Category: Computer

After a little over twenty hours my trip through the crazy world Numenera has come to a close.   This post will be a quick follow up to my earlier review.  Even a few days after beating the game I think about it from time to time.  The things I saw, the different things that I could have said to people.  Companions that I could have taken with me, but didn’t.  Whether I want to play through it again or not.  That’s what Torment: Tides Of Numenera does, it makes you think, and I appreciate it for that.

The only real letdowns from the game were, if I was forced to fight the combat wasn’t great, and the ending, while interesting, wasn’t as satisfying as I had hoped.  Just to make sure I checked online to confirm that I hadn’t missed anything, I hadn’t.  That was just the way the game ended.  That is not to say that it ruined the game, it definitely did not, but still, it did stick out.

Games like this are not made every day, and people should be reward for making them, so you should go out and play it too.  Your brain will thank you.  If nothing else you will get to see a city built inside an interdimensional monster.  That is always fun!

How do you feel about rat-men?  If you like them this is not a game for you.  You will murder more of their kind in thirty minutes with Warhammer The End Times: Vermintide than you have probably seen in your entire life,  but if you enjoy crushing Skaven (what rat-men call themselves) under your boot, or just endless hordes in general, you will probably like Vermintide.

If you were wondering about Warhammer The End Times: Vermintides story, don’t.  It is simply that the world is coming to end and the city you are in, Ubersreik, is being overrun by Skaven.  You and a band of heroes must work together to save the people that remain.  What this means is that you will hack and slash and shoot your way through thousands of rats with up to three other players.  For all of you that have played Left 4 Dead this should be very familiar, but with more focus on melee.

That is not a knock on Vermintide.  In fact it is a compliment.  There has been a big hole in the gaming scene since Left 4 Dead 2 came out, and why Left 4 Dead 3 has never materialized is anyone’s guess.  Fatshark Games did change things up enough that it is not a ripoff of Valve’s zombie classic, so it is more like a game in the genre that Left 4 Dead helped define.  Not to mention the pull to slay endless waves of rat-type-people while leveling up and getting new loot is strong.

That is not to say everything is perfect.  Fatshark to prevent screen tearing has locked in the framerate to 30FPS and turned on V-Sync.  The problem is sometimes when there are a few dozen evil rats on screen the frame rate will dip a bit, and with V-Sync turned on, that means you will drop a frame or two.  When you are surrounded by rats it is not a great time for the game to “freeze” and then come back to show you that the world has changed around you.  AKA you are about to take quite a bit of damage.  They should let us turn off V-Sync,  a little screen tearing will be worth always keeping the swarm in front of you.

I have only played the first few levels of Warhammer The End Times: Vermintide, but it was a lot of fun (even though we got teamed up with an elite player who did not care a lot about hanging out with the party).  I will journey to Ubersreik to slay Skaven again, and since this game seems to always be on sale, you may want to come with me.  I mean who doesn’t like to take out their aggressions on a few hundred rats?

After sixty-three hours and twenty minutes I have completed my first play through of Mass Effect: Andromeda, and I may play a little more to complete a couple of achievements and random quests.  You can play the game after you complete the main story, but of course any quests you complete will not affect the ending.  So, have my feelings about the game changed since my first ten hours?  Yes, and mostly for the better.  Here are some quick post game thoughts:

• Crafting needs to be combined in to one interface.  Crafting is where you get all the cool items, so to have to navigate several menus to create the stuff you want is a little frustrating
• There needs to be a way to land at forward stations from space.  Later on in the game several missions have you planet hopping, so it is supper annoying to have to land, fast travel, then drive.  I want to get straight to the driving.
• There needs to be more enemy variety.  The same bad guys you see in the beginning of the game will be the same guys you see in the end.  The only difference is that they throw more of them at you, but you are so god-like at the end it doesn’t really matter how many guys run at you.
• The story was a missed opportunity to do something different, but it ends well.  Even though you are still finding tech from long dead peeps and fighting faceless hoards the game still wraps up everything very nicely, and I was quite satisfied with how it ended.

I really enjoyed Mass Effect: Andromeda, but it was far from perfect.  I am hopeful they can fix the issues of the first game in the second.  We will see.  If you have yet to pick up ME:A, I recommended it to fans of the first games; though others may want to hold off until they have fixed a few more bugs and the game’s price comes down a bit.