General Gaming Thread

[Kaden]

Been killing time until inFAMOUS comes out. Finished through X-Men Origins and X-Blades and I've been playing something called "Demigod."

Origins is a pretty straight-forward hack'n'slash game. Definitely better than the movie. They give you this Pounce attack that's way over powered, but that's not a huge complaint. Something I found odd is that, as you get towards the end of the game, they stop scaling the enemies to how strong you should be. In the last 3~4 missions, you're fighting guys that you can literally kill in one weak attack.

X-Blades is ok. Not as good of a slasher as X-Men was, but not bad. I didn't actually pay money for it, though, which helps its case a lot. You collect these souls as you kill guys and use them to buy skills/upgrades/items/bullets. What the game doesn't really make clear is that you will need just about all your elemental skills and that killing bosses and the various new bad guys you encouter is as much as puzzle as it is a fight. Once you get into that mindset, the game becomes a lot less... frustrating. Getting to the point where you can clear one room and have enough souls to buy half your spells also helps.

Demigod is really cool. It was an impulse... acquisition and totally worth it. I think Waff would agree. You pick a demigod (there are 2 different archetypes and 4 demigods per archetype) and run around capturing control points and killing enemy soldiers/demigods until you complete the map's objective. It's a lot of fun and each demigod has their own kinds of play styles. There's a skill-tree system for getting new spells and attacks and passives and you definitely can't get all of them by the time you hit the level cap on a map. You can use the same demigod several times before getting to see all their skills.

So, yeah. That's what I've been playing lately. That and Dynasty Warriors: Gundam 2, of course.

EDIT: NICE MUSCLE!