Great in concept, wonderful art style, cool setting, and just wretched overall design. Outsourcing something with this much potential was a terrible mistake. No Chinese developer, making a tenth of a cent on the dollar is going to do such a design justice.

They got what they deserved with that one.

I may have worded that badly. My main point there was that it's not really fair to judge games in different genres for being in different genres.

And it definitely irritated me that the box didn't give a particularly clear clue that it was a rail shooter and not a proper flight sim. OTOH, I picked it up on deep discount, so I wasn't as irritated as if I had paid full price.

It was kind of fun, but I wouldn't buy it again at any price. I just don't think it had enough replay value and I wouldn't recommend it.

Which meaning of "junk" is implied in this phrase?

Well the latest one is better than the first one and even some of the more crap games have some good laugh value (Mega Man 11 for instance :P )

Man, not in front of a christmas table.... What can be imagined... cannot be unimagined...

I need to buy this. Sounds like a good game. Is it a uPlay game?

Steam? http://store.steampowered.com/app/214250/

Apox - Drops to desktop for twenty seconds every time you access the menu or the scene changes.

Brain Pipe - People use meditational practices like this to relieve anxiety from cognitive dissonance, not artificially initiate cognitive dissonance.

Settlers II 10th Anniversary Edition - Making way through a map to a goal point by laying down any old building (willy nilly) to open territory for your next building in line. Placing a soldier barracks down when your snake of buildings leads to an opposing community.

Now I'm really curious to install my copy of I Am Alive to see what you're talking about.

I've played every instalment in the series in order of release, including the non-canon expansions, and the first F.E.A.R. was the only one I actually liked. Extraction Point (the first expansion for those who don't know) was like trying to wrestle a berserk bear made out of solar plasma and high on angel dust from the saddle of a unicycle. Whatever the hell Point Man's objective is at any given time, it ends up either broken, burnt, dead or disintegrated, after which he's given the next goal to inevitably fail to achieve, and as a result it feels like he's just being toyed with by a sadistic dungeon master. Perseus Mandate (the second expansion) bordered on the alright, but its extreme distance from absolutely fucking everything made it rather pointless. Then F.E.A.R. 2 and 3 came along and tried to rationalize and explain what was going on in F.E.A.R., completely oblivious to the fact that the game's plot didn't feel so utterly retarded when the protagonist was kept far away from it and occasionally given short peeks at it through a steamed-up window. And those endings. Oh, lord.

I'm not going to say F.E.A.R. 2 and 3 are the worst games I've ever played, but they are up there anyway.

Yeah, but I wanted to make sure it doesn't use a uPlay client. I keep those separate from Steam.

Worse than The Force Unleashed? I doubt that any game is worse than that one.

What's bad about I Am Alive is that it's one of the best selling games this year. Just goes to show that a post apocalyptic setting can move tons of copies.

I loved The Force Unleashed. What was wrong with Force Unleashed, well except for QTEs?

Obnoxious, uninspired, repetitious, dry, painful to play, and some of the worst game design in recent memory. Also, it takes the shit that made the prequels bad and fuses it with the main Star Wars movies. My personal most hated game. And I beat it too (stupid achievements.)

As someone who loves hack n slash (DMC, Bayonetta, etc.) The Force Unleashed was really really bad.

Bad port, that was my gripe with it. Really clumsy. Never played past the first two levels.

Average, yes, but bad? Nah. I love hack n slash as well you see, and I still really liked it. And I loved the presentation. Yes, it's not Star Wars canon, but I don't really give a crap about Star Wars canon. All I do give a crap about is that the game made me feel awesome and it has always exceeded my expectations in what over the top passage it can throw at you next.
Yeah, the port was bad. Then again, I have finished Devil May Cry 3 on the highest difficulty using keyboard only, so I don't really mind.