Weekly Gaming: The Walking Dead: Michonne Episode 3: What We Deserve
Hey all! As always, thanks for stopping by. This week I conclude my TWD: Michonne mini-series review, and as per the previous few episodes, I genuinely thought this was terrible for a Telltale game. Whilst there’s plenty of urgency in the game (Michonne is constantly forced to think on the spot and make brash decisions), you can’t help but not care for the other characters in the game, which is horrendous when Telltale constantly try to make you feel the weight of your decisions. Regardless, if you wanna read my impressions you can do so below: http://www.vgchartz.com/article/264172/the-walking-dead-michonne-episode-3-what-we-deserve-pc/ Hope you’re all well, and by all means, stop by next week where I’ll reviewing a lovely new indie game. -Dan
Weekly Gaming: The Walking Dead Michonne Episode 2: Give No Shelter
Hi all! So this week, I’ve decided to post an (old) review for Telltale games’ The Walking Dead spin-off series, Michonne. Given that I was rather tepid about the first outing of the game (which can be read here), I didn’t have much hope for the second episode. Lo and behold, my pessimistic side won out, with the game being massively underwhelming compared to other Telltale ventures. If you want to give the review a read, you can click on the link below: http://www.vgchartz.com/articles/adminnew/?task=edit&story=263776 As always, thanks for visiting, and will see you next week! -Dan
Weekly Gaming: Tales from the Borderlands Episode 2 (Xbox One) Review
“Yeah yeah we know, it’s been a while” episode 2 starts by saying. And it has really has been ages. I bought the season pass at Christmas, well after the first episode had already been released, so it really has been at least 5 months since the series started. What was supposed to take a few months between episodes has weirdly taken a lot longer in Tales from the Borderlands, Especially compared to the Game of Thrones series and Life is Strange, which have been pushing out new episodes every few months. So was the wait worth it? Well, for the most part yes, with the vast majority of the episode being extremely enjoyable to progress through, with so much happening that it feels like its own game in its own right. There’s plenty of action, plenty of humour, and enough character progression that you really feel like you’re getting…
Game of Thrones: Episode 3 (PS4) Review
Telltales Game of Thrones Series has been very weird since it’s inception many months ago. In the first episode, the character you get to know and think is the main one is killed within a few hours, jarring you from the games pretence instantly. The second episode then goes about causing you more and more grievances without any of it being your fault and all of it being out of your control. The series just keeps on getting shittier for the remaining family of the Forresters, and in Episode 3, that doesn’t look to change at all. First things first, you start the game out as the long lost brother of the Forresters, Asher, whilst he’s still out in the desert. It’s here that you find him outrunning guards (like he was in the previous episode), only to happen across a dead end. Finding a cave, you come across one…
Weekly Gaming: Game of Thrones (PS4) Episode 2:
(Following post will contain spoilers from the first episode of Game of Thrones: You have been warned) Given my tepid response to Telltales’ Game of Thrones Episode 1, I was unsure as to what to expect from episode 2, considering one of the characters you played as died right at the end of the episode, leaving next to nobody in the Forrester family left to lead the house back to good times. With this in mind, I began my next foray into the Forresters live’s with an open mind, expecting a lot of the brother fighting in the desert, as all hopes of the house rest on him. So imagine my surprise when the game has a section that begins on the back of a cart, with you playing as Rodrick, the eldest son of Forresters who happened to fall at the battle of the Boltons tower, where everyone was slain.…
Weekly Gaming: Tales from the Borderlands (Xbox One) Episode 1.
Borderlands has always been a mixed bag for me, with my experience of the first one being forgettable and boring, but the second being exciting and addictive thanks to the local multiplayer nature of the game. Having played through all the DLC on both games, and about to play the pre-sequel one day, I can say I’m a fan of the series, but have never really loved the lore of the world. It’s mechanics are one thing, but the world isn’t really that rich with content due to the disposable nature of the characters that inhabit it. It surprised me to learn that Telltale were making a story based version of the game, mainly due to the fact I knew it would be a comically funny experience, but not one I could imagine lasting 15 hours. With only Episode 1 being available for now, I took the plunge and bought…
Weekly Gaming: Game of Thrones Episode 1 (PS4)
Given the amount of Telltale adventure games out there at the moment, and how much I love Game of Thrones so wouldn’t want the series to be ruined, I was sceptical at first about the new Game of Thrones Adventure game. It wasn’t until Sony had their 10% discount one weekend along with a sale because of their downtime over christmas that I decided to take the plunge and finally buy a telltale series whilst they’re still in development (instead of waiting until they’re finished like I usually do). So, with that being said, here’s my impressions on the first opening episodes (be warned, there will be spoilers throughout this). Unlike other Telltale games, Game of Thrones will have you playing as multiple characters throughout the episodes, putting you in many different situations. You start out the episode as a squire called Garad who works for lord Forester, a noble…
Weekly Gaming: The Walking Dead Season 2: Episode 5 (PC) SPOILERS!!!
