by MiTT3NZ » Wed May 27, 2015 4:30 pm
I dunno, always preferred chronological order tbh. Woulda watched Captain America n Agent Carter before Iron Man in hindsight. The controls for this game is fucking awful though, and after an hours worth of cut-scenes I had to turn it off. I buy games to play, not watch.
Back to the controls though, I just can't get my head round em. It's almost as if they're intentionally bad. Seems that if they were straight forward, it'd probably be about 2 hours of gameplay and 20 hours of fucking cut-scenes. Since I started gettin into stealth games, I'd always read about how Splinter Cell "pales in comparison to MGS". My. Arse.
All these potentially great ideas, such as hunting for food in the jungle to survive, choosing the right camoflage, ruined by poor execution. And the overly dramatic poses like these villains are performance artists... it's all so typically Japanese. The voice acting too... "Your Russian is very good" Oh really? Well it's better than these yank cunts who can't even put on a Russian accent for fuck sake...
Just how are these games so damn popular? I dunno if I'm just being overly harsh about a game that was released a couple of generations ago and I should just give it another chance, but after the whole thing with Deadly Premonition, I ain't sure. I'm getting the exact same vibes from it. A Japanese developer making a really poor attempt at a Western game.
Please, someone tell me it's gonna be worth it for when I get round to Ground Zeroes. Tell me it's gonna get to the point of being proper stealth instead of a constant struggle with the control scheme.