Comment on Day 819 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing
Coelacanth@feddit.nu 1 week ago
Me, it was me who recommended it! I’m so glad you’re enjoying it! Obviously some elements of it will feel slightly dated, but honestly for a 2005 (!) game I think it has aged incredibly well. It even looks quite good considering it’s age (especially if you can crank the rendering resolution a bit).
CT really is the pinnacle of the series - on top of having perfected the gameplay and level design after the first two games they also also found a really nice tone in the writing, with some fun dialogue between both Sam and the crew as well as during various interrogations (or just Sam dry comments). And they hadn’t yet gone off the rails with more “story heavy” attempts like Double Agent and Conviction.
Plus the soundtrack absolutely bangs.
MyNameIsAtticus@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I thought it might have been you! I didn’t want to assume and make a fool of myself though.
I think with the dated elements, it’s a lot like Max Payne or something like that. It’s awkward at first. But once you get the hang of it it really feels intuitive.
My only complaint was it was hard to get my PS3 Controller to play nice with it. And even then for some reason Circle is the action button which is throwing me off. And it’s hard to fault it for that because of the age and afaik nothing really plays well with PS3 controllers back then.
I was kind of worried I wouldn’t care for Sam, but honestly he’s kind of grown on me.
Absolutely loved the soundtrack too. The one that played when first booting it up for me was great
Coelacanth@feddit.nu 1 week ago
Sam is honestly a great character. I’m still so sad we never got a final sendoff game for him with Michael Ironside back after he beat cancer. I really feel like there could have been a cool game there, ending with the death of Sam. Not that I would trust modern Ubi to make it, mind.