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I just made this:

Anyone who wants to use it, feel free.

I'm thinking about changing my avatar to one of them for valentines... Anybody has something against it, me or other people using the same avatar? It's just for a day.

Would be kinda funny to see people having the same Helghast valentine avatar in GAF :lol

 

[Haunted]

Couples strolling in Munich, Germany on Valentine's day might be in for a surprise. Sony is doing some street marketing and having a Hellghast trooper handing roses to people and taking pictures with them.

http://www.giga.de/news/00148618_rosen_am_valentinstag/

bahaha, that's awesome.

 

[Dreams-Visions]

Reverse tracks.

qft.

 

[andycapps]

Who said anything about mind reading? You yourself said that itd all depend on how YOU play the game in certain sections. A lot of games touch on this. Hell even Infamous is.

And as I said, Heavy Rain is touching on the idea of on the fly script writing. Or at least touching on the scenario where what you as the gamer has a tangible impact on...

you know what never mind.

You know who Iain is, right? Used to work at Guerilla, the guy has some experience with this, you know... But anyway, I see what yours and his points are in this. You're looking at this completely as a gamer and saying wouldn't it be great if I could control the whole game and make my own decisions? As a content creator, Iain is telling you how it just can't work.

Even Heavy Rain as you brought up is not really going to be you making all the decisions. They'll probably have a lot of different scenarios that can play out and you can choose one of them. Which is still very exciting to me and I'm excited to see how it pans out; if it ends up as good as the director is promising.

In an FPS, if you die as you say, and such and such door doesn't get opened or you don't destroy "X" gun emplacement, how is the game going to know what to do? At most, they'd be able to have the illusion of you being in control by having several possible scenarios. The main problem that I see is if you die, whose character do you take over? Is the game just over? Do you immediately move into the view of one of your squadmates? What if the voice acting before made him appear to be an arrogant bastard and you don't want to be controlling him in the first place?

On the other point, if you weren't able to open such and such a door or "X" gun emplacement wasn't destroyed, how is the game going to plan on what to do? They don't just write themselves (yet ). At the most, like I said, you could have a couple different scenarios that the developers could program into the game. But even then, if you're going into all this different stuff that no one has really tried before, something in the game is going to have to get cut. GG would not have been able to make the game as-is, plus adding in these concepts you're talking about. Or rather, they *may* have been able to, but it would have taken some compromises on design, or would have taken much more time, money, and manpower.

 

[Cruzader]

Reverse tracks.

that be nice feature to have. Jak games had this.(reverse world)

Edit:wait does KZ2 have this???? That would be an unexpected feature!

 

[WTFing]

Waiting for KILLZONE 2!

 

[Haunted]

nooo I finished the game! It ended so soon

What to do now? What to do?

Same thing we always do after beating a game, Pinky.

Spoiler

Wait for the next big game to come along.

 

[thaOwner]

Couples strolling in Munich, Germany on Valentine's day might be in for a surprise. Sony is doing some street marketing and having a Hellghast trooper handing roses to people and taking pictures with them.

http://www.giga.de/news/00148618_rosen_am_valentinstag/

haha, ok this is funny. Now let's see if they can keep this up.

 

[overlord741]

best FPS ever OMG great work GG great work
beat it twice and i cant leave that game

--

 

[DoomGyver]

I should have my copy by this time next week!

 

[Prothero]

Question: In Qore Episode 8, there is an awesome screenshot of a bunch of Helghast running and what appears to be a half-cloaked Helghast Scout running alongside them.

Does anyone here have the screenshot, hopefully in wallpaper size?

 

[Cruzader]

Ok those who have the full game, does this game have "reverse levels"? Someone said it but not sure if it was a joke or not.

 

[Kittonwy]

Couples strolling in Munich, Germany on Valentine's day might be in for a surprise. Sony is doing some street marketing and having a Hellghast trooper handing roses to people and taking pictures with them.

http://www.giga.de/news/00148618_rosen_am_valentinstag/

How romantic rawr!!!111!!!

 

[SSM25]

what? Ian USED to work at guerrilla?, when did he left?

 

[WHOAguitarninja]

indeed. i loved Dead Space. but because it was a good and immersive game. there was nothing innovative and it was pretty repetative.

edit: indeed 2: Spore is a big achievement.. but i never thought about buying it.. just doesn't look like fun at all.

I don't agree at all about Dead Space doing nothing innovative. The Scenario may have been rather typical, but the decision to make EVERYTHING diegetic was pretty big and gutsy. It also proved that a game can still be scary if it allows you to shoot while walking.

 

[Dreams-Visions]

Ok those who have the full game, does this game have "reverse levels"? Someone said it but not sure if it was a joke or not.

:lol hell naw man.

 

[Andronicus]

Waiting for KILLZONE 2!

that does not look right at all......

 

[Lord Phol]

This game is making me want a PS3 soooo bad, but I would be utterly broke if I got one . if only there was a price drop soon.

