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Played on PC. Released 10th June 2016. ‘Late’ly completed 3rd July 2017. Socially behind: 1 Year & 1 Month
I was looking forward to this latest iteration in the Sherlock Holmes game series developed by Frogwares. There is an improvement in graphics, some interesting cases, and an all round well-intentioned game up until you complete the game after only 3 cases and feel ripped off.
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Played on PC. Released 15th November 2016. ‘Late’ly completed 1st July 2017. Socially behind: 7 Months
Did the Ubisoft developers watch the 3 videos I did on the bugs in the original Watch Dogs, ensuring not a single one appeared, whilst adding eye boggling graphics, a story that makes you think, and has become a surprise hit in my books. Literally and metaphorically.
Here on TheLateGamer.com, we want to ensure that gamers are protected from the drummed up hype of the publishers and get the real facts on the games being announced this week. We here are no fanboys/girls, and take no stand (or bribes) with any of the publishers, forming our own opinions on what will be good and bad amongst the evidence of release trailers provided. The games chosen are based on a combination of release trailers and of my experience of any previous titles in the series. We hope that you can appreciate that we also had to cut through a lot of cringe this year.
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Played on PS4. Released 4th November 2016. ‘Late’ly completed 25th May 2017. Socially behind: 6 Months
Let’s first address the elephant in the room. Yes, the game’s trailer is still the 2nd most disliked video on YouTube and yes, I did jump on the hilarious bandwagon at the time in disliking it, but having since played it, now regret putting down one of the best COD games released in aeons.
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Played on 3DS. Released 28th June 2016. ‘Late’ly completed 2nd May 2017. Socially behind: 10 Months
This is the third and final installment in the Zero Escape trilogy. I can’t say I played the first game, I enjoyed that of what I played in the second title, though my 20-hour save file corrupted, but having got the gist of the story, was willing to give the third one a try. It’s certainly playable.
I was none other than seriously p*ssed whilst playing Far Cry 4 a few years back on my newly purchased GTX 970, an upgrade from my year old GTX 770, only for the game to micro stutter. The micro-stuttering was all down to the fact that Nvidia had cheaped out, instead of installing 4GB of DDR5 VRAM, had only used 3.5GB of DDR5 and topped it off with 0.5GB of DDR3 memory, memory that was pulling the rest of the VRAM down. An absolute joke of a card, which I recommend that you purchase one today!
I’m an advocate for enforcing censoring and ensuring that young people aren’t exposed to materials that are deemed unsuitable for them, usually so they don’t grow up with some mental disorder. With video games, there is a big difference between a game for 7-year-olds with bright colours and whimsical characters, and an 18+ game that encourages to butcher people up and uses the acts of committing crimes as an objective.
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Played on PC. Released 25th June 2012. ‘Late’ly completed 24th April 2017. Socially behind: 4 Years & 10 Months
What can I say about a game that doesn’t have much of a derivative to it. All you do is click around the screen and watch an animation. A game that should take no more than a few hours to 100% complete, instead took me 4 years, putting me to sleep every time I booted it up. What can I say?
