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Gravity Rush 2 |OT| Mewton's Law of Gravity
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The game has tech issues no doubt that I wish team gravity learned from bluepoint with the remaster. Frame dips a lot. When you shift your gravity into a plane, the details of it such as the windows of building can glitch you up badly. When a plane curves you do not stick along with it most of the time, think of Ratchet and clank with the gravity levels.
These tech issues are definitely things that will turn off a lot of people. And I don't blame you.
So.. why did I beat it? Why did I cope with it? Why did I let these inexcusable tech issues slide?
While the care component in this game is pretty low. I can feel the heart and love that was put into the game when in comes down to the characters themselves, the animation, the world, the art, the music. And... I think that's enough for me to have me keep playing aside from where the plot goes on the 2nd and the 3rd arc.
Right now in the industry. We don't get much of Animated style driven character action games. And.. I'd like to see more of that. World with eye-candy art, stylish animation, arcady gameplay, melodious music, and a great story with a stylish presentationthat blends with the game rather than interfering it. Man, I'm a sucka for styles.
These tech issues are definitely things that will turn off a lot of people. And I don't blame you.
So.. why did I beat it? Why did I cope with it? Why did I let these inexcusable tech issues slide?
While the care component in this game is pretty low. I can feel the heart and love that was put into the game when in comes down to the characters themselves, the animation, the world, the art, the music. And... I think that's enough for me to have me keep playing aside from where the plot goes on the 2nd and the 3rd arc.
Right now in the industry. We don't get much of Animated style driven character action games. And.. I'd like to see more of that. World with eye-candy art, stylish animation, arcady gameplay, melodious music, and a great story with a stylish presentationthat blends with the game rather than interfering it. Man, I'm a sucka for styles.
DriftingSpirit
Member
The framerate almost always plunges after unleashing a fully charged Jupiter Kick.
She could have just caught the baby with her Stasis Field though lol.
Aww. Kat is amazing.It definitely reminded me of this:
She could have just caught the baby with her Stasis Field though lol.
StarCreator
Member
First game's stasis field didn't have that kind of range, lol
There are four Gravity Days comics if you haven't seen them before.
N° 2048
Member
Well said.
DriftingSpirit
Member
StarCreator
Member
I finally realized that it's a simple is she looking or not thing. You basically have to be behind a planter when she turns her head. Game doesn't communicate that very well though.als
EDIT: I will probably stick with this game until the end just for the sake of finishing but that last episode in Chapter II had extreme problems with the camera and frame rate. I nearly had a headache at the end of that. It's nearly impossible to get through any section of that without hitting a wall. They probably should have just made the level wider.
xenorevlis
Member
Omg. Just hit chapter 3. I'm so happy right now.
I speel my dreenk
Member
C'mon, now - motha fuckin' Pipe House
I speel my dreenk
Member
While I generally agree that there are some technical issues with the game (camera in Ch 12 comes to mind), I'm not sure about the examples you're giving.
I realize it doesn't help anyone to say "well, I didn't have that issue" - and I am playing on a Pro - but I've only had one noticeable frame drop in 30-some-odd hours, where a bunch of things popped off and exploded at once during a huge fight. I don't doubt that it happens a little bit here and there, but the motion blur and speed effects seem to cover up anything that would otherwise stick out.
The gravity shifting troubles make more sense if you think of it exactly as you described it - shifting into a plane. In Ratchet, you're sticking to a contiguous surface designed to be stuck to by special boots (I think this is what you're talking about, since I can't remember any other gravity mechanic from R&C, even though I only played it a month or so ago. Correct me if I'm wrong!). In Gravity Rush, you're choosing which direction will pull you towards it, not which object/structure, so unless you constantly switch which direction that is, then it stands to reason that walking over an curved surface would yield different results at different angles. I can see that being a convenience issue, absolutely, but in context of what's meant to be happening, it makes perfect sense.
Glad you beat it though, and agree with everything else
boredandlazy
Member
I'm on a Pro playing in 4K mode and whilst the game generally runs fine it majorly chugs at some particular points. Namely in the battle with the multiple gravity storms(each with a Nevi Arm coming out) near the beginning of the 'second area' of the game.
Just to make sure, you're killing the ones that appear in the generic 'Mining Site 0.13', 'Candle Place', etc, right? The ones that award talismans when you kill them, and not the giant green dudes?
I think the game gives you 2-3 new mining phenomena every 24 hours (at least, this seemed like what was happening), so you just need to clear each one once.
Also, I just got the platinum, hooray!
sackboy2197
Member
Well, I think that's fair. 2000 a day seem to be in line with what you generally earn.
ULTROS!
People seem to like me because I am polite and I am rarely late. I like to eat ice cream and I really enjoy a nice pair of slacks.
Yeah I'm killing those. Hopefully the next 2 will spawn later when I boot up the game.
God do I want to platinum this game already. I'm pushing to 50 hours already lol.
