Neb on 11/9/2008 at 10:07
Quote Posted by Koki
Mirror's Edge - I was always skeptical because of how linear it looked. I've seen a vid with the snipers and it was just as I suspected, plus bland environment, plus blind enemies with alzheimer's.
My biggest gripe is some of the silly and unbelievable level design, unless I'm missing the reasoning behind it. For instance, in one of the videos, while Faith is running up a few flights of stairs away from police, she exits the building and turns left to be faced with... a small Z-shaped walkway with stair attachments blocking her path and seemingly built for the sake of inconvenience.
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http://img367.imageshack.us/img367/4544/pointless1qw8.jpgDuring the footage where she is evading snipers, why are disparately placed segments of walkway jutting out of the pillars? It doesn't make sense to me. I could imagine engineers constructing scaffolds just to build them and then accidentally leaving safety hazards such as pipes and crates on them and then realising that now there's no way to get them back down.
I am looking forward to it though, and will give it a try if doesn't have restrictive DRM and I can relate to some of the reviews.
EvaUnit02 on 11/9/2008 at 10:41
What in god's name is wrong with using a WW2 setting? "A step back" my arse.
I judge games based on their own merits. Entire titles shouldn't be ignored just because you're feeling genre fatigue.
Koki on 11/9/2008 at 13:30
Quote Posted by EvaUnit02
What in god's name is wrong with using a WW2 setting?
It's incredibly unimaginative thing to do.
Or rather, developers always use it in the most unimaginative way possible, that is the good good american boy kills the bad bad nazi killing machines.
Matthew on 11/9/2008 at 14:01
I can name four WWII games right off the top of my head that don't. But there you go.
Neb on 11/9/2008 at 14:40
But how many WWII games can you name?
Matthew on 11/9/2008 at 14:46
About 10?
Neb on 11/9/2008 at 15:05
I'm guessing that you're not counting strategy and simulation, but really there's not so much more which can be done with a WWII plot in those genres.
Slightly off-topic but I remember reading a Gamespot (I think it was) review for Silent Hunter IV and being thrown off guard by a comment about the third installment being jarring because you play as "the bad guys" as if every German soldier during the 1940s was automatically some kind of malevolent hate machine.
gunsmoke on 11/9/2008 at 21:12
Great blog, dethtoll. Much better than the vast majority of tripe out there.
MSX on 11/9/2008 at 21:59
My personal issue with CoD4 is not that there are too many WW2 games, but it is against natural progression of the series. Its been out for what? A year and its still selling like hotcakes. It shows that people are more interested in a more contemporary setting. Near future would be nice but I'd even go for another CoD4 with more weapons and a bunch of new maps like what they did with Vegas 2, even if it is just technically a full price expansion pack.
