Been playing this for a bit this past weekend. I really like the gunplay, animation, and how the robots mechanically fall apart as you shoot them.
But the writing is pretty bad. It's almost sucking the enjoyment away from me, but the shooting and everything is else is solid so it's enough to keep me playing.
bought this recently. It's so ghetto that you do all the settings outside of the game.
Can't think of any games that allow you to tweak FoV of aiming view as well. Pretty rad.
The character uniforms look terrible though. I expect more out of japan. Just finished the first part where they just meet up with the other folks. Game is pretty fun to play. For some reason im enjoying this more than max payne 3.
I can't convince the few people I know with 360s to buy this. One actually bothered to try the demo, but said that it's too much like Gears of War and he just can't stand that type of game controls anymore. So! I did my part.
Actually, when I first heard this title being mentioned, I had no idea what it was and who made it. For some reason I figured it was some PSN indie game about music or something. What got me to look into it was just random curiousity one day on this board, and then downloading the demo on 360. And then a sale.
Almost 2 weeks later, got all single player achievements, level 43, round 45 on Shibuya, and over 30 friend requests with randoms from all over the place. I've been speaking French with people from Canada and France even (and man has it been a long time).
Love the single player, but organizing multi is fairly frustrating. And the lag is pretty bad for everyone. One random already sold the game because he couldn't stand it anymore.
Finished it this afternoon - had the credits rolling mere hours ago.
I got the game for nine English pounds, so it might not exactly be high praise to say it was worth every penny. A hugely fun, eccentric and unique (if not entirely original) game.
Perhaps my favourite parts of the game - right up until the last twenty minutes, which left me scratching my head - were the story and the characters. There's nothing particularly Oscar Worthy™ in there, but the characters all have their own little quirks and I'm warmed to all of them with the exception of Rachael. When I'm choosing members of my squad based on who I'd rather shoot the shit with rather then their weapon loadouts, you've succeeded. The voice acting (um, well, most of it) and the animations were superb. There's enough pulpy sci-fi madness going on at any given time to keep you engaged. Some of the conversation options were a bit weird though:
"Did I do a good job?"
Shit!
Damn it!
Yeah
Love you
The actually shooty shooty bang bang bit was mighty fun, too. Being able to sever limbs and have enemies turn on their team when you decapitate them gives it a unique flavour which it might not otherwise have. The guns are your standard fare with a couple of exceptions, though the upgrading gives them extra spice. For instance, my assault rifle was tearing scrapheads to shreds by the games' end. Besides that, it was nice to have a shotgun that felt absolutely deadly at close range.
The enemy variety was good - with you having to adopt a different strategy for each one. Shoot shield guys in the feet, shoot the bigger dudes in the head, rush up to this guy, pick off that guy from a distance, prioritise those things, etc. etc. The shinobis absolutely kicked my arse until I finally learned how to deal with them in my final encounter with them.
I had such a great time with the game that the stuff which I didn't like stood out to me. The boss fights were pretty variable, meaning the ending - which becomes boss fight after boss fight - was kind of groan-worthy to me. Some bosses were well realised and I felt clever when I figured out their weaknesses and exploited them. Some bosses I just shot in the face for twenty minutes until they fell over - if they didn't jump on me and exploit the weird angle my camera was at first.
About four or five times I went through a ten minute fire fight only to have to redo a quick time event two or three times because I kept getting crushed by the same falling bit of rubble or whatever. In fact, those were the only times I ever saw the Mission Fail screen.
And the ending, yeesh! I felt similarly to how EatChildren and lunch on that;
I was hoping I was going to get the option to turn on those bigoted pricks and help Faye waste them.
It suffered from a bit of Metal Gearitis with the whole, "Oh, you think that was the twist? Well, try THIS on for size!" nature of it. And what happened to
Cain
? Did I miss something?
Overall, a great game and one easily worth whatever bargain basement price you can find it for.
Yeah, the ending of the game was a bit of a disappointment. I kind of wish the trust stuff would have been taken further somehow but at least it was in there I suppose, for a shooter it was something different.
The bosses kept being a highlight though. I only wish there would have been more bigger enemy encounters, not bosses mind you, but a middle in between enemy. Kind of like the Grinder from Gears or something.
