THE BORE
General => Video Game Bored => Topic started by: cool breeze on September 15, 2009, 03:51:17 PM
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Uncharted 2 MP demo went up (anyone want to do co-op in an hour or so, my psn is linkzg64 (or without the 64, I don't know)). I think it's GAmestop preorder thing for now.
Tomorrow NFS Shift demo is up on XBL I think.
Thursday is MAG beta (I have a spare code, i'll post later), Sigma 2 demo and Brutal Legend demo (gamestop thing again)
nvm, apparently it's a beta.
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Gamestop still hasn't sent out the codes for Uncharted 2 MP. :-\
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Guess I'll just play the Sigma one...
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Darkest of Days demo > all that trash
HORSE PUNCHING ACHIEVEMENT
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so apparently now it's a demo, labeled as a beta.
only different than the old beta and this for co-op objective mode is that you fight the boss at the end :-\ still a lot of fun. the horde mode is also neat since it's basically horde CTF.
the other difference I noticed, and I actually really like, is that there are a lot more one handed weapons that are varied. Whenever you climb or hold something, you only have access to the pistols and guns that require one hand, so now there are a bunch of pistols, including a shotgun pistol.
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Are you talking about Uncharted 2?
They added two more maps for multiplayer and more skins to use over the original beta, plus that "horde CTF."
HURRY UP WITH THE CODES LAMESTOP :gun :gun
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Sony is so freaking dumb sometimes. A SP Uncharted demo would do much more to sell that game than a MP demo.
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Sony is so freaking dumb sometimes. A SP Uncharted demo would do much more to sell that game than a MP demo.
A demo made free for everyone to download and try would make a whole hell of a lot more fucking sense. I know this is going to be free in a few weeks, but if you want people to reserve the game, LET THEM FUCKING TRY IT OUT FIRST.
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Are you talking about Uncharted 2?
They added two more maps for multiplayer and more skins to use over the original beta, plus that "horde CTF."
HURRY UP WITH THE CODES LAMESTOP :gun :gun
yeah, there are more skins that you need to buy with the in game points. actually, it's really annoying. you need to be level 10, then also use the points you earn to buy it. why not give it to me at level 10, or let me pay for it now?
horde CTF is really fun, though. If I wasn't playing with two foreigners who were speaking in whatever language the entire time while playing terribly, it would have been even better. I swear, one of those guys runs past me as an enemy got me in a choke hold.
Sony is so freaking dumb sometimes. A SP Uncharted demo would do much more to sell that game than a MP demo.
I think if they let you play co-op objective mode offline, it would be fine.
yeah, timed exclusive thing is really dumb.
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Sony is so freaking dumb sometimes. A SP Uncharted demo would do much more to sell that game than a MP demo.
A demo made free for everyone to download and try would make a whole hell of a lot more fucking sense. I know this is going to be free in a few weeks, but if you want people to reserve the game, LET THEM FUCKING TRY IT OUT FIRST.
That kinda marketing only works for guaranteed sellers like COD or Halo. Somehow, I doubt that many people will be rushing out to get Uncharted 2.
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Sony is so freaking dumb sometimes. A SP Uncharted demo would do much more to sell that game than a MP demo.
A demo made free for everyone to download and try would make a whole hell of a lot more fucking sense. I know this is going to be free in a few weeks, but if you want people to reserve the game, LET THEM FUCKING TRY IT OUT FIRST.
That kinda marketing only works for guaranteed sellers like COD or Halo. Somehow, I doubt that many people will be rushing out to get Uncharted 2.
I stuck it on my Christmas list (mother in law always buys me a game). Screw Sony and this stupid tactic.
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Darkest of Days demo > all that trash
HORSE PUNCHING ACHIEVEMENT
(http://i32.tinypic.com/2u757dk.jpg)
unlockable skin
and meleeing is still kinda broken against other human opponents. Against AI enemies in the co-op modes it's fine now.
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Gamestop.com is sending out codes now. Maybe if I'm lucky, the demo will be done downloading by 10pm. So sloooooooooooooooooow.
That kinda marketing only works for guaranteed sellers like COD or Halo. Somehow, I doubt that many people will be rushing out to get Uncharted 2.
I think it's going to be a big seller this year, but that's not even the point. The purpose of a demo is for potential customers to try the game out. You know, generate interest in the product so that the consumer will then decide to buy it.
Making demos exclusive "rewards" for pre-ordering is just fucking stupid.
