[quote]PonceDeLeon wrote:
Have any of you played Brink? Thoughts?[/quote]
after the less than stellar reviews i decided to give it a miss however a guy from work picked it up and said it was fun but wouldn’t knock off battlefield 2 anytime soon.
I thought its a good idea, just not executed properly
Infamous 2 just came in the mail.
Amazon is the shit on delivery.
[quote]PonceDeLeon wrote:
Have any of you played Brink? Thoughts?[/quote]
Don’t bother with it, the novelty wears off in about twenty minutes.
Watched someone play Deus Ex 3 for a bit.
Graphics seem like a mixed bag. A bit mass-effect-y actually in some ways, but also somewhat… Strangely low-fi when it comes to some of the char models and misc. items lying around. Something about the shadows seemed off. Lack of self-shadowing maybe? I’m not entirely sure, only got to watch it for a bit.
Seemed… Not dark enough compared to the first? But I only got to see some hallways, labs and some side-street.
Will probably get it though. Did not seem like mouse accel was an issue, fortunately.
Did not get to play Brink yet.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
Infamous 2 just came in the mail.
Amazon is the shit on delivery. [/quote]
How is it? I didnt really enjoy the first one too much and the reviews on the second have made me hesitant to even rent it…
Unrelated to current discussion but I felt the need to issue a Public Service Announcement:
Regarding Dungeon Siege III, I suggest not even bothering with the demo. I played it due to being bored between games and hooooo-ly shit. I am, by no means, a graphics-beat-all gamer but this game looks like it belongs on last generation’s consoles or even some of the later games on PS1. It looks awful, I don’t care how much fun it is or how good the story is, I couldn’t get past the WAY dated graphics.
I enjoyed DS I and II on the PC back in the day but I found nothing redeeming about III in the demo.
PSA Over
/rant on
Fuck Kinect, I would bet my left testicle that the delay in ME3’s release is due to Kinect incorporation. Yay voice commands! Wait…you mean I can just use the buttons on the controller like I did last time? Oh…but VOICE yay!
And I seem to remember needing to be fairly precise in who I wanted my teammates to hit with their powers, not just being able to shout, “Liara, singularity!” Time will tell if that gets hammered out, but I’m not shelling out money for the Kinect either way.
[quote]Davinci.v2 wrote:
[quote]Professor X wrote:
Infamous 2 just came in the mail.
Amazon is the shit on delivery. [/quote]
How is it? I didnt really enjoy the first one too much and the reviews on the second have made me hesitant to even rent it…[/quote]
If you didn’t like the first one at all, then I don’t know what to tell you. I liked the first one even though I will even admit it got very repetitive after a while and the replay value is very low.
I can put a game like Assassin’s Creed back in a year later and still enjoy it. I can’t do the same for games like Infamous I or even games like Arkham Assylum (once you play that all of the way through once, the “thrill” is gone). Hell, I could probably still put GTA-SA in and still enjoy it.
Either way, the opening intro and set up are all big improvements. You get a hand weapon early on that does make the guys you take out more fun to deal with as opposed to hitting them with an electric blast from a mile away. I have only gotten one new power so far so I can’t speak on that.
I can say the game “feels” the same as the first so if you didn’t like that at all, don’t bother with this.
If you did like the first one, this is an improvement…but I wouldn’t rate it so far as the same as the leap made from the first Assassin’s Creed to the second one. I don’t think they dug that deep.
[quote]Davinci.v2 wrote:
I personally believe that rage is going to be a COMPLETELY different game than Duke and Serious Sam. When you’re stacking up games as pure run and gun, Serious Sam is a pure run and gun with essentially no story or objectives…just continue to move through the level, perhaps flip a switch to open a door.
Then Duke Forever closely behind, but perhaps with slightly more story and plot and then Rage coming in third. Rage is going to be different because it’s going to more closely resemble borderlands with a bit more depth. As you collect weapons, you can upgrade and personalize them. I’m looking foward to all 3 of them with Rage perhaps being at the top.
