Nickelodeon All-Stars Brawl released one week ago and I’m curious what everyone here thinks of it now that the game is out and past all the build up. In case you don’t know, Nickelodeon All-Stars Brawl is a platform fighter inspired by Super Smash Bros. Melee using Nickelodeon characters as opposed to Nintendo characters. It features the fast and fluid combat from Melee, but also adds a few twists to the mechanics that makes it unique enough to call a different game.
Personally speaking, I think this game is easily the best platform fighter I’ve played if you can look past the bland presentation. The fighting is insanely fast, but also characters are so responsive that I never really lose track of what’s going on and it’s very easy for me to get into my zone when playing this game. This also means combos feel less rigid and more improvisational since most moves can be followed up by another attack almost right away. Movement is super crisp and the …
Credit to u/cloudsheep0 for pointing this out.
Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight is the fourth worst rated game on Steam, which probably explains why they pulled it.
As for Crysis, my theory is that they pulled it because the Steam version has some major problems:
There are fan workarounds for these, but from EA’s perspective the game is being sold and it doesn’t work. I’ve seen EA’s tech support people responding to a constant stream of people asking, “Why does the Steam version of Crysis not work?”
The GOG version of Crysis is still being sold. And the Origin version is still being sold, but has been renamed Crysis (2007), because due to their publishing agreement, Crytek have to provide versions of the …