Holy shit, how did I not know this was being released on PC? Will buy.
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Shadow Warrior 2 |OT| A ninja knows no fear
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Holy shit, how did I not know this was being released on PC? Will buy.
Conkerkid11
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Considering this game plays more like Diablo than the linear chapter-based game the first one was, I doubt it.
I think there's just a bunch of difficulty modifiers, and better loot as compensation.
Sadly, there was no preload for this game.
Snacks the sober sea lion
Member
How bullet spongey are the enemies compared to the first game?
Conkerkid11
Member
Playing on hard difficulty, it's not bad, though I never had any complaints about enemies in the first game either, considering you can dodge most attacks.
Just don't turn it off of single-player unless you're actually playing with other people. Setting it at anything other than single-player substantially raises the difficulty, regardless of whether or not other players are in your lobby.
Oh
Coriolanus
Banned
So far? Less. At least playing solo. No asshat shield enemies yet.
Plus they give you the shotgun way earlier.
But it's only like 15GB, so it's not THAT big of a deal.
Dude there are plenty of people with really shitty sub 5mbps internet in many developed countries. It is pretty shitty that they won't be able to play on launch day potentially because no preload.
bah but its been minutes though and I still cannot play.
InsaneTiger
Member
So it's like Borderlands now? How weird.
Conkerkid11
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Laurentius
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DreadfulOmen
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Damn man, some of these gifs look crazy.
TheSpoiler
Member
Game is fun. Dunno how I feel about looking at a menu with a faster paced game like this though.
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Deleted member 325805
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I'd be interested to hear opinions from people who weren't massively into SW1 but are playing SW2.
Coriolanus
Banned
eh...sorta. The weapons are unique, a la dark souls. You get gems/cash to customize/upgrade/buy your gear. It certainly doesn't appear to be anywhere near as generic as the BL's as far as gameplay is concerned.
Allnamestakenlol
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How is level variety? So far all I've seen is generic Chinatown and futuristic Chinatown.
AHA-Lambda
Member
Just curious, is there any word on length or number of chapters/levels?
Looking at your user pic you might get a good chuckle in if you play/seen some gameplay.
I think Attack of the Fanboy said it was about 12 hours long. Shorter than the first game for sure. But that's honestly OK.
RoboticWater
Banned
Am I missing something or are the transitions between areas completely unceremonious. One moment I'm in the tutorial zone, and next (after a non-transitional loading screen) I'm at the
(I'm not sure if that deserves a spoiler tag considering it's literally the second zone, but better safe). It's even worse between
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Yakuza base
the Yakuza base and Zilla's lab; I though I missed a whole cutscene involving time portals or something.
Laurentius
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Krappadizzle
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A fellow Gaffer bought it for me! So excited to jump on and play co-op with him. Game looks so fun.
Karak
Member
...well they explained it anyway so why would it bother folks? Are we...asking for huge number of insanely short cutscenes and such now?
Also longer than 12 hours for me. Obviously much of that is tied into the difficulty you choose and if your solo, coop and how many
RoboticWater
Banned
Presumably, there's a unobtrusive middle ground between "huge cutscenes and such now" and abruptly dropping the player in a
futuristic Neo-Tokyo with laser swords
Honestly though, I'm not asking for long exposition
(I actually kinda like the single "it's the future; deal with it" line Wang uses as justification. It's hammy, but it works)
It's simply confusing to to just spawn into
a randomly futuristic setting
Laurentius
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What a well nuanced response.
OT: is anyone getting desync in coop? Friend I'm playing with says it's pretty bad.
7DollarHagane
Banned
Torn between dq builders and this..
KatamariOnTheRocks
Member
I've been torn back and forth all day with so much awesome stuff to play between this, PSVR, Duke 3d 20th Anniversary, and new Battleborn/Paladins content it's been a long time since this much awesome content was released in such a short time span
My gut says to go with the Wang though, even with all that great stuff I listed I'm finding myself coming back to SW2 the most
What we really need now is a new Duke Nukem game that lives up to the franchise the way that the new SW and Doom games have.The photo mode is seriously awesome.