Here is the newest trailer showing some mission based objectives and some of the modified weapons found in Rage. I’m also surprised that you aren’t impressed by the gfx CC. I’m impressed by not only the visuals, but also that the AI respond with respect to where you shoot them. If someone is rushing at you and you shoot them in the right shoulder, they wield back on their right side. Similarly if you shoot someone in the left leg, they’ll topple over left side first etc.
That’s the one I watched as well.
Parts of the graphics are nice, others… Have not only been done before, but are seriously getting old?
Apart from that… Yeah, the damage feedback is alright. But, just like in Half Life 2 where you got to saw the zombies apart with those throwable sawblades via the physics gun… You only get to hit the enemies here in the head with your throwing knives (or is it just me)… Awkward knife animation as well.
All the enemies look the same.
Char models look awkward.
Lack of bump mapping in a lot of places where it should be.
Simplistic textures and object geometry on quite a few background objects.
Weapon balance is rather awkward. Esp. the Assault Rifle seems downright underpowered (might be fixable via upgrades which he didn’t do in that playthrough/demonstration?).
Not too hot on the shown weapons… Getting explosive crossbow bolts stuck in people will likely get old fast tbh.
Also: Some of the effects are really outdated… Like the pouring water out of a pipe or whatever it was, the electricity effect etc.
I doubt any of the graphical stuff would really bother me if the game itself were great, but it honestly looks like it’ll get boring fast… I may be wrong though.
I want Deus Ex 3 to be released already. Damnit.
And Steam, don’t you dare make it a “German Language Only, Low Violence” -version for me.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
[quote]Davinci.v2 wrote:
[quote]Professor X wrote:
Infamous 2 just came in the mail.
Amazon is the shit on delivery. [/quote]
How is it? I didnt really enjoy the first one too much and the reviews on the second have made me hesitant to even rent it…[/quote]
If you didn’t like the first one at all, then I don’t know what to tell you. I liked the first one even though I will even admit it got very repetitive after a while and the replay value is very low.
I can put a game like Assassin’s Creed back in a year later and still enjoy it. I can’t do the same for games like Infamous I or even games like Arkham Assylum (once you play that all of the way through once, the “thrill” is gone). Hell, I could probably still put GTA-SA in and still enjoy it.
Either way, the opening intro and set up are all big improvements. You get a hand weapon early on that does make the guys you take out more fun to deal with as opposed to hitting them with an electric blast from a mile away. I have only gotten one new power so far so I can’t speak on that.
I can say the game “feels” the same as the first so if you didn’t like that at all, don’t bother with this.
If you did like the first one, this is an improvement…but I wouldn’t rate it so far as the same as the leap made from the first Assassin’s Creed to the second one. I don’t think they dug that deep.[/quote]
Did you ever get a chance to try out Just Cause 2 ? (don’t know if it came out for the PS3 as well)
[quote]Cephalic_Carnage wrote:
[quote]Davinci.v2 wrote:
I personally believe that rage is going to be a COMPLETELY different game than Duke and Serious Sam. When you’re stacking up games as pure run and gun, Serious Sam is a pure run and gun with essentially no story or objectives…just continue to move through the level, perhaps flip a switch to open a door.
Then Duke Forever closely behind, but perhaps with slightly more story and plot and then Rage coming in third. Rage is going to be different because it’s going to more closely resemble borderlands with a bit more depth. As you collect weapons, you can upgrade and personalize them. I’m looking foward to all 3 of them with Rage perhaps being at the top.
Here is the newest trailer showing some mission based objectives and some of the modified weapons found in Rage. I’m also surprised that you aren’t impressed by the gfx CC. I’m impressed by not only the visuals, but also that the AI respond with respect to where you shoot them. If someone is rushing at you and you shoot them in the right shoulder, they wield back on their right side. Similarly if you shoot someone in the left leg, they’ll topple over left side first etc.
That’s the one I watched as well.
Parts of the graphics are nice, others… Have not only been done before, but are seriously getting old?
Apart from that… Yeah, the damage feedback is alright. But, just like in Half Life 2 where you got to saw the zombies apart with those throwable sawblades via the physics gun… You only get to hit the enemies here in the head with your throwing knives (or is it just me)… Awkward knife animation as well.
All the enemies look the same.
Char models look awkward.
Lack of bump mapping in a lot of places where it should be.
