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VANQUISH |OT| Bullet Ballet performed by the London Awesome orchestra
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Net_Wrecker
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Beezy said:
I'll call you way hot. I didn't mean to disappoint you or upset you:lol
Laughing Banana
Weeping Pickle
I just bought this game.
Holy shit even the first level is a bit overwhelming. In between all the explosions, passing bullets, or what have you, it is somewhat difficult to discern between friend and foe.
Definitely requires some time to get used to the atmosphere.
Holy shit even the first level is a bit overwhelming. In between all the explosions, passing bullets, or what have you, it is somewhat difficult to discern between friend and foe.
Definitely requires some time to get used to the atmosphere.
Net_Wrecker
Member
The
in Act 2 is INSANE. I thought Uncharted 2 had the best one I've seen so far, but DAMN. Just crazy.
train set piece
slaughterking
Member
Are the overall rankings not working for anyone else? I can check my ranking for any individual mission, but the the rankings for a complete playthrough wont load for me.
â Narayan
Member
Started Hard mode. Going for time completion bonuses.
Well, hopefully they'll see that, if this game doesn't perform to their expectations, it was due to lack of marketing and not due to the fact that this game, when it comes down to it, is for the hardcore.practice02 said:
So for my third playthrough, I decided to do a Casual No-Death run to get that achievement and the pangloss statues.
In truth, casual mode should be renamed, "Sucking on a Momma's Teet Baby Mode".
All of the Gorgie's, even the souped up ones like the yellow ones and the jetpack blues can be killed in just a couple shots to the head with the assault rifle. Romanovs will die to a single sliding melee kick into slow mo assault rifle barrage. You can destroy tanks with a single rocket to the weak point.
And all those attacks that immediately bump you into the red on Normal and Hard mode will still keep you in the clear on Casual. I actually only went into the red once during the whole playthrough and that was on the
boss battle.
In truth, casual mode should be renamed, "Sucking on a Momma's Teet Baby Mode".
All of the Gorgie's, even the souped up ones like the yellow ones and the jetpack blues can be killed in just a couple shots to the head with the assault rifle. Romanovs will die to a single sliding melee kick into slow mo assault rifle barrage. You can destroy tanks with a single rocket to the weak point.
And all those attacks that immediately bump you into the red on Normal and Hard mode will still keep you in the clear on Casual. I actually only went into the red once during the whole playthrough and that was on the
Lt. Col. Burns
â Narayan
Member
Give it some time to upload.slaughterking said:
slaughterking
Member
I wonder if I can get that trophy by replaying only the missions where I died on my normal playthrough.ZealousD said:
Nah, I mean the leaderboard isn't even loading. The loading indicator just keeps on spinning forever.
â Narayan
Member
Ah, yeah. Sometimes that happens for me. I think it's my internet connection, though. PSN and Wi-Fi don't seem to get along at all. Whenever it does happen, I just go back to playing the game.slaughterking said:
slaughterking
Member
Yeah well, it just seems so random, because I can see the leaderboards for individual missions just fine, but I could never get the overall ranking to work.
That is indeed an adequate alternitive, though.
slaughterking
Member
Hm, I thought so. I think I'll try it anyway, though. :IZealousD said:
MurkyZebra2417
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I just was in a local store here in Germany and it looked like not even one copy of Vanquish sold. Very sad :/Koralsky said:
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Deleted member 30609
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The trick is to learn how to manually trigger slow-mo and to go from there. Cover can be useful from time to time, but managing the risk versus reward of the suit meter is where a lot of the interesting situations in the game come from.dgenx said:
WickedLaharl
Member
unless the leaderboards have a cutoff things are not looking good sales-wise. just checked a while ago and for 1-2 on norm there were only 22XXX (other difficulties were much, much, lower.
Trick? It's like, two buttons!Rez said:
I feel that I'm spamming that too much. For me, the game became an exercise of sliding into range, engaging AR mode and finding the balance between how many enemies I could pick off without depleting the meter. It's also one of the rare times that I, willingly or otherwise, would clean up the low-tier enemies before working my way up the food chain. Compare for the recent Halo games, where I would off the Elite/Brute leading a squad in order to disperse the grunts. Compare again for Bayonetta where the toughest enemy on screen was frequently the priority and I'd limit attacking low-end baddies for crowd control purposes or to maintain a combo.
