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just wanna log all the games i played since i started gaming againfr around 2022ish ~
just wanna log all the games i played since i started gaming againfr around 2022ish ~
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idk man it's not the best lol. i mainly just played it bc i had to pass the time while i had to cancel gamepass for a min & we got it on the switch at some point for prob like a couple bucks. buy ya the fun levels def waver. it might've been fun for like a run or 2 just trying to set a new high score but beating it was def a chore. the missions where you have to find a certain item was so painstaking, they're strangely so hidden in plain sight & the equipment that's supposed to help you find them seem like they barely help, so you end up just swimming around for soo long trying to find any possible place you might've not swam before lmao. & then the bosses are potentially the coolest part, but the problem is you're current shark is often so upgraded by the time you get to the boss, you're often able to just destroy the boss with ease & it just feels like another chore completed. so you end up in a cycle of just swimming around finding items & then defeating a boss just to unlock the next shark that you'll barely even use that much until you unlock the next one. the items are kinda fun but often it feels like you have no choice but to equip all the strongest abilities at your disposal just so you can progress. but i know what i was getting myself into, i def remember that this game was just an app that kids in middle school would play on their phone or ipod touch or whatever & it was prob way better in that context. playing an upgraded version as an adult with the goal of beating it just isn't as pure or fun & i def get that if i was just doing a couple runs on my phone in middle school i wouldn't have judged it this harshly haha. but hey at the same time i was playin different (& better?) app games back then too so who knows (;
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played on master chief collection, only reviewing campaign ~ damn man, a challenging one, bc it's hard to know which of my thoughts are purely valid, bc i unfortunately feel like i did halo 3 kinda dirty ): mainly at first, it brought me the realization of the co-op campaign curse. when i first played halo 1 campaign, i played with james bc i wasn't planning on starting/even loving halo, so co-op was the perfect way to begin, & it was at the time, it def helped ease into the game. i then went onto playing halo 2 campaign by myself & it was awesome, still my best halo experience & i got to rly immerse in the lore & game in general. after 2, i was so excited to go to 3 & "finish the fight" & originally i was gonna go right into it like the day after i beat 2. & mannn in retrospect i wish i did. if anything, it would've at least gave me a way more accurate read on how i felt.
but instead i made the decision to wait for james to come back to town so i could play it co-op with him, thinking it would be more fun... shittttt lol. by the time i got around to playing it, hella time had gone by, i had forgotten the key facts of where i left off in halo 2 & had lost the momentum of the plot in general. not to mention i had only played a halo solo campaign once at that point so i had finally just gotten used to rly playing the game but was not fully established in being comfortable in my halo playing abilities, so by the time i played 3 my skills were p gone again. when first starting it up, the graphical difference was huge & the game looked so beautiful, the jump from 2 was crazy. but before hopping in i was already v unprepared in both story & gameplay. & then comes the co-op campaign curse. james is just a halo veteran man. been playing forever & has beat these games hella times. it worked playing CE & having help introducing myself into the series, but now man i realized i'm just being cucked out of the full first-time experience lol. this man is killing hella more folks than me, running ahead to the next objective as i'm just trying to catch up, there was legit times where i'm dead waiting to respawn while watching him do some epic huge mission ending shit on his screen haha. i never got to fully adjust to the halo 3 gameplay/control differences until like the end of the game since i never had the opportunity to learn from my mistakes myself. & with things being beat for me & the game progressing even without me, the story just kept moving forward without me rly fully understanding what was even going on. obviously not wanting to be a dick & just stop the game i ended up finishing the whole game not playing well, & not fully knowing what was happening, but of course spoiling all the major plot points in an unfufilling way, & ending the game not feeling the best about it.
