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| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=22291 |  GX-Warspite (123) Nov 10, 2009 - 06:27 pm
| No dude, actually one of my complaints that I didn't air here is the game's reliance on MMO-style gameplay and tactics. Ability cooldowns/stamina and pulling enemies by groups doesn't jive with me.
And I'm not "wrong". I'm not "biased". I have an opinion. You may disagree with it, but that's your choice. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=22291 | GX-Warspite (123) Nov 10, 2009 - 04:12 pm
| No dude, what I'm saying is that a freaking random encounter that is utterly meaningless shouldn't have to involve me micromanaging every single second to make sure my idiot comrades don't step on the obvious trap and use the proper abilities, and so that I don't use half the health poultices in my already depleted inventory.
THAT is what I'm saying. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=22291 | GX-Warspite (123) Nov 09, 2009 - 04:47 pm
| I didn't say I find it too complicated.
I also don't think it's too hard.
I think it's too RANDOMLY hard and that encounters are imbalanced for their difficulty level. A fight that should be easy can become unnecessarily difficult for... whatever reason. I really can't tell.
Worse than that, there are fights that are completely disproportionate in difficulty to the rest of the game you've played. I'm not even talking boss encounters. I just mean plain old simple ambushes, where you find your genius Tactics AI has used half the health poultices you have in what is essentially a meaningless encounter. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=22291 | GX-Warspite (123) Nov 08, 2009 - 06:34 pm
| Nah. No real desire to.
Just felt like warning people about Dragon Age. The game is a few patches away from polish.
I exaggerate a bit and will edit the post down somewhat, but the point stands. The difficulty in it is utterly random. There is no rhyme or reason to the toughness of encounters, and having to resort to exploiting the AI to win does not make for good gameplay. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=22291 | GX-Warspite (123) Nov 08, 2009 - 05:50 pm
| | No, integrating it into the game breaks immersion and makes it a pushier sell. I'm playing along, just got out of the swamp or whatever, make it to camp, start getting in intimate conversations with my party members and the game decides to slap me in the face with a frozen tuna and ask HAI WUD U LIEK TO BY SUM DEE ELL SEE? Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=22291 | GX-Warspite (123) Nov 08, 2009 - 04:34 pm
| Please, I used to review games professionally. This isn't post-ragequit. I'd simply stopped playing this morning and decided to write that when I realized I had no more desire to play and was out $60.
Jacob, you're absolutely free to disagree with me. Like I said, some people will enjoy it. I'm not among them. And given a brief glance at the official forums, I am far from alone. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=20446 | GX-Warspite (123) May 07, 2008 - 01:52 pm
| It takes something special to excite me nowadays.
Doom 3 I think I over-rated in my review, in retrospect. It just wasn't good. Id needs a new concept and hopefully that will get them started on new gameplay. Seen Mirror's Edge? Yeah.
I don't even notice Sims expansions to be honest. Flag this | Edit this post |
| Cluster Shout Box Link » /matrix/cluster.asp/46 | GX-Warspite (123) Sep 26, 2007 - 12:44 pm
| Speaking of the 6 month cycle, do you think it's disappearing? Neither company has hit its targets reliably, we're more at a 9 month cycle now.
Also, the technology is really outpacing games quite severely at the moment, IMO. My 6800 would still be good enough if I hadn't fried it. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=17417 | GX-Warspite (123) Sep 17, 2007 - 08:20 am
| You have no idea what you're talking about.
1. Smurfing originated in WarCraft II on Kali when a team of elite players decided to name itself after Smurfs and go after good players.
2. Smurfing is mostly about anonymity and not having to play with a reputation.
3. No one said anything about tricking less skilled players to play against higher skilled, the idea is that it's consensual. Flag this | Edit this post |
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| Cluster Shout Box Link » /matrix/cluster.asp/42 | GX-Warspite (123) Sep 12, 2007 - 11:23 am
| Are they dumbing down ideas or simply not being allowed to cash in on cheap thrills?
Let's say you sleep with a woman of... loose morals. You wake in up the morning. Do you want to wake up next to her, or would you prefer to escort her out of the house before then? Sure you got your rocks off, but in the morning you're not feeling especially great about it.
On the other hand, if you've been dating a girl you adore for a few weeks and finally hit the sack together, you're not going to want her out of your bed, never mind your house!
One's a cheap thrill, the other isn't. You don't feel great about indulging in the former and the latter is fulfilling.
Manhunt, to me, is the cheap thrill. Oooh! You put a plastic bag over someone's head and punched his face in! Or you stuck a broken beer bottle in through under his jaw! Shocking, riveting, raw!
Despite working in an industry where THE controversy is video game violence, and often finding myself defending games against stupid mainstream media and the Jack Thompsons of the world, I think Manhunt 2 is just that cheap thrill again.
However you may feel about it, AO games don't get banned, they just get limited exposure. Wal-Mart won't carry them, and that's a pretty big deal, but it's not a ban.
AO and other ratings are going to become an issue when the ESRB becomes politicized to keep indie developers out of stores, like the MPAA ratings are. Read about the ordeals that Trey Parker and Matt Stone had to go through with their indie Orgasmo compared to the Paramount-produced South Park: The Movie, and getting them rated. Flag this | Edit this post |
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