2 hours ago, ┌HP┘ said: I meant the tech, the driving felt stiff as fuck, and I kept wanting to get off the car to look into every corner of the map for those damned book pages. Still fun sections, they offered something fresh to do.
Same, I feel driving sections are particularly tricky in linear SP games, I had the same problem, and had it before in HL2* and recently in Uncharted 4. I feel when you insert that sort of section you need to make very clear you are not going to get any collectible, or you’re gonna find them in very obvious places… you have to make the player either chase a carrot or run away from something, otherwise it’s just such a stuttering experience that becomes very unenjoyable.
*it worked in Ep2 when they made you race Dog or run away from the helicopter.
Quote from Bunglo4 hours ago, Bunglo said: Still need to play the first 3. I have a feeling I'll end up watching other people play this and 4. Who knows if I'll ever pick up a ps5. Obviously I blow my load over the art, the guys at Sony Santa Monica have been killing it.
I never played the original ones, I think I tried GoW3 at a game event, but didn’t like it back then, it felt to me just a button masher with no brain (probably would be different now that I got into Batman Arkham)…
I’ve started the reboot and is not like they make lots of references that make it non-enjoyable. We kinda all know what Kratos went through anyway, so it seems pretty clear it’s the past coming to haunt him.
I would recommend playing it if you have the PS4! 
I got it for like £15 max in one of the regular discount events. The combat, at least at the beginning (one weapon barely upgraded), feels like a Souls game: lots of emphasis on parrying, methodical attack with strategic use of the power ups.
18 hours ago, ┌HP┘ said: Alan Wake was a really big venture for Remedy, for a long time it was a open world game, then they rebooted the project internally. That's why they have the large driving sections, they had to try and salvage some of the tech for large open environments on there. It worked really well too, fortunately.
Yeah I remember, I’m a Remedy fan boy and I was all over the early trailers. The collector’s edition of the X360 unlocked the original scarf Alan wore in the sandbox trailers for my Xbox avatar ?
Question: the tech worked well or the driving? Cos I felt the driving sections were the weakest of the game, very straightforward without any benefit of driving really.
Quote from Radu9 hours ago, Radu said: I like the episodic structure. I think it ties well into the narrative. It sets the mood even before you start the game, kinda like Max Payne's menu.
Don’t get me wrong, I like it for presentation purposes, but it falls apart when you play longer than an episode per session. You either just played through a whole chapter or you are interrupted possibly minutes after starting a new session… that’s why I criticise it. I would want a reminder of what happened when I start a new session (I could have played the last time a month before!).
This “fault” gave me the idea players would be better served with dynamic recaps, and I even have an idea of how it could be implemented… many times I’ve been tempted in writing an article with ideas like this, to post here or on a blog actually.
What a smorgasbord of weapons and attacks, effects… I wonder how they all feel with the PS5 triggers
Quote from Pampers3 hours ago, Pampers said: Or someone can go make The Specialist 2 thx
I’m taking a screenshot and spamming your request to Morfeo, we might convince him at some point ?
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As for the film discount Morpheus, some are speculating it could be his son, hence the resemblance.
I don’t remember having to restart from the beginning of a chapter when starting a new session, and I remember criticising the game for the chapter/episodic structure because the timing seemed anyways off, and I would regularly end up leaving halfway through a chapter.
Aside: recently I discovered from a podcast -I think where Xbox boss was guest- that Alan Wake was originally intended to be released episodically just like Walking Dead, and that’s why it was so artificially broken down.
Ooooooooooooh 
Do I have to buy a PS5 to play it? 
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Discount Jake Gyllenhaal rocks
Quote from BungloOn 9/8/2021 at 11:57 PM, Bunglo said: I still haven't seen any of the films after the 1st one. I'm afraid they'll ruin The Matrix for me. I'm basically ignoring this one too.
What about Animatrix? I think that was probably the best thing after the first film and the highway scene
Quote from FMPONEOn 9/8/2021 at 4:40 PM, FMPONE said: Did they ever say why no Morpheus?
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fucking weird…
I bet you he’s not woke enough.
~ Trailer looks alright, I’m not particularly captivated, it’s lacking the wow factor of the original over the top action…
And it looks like everything has just been reset, so easy way out to get rid of Fishbourne. Doesn’t give me confidence they are trying to answer any of the questions left from the trilogy, rather than just repackaging the same ideas.
The replacement Morpheus looks like an annoying, discount, lookalike (as well as white rabbit seems to merge the random girl and Jada-Pinknett ?). If you won’t cast the original actor(s) then just go and be fully original, instead of playing the “oh so this is new X character”.
Hope they can beat my pessimism, but given how shit Sense8 was I have zero expectations.
If you told me this was the original trailer for the X360 launch, I would believe you
Dunno if you heard that after infinite rumours, they are making a new Matrix film. Actually, since the trailers are coming out, they must have already filmed (during pandemic?).
No Fishbourne this time though (afaik) ? wonder how they’ll justify that
Still haven’t played the PC version that had some upgrades ?
(I preordered the special X360 edition back then and played the game from start to finish every time a new DLC was available – still didn’t find all thermos or knocked all the cans ?)
I prefer it this way tbh. It’s like an anthology series, nothing wrong with that.
And they could start weaving in some references to other events from the other games, paying off the loyal players.
(Although I think they said something about parallel universes which for me is pussying out but hey)
Scalpers laughing at you right now
I’ve watched pretty much everything, for inertia, during this “gauntlet” saga.
But I was feeling guilty these were the only films that were dragging people to the cinema, so I had already started waiting for the TV release a while ago, with all content being put only on Disney+ it’s become much easier to say no.
There’s more and more reasons to skip stuff as others have noted it’s repetitive and uninventive, and with even bad CGI, considering the money they pour (Black Panther ?).
Winter Soldier is still the best IMO, followed in a certain distance by Civil War. Last one I remember enjoying was Ant-man & the Wasp, and Spider-Man multiverse animation was better than either live action.
A couple things coming up seem interesting, mostly I’m curious to see how they revive Blade, and see who this Moon Night dude is.
I always enjoy seeing my native country represented in games, thank you for the choice ?
Reminds me most of central Italy and the Easter trips with my parents rolling in a camper.
Any specific reference? Did you take several places and made it into one?
I’ve avoided all the old games, but I take myself less seriously now so I’m mildly curious to see how this is gonna turn out. Mostly about movement options, I feel allowing very fast ways to zoom around this type of sandboxes is the only way for enjoying them properly.
Atm its hard to see anything beat Just Cause on terms of mayhem-simulator, but we’ll see with the gameplay videos.