fast forward i decided to replay the series, partly to try to do 3 justice, but partly just bc i wanted to. aside from wanting to actually fully experience it, i had things i didn't think i liked that much about the halo 3 campaign that i wasn't sure if it was valid or if it was just bc i did the co-op thing. i never played the remastered for CE & 2 yet so i did that & i knew it would help me fully refresh on the story & gameplay so that i could be as prepped for 3 as possible & try to do it justice the second time thru, solo this time. & it did actually end up a lot better than i thought it would. long ass lead up to this but halo 3 campaign is still great yknow. the ending of the classic trilogy of course it's good. being able to actually learn the new features like the power ups was fun & the missions were all around fun & cool. i guess part of the thing is, it rly is just "finishing the fight". which in theory isn't a bad thing but it rly does kinda feel like one long extended mission. which coming from 2 where you're switching sides, constantly doing a new dynamic plot progression maybe it made the difference seem more harsh. crazy watching the dev commentary on halo 2 & all the shit they had to cut out tho bc it rly feels like if it was possible at the time, halo 2 could've just been like 3 more insane epic missions at the end & in theory you could've finished the fight then & made halo 2 like the best campaign of all time. but the "final fight" is stretched through a whole game which like i said is still cool & the missions were p great. but i kinda just wanted a lil more epic scale. i understand the hardware limitations at the time & i can't rly fault them but i guess i just wish in game at the very least was more covenant integration. which above all is my one biggest complaint about 3's campaign
man in 2 arbiter is half way the main character!! from playing half an entire game as him & ending the game on an arbiter mission, it just seems so unfortunate that in 3 he's reduced to a co-op player 2 skin, basically the 2nd clone master chief from halo CE co-op lol. it's so sick at times in theory that in co-op one person is chief & one person is arbiter it makes so much sense, but at other times it's like wait arbiter is supposed to be off doing other shit right now, this shit's not canon! this co-op arbiter is not the real arbiter! lol & then when the big war climaxes you get maybe a lil cutscene of marines & covenant trading some weapons, & of course covenant ships painted green flying with marine ships & i mean that shit was beautiful! i just wish there was more of it! even if arbiter wasn't a main focus anymore i would've absolutely loved to see more USMC/covenant alliance tie ins. it was like my favorite part about 2 having shit like johnson & arbiter team up so strongly to take out a common enemy. & again i understand there could be limitations of the time & they could only do so much in one campaign, but co-op curse & everything else aside, i think it's valid for me to wish that my fav charachter & his people that were sooo important in the previous game, were more represented in the big grand finale of the series.
but that's bout it tho man, sucks i did halo 3 kinda dirty, but it's still an amazing campaign forsure. even tho i semi-spoiled the glory of the hugest moment's in 3's story, playing it thru the second time & fully understanding what was happening, it was still epic af. the huge deaths were crazy & the team up with the temporary flood was so fuckin sick, even though it wasn't exactly how i'd wished, it still had a lot of iconic ass missions & story segments. if they would've just given arbiter & the covenant more shine i know i would've thought that shit was absolute perfection. & at the same time i know i'm only reviewing the campaigns for these games which doesn't even come close to giving the justice that the full games respectively deserve. when halo 3 came out i was like 9 just playin whatever lil games i could at the time bc i was a kid. def didn't have my own xbox or 360 with online. i wasn't consciously around an active prime halo era until reach & even then i still wasn't able to fully partake haha! campaign nit-picking aside of course i have all the respect in the world for this original trilogy & could only imagine how amazing it must've been to be active in this shit in it's prime & to play multiplayer & forge & all that shit with your friends & the world at the time. regardless halo is goated af & what a journey it's been with just these 3 games from being a dumb ass ignorant "alien shooter" hater just a few years back haha.
but instead i made the decision to wait for james to come back to town so i could play it co-op with him, thinking it would be more fun... shittttt lol. by the time i got around to playing it, hella time had gone by, i had forgotten the key facts of where i left off in halo 2 & had lost the momentum of the plot in general. not to mention i had only played a halo solo campaign once at that point so i had finally just gotten used to rly playing the game but was not fully established in being comfortable in my halo playing abilities, so by the time i played 3 my skills were p gone again. when first starting it up, the graphical difference was huge & the game looked so beautiful, the jump from 2 was crazy. but before hopping in i was already v unprepared in both story & gameplay. & then comes the co-op campaign curse. james is just a halo veteran man. been playing forever & has beat these games hella times. it worked playing CE & having help introducing myself into the series, but now man i realized i'm just being cucked out of the full first-time experience lol. this man is killing hella more folks than me, running ahead to the next objective as i'm just trying to catch up, there was legit times where i'm dead waiting to respawn while watching him do some epic huge mission ending shit on his screen haha. i never got to fully adjust to the halo 3 gameplay/control differences until like the end of the game since i never had the opportunity to learn from my mistakes myself. & with things being beat for me & the game progressing even without me, the story just kept moving forward without me rly fully understanding what was even going on. obviously not wanting to be a dick & just stop the game i ended up finishing the whole game not playing well, & not fully knowing what was happening, but of course spoiling all the major plot points in an unfufilling way, & ending the game not feeling the best about it.