So here we are. After 4 episodes of The Walking Dead Season 2 we’re finally here, the penultimate conclusion of what will happen with the group and Clementine herself. Given the insanity of what happened at the end of the last episode (Rebecca being shot in the head due to turning into a zombie) and all out war happening between the Russians and our group, I was excited and interested of what would come of everyone, expecting the series to conclude with Clementine by herself again. Anyway, back to the start of the episode, where the consequences of the firefight are starting to play out. Luke gets injured and a few Russians die, with Jane making a return as she heard the guns going off and felt obliged to help. I was thankful of this conclusion as I was expecting the firefight to be a cop-out for the writers to…
Weekly Gaming: The Walking Dead Season 2: Episode 4 (PC) SPOILERS!!!
After enjoying Episode 3 last week, I was looking forward to getting my teeth into episode 4, with the shit storm 3 left us with. For those of you who haven’t played, Episode 3 finished with the group managing to escape from the superstore and start making their way through the hoard of zombies disguised as zombies themselves with Zombie guts all over them. You finally come across radia? who has been bitten by a zombie, and its your choice whether to cut her arm off or to kill the zombie biting her. As I’ve been playing this season through as fairly heartless and logical, I went for her arm, ensuring she wouldn’t get infected and would at least live to see another day. Episode 4 begins with telling you whether your decision was meaningless and stupid regardless, just to ensure you have fights and tension later on with the…
Weekly Gaming: The Walking Dead Season 2: Episode 3 (PC) SPOILERS!!!
With Episode 2 of the second season of Walking Dead not really gripping me, I was looking forward to jumping into episode 3 to see what would become of the group of characters being slaves in a supermarket, considering how angry and psychotic one of the characters behaved at the end of the last episode. This was certainly going to be a better episode if not purely for the fact the season has to make a lot of plot points to tie it all up nicely within the next 2 episodes, so with more characters, more deaths and more decisions, I was hoping for the best. The episode starts out by introducing you to a few new characters at a new place: a superstore that has been barricaded and held up. We’re told the group currently occupying the place has done such a good job of holding up that they…
Weekly Gaming: The Walking Dead Season 2: Episode 2 (PC) SPOILERS!!!
After playing through Episode 1 of The Walking Dead’s new season, It was time to jump straight into episode 2 to ensure I got to know my new group all the more better than our initial encounter. I wouldn’t recommend playing The Walking Dead straight through from start to finish, but playing a day between each episode seems to be the best experience. The episode starts out from the offset with your decision from the previous episode taking full effect. You’re being chased down with your choice of character that you saved whilst zombies make their way towards you. Clementine and Nick (I saved the guy that hadn’t been bitten), manage to find a shack that they can hold up in, and so starts the next 2 hours of character building, where not much actually happens in the scheme of losing characters or making big decisions, but instead you get…
Gaming Week 30: The Walking Dead: 400 Days (PC/Mac)
I was blown away by the Walking Dead back when I played it in January, as I’m sure many of you have heard from many publications, its a landmark game for story telling, and certainly has a uniqueness to it that’s hard to find elsewhere. 400 days is a piece of DLC to go on top of the walking dead, and is seen as a separate chapter on the chapter select screen. Each story is about 20 minutes in length, with a Epilogue that follows after completing each characters story. So for £3.99, its a nifty price for an adequate amount of content. Each story feels like a fully realised game in itself, with characters feeling extremely rich and deep. It makes you wonder what other game studios are doing with their writing staff, or whether Telltale Games have stole all the good writers of our time. When you select…
Gaming Week 27: Poker Night 2 (PC)
For this week I wanted to review Poker Night At The Inventory, the first Telltale Games poker game, but I found that everytime I went to start a new tournament, the game would crash on my Mac, and since I have no access to a PC at this moment in time, I had to make do and play the second game in the series. This isn’t a bad thing at all, in fact I’ve heard the second game is definitely a lot better than the first, it’s just that I wanted to see the evolution of the series for myself, not take other peoples word on it. So without further adue, here are my impressions of Poker Night 2 by Telltale Games. So as you can tell from the title of the game, Poker Night 2 is a game about poker, with a sprinkling of recognisable characters as your rivals.This…