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It seems to be their thing, though. I'm not sure I can name a single Sony-published game in the past two years that didn't have some sort of obstacle between the demos and the potential customers. It's especially dumb when it's tied to Qore. Those people are already fans and were already set on buying.
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the stage they picked for the beta wasn't too great for versus multiplayer. The ice and temple levels are so good' there is so much platforming all around. Elimination mode, basically one life per round, is so much fun in this. It's a lot more about hiding since you can climb to high places and stuff.
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Anyone know where I can grab a beta code?
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one really weird thing about this game is that you can't rewind in replays. It could just be because it's a demo/beta, but it's still a weird omission. I mean, every button does something except and R2 is skip a couple frames.
It automatically saves every match. In cinema mode you can fly around the stage and change a bunch of visual options (if you've played PGR3 or 4, it's a bit like that). There is a dedicated machinima multiplayer mode and map that makes you start without a gun, lets you change what type of animation style you use (calm, stealth, under fire, etc.) syncs the characters mouth to your voice and lets you turn the entire stage into a green screen. The stage is a giant white room with all weapons and items laying around to use and a bunch of different structures to show off every animation. Yet there is no rewind.
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what the fuck...I don't even know how I can get these demos...
so uncharted and brutal legend need a gamestop pre-order? and NG2 is Japan?
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It seems to be their thing, though. I'm not sure I can name a single Sony-published game in the past two years that didn't have some sort of obstacle between the demos and the potential customers. It's especially dumb when it's tied to Qore. Those people are already fans and were already set on buying.
Let's not forget about the Halo 3 beta being "bundled" with Crackdown, and Halo Reach with ODST.
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what the fuck...I don't even know how I can get these demos...
so uncharted and brutal legend need a gamestop pre-order? and NG2 is Japan?
I don't know about Brutal Legend, but Uncharted 2 is only "exclusive" for Gamestop pre-orders for like two weeks. It goes public at the end of the month. You can always just go plunk down $5, get the code, and then cancel it later on, right? :lol
The Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 demo this week is Japan-only, but that's no big deal. It's easy to make a Japanese PSN account to download it; it's not like XBL where you'd need a gold account.
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Scroll down:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=374136&page=3
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK
they better not have locked out other regions on fucking Ninja Gaiden demo day!
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Scroll down more. People can't access the US Store either. Must be down right now.
EDIT: I just tried the U.S. and Japanese stores and got the same message. It's down. GAFfers are freaking out over nothing. What else is new?
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I'm sure it's just maintenance, but I will kill someone if I can't get my Gundam DLC this week.
Good thing Chrono didn't pick up that 3,000 yen PSN card for me yet.
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Looks like they're back up and still not region locked.
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Uncharted 2 multi is crack I tells ya! CRACK! So good.
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Uncharted 2 multi is crack I tells ya! CRACK! So good.
Yeah, it's pretty amazing I have to say. I'm not a big mp shooter guy, but this definitely managed to draw me in.
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Someone tell me what's so great about Uncharted 2 MP. I played the original MP beta and it was pretty competent but nothing I haven't seen before. The co-op seemed more interesting to me even if it was scripted more than COD4.
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I didn't play much of the MP (the co-op was more interesting), but I can't say I've played many MP shooters with that strong of an emphasis on platforming before. It's like a jungle gym Gears of War.
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See to me that seems stupid because you'll just get shot when you're climing/whatever. I guess it's just not for me.
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In the old beta, I wasn't feeling the deathmatch too much but thought the co-op was great. New beta has modes and levels that a lot more interesting. The two new levels have a lot of platforming in them, so there are a lot of layers to the map, almost like some levels in Halo 3. Deathmatch mode still isn't too great. Elimination mode, which is survival, shows off the importance of all the platforming in levels. That mode is a lot more about stealth and trying to flank the enemy team by climbing up and around them, or just doing it to get a better vantage point. CTF is also a lot of fun just because you can toss the flag around, and a lot of times you need to since the quicker way of covering ground is to throw it up and out a cavern rather than looking for the ramp. There is a lot of tossing the statue back and forth between teammates to get it to the goal. And while it's still co-op, the Horde CTF mode is also fun. It really is just horde mode, but instead of surviving waves of enemies, you have to take a statue from one part of the map to another, and usually you need to do some platforming to the statue and toss it around to get it to the capture point.
In short, deathmatch isn't anything special, but the other modes are either mode suited for the gameplay style or have nice twists to conventional multiplayer modes.
