Posts by Thrik

Given it a quick go and first impressions are very good. The demo was cool but didn't really win me over as it was mostly a demonstration of technology, whereas in the full game I've only been introduced to one character and the first major thing that happens to him, yet I'm already completely invested in his story and found it hard to stop playing. The whole opening sequence is pretty powerful too.

The gameplay can hardly be considered taxing, yet it's somehow completely engaging — even when the action scene consists of little more than frantically checking your pockets or walking through a crowd.

Free, though (at least on PC).

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Looks better to me. Maybe not as sharp though, as it's inevitably going to be 720p for the 360 rather than whatever crazily high resolutions it was originally shown in.

That looks fucking awesome to me.

Er that looks way better than Civilisation 4 to me, and generally pretty nice. Did you guys play the same Civ 4 as me?

That is madness. With wireless networks used so often nowadays which cut out quite a bit, huge problems are inevitable.

Why is Valve the only company that seems to understand the way to get people to embrace DRM and buy games is to offer them stuff they like rather than shoving in shit they hate?

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Well it's in development. All the clip reveals for certain is the guy leaking it doesn't know how to play Sonic.Why does so much stuff get leaked these days? Bigger teams, maybe?

That and intentional leaks to encourage viral exposure I think.

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I'm tempted to fire up the demo and see what happens if I fail the hotel room fight though.

I was tempted to just not do anything and listen.

Haha, El Capitan. There's a name I haven't seen for years. Those old DoD forums were great.

Welcome!

All this Crysis 2 talk made me finally try out Crysis Warhead. Shit man, that game is great! I was drawn in immediately — the tighter environment design and concentrated action/story works really well.

Eh, hardly surprising. Who really expects developers to bother with the PC nowadays?

I'm past bitching about it every time it happens. It is now the norm, thanks to poor development-to-sales costs and excessive piracy. Only got PC gamers themselves to blame — why wouldn't they release it on the PC if it were worthwhile?

Yeah that's really weird. Even the animation in the logo at the end was a bit stiff, whereas in past trailers it's been great. Something has to be wrong there.

Well, it's obviously about finding a girlfriend. I can't imagine it's that reliable though as you're basically forced to talk to people, whereas ordinarily you should both be attracted to each other before starting to chat. It must suck if you end up stuck with a real piece of shit for 10 mins.

Of the alternative dating routes, I'd probably go with online dating — at least then you won't get together without finding each other somewhat attractive.

This almost seems like an indie art game or something, except with extreme production values. Definitely going to get it just because it's so different.

I do like the look of this as a way of getting lists of cool films.

Haha that's awesome. I love the appearance at the end.

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Yeah, to be honest Battlefield 2142 broke my prone habit because it wasn't actually very useful in that game and was clearly nerfed to stop the excessive jump/prone bullshit that plagued BF2. Usually if someone tried to do a prone-and-shoot on me in BF2142 I'd just crouch and obliterate them.

It was nice for when you were digging in to defend an objective or sniping, though.