Finally plat the game, i had a nice time doing so besides some camera issues and some bad side quests and the big ass grind for gems.
when i think about make no sense, why is gem collector a gold trophy while power kat is a silver? Hell by time you get the gem collector trophy you gonna need about over 30k more gems for the next trophy.
when i think about make no sense, why is gem collector a gold trophy while power kat is a silver? Hell by time you get the gem collector trophy you gonna need about over 30k more gems for the next trophy.
MegaSackman
Member
Finished it! Good game but not a fan of the last quarter. Rushed, kinda ridiculous, but I'll keep good memories from the game.
WhiskeyKnight
Member
Finally got to dig into this over the weekend. The Gravity Rush series just nails the feeling of flying for me. There's something about the way Kat tumbles through the air that makes it feel so natural. I love that you can fly between the different levels without load times. And good god the colors! 10/10 so far.
CielTynave
Member
UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGH....
Doing mission 12 now, I think I can safely say I hate both of the different shifting styles, or at the very least the missions that introduced them.
Doing mission 12 now, I think I can safely say I hate both of the different shifting styles, or at the very least the missions that introduced them.
encephalon
Member
Gave up on the dog quest.
So for those with the platinum, how much of a grind is it to get the gems to fully power up Kat? I just beat the game yesterday, only 2 challenge missions I haven't done yet and I spent a lot of time gem hunting already... I'm only at ~45k and it seems like I'd still need another 35-40k... Are there even that many gems in game? Do you just spend HOURS mining ore?
Drillary Clinton
Banned
Finally beat it and man
I just can't deal with this ending. That last picture in the credits alludes to Kat making it back alive but the vagueness is so unsettling. What a journey, though. It's so rare that I really get attached to characters in video games and I love just about all of them in this game.
Jarod McChicken
Member
So, some French bought the game. That's the top 5 for the release week.
Kazuo Hirai
I really want everyone to know how much more Titanfall 2 sold than Nioh. It was a staggering amount.
So, some French bought the game. That's the top 5 for the release week.
French has better taste than English
So, some French bought the game. That's the top 5 for the release week.
French knows what's up.
ending spoilers
She turns into a singularity, no way she can go back to normal that easily. But they put it simply for that, ambiguity. My personal theory is that she turns into black haired Kat (the one that helps you in the Rift) and she's like a kind of time-dimension weird nevy entity (yeah I know, we enter in time paradox crazyness, but considering they did the singularity stuff I don't think they cared much about it).
I felt like the singularity part was really bad, it's pulled from thin air at the last second just for the feels. They could have done way better if they wanted to kill/making Kat dissapear for the ambiguity of her fate.
I felt like the singularity part was really bad, it's pulled from thin air at the last second just for the feels. They could have done way better if they wanted to kill/making Kat dissapear for the ambiguity of her fate.
Drillary Clinton
Banned
I had a similar idea. Kat became a singularity so she can't be the same. This is one reason why they don't actually show her and only her shadow at the end of the game. Maybe she has returned a Creator. The theory of the black-haired car actually kinda makes sense.
The game definitely has some plot issues but overall I thought the story was fantastic. It has similar problems the first game had with unexplained plot threads but I feel like 2 resolves a lot more and at the very least alludes to things that we can make connections to
Like the Seghassi? Paintings explaining how the world and Nevi were created
It has other issues. Repetition of side quests, pretty bad stealth sections. I know a lot of reviewers complained about losing powers but it always made sense from a narrative perspective and never bothered me. I think it does a LOT of things extremely well enough to make up for it's shortcomings and ended up being a fantastic game. Honestly, even better than I expected it to be. Likely one of my favorite games this gen along with The Witcher 3.
http://www.jp.playstation.com/op/gravitydaze/project/2017/01/20170201maintenance.html
They are trying to finish this server maintenaｎce by 1/31 20:00 and going to release a patch.
They are trying to finish this server maintenaｎce by 1/31 20:00 and going to release a patch.
I really hope the patch addresses the weird-ass targeting priority when one is fighting around those ore nodes, as right now they are prioritized over the Nevi cores. Nothing like using the Spiralling Claw super with plenty of Nevi around only to have Kat ignore them completely and instead bounce from one ore node to the next.
sackboy2197
Member
That, and more Dusty Tokens is all I really want.
encephalon
Member
I think the problem with stealth is that it feels like it's completely arbitrary when ships can and can't see you. I was doing a mission in Ch 10 where I was encouraged to
Every time I approached them I got alerted that I was seen by the ships. Once that section ended, I could safely go right next to them to progress to the next area.
free the prisoners from every cell. For some reason I think my game glitched and they disappeared, so I attempting to look at cells higher up.
patch. good. thank you. please fix dusty tokens and maybe picture hints (i ended up just looking up a few of them
)am I crazy or did I not read something about dusty tokens being findable "in levels" as well as the online features before the game came out, was that just about the treasure hunts? I kept expecting to find some bundle of dusty tokens in daily challenges or in the story missions tucked away in a box.
targetting around ores is definitely weird, I find not wearing the talismans that widen the auto lockon of the kicks actually make the kicks way better and with the wider lockon I bump into geometry a lot more. Especially on that one combat challenge arena against black garbed ground/flying soldiers and nevi, that one's really evil to even gold let alone set records on.
