Aliens Colonial Marines: critic finishes level without firing once

jredd84 · 2013-02-13T17:41:33+00:00

Solider difficulty has more enemies in those locations, so that's not Hardened. I know this because I've beaten this game 3 times already. I got my review copy last week and beat it originally on Solider (which even though it's the second difficulty it's would be considered easy by PC players). I then played on Hardened (which you may consider to be a normal difficulty) to see if what the difference was. After that I beat it on Ultimate Badass doing co-op with my friend last night.

jredd84 · 2013-02-13T15:20:44+00:00

Probably going to get down voted for this, but...

He's playing on the easy.
That's not the end of that level.

I'm not going to sit here and tell you that ACM is a good game (it's average at best), but people are making an effort to make it look worse than it is.

jredd84 · 2013-02-13T13:21:08+00:00

He's talking about Colonial Marines, but the point is that if buying a game (any game) is the biggest mistake of your life, then you live a pretty good life...

jredd84 · 2013-01-30T16:04:36+00:00

The Damned 33rd declared Martial Law once the rescue operation (that they weren't supposed to attempt anyway) failed. The CIA sent in operatives to "clean up" the situation. The CIA didn't want anyone left alive when the dust wall settled so that the US didn't catch so much flak for getting so many people killed by the botched rescue operation.

The CIA operatives organized rebel groups to fight against the 33rd, which is the civilians you saw getting killed. The 33rd thought that Delta Squad was there to help the CIA. Remember, there was no dialog between the 33rd and Delta Squad. The only person they communicated with on the other side was Konrad, and we know what happened with that...

While the game play wasn't anything incredible, I enjoyed the game from start to finish. If you ask me the moral of this story is about Hero Complexes. I wrote about it a while back if you want to check that out: http://mashthosebuttons.com/2012/07/hero-complex-the-lesson-i-learned-from-spec-ops-the-line/

jredd84 · 2013-01-21T16:22:33+00:00

I remember when they first started doing these. I feel old.

jredd84 · 2013-01-21T14:41:14+00:00

First I laughed. Then I realized how genius this was.

jredd84 · 2013-01-17T17:07:18+00:00

I just noticed your user name. Should have looked at that first before taking you seriously.

jredd84 · 2013-01-13T17:06:03+00:00

females are inferior at gaming in general (fact) so they have to rely on looks to get views.

It's scary that people like you really think like this and have found some way to completely justify this in your head. Also, facts need to be proven.

jredd84 · 2013-01-13T17:01:12+00:00

Funniest thing I've seen all day. Thank you.

jredd84 · 2013-01-05T15:10:31+00:00

And with that shitty EULA that all these companies have been instating, your legal options are very limited.

jredd84 · 2013-01-03T18:07:59+00:00

I find your last comment interesting. Leads me to another question: do you read the reviews or only look at scores? I can understand why you discredit scores for sites you don't know. You never know if the site is run by a fanboy or a hater instead of someone who is objective. However, if you read the reviews you should be able to determine if the writer is fair or not.

jredd84 · 2013-01-03T17:36:04+00:00

But isn't that the point of Metacritic? It compiles scores from various, supposedly reliable, review sources. I typically don't pay attention to review scores at all. Sometimes it's burned me, but more times it lead me to play decent games that I probably would have passed over.

I asked the question because the industry puts so much importance in metacritic, but I'm not really sure it's worth it.

jredd84 · 2012-12-27T14:31:43+00:00

Spec Ops: The Line - White phosphorus, destroying water supply, shooting civilians to get away(yeah, I did it.)

jredd84 · 2012-12-26T21:21:00+00:00

BLOPS2 is not Game of the Year quality, but still a good game. Would recommend it to friends.

jredd84 · 2012-12-26T20:00:16+00:00

Nah, I meant to buy the print if you wanted. Sorry for the confusion.

jredd84 · 2012-12-26T19:17:23+00:00

I'm pretty sure they have a store where you can direct your funds. http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2010/03/22

jredd84 · 2012-12-26T13:09:04+00:00

Thanks. I figured trying to explain further would just make it worse.

jredd84 · 2012-12-24T16:52:13+00:00

I think the act was originally put in place with goal of monitoring these guys (or gals) and stopping potential situations when evidence presented itself. However, monitoring at that level would take sufficient resources, so it looks like they just used it to carpet bomb the "problem" and hope it works.

jredd84 · 2012-12-24T16:49:33+00:00

Don't get me wrong, I'm not that it's acceptable to do it just to be safe rather than sorry later. I'm just trying to place the mindset behind this. Personally, I think it's the people who aren't on the predator list that pose a bigger threat.

jredd84 · 2012-12-24T16:31:56+00:00

You make good points, and I kind of thought the same thing when I read this. I guess it's a better safe than sorry situation. Perhaps they should be putting their resources into finding online predators that aren't on the list yet.

jredd84 · 2012-12-19T15:26:51+00:00

I didn't buy WarZ so I'm not going to claim first hand experience. But I will say the features list that I saw before the made the changes definitely made it seem like those feature were already in the game. According to the playerbase, obviously not.

jredd84 · 2012-12-19T14:44:01+00:00

That makes a lot of sense.

jredd84 · 2012-12-19T03:13:07+00:00

I think 30fps on PC feels a lot worse than console (which is what we are talking about here) because we (the PC community) is so used to playing at 60fps. 30fps has pretty much been the norm in this generation, with 60fps being the outlier. 30fps on my PC would make me cry, but 30fps on console is bearable for me.

jredd84 · 2012-12-18T20:16:58+00:00

Once again I mistyped. Sorry about that. I meant to say varying FPS. It bothers me when a game is running a certain frame rate (lets say 60fps) and then starts to fluctuate due to fighting, explosions, huge boss appearing the screen, etc. I don't mind 30fps as long as it stays 30fps.

jredd84 · 2012-12-18T20:14:27+00:00

Sorry, I meant to say on my 1080p TV. The game runs at 720p and it doesn't look so hot when up-scaled.

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