Giant Bomb Thread #4: A thread of perceived slights
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I haven't played vanquish yet, I'm mostly talking about third person shooters that rely heavily on just being able to sit behind waist level cover.
I like my third persons shooters without cover, like Max Payne 1 & 2. Now that's some exciting gunplay/gameplay.
Hot Coldman
Banned
Uncharted is all about cover and those were some of the finest single-player campaigns this generation.
Well, 2 was. But w/e.
Well, 2 was. But w/e.
2 was, yes. 3 was the complete opposite.
Sorry, I always have to talk shit about U3. Still bitter over that game being a turd.
Hot Coldman
Banned
It's not a turd... it had a naff ending, sure, and the pacing was all over the place. But the beginning was very good, I thought their writing improved and it still looked gorgeous (not as good as U2, IMO, just because the deserts of North Africa aren't as visually exciting as Nepal was).
I don't see how you can go from loving U2 to despising U3. They aren't that different, the first is just more polished than the other. U2 was never teetering on the edge of being shit.
NameGenerated
Who paid you to grab Dr. Pavel?
Glad I got this for 40 on newegg.
I could go on for days, but mostly it was the stuff like Drake surviving the sinking ship and ending up on shore where he started. Complete utter nonsense, for no regard for believability took me straight out of the game and the story. Everything was a set piece and nothing more, only to have tacked on story bullshit to get you to the next set piece. Rinse repeat.
Hot Coldman
Banned
I'm a firm believer that that ship sequence should never have been in the game. It never made any story sense, and just seemed to exist for that one E3 demo.
...That said, it played all right. Maybe they should have just made it an optional short story.
Not sure what you mean by "story bullshit". You didn't like the writing? The characterisation? It wasn't any worse than in U2. No meathead villain, for one thing.
Infinite Justice
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Its been awhile, but I remember thinking that it was terrible. Right down to the copy-paste of U2s ending.
I enjoyed the ship from a technical standpoint. Impressive how the water physics were actually real and not pre baked and actually knocked the boat around dynamically. But apart from that... yeah..
I admit I may be a bit hyperbolic in some of my statements.. a little... but that game soured me so much.
ShockingAlberto
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I don't think UC3 played all right, really.
Granted I played it pre-aiming patch (and have no desire to play it again), but it felt incredibly sluggish and hard to shoot. Drake somehow felt squirrely and tank-like at once in terms of actual movement.
There's a part near the end of the game that is just really, incredibly unfun. Took me about ten tries and the try I decided was going to be the last one was where an enemy teleported in to a fountain and I could just shoot him to death.
Granted I played it pre-aiming patch (and have no desire to play it again), but it felt incredibly sluggish and hard to shoot. Drake somehow felt squirrely and tank-like at once in terms of actual movement.
There's a part near the end of the game that is just really, incredibly unfun. Took me about ten tries and the try I decided was going to be the last one was where an enemy teleported in to a fountain and I could just shoot him to death.
Completely forgot about this too, yeah the aiming pre-patch was really bad. One of those 'what were they thinking' moments.
From what I understand those are not the missions, but sections of the mission he played.
SteveWinwood
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I've heard it's super segmented and like left 4 dead levels.
Edit: That might have actually been from Jeff's review I don't even remember now.
shadyspace
Banned
Hot Coldman
Banned
Yep, that bit was awful. Like I said- naff ending.
I totally forgot about the fucked-up aiming... I just though it was me being bad at the game. :lol
Typographenia
Member
Gotta have those soundtrack bonus cds, though. : (
razgriz417
Member
Since they just did that live quicklook, I don't think they did yet, cant imagine them doing the podcast first thing Monday morning and its still 2pm on the Westcoast
A year later when they've lost money on all of them.
A Pretty Panda
fuckin' called it, man
UC3 was a frustrating disappointment. A shame since I loved 2 so much.
A Sentient Keyboard
Member
I doubt Burnout Paradise 2 will lose them money.
I don't have volume because I'm in a computer lab, but giantbomb twitch stream is continuing to run and stream something: http://www.twitch.tv/giantbomb
Whats going on?
Whats going on?
A Sentient Keyboard
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Brad and Patrick are live-quicklooking a platformer, it seems.
...and they're finished.
It was a game with 'aliens' in the title, but I couldn't pick up what it was exactly.
Infinite Justice
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A Sentient Keyboard
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Oh, they also quicklooked Dead Space: Awakening while we weren't watching.
It's up on the twitch.tv archive (Brad & Patrick, 26:56, DEAD SPACE 3 SPOILERS).
EDIT: And seemingly, they've been removed from the archive.
EDIT 2: According to the 'coming up' ticker, the DS: Awakening and Alien Spidy QL's will be up tomorrow.
They were pretty down with Dead Space, haven't seen the other one.
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It's up on the twitch.tv archive (Brad & Patrick, 26:56, DEAD SPACE 3 SPOILERS).
EDIT: And seemingly, they've been removed from the archive.
EDIT 2: According to the 'coming up' ticker, the DS: Awakening and Alien Spidy QL's will be up tomorrow.
They were pretty down with Dead Space, haven't seen the other one.
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Plexirvones
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you can till watch it here or download it if anybody wants to
store11.media11.justin.tv/archives/2013-3-18/live_user_giantbomb_1363643382.flv
Well the Dead Space quicklook is up on the site now
http://www.giantbomb.com/videos/quick-look-dead-space-3-awakened/2300-7152/
http://www.giantbomb.com/videos/quick-look-dead-space-3-awakened/2300-7152/
2013's worst trend seems like it's going to be "self-aware" videogame writers making fun of their own shit stories.
weekend_warrior
Banned
GB been hacked?
GB been hacked?
No, but you are accessing the site using an encrypted https connection: Their certificate is set out to auth.giantbomb.com, not www.giantbomb.com - this has been broken for weeks now and is something they will probably fix sooner or later.
If only they were to address the extremely slow video download speeds and the lack of meaningful improvement on video search (still barely usable) and categorisation (heavily out of date and inconsistent): The new site is very disappointing so far.
I've actually gotten really huge speed increases.
I bought a new PCIE wireless card for my PC because I thought my USB WiFi card was why the speeds were so slow for video.
Then site update, boom, all troubles resolved.
It's pretty clear that, like Amazon hosting before (which was always blazing fast for me - excellent download speeds of up to 12 MB/s), Akamai (at least whatever service tier they are on, if there are even different ones) doesn't suit all their users: They either need to find a better CDN that is able to deliver bandwidth reliably worldwide or give users a choice.
Now that a video is out, I'd like to try once more to request a gif of this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=YCvbtydXmxs&hd=1
I think it'd be hilarious to have "E-SPOOOOORTTSSS!" scroll across the screen.
Then slight pause.
Then a smaller "e-sports" to close the loop.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=YCvbtydXmxs&hd=1
I think it'd be hilarious to have "E-SPOOOOORTTSSS!" scroll across the screen.
Then slight pause.
Then a smaller "e-sports" to close the loop.
Your opinion. I thought it was the bees knees.
As a developer there is not a better CDN in the world than akamai.
RobotMafia
Banned
Its the worst of the series. I never finished it.
New gears looks terrible. It and the new God Of War shouldn't exist.
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