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LTTP: Binary Domain

thepotatoman said:
Wait you mean
There are multiple endings? Big Bo didn't have to die? Why did I do this too you, Big Bo! I'm so sorry you happened to be the only character I could test the mic controls with at the beginning of the game. I'll never forgive myself.
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If you have everyone's trust level filled to three bars,
Bo doesn't die and Cain comes back
. With that in mind you have to keep in mind which characters will spend with you long, etc.
 
PepsimanVsJoe said:
One of the finest third-person shooters ever made.

1. Vanquish
2. Binary Domain
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Wow, it's comments like this that are making me consider finally checking BD out.

I worked with Sega for a while, saw it back in the very early stages and er...
Then it came close to release and I saw all the rabid comments about how a Japanese team was trying to make a game that "appealed to the west" and all this nonsense, and I said NOPE.

Now it's cheapened up, and I think if I don't take it too seriously then I could well enjoy it as many of you have been. I absolutely loved Vanquish, but that had a sublime cool factor that took the edge off the thick layering of cheese.
BD just looks like a 6-cheese pizza with extra cheese. Is this actually a good thing?
 
Finished the game yesterday and I love it minute of it. Waiting for some friends to pick it up and give it a second playtrough. Sad sequel is never goingt to happen :(

Overlooked and underrated game.
 
Just finished it last night. I don't know if I'd say it's better than Gears of War, but there are certain things it does better (ie. characters, story, writing, bosses). Gears beats in the graphics and overall mechanics categories imo. That said, slowly dismantling robots (of which there is a variety of) has a unique satisfaction to it.

What kept me coming back was the characters and story. I found myself marathoning the last 5 hours or so just to see what was going to happen. It takes about an hour or two to really click but once you start meeting up with other squad mates it starts to come together and the story really kicks in. The characters actually feel like real people and are pretty interesting on their own
ok Rachel wasn't that interesting but 5 out of 6 isn't bad
and man the bosses are really awesome
specifically the highway transformer holy crap!
. My only real gripe with the game is that my AI team were jumping in to my line of fire more than I've ever seen in any other game. It wouldn't be so bad if that didn't lower their trust in you. Besides that though they were able to take care of themselves and even save me every once in a while.

So yeah. I had a great time with it. I definitely recommend it if you're at all interested in the genre.
 
I finished this game up last week, beat it within 3 days. Which is uncommon for me and my schedule.

Can say that I truly prefer this game to Gears of War in almost every way.
 
That
giant robotic spider you face with the laser targeting and missles
was my favorite boss in the game, and possibly the best boss battle I've encountered this generation.
I could replay that part over and over again.
 
Finally started this and it has been pretty awesome so far.
I'm at the
Amada building (been thrown in the trash and quitted, since i was tired)
.
Though god fucking damnit i've been stuck with the two characters i DIDN'T want to get with (
Faye and Cain
) while my two favorites (
Boateng and Rachel) have disappeared
.. i hate games that
force you with a certain party, especially for half the fucking game
. :\
I don't know how much gametime i have left, but this bummed me pretty hard, and the only real complaint i have so far.

Also the
love scene between Faye and Dan
was so out of place in my game, lol,
they barely got along and knew each other
.
 
Will get this some time soon.

Word of mouth should be stronger on this.

The same guy who wrote the story to Dead Space 1, is responsible for Binary Domain aswell. He should get more writing gigs on story manuscripts for games.
 
Ookami-kun said:
Wut? Cain is awesome, especially compared to Rachel.
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First of all, i don't trust them scrap heads.
Second of all, during the boss fight with
the Robo-Gorilla, in the Resistance hideout
, he was absolutely useless and kept busting my balls, telling me i had to "try a little harder", while he kept hiding, doing shit.
Rachel on the other hand is the most professional character.
Charlie could've been alright, if it wasn't constantly reminding me how he is the boss around, guy has inferiority complex.

Bo + Rachel is the best team, though if i had to replace Bo i would probably replace it with Cain, yeah..
 
Yeah but that makes Rachel bland :P

And I dunno, in my team it was always Faye complaining about being attacked hahahaha
 
Gameplay is more interesting that all of the Gears franchise? You've got to be fucking kidding me OP.

