The Giant Bomb Quick Look Thread 2

Danielsan said:
Man, neither do I now!

In all honestly, Jeff's tastes just continue to baffle me, even after all these years. If often seems like you might as well just toss a coin on whether or not he'll like a game.
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What I like about Jeff as a critic is that he appears to be confident in his opinion. Too many other people are too easily influenced or worried by others. So, when Jeff gives Syndicate 5/5, I buy that he genuinely likes the game. Or Catherine a 2/5, it's not just contrarian dumbness.

There's value in what he has to say, even if his tastes are different from my own.
 
Linkzg said:
What I like about Jeff as a critic is that he appears to be confident in his opinion. Too many other people are too easily influenced or worried by others. So, when Jeff gives Syndicate 5/5, I buy that he genuinely likes the game. Or Catherine a 2/5, it's not just contrarian dumbness.

There's value in what he has to say, even if his tastes are different from my own.
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I guess Jeff being immune to criticism by now is just the inevitable result of the constant barrage of shit you must get for being an online personality. (ZOMG an 8.8 for Zelda!?!?! etc.)

I think Jeff's actual reviews are well written, but I often find it annoying when Jeff (or Ryan) are really dismissive of something on the bombcast or a quicklook for no real reason, even though I realize they often play that up for comedy.
 
Wow, that camera in Resident Evil 6 is way too zoomed in or low FOV. It's not even a performance choice, as it zooms out during some sequences in the video when Chris is sprinting and it runs fine.
 
Love Jeff's Dusk till Dawn reference in the RE6 demo! Game seems ok too as someone who liked 4 and 5. The unprompted melee seems weird too, seems prone to abuse maybe?
 
Raul_Atreides said:
Love Jeff's Dusk till Dawn reference in the RE6 demo! Game seems ok too as someone who liked 4 and 5. The unprompted melee seems weird too, seems prone to abuse maybe?
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In the demo you can melee everything to death, but I'm pretty sure it's set to easy.

RE4 is one of my favorite games of all time and I dig 5 a lot, but 6 plays NOTHING like them. I really didn't like the demo at first but it's growing on me the more I play it. The camera really needs pulled back when playing as Chris though.
 
ArjanN said:
Nah, it gets a lot better once you get a handle on the controls, but yeah, that probably won't happen on the first playthrough of the demo without a tutorial.
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The camera is my main issue, it's godawful. As someone who played A LOT of RE5 I really don't know why they changed it so drastically, it's really making me question what was originally a day 1 buy.
 
ArjanN said:
Nah, it gets a lot better once you get a handle on the controls, but yeah, that probably won't happen on the first playthrough of the demo without a tutorial.
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Poorly set up enemies that shoot in an RE game is something I never, ever want to play. It was bad in the small sections RE4 and 5 did it, and it looks even worse here. Plus super lame QTEs! It's like everything I hate about games in one package.
 
Net_Wrecker said:
Jeff and anyone else who doesn't "get" RE4 is cray cray. RE4 was "plagued" with none of the complaints from the RE6 demo.

READ: Edge article from 2011 on the greatness that is Resident Evil 4- The Best Games Of 2000 To 2009: Resident Evil 4
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What annoyed me was just his dismissal of a lot of criticism about RE6 from Brad with "well it has always been like that with RE". While it's true that the combat has always had that slow feel to it, there's obviously a huge difference in both how the action is played out and the amount of constant shooting you are going through. The first many resident evil games were survival horror, the locked cameras (like when Brad tried shooting the dudes coming through the roof) from previous games not only served a purpose there of making it more scary, it also just didn't matter as much as it wasn't a fucking action game that tries to mimic uncharted more than tries to create horror.

RE4 was a great game for me, not close to any of my favorite games ever but a great game. RE5 was just... Bad. RE6 looks to be even worse.
 
OMG dat camera!

That looks absolutely horrible. I'm from different boat to Jeff. I like RE4. It has very good pacing, sense of horror and the action in that game is just enough to keep me playing. But RE5 is a complete trainwreck. There is no horror, no sense of survival whatsoever and the co-op aspect of the game is just dumb. Now this RE6 looks just like RE5 with even worse camera. I'll definitely pass.
 
Is the DD demo the same as the E3 demo? I'm seeing some buzz on Twitter about a supposed new build which is far superior to the one at E3.

I assume it's at SDCC.
 
Going back and playing RE4 after RE5 and seeing the RE6 stuff is eye-opening, because RE4 maintained a lot more "horror" elements than its reputation suggests. There's a lot of genuinely masterful pacing and suspense in there.
 
vaelic said:
RE6 quicklook

Jeff "my reaction is i dont like resident evil" no fucking shit. what game DO you like?
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...Saints Row 3? Maybe? Then again, Jeff may just not like that one for some reason now too. I do feel like Jeff has the same story whenever he's doing a Quick Look for a sequel, no matter what series it is. "Yeah, I just did not like that last one at all. I played it for five minutes and decided I just did not need to play it ever again."

