the-dude

I was so looking forward to this game and even pre ordered it. What a waste. I’m a casual gamer and not skilled enough or patient enough to get past first mini boss . Loved everything else FromSoftware has put out since Demons’ Souls. Don’t understand who their audience for this game is or what the point is.

Demon's souls was one of the best gaming experiences of my life. Yes, it was hard at first, but it got easier and easier. I played it so much, that in the end it was a little too easy. I even made it through the first playthrough without dying. The point of my review is that I don't want the reader to buy into the other reviews that say it is too hard or too unforgiving. You've got to beat the first level and then the game is no harder than you want it to be; you can farm souls and upgrade your character as much as you want before proceeding through the levels

My love for this game has quickly ebbed the more I have played it. At first, I was gaga for gran turismo 5, but as I played it more, the menus and load times began to overwhelm me. I am a person who has little time for games and gran turismo 5 gives you litte play time for the amount of wait time you have to put into it. Granted, when racing, gran turismo 5 is eye candy. I mean fantastic graphics, and I am a **** for good graphics. Some other reviewers mentioned that this game is easy and the AI is terrible. I would agree with both of those assessments. Winning the races is all about upgrading your car and crashing your way through the crowd. Real Driving Simulator? My ____. Since when does putting a new air filter on your car give you 10 more horsepower? Or a catalytic converter that gives you 5?

It's a pretty good tower defense game, and was very fun and fresh at first. But it didn't take long to find out that the key to winning was: learning the monster attack patterns, building the right towers at the right times and places. There was little or no variation in the attacks, so the game became repetitive quickly. Very few kinds of towers to build and little information about the tower stats like attack power and increased power when upgraded. I wanted to understand the technical aspects of the game, but couldn't. A nice touch having the turtle character be active in the tower building process. In the end though, the game has little replay value.

This game would have been great if they had taken the Fallout 3 graphics and physics engine and re-used them with the new environment, despite the older technology. I played until I got to new vegas and a little past. The glitchy graphics were annoying but tolerable. But the constant crashing was just unacceptable. I mean once a night on average, half of the time completely locking up my PS3. Otherwise the game would have earned a solid 8 or 9.