Post by Steve Farrelly @ 12:20pm 27/06/12 | 20 Comments
Thankfully, the game's story, which is Yager's own interpretation of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, is its saving grace against the "me too" third-person cover-shooter foundation and helps it stand leagues above a lot of other games in the field. It's certainly not without its faults, but there's no denying the team has tried something different and unique here, and in our opinion, it's something the genre sorely needs.
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Posted 01:41pm 27/6/12
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Posted 04:29pm 27/6/12
Ever heard of white out and pens?
Posted 12:07am 29/6/12
Posted 10:58am 29/6/12
Titles like BioShock, Dead Space, Batman (Arkham series), Half-Life, The Legend of Zelda, Metroid (Prime series), Mass Effect, Fallout 3, The Elder Scrolls, Assassin's Creed, Splinter Cell... f*** there're just way too many to even list, and I was just plucking from games of the last few years that stand-out as exampled of games with great story and gameplay.
It's definitely one thing to simply not enjoy the story part of a game (trog doesn't care for them), but another to state that it outright ruins them.
Posted 11:11am 29/6/12
However, i very rarely replay a game because i find it boring and less entertaining than the first run through. Only a few games like dead space 2, fallout 3 and diablo 2 have i tried different attempts to experiment with different weapons / characters.
So while i pretty much hate story, i also hate replaying most games and dont think there is much of a connection between the two.
Posted 06:04pm 29/6/12
I find it ridiculous to even consider that stories are a core component of a game. They're little more than the skirt on a chick you want to f***.
Posted 06:29pm 08/7/12
I guess if it was a larger release...
Theres basically no button it doesnt push which should be ripe fodder for anti-game media, kill civillians? Yep. Kill American soldiers just doing their job? Yep. Be gung ho and wade in with nfi whats really going on? sure thing. Bad guys are americans "peacekeeping" in a foreign country. etc
Posted 07:54pm 08/7/12
I dont mind the grenade mechanic although it is kinda noob and wastes time in the heat of battle.
AI a bit dodgy and happily run into fire instead of taking cover.
Good variety of weapons and low ammo has you constantly changing guns.
Dislike the bunching of controls on PC - sprint+use+something else all bound to one button instead of 2 or even 3.
As always, dislike the third person view but im a FPS fanboy so thats just me.
Overall its a decent shooter but nothing spectacular. Standard cover and shoot gameplay. Worth getting when on sale IMO.
Posted 08:31pm 08/7/12
Had a couple of decent set pieces, the mouse aim felt a little off for me, low fov as console ports usually have was annoying, some of the guns were satisfying.. headshots with that 20 round mag gun you get later in the game were good... but yeah the shooty/cover bits were pretty average/standard and nothing stand out.
Posted 08:55pm 08/7/12
As a medium, games offer a way to tell a story like no other medium can, and personally I want to see more of this not less (as I would imagine anyone who isn't a meathead would). I'm sure it wont infringe on your action, I'm sure they'll still be making COD games well into the future so you can continue to 0wn b|tch3s, but its just stupid to write off games that have story and then suggest its somehow a bad evolution in games. Thats like saying every movie should be a Michael Bay style explosion fest and theres no room in the medium for films like the Shawshank Redemption. Talk about being small minded, grow up.
Posted 09:18pm 08/7/12
Posted 09:48pm 08/7/12
Posted 09:55pm 08/7/12
Posted 09:56pm 08/7/12
I can understand that, even if i don't agree with it... but then playing something like this which is only an average game without taking the story into account seems a bit pointless. (that said i play a lot of crap games too when bored)
Posted 10:14pm 08/7/12
Posted 10:28pm 08/7/12
Holy s***.
1) If you have ever held a job, then yes you'd find that you can make a game out of interacting with s*** in word. It's even enjoyable. Indirectly mind you, it's not the literal pressing buttons (which is identical to what you do in a videogame mind you, press buttons and see things happen) it's the outcomes you create from writing and changing things.
2) Smoke and mirrors, what smoke and mirrors? The literal special effects, the thousands of man hours of effort in coding and play testing a game? A writer doesn't go make a game, a developer does with help of a publisher. The developer says "I like X" then they publisher goes and says "I think that's a good thing, ill secure rights for you to use that give you a budget and then you can create that game". So no, the smoke and mirrors are what you see. What you think is wrong and you should feel wrong.
3) Stories often do get better after multiple readings. That's the thing, comprehension. Something I'm wondering if you actually managed to pick up during your english classes at school. Reading words and putting things into one nice neat box is all well and good, but when you delve deep and comprehend not just the main point, but side points, quips and underlying messages you can really understand something and it can be enjoyable. Donny darko was a movie which took me 3 times to really wholey grasp. First time thorugh i just thought hey a kid can see through time and now can save kids and people from terrible things they do in their town. Then a few times later and much back story reading i figured out how the whole wormhole mechanism was a real theory, and a bajillion other side things. Even books, when i read them at the age of 13 or 14 when i re-read them when i turned 17, i realised there was a whole lot more depth when i wasn't just reading the storyline, but the sideplots and ideas things which subtly showed through.
So yes, a story can get better after re-reading. And many games do too. You think RPG's get hundreds of hours of playtime because they're less good the more you go back to play it? If that was true people would just give up after a couple of hours and just play the next game.
What you say is purely your opinion and nothing that lies in fact. There's nothing that you said that holds any rule of thumb, or idealistic truth, just you spouting what you like in a way that sounds like it should be what we all should like. Well for me, you're wrong.
Posted 01:32pm 11/7/12
As mentioned in good game, i also really liked how you were presented with moral choices a few times in game game. I didnt even realise i had a choice most of the time and instead just reacted.
Posted 02:24pm 11/7/12
However I think what everyone really wants to know is when the results of the competition are out so that I dont have to make the decision of to buy of not to buy.