Lostconfused
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Really? Well at least in most recent Halo I would say you should take out the smallest enemies first because they are the easiest to take down while they can kill you just as easily as any other enemy in the game.Bernbaum said:
It's pretty good, but the train in Uncharted 2 was a much larger set piece and the background scenery was much more varied. Plus, it even managed to move from jungle to snowy mountain seamlessly.
Vanquish was a step below that, but still very impressive.
rollingstart
Banned
Lostconfused said:
yeah, between that, funnels, space colonies, etc. it makes a gundam fan happy
I'm also pretending that the final boss
color scheme is because of vayeate and mercuriu from Gundam Wing (and not Fujin/Raijin)
molekiller
Banned
Bernbaum said:
Dude, have you played on legendary? Grunts with grenades, charged pistols and that covenant-missile launcher can kill you in a breeze.... The right tactic is to kill those first from far enough with the dmr and then get closer to the elites and take off their shield with a plasma pistol...
Man... thank you for bringing my attention to this.
If it plays anything like a current-gen God Hand, I'll be all over it. Know where we can find any more solid deets?
DenogginizerOS
BenjaminBirdie's Thomas Jefferson
The number of copies still on the shelves is pretty high. How long before we see $49.99 or $39.99?
I give them a lot of credit for putting such an easy mode into Vanquish (and Bayonetta). Very few devs make the effort to allow gamers of any skill level to enjoy and finish their games - give the hardcore the challenge they crave, while letting casual gamers have fun and still get to experience the entire game.ZealousD said:
Scythesurge
Member
So yeah this game is amazing, the core gameplay is so solid that every encounter is a real rush. Mikami is just too damn good.
Well, I wouldn't mind a hack'n'slash/brawler that played like UNS2. It's definitely not gonna be a fighting game, right? And it's not gonna be an RPG like .hack, so let's wait and see. That trailer has me pumped the same way Vanquish did anyway54-46! said:
That's bullshiz. You can walk into any GAME on the highstreet and they should have the steelbook version there. Keep pestering or give 'em a call - they are usually pretty good when it comes to correcting mistakes.rvy said:
PuppetMaster
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Beat it on Normal yesterday. And beat it on Hard today. I wish there were more unlockables besides the challenge missions though.
Princess Skittles
Prince's's 'Skittle's
I've only been briskly following this thread, but it seems to have gone from hype (trailer, Mikami, Platinum) to disgust (over a review and game length) to hype (game is in people's hands) again.
Classic GAF.
Classic GAF.
Mate, it's been constant hype for a lot of us from beginning to end. GAF will almost always go through this cycle for such games.Princess Skittles said:I've only been briskly following this thread, but it seems to have gone from hype (trailer, Mikami, Platinum) to disgust (over a review and game length) to hype (game is in people's hands) again.
Classic GAF.
My only disgust is with the lack of sales. But then, as people have pointed out, it's sure to keep trickling money in down the line. Let's just enjoy!
JustAnotherOtaku
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rvy said:
Fuck! You know what, in my hype to get started into it when my copy arrived last Thursday, I've just realised the same thing happened to me! >:|
£5 more too! I cancelled my £34.99 preorder for the regular edition to the £39.99 steelbook edition. Email being typed up right now.
Prime crotch
Banned
Koralsky said:
Man, those poor uk sales really bum me out. It's probably Sega's fault for not plastering ads everywhere with 'from the director of the critically acclaimed masterpiece RESIDENT EVIL 4 comes another brilliant third person action shooter' splashed next to gameplay footage that literally sells itself, and letting it get completely overwhelmed attention wise by Fallout, Kirby and all the other fall stuff, but at least they took a bit of a risk and published it. Yet, it means that the most inventive and well put together shooter in years is being ignored by so many people who would love it, it further perpetuates the idea that you must have multiplayer to succeed with a shooter in this market, and it's going to kill any chances of a sequel, which sucks as combat mechanics that sublime and brilliant don't deserve to be relegated just to one game.
DenogginizerOS
BenjaminBirdie's Thomas Jefferson
Based on the Digital Foundry Face-Off, the two versions are practically identical with the exception being that the X360 controls are slightly more responsive. Well done! I am still on the fence about which version to get.
Princess Skittles
Prince's's 'Skittle's
Yay! It's on my birthday/Christmas list, can't wait.B-Genius said: