Anthony Flack wrote: Thu Jul 21, 2022 7:09 pm OSX update took Nuclear Throne away from me. Can't run 32 bit games any more.

It does a great job of capturing the whole future war sequence from the beginning of the movie (better than Salvation ever did), everything looks and sounds right, mechanically and technically it's clearly made on a budget but still worth playing through, and outside of nitpicks that clearly resulted from this being a budget title, it's good enough that it'll make you want the team to get a second crack at it, with an actual budget. As it is, they did a hell of a lot of what they had, and it's got this overall sense of giving a shit that even huge AAA games rarely have. The people who made it were clearly huge fans of the series and you get the feeling that put everything they had into making it the best Terminator game that they possibly could. When you consider the people who did this made Rambo: The Videogame and a bunch of shovelware, it's feels like it was made by a studio with something to prove, along with just the general love of the source material. You can see where the corners were cut (there's lots of treating the same map during the day and at night like they're two maps), but got a whole lot out of what was there, and the story has all the Terminator shit you want in it, and to avoid too many spoilers, it remembers that these are time travel movies and makes some pretty good use of it, with twists that you pick up on long before the reveal but still wind up being fun when you get exactly what you expected, mostly because they didn't use it as an excuse to be clever.

One of the things it did incredibly well was while most of the smaller robot enemies are cannon fodder, the walking skull-faced endoskeletons that you think of when you think of a Terminator remain a proper threat for a good chunk of the game.

Also there's a hacking minigame where you basically play Frogger, and the path through each of them is timed in way where if you know what pattern you're looking for as the bars scroll by, you can complete them by tapping out the DUNDUN DUN DUN DUN DUNDUN DUN DUN DUN drums from the Terminator theme, which was a nice touch.

TL: DR- budget title elevated by team that clearly loves the Terminator franchise, and made up for what they lacked in time, money, personnel and other resources with a huge amount of giving a fuck.

kokorodoko wrote: Sat Jul 16, 2022 3:11 amthe 2013 Tomb Raider

Anthony Flack wrote: Sun Jul 24, 2022 4:33 pm I once made the mistake of saying Mirror's Edge was a brilliant game apart from the ugly, style-clashing cut-scenes and boring story which you are better off skipping (it's true). Caused terrible offence to the story writer who, whoops, was present.