I finally gave into my brothers nagging and played SINGULARITY on xbox this morning. "play it on hard" he said, "its a better atmosphere." No its not a better atmosphere, its just fucking hard! This game suffered from "difficulty spike syndrome" eventually causing a rage quit after attempting a section about 16 times. Why can't I run over a bug that is 3 inches tall? why does it have to block me when I can't see it, then explode and kill me instantly! What I discovered form this console experience is this: I have become accustomed to PC. I had to have my sensitivity so low just to kill the guys in the tutorial, that it took me 5 seconds to do a 360.
The controllers and controls in these game are a source of infinite frustration and were so, so poor. PUSH LEFT STICK IN TO RUN? ARE YOU FUCKING SERIOUS? that really got me hard. Also, my time slowing button didn't work so I changed controllers. Then 2 minutes later it ran out of batteries in a boss fight. So I changed to my last working controller. It died. Yes I could have done battery transplants, but I wasn't going to give the game that satisfaction. So back to the shitty one. awesome.
This is a shame because the game started off so well. I highly recommend the hour of play as it introduces a nifty story line and has some truly epic horror scenes. After this all subsides you are left with a game that is a mash up of HL2 (you actually get a gravity gun and have to do physics puzzles) Bioshock (looks identical) and is a complete rip off of Timeshift. Timeshift was a pretty cool game that did time manipulation really well. It had many cool puzzle ideas and combat worked really well. The same can't be said for Singularity. Your time device and guns have basically no synergy, and are both clumsy to use. Especially frustrating was the puzzles. For example: "Oh noes! He must have changed the safe combination. Use your time device before it is too late." Cool! I will reverse the lock combination to its previous state in time so he will be able to unlock it. I was wrong. As I used both hands to press my 'time' button, the safe door evaporates. ..... what the hell. This game had a chance for redemption and instead it decides to bone physics and the universe.
Verdict. Play the first hour and see If you like it, on a port!
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Frankly Im not opposed to consoles at all, and this is mainly because of my recent xbox experience (and previous halo sessions :P). Red Dead Redemption was a great xbox game. (even though the ending was a tiny bit dissapointing.) lots to do, even after finishing the game. made you feel OP at the same time as making you feel extremely fragile (like the random cliffs that come out of nowhere that you run your horse over.) and overall the game experience was immersive and more believable then any other game i have played set in the same genre.
ReplyDeleteOn a side note, my bro is buying Naughty Bear soon for xbox, which may be quite entertaining.
>that really got me hard
ReplyDeleteI don't dare to even imagine what happened to you when you played HL2, if this was your reaction to Singularity.