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At the start you still believe you're the hero. It's a good point though. I'd say more about the resolution but spoilers.
Maybe the fix would have been simple. As soon as you start eating out of dumpsters or stealing the people should have run in horror, realising that you are the one. Or even just when you enter an area brandishing a gun. For the enemies I sort of suspect they just went out of scope (or passion?) and didn't add more types. There were lots of versions of 'guy with a gun' but that's not very interesting. The game would have been a lot more entertaining if it had featured more steampunk style enemies - robots, guys in loading suits, guys flying with gyro copters etc. any reasonable image search on deviant art would produce more engaging enemy designs. The handyman was cool, but yeah he should have reacted to being hit in the red ball. Was that even a weak point? The patriots as well I just bombed. Instead we got the same enemies from bioshock1. I was confused by the firemen and crow guys. The turret was especially disappointing. It felt like going to a restaurant (slightly cheaper) and being served reheated leavings. The story and it's presentation is excellent though. I don't play many AAA games so maybe I'm blinkered, but I can't think of a better story in another game. On that note, here's a bioshock 1 thing... http://www.pentadact.com/2009-04-15-ending-bioshock/ yeah monster design was boring as hell. crows were somewhat interesting, firemen less so.
but crows can be easily taken care of, just throw a fire or lightning trap at your feet and wait. crow eventually tries to teleport behind you and triggers the trap. done. patriots are supposed to have a weakpoint on their backs (the gears) but i never figured out how to get a clear shot at their backs to exploit it. lightning shock stun doesn't last long enough and they can turn quickly enough to always stay facing you. turrets were just boring. usually just shock stun them and a couple of shotgun blasts. nothing interesting there. there's also some funny tethering going on in the AI such that they will refuse to follow you too far from their spawn points. you can easily exploit this because you can duck in and out of cover and the AI will just stand out in the open as it repeatedly tries to run at you, then decide to pull back. come to think of it, there should just have been one enemy of each vigor type.
the charge, bullet shield or force pull effects could have made interesting enemies. I agree with most of what was said here.
- World and story were engaging - Elizabeth character well done - But there were serious tone-breaking moments where she'd find out some super heavy information about her past, then 2 seconds later "I can pick that lock for you!" cheerfully. - Rich, interesting world, but the only way I can interact with it is shooting and looting. I don't mind shooting but this game world made me want to inhabit it in a richer way. Sure my character is a violent guy but my desires as a player don't align with that. I don't have a proposal for what should have been there instead; I don't think this should be a pure adventure game either. This points to a general problem with AAA video games; we don't have a lot of good game mechanics that aren't centered around violence. I like violence but it limits the types of stories, worlds, and protagonists you can have. - Looting system isn't supported by the fiction of the world or the character. why is Booker DeWitt digging through trash cans for hot dogs and spare change? Why don't the NPCs react when I do that? Contrast with The Last Of Us where the looting/crafting system directly feeds back into the world's fiction (a blasted ruin where people are scraping to survive.) I'm also pretty tire of searching my surroundings for tiny trinkets in every game. It's not a bad design tool to have things in the world for players to find, but a lot of games have polished it down to meaningless, unrewarding abstraction. In The Last Of Us maybe it was better because I usually needed a specific type of loot to craft something I needed. (But even in there I got pretty tired of mashing the X button around every medicine cabinet and supply room. Fewer, more valuable loot objects would have been an improvement in both games, I think.) - In addition, the clever idea of having 8-10 reusable furniture pieces that have looting animations built in probably saved a ton of production time. But this had a negative impact for gameplay because: Typically you use collection systems to encourage the player to slow down and look at the expensive environment art you created. However, the loot almost always is in the same 10 props so you end up only looking at those boring desks and dressers instead of the unique statues and murals and grand ceilings and so on that are actually a pleasure to look at. Contrast Beyond Good and Evil, where your collection goals are about photographing unique creatures, so your incentive is to find and look at the unique content that the game has to offer, instead of looking past the unique content to find the most reused, bland content. - Looking at the combat in isolation -- I felt that it was acceptable combat except that there wasn't anything really interesting about it. The more challenging it got the more tedious/annoying it felt to me. Bosses felt like bullet sponges. I didn't develop a lot of tactics. Each gun had strengths and weaknesses so that part did work for me. Halfway through they introduce red "Vox Populi" versions of each gun which had no clear gameplay advantage to me (and you'd have to start over on upgrading them.) Vigors were interesting but I never figured out how to swich between them (i.e. once I got #3, it seemed that I lost #1 forever.) Since some of the vigors weren't that useful to my play style, it meant that i would lose something useful and get nothing in return for a while, and therefore I would just revert to using my guns. - My one negative comment about the story was there seemed to be too many big revelations piled up at the end, without time in between for me to process them. I think there should have been a little more space between each big reveal so that I could get used to the ramifications of it, before laying another one on me. Vigors are accessed with 1 to 8 keys. There's also a pause + circular menu command but i never used it.
ah, so i was missing out on something. It seemed odd that i couldn't get to the older vigors but i never bothered to read the manual.
^^^ played xbox 360 version btw. yeah, the new system was better than bioshock because you could actually choose the right vigor for the right situation. sadly we got the 2 weapons only system.
the alternate gun versions have slightly different stats, the vox machine gun fires slower but does more damage and seems to have higher accuracy. the vox 'carbine' shoots 3 bullets in a row and does more damage, but seemed to be for slightly closer range... the fact the upgrades are reset however makes it silly because by this point in the game, you may already have almost all the upgrades on the weapons you like the most. New thing from Epic
http://youtu.be/2At-C-SokiI worth playing? i was recommended it based on how i liked bioshock infinite, but i usually try to stay well away from war/army shooters.
Whose video I posted before loved it. They did a double video feature on how awesome it was.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kjaBsuXWJJ8 They say they try not to spoil it in video 1... Total Biscuit rambles on about FTL mods and unfair gameplay;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEJgk7oZe6w&list=UUy1Ms_5qBTawC-k7PVjHXKQ Just some games I've recently played (and reviewed) all from 2010:
Transformers: War for Cybertron: 8.5/10 - awesome level design, but if you don't care about design, maybe it's only a 7.5 or 8/10. Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions: 6/10 Alpha Protocol: 7.5/10 - a bit underrated, it's a good RPG. Mass Effect as a spy/espionage game. Sniper: Ghost Warrior: 7/10 - actually pretty good looking game, almost equal to Battlefield BC2/CODMW2, which is suprising coming from City Interactive but the gameplay is very specific and not as good. Mass Effect 2: 9.5/10 - obviously everyone here would have played this. Lost Planet 2: 6.5/10 Gonna start on Dragon Age Awakening tomorrow. Early reports on Blues News indicate it's another fucking disaster as a failed PC port. Here endeth the news.
I currently play Dark Souls 1 and I'm quite enjoying it. Looking forward to trying 2 when the time comes.
I recommend you give it another try, it's worth it. And I mean in a sensible way, not a "square block into round hole"-retard type of approach like earlier. ds2fix: http://blog.metaclassofnil.com
Broken port isn't a valid PC game. Actually, why the fuck did I mention it on here anyway, should have been in the console thread.
https://games.yahoo.com/blogs/plugged-in/call-of-duty--advanced-warfare-will-blow-stuff-up-on-november-4-170436537.html
As usual looks really good.. I am just wondering what it will really be ingame.. :/ Looks like homoerotic mega-scripted SHIT. Massive waste of good graphics and cool machinery.
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