Simplistic textures and object geometry on quite a few background objects.
Weapon balance is rather awkward. Esp. the Assault Rifle seems downright underpowered (might be fixable via upgrades which he didn’t do in that playthrough/demonstration?).
Not too hot on the shown weapons… Getting explosive crossbow bolts stuck in people will likely get old fast tbh.
Also: Some of the effects are really outdated… Like the pouring water out of a pipe or whatever it was, the electricity effect etc.
I doubt any of the graphical stuff would really bother me if the game itself were great, but it honestly looks like it’ll get boring fast… I may be wrong though.
I want Deus Ex 3 to be released already. Damnit.
And Steam, don’t you dare make it a “German Language Only, Low Violence” -version for me.
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Damn you’re tough. I can agree with you on the water from the pipes which does like absolutely horrid…outside of that, I believe that the reason the enemies look the same is because they were part of a clan which over took that subsection. I have a really hard time believing ID software would possibly be stupid enough to not have a really wide variety of enemies.
Dues Ex 3 could be great…but I actually do have issues with the graphics style in the gameplay. Like you mentioned before, the textures all look low res and almost “washed” of detail. Maybe that was neccessary to keep frame rate high.
Notable mentions with gameplay below (Skyrim, Far Cry 3 and The Darkness 2)
E3 sucking hard!
i will just wait for tgs
[quote]Professor X wrote:
[quote]Davinci.v2 wrote:
[quote]Professor X wrote:
Infamous 2 just came in the mail.
Amazon is the shit on delivery. [/quote]
How is it? I didnt really enjoy the first one too much and the reviews on the second have made me hesitant to even rent it…[/quote]
If you didn’t like the first one at all, then I don’t know what to tell you. I liked the first one even though I will even admit it got very repetitive after a while and the replay value is very low.
I can put a game like Assassin’s Creed back in a year later and still enjoy it. I can’t do the same for games like Infamous I or even games like Arkham Assylum (once you play that all of the way through once, the “thrill” is gone). Hell, I could probably still put GTA-SA in and still enjoy it.
Either way, the opening intro and set up are all big improvements. You get a hand weapon early on that does make the guys you take out more fun to deal with as opposed to hitting them with an electric blast from a mile away. I have only gotten one new power so far so I can’t speak on that.
I can say the game “feels” the same as the first so if you didn’t like that at all, don’t bother with this.
If you did like the first one, this is an improvement…but I wouldn’t rate it so far as the same as the leap made from the first Assassin’s Creed to the second one. I don’t think they dug that deep.[/quote]
Hmm…I just watched another review that gave it a far higher score than another site (Gamespot - 7.5, Gametrailers - 9’s). It does look better to me than the first. The combat in the first one didn’t feel fun to me and I felt like the story and my progress through it was a grind…I loved Assassins creed…but having all of those powers in the first one for whatever reason to me just wasn’t “fun”. I didn’t like prototype either to put things into perspective.
Davinci, imo big gaming sites like Gamespot etc’s reviews are not something I’d rely on…
Note: If you want to know what it’s like, go to gameanyone and watch someone play it on HD (cookies need to be on, you can select the quality at the lower left of the vid window).
That’s what I do more often than not now. Generally gives you a good idea of the game mechanics and a reasonably good idea of the graphics (if it’s a HD walkthrough) and all that.
I completely forgot about Far Cry 3 (I hope the gameplay will be less repetitive than that of FC 2… And that the graphics will be better. Not that they were bad, but the overall feeling of the game was rather lackluster in part 2) and The Darkness 2 (that one may turn out really interesting).
Going to get Deus Ex 3 despite the so-so presentation… I just got so much into the original and there haven’t really been any good similar games in ages…
Alpha Protocol was sort of vaguely similar… And had a lot of good aspects to it… But overall fell flat unfortunately.
And why. WHY WOULD ANYONE WANT TO PLAY DEUS EX 3 ON THE PC… WITH A CONTROLLER?
What the hell? If you port a game, at least make it less painfully obvious.
I can see that kind of thing being ok in a fighting game port or some such, but a first person shooter/“rpg” crossover ? What’s the damn point?