Glad i'm done with the photo "exploration" now, I found looking for the green nevi and travellers in GR1 to be lots of fun without a guide but the photos really aggravating, I kept expecting to get "challenged" by things like having to set up a photo with kat or photo items or stasis fields but it was just really hard to locate half of those npcs, Lei Elgona and Lei Colmonosa could stand to have half of the floating islands that they do have.
I started mining and actually searching for the gravity storms and rare nevi and the game is much funner again using all your resources in the open arenas of the mining sites // testing out all the cool random talisman effects
sackboy2197
Member
What big problem could there be that no one has noticed though?
Drillary Clinton
Banned
A lot of those sections they want you to do a very specific way and the air boats are he games obnoxious way of reinforcing that
rayman1900
Member
Haha lol!
Well, one thing is for sure, is that I don't get motivated to do the challenges if I can't send my score and receiving dusty tokens, though. So I'm just doing side missions and story for now.
I found roughly 65k in the world, while being extremely exhaustive (and getting the 60k trophy about episode 20). Then repeated the first bit of episode 19 for about an hour and change to get to the ~83k(?) needed.
sackboy2197
Member
That seems pretty fast. I'll put a video in the background and just grind away. I'll keep the gems in the world for when I'm in the mood to play GR2 again
encephalon
Member
By the way, the part in episode 10 where
reminded me heavily of Panzer Dragoon.
the big cannon opened up and threatened the Banga settlement
So, some French bought the game. That's the top 5 for the release week.
Good to hear. A French youtube channel with 1.5 million subscribers is doing an LP - wonder what that does? Actually I've seen more than a few French Gravity Rush 2 LPs from channels of varying sizes.
I've just finished Mission 17 and (opinions
I'm not over the moon about anything in Chapter 3: I came to Hekseville expecting a resolution to the first game but none of that has been touched after 6 missions. Sidequests now come in batches of 5 and they're not as enjoyable as they had been in Jirga, probably because the setting Hekseville itself doesn't have many stories left to offer. Still relishing pretty much every moment I get to spend with this game, and even this section is miles ahead of anything in the first game.
While I generally agree that there are some technical issues with the game (camera in Ch 12 comes to mind), I'm not sure about the examples you're giving.
I realize it doesn't help anyone to say "well, I didn't have that issue" - and I am playing on a Pro - but I've only had one noticeable frame drop in 30-some-odd hours, where a bunch of things popped off and exploded at once during a huge fight. I don't doubt that it happens a little bit here and there, but the motion blur and speed effects seem to cover up anything that would otherwise stick out.
The gravity shifting troubles make more sense if you think of it exactly as you described it - shifting into a plane. In Ratchet, you're sticking to a contiguous surface designed to be stuck to by special boots (I think this is what you're talking about, since I can't remember any other gravity mechanic from R&C, even though I only played it a month or so ago. Correct me if I'm wrong!). In Gravity Rush, you're choosing which direction will pull you towards it, not which object/structure, so unless you constantly switch which direction that is, then it stands to reason that walking over an curved surface would yield different results at different angles. I can see that being a convenience issue, absolutely, but in context of what's meant to be happening, it makes perfect sense.
Glad you beat it though, and agree with everything else
Just realized my second point wasn't all that clear. I'll explain.
Small detailing like windows or very small pipes on plane should be just be apart of the plane as whole. I find it pretty cumbersome when I'm fixated on those details as a whole rather than the whole plane.
I hope this makes any sense.
I got this game at launch and I just haven't been able to click with it. I both love and really dislike Gravity Rush. In fact I love everything about it except the gameplay, or rather, the infuriating tendency for games like this to give you cool super powers and then have most of the gameplay loop being time trials, races, challenge modes, etc. I mean fucking come on.
I remember hating this about Prototype 1. God-like powers? Well I bet you can't make it from here to there in less than 45 seconds. Bet you can't deliver all these goddamned newspapers while you fight (and lose to) the camera. Bet you can't defeat all these enemies in the time limit.
Conniptions!!
I love everything else about this series though.
I remember hating this about Prototype 1. God-like powers? Well I bet you can't make it from here to there in less than 45 seconds. Bet you can't deliver all these goddamned newspapers while you fight (and lose to) the camera. Bet you can't defeat all these enemies in the time limit.
Conniptions!!
I love everything else about this series though.
I speel my dreenk
Member
Yep, gotcha. You're right, GR:R did have simplified collision geometry relative to the visible object, which made it easier to walk across without tripping here and there and having the camera sometimes freak out like in GR2. I'm not sure which I'd rather have, as I appreciate the ease of GR:R's traversal, but also appreciate the intricacy of GR2's. Probably a balance to strike there.
DieNgamers
Member
Oh shit, the soundtrack of this game is a piece of art!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udvdNo720DU
:O So good and don't even own the game yet. I need money!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udvdNo720DU
:O So good and don't even own the game yet. I need money!