Rated-Rsuperstar
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That was one of the best moments in the game.
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Star Wars THE FORCE UNLEASHED 2 |OT| You can use TWO lightsabers now
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That was one of the best moments in the game.
BattleMonkey
Member
It was one of the few creative moments in the game even though it was pretty silly.
The whole game felt like it was lacking in any style that the original game had. This made me appreciate TFU1 so much more :lol
The whole game felt like it was lacking in any style that the original game had. This made me appreciate TFU1 so much more :lol
Finally beat TFU1 on Sith Lord difficulty. It was pretty cheap, and sometimes I avoided combat all together by hauling ass to the next checkpoint but it was fun. This had the unfortunate tactic that off screen enemies shoot your ass while you are attacking big ass enemies, which is super cheap on Sith Lord when a sniper shot takes like half of your health. Still had fun.
Also, the Star Destroyer part wasn't half bad since I knew what I was doing from the first time I beat it. LOL That part does have the worst UI analog sticks ever though, you couldn't tell WTF it was trying to tell you to do the first time I played through that bit.
Now my OCD will allow me to play TFU2 in peaceh.
LOL
Also, the Star Destroyer part wasn't half bad since I knew what I was doing from the first time I beat it. LOL That part does have the worst UI analog sticks ever though, you couldn't tell WTF it was trying to tell you to do the first time I played through that bit.
Now my OCD will allow me to play TFU2 in peaceh.
LOL
Rated-Rsuperstar
Member
BattleMonkey said:
I've come on here many a times trashing the first game and while the sequel looks and plays better I prefer the first one too. It just feels like a more complete experience.
This game shows just how far Lucasarts has fallen from the leading publishers this generation.
theignoramus
Member
Jesus. It does look incredible though, even it seems to be lacking in other areas. But a 5 hour experience with no coupon for the inevitable DLC? Bullshit.Phloxy said:
So I'm all the way to
, how far am I? So far I'm having a blast with the game, it'll be a shame that it won't last as long as TFU 1 though.
The super short length could have probably been forgiven if the game was $10-15 bucks less. We'll see just how long the game lasts for me.
Degobah
The super short length could have probably been forgiven if the game was $10-15 bucks less. We'll see just how long the game lasts for me.
BattleMonkey
Member
JohngPR said:
The game goes downhill from there.
Rated-Rsuperstar
Member
When your on the medical frigate did anyone notice a green holocron sitting out in outerspace from one of the windows early in the level?
Also right in the same area I threw a crate out a window and watched it sail through space only for it to hit the end of the level and bounce off the wall. Talk about an illusion breaking moment.
Also right in the same area I threw a crate out a window and watched it sail through space only for it to hit the end of the level and bounce off the wall. Talk about an illusion breaking moment.
BattleMonkey
Member
Rated-Rsuperstar said:
Yea, I think it's a bug in the game as I don't see how you get that stupid thing. There seems to be lot of glitchy shit in the 2nd half of the game, as I mentioned before it's like they gave up halfway through. Had it happen to me and read it happened to many others, but the robot platforms that you jump off of sometimes would just disappear or somehow float away somewhere on the map forcing you to restart the whole section. In the final battle vaders legs would sometimes be going through the floor also, looked awful.
Gamereactor EU has reviewed the game:
http://www.gamereactor.eu/reviews/5...shed+II/?sid=84dfdaca3c7a06abb3cb88b6c901d91a
Graphics: 8
Gameplay: 6
Sound: 8
Lasting appeal: 5
Our score: 5/10
Plus: Kicking ass with the Force is fun, great graphics, Starkiller himself still rocks
Minus: Repetitive, major technical issues, boring level design, same enemies over and over, story is much ado about nothing
http://www.gamereactor.eu/reviews/5...shed+II/?sid=84dfdaca3c7a06abb3cb88b6c901d91a
Graphics: 8
Gameplay: 6
Sound: 8
Lasting appeal: 5
Our score: 5/10
Plus: Kicking ass with the Force is fun, great graphics, Starkiller himself still rocks
Minus: Repetitive, major technical issues, boring level design, same enemies over and over, story is much ado about nothing
SonOfABeep
Banned
Rented it tonight
finished it in one sitting
it's awful.
Story and Gameplay reminded me of a lego force unleashed game, that's how repetitive it was and how nonsense the story was.
The end.
finished it in one sitting
it's awful.
Story and Gameplay reminded me of a lego force unleashed game, that's how repetitive it was and how nonsense the story was.
The end.