Several of my buddies from way back when telling me that the new Duke Nukem sucks big time. And those were guys I used to play DN3D deathmatch against in class, approximately a billion years ago.
Dungeon Siege 3… Really that bad? Oh well. I thought the second one was already suspiciously lacking in graphics power (esp. considering that the series started out as a graphics powerhouse, sort of), but I had fun with it until I got to the damn desert.
Anyway… DS3 wasn’t really on my radar to begin with, oh well.
[quote]kaisermetal wrote:
E3 sucking hard!
i will just wait for tgs[/quote]
WTF is up with the new Nintendo controller?
Looks ridiculous.
One major plus for Infamous 2:
After you finish the first two missions, they have automatic connection to online features where users have created missions themselves and the gamers have chosen the best ones. In other words, they can keep adding new side missions as long as people can keep coming up with them.
[quote]roybot wrote:
I didn’t say the movie would definitely tank; I meant that it could suffer from the same creative decision-making that gave us a poorly handled continuity, that’s why I wondered if it was a prequel or a reboot (I’ve since found out that it is a full-on prequel, when I originally heard it was to be a reboot). My fear was that even though Matthew Vaughan should be able to start with a clean slate, he couldn’t, not completely because of having to foreshadow the previous movies - which I totally understand as that is the whole point of a prequel.
It’s just that the chronology he has to follow is so damned patchy. How do I find it confusing? Beast, Emma Frost, Storm and Moira Mactaggart were all in previous movies and in ways that contradict their First Class counterparts. Who wouldn’t find that confusing?
You can excuse Beast and Storm because they were deleted scenes, but Frost and Mactaggart were featured characters in Wolverine and X-Men 3 respectively. It’s more than having a whinge over minor details. In other words, I was concerned that some of the shit would stick to the gems.
I’ve now seen the movie and it was great - good enough to forget about the clashes and contradictions for the moment. But these will still hang over all subsequent X-movies including Wolverine 2, which will definitely go ahead now because there’s obviously life left in the franchise, and the Deadpool solo movie, which is another sure thing after the positive buzz surrounding First class(that’s another two movies that’re going to have work overtime to rise above the critical stink left by Wolverine).
Had First Class bombed, that would have been it for Fox. First Class was last chance saloon for them after Last Stand and X-Men Oranges: Tangerine. I never came out and said that First Class would suck; in the thread for the first trailer I championed it for merging history and fiction, and for having the courage to use the classic costume design in lieu of leather flight suits.
I thought that Matthew Vaughan had his work cut out to make up for the shortcomings of the previous movies, some of which were inescapable but he succeeded with ease. I’m glad because he’s a good director. [/quote]
I will probably see the movie Friday or Saturday. Then I will know if it holds up to the awesomesauce the previews make it out to be.
As far as I’m concerned, and from the last Vaughan interview I read, First Class is a new continuity. They may have kept the few sparking gems from the dung heap that was the first 4 X-Turd films, but what happens in First Class stays in First Class.
[quote]Vash wrote:
[quote]Bujo wrote:
[quote]Vash wrote:
[quote]Johnny T Frisk wrote:
Never played the first one but heard it was good except for having to backtrack at the end, this looks pretty cool though.[/quote]
I played it through on every skill level just to collect the extra items.
I’ve never played a game so hard as that.
Killer.
And it’s good to see Joe M. putting out video games more often than he put out comics.[/quote]
Did you play Bayonetta, or Devil May Cry, or Ninja Gaiden? Just trying to gauge the difficulty. I might pick up the first one, just debating it for now.
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Less difficult than Hard Devil May Cry on it’s worst setting.
But I think a game that asks me to put a bandage on my vagina before letting me out of the first scene is going to be harder than others.[/quote]
We’re still talking about Darksiders, right? I’ll probably pick it up on my next run to GameStop. There are a ton of games out that I want to play:
AC: Brotherhood
Beyond Good and Evil HD
Torchlight
Portal 2
LA Noir
Red Faction: Armageddon
[quote]Fuzzyapple wrote:
E3 2011 live on G4tv! They just showed Dead Island and it looks like a pretty sweet zombie game. Open world anyone?[/quote]
Dead Island sounds pretty sweet. Any word on “I Am Alive”?