fast forward i decided to replay the series, partly to try to do 3 justice, but partly just bc i wanted to. aside from wanting to actually fully experience it, i had things i didn't think i liked that much about the halo 3 campaign that i wasn't sure if it was valid or if it was just bc i did the co-op thing. i never played the remastered for CE & 2 yet so i did that & i knew it would help me fully refresh on the story & gameplay so that i could be as prepped for 3 as possible & try to do it justice the second time thru, solo this time. & it did actually end up a lot better than i thought it would. long ass lead up to this but halo 3 campaign is still great yknow. the ending of the classic trilogy of course it's good. being able to actually learn the new features like the power ups was fun & the missions were all around fun & cool. i guess part of the thing is, it rly is just "finishing the fight". which in theory isn't a bad thing but it rly does kinda feel like one long extended mission. which coming from 2 where you're switching sides, constantly doing a new dynamic plot progression maybe it made the difference seem more harsh. crazy watching the dev commentary on halo 2 & all the shit they had to cut out tho bc it rly feels like if it was possible at the time, halo 2 could've just been like 3 more insane epic missions at the end & in theory you could've finished the fight then & made halo 2 like the best campaign of all time. but the "final fight" is stretched through a whole game which like i said is still cool & the missions were p great. but i kinda just wanted a lil more epic scale. i understand the hardware limitations at the time & i can't rly fault them but i guess i just wish in game at the very least was more covenant integration. which above all is my one biggest complaint about 3's campaign
man in 2 arbiter is half way the main character!! from playing half an entire game as him & ending the game on an arbiter mission, it just seems so unfortunate that in 3 he's reduced to a co-op player 2 skin, basically the 2nd clone master chief from halo CE co-op lol. it's so sick at times in theory that in co-op one person is chief & one person is arbiter it makes so much sense, but at other times it's like wait arbiter is supposed to be off doing other shit right now, this shit's not canon! this co-op arbiter is not the real arbiter! lol & then when the big war climaxes you get maybe a lil cutscene of marines & covenant trading some weapons, & of course covenant ships painted green flying with marine ships & i mean that shit was beautiful! i just wish there was more of it! even if arbiter wasn't a main focus anymore i would've absolutely loved to see more USMC/covenant alliance tie ins. it was like my favorite part about 2 having shit like johnson & arbiter team up so strongly to take out a common enemy. & again i understand there could be limitations of the time & they could only do so much in one campaign, but co-op curse & everything else aside, i think it's valid for me to wish that my fav charachter & his people that were sooo important in the previous game, were more represented in the big grand finale of the series.
but that's bout it tho man, sucks i did halo 3 kinda dirty, but it's still an amazing campaign forsure. even tho i semi-spoiled the glory of the hugest moment's in 3's story, playing it thru the second time & fully understanding what was happening, it was still epic af. the huge deaths were crazy & the team up with the temporary flood was so fuckin sick, even though it wasn't exactly how i'd wished, it still had a lot of iconic ass missions & story segments. if they would've just given arbiter & the covenant more shine i know i would've thought that shit was absolute perfection. & at the same time i know i'm only reviewing the campaigns for these games which doesn't even come close to giving the justice that the full games respectively deserve. when halo 3 came out i was like 9 just playin whatever lil games i could at the time bc i was a kid. def didn't have my own xbox or 360 with online. i wasn't consciously around an active prime halo era until reach & even then i still wasn't able to fully partake haha! campaign nit-picking aside of course i have all the respect in the world for this original trilogy & could only imagine how amazing it must've been to be active in this shit in it's prime & to play multiplayer & forge & all that shit with your friends & the world at the time. regardless halo is goated af & what a journey it's been with just these 3 games from being a dumb ass ignorant "alien shooter" hater just a few years back haha.
sigh sucks to have to write this mannnn,
wish i could've given this a 4 star...............
