The "What are you playing?" topic.

[Meneldil]

Protip: Call of Duty and Medal of Honor games were fun 8 years ago.

[Prussian to the Iron]

Protip: Call of Duty and Medal of Honor games were fun 8 years ago.

Get. Out.

[frogbeastegg]

I'm playing Darksiders while I wait for Fallout: New Vegas. It's one I have had on my shelf as something to look forward to for months - I was so sure I'd love it. It sounded exactly like my kind of game. I'm about 5 hours in. I'm disappointed, so horribly disappointed.

It's like Zelda, everyone says. Yes, I agree. It's like Zelda if you get rid of the colourful, diverse game world and replace it with generic grey urban ruin. If you paper said grey urban ruin with PS2 era textures. If you turn the varied, enjoyable combat into a brainless, skill-less, tedious button masher. If you replace the puzzles with ... oh, wait, no, just copy and paste the puzzles and hope your intended audience has forgotten the solutions. If you get rid of the catchy music in favour of some generic bland stuff that's so forgettable I can't tell you a thing about it because I can't remember anything. If you get rid of the simple, elegant controls and replace them with an over-complicated mess that makes weird decisions like sticking the all-important dodge/block function on the right bumper button so I have to change the way I hold the controller for a less comfortable grip that doesn't mesh too well with the way it was designed. If you tear out the loads of little upgrades you want to buy for your character, and replace them with stuff the player can't see any point in. If you get rid of the multitude of neat time wasting things to do in the game world and don't replace them.

So it's like one of the 3D Zelda games if you get rid of everything that makes them fun.

[Fragony]

facepalm du jour wut Darksiders is excellent

[frogbeastegg]

Darksiders is excellent

I was hoping you'd say that the beginning was not so good but it really picks up after the first 6 hours, or something. It would have given me some hope. Right now I'm slogging my way through the second half of that first big dungeon after getting the boomerang shuriken.

I haven't been this disappointed by a game in years. Absolutely gutted.

[Veho Nex]

So much league of legends... sooooo much.... But I think i might switch over to Company of Heroes online now.

[Hooahguy]

After playing Men of War I could never go back to CoH.

[Fragony]

I was hoping you'd say that the beginning was not so good but it really picks up after the first 6 hours, or something. It would have given me some hope. Right now I'm slogging my way through the second half of that first big dungeon after getting the boomerang shuriken.

I haven't been this disappointed by a game in years. Absolutely gutted.

Oh it opens up after the first dungeon, it's a terrific game if you can forgive some graphical inconsistencies, it's quite the looker forget about the intro.