Re: Aging Well

Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:

On Tue, 04 Mar 2025 20:19:35 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:

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Oh, I want to play Mirror's Edge. It looks like fun. I finished Skyrim a
few years ago. It was decent. I never played Uncharted. Sleeping Dogs
and Super Meat Boy games were OK from their demos.

The joy in Mirror's Edge were in mastering its mechanical aspects. If
doing the same run over and over trying to get the fastest time / most
efficient route sound fun, you'll like the game. But as a
single-player narrative experience... not so much. It's not that the
free-running is bad (although I think its wasted in first-person view)
but it is interspersed with a dull story and awful combat sequences,
and that weakens the overall experience.

It has some nice aesthetics though. All that white and red; the
visuals are incredibly impressive.

Is it like Superhot? https://store.steampowered.com/app/322500/SUPERHOT/
If so, then I enjoyed it even though it got annoying in some parts. At
least, it was short (managed to finish it during its free weekend!) and
had a decent story/plot.

Ant <ant@zimage.comant> wrote:

I still want to play the whole BioShock game. I only played its demo. I
remember the cliffhanger was the glass tunnels cracked and ocean water
flooded.

If you've seen that, you've seen the best the game has to offer. And
it's a set-piece moment in the first half-hour of the game. After that
it's a lot of crawling through ruined tunnels. The fact that you're
underwater is barely an issue in this game.

(The featured event is also completely scripted, and as far as I
remember there's no real water physics used there. It's all smoke-n-
mirrors).

Bioshock is really front-loaded with its best moments. From the plane
crash to the impressive lighthouse to the awesome spectacle of your
descent to the underwater city, it all promises an awesome adventure
unlike anything you've ever seen before. And then it just turns out to
be another corridor-shooter.

It's not that it's a bad game, but you really are made to expect a lot
more from the game then you ultimately get.

Aw. Nothing good after that? Maybe I will pass. :( What about its sequel?
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