june gloom on 24/12/2008 at 01:07
Perhaps they thought it was an actual survivor?
Malleus on 24/12/2008 at 01:36
Yes, probably. It just bugged me that they went down so easily. They were supposed to be a military force deployed to deal with a possible necromorph threat after all.
EDIT: ... though it's probably a necessary cliche - the well prepared armed force falls to the enemy and it's up to the janitor to fix things. :)
And for some statistics - I used the Pulse Rifle and the Force Gun the whole time, while keeping the Cutter and the Linegun as backup weapons, but I rarely needed them. I used the Pulse Rifle most of the time, keeping the Force Gun for close quarters combat. But it is damn useful close up - a few times I managed to blow off all limbs from a necro with one shot from point blank range. I even managed to do that to that constantly regenerating mofo. Apart from those, I tried the Flamethrower, but found it to be useless (or maybe I just wasn't good enough with it).
sh0ck3r on 24/12/2008 at 03:49
i'm about half way into level 3 and here is what i think so far:
-game environments feel very sparse and pared down; they could have used more detail; there's not a lot of interacting with objects
-controls are garbage (on the PC), they would be WAY better if I could switch my field of view/aim faster
-strong console feel to it (i.e. no jumping/no walking over ledges)
-characters feel rather flat and there seems to be a lack of urgency so far compared to many other games
-sound is alternately effective and annoying
-I probably like it less than Bioshock, which I was very dissatisfied with
Aja on 24/12/2008 at 08:20
Quote Posted by sh0ck3r
-strong
console feel to it (i.e. no jumping/no walking over ledges)
The xbox, for all its processing power, still does have trouble calculating jumps and ledges :(
SubJeff on 24/12/2008 at 09:28
Really? The actual hardware has trouble with these calculations? Now you've spewed some stuff in your time for sure but where are you getting this one from?
EvaUnit02 on 24/12/2008 at 09:49
Quote Posted by Subjective Effect
Really? The actual hardware has trouble with these calculations? Now you've spewed some stuff in your time for sure but where are you getting this one from?
Warning Will Robinson: Your sarcasm detector is busted.
SubJeff on 24/12/2008 at 10:45
Not busted, but confused by the Aja uncertainty quotient. This is a guy that loves BioShock, and defends it in endless cycles of wtf, after all.
Tenkahubu on 24/12/2008 at 11:19
Some of the quests seemed quite familiar too: finding a keycard on a body in medical, researching a poison for the biomass.
I thought that it seemed like a remake aborted half way through. I especially thought so as the team were rumoured o be making SS3.
Jason Moyer on 24/12/2008 at 12:03
Quote Posted by Tenkahubu
I especially thought so as the team were rumoured o be making SS3.
Wasn't Doug Church the one rumoured to be making SS3, or is my memory going?
catbarf on 24/12/2008 at 19:51
I keep playing it off and on, but I don't know if I'll finish it. The gameplay is enjoyable enough, and it isn't frustrating- but the plot is tepid. I've just arrived on the Vickenbacker and the game just hasn't gotten going. It's hard to believe that the game is more than half over- it never became intense, never put on the pressure.