I really like Jeff, but sometimes he does sound like a broken record.

Going back and playing RE4 after RE5 and seeing the RE6 stuff is eye-opening, because RE4 maintained a lot more "horror" elements than its reputation suggests. There's a lot of genuinely masterful pacing and suspense in there.
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Capcom needs to bribe Mikami with some serious $$$ to abandon his new studio come back to the series.
 
EmCeeGramr said:
Going back and playing RE4 after RE5 and seeing the RE6 stuff is eye-opening, because RE4 maintained a lot more "horror" elements than its reputation suggests. There's a lot of genuinely masterful pacing and suspense in there.
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i must need to replay RE4. other than the first village area, i don't remember being particularly scared. the cultists in the castle were pretty disturbing with their whispering, but to me RE in general has never been particularly scary. it's always been B-grade monster movie stuff.
 
As a fan of both RE4 and RE5, I'll say that RE6 looks like it plays NOTHING like either of those games, at least the way Brad was playing it.
 
Alfredo said:
As a fan of both RE4 and RE5, I'll say that RE6 looks like it plays NOTHING like either of those games, at least the way Brad was playing it.
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as someone who just recently played and beat RE5 for the first time, it was my impression that this was the point. the stop-and-shoot mechanic didn't really bother me, but moving and shooting at this point is so standard it does feel very dated in RE5.

i love the game though, not sure where the hate comes from.
 
I kinda like the stop-and-shoot mechanics in 4 and 5, something about it feels really good when you get decent at it. I hope the mercenaries in 6 is actually good... 5's mercs is one of my favorite extra modes from this gen.
 
Alfredo said:
As a fan of both RE4 and RE5, I'll say that RE6 looks like it plays NOTHING like either of those games, at least the way Brad was playing it.
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Could be said for quite a few quicklooks...

Personally I have no interest in demos if they don't allow the hardest difficulty. I wonder if Professional will be available from the start, I think it was for the PC version of RE5.

cuevas said:
http://www.giantbomb.com/game-of-the-year-2011-jeffs-top-10/17-5461/
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"I've played that game, now I have no need to play anything like that game" (or play that game again)

For many of those games will Jeff say this next year or the year after?

Sometimes it seems like an act lol.
 
Professional on RE 5 was a chore even with fully upgraded weapons, but Veteran was a stiff but fair challenge if you began on that difficulty.

vaelic said:
RE6 quicklook

Jeff "my reaction is i dont like resident evil" no fucking shit. what game DO you like?
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MK, TM, P4... I'm out.
 
Mahonay said:
It's a good one.

Honestly it's why I no longer visit the forums myself. There are a large segment of users that are either socially inept or far too young to keep an intelligent thread going. Then there's the group that for whatever reason are there only to bring negative energy to the fray.

I hold Giant Bomb dear to my heart so it kind of sucks to see the forums be kind of terrible in that way. At least there's the photoshop threads or whatever. I only see those though when one of the staff members posts a link on Twitter.

Thank god for Twitter. I get my GB updates and going ons fed to me through there so I don't have to visit the forums anymore.
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Yeah, I feel the same way. Whenever I go into a topic, someone is always trying to play up the 'internet asshole' and as you've set everyone is childish. It totally sucks that I can't post on gb without some idiot saying something idiotic.
 
RE6 looks so fucking awful

I'll probably get it cause im already invested with the characters and story and because I love the MT Framework engine, guaranteed to be a great PC port (except for the obvious GFWL)
 
Even QL EX with Kinect are embarassing to watch when things don't work. Seeing Lang trying to blame it on not having seen the tutorial or not doing it right.
 
Dungeon Fighter looks TERRIBLE



I think we'll definitely be getting a QL for Dyad. They've talked about it enough that I would be shocked to not get a QL out of it.
 
Typographenia said:
Dungeon Fighter looks TERRIBLE



I think we'll definitely be getting a QL for Dyad. They've talked about it enough that I would be shocked to not get a QL out of it.
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It's free to play on steam right now. You can try it and not pay ten dollars, which is ten dollars too much. I played it for an hour or two with some friends.

It's not my cup of tea, I'll say that.
 
Oh wow they updated the visuals to Dungeon Fighter. Last time I played it (which was a few years ago), it was all pixels.
I liked being the gunner, you got to shoot up dudes and make robot drones and it was the easiest class to dick around with other players as.

I played with my friends for a bit up until the game got grind heavy. I lack the grind gene so a huge rift happened between between my friends levels and my own, and not being able to really play with them killed the point of me playing so I stopped.
EDIT- i should clarify, I'm mostly talking about some of the stuff in the backgrounds and ui. Those animations fall right into my memories
 
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