The bosses kept being a highlight though. I only wish there would have been more bigger enemy encounters, not bosses mind you, but a middle in between enemy. Kind of like the Grinder from Gears or something.
There were those enemies that actually weren't so different to the grinders. Big fellas with the machine guns - a sort of dark grey. Can't think how else to describe them.
You reminded me of a bit I really disliked - taking control of the enemy... tank... thing... with the two big missile arms. No precision; you turn like, well, a tank; the entire screen has a blue tints; missiles constantly flying just behind your targets. Awful.
Yeah, the ending of the game was a bit of a disappointment. I kind of wish the trust stuff would have been taken further somehow but at least it was in there I suppose, for a shooter it was something different.
The bosses kept being a highlight though. I only wish there would have been more bigger enemy encounters, not bosses mind you, but a middle in between enemy. Kind of like the Grinder from Gears or something.
I do really enjoy how it effects gameplay. And with the way they made the ending, anything could be possible. You can do so bad that you'll only have Charlie and Faye with you in the fight, but even if everyone is there for the final fight, you only see Faye and Dan at the end.
One person I friended hated
___Bo
so much that he always said the worst thing he could choose to
Yeah, Chapter one really gives something of a false impression of the game, it feels solid but maybe a bit unremarkable. By the time you're finished with Chapter 2 though it's clear the game is actually pretty awesome.
I just spent the last 8 hours straight playing/finishing this.
I didn't like it at first, the "tutorial" was long, dull and grey. Thankfully things ramped up quite quickly after that and BD revealed itself to be quite an amazing little game!
Looks great, sounds great, plays great, characters are great, story is, at the very least, interesting enough for you to stick around and guess which plot twists are going to come up when ..... all in all though, it's a great game that deserved a lot more commercial success than I'm lead to believe it did (20K in its launch month NPD I think ;_.
Surprised to see a few people playing online as well (Invasion).
Figured there would be a couple of people just getting into this due to the Steam sale that might get some use from this thread.
I've just completed this. I've owned it for a couple of months but blew through it in three days, which is how I recommend playing it. Fantastic game, in my top three this year for sure. Also, I had no idea there were multiple endings til this thread. Glad I got the ending where
Cain survived, what an amazing character
. I really just dug everything about it. Great characters, complex motivations, good story and gameplay. Lot's of interesting ideas, not all of them panned out, but the ones that did were really great. The unique banter between characters was totally enjoyable as well. I'm pretty upset that it bombed though, there's just so much to build upon in that universe. I really want to know what happened to everyone after it was all said and done. Ah well, it was a hell of a thrill ride.
End game spoilers:
Was I the only one that totally sided with Amada philosophically? I mean, if the end product is completely biological and only betters the human race, why not?
Was I the only one that totally sided with Amada philosophically? I mean, if the end product is completely biological and only betters the human race, why not?
You're not alone. If you had told me at the beginning of the year that Binary Domain would be the game where I would think "Huh... villain has a point", though, I would probably have laughed in your face.
Its funny I started reading Robopoclypse and its making me wanna do a second playthru again. And like you I didnt know people DIDNT know about the good ending. And the villain had a valid point. A very Valid point
Just got this for $20 at Best Buy using some Christmas money. I've beaten the first two chapters. The game is awesome. Looks great, I like interacting with squadmates even though the voice recognition is complete shit, and like others have said, shooting robots feels really satisfying. The story seems inspired by the reimagined Battlestar Galactica, which is cool.
I'm sorry I didn't have the money to buy this at launch, Sega. At least I didn't buy it used, though.
Got this game on sale and just finished, goddamn what a ride, loved the story, the cheesiness of it all, gameplay was fun, I'll put it up there in my favorite games.
GEEZE I HATE BO. Its like the writing was done by two different teams. The story team, best friend the main character, witty, average joe, not oblivious. In game writing team, hes black right, this is what black people sound like right?
Seriously hate that shit, and he has SOOOOOO many lines...
But it really is one of my favorite titles this gen. Feels just like a Dreamcast game! Also love the social commentary of it all hidden behind its cheezyness.
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