly, I can hardly remember the story now. This is just a game to shoot monsters, saw them, and watch blood on screen.

The big difference this time, for me, is I finally can fight online… Played versus mode a few times and found I’m not a big fan of CS style games. My kill/death ratio is between 1/5 to 1/10. This is not fun. Then I moved to the Horde mode and really enjoyed it. That’s a mode that players cooperate to survive waves of enemies. Though my best score was only about 20 waves (there are 50 waves in total), it’s much more fun to kill monsters together with ppl.

The best part of GeoW2 in my mind was playing as a sniper. It was super enjoyable to watch monster head blast in the scope sight and hear the crack sound. In GeoW3 enemies are a little bit more clever, so it’s not that easy to snipe them anymore. Assault rifles became obviously strong and I had to use them a lot, which is kinda boring.

Another weird part of GeoW3 is most enemies in ACT 1 are locust. Their blood is golden! For a long time I thought there was some violence setting and googled how to disable it. Until I finally saw some red blood from beast enemies…

Skyrim All Achievements Done

Race: Khajit, Level: 50, Main Combat style: archery/sneak, Game time: ~150 hours.

skyrim

It’s no doubt Game of The Year for 2011. Many many awards. And the “arrow in the knee” meme was a quite unique phenomenon for a video game. I guess most ppl who used this joke never played Skyrim, lol.

This was actually my first time to finish a “sandbox” style game. This game style tries to give player as much freedom as possible. Skyrim did give you FREEDOM. There are 9 cities in the world map, except the first one (Whiterun), you can visit the other 8 cities in any order, any time! And the huge huge world map is full of villages, caves, ruins and tasks. There is an achievement for “discover 100 places” but it was done in a pretty early stage. I guess the total number of places may be around 300! And sometimes I got over 20 open tasks and 4 to 5 story lines going on simultaneously. I’ve never played a game with so many free choices. If you play it in a mood of “finishing tasks quickly”, it would make you anxious and a little bit uncomfortable. But once you stop rushing and begin to wander on this huge land, you will immediately feel the pleasure. Every character has his/her background and small story; numerous and various animals running around; new tasks come in and open tasks are closed like a flow; you’re the hero and resolve every difficulty on this cold continent. It’s a ridiculously addictive experience.

Don’t be too critical to its fighting style. It’s shooting(archery) can’t compare with real shooting game, and its action combat is far from a real action game too. The spirit here is possibilities. Many skills can be combined in any way. Lots of interesting combat style can be created.

The last achievement I got was “Reach level 50”. All other achievements were done at level 43. Then I tried to level fast, by pickpocketing every person I met, enchanting lots of junk weapons, spending money to train skills, etc. The only missable achievement is “Get 15 daedric artifacts”, because you need to choose the right option in every daedric quest. Just remember to follow those evil god’s instructions then you will get all those artifacts.

Btw, I’m going to trade in the game (XBox version) this week. Let me know if anyone wants to buy it…

2011年游戏总结

[PSP] Monster Hunter Portable 3。这个游戏从12月底开始玩，2月份就村毕业了。游玩时间比mhp2短了不少，主要是因为Wii上的mh3 tri玩惯了吧。之后又断断续续的玩了很久，可能还差四五个勋章的样子。现在两个PSP接灰等mhp3g了。
[PS3] 战神1+2。PS2时代的代表作在PS3上的复刻，玩起来仍然觉得挺好玩的。
[PS3] FF13。到通关感觉还都挺不错的。放了几个月又捡起来做了一些冥碑任务，还差几个的时候觉得不练级打不过去了，就扔下了。
[XO] CoD7。一般般，通关就算了。
[XO] Vanquish。出乎意料的好玩的一个作品。对于较喜好ACT又不排斥FPS的玩家来说这个应该很好玩。
[XO] Dragon Age 2。Hard难度通关。小队战术的感觉挺赞的。
[PS3] 战神3。很爽快很容易白金。
[XO] L.A.Noire。我觉得这是个雷。开头感觉特别好，后来越玩越不爽。勉强玩到通关了。
[PS3] Uncharted 2。借了渣古的玩。还可以吧，我对这个不是太感冒。
[3DS] Zelda OOT。在3ds上补上了这个神作，的确很nb，不过3d效果基本上可以忽略。。
[XO] 一小堆Kinect游戏。挺好的Party game。跳舞游戏尤其适合女生。
[XO] Dark Souls。开了个头就搁置中。。这设定太bt了。
[XO] Skyrim。进行中。

其实今年最主要的变化还是翻墙。临走的时候卖掉了电视，PS3和XO。来了这边之后买了电视，XO + Kinect和几个游戏，老老实实玩正版好了。