So, fancying a bit of retro fighting action, I downloaded Virtua Fighter 2, Fighting Vipers and Sonic The Fighters via the Xbox Live Arcade today. Virtua Fighter 2 was very stiff – the guard button felt very unresponsive, and I felt like there was no real way to counter Lion’s low attacks. Fighting Vipers brought back a lot of memories, soundtracks I thought I would never hear again, classic characters lost in the mists of time. Sonic The Fighters was absolutely terrible – no wonder they never released the Saturn version back in the day. But I’m glad I can say that I have finally played it. I really would’ve preferred Fighter’s Megamix, but you can’t have everything.
I’ve also been playing the DLC for DmC: Vergil’s Downfall. It feels a bit… unfinished, the general audio aspect especially. Vergil is pretty decent, he has a nice amount of moves, but it can take a while to get your head around his very different style when you’re used to Dante. It’s a nice addition, sure, but it isn’t up to the same standard as the main game.
I’ve NOT been playing some games that I would’ve been playing if I was still in the same mind-set towards Gamerscore as I was a few months ago. Syndicate, as good as it is, is going to remain at 900g out of 1000g because I have one milestone left to achieve: Reboot a Syndicate member 500 times. I’m currently on 380, and I quite frankly do not want to: A) Boost it by sitting in a private game rebooting someone 120 times; or B) Play on, in the hope that I can find a Syndicate member or two who play semi-regularly that I can reboot when they die before some other player reboots them. I’ve killed what feels like a million bad guys, some from rival Syndicates, some Police, some Mercenaries, some holding Riot Shields, some wielding specific weapons. I’ve rebooted and healed randoms the requisite amount of times and researched all the weapons and completed all of the Co-op maps on the hardest settings – but I must draw the line somewhere if I am to stop playing games merely to increase that meaningless little number, and go back to enjoying good games again.
Similarly, Bioshock 2’s sloppy multiplayer can go fuck itself.
