My favorite games and a mini review to go along with them.
Deadlight is one of the best platformers out there. It may not have puzzles remotely as complex as Braid, Fez, or N+, and it may not be as absurd as Rogue Legacy, but it has puzzles which remain entertaining while challenging you. Not to mention, zombies.
Open world zombie is a great idea for a game. Basically, survival horror RPG. Except it's not all that open world, more like open stage. Dead Island had some glitches on release and was criticized for being clunky and having nothing to do with what is, to this day, the most amazing video game trailer ever made - but there was plenty of fun to be had despite it's shortcomings.
Warcraft, before it became an RPG. In all honesty the graphics in WC2, 2D and outdated as they are in comparison to 3, look so much better. The game focuses far more on actual combat instead of RPG elements, and it has naval battles. Naval battles! Not to mention, this is before the story took a Star Wars turn for the worst.
While RE4 is a terrible RE game - mostly due to the fact that it lacks 100% of the elements which compose a Resident Evil game - it is responsible for revitalizing the third person action shooter genre and has led to great games such as Dead Space. RE4 is a great game, just not a great Resident Evil game, that's all.
Shogun 2 blew. The games elements were quite cohesive and everything in the game was rather solid, but the core point of the game - which was to conquer - was flawed from the beginning. Mired by a pointless and arbitrary food limit, you had to be overly careful in the campaign in order to actually enjoy the game. FoTS took that nonsense away and gave you guns. Accurate guns. Miniguns. The best artillery in any total war game too. Forty unit armies, and,. trains. Granted the train system didn't really lend itself to any sort of tactical gameplay; you couldn't sneak a force and capture a train station deep in enemy territory because your troops wouldn't be able to go through the territories before it until you owned them. Probably the best total war to date, which is ridiculous, considering it's a stand-alone expansion.
The best RPG ever made. All you need to know. CT was revolutionary when it came out and though it may have some plot issues, as all time travel stories do, it is superb in all aspects, including graphics - it humiliates Squaresofts next game, Final Fantasy 7.
Still one of the single hardest games ever made, to date. Even beating this game took a level of skill dedication and memorization unmatched in video games, god forbid you try it with two people. It's too bad Rare is completely defunct and doing absolutely nothing under Microsoft's ownership - we could use a game with legs that turn into giant boots/axes/anvils and the like.
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