MaxBedlam
Half-Life 2

Röki

10.8 hours
32 of 32 achievements

It's interesting how I wasn't even interested in this game when I bought the bundle, but it turned out to be the best out of the ones I've tried.

It's a nice looking 3D adventure game with puzzles, most of them being akin to point-and-click games where you use or combine items you find to progress. It has a decent story infused with Nordic folklore.

I've quite enjoyed the game, and heck this game has made me more interested in playing more games of this type. If anyone has suggestions on similar games that are worth playing I'd love to hear them.

Half-Life 2

Serious Sam 3: BFE

34.5 hours
38 of 62 achievements

Beat the base game as well as the DLC. Unfortunately I played the original, because I didn't know there's a fusion version of this and only found out about that after I've beaten the game.

Not as good as I expected. Some of the secrets were pain to get because they required jumping on top of stuff which you'd sometimes just fall through or slide off of, it was really clumsy. Some of the secrets were inaccessible if enemies destroyed certain props you'd have to jump/climb on to get to them, so when that happened I had to load the previous save and try again, hoping they won't get destroyed this time around.

I didn't really like most of the levels, the design just wasn't interesting or that fun to go through. The gameplay was fine I guess, aside from some really annoying encounters, but overall there just wasn't anything that impressive or noteworthy about this game.

The DLC was pretty decent though, I liked it way more than the base game. It only had about 3 levels though.

Half-Life 2

Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter

0 hours
0 of 35 achievements

I've beaten the fusion version of this game, which is why it says I have 0 hours and achievements on the panel.

I remember playing this game ages ago as a kid, but I don't think I've ever beaten it back then. Well now I did, and oh boy.

The gameplay was rather fun for the most part, the level designs are definitely way better and more interesting than anything in the SS3:BFE. Secrets were more fun to find here as well.

That being said, this game had so many unfair, cheesy enemy spawns it was ridiculous. So many times the game would just spawn extremely dangerous enemies behind my back to mow me down. Sometimes it would just spawn a bunch of fast enemies from all directions in areas where you can't really position yourself in a way to get the upper hand. I had to switch to third person mode for some of those fights to make them more manageable.

I'm not sure how I feel about the game. Had some fun with it, but there was also a lot of suffering and annoyances. Won't stop me from beating all the other Serious Sam games though. I already own and plan on going through TSE and SS2 eventually, probably sometimes this year.

Half-Life 2

Dead Island Riptide Definitive Edition

44.9 hours
24 of 35 achievements

This was somewhat mediocre in my opinion, at least compared to the first game which I enjoyed a whole lot more. Also had some annoying bugs, some of which resulted in instant death for no good reason and some of them required me to load last checkpoint. Siege events for example, it happened in two of them that the last zombie would get stuck behind some wall and I couldn't kill it and finish the event.

I liked the addition of some weapons like the flare gun and especially the harpoon which I had fun using. Nailing the enemies to walls was very satisfying, and being able to pick up shot harpoons meant you can't run out of ammo which was really nice!
There was more variety in zombies which was nice, but the new ones were quite rare though.

All of that being said, I still enjoyed and liked the game. I wish I picked some other character though, went with John who is hand-to-hand fighter, thought he'd be fun and I've seen people praise him but I found the weapon variety for him very lacking (knuckles and claws which look almost the same and staves which are pretty rare and not even that interesting even when modded).

Overall I'm glad I decided to play it, like I said previously even with all the faults it's still a good game and it was nice to conclude the story from the previous game. Albeit that conclusion could have been better.