See to me that seems stupid because you'll just get shot when you're climing/whatever. I guess it's just not for me.
Another reason why it's not too great in deathmatch. In elimination and ctf, it makes more sense since it's not blindly shooting everyone you see. Plus, you can shoot from any position in the game and pistols are still fairly powerful if you can aim well. I've already seen people who hang off the edges of the stage to hide, then fire off their pistol when you get in range. It's a good, but annoying, move.
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apparently the NG2 demo will be up around 11pm eastern.
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Does anyone have codes for these?
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MAG beta seems to be up. If you already had it, you need another 2.5 gig patch ::)
if anyone needs a code, I have a spare
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Gamestop.com e-mailed me a second code for Uncharted. :lol (Sorry, it's already gone!)
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MAG beta seems to be up. If you already had it, you need another 2.5 gig patch ::)
if anyone needs a code, I have a spare
Me. I gave mine away, thinking I wouldn't have a Ps3. :maf
See to me that seems stupid because you'll just get shot when you're climing/whatever. I guess it's just not for me.
I think it's probably cool for people who enjoy more vertical gameplay. I like my shooters grounded so it's not my thing, but it's pretty unique.
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i had preordered brutal legend just to get the demo code but then looked at gamestops site yesterday only to find out that you couldn't cancel your order once they sent you a demo code.
that's really lame but luckily i cancelled before i got sent a code. FU gamestop!
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(about MAG) ok, so the downlod after pax was 2.5 gigs; earlier today was another 2.5 gigs. Now they're saying that there might be one in the realm of 5-6 gigs to download soon. I just want to try this thing out. Possibly the beta is delayed a week too.
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Luckily for them, the common PS3 owner has been well conditioned to handle updates, big, slow and plentiful.
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awesome, 25% of my 40gb drive dedicated to a beta :-\
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Luckily for them, the common PS3 owner has been well conditioned to handle updates, big, slow and plentiful.
and worthless. don't forget worthless.
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first MAG impressions:
this is really ugly and not fun
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How long are the servers up for tonight? I checked the progress, and I'm at like 25%. :-\
first MAG impressions:
this is really ugly and not fun
I think I can handle ugly, given what it is (lulz, I sound like a regular Halo 3 fanboy), but the game had better be entertaining. Without a campaign, the MP should damned well be gold from level 1.
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It's ugly in a way that hinders gameplay. Lots of pop in and shimmering and no enemy indicators (good if it wasn't easy to mistake the world for an enemy). Screen is covered in text and symbols, and this is only a 96 player server. It's cluttered and confusing. I eventually just ran around shooting enemies, and for what it's worth, the controls and shooting feel good. Levels are just confusing to navigate and the map is useless.
yeah, the shooting actually feels really good. It's just everything else is bad.
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Is there a beta board?
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don't know. I know the hours are before 4 pm eastern and after 8 pm eastern, don't know how long those periods are, though.
I played four or five games. By the end, I was still really confused. I just defended a base, and like I said above, the controls and shooting feel great. I kinda wish they went in a different direction but kept the combat the same, but then it might have been too much like Modern Warfare, and that is still better. I'll play the beta a bit more. Don't see buying this game since it's multi only.
It's a shame that they didn't have some kind of single player. The gameplay is a bit more arcadey than SOCOM, but it seemed to more tactical than twitch or even what Modern Warfare is considered. I think a solid single player and multiplayer that wasn't only focused on large empty maps would have got me to buy it.
I don't even understand the purpose of the large map either. It's like, all the combat took place around base A and base B. Rarely did I find someone not attacking/defending those two areas. No vehicles there either, so it's not like it needed to be so huge. It's like they just wanted you to run into the action instead of just being in it. Maybe it's just the map.
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you're not playing it right, you need to get in the MAG Home Rome to organise strategy first.
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So MAG turned out to be crap, like most people expected.
How's the Uncharted 2 demo though? I'm mostly interested in how it looks and runs since I probably won't play much of U2 multiplayer.
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Uncharted 2 multiplayer is awesome. If your interested in how it looks and runs, um, if you saw the videos and got a general idea of how it looks, it's basically that. No slow down, tearing or anything off in that way. Just looks good all around.
One weird thing is that when the game has lag/host problems, it pretty freezes everything in the game mid-animation. It's a bit scary. You can still run around and do whatever, but everyone else is frozen in time. What's really weird is that if you go near an enemy, they unfreeze, melee attack you and return to the frozen state. You can kill them and they'll ragdoll out, but yeah, really weird.
you're not playing it right, you need to get in the MAG Home Rome to organise strategy first.
I wouldn't be surprised if that was the case. I didn't notice any of that rank tiers they hyped up. Maybe it's because it's a beta, not a 256 player game or everyone was just starting, but there was none of that.
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So MAG turned out to be crap, like most people expected.
How's the Uncharted 2 demo though? I'm mostly interested in how it looks and runs since I probably won't play much of U2 multiplayer.
I haven't played the new demo, but the co-op in the previous beta was genuinely awesome. It's popular to craft separate co-op experiences, but in this case it felt really justified. You could compare the mission directly to the SP footage shown, but it was very well developed into a co-op experience. The MP was good, but I'm more of a first person shooter guy, so the third person stuff always confuses me. It was definitely something out of the ordinary for a shooter, though.
As for MAG... 92% :-\
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I'm really enjoying MAG so far. What do you mean there's no rank tiers? Have you not checked the barracks? I'm already level 17.
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I'm really enjoying MAG so far. What do you mean there's no rank tiers? Have you not checked the barracks? I'm already level 17.
I meant it wasn't too apparent in the games I've played. I think I was level 4 before I stopped playing for the night. I'll keep playing since, while I enjoy Uncharted 2 multi more, I'll play that a lot when it comes out. This is my time to try MAG.
btw, what group are you playing as? do others have different maps? I'm Raven
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Yeah, which side should I pick?
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the beta seems to only allow for one characters, so I'm stuck with Raven and don't know about the other two. One was US Army standard stuff, the other was more guerrilla/dirty soldiers, and Raven is the high tech PMC crew. The weapons and gear isn't so high tech as it is clean.
oh, and I do like is that the game doesn't have rechargeable health. It is similar to Bad Company where you have a needle you inject yourself with. It only heals a bit, and in chunks over time. So, say your at 50 health and shoot up, it will jump to 60, pause, then 65 and eventually stop at 80-some.
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I'm playing as Valor, the US Army-type team. I made it all the way up to level 19 and started being able to be a squad leader. I'm really digging it. Make sure you upgrade your medic kit all the way up first so you can start whoring out experience by reviving teammates and healing them.
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So MAG turned out to be crap, like most people expected.
How's the Uncharted 2 demo though? I'm mostly interested in how it looks and runs since I probably won't play much of U2 multiplayer.
I haven't played the new demo, but the co-op in the previous beta was genuinely awesome. It's popular to craft separate co-op experiences, but in this case it felt really justified. You could compare the mission directly to the SP footage shown, but it was very well developed into a co-op experience. The MP was good, but I'm more of a first person shooter guy, so the third person stuff always confuses me. It was definitely something out of the ordinary for a shooter, though.
As for MAG... 92% :-\
Does it do split screen co-op? Sadly, I'm the only PS3 owner I know that will buy Uncharted 2. All my PS3 owning friends and cousins will likely spend their money on COD:Once Again instead.
What do you think of the graphics in the beta? I'm a bit leery of Naughty Dog's bullshots. Not many company exagerrates as much as ND, imo. I remember when they tried to pass off perfectly anti-aliased Jak 3 shots as being in-game.
Finally, how are the controls, in terms of sensitivity and auto-aim? Trying to get head shots was pretty frustrating for me in Uncharted 1.
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I didn't have a problem killing dudes in the beta, and the weapons had a lot more, I don't know, punch to them. I always considered the weapons in Uncharted to feel flimsy for some reason. It's been a while since I played it so it's hard to compare, though.
Visuals were immaculate, in the co-op mode. Sharp everything, and I don't recall experience much in ways of tearing or frame drops. Didn't spend enough time with MP to judge it either way, but it was certainly detailed enough. For reference, the monastery exterior and interior were the only bits in Uncharted to really impress me, so hey.
Oh yeah, and fuck MAG. Finally completed the update, created my character (the presentation is ridiculously slick), and was greeted to servers closing down for the night. 8-12 is really the shittiest time they could have picked, but I suspect I'm in the minority there.
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got the brutal legend demo but i need to install it.
guess i'll go make a sammich
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Is the Uncharted beta available to everyone yet?
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Got one game in, finally. It's certainly not going to win Best Graphics of the Year, but I didn't think it was particularly ugly. The grain filter is bloody annoying, but there is a lot of detail to the environment, possibly a bit too much. And I'm really sick of orange hue, so I'd like to check out some other maps before saying too much about graphics. Gunplay feels real good, but having to switch to grenades is going to take getting used to.
Worth noting is that people are actually communicating. We'll see how that holds up when it's released into the wild, but the match I played did feel unusually tactical.
Also, I really wish this was a PC game.
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I've been playing for a bit today, and I agree 100% with the wishing it was a PC game.
I'm liking it more today. The village-ish map isn't too fun, but this industrial one is great.
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I'm stuck on one map, no matter what. I picked SVER, and it seems like this is the only battle currently open for my faction. God damn it.
Then again, I really suck at this game. I think I need more distance from COD4 before I can start getting even half ways good at it. I keep getting killed, and I have no idea how it happens. And then there is the damned controller itself, which ends up with me accidentally nudging the poop-triggers while using the ironsights. But that's got everything to do with my fat monkey fingers.
Yeah, I could see this being a Very Important Game, on the right platform. It's very ambitious, doesn't seem to lag much even with large numbers of players, and the core is pretty good.
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Is the Uncharted beta available to everyone yet?
Not until the 29th.
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Great. I hit lvl 11, buy myself a new gun and I realize it's close to 4pm, meaning no server for 4 hours. Like I said before, I'm liking it more today. I've understood most of what it means to be a grunt soldier. Take orders, head to the flashing objective to get double points and all that. Upgraded my healing gun all the way so I can revive teammates, so that's my main role. Still don't know if I will buy it or not. If it was on PC, I could really get into it more. It's just a lot more convenient to jump in and play a quick game or two on PC compared to consoles.
Once you learn how it plays, which it doesn't do a good job at showing you, there are some good ideas there. They basically make following orders and playing your role the best way to earn xp. You can run off and do what you want, or follow orders and earn double points per each action. Healing people also gives you as many points as killing. Reviving a Team Mate is 10 points, killing an enemy is 5 points. There doesn't seem to be any extra points for headshots or what CoD does, it's more role specific. I also like how the game sees how you put together your load out and how you play to judge your class instead of just picking it. I've noticed that I'm labeled a medic, and I thought it's because I chose it instead of the repair gun or anything else. But other guys are running around with healing guns too, they aren't listed as medics.
And I think at times there is lag, they just do a good job at hiding it. There were times when I knew where a sniper was, I ran behind a wall and it said I was shot. I know it was impossible to hit me from his location, so it was most likely him hitting me before I ran behind the wall, the effect happening once I was behind it. What amazes me is that it's a large scale game with really good infantry combat. I've said before that I consider Battlefield games to be the best mulitplayer games, but the infantry combat is kinda bad; it's how the infantry and vehicles work together that make the series good. MAG has a larger scale and, apparently, some vehicles, yet the infantry combat is great. I say "apparently" because I haven't seen any vehicles yet.
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I noticed in the deployment menu that there are dedicated training missions for each faction. That's a good idea, it's just a shame they aren't available now. I'll give it more playtime next time it's open.
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Just for you Metacritic
Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant. It looks amazing, plays like a dream and the voice-acting/story-telling will hook you in right from the off. PS3 officially has its killer-app and a million tears are shed by 360 fanboys.
http://www.gamesradar.com/ps3/uncharted-2-among-thieves/review/uncharted-2-among-thieves/a-2009091875511998094/g-200812159395546092/p-1
8)
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That's how I feel about it. I love the multiplayer in the UC2 beta/demo. The game play is superb and it controls far better than any other 3rd-person shooter-- if only Lost Planet 2 played like this. If the single player is up to par, then yeah, I can see this being the "killer app" or "Halo" that the PS3 finally has after three years.
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Got a 9.5 from IGN
http://media.ps3.ign.com/media/142/14225971/vids_1.html
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So I haven't played either BL demo but what is the deal with sound effects being worse on the PS3 demo? I mean are they the same sound effects, just at a lower sample rate or mixed at a wrong level? I thought the PS3 version boasted DTS Master Audio for superior sound? I wonder if they had to do a quick compression to get it to demo size since HD-audio takes up ridiculous space and that's the issue?
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Got a 9.5 from IGN
http://media.ps3.ign.com/media/142/14225971/vids_1.html
Awesome. But fuck, that's a video review.
Avoiding that...
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If you're reading this, it was unlikely that you weren't already going to buy Uncharted 2: Among Thieves on