A full serving of Indie Games lead the show with Commander – World 1, Pigs Can’t Fly, Pixelosity, SteamSunk, Fall of Gods, Wizorb, Mega Shooter 11, Robotriot, and Dead Pixels. On the XBLA front, Craig takes a look at Mercury Hg and offers some more thoughts on Rotastic, Sean finds the NBA JAM: On Fire Edition to leave him rather cold, and everyone lies in wait for orcs with Orcs Must Die! Sean tortures himself with the Battlefield 3 Beta, Craig offers up some Kinect action with the Sesame Street: Once Upon A Monster demo and Dance Central. On the disc side, Jeremy tries out some Driver: San Francisco, throws in a bit more about Gears of War 3, delves into a bit of torture himself with Dark Souls, has fun doing a lot of nothing in RAGE, and the show closes out with a discussion on the merits of X-Men: Destiny. All this and a quick and easy contest for a couple copies of Fruit Ninja Kinect!
"Dark Souls: Archthrones is like playing a brand new FromSoftware game, and that speaks volumes about just how much good modding can do," says Hanzala from eXputer.
Parrying has been creeping into more games, with almost every high-profile title of the last few years featuring it in some way. Why?
i understand the authors frustration i'm not the best at parrying in games. not that i can't complete a game that requires it but it is a definite harder thing for me than other kinds of techniques in games. which might be the main reason it's so heavily added in games nowadays. want to make your game challenging without having to do a lot of work? just add a parry boss. (what i mean by parry boss is a boss you have to beat by parrying such that their attacks will kill you otherwise)
I always think it's fine as long as such games also have the roll/dodge panic button. But I understand the will to parry, it seems so cinematic in a fight when you pull it off.
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