geraltofrivia
Limp Gawd
- Joined
- Jun 12, 2012
- Messages
- 409
Outstanding game! I started playing yesterday at 9 am. I was so impressed that, with the exception of about a 70 minute lunch, I played straight through. Finished the game at 10:30 pm last night. Kept my attention throughout the game; from start to finish. I'm going to be starting another play through today except I'll be at the hardest difficulty and I will be taking much more time to explore than I did last play through.
In retrospect my favorite part of the game was the sequence when you land on Monument Island, go through the siphon/quaratine areas, meet Elizabeth, and then wake up on the beach. I played the game cold - I hadn't even seen the box art and didn't know the game was going about Elizabeth. When you walk through her tower and see all those signs, you think you're going to see and fight some grotesque monster - the creepiness and anticipation just builds and builds. They seem to delay it forever.
Then the sequence where you go from room to room observing her behind the fake mirrors. And then racing to the top before the statue falls apart. The combination of graphics, sound, environment, plot... I don't think I've ever experienced anything like that in a game.
There have been days where I thought I was probably too old for video games, that they don't affect me the way Chrono Trigger, or FF6, or Baldur's Gate 2 did. But this game has really restored my faith. New technology has made games prettier but as a whole I think they are shallower because of it. But Infinite does things with modern technology that simply couldn't have been done on the SNES or Voodoo3. It's now two days since I've beat the game, and I've had a chance to reflect, and I'm about 99% sure this is the best game I've ever played.
Then the sequence where you go from room to room observing her behind the fake mirrors. And then racing to the top before the statue falls apart. The combination of graphics, sound, environment, plot... I don't think I've ever experienced anything like that in a game.
There have been days where I thought I was probably too old for video games, that they don't affect me the way Chrono Trigger, or FF6, or Baldur's Gate 2 did. But this game has really restored my faith. New technology has made games prettier but as a whole I think they are shallower because of it. But Infinite does things with modern technology that simply couldn't have been done on the SNES or Voodoo3. It's now two days since I've beat the game, and I've had a chance to reflect, and I'm about 99% sure this is the best game I've ever played.