dsheinem wrote:Just teasing, really. I enjoyed it for what it was. It wasn't a good game, but the bugs were at least funny to run into and, as soon as you start interpreting it as a budget game, it offers a lot to like. I like it like I like a stupid action film that fails miserably at what it tries to be but becomes something else entirely in the process.
I pretty much agree with this.
I should point out that I really paid zero attention to the game before release. So I had no real hyped-up expectations. And by the time I played it, it was already heavily panned so then I just had low expectations.
I think perhaps if I had thought of it as a $60 day-one purchase big budget game, I'd probably be let down. But as a budget title (which to me it was having paid $10) it was actually well worth the price of admission.
That said, you didn't think that the last boss was handled in a really poor way?
The last boss was a joke. Just the fact that you had so many safe-spots and the ability to check your tracking device to know exactly what to do next sucked all tension out of that battle. I mean it was quite frankly the easiest 'boss battle' of the entire game. The "charging bull" alien and that big alien that would bust through the ceiling while you were sneaking around at least required some strategy.
"And I don't want to get on a rant here" but why the heck would my squad leave me to take on the queen by myself?
Did you not think the level design of "run through and dodge aliens" on some levels was piss poor? Or were these design flaws simply not important to your overall enjoyment?
Even once the game was over I never 'encountered' these "run through and dodge" sections. Again, perhaps if I were more familiar with modern FPS level design I would have realized where these sections were. But the few times I tried to just run and dodge I'd just end up with a Xeno killing me from behind.
I'm not denying that these sections exist, but because they weren't apparent to me they couldn't have interfered with my overall enjoyment. They just didn't exist as far as I could understand.