Sweet FA
✪ Three rounds Lord, in my .44 ✪
After quite a lot of whining, ("everyone else has got one", "I won't be on it all the time", "the kinect thing makes it a joyful family experience" etc), Mrs FA has bought me an Xbox Kinect.
So the Kinect games (sport/adventure/dance gen) are alright in a sort of meh way & Lil'FA loves them, so tick the 'joyful family experience'.
It also came with Brink which I had a go at last night. Not a fucking clue what was going on . Dials, bars, icons all over the screen, people shouting at me, messages popping up left right and centre, no idea who's on my side, primary objectives, secondary objectives, dying but not dying aaaaagh. I lasted an hour (20 minutes of which was spent experimenting with different facial tattoos for my character (who you can't actually see in the game)). Then I went and read a book.
Aaaaanyway. I used to love the Call of Duty series on my PS2. Sneaking about, completing fairly straightforward missions, (one at a bastard time), picking up different weapons, reloading at the click of a button etc. I also liked driving games where you get to drift and jump and crash and that (I think Driver was one and maybe the 1st Need for Speed). Games with a fairly shallow learning curve but with enough depth to keep you interested til the end.
So is my tired, confused old mind no longer a match for the latest gen of games? Is it Brink's fault or mine? Are there games that offer the same kind of experience that I used to have on the PS2?
And policemen look really young, and why do the youngsters wear their trousers so you can see their pants for god's sake, and turn that bloody music down, you can't dance to it you know, and what's he saying?
So the Kinect games (sport/adventure/dance gen) are alright in a sort of meh way & Lil'FA loves them, so tick the 'joyful family experience'.
It also came with Brink which I had a go at last night. Not a fucking clue what was going on . Dials, bars, icons all over the screen, people shouting at me, messages popping up left right and centre, no idea who's on my side, primary objectives, secondary objectives, dying but not dying aaaaagh. I lasted an hour (20 minutes of which was spent experimenting with different facial tattoos for my character (who you can't actually see in the game)). Then I went and read a book.
Aaaaanyway. I used to love the Call of Duty series on my PS2. Sneaking about, completing fairly straightforward missions, (one at a bastard time), picking up different weapons, reloading at the click of a button etc. I also liked driving games where you get to drift and jump and crash and that (I think Driver was one and maybe the 1st Need for Speed). Games with a fairly shallow learning curve but with enough depth to keep you interested til the end.
So is my tired, confused old mind no longer a match for the latest gen of games? Is it Brink's fault or mine? Are there games that offer the same kind of experience that I used to have on the PS2?
And policemen look really young, and why do the youngsters wear their trousers so you can see their pants for god's sake, and turn that bloody music down, you can't dance to it you know, and what's he saying?