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- Erik Twice
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It's a pretty damn great game. The thing with Sonic as a series is that it represents a modern, extremely advanced form of level design that no other platformer series has ever matched or even attempted. Most platformer games are, at their core, "8-bit" games. They follow the design principles set by Pac Land, Super Mario Bros and Ghosts'n Goblins. It's a very specific kind of design whose omnipresence makes it seem like the only kind that ever existed and could ever work. It's a bit like Disney's animation style, it's so influential and was copied so much that it become an unquestioned de facto of how games should work.
Sonic does not fit that mold. Unlike Megaman X, or Super Castlevania IV, it's not a game that is a bigger, better of something that existed before. It's not focused on jumping but on inertia, which is a much more advanced concept. It's also not focused on very tight, calculated distances, but on flow, which is again a far more modern, far-reaching concept. It downplays survivalism, by allowing you to easily recover from being hit, and also downplays the importance of enemies. It is a completely different mindset, not unlike the difference between a Baroque fugue and a Romantic composition.
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well you already picked up MCC and Fallout4, so that takes alittle bit out of this...but I highly recommend gamepass. I believe that right now its $9.99 for 3 months of gamepass. which would include MCC and fallout, but a ton of other games including gears 4 and state of decay 2. even if you didn't stay subscribed, those 3 months would allow you to try a ton of stuff without putting out a ton of cash.
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The achievements are fun too...as it gives you achievements for making dumb mistakes. 4 I've gotten recently: submerging your headlights completely in water, then escaping without stalling out; doing 500 points of damage in one impact (I crashed full speed into a light pole....I was looking at the trailer instead of where I was going); rolling onto your roof then back onto your tires; drive a certain distance with your park brake on.
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Was gonna buy XCOM on the store recently and they only had the newer one available. Lame.
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Hex Sinister wrote: Cool, I will check it out.
Was gonna buy XCOM on the store recently and they only had the newer one available. Lame.
By 'newer' do you mean the 2012ish xbox 360 era one or XCOM 2, which was a sequel to that?
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hotseatgames wrote: I enjoyed the first one, but for whatever reason, I could never use the expansion. If I attempted to load it with the expansion, my PC would lock up. Every time. Maybe I'll revisit it when I get a new PC, whenever that might be.
There was an issue with the expansion upon release if you pre-ordered it or something that it wouldn't work right or install or something. They resolved that pretty quick.
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Complete pack with all dlc is about $50 on Steam (they show the price in local currency so it's an estimate). It is often on sale though.
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Xbox store sale is on atm
I grabbed Divinity OS - Enhanced Ed for $10 - because a friend loves it to death and says that it will make me fall in love with RPG's again
Titanfall 2 for $6 - because it's a shooter with a solo campaign and it was $6
Destiny 2 +expass for $20.00 - because I am an idiot, and I miss a few of my friends from Destiny and are going to be months ahead of me, but I'm sure they probably have already instituted some sort of catch up feature for noobs.
Stuff I keep walking down the aisle and looking at :
Far Cry X - They are all on sale for like $20 (except for the new one). Haven't played any. Thinking about 4. Primal looks dumb.
Skyrim Super Awesome Xbone version - $20.00 - Haven't played more than 10 minutes of ES since Morrowind on my laptop. Does the combat still suck ass? CHOP CHOP CHOP CHOP If it hasn't - Has the exploration and storyline gotten good enough to make up for the 1995 desktop combat?
F@#$ - I have all the LEGO GAMES. Except the one stand alone Force Awakens one.....RESIST
Batman Telltale games bundle - $17 or $18 - I love Tales from The Borderlands - Anyone play/enjoy these?
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