Low res goodness for my wallpaper.
Whoa, it has a photo mode that instantly turns a photo into a background for an old LucasArts game? That's awesome.
Yeah you can pixelate any image, you can also frame forward while in photo mode as well, so say there's a storm, you can step through the shot until you see lightning etc.
Best photo mode implementation I've ever seen in a game.
Comfort Jones
Banned
As someone who really enjoyed Doom (2016) but wished there was more variety to the encounters, how does this hold up in comparison?
Conkerkid11
Member
Story is pretty disappointing. I've just kind of started ignoring that aspect of the game.
Borderlands nailed this. Shadow Warrior needs to either get a good story, or let it take the backseat. Right now it's a bad story that is far too prominent.
It's just not intuitive at all. I'm finding myself basically removing all the slots from a weapon, then re-equiping the best ones that I have available.
Would be better off getting rid of the slots, and just having weapon drops with different stats and bonuses.
Borderlands nailed this. Shadow Warrior needs to either get a good story, or let it take the backseat. Right now it's a bad story that is far too prominent.
I'm not a fan of the loot system. I'm spending too much time paused in between fights, trying to figure out what the best slots to throw on everything are.
It's just not intuitive at all. I'm finding myself basically removing all the slots from a weapon, then re-equiping the best ones that I have available.
Would be better off getting rid of the slots, and just having weapon drops with different stats and bonuses.
Same, and some weapons like the pistols kinda feel clunky on purpose ( have to upgrade it to make it better ).
Conkerkid11
Member
I'm still using starter pistol and starter shotgun because the one pistol upgrade they did give me was significantly worse, and I haven't even had any shotgun drops.
Aw man, I totally forgot about this game.
Heard them talking about Stan Bush making new music just for this game in the Giant Bomb QuickLook? That's crazy, but it might have to wait until next month until I can play it.
I never beat the first game. It really felt like a drag(on) later on in the game. I guess I have time to do that now. I just need to be able to pull myself away from the Gears series now.
edit: Ah! Wow, that's got that certain sound to the song...
Heard them talking about Stan Bush making new music just for this game in the Giant Bomb QuickLook? That's crazy, but it might have to wait until next month until I can play it.
I never beat the first game. It really felt like a drag(on) later on in the game. I guess I have time to do that now. I just need to be able to pull myself away from the Gears series now.
edit: Ah! Wow, that's got that certain sound to the song...
DJ_Lae
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Game is more and more fun to play as weapons get doled out - and they seem to be remarkably varied so far, I hope that part continues.
The only weird aspect is how much different the structure is. If it weren't Wang, it would almost feel like a completely different game.
Been really tempted to skip the pre-mission dialogue bits but haven't caved yet.
The only weird aspect is how much different the structure is. If it weren't Wang, it would almost feel like a completely different game.
Been really tempted to skip the pre-mission dialogue bits but haven't caved yet.
Played 2-3 hours yesterday and I love it. Just what I imagined and expected from this game.
A solid pc version, mostly holding 60fps ultra on GTX970, no stutters or anything. Great array of settings, looks good overall, although I wouldn't recommend getting very close to npcs, some of them are just super low-poly. Accidentally entered photo mode (didnt' know it had one) and spent 10 minutes trying to set up a shot - it has an abundance of settings to play with.
I usually like fps-rpg hybrids, so I very much enjoy getting loot, upgrades, skills. There's a lot of them, but it didn't feel that they overshadow gameplay. The game actually showers you with new weapons and upgrades faster than you can try them out and so far it helps keeping gameplay fresh.
Some people worried that the semi-open procedurally generated world will ruin the design, but it's definitely not the case. Everything feels natural, easy to navigate and makes the gameplay better, which brings me to the best part so far - movement.