Just beat this game 4 or 5 days and it plays like a poor man's Gears. It was fun, but there was absolutely nothing in the gameplay that took me by surprise or stood out to me.
 
I'm going to need to tweak the settings a bit on the PC version. The framerate varies wildly from 60 FPS when nothing's happening to sub-30 when all hell breaks loose. I've even seen it dip under 20 on occasion.

Should I turn Vsync on or off? What about shadows? I'm currently running it at 1600X1080 at 40 Hz, if that helps. I'm running this Dell notebook with Radeon 7730M graphics and an i5.

http://m.dell.com/mt/www.dell.com/u...redir=true&un_jtt_v_page=TechSpec&#un_details
 
Also, while I'm at it, I want to configure my game pad for this game. I'n running a Dual Shock 3 through the MotionInJoy drivers. What's the recommended layout?
 
So I gave in when it was $10 on Amazon and picked up the Steam version.

I started playing it today.

Now, let's just move past the part where it's one of the worst PC ports I've played in a while (I thought Japan fixed their shitty PC ports sometime around Resident Evil 4 simply forgetting to include mouse support), and it feels like my mouse is sitting atop an analog stick. Jesus titty-fucking christ.

So I was enjoying it despite its god awful mouse issues up until around Chapter 4 and it seemed like the awesome moments to boring moments ratio just went to shit. Sometime during the second gorilla fight, I simply realized that I'd been bored for an hour and promptly turned the game off.

Now, I almost never quit playing games mid-way through, but this shit is just monotonous. Does it get any better or can I safely uninstall it and forget about it? I got five or so decent hours of it, so my ten bucks was well spent, but I can't seem to force myself to be interested in loading it back up. Not to mention, I've got several other shooters from the Steam sale to check out, and I'm willing to bet they have better PC-centric options, if not are outright better games.

What do, GAF?
 
The second gorilla fight is by far the low point of the entire game. Everything after that is kinda really amazing, so you're picking a bad spot to leave off at.
 
That fight was simply the point at which I realized I wasn't having any fun, though. The latter half of Chapter 3 and pretty much all of 4 (well, up until that second gorilla fight, at least) were boring as shit. The entire train sequence, the endless waves upon waves of dudes that they throw at you while either trying to move up or waiting till you get prompted to move up, and the offensively bad rail sequences, oh GOD the rail sequences. I'm getting real sick of fucking rail shooting rearing it's dumb ugly head in every modern shooter, but I can at least appreciate it when it's done well, but this shit? No. This, along with the rail sequences in Spec Ops, Max Payne 3, and those dumb fucking moments in GRFS where you're escorting a VIP can all fuck clean off. Why do developers keep putting this shit in their games? Anyways, sorry for that tangent. The moment to moment shooting in this game simply isn't good enough to keep me interested in its seemingly very basic and mundane stop and pop formula.

Vanquish, for instance, while very much a cover-based-ass cover based shooter, at least had enough original game quirks and ideas to keep everything fresh. It only ever felt like a dumb Gears clone if I let myself play it like Gears, but when I was rocketing around and doing ridiculous shit, it was bitchin'. Binary Domain feels like a game that should have all those crazy ideas and conventions, but simply doesn't, and as a result, it simply feels like a Japanese take on Gears.

Now if you're telling me it's genuinely better after Chapter 4 than it is in that middle 1-2 hours, then maybe I'll reconsider, but I swear, GAF, sometimes it feels like you guys just like something because it's Japanese and hate something else because it's Western. Call my crazy. I mean, the spider boss fight was balls to the wall awesome, and I was way high on the game at that point, but then every boss after that (the flying chopper thing, for instance, and definitely the gorilla) have been pretty bad. Someone else in the thread mentioned the spider being the high point of the game, so it's hard to get excited about the rest of the game knowing I already saw the best it had to offer.
 
I've just beat the game and I seriously think this is in my top 5 of this generation. I got hooked up from start to finish. Such a terrible shame that this won't get a sequel. The mechanics are great, the story is fantastic, the graphics are awesome to my eyes and it was action packed with lots of "oh shit" moments.

This game literally took me by surprise.

I showed the game to a friend that normally doesn't give a crap about shooters but even him thought it was awesome.
 
