The Gamer's Quarter

Cycle · Mac daddy Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 2767

Jumping bits are always frustrating in FPS games. It's ok when failing doesn't kill you (I guess), but more often than not, they will. Most of the jumpy bits in Half-Life 2 were dumb, yeah, like that bit on the bridge.
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Scratchmonkey · . Joined: 02 Mar 2005 Posts: 1439

It would be less annoying if you could regenerate from death quicker. If you popped right back up at the latest save in less than 2 seconds, I probably wouldn't complain at all.

I actually thought the bridge was pretty easy, I just ran across the diagonal girders and had to jump maybe three times each way. The part that aggravated me the most was jumping when gravity-gunning objects to walk on, whether it was radioactive ooze or sand full of antlions.

Cycle · Mac daddy Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 2767

I got sick of moving crap around with the gravity gun during the antlion beach (I really wish you could like, rotate the object) and just ended up running for most of it, took a few hits but I survived fine.
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dessgeega · Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 8:19 pm Post subject:

that was my experience exactly.
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SuperWes · Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 10:38 pm Post subject:

I got Rainbow 6 Vegas 2 tonight and thus far I am highly disappointed. I loved the first one, but this one is pretty lame so far. The scripted events that made the first one so memorable are mostly gone. The story has been pretty much nonexistant, which is strange given that the last game ended in a cliffhanger. The engine doesn't seem to have gotten any better at all. The AI actually seems worse. I've had my squad disappear completely on me once and another time they were standing behind a van and refused to move no matter how many times I told them to. Oh yeah! And the levels are kind of lame so far. That about covers it! I'll keep playing it to see if it gets better, but so far I'm not feeling it.

Interestingly, GRAW 2 was kind of the same way. And Prince of Persia 2. It's like Ubisoft puts the A team on part 1s and the C team on part 2s. If Assassin's Creed somehow gets worse for the sequel I'll be impressed. It's already not that great!

-Wes
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aderack · . Joined: 15 Jun 2005 Posts: 1105 Location: San Francisco

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Lestrade · Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 8:15 am Post subject:

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dessgeega · Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 9:49 am Post subject:

the gamer's quarter: we fuck up quote boxes.
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SuperWes · Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 10:06 am Post subject:

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helicopterp · . Joined: 13 May 2006 Posts: 1435 Location: Philadelphia

doesn't it make you not want to finish it scratchmonkey? I stopped playing for a couple weeks just because that battle was ridiculous.

then of course I had to look online to find out which bright shiny thing at the top i should be shooting.
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Scratchmonkey · . Joined: 02 Mar 2005 Posts: 1439

Hospital Zone · Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 3:13 pm Post subject:

aderack · . Joined: 15 Jun 2005 Posts: 1105 Location: San Francisco

Yes, that's pretty much what it is: proof of concept. A demonstration of how to use familiar mechanics in a meaningful way. It could be done better. It's interesting how much meaning the game manages to conjure out of what little, though.
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sediment · Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 6:09 am Post subject:

daphaknee · Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 6:39 am Post subject:

HEY GUESS WHAT SUCKS ASS
ASSASSINS CREED

ugh

sediment · Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 6:50 am Post subject:

but daphny you can gently shove people in crowded marketplaces!!!

seriously tell me why it sucks, and i'll give you e-candy over xbox live (when i get back)
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daphaknee · Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 6:58 am Post subject:

okay here i will tell you why it sucks

becuase i pressed the asshole button and ten minutes of HAHA IM KNOCKING POTS OVER WHAT AN ASS I AM is fuckign not redemption for

1. okay so like you're in this thing and it CONSTANTLY reminds you that you're in a thing just incase you ever start getting into the game (w hich you're not, becuase it sucks) but JSUT IN CASE YOU DO then it will be like OH FAST FORWARD TO A MORE RECENT MEMORY BY THE WAY YOU'RE NOT REALLY HERE YOU'RE IN A THING REMEMBER YOU'RE REENACTIGN MEMORIES
yes i fuckign know already just like update me with dna
but like they do that but THEN THEY MAKE ME RIDE ON MY FUCKING HORSE ACROSS THE WORLD that takes forever becuase i have to SLLOOWWW down becuase apparently theres a goddamn SPEED limit on HORSES which doesnt make sense EITHER how is a dude going fast on a horse suspicious when fucking JUMPING ALL OVER SOME SHITTY BUILDING ISNT
this game makes no sense

2. save citizen? more like LOCK ON TO CITIZEN AND SPEND 10 MINUTES RUNNING AWAY oh look at all these conviently placed fucking haystacks, benches, and tarps oh okay so lemme RUN RUN RUN ADN LOOK FOR THEM oh wow im going to be running in circles aimlessly waiting for this red blinking light to turn yellow arent i? well tahts not fun

3. ONE THOUSAND FLAGS? I DONT CARE if it was somethign they had to put in at the last minute, they didnt have to be ASSHOLES and make it an impossible ONE THOUSAND that no one except terrible people or eight year olds with one game get one thousand fuck me

4. yeah killing a guy with my hidden knife is cool but evesdropping and pickpocketing and asking questions is BORING i want to DO WHAT HAPPENS IN THE OPENING MOVIE
BUT IT SEEMS LIKE THAT OEPNING MOVIE IS A HORRIBLE LIE

they should have a fucking disclaimer before they play that movie that says
"oh here is a really awesome cutscene, this is nothing like the actual gaming experience, but it sure does look cool! dont you want to play, you fool"

im so glad i didnt buy this fuckign PIECE OF CRAP

Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

The woman who produced this game is REALLY HOT, though

Man Ubisoft make terrible games! They're one of those studios whose name somehow became synonymous with quality when it really shouldn't have. Rare is another one!

SuperWes · Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 9:53 am Post subject:

daphaknee · Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 10:00 am Post subject:

i turned off assassins creed and turned on dark messiah of might and magic and as soon as that fucking ubisoft logo came up i was like OH NO NOT TONIGHT and played dynasty warriors gundam

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Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

All I know is the last two ubisoft games I played were RAYMAN RAVING RABBITS and they are I-can't-believe-this-got-past-playtesting bad. You shake the wiimote. That's all you do. Almost every game is a wiimote shaking game. Swimming, cycling, even some of the shooting games! It's really lazy!

Oh and RED STEEL. Your girlfriend makes you look at fish! It's excruciating! And the whole big original conceit of the game is the real-time wiimote sword fighting, and it is AWFUL and not fun at all.

Also Beyond Good and Evil. There's barely a single original idea in the whole game! it's all taken from 3D Zelda and Mario games, pretty much. So yeah SUCK SUCK SUCK

daphaknee · Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 10:23 am Post subject:

beyond good and evil was still fun though

and french, very french

Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

No it was pretty fun

But front-loaded to shit, to the point where it just looks like they ran out of time halfway through. It's a 'Huh? I'm finished already??' sort of game. By the end they're just giving away Moon Pearls or whatever they call Stars/Shines in Beyond Good and Evil. Also there was a bug that rendered it uncompletable! What!

We have a French guy living in our house who is a douche. He said to me 'In UK there is lot of pub. On the way home I count twenty pub.'

'Yeah there is a lot. In fact Edinburgh is famous for having 50 pubs on one street!

His reply to this was just a wry smile. I said 'so what is there a lot of in France?'

'Idea. France is full of idea.'

Wherever these ideas are hiding they're not in the motherfucking studios for Ubisoft, that's for sure.

daphaknee · Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 10:35 am Post subject:

you should have been an asshole and been like well i know what there ARENT A LOT OF JOBS HAR HAR YOUR IDEAS DONT GET YOU ANYWHERE DO THEY FRENCHIE

Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

HERE'S AN IDEA FROM ENGLAND, PULL DOWN MY PANTS AND PRACTISE FOR YOUR FRENCH ORAL

Scratchmonkey · . Joined: 02 Mar 2005 Posts: 1439

I think that's why one of my Irish linguistics profs liked to refer to Paris as "an intellectual backwater".

aderack · . Joined: 15 Jun 2005 Posts: 1105 Location: San Francisco

Not enough pubs?
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helicopterp · . Joined: 13 May 2006 Posts: 1435 Location: Philadelphia

Well not to derail the prospect of james harvey getting some Parisian brain, but I finished Professor Layton.

I solved every puzzle I found, though I'm not sure I found all of them. The final puzzle (making 7 squares on a 6x6 pegboard missing 8 pegs) really was spectacular. I worked on it for 40+ minutes before I nailed it. It was worth all the time to figure it out hintlessly. Unlike a lot of the puzzles, there was no trick to it, just a purely difficult visual exercise.

What I Liked
-The game, whether or not it was designed that way, is a perfectly social experience. I received help from six others during my playthrough. I felt like one of the villagers: "Hey, could you help me with this puzzle? It's got me thinking in circles." And then I would watch as one or another of my friends, usually not a frequent videogame player, would quickly absorb themselves into the challenge.
-The designers clearly made ease of use a priority. Nearly every interface was intuitive to manipulate. There is a story recap every time you boot up from a save. Since the story is already frivolous, the recaps never cheapen the experience, only remind you what direction you ought to head.

What I Wasn't Keen on
-Why doesn't the player play any role in actively solving the mysteries of the plot? I would rather there be some puzzles horrendously forced to conform to the narrative (you know, just tack-ons) than watch the silly mystery resolve itself without my input.

I really don't know that I should write anything else about Professor Layton and the Curious Village. It was a good time.
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daphaknee · Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 12:15 pm Post subject:

i didnt like how it turned into a dating sim, but i sure did like those puzzles, i solved 127 of them im pretty sure

i didnt finish the inn and i didnt get the PUZZLE MASTER (obviously i didnt finihs the inn!)

the bonus puzzles are really challenging and fun

SuperWes · Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 1:42 pm Post subject:

Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

Oasis try to be like the Beatles, but that doesn't make them the best band in the world. Maybe what you should do is stop thinking what you think and instead think what I think, HOW DO YOU LIKE THAT

SuperWes · Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 1:56 pm Post subject:

daphaknee · Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 2:02 pm Post subject:

ooo ubisoft made ape escape 2, james shut up you're just wrong

wait no theres a lot of bad games on this list, myst V? i didnt know there were that many mysts

oo i liked rayman
oh god so many sequels

spllinter cell
again with the sequels though..

EWW XIII EWWW

oh puzzle pirates they released that? thats cool
ubisofts signal to noise doesnt seem very promising

aderack · . Joined: 15 Jun 2005 Posts: 1105 Location: San Francisco

Cycle · Mac daddy Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 2767

I think I'm the only person who really enjoyed Red Steel!

Ubisoft make plenty of crap, but they occasionally make some good stuff, too. They haven't done anything great for quite sometime now, though.

Assassins Creed was pretty rubbish, yeah! Sands of Time would have been better without all that shitty combat. I don't think I even got halfway through it.
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SuperWes · Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 6:06 pm Post subject:

Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

No way, sega made JET SET RADIOOOO
and Space Channel 5 part 2.

And the dreamcast.

and Outrun 2.

THERE IS PROBABLY MORE :O

extrabastardformula · . Joined: 08 Feb 2007 Posts: 295

wasn't Gunvalkyrie a launch title? That one was pretty awesome!
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extrabastardformula · . Joined: 08 Feb 2007 Posts: 295

Anyway, i just finished up Nelly Cootalot in Spoonbeaks Ahoy. It was very well put together. A few puzzlles were stumpers but afterwards I always felt like I should have been able to figure it out sooner instead of having no idea of how that solution was supposed to fit. Very solid.

I also ran through Gunmute. A good enough game, but like many IF I had to resort to the hints section to find the right verb once. "take cover" being unrecognized by the parser. Overall it was nice.

Tried dess's MJO again before just deciding that these punishment platformers just are not for me. Ended up playing Eternal Daughter again instead. all in all, fun times this week.
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elvis.shrugged · . Joined: 10 Jan 2006 Posts: 108 Location: Stratford, CT

I obliterated my high score in Tempest 2000 after playing it today, for the first time in months. It's like...846,000+.

I reached level 50 and suddenly it's like a brand-new game. Minter did some brilliant things in this level specifically by making the player afraid of an enemy (at that point in the game, anyway) that is pretty much tame: Demon Heads. Lots and lots of them, replacing the player's fear of Pulsars.

SuperWes · Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 8:52 pm Post subject:

Cossix · . Joined: 14 Nov 2007 Posts: 87

XIII doesn't suck you shut up

dessgeega · Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 11:08 pm Post subject:

helicopterp · . Joined: 13 May 2006 Posts: 1435 Location: Philadelphia

can't wait for u.s. bangaioh
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dhex · Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 8:40 am Post subject:

i must say that i like nwn2 a lot more than the first, and not just because it's less buggy. it's certainly streamlined, but i appreciate things like fast-ish travel.
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