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Thursday, Sep 10, 2009

Just finished my first PS3 game, Killzone 2. Definitely one of the best shooters I ever played. I'm starting Heavenly Sword tomorrow, just to relax. I don't know why but I can't just go from one shooter the another one. KZ was so intense I feel like the echo of gunshots still bounces around in my skull, I'm kinda exhausted. At the end it was just pushing it to the limit, like "c'mon I wanna be done with this already". It's not that I was bored with the game, not at all, it's just that I was tired of all the shooting and pushing forward, cuz the Higs sure didn't wanna give up easy. I was hoping for a rewarding awesome CGI outro movie... tough luck. The image of Sev sitting down on those stairs was pretty powerful though. Just tired. So very tired.

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Posted by OracleXIII, 3:34pm
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I never can do FPS sprees. I like to sit back and absorb the experience, then go back to the multiplayer. I think it's the constant vigilance and mental effort used in being good at an FPS. As for KZ2, I know some people hated it, but like you I found it to be astonishingly good. Not the most original, but polished to a high gloss and mechanically flawless.
Posted Sep 10, 2009 4:45 pm PT
@ Frame_Dragger: yeah that's exactly it. Gotta give it a few days before I even try to do something online. I don't like playing online that much anyways, but this might actually be fun. KZ2 is an extremely good product, but it has one flaw, at least in my opinion. At some points the battlefield is epic. Truly epic and beautiful and you wish you could stop and just look at it for a while. But you can't because you're CONSTANTLY under fire.
Posted Sep 10, 2009 4:56 pm PT
Heh, that's quite interesting to hear the same thing articulated by two different people on one blog...and it pretty much surmises the experiences I have with FPS games- when motion sickness doesn't kill me first.

Sometimes after an intense sit-down with a game I realize my heart is pounding and my palms are sweating. It makes me chuckle and wonder if I was actually having a "good time," or not.
Posted Sep 10, 2009 6:51 pm PT
@ mprezzy: yeah, sometimes it's just too intense and stressful to call it a good time. But I guess that's the magic ingredient of shooters. Kinda like horror action adventure. The suspense is killing you (if the game is good of course) but you keep on going. I wouldn't call it a good time, but it is... entertaining?
Posted Sep 10, 2009 6:55 pm PT
I know how you feel with getting tired after playing KZ2. I haven't beaten the game yet because I found it too repetitive. Don't get me wrong, art/graphics wise the game is beautiful, but it's like you said, it's kinda tiring.
Posted Sep 10, 2009 8:11 pm PT
@ Artemios: I was about to drop it, but I looked to the game guide and apparently at that point I wasn't far away from the ending so I kept pushing. But that last battle in the palace drained me. I'm not gonna tell you what happens since you haven't beaten it yet, but let me tell you this: the key to the final boss battle is sprinting and having a full clip at all times. Unfortunately there is no quickturn in this game. The final fight is a real pain. Really makes your heart pound. Expect to die a lot.
Posted Sep 10, 2009 8:26 pm PT
*PSEUDO-SPOILER WARNING!!!*
I do wish what's his face had said "I wish... I had a real dad..." as he expired at the end.
Posted Sep 10, 2009 10:49 pm PT
Congrats! Just got my PS3 a week or so ago - I'll need to pick up KZ2 at some point. I enjoyed the demo but do all the Helghast have that annoyingly generic and stereotypical English accent?
Posted Sep 11, 2009 1:15 am PT
@ Rikuide_Furame: It's not exactly English, but pretty close... it's kinda like rich New Yorkers over-pronouncing every word.
Posted Sep 11, 2009 8:14 am PT
Heavenly Sword!? Well .. just make sure you get Uncharted in at some point. :-)
Posted Sep 12, 2009 5:44 pm PT
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