smf2626 on 27/9/2008 at 23:18
Alright. first of all, thanks everybody for the responses. I decided to post on this board cause I know it's visited by some pretty hard core gamers, and do value your opinions.
1st, yes; I did download and try the demos. But I still wanted opinions because I've learned far to many times, often painfully, that a demo is often times a poor representation of the game. I view them more as a "will my system handle the game or not" tool. And, It does give some insight to game play.
Witcher, had to drop it from consideration after playing the demo. I may come back to it one day, but not right now. But I'm not a big fan of the 3rd person perspective. It just destroys immersion and realism. For example, during the demo when you have to fight those people who get in before the gate closes. Watching your charter run around holding a sword over his head till a red circle appears under an opponent, and then click on it.........well, just didn't do it for me. I also found it very annoying that he didn't swing the sword when I left clicked. well, except I guess when I was close enough to somebody, and clicked on that person. But with that being said, I get the impression from the opening movie that it probably has a damn good story, and will probably have to try playing it later for that.
Crysis. Loved it. Seems to me though that it probably has a bit of a learning curve to it. definitely liked the sandbox style game play, even if I found myself getting lost quite often:erg: . but anyhow, other than always being out of ammo, the demo made it look pretty good.
and on a side note, didn't have any trouble running it on my computer. I was afraid the video card might do me in on that game.
And the winner, by a very narrow margin, would be F.E.A.R. It was mostly what I expected. but I love the sci-fi/horror games, (undying, SS2 are 2 of my favorite games) and that's what edged it out over crysis. the game play seemed great, the slow motion was fun, and the graphics seemed good. the only complaint I would have was the lack of an inventory. Unless I was doing something wrong, I had to drop a weapon every time I picked up a new one. Well, that and the fact that I seemed to die very easily.
So, I guess I'll be starting with F.E.A.R, will buy Crysis next, and probably, eventually, grab witcher. But I definitely have to have crysis and F.E.A.R finished up and played out before DX3 comes out. Hopefully it will be so damn good I'll put everything else aside till I've played it 100 times like I did with the original.
But again, thanks for the responses. I was using a gift card I had, and wanted to make a decision soon since I would have to wait for the games to ship. I had $100 to work with and had already decided to buy spore (I hope I don't regret that), and could have gone either way on the other 3.
But thanks again guys.
Malf on 28/9/2008 at 07:20
Just to warn you, Crysis is ridiculously short, and after the big reveal, mostly sucks.
All the stuff before the big reveal is fun, granted, but there's just not enough of it compared to their previous game, Far Cry.
smf2626 on 28/9/2008 at 12:40
Whats far cry like?
Fragony on 28/9/2008 at 12:57
Far Cry is fantastic I don't understand all the hate, it gets pretty hard at the end though, borderline cheap and the checkpoint system might make you give up. As for FEAR, if you like shooting people it's a must try, no other shooter has it's OHFRAKYEAH DIEDIEDIE quality. Repetitive yeah, I quit around 2/3 of the game but only because Bioshock came out, if not I would have finnished it.
snauty on 28/9/2008 at 14:51
Quote Posted by smf2626
Witcher, had to drop it from consideration after playing the demo. I may come back to it one day, but not right now. But I'm not a big fan of the 3rd person perspective. It just destroys immersion and realism. For example, during the demo when you have to fight those people who get in before the gate closes. Watching your charter run around holding a sword over his head till a red circle appears under an opponent, and then click on it.........well, just didn't do it for me. I also found it very annoying that he didn't swing the sword when I left clicked. well, except I guess when I was close enough to somebody, and clicked on that person. But with that being said, I get the impression from the opening movie that it probably has a damn good story, and will probably have to try playing it later for that.
you realized that it's not meant to be a click click sword smashing fighting system in the first place? it's a timing based combo system. if you click at the wrong moment you fail your attack.
and there are also 3 different camera options. but yes they're all 3rd person though... doesn't hurt immersion for me though. story (or rather atmosphere & setting) & characters are it's strong points. there are other issues in other games that ruin it for me.
the demo is only that castle attack with some chattering if my memory's fine? doesn't reveal much.
Sulphur on 28/9/2008 at 14:55
Quote Posted by Fragony
As for FEAR, if you like shooting people it's a must try, no other shooter has it's OHFRAKYEAH DIEDIEDIE quality. Repetitive yeah, I quit around 2/3 of the game but only because Bioshock came out, if not I would have finnished it.
I'd suggest you finish it; the final third is where the story finally comes together.
Also, you don't want to miss the ending. Really.
Fragony on 28/9/2008 at 15:10
Problem is I played it on the xbox, which I gave to my nephew, and I heard the playstation version is terrible. Going to wait out for the sequel, which looks absolutily amazing. But the time I did spend with it was great, it has rather obvious shortcommings (even worse on xbox it adds a technical one, conversations are so mute, impossible to know what is going on if you don't have a HD-TV) but the best shotgun ever makes up for that.
Sulphur on 28/9/2008 at 15:32
Yeah, the PS3 version makes it look like your TV's been coated with vaseline. So much for quincunx. :erg:
As another option: If you don't mind forking out the dosh to buy the PC version, it runs pretty well on a decent PC with anything upwards of a 7600 GT.
foldy on 28/9/2008 at 15:34
As for Crysis, my computer is considerably more powerful than the topic-creator's, and I was very disappointed by the performance I got from the game's demo. I wouldn't bother.
smf2626 on 28/9/2008 at 16:02
Quote Posted by foldy
As for Crysis, my computer is considerably more powerful than the topic-creator's, and I was very disappointed by the performance I got from the game's demo. I wouldn't bother.
I actually didn't have much trouble running it. the auto detect settings pretty much put everything at medium, which is fine for me. I can overlook graphics is the game play and story are pretty good, IE, why I still play games like SS2 and DX.
As I said, they only thing I didn't like was that I was always low or out of ammo, and that it was almost too sandbox. But I think those are just learning curve type of things. once you've played the game a little while you probably get used to it.
and as for the combat system in witcher, like I said, it just wasn't for me. your character just looks, um, stupid running around with a sword held over his head that he can only swing if the circumstances are right. I'd much rather see a swing and a miss (like every other game I've played) than nothing. But like I said, I'll probably come back to it for the story. I think more than anything else I'm just not willing to pay full price for it. I'll probably pick it up when it drops to 29.99, or 19.99.
