General Discussion XXII: My name is not Mo you leprechaun :|

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quote devil jin

This sucks. Apparently I can't redeem my free psn trial unless I put in a credit card.

It took me a second to realize you were kidding... oh jeez I'm slow

Mario is an icon... and should be buried with Duke Nukem. Opinion.

quote jbh

Just played the Syndicate demo... I want to love it but I don't feel they pulled off rebooting the series. My favourite thing has to be the general look of the game. Although Aeirou said it hurts his eyes which I can understand.

I'm gonna have to pass on the game for now anyway because it's banned here, but if I go overseas at some stage I might pick it up if it's cheap. Just out of respect of the original and the theme of the game.

Let me add to this.

After I was done watching my niece, I gave it a thourgh going over in the demo just to examine it's general style. I can not determine story and such based on the demo.

As always, I'll start with what I liked:

-4 person coop
-cosmetic unlockables
-team-themed

Now for what I didn't like.

As jbh mentioned, I commented that the game hurt my eyes. I have a stigmatism and wear glasses and bright distorted colors hurt my eyes because I can't focus on it very well.

The font and hud display are done in 4-tone layering to make the visuals looks like future hacking, hi-tech, and computerized. The HUD bobs and shifts when you turn and move so some of it ends up off screen half the time. It's layered in white, red, green, and blue with white on the top. The benefits of this is that the white is not as hard to read over other bright colors in the setting because it has a distinct shadow.. but it makes it very blurry and unfocused.

The second thing I didn't like are the hitboxes for targeting. The boxes are smaller than most shooters and it's hard to tell if you're doing damage sometimes. It would take more practice to get used to.

Graphics - they aren't bad, but they aren't awe-inspiring. The game adopts the generic future look where everything is made of metal and looks very sleek. This, unfortunately, means that the game features a lot of silvers, greys, and blacks. The enemies are predominately white and grey. The areas are futuristic looking and the future looks a bleak black, silver, grey and white. In the level's I played, it was storming as well.. so the entire time it was pretty stuck on one tone. The hud, as I mentioned, is white and layered. This would brighten it up a bit but white and grey looks as stormy and bleak as grey itself.

Coop - You get 4 people. The game doesn't start with less. At different checkpoints throughout the level you are required to all stand in a room until you can move on... tedious but I can see why. My real issue with the multiplayer is they could have made it better with the four players... but it's actually not only easy because you have four people... all four players can revive and heal without that being limited and it can be spammed. So for the parts where your team is being swarmed, you can just have one person spam healing everyone while the other three players spray bullets. This isn't going to be a hard game even on hard without limiting the heals.


Anyway, I'm tired of typing... so I'll let jbh go over some of the things he liked about it. You can tell everyone about the Dart + rifle thing you were using. I'm sure seeing through walls wont make the game easier lol.

quote DT Jesus

quote Aeirou

I have a stigmatism and wear glasses and bright distorted colors hurt my eyes because I can't focus on it very well.

So would it be a good thing that I'm a little colorblind, or would that make it worse?

Well.. I guess that would depend on what color you see in place of red, blue, or green. It might just make it a little more blurry.. in which case you're just be in the same boat is me.

quote Mnmfan

For *bleep* sake. I've been offline for 2 months and today I finally get my broadband back only to discover that PSN is 'down for maintenance' until tomorrow. Great timing Sony!

The universe comes together just to spite you.

quote Agent Mo

You said you were thinking about buying it again to play it again....why would you do that if you hadn't traded it in in the first place?

Because when I fanboy <3 music or a game.. I always want more of that thing even if I already own it.

If I like a CD (I still buy CDs) then I will look for the limited LP Vinyl and a possible live show. Sometimes I follow the band like they did in the 80s and 90s. I have a bunch of tickets for Revis, Paramore, and A Day to Remember.

If I like a game, I will buy the DLC and artwork. I bought a Shepard hoodie from Mass Effect that looks like his armor. I also have lithographs from Dragon Age Origins, Mass Effect 2, and Assasin's Creed.

My Dirty Harry wall art looks a bit out of place next to some of my other things.. but you cant be hatin on Clint Eastwood.

Even with everyone complaining about Skyrim.. I couldn't put it down until I felt that I was done.. took me a week and 8 days to have a life again.

quote redneonfish

Red 9 I think you should get Skyrim, it improves on Oblivion in pretty much every aspect. I don't know if you have Dark Souls but that's worth considering too, it's definitely more accessible than Demons' Souls was and the open world makes everything feel connected. Demons' Souls areas made the game feel a tad disjointed for my liking. Deus Ex is brilliant too.

Because Dark Souls only has one good build -_-

quote Red 9

Frankly I'm a little hesitant getting Skyrim for PS3. As far as I've heard, the PS3 version is so riddled with bugs and glitches that it's nigh unplayable.

Turn off auto-saves and manually save before and after every quest. When you do the thieves guild quests in Riften, keep a save before you start the first one and leave it like that.

So basically you'll role 2 save files like this

Accept a quest, save 1. Complete the quest, Save 2. - More realistically, Accept every quest you can find, Save 1. Turn in a quest, Save 2. Turn in another quest, Save 2. So on and so on.

THE BIGGEST problem people have is with the thieves guild, but I platinum'd the whole game with one character and no real issues. I had the lag problem start in at about level 45 but when I turned off auto-saves and deleted all but two saves, it stopped completely. - I think the people who complain now aren't managing their saves the right way or forget to save often.

jbh Dunno if you read books, but Deus Ex Icarus Effect is amazing. It's written one of the lead writers for Deus Ex 3.

...didn't infamous have a radar that directs you to the nearest shard?

What invisible font?

Positive attitudes make any game great.

Man.. I was looking through some of my older posts on this site. I'm kind of a dick. Who'd have guessed..

Well... you're missing out.

So... what the *bleep* happened at Sony? PS+ subs just got Infamous 2, Little Big Planet 2, Virtual Fighter 5, Warhammer 40k space marines, RaNClank All 4 One, and another game or two for free. I thought it was a trick so I was suspicious.. like PICK ONE AND PAY FOR THE REST.. but no, I downloaded like 4 of them for free and then my hard drive vomited.

Oh, I'm the US store.. probably should have mentioned it was the US store.

Full list:
Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown
Infamous 2
Little Big Planet 2
Ratchet and Clank: All 4 One
Warhammer 40k Space Marines
Just Cause 2
Saints Row 2
Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light
Hard Corps: Uprising
Choplifter HD
Zombie Apocalypse: Never Die Alone
Sideway New York

I had a similar issue under different circumstances... I had downloaded a Prototype 1 60 minute trial from the story and deleted it. Then my friend gave me a code for get the game for free download off PSN and it wouldn't let me because of the 60 minute trial. I would be downloading anymore trials because it voids free downloads from any other sources, I guess.

It's strange that you only got the 1hr when there are no such trials.

to be honest, I didn't notice her face in picture three for about five minutes. She looks attractive but those weapons are packed in and pushed up pretty tight.. that has to be uncomfortable at least a little bit. What are they paying her?

I love Yahtzee lol. I didn't know he was doing one for DD, though you wouldn't be hard pressed to find wasted potential in DD. Oh Capcom...