Clueless Gamer: Conan Reviews CoD Advanced Warfare

Conan has a blast
MilkmanDansays...

He honestly seemed to be enjoying that one quite a bit -- I was looking forward to his usual "rating system" at the end but I guess they skipped that this time?

SDGundamXsays...

This is probably the best one they've done.

That "Press X to pay respects" bullshit is a new low for gaming and worthy of all the ridicule Conan heaped on it.

MilkmanDansays...

Only way to make Quicktime Events lamer is to apply their EPIC BUTTON MASH principles to thoroughly NON-EPIC things...

I really enjoyed Shadows of Mordor, but it took a big hit by having the *midpoint* boss be "EPIC ACTUAL BATTLE", and then the two *final* bosses being "EPIC SNEAK UP AND STAB DUDE IN BACK 3 TIMES" followed by "WE RAN OUT OF IDEAS, SO RANDOMLY PRESS A FEW BUTTONS IN THIS QUICKTIME EVENT". /sigh

SDGundamXsaid:

This is probably the best one they've done.

That "Press X to pay respects" bullshit is a new low for gaming and worthy of all the ridicule Conan heaped on it.

SDGundamXsays...

Oh totally. Shadow of Mordor is GOTY for me, but those two boss fights had me going "WTF?!?" for like 10 minutes after each of them.

To be honest, aside from those fights, I liked how they implemented the "last chance" QTE events. They were too easy to do with a mouse and keyboard but once I switched over to a game controller I found them moderately challenging enough that I still died a couple of times.

As far as Advanced Warfare goes, this article on Polygon does a great job of explaining why the funeral scene is epic fail.

MilkmanDansaid:

Only way to make Quicktime Events lamer is to apply their EPIC BUTTON MASH principles to thoroughly NON-EPIC things...

I really enjoyed Shadows of Mordor, but it took a big hit by having the *midpoint* boss be "EPIC ACTUAL BATTLE", and then the two *final* bosses being "EPIC SNEAK UP AND STAB DUDE IN BACK 3 TIMES" followed by "WE RAN OUT OF IDEAS, SO RANDOMLY PRESS A FEW BUTTONS IN THIS QUICKTIME EVENT". /sigh

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