Hello internet,
So I haven’t posted for a while because life blah blah blah. Anyway I though I would share my experiences on what I’ve been playing lately and how I feel about those particular games. So it all started last week when I was at JB Hifi (where I go every time I go shopping pretty much), I saw 3 games I wanted to buy. These three games were Guitar Hero Live, Metal Gear Solid 5 and Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate. I always have a guilt complex whenever I spend money on myself as my wife and myself are looking to buy a house in Melbourne (the market is serious fucked). Anyway my wife basically peer pressured me into buying all 3 and $300 later, all 3 were in my possession. So let’s look at each of the games in order of which I played them.
GUITAR HERO LIVE
This one I had the lowest expectations out of the 3 as reviews were a little mixed when researching. The first I noticed was the controller had 6 buttons instead of 5 in 2 rows of 3. I figured that it wouldn’t be that hard to play as you don’t have to stretch those fingers as far. I can tell you that I was serious wrong. I started at casual difficulty and it was easy enough once I understand how it worked and realized that it was a lot more responsive than it used to be in the old controllers due the wireless USB that you plug into the Wii U console (you’can’t blame the sound or control lag anymore). So I went up to regular which would of been the old version of medium I guess and it was alright as well, some songs provided a challenge mainly because I would forget which colour was the top and which was the bottom. Finally I went to advanced which would be hard difficulty and it’s the level at which provides me with an appropriate level of challenge. I tend to 4 or 5 star the songs at that difficulty. When I go to expert however, I can’t even get close to playing the songs consistently well. This is interesting as I used to play expert in the old guitar hero’s quite comfortably, even 100% some songs at that level. So to sum up, I believe that the new guitar hero is harder but it may be due to still getting my head around the new controller (doing solos while switching between up and down is proving to be quite challenging indeed).
METAL GEAR SOLID 5
This one was the one I was most looking forward to, due to the hype surrounding it and I think that’s why I was a little disappointed with it. To me, it plays incredibly similar to MGS4 with slightly nicer graphics. It could be frustrating being very calculating with taking out enemies, only to have them wake up again in a very short period of time. I didn’t feel you benefited a great deal from the stealth approach when taking out a base and found it much easier to lure a few then kill them and move on so I didn’t have to deal with them. It became better once I could get them picked up by air and taken away but they obviously didnt account for all of them. There were times also where I was confused as what to do next as objectives aren’t really well shown in my opinion. I know this sounds a little negative but I still enjoy playing it, however I felt that it didn’t deserve as much hype as the review websites have given it.
ASSASSIN’S CREED: SYNDICATE
This is probably the game I’ve probably got the most involved with. I love the Assassin’s creed formula and enjoy the characters associated with it. However I’ve felt of late that the creed plot’s haven’t been that great (Assassin’s Creed 2 will forever be my fave). So far I’ve liberated two areas and the story is interesting enough to keep me going. I like the level up system. The combat can be frustrating at times as if you’re taking on someone who is even one level higher than you, it will take about 2 minutes to kill one enemy (well it feels like that). I recall one time I got about 60x combo and still hadn’t killed an enemy one level higher and this wasn’t even a boss or leader type enemy. Apart from that, the story flows well and the zipline is a welcome addition to getting around London a lot quicker.
My plan is to finish Assassin Creed Syndicate and then try and 5 star all the advanced songs on Guitar Hero Live. Once that happens I will look into getting deeper into the MGS5 story and hoping that things will become smoother as we go along (like upgrades etc).
Let me know if you’ve played any of those games and what your experiences were with them.
Cheers
Shammzwow
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