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Infamous: Second Son |OT| Smells Like Beanie Spirit
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BigSpleenAttack
Banned
Polygon is a perfect example of what's wrong with the current game media review metrics.
goombatommy
Member
This is awesome....lol.
Jeff talked in last podcast that he gave review to Brad, cos he reviewed previous Infamous games.
bryanee
Member
Gameseek.co.uk
Magicman103
Member
Lol this is awesome. Thank you.
You've made the last week so hard to get through. Tomorrow's my late night at work too. Won't be able to play until 10pm and have work early on Saturday
Just think of how awesome it will be to have this game running on your tv at native 1080p. It looks awesome and you've waited a week already what's a few more hours?
Uh, that's the exact opposite of what he said. They were talking about how it's an issue that they give games for people to review that they're more likely to like, thus perhaps making the review not overly useful for anyone but fans of the series.
It sounded like Jeff had been the only one playing the game, Brad didn't mention anything on the Podcast about it but Jeff did.
DryvBy
Member
Magicman103
Member
I know! Well I was super stoked to get an appointment today so I could play Infamous all weekend, but then I got the game early last saturday so that just threw off the plan completely.
It's fun imagining what the potentially negative review lines are going to be. Let me try --
"Infamous Second Son's high production values, art direction, and better than average environment design can only do so much to hide its severe lack of not being Dark Souls. It's mechanics of draining smoke and neon are visually impressive, but do not progress storytelling in games in any meaningful way. The least that can be said about Infamous Second Son is that it is an exceedingly fun game that revels in its mediocrity like a pet cat trying to squeeze itself into smaller and smaller shoe boxes. If the game developers bothered to follow the recommendations I came up with just now three years ago. It may have scored higher than this abysmal 4/10
1½ hours.
aw yiss
The beanie's actually not that bad.
I refuse to play a second of this game without this on my head.
EDIT: Brilliant. My ugly mug at the top of the fucking page. Goddamn.
My man, good taste (getting the same haha)
Where did you order from?
I ordered from Gamestop, Amazon and Tesco. My gamestop order came today (MGS) just not the rest.
in an hour and 30 minutes
Wow that's great! Thanks man!
Great. I cant wait to read some reviews. I may pick this up to add to my extremely long backlog.
BigSpleenAttack
Banned
Anyone else worried about an open world game with little content? Seems there is not much outside the main story, that is a bit disappointing considering it's next gen and open world games tend to be longer.
Can anyone with the game comment?
Can anyone with the game comment?
There's actually plenty to do next to the story in the world.
Actually... one of the few games with sidecontent that doesn't feel as tedious after a while like Assassin's Creed. It's not perfect, but it doesn't take as long.
Magicman103
Member
Yes there aren't many sidemissions. The sidemissions are also pretty repetitive and annoying after a while and it becomes a checklist to get to the platinum. They're definitely the worst part of the game.
I had the opposite experience with Assassin's Creed. Couldn't be bothered to continue with the main story, had plenty fun with side missions.
Think of all that space for DLC!
As serious as Polygon's website and their reviews.
CaptainTiptop
Member
My Amazon pre-order is still only 'preparing for dispatch.' D:
Xaero Gravity
NEXT LEVEL lame™
Ugh, my expected delivery date is the 21st but Amazon.ca has yet to charge my card. Anyone else in the same situation?
Nice. Got them all from ShopTo
I can't believe preloading is finally coming to a console! This could be the thing that makes me go nearly all digital. Steam got me used to it and I did outfit my PS4 with a 1 TB hard drive but waiting for the PSN store to update hours after a midnight release on some occasions really killed me. But this means I stop having to brave the streets at midnight to get to my dingy local Gamestop then count me in. I'll just watch movies and eat snacks while I wait for my game to unlock.
With people saying it took them 10hours to complete. Do you find that if you buy a game "Day 1" there is a tendency to try and complete it quickly to post impressions, spoilers (Where applicable) and screenshots. Where as if the game was bought in 3/4 months time you might take you time more with it.
I know that in Infamous 1 I spent ages just messing about combining moves together to kill enemies in different ways, instead of trying to get through the story right away.
I know that in Infamous 1 I spent ages just messing about combining moves together to kill enemies in different ways, instead of trying to get through the story right away.
ElzarTheBam
Member
The Digital copy of Infamous on the UK PSN store cost 53 pounds.
But I've managed to pay only 44 pounds for the UK digital version.
Didn't want to use the US account method. So that's not bad at all.
But I've managed to pay only 44 pounds for the UK digital version.
Didn't want to use the US account method. So that's not bad at all.
So outside of TLoU which AAA PS exclusives didn't have a reasonable score?
Lashley
Why does he wear the mask!?
See this is why I never use digital. 53 pounds? They always rip us off ffs.
BigSpleenAttack
Banned
Oh nice, sorry I read some people saying there were not many side missions that's good then.
BigSpleenAttack
Banned
And now a conflicting post LOL. Damn was hoping for more to do, 10-12 hours is short for an open world game
Cheapest i've found is £48, where's £44?
Dont want to derail the thread, but the whole Ground Zeroes controversy was sort of the same thing for me. "2 hours to get through the main mission, add 2 hours more if you want to finish all content!", and yet I am playing it for 12 hours currently and maybe looking at... 30-40 when all is said and done.
If you love a game, you'll find ways to busy yourself with it.
When you're going for a platinum, sidecontent always gets repetitive and boring. I liked doing all the stuff while going through the story, but I'm sure it'll get boring if I'd chase the platinum as well.
It's designed to be played twice.
I doubt it'll be that short for me anyway. The previous ones took me about 15 or so.
Dont want to derail the thread, but the whole Ground Zeroes controversy was sort of the same thing for me. "2 hours to get through the main mission, add 2 hours more if you want to finish all content!", and yet I am playing it for 12 hours currently and maybe looking at... 30-40 when all is said and done.
If you love a game, you'll find ways to busy yourself with it.
I've managed to use 50 hours or so with Blitzball so far in my life. Yes, you will absolutely do some odd things if the game/universe interests you - I suspect Infamous will last me plenty long.
ElzarTheBam
Member
Cdkeys, they offer a very decent discount and on top of that you always get 5 percent off when you like their Facebook page.
I got two 25 pound psn codes for 41 pounds had the spare already in my account.
Lashley
Why does he wear the mask!?
Dont want to derail the thread, but the whole Ground Zeroes controversy was sort of the same thing for me. "2 hours to get through the main mission, add 2 hours more if you want to finish all content!", and yet I am playing it for 12 hours currently and maybe looking at... 30-40 when all is said and done.
If you love a game, you'll find ways to busy yourself with it.
Not trying to troll, but I've genuinely no idea how you've put that much into the game.
nelsonroyale
Member
Yes, its mine.
I wish I had good internet, I'd go with that if I didn't only have 3mb broadband. Would take forever to finally play the game
Lashley
Why does he wear the mask!?
You bought infamous on cdkeys? :S