 

[GQman2121]

Ok those who have the full game, does this game have "reverse levels"? Someone said it but not sure if it was a joke or not.

Alright, now that is funny.

 

[spwolf]

that does not look right at all......

no it does not, whatsoever.

 

[Rolf NB]

that be nice feature to have. Jak games had this.(reverse world)

Edit:wait does KZ2 have this???? That would be an unexpected feature!

Hell no, I don't think so. I was just associating wildly from "finishing a game far too quickly" to "racing through a game" to "features expected from a racing game".

But I really want the Gamecube version of Twilight Princess as an unlockable. That would be awesome. You could play it on a computer terminal on the ship or something. And Maniac Mansion, too. I'm listening to a podcast now and have trouble focusing on this converstaion. Thank you for your patronage.

 

[Lovely Salsa]

Oh and guys, if you were like me and watched every single video out there (on gamersyde/gametrailers etc), you made a HUGE mistake :/

Yep, I said it. But for those who haven't seen many video's, STOP LOOKING NOW. The video's show every single level of the game, usually they show just a small piece of the game but not with this one, they spoiled it all.

 

[Charles]

Yeah, Gametrailer's review is spoilerific. Don't watch it!

 

[deepbrown]

This game is making me want a PS3 soooo bad, but I would be utterly broke if I got one . if only there was a price drop soon.

£289 for PS3, Killzone 2, LBP, Dark Knight....what you got to lose?

 

[Tenkai Star]

£289 for PS3, Killzone 2, LBP, Dark Knight....what you got to lose?

£289?

 

[Kittonwy]

This game is making me want a PS3 soooo bad, but I would be utterly broke if I got one . if only there was a price drop soon.

Sell some blood.

 

[SSM25]

So when did Ian leave Guerrilla?

 

[andycapps]

So when did Ian leave Guerrilla?

Have to let him answer, but he used to be EON on the Playstation forums. Maybe 6 months ago? I know he's still doing some freelance stuff for them and seems to be very involved with the game still.

 

[Tom Penny]

Todd Howard and Ken Levine are correct - games don't need to do something new as a rule, but rather any "newness" should be a natural extension of what the developers are originally aiming for. The biggest reason Edge's complaints, specifically, about innovation don't make sense is the following:

Funny thing is they reference Tom Chick in the interview who ripped apart this game and said it wasn't even worth playing.

 

[Cruzader]

Alright, now that is funny.

lol damn it guys.

 

[Pojo]

Such a puzzling statement. Dead Space is in the exact same boat as Killzone 2 - a game that doesn't really bring anything new to the table, but has very strong core gameplay mechanics, is an audio-visual marvel and is polished to a spit-shine.

The biggest criticisms of Dead Space all have to do with its perceived lack of innovation, so to try and contrast that with Killzone 2 is nonsensical - there's nothing to contrast when they're identical in that respect.

I also didn't think it was fair at the time for Dead Space to be criticized for not doing something drastically different. I don't think any game that does exactly what the developers set out to do should be - a big reason many games fail is because they are too ambitious and put aside things like basic gameplay mechanics as an expense. You know, making sure the game is actually fun to play. The single most unfortunate and disappointing example of that this gen is probably Spore.

Dead Space isn't even close to the best that the genre has to offer, and isn't in the same league as Killzone in terms of audio or visuals. It's just a great game that came out of left field (I loved it), but still features samey environments and mediocre level design. It did enough to innovate with the setting. I think the whole concept of innovation is overrated. Sure, it sets the great games apart from the transcendent games, but in the end, all I want is a fundamentally sound gameplay experience. Dead Space had that. Killzone appears to have that.

Everyone wants to compare everything to Dead Space nowadays. What's up with that? I think for the hell of it, we should compare everything to Mirror's Edge. "It has a very distinct art style, excellent gameplay mechanics, and is the most unique thing the genre has to offer!" And the most important thing for GAF: sold like crap.

 

[BruceLeeRoy]

best FPS ever OMG great work GG great work
beat it twice and i cant leave that game

nooo I finished the game! It ended so soon

What to do now? What to do?

You lucky bastards.
If either of you want to post detailed impressions be sure to PM them to me so I can add
it to the OP.

 

[notjackbauer]

so can you create and name your own classes a la CoD? if so is there a limit to how many you can make? how does this system work?

 

[sankt-Antonio]

Dead Space isn't even close to the best that the genre has to offer, and isn't in the same league as Killzone in terms of audio or visuals. It's just a great game that came out of left field (I loved it), but still features samey environments and mediocre level design. It did enough to innovate with the setting. I think the whole concept of innovation is overrated. Sure, it sets the great games apart from the transcendent games, but in the end, all I want is a fundamentally sound gameplay experience. Dead Space had that. Killzone appears to have that.

