Although the game starts off well, and indicates that it might be an interesting adventure, it falls flat on it's face within the first couple of hours. It has a horror setting, numerous charcters to choose from and/or completely edit, grid based maze exploration like many other dungeon crawlers, and an interesting premise. Sadly, the maps are boring. There's a sheer lack of inventory space, given all the items available. And the game will quite often grab the wrong item from a different slot that the one you clicked on. The tedious spells and weapons mixed with terrible inventory issues make for an less than pleasant combat system. I've seen someone imply that playing the game is like beating your head against a wall, and that is literally what it boils down to in the end. A lot of save scumming and walking around hoping to find something useful, does not make for an enjoyable game.
Sadly, what seemed like a very cool and interesting game descended into a rather disappointing tedious buggy mess. I'd read a lot of positive things about this game and love the general aesthetic and gameplay. But i've run into a game crippling bug where more often than not, members of my party just refuse to do anything at all in combat. They won't move and wont attack for seemingly no reason. The game refuses to allow party members to target an enemy. I then try to move the party member believing his path may be blocked, but they refuse to do that, too. They just stand idle as the rest of the party does all the work or dies. Seems cool. I just don't have time for nonsense bugs like that.
This mod requires other mods to run. It is unfinished and incomplete. Simple as that. Might not be an issue for some, but i'm not jumping hurdles just to run something on the gog store. Wasn't made aware of this until AFTER i had downloaded the mod. I'll leave this until the mod is actually a finished product and doesn;t require the user to jump though hoops just to get it working.
Resident Evil is finally available to buy legitimately in a digital format. This is exactly what you'd expect from a release of an old title available via gog. It's the vanilla game as it was released in 1996, warts and all, playable on modern OS and with a few small QoL additions. That's it. The backgrounds are still low resolution and some of the audio is a little choppy due to compression, just as it originally was. But controllers are easy to use and higher resolutions and anti-aliasing can be applied to improve the polygonal assets. There seem to a be a lot of naive people crying about the lack of Director's Cut content, no AI upscaled backgrounds, or the fact it hasn't been reworked like the Tomb Raider remasters etc. These people have a complete lack of understanding of what this release is, and seem to be completely unaware as to what the majority of the GOG library is. This is the original PC release. Made to work on modern OS. Some addition QoL additions such as controller support with some rendering options. If you are expecting more and think it's an issue, that's a you problem. Apparently this release works just fine with the Rebirth project, too. So have at it if this isn't good enough for you.
I like FMV games and adore slow paced adventure titles, especially if they have horror elements. But this game is just the pits. Slow does not cover it, here. The video clips are incredibly low resolution with some heavy scanlines applied. It can actually be headache inducing to look at them for too long. The waiting between scene transitions is tediously slow, too. This game makes other games in the same niche, like Necronomicon: The Dawning of Darkness, seem like well designed and cutting edge technology by comparison. Do yourself a favour and watch a longplay or something instead.
First of all, the game runs fine. I had no compatibity issue etc, the xbox one controller was detected and the controls were assigned as you'd expect, matching the PS2 layout. It has a few resolution options, too. But the 16:9 apect ratios just stretch the image rather than offer actual widescreen support. I played at a lower 4:3 aspect ratio to be on par with the PS2/xbox versions. I suggest tinkering with the brightness and gamma levels too, as the game is far too bright with the default settings. Silent Hill4: The Room has some interesting ideas, some of which really make it stand out next to the likes of Silent Hill 3. Unfortuantely, there are a LOT of incredibly tedious gameplay elements, atrocious sound design and a swathe of abysmal enemy designs. Dogs growling like cougars when they die, nurses burping when attacked or falling down stairs, endless amounts of flying insects. Tedious note fetching to progress the game. Very few actual puzzles. A ton of linear exploration. A tiring amount of escorting. It feels more like a slapdash, cobbled together joke than a horror game. Interesting and creepy elements such as unnerving phone calls, random visitors at the door and spying on your neighbours etc, are all demeaned by every other aspect of the game. This could have been something very interesting, but they slapped the 'Silent Hill' name on the project, filled it with the worst aspects of that series, executed them poorly, then shipped it out. This is a perfectly fine way to play the game if you arer experienced and wish to revisit, are new to the game, or just wish to see how easy it is to completely destoy any fear or suspense within a horror game.
Just a wonderful classic adventure game. I'd like to recommend this to anyone that hasn't played it, but the sound quality is terrible and cannot be fixed. It truly spoils the experience. Constant clicking and popping during speech leaves the player either having to turn off all speech or simply endure it, and the speech is half of the appeal in this title. Until they bother to fix it, just avoid it or watch a longplay.
Flashback is possibly one of the best 2D adventure games of all time, that is widely overlooked by the majority of game media. If it were not for the last level, the game would be pretty much perfect. Across the first 2 levels the game gradually introduces you to the basic mechanics of the game, in no time you will get a feel for how far conrad jumps and where he will end up at the end of a roll. All of which will become crucial to finishing later levels without too much difficulty. The last level however, despite being one of the best looking scenes ion the whole game, is a bit of a crap fest. Laden with cheap enemies, akward areas to fight them in, very long periods between save points...it's almost like they didn't actually test this level all that much or just chucked in the enemies after the fact. Either way, even after completing it numerous times over the last 25 years, it's a pretty disappointing end to a fantastic adventure and leaves a bit of a bad taste. In regards to this port, it's fairly decent but has some glaring issues. -No Key Rebinding -No proper Direct Input support (Odd button layout, D-Pad doesn't work) -Only contains the DOS sounds, which are inferior to some other versions -Bloom effects haven't been used very creatively. It's still worth buying if you love Flashback or haven't had a chance to play it yet, just be aware that it's not quite the best version to play. I greatly appreciate that it has finally been released on modern formats, it's been long overdue.
Witcher 2 has some great things going for it, it looks very pretty for a game from 2011 and it has voice afting that puts some of the big AAA games to shame. The locations and their inhabitants are as interesting as any of the best RPG's around and they offer a satisfying sense of immersion. Other than that, everything else is just a real mess and not very enjoyable to play. Combat is slow and clunky even when you do get to grips with it, the alchemy and potion drinking mechanics require you needing to know when you'll need a potion in advance, as you have to sit down and drink them within a special menu before actually entering a fight. It seems like the devs want you to fail a fight or mission and reload before using these items. The inventory system is very iritating to use and navigate, with the player easily moving and equipping the wrong things by accident. Cameras angles seem a little sporadic when moving between areas, flipping around 180° behind Geralt and then back to it's original position. This can be very disorientating! I've witnessed enemies disappearing, traps continually not working, Geralt taking damage when not near an enemy attack and odd framerate issues. Given how much of these issues have been documented by other players and how long them game has been out I am very surprised CD Projeckt Red hasn't made efforts to fix them. I'd recommend people just play Witcher 3 instead, as it seems to have recieved raving reviews...something that this game truly does not deserve.
