The last few games you beat and rate them 5

[SimGrindcore]

Inside 9/10.

This is another game that's hard to make a review for. It's also not for everyone. However, it's just excellent. It's a puzzle game on the surface level, but also on the meta level. This is some of the best environmental storytelling I've seen in games. They give you just enough visual clues to try to piece together the puzzle of the story. I just loved the atmosphere and the sound design was refined and economical, which it needed to be for this game. I would have loved to see behind the scenes videos of the dev team working on this project.

Have you played Limbo? It's from the same team.

 

[Andrei79]

Have you played Limbo? It's from the same team.

I haven't, but I bought it for the Switch 3$ CAD taxes included. Same price as Inside, which I find is ridiculous. I've paid that price for a protein bar.

 

[SimGrindcore]

Battlefield 4 (Xbox One, 2013): 6.5/10

This was released 3 years before Battlefield 1 and I have to tell you DICE is at its best with world war games.

At that time, EA was clearly trying to mimic the Modern Warfare trilogy and failed miserably. The story and the near future setting of this game are weird and bland to me. You get betrayed 2 or 3 times in the campaign and it becomes laughable at some point.

The gunplay is ok but the hit zone sucks hard. I played mostly as a sniper and I kept missing the target either left or right while aiming in between the eyes. It was so irritating!


Battlefield: Hardline (Xbox One, 2015): 7/10

I'm mixed feelings with this one.

While I enjoyed the story, to play as a cop/detective and the gun customisation, there are some really annoying points to this game.

The gunplay feels a little stiff and not all that responsive. There's a lot of recoil and It's kinda hard to snipe from afar. There are no throwable like flashbangs or grenade which is really annoying during these "Survive these waves of enemies" sections. The driving sections are kinda hard as the car driving is stiff and you have to guess where to go.

The game rewards you to find clues to crack cases, arrest wanted criminals and cuff enemies instead of shooting them. All this is "forcing you" to stealth almost all the time. Running gun blazing is not an ideal choice here.

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Also, it makes no sense to arrest/cuff enemies when you not a cop anymore and a fugitive in the later episodes of the campaign.

Conclusion:

Stick to Call Of Duty if you like snappy and satisfying gunplay and modern/new future settings.
If you want to experience WW1, then you have to play Battlefield 1.

I haven't, but I bought it for the Switch 3$ CAD taxes included. Same price as Inside, which I find is ridiculous. I've paid that price for a protein bar.

Played both games for "free" on Game Pass Core ($29,99 for 3 months).

 

[Shareefruck]

Inside 9/10.

This is another game that's hard to make a review for. It's also not for everyone. However, it's just excellent. It's a puzzle game on the surface level, but also on the meta level. This is some of the best environmental storytelling I've seen in games. They give you just enough visual clues to try to piece together the puzzle of the story. I just loved the atmosphere and the sound design was refined and economical, which it needed to be for this game. I would have loved to see behind the scenes videos of the dev team working on this project.

Hell yeah, Inside is brilliant. Shame the follow-up never happened and seems to be in development hell or something.