Everyone wants to compare everything to Dead Space nowadays. What's up with that? I think for the hell of it, we should compare everything to Mirror's Edge. "It has a very distinct art style, excellent gameplay mechanics, and is the most unique thing the genre has to offer!" And the most important thing for GAF: sold like crap.

it sold like crap because story/stroytelling/gameplay/ and level design where bad...by bad i mean shit ...
its a repetetive and boring mess... this game would have worked so well in a sand box version, but its linear design is just gamebreaking, because the player does nothing greater than to run away ALL THE FUCKING TIME... you know linear games like cod4 at least showed something off ... bah, ok sorry i just hate the fact that i spend money on this game...

edit: funny little story: a friend of mine started the game... and after he died like ten times in the tutorial and had to watch it over and over again he broke his controler ... well i think it was funny

Jesus. That's exactly what I was afraid of. Like I said before, most overexposed game this gen.

R2 was the same, i could speedrun trough levels because i saw then being played... it was awfull...

 

[JB1981]

Oh and guys, if you were like me and watched every single video out there (on gamersyde/gametrailers etc), you made a HUGE mistake :/

Yep, I said it. But for those who haven't seen many video's, STOP LOOKING NOW. The video's show every single level of the game, usually they show just a small piece of the game but not with this one, they spoiled it all.

Jesus. That's exactly what I was afraid of. Like I said before, most overexposed game this gen.

 

[AFreak]

That's how you Market baby.

 

[HomerSimpson-Man]

it sold like crap because story/stroytelling/gameplay/ and level design where bad...by bad i mean shit ...
its a repetetive and boring mess... this game would have worked so well in a sand box version, but its linear design is just gamebreaking, because the player does nothing greater than to run away ALL THE FUCKING TIME... you know linear games like cod4 at least showed something off ... bah, ok sorry i just hate the fact that i spend money on this game...

edit: funny little story: a friend of mine started the game... and after he died like ten times in the tutorial and had to watch it over and over again he broke his controler ... well i think it was funny




R2 was the same, i could speedrun trough levels because i saw then being played... it was awfull...

Running all the time, you mean the parkour free running platformer called Mirror's Edge is mostly about running?!

I'll be damned!!

 

[andycapps]

Jesus. That's exactly what I was afraid of. Like I said before, most overexposed game this gen.

That's why I've been trying to ignore as much as possible of pictures and videos posted in this thread and the previous one. It's a good thing no pictures will load at my work, afterall! :lol

 

[Buttchin]

R2 was the same, i could speedrun trough levels because i saw then being played... it was awfull...

care to elaborate im confused

 

[Kittonwy]

That's why I've been trying to ignore as much as possible of pictures and videos posted in this thread and the previous one. It's a good thing no pictures will load at my work, afterall! :lol

I think the advantage Killzone 2 has is that the AI is great, so scenarios play out a little differently each time.

 

[deepbrown]

£289?

Yes?

 

[McLovin]

Oh and guys, if you were like me and watched every single video out there (on gamersyde/gametrailers etc), you made a HUGE mistake :/

Yep, I said it. But for those who haven't seen many video's, STOP LOOKING NOW. The video's show every single level of the game, usually they show just a small piece of the game but not with this one, they spoiled it all.

FUCK! Ahh.. it will be ok ;_;

 

[h3ro]

Dang Alba was banned. I keep F5'ing his site though....

 

[belvedere]

So are the bots fun or challenging to play in offline multi?

 

[careksims]

Haha at the Valentine's pictures.

It's a good thing I haven't watched all the vids or pics. I haven't seen any of the multiplayer vids at all or the intro. Almost going to start out fresh

Even after playing the demo more than 10 times, I'm still at awe with it.

Street Fighter next week and KZ2 the following week. I can wait for it. They won't have the servers up before that.

 

[Totobeni]

I think this will help the new guys ( it was posted in the old Wollan's thread IIRC )

Recommended Bravia settings for Killzone 2 from GG themselves

Picture Mode *Custom*
Backlight *8*
Contrast *85*
Brightness *55*
Colour *50*
Colour *Neutral*
Sharpness *15*

Noise reduction *off*



Taken from a 46"

From our Art Director and Lighting guys

did anyone tried this with the demo ?

 

[matticus]

no it does not, whatsoever.

Yeah... makes me want to hurl

 

[Arnie]

Well we'll see after a few weeks who sticks around, most people don't keep turning up to these things after the first or second game. And if we have a problem where too many people want to play regularly, we can split them up or form separate teams within the 1 clan.

TTP and Wollan should be officers along side myself. If we for example have 32 regulars we could form two teams. Dunpeal + 1 officer on one team + 14 others and the other two officers running a second team with the other 14. And we can set up games for each team individually.

But we'll see what happens.

That sounds like a good idea.

Btw, is there anyone who has the game who can spill where they got it from?

 

[filopilo]

sharpness 15 seems an awfull lot....

 

[KZObsessed]

Dang Alba was banned. I keep F5'ing his site though....

His theme is pretty much finished. He's just fixing/changing one icon and then he's uploading it. Should be up in a few hours.