My roommate saw me playing this and asked what it was saying it "looks awesome." He must see me playing a new game he's never heard of every other day.
 
papersleeves said:
I've just beat the game and I seriously think this is in my top 5 of this generation. I got hooked up from start to finish. Such a terrible shame that this won't get a sequel. The mechanics are great, the story is fantastic, the graphics are awesome to my eyes and it was action packed with lots of "oh shit" moments.

This game literally took me by surprise.

I showed the game to a friend that normally doesn't give a crap about shooters but even him thought it was awesome.
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I am that friend and I just bought it today and I'm at chapter 3.

This game is fucking coke.
 
I found this game to be underwhelming. It was too short, too easy, and the combat never really developed. It felt like a poor man's Vanquish. The story was generic and the levels were bland. The frame rate on PS3 is poor, too. Not bad as a budget title, but not a stand-out game in any respect.
 
I had fun with it, but i wouldn't pay more than 20 euro for it.
Actually piad it 9.99$ on Amazon though, so more than happy with it.
 
Seik said:
Got it used for 30$ and I don't regret a single cent I spent on it.

When its good, the price does not matters.
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Yeah, looking around I might be able to get it cheaper.

So this game has a voice deal but do I don't have to use that right? I don't lose anything by not doing it correct?
 
If you have a gaming PC the game's still 75% off on Get Games Go btw. Registers on Steam.


Grisby said:
Yeah, looking around I might be able to get it cheaper.

So this game has a voice deal but do I don't have to use that right? I don't lose anything by not doing it correct?
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There's potentially some interactions that won't available to you, but I haven't heard of anyone who has actually gotten the voice commands to work reliably. Don't worry about it.
 
Just beat it this morning, 9 hours logged according to Steam.

Minor control issues behind (mid way through the game I just switched to my 360 controller), I absolutely loved it. It was a game that didn't take itself seriously and was very predictable, but it was amazing. Definitely worth the $13 I paid on Steam.
 
For anyone that hasn't played the PC version just turn off SSAO or keep it low. On high it looks so bad. The shadows look like smeared vasline and are so distracting.
 
Playing, having some fun. I like the look of the robots immensely.

How do you know when you reach full trust with someone? Is there a meter in a menu somewhere or something?
 
For around 10 minutes or so I've tried with it, the animation seemed a bit janky, and I remember that is why I put this one on hold while I tried something else.

I also remembered from somewhere that this game has a strong multiplayer flavor in it that got lost if you are playing singleplayer or something? ...maybe I'm mistaking it for something else. How's the game as a strictly single-player experience? Good?
 
vocab said:
same here. This game has issues with ati cards. Minimum framerates plummet to the 40's when shooting robots.
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Yeah, I want to buy this but it runs so poorly on my system. It ran OK a couple of weeks ago when I was running a C2Q9550 with 2 x 250GTS SLI but when I moved onto a C2Q6700 and 2 X 5870 CF everything just goes to shit as soon as debris starts to fly. My CPU might be slightly worse than before but the huge performance difference between the 2 GPUs leads me to believe the game just hates my AMD GPU. I'm lucky I tested the game out otherwise I'd be annoyed at wasting my money.
 
Grisby said:
Playing, having some fun. I like the look of the robots immensely.

How do you know when you reach full trust with someone? Is there a meter in a menu somewhere or something?
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In the menu, next the each character's picture there's a vertical bar that gets filled up (or not) based on their trust.
I never reached the top with anyone though, despite doing pretty good.
 
I'm having a good time. The shooting is tight enough and the weapons feel better then some other Japanese TPS's *cough* Vanquish *cough*. The game is quite a looker in some departments too, I'm impressed by the character models and the way they set up, er, 'set pieces'.

The story is pretty fun too. Fun being part of the Rust crew. The cut-scenes are a bit long but the voice acting is really decent, specially for being from overseas so kudos to the translation team. Isn't this made by the Yakuza team? I can see it even though I've never played those games (I might be dead wrong.)

Also, Dat Spider. I swear it was animated with voodoo magic. Love it.
BIONIC-ARRRMMM!! said:
Tell your mother I loved her.
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SUH-weeeeeettttttt.

I love you Big Boi.
 
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