Nothing to F.E.A.R. - by june gloom
gunsmoke on 12/9/2008 at 01:01
Thanks, redrain85. :thumb:
Scots Taffer on 12/9/2008 at 01:01
I'm still cut that the flipping car scene that was shown in a trailer never made the original F.E.A.R. and my hopes of it being a first-person perspective Max Payne (not in content, but combat feel) didn't pan out either.
june gloom on 12/9/2008 at 01:37
What, with the dodging?
Yeah that would've been cool.
Scots Taffer on 12/9/2008 at 02:06
I don't really know what I mean. I just didn't want what I got.
Vivian on 12/9/2008 at 06:51
Fine. For starters. ye olde super-secret department of techno-magic is a conceit that always pisses me off (for some reason they always try to establish legitimacy by staring at a bank of giant oscilloscopea and saying 'holy shit! these readings are off the chart!' like that proves you can do forensics on 'anger residue' or whatever), and the blah blah filing up of fat boss/gruff veteran/hot medic didnt really shake the tree any. The dialogue and voice acting was fine but entirely functional and the characters themselves were so thinly sketched they appeared as barely more than archetypes even at the end of the game. The actual plot progression was, as far as I could see, just a shitty version of Akira minus any characters you could care about and plus some hackneyed allusions to The Ring.
Also that fat guy was the most annoying peice of shit ever. Including him as some kind of retarded comic relief automatically wrecks whatever atmosphere they were trying to build.
june gloom on 12/9/2008 at 08:21
Well we're all entitled to our opinions.
paxton fettel still rules as a villian though
Malleus on 12/9/2008 at 09:06
Quote Posted by dethtoll
paxton fettel still rules as a villian though
absolutely:cool:
mothra on 12/9/2008 at 11:23
i played FEAR and like it (especially for the melee)
i bought a pack with extraction point/perseus a few months ago dirt cheap but although I got past extr.p. I never got past the 3rd level of perseus. I was just too bored. new guns aint everything.
but seeing the latest trailers for fear2 (except evil swing alma), it looks much better than those expansions. I think that they moved the release date up to 2009 is genius since this fall is stock full with new (Stalker:CS, mirrors edge), big (FarCry2, BrotherInArms) and certailnly not short (Fallout2, Witcher Enh.Ed) games.
Shadowcat on 12/9/2008 at 15:18
Quote Posted by Vivian
Also that fat guy was the most annoying peice of shit ever. Including him as some kind of retarded comic relief automatically wrecks whatever atmosphere they were trying to build.
Agreed. Seriously, what were they thinking?
The last character to annoy me that much was in Star Trek: Elite Force, where you have regular dealings throughout the game with this complete dickhead who just happens to be named after one of the developers. They did a half-decent job of making it feel like you were in an episode of the show, and then cram that crap into it, thus making you feel like that episode was the single most irritating episode of the show ever written.
Outright bizarre decision-making at work, is all I can say.
mothra: I've not played it, but I've seen at least a couple of people mention that Perseus starts out really dull, but gets rather good. If you generally enjoyed FEAR, then you should probably give it a second chance.
Taffer36 on 13/9/2008 at 01:28
Quote:
Also that fat guy was the most annoying peice of shit ever. Including him as some kind of retarded comic relief automatically wrecks whatever atmosphere they were trying to build.
I'll give you that the notion of adding him as a comic relief element was shit, but I liked his character's purpose in the story. I called him an annoying piece of shit as well, but it was because he was constantly trying to fuck me over and how much of a mysterious douchebag he was, which was the whole point of him in my eyes.
Plus, I thought that
the scene near the end where the fat dude gets shot by Wade was pretty fucking awesome-ly executed. I always like it when stories make it so that the enemy isn't so clear-cut, and the relevation that he was nothing but a working stiff instead of the psychotic bastard that he started to seem like was nice.