Movement is just fantastic. The game gives you dash and double jump from the start and it's so natural and fluent that you can traverse where you want without thinking about it. At the start of the game I wanted to try if I can jump off the cliff from the map to see if I can kill myself or there's an invisible wall - there's no wall and when I was already falling I realised I didn't want to die, so I turned around double jumped mid-air, dashed and grabbed the ledge to pull myself back in. I did it so instinctively I didn't even think what to press, and this was at the beginning when I haven't had time to get used to controls. I stopped after that to think if I did that myself or the game automatically did that for me. Also, the best way to run around is jump-dash-jump: second jump preserves your momentum, it's like super dash.
Open levels mean that there's very little invisible walls and it opens so many possibilities both for combat and for exploring levels. A lot of times 'gps' on minimap shows a way around, but I can see that I can jump on some rocks or rooftops and cut corners and that usually works. There's obvious paths and roads, but the game doesn't break if you just brute-force your way wherever you want.
What I don't like is some stuff with menus. You need to exit to main menu to quit the game. I had to click everything and press every button to learn how to upgrade skills -you need to press a small diamond under the skill, but mouse prompt says that you need to double click left mouse button. I spent 15 minutes running around lost in hub area at start because I couldn't figure out how to talk to Smith - I thought one of the dialog options was not the option but what he's saying. I was sure that my only reply is "I'll come back later". Dialog options are not highlighted when you mouse over and you need to click on small icon next to dialog option, not the text itself, so unintuitive.
Hopefully the game will continue to be great.
A solid pc version, mostly holding 60fps ultra on GTX970, no stutters or anything. Great array of settings, looks good overall, although I wouldn't recommend getting very close to npcs, some of them are just super low-poly. Accidentally entered photo mode (didnt' know it had one) and spent 10 minutes trying to set up a shot - it has an abundance of settings to play with.
I usually like fps-rpg hybrids, so I very much enjoy getting loot, upgrades, skills. There's a lot of them, but it didn't feel that they overshadow gameplay. The game actually showers you with new weapons and upgrades faster than you can try them out and so far it helps keeping gameplay fresh.
Some people worried that the semi-open procedurally generated world will ruin the design, but it's definitely not the case. Everything feels natural, easy to navigate and makes the gameplay better, which brings me to the best part so far - movement.
Movement is just fantastic. The game gives you dash and double jump from the start and it's so natural and fluent that you can traverse where you want without thinking about it. At the start of the game I wanted to try if I can jump off the cliff from the map to see if I can kill myself or there's an invisible wall - there's no wall and when I was already falling I realised I didn't want to die, so I turned around double jumped mid-air, dashed and grabbed the ledge to pull myself back in. I did it so instinctively I didn't even think what to press, and this was at the beginning when I haven't had time to get used to controls. I stopped after that to think if I did that myself or the game automatically did that for me. Also, the best way to run around is jump-dash-jump: second jump preserves your momentum, it's like super dash.
Open levels mean that there's very little invisible walls and it opens so many possibilities both for combat and for exploring levels. A lot of times 'gps' on minimap shows a way around, but I can see that I can jump on some rocks or rooftops and cut corners and that usually works. There's obvious paths and roads, but the game doesn't break if you just brute-force your way wherever you want.
What I don't like is some stuff with menus. You need to exit to main menu to quit the game. I had to click everything and press every button to learn how to upgrade skills -you need to press a small diamond under the skill, but mouse prompt says that you need to double click left mouse button. I spent 15 minutes running around lost in hub area at start because I couldn't figure out how to talk to Smith - I thought one of the dialog options was not the option but what he's saying. I was sure that my only reply is "I'll come back later". Dialog options are not highlighted when you mouse over and you need to click on small icon next to dialog option, not the text itself, so unintuitive.
Hopefully the game will continue to be great.
AHA-Lambda
Member
That's fine with me, the first game got too long in the tooth anyway.