Stallion Free
Cock Encumbered
This game uses cheap bullshit to increase difficulty. I don't see anything wrong with decreasing difficulty as getting one-shotted by asshole snipers doesn't improve the experience with the game.iratA said:
I'm shocked by how unbelievably bad parts of this game are. I'm on board with bad story with great production values, but a bad story with poor production is just painful to sit through. I like the prequel trilogy and the story and dialogue are magnitudes worse than those. In talking to a friend last night I said that it's worse than a lifetime movie, but that's giving this game too much credit. I'm confident that 9/10 Star Wars fans regardless of age could write a better story.
The way the dialogue sounds is awful and the mixing of the game is completely broken sometimes. It is really bad.
The pacing is non-existent. It's like they built the set pieces first and then ran out of time and resources so they had to figure out how to patch it all together.
There are multiple sections where you have to run towards the camera. Those sections are always bad. You can get away with one if it is awesome to look at. I don't know how anyone could possibly think that was a good idea to include in the game (unless they originally just had one in the game and added the others because it was a cheap/easy way to extend the length of the game a little).
There is a level where you literally just walk 100 feet and there are no enemies and there are multiple bonuses just sitting in the middle of the walkway. This is followed by a series of completely incomprehensible cut scenes without any interaction. If it was a movie I would have been rewinding it thinking that my DVD player accidentally skipped ahead a chapter.
The character teleports around after cut scenes and QTE's. It completely ruins the cinematic effect. Objects disappear including when you are force-grabbing them.
I admit there's some fun to be had when it works because the combat feels better than the first game, but I can't possibly recommend this game to anyone.
The way the dialogue sounds is awful and the mixing of the game is completely broken sometimes. It is really bad.
The pacing is non-existent. It's like they built the set pieces first and then ran out of time and resources so they had to figure out how to patch it all together.
There are multiple sections where you have to run towards the camera. Those sections are always bad. You can get away with one if it is awesome to look at. I don't know how anyone could possibly think that was a good idea to include in the game (unless they originally just had one in the game and added the others because it was a cheap/easy way to extend the length of the game a little).
There is a level where you literally just walk 100 feet and there are no enemies and there are multiple bonuses just sitting in the middle of the walkway. This is followed by a series of completely incomprehensible cut scenes without any interaction. If it was a movie I would have been rewinding it thinking that my DVD player accidentally skipped ahead a chapter.
The character teleports around after cut scenes and QTE's. It completely ruins the cinematic effect. Objects disappear including when you are force-grabbing them.
I admit there's some fun to be had when it works because the combat feels better than the first game, but I can't possibly recommend this game to anyone.
Rated-Rsuperstar
Member
Stallion Free said:
This game is less cheap then the first one.
I still died by the hands of those snipers.
The difference between a game like this and Uncharted 2 is huge. Naughty Dog just knows how to make navigating the environment natural and connects it to the story appropriately. Then you take the second level of TFU2 where you have to rescue Kota. The whole level felt like a grind and could have been avoided entirely if Starkiller had just landed at the arena. It didn't make sense.
My favorite moment was a Vader QTE during the final battle and when it ended I was teleported off the platform and fell to my death. Yay!
Stallion Free
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True. I rage gave up on the hard difficulty in TFU1. I couldn't even get past the first battle of the Jedi Temple DLC on the hardest difficulty.Rated-Rsuperstar said:
Stallion Free said:
I played it to the level where you have to use the cannon to break a door on hard. Fuck the opening scene of that level (hangar defense).
Fuck it hard. The last wave has snipers AND an AT-ST that can oneshot you (you have to drudge through all three waves if you die AND you get an unscippable minicutscene at the start and between waves. Oh and the enemies that survived from previous waves will seek cover during this cutscene while you're stunned). And of course the game bugs out at the cannons so I can't interact with the battery. Gave up and beat the rest of it on medium and didn't die once while I was dying to cheap shit all the time before on hard.
Fucking awful game design.
Are both x360/ps3 versions equal?
I'm asking cus i've been playing this on ps3 and there are some damn annoying bugs,glitches. I had the first Tfu on x360 and it ran a little bit better. Just curious to know if i made a mistake going with ps3 version this time.
I finished all ten challenges to get the rest of the unlockables,trophies, 9 gold and 1 platinum.
For a game as short as this one they should have atleast had 20 challenges.
I'm asking cus i've been playing this on ps3 and there are some damn annoying bugs,glitches. I had the first Tfu on x360 and it ran a little bit better. Just curious to know if i made a mistake going with ps3 version this time.
iratA said:
I finished all ten challenges to get the rest of the unlockables,trophies, 9 gold and 1 platinum.
For a game as short as this one they should have atleast had 20 challenges.
BattleMonkey
Member
First game had lot of issues with being able to get murdered while on the floor. There is no quick recovery move so your character gets his ass up slow with a delay before you get control of him as he gets up too. The enemies in areas could just gang rape you as you try to get back up. Same happens in some parts in 2 but not as much.