basically i used to play this game hella as a young kid bc my grandma had it on her PC, one of the only games ever that me & my grandparents all played. especially my grandpa who had his few different heavy gaming phases this was one of his mains he played so much. so months ago when i was still new to game pass, i think around after when i originally finished halo 2 & was gonna take a halo break, i saw this on game pass & was like damn, that could be a fun lil casual game to play right now! & i first downloaded it & it was! sooo nostalgic man damn, the sounds, the music, the maps, first time i seen any of this shit since i was so young, it was awesome. but on top of that, after playing a couple hours i was hooked ! nostalgia aside, i got addicted & just like any good game in this style it worked how it should, addicting gameplay, creative lil concept, bright colors & specific aesthetic packaging, simple progression thru levels. it was just a solid ass lil pop cap actioin puzzle game. was honestly gonna give it a 4 star bc i had a great time
until i didn't ): mannn call me salty idc man i'll say it i am goddamn salty haha, but this game goes on too long & is fuckin impossible to beat !! & that sucks mann!!!!!!! look if it was set up originally in a way to where it seemed to be no "beating" the game, aka there's essentially infinite levels, then i wouldn't have felt this way. but it's not man, they have the gauntlet mode that fulfills the infinite survival aspect, & then the adventure mode that is set up in a way that makes you believe you could reach the end. but u can't!!!! i get it, it's not actually impossible, but like is anyone rating this game high af on here confirming that they beat the last level on this shit? if so then i guess ya'll are just more skilled than me, bc i ended up putting goddamn hoursss into this shit lol ! by the time you reach the last set of levels (the final part that i was never able to beat), it just isn't the same anymore. at that point you've already replayed the same maps over & over & over again, & there's just so many factors that play into luck to where it feels unfair. you could be playing sooo skillfully & accurately with no mistakes & just get fucked over by the randomly generated combination of colored balls, & lose just out of something out of your control. & ahh mannn i tried for a lottt of hours & rly felt the full defeat of not being able to beat it lol. wish it was more fair, or that if i lost, it was by my own mistakes & not by a luck factor out of my control, or that the game simply ended on the second to last tower that was still incredibly challenging & took a long time to beat. like if it ended there it would've gotten the 4 star!! i'm sure i could've continued for days & put so many more frustrating painful hours trying over & over again to beat this random lil puzzle game i used to play on my grandma's pc, just to have the medal of pride & fulfill my lil semi-completionist heart that will feel terrible moving on knowing that i just wasn't good enough to make it all the way to the end. but i guess moral of the story is you gotta know when it's just not worth it, & as much as it sucks, you gotta give up on beating this shit & move on to actually having fun again on a different game. & i don't plan on quitting on shit in the future! i just want a fair fight! & if i can't control the shitty ball combinations coming out on the last levels completely fucking me over then the only thing i could do is leave this salty ass extra ass 2 1/2 star review haha.
shout out zuma tho, hella nostalgic fasho, who knows maybe i'll beat it one day lol
wish i could've given this a 4 star...............
basically i used to play this game hella as a young kid bc my grandma had it on her PC, one of the only games ever that me & my grandparents all played. especially my grandpa who had his few different heavy gaming phases this was one of his mains he played so much. so months ago when i was still new to game pass, i think around after when i originally finished halo 2 & was gonna take a halo break, i saw this on game pass & was like damn, that could be a fun lil casual game to play right now! & i first downloaded it & it was! sooo nostalgic man damn, the sounds, the music, the maps, first time i seen any of this shit since i was so young, it was awesome. but on top of that, after playing a couple hours i was hooked ! nostalgia aside, i got addicted & just like any good game in this style it worked how it should, addicting gameplay, creative lil concept, bright colors & specific aesthetic packaging, simple progression thru levels. it was just a solid ass lil pop cap actioin puzzle game. was honestly gonna give it a 4 star bc i had a great time
until i didn't ): mannn call me salty idc man i'll say it i am goddamn salty haha, but this game goes on too long & is fuckin impossible to beat !! & that sucks mann!!!!!!! look if it was set up originally in a way to where it seemed to be no "beating" the game, aka there's essentially infinite levels, then i wouldn't have felt this way. but it's not man, they have the gauntlet mode that fulfills the infinite survival aspect, & then the adventure mode that is set up in a way that makes you believe you could reach the end. but u can't!!!! i get it, it's not actually impossible, but like is anyone rating this game high af on here confirming that they beat the last level on this shit? if so then i guess ya'll are just more skilled than me, bc i ended up putting goddamn hoursss into this shit lol ! by the time you reach the last set of levels (the final part that i was never able to beat), it just isn't the same anymore. at that point you've already replayed the same maps over & over & over again, & there's just so many factors that play into luck to where it feels unfair. you could be playing sooo skillfully & accurately with no mistakes & just get fucked over by the randomly generated combination of colored balls, & lose just out of something out of your control. & ahh mannn i tried for a lottt of hours & rly felt the full defeat of not being able to beat it lol. wish it was more fair, or that if i lost, it was by my own mistakes & not by a luck factor out of my control, or that the game simply ended on the second to last tower that was still incredibly challenging & took a long time to beat. like if it ended there it would've gotten the 4 star!! i'm sure i could've continued for days & put so many more frustrating painful hours trying over & over again to beat this random lil puzzle game i used to play on my grandma's pc, just to have the medal of pride & fulfill my lil semi-completionist heart that will feel terrible moving on knowing that i just wasn't good enough to make it all the way to the end. but i guess moral of the story is you gotta know when it's just not worth it, & as much as it sucks, you gotta give up on beating this shit & move on to actually having fun again on a different game. & i don't plan on quitting on shit in the future! i just want a fair fight! & if i can't control the shitty ball combinations coming out on the last levels completely fucking me over then the only thing i could do is leave this salty ass extra ass 2 1/2 star review haha.
shout out zuma tho, hella nostalgic fasho, who knows maybe i'll beat it one day lol