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The Giant Bomb Quick Look Thread 2
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Haunted
Member
Ryan was quickly overwhelmed, so it seems balanced for 4 players vs the director.
The Dutch Slayer
Member
Just watched the NintendoLand QL, looks great for about a month great that its a pack in.
Now watching ZombiU and saving NSMBU for lunch time,
Now watching ZombiU and saving NSMBU for lunch time,
ZombiU looks surprisingly good, I don't see the point of the corpse run as enemies don't respawn, but it looks pretty tense. The inventory management looks good, although the other uses of the uPad look moronic. I hate that Patrick defended the clunky controls as a positive in the context of the players are meant to be incompetent.
Coolest thing in there though, King of Zombies. Someone needs to make a zombie RTS, right now.
ZombiU is not for me, I don't find Dead Island or Demon's Souls appealing at all really, but I'm glad there is a good looking, legitimate game at launch for the system.
Next up, NintendoLand...
Coolest thing in there though, King of Zombies. Someone needs to make a zombie RTS, right now.
ZombiU is not for me, I don't find Dead Island or Demon's Souls appealing at all really, but I'm glad there is a good looking, legitimate game at launch for the system.
Next up, NintendoLand...
Keyser Soze
Member
It does for me.
Just go to the page and look at the time it displays for you at "Coming up on Giant Bomb". If you are too lazy then in about 7 hours and 41 minutes.
Haunted
Member
If you're logged in, it shows your local time.
Shows the live stream going live at 8 PM for me (7 hours 40 minutes from this post).
NintendoLand looks pretty fun. It's nothing I'd ever buy, because it seems like the kind of thing you and three friends would mess around with for an hour or so, but it all seems very accessible and family friendly, it's impressive.
And it is hella pretty. I don't care about this game, but any doubt that Super Mario Universe isn't going to put a rise in even the most cynical of Levi's is dead, Nintendo are amazing.
And it is hella pretty. I don't care about this game, but any doubt that Super Mario Universe isn't going to put a rise in even the most cynical of Levi's is dead, Nintendo are amazing.
Wait what, brads leaving??!!!!
Even if he leaves we still have Jeff "Brad Shoemaker At Your Service" Gerstmann.
(I need to stop listening to the 8/7 Bombcast)
Im all kinds of sad that i wont be able to take advantage of the vs games, that mario chase looks alot of fun.
Is Brad leaving?
Phonomezer
Banned
Fun QL.
Damo Yoshi
Member
Yes it is. Yes it is...
The one thing I do love about Nintendo Land is how artistically experimental it is. Nintendo does seem to have a genuine idea of how to utilise their technology and retain their experimental enthusiasm which, at least, suggests that Nintendo's transition to HD isn't plagued with the issues that were endemic with so many other Japanese companies.
... except NSBU's foreground I guess...
Overall, YOSHI'S ISLAND PLEASE. I beg of you.
Why would you post that?
On topic, I agree that the artstyle of Nintendoland really makes it pop, and just further proves how integral a creative and strong-visioned artstyle beats technical power any day (though ideally you want both). Really anticipating what Nintendo can do now that they are finally in the HD era.
That really isn't the point of quicklooks.
hahahahah
You just don't get it, man. They're intentionally playing like shit. Isn't it funny how they just hold right and die over and over?
Check the website. The times on the schedule will be for your time zone.
That's not an excuse though. They just.. Run. I guess :
A: That's the "fun of it", to just mindlessly run.
B: They suck at playing as a team
C: They suck at the game
XANDER CAGE
Member
I'd honestly much rather watch them goof off/dick each other in Mario than pretend there's some grand strategy to the whole affair.
wow 6 more hours damn. I thought they were doing it early.
You really expected organised co-op with 4 players? That's ridiculous. But more importantly...did you just use le unironically?
I come to Giant Bomb for pro Mario strats.
If that's their intent, sure. I'm okay with that. Me on the other hand would just put the controller down, get a beer and look at my twitter feed on my phone. It's just stressfull and not fun.
They're talking about the game and whatever else comes to mind while playing. Quicklooks have never been about playing great or showing off their skills. The name of the feature does not even imply that.
Foliorum Viridum
Banned
Worst argument for most horror games ever. "Resi and Silent Hill control like shit to up the tension, mannn"
No, they control like shit because they were incapable of making a good control scheme and it's just frustrating for the player.
It doesn't look as bad as the GS review suggests, at least. Keeping my pre-order, I think.
Broder Salsa
Banned
For the first silent hill I agree the controls were shit because of incompetence. But Silent hill 2-4 still had tank controls but were vastly improved and people kept on complaining, the heavy controls weren't unresponsive they were just clearly not meant to be super quick. I would take that kind of controls over anything horror games has done since.
To be fair, those games had the controls they did because of the fixed perspective of the camera. Perhaps a poor solution, but after a little time with RE's tank controls they felt just fine to me.
I think Zombi U will be pretty divisive when it comes to the tablet stuff. Some people might find it exciting and immersive and others might just immediately think they wouldn't have any problems if the same actions were just mapped to buttons.
Foliorum Viridum
Banned
I think there's usually a compromise with horror games where you have to put up with bad controls because they don't want the player to have too much freedom and as a result they just have a crap control system that feels bad.
You should be able to restrict the player's movements but still make it feel satisfying - SH 2/3/4 failed to do that, for me.
DayZ is a pretty good example of a game where the controls are great and you're still limited in what you can do.
In a first person game there's no excuse for bad controls to me. Condemned did it perfectly.
You should be able to restrict the player's movements but still make it feel satisfying - SH 2/3/4 failed to do that, for me.
DayZ is a pretty good example of a game where the controls are great and you're still limited in what you can do.
In a first person game there's no excuse for bad controls to me. Condemned did it perfectly.
Felix Lighter
Member
They play antagonistic NSMB. They aren't running right mindlessly, they are running right looking for ways to fuck over the other players.
grimshawish
Banned
Am surprised how good Nintendo Land looks.
I understand why Mario can't have online but wish some of Nintendo Land had some, should be 100% possible with most of those online modes. Feels like the producers were stubborn about any sort of lag effect in their game.
Oh well. Still to decide. ZombiU reviews should be a good read at least.
Felix Lighter
Member
There are some interesting ideas in ZombiU. There's some ambition there. It's hard to tell how well it was all implemented based on the quick look but Patrick seemed to be enjoying it.
And Nintendoland like something I would play like once or twice. At this point I am only interested in ZombiU.
Wuthering_Heights
Banned
Yeah, not too impressed or interested now after watching the quick look. No Pro controller support is lame.
ZombieU however looks pretty cool. Wasn't expecting that.
Nintendoland is an instant trade in.