Anyways back to the original game, it just had much more care put into it. The boss fights in 2 are by the numbers repetitive tasks, while in 1 they were actual fights. You could time various force powers to use in fights and it would work, you had to actually fight the bosses. With 2 you are mostly just repeating tasks in scripted sequences till the boss dies. The lightsaber battles in 1 also would randomly trigger scripted lightsaber sequences that looked pretty neat and added flair to the battles instead of just random out of synch blocks and slashes. The QTE finishes were also much more unique.
TFU2's level design is pretty awful, many times in the frigate I thought I accidentally backtracked as they copy pasted so much.
And story bullshit:
Anyways back to the original game, it just had much more care put into it. The boss fights in 2 are by the numbers repetitive tasks, while in 1 they were actual fights. You could time various force powers to use in fights and it would work, you had to actually fight the bosses. With 2 you are mostly just repeating tasks in scripted sequences till the boss dies. The lightsaber battles in 1 also would randomly trigger scripted lightsaber sequences that looked pretty neat and added flair to the battles instead of just random out of synch blocks and slashes. The QTE finishes were also much more unique.
TFU2's level design is pretty awful, many times in the frigate I thought I accidentally backtracked as they copy pasted so much.
And story bullshit:
- Dark Side Ending could have fixed so much and I think they really should have played up the clone angle much more with screwing with your mind. Was Starkiller always a clone, how many times has he been cloned, was he cloned in the first game after dying by vaders hand, etc.
- Juno magically coming back to life was so so lame. I mean I could have seen some kind of force healing nosense tried, but Juno immediatly just wakes up when Starkiller walks over.
- How did the rebel fleet win in the light side ending? They were completely outmatched and had no chance of winning that, and the dialogue in the game made it seem that the rebels were not doing good, but magically at end all the Star Destroyers were gone. Ironically if you choose the dark side ending, the rebel fleet is all destroyed and the Imperial fleet is fine. Your decision to spare Vader apparently changes the space battle :lol . Course the number of ships involved doesn't even seem to match up since you see it jump in and the wreckage later on... and then when it ends theres even more ships. The rebels apparently jumped in like 20 more corvettes or something.
- Juno magically coming back to life was so so lame. I mean I could have seen some kind of force healing nosense tried, but Juno immediatly just wakes up when Starkiller walks over.
- How did the rebel fleet win in the light side ending? They were completely outmatched and had no chance of winning that, and the dialogue in the game made it seem that the rebels were not doing good, but magically at end all the Star Destroyers were gone. Ironically if you choose the dark side ending, the rebel fleet is all destroyed and the Imperial fleet is fine. Your decision to spare Vader apparently changes the space battle :lol . Course the number of ships involved doesn't even seem to match up since you see it jump in and the wreckage later on... and then when it ends theres even more ships. The rebels apparently jumped in like 20 more corvettes or something.
Rated-Rsuperstar
Member
The canon ending of the game would have been much more interesting if they had indeed introduced a evil starkiller at the end. Starkiller is suppose to be this savior for the alliance but what would happen if there is an evil version of himself out there. Would the alliance still trust him?
badcrumble
Member
It's too bad to hear that the enemy design is still awful - the moveset and controls seemed VASTLY improved in the demo, but if the enemies and levels aren't improved to match it then there's no point.
BattleMonkey
Member
Rated-Rsuperstar said:
It would have gone better with the opening crawl also as it talks of Vaders secret plans vaguely.
badcrumble said:
Would say the enemies are worse this time around. There was much more variety and unique gameplay involving the different enemies in the first game. This one just reuses the same shit over and over, and you beat it in the same way each time.
Rated-Rsuperstar
Member
BattleMonkey said:
Do we even know what Vader's plans are anymore? Is it still to kill the emperor? You'd think the hundreds of Starkiller clones he has sitting around on Kamino would be enough to take out the emperor even if they are all messed up.
BattleMonkey
Member
S1kkZ said:
They said the same for the first game, didn't stop DLC and a complete package version to come out later.
Rated-Rsuperstar said:
Well first game the whole apprentice secret shit was BS apparently, so guess he stopped trying to overthrow him... at least for that week, he seems to constantly jump back and forth with that shit. He was gonna overthrow Palpie with Padme, but not with uber Jedi side kicks :lol
Rated-Rsuperstar said:
You do know that there is a evil perfect clone Starkiller right? In the last cinematic you unlock Vader told the evil Starkiller that he must only act if needed. He acts in the evil ending because Starkiller was going to kill Vader, he doesn't act in the lightside ending but he's still there. Is probably being set up for being the main bad-guy for Tfu3, if there was gonna be one.
BattleMonkey said:
Heavily implied that he had been a clone ever since Vader betrayed and killed him in front of Sidious in part 1.
Some proof from the game and novel. Starkiller's force signature reads differently. Waking up 6 months after Starkiller notes that all his scars(which he had a lot of training under Vader for so long) are gone. When you escape that ship, there's a dialogue from a stormtrooper saying that the test subject(you) got out.
In the tfu2 there's a specific cinematic you unlock that shows Vader showing evil Starkiller the body of the original Starkiller(wearing the same close,training gear, as when he was killed.) suspended in air.
Some proof from the game and novel. Starkiller's force signature reads differently. Waking up 6 months after Starkiller notes that all his scars(which he had a lot of training under Vader for so long) are gone. When you escape that ship, there's a dialogue from a stormtrooper saying that the test subject(you) got out.
In the tfu2 there's a specific cinematic you unlock that shows Vader showing evil Starkiller the body of the original Starkiller(wearing the same close,training gear, as when he was killed.) suspended in air.
Again for those that have the x360 version, is it also filled with glitches? I'm thinking about trading my ps3 copy for the 360 version.
BattleMonkey
Member
DihcarEM said:
I know, that's why I mentioned it, but I would have liked to see them actually go into this more instead of just leaving it the background. The story needed more actual content as it played out in a way to straight forward manner and just seemed all around bad. The novelization had to pad it so much with internal dialogue and such.
Rated-Rsuperstar
Member
DihcarEM said:
I saw the dark side ending.
But does the evil one exist in the canon ending? There's nothing there that says he does. I hate the fact that I have to wait for another sequel to know if that's where their taking the story.
BattleMonkey
Member
Modding section on the pc version on lucasarts forum has dudes who found mention of Endor level dlc already :lol
Rated-Rsuperstar said:
Yeah, like i said Vader tells him that this will be his final test and that he needs to remain in the shadows, only act if it goes wrong. Which in the darkside ending it does so evil junior steps in. You can get all this info and more from the last cinematics you have to unlock, the last 4 or so are about the evil clone.
BattleMonkey
Member
DihcarEM said:
Again, where and how do you unlock these cinematics. Don't see anything anywhere on them or how to unlock and secret cinematics.
WickedLaharl
Member
- terrible story with damn near no effort put into it whatsoever
- shit level design
- 3 levels (4 if you count dagobah, but why would you?) WTF!? :lol
- enemy variety blows
- pathetically short
- whiny ass protagonist
- quick time events
+ combat was fun and seemed improved over the first one.
i'm really glad i didn't buy it!
if only they could have taken the improved combat and married it to better level design, enemy encounters, and a decent story. then maybe TFU2 wouldn't have been so terrible.
- shit level design
- 3 levels (4 if you count dagobah, but why would you?) WTF!? :lol
- enemy variety blows
- pathetically short
- whiny ass protagonist
- quick time events
+ combat was fun and seemed improved over the first one.
i'm really glad i didn't buy it!
if only they could have taken the improved combat and married it to better level design, enemy encounters, and a decent story. then maybe TFU2 wouldn't have been so terrible.
SonOfABeep
Banned
iratA said:
Started on hard, like the other guy said, the bullshit scout trooper snipers made me put it to medium. Didn't have too many problems other than the crappy platforming.
The snipers really are stupid sometimes especially if they are put in groups. They have such extreme accuracy on you unless you're dashing. Pretty much bones you over if you get caught in a QTE or animation while fighting a different enemy.
Besides, my tag was in relation to not enjoying Demon's Souls because of the difficulty.. this game is like kirby epic yarn in comparison :lol
The ONLY reason I could see them doing it is if the animations were sampled at a low framerate or something. I don't see that being the case here, of course, but we've seen it before. Remember Halo PC? Everything animated at 30 fps, but the framerate could go much higher (smooth screen panning mixed with 30 fps animation).onken said:
SonOfABeep
Banned
dark10x said:
Everything about this game was a rushed, unfinished cash in. Why should the PC version be any different?
for those that don't want to spoil the DLC levels but do want early access to the other stuff, if you have the PC version you can unlock the DLC challenges, costumes and crystals
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=21I9MPPC
add those 3 xml files to pak2.lp using winrar in the folder \Game\Disc\Runtime
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=21I9MPPC
add those 3 xml files to pak2.lp using winrar in the folder \Game\Disc\Runtime
edgefusion
Member
I was super excited about this game, being a huge Sam Witwer fan, but all the reports of it only lasting 5 hours are really putting me off. I don't want to lay down £40 for 5 hours of entertainment even if Sam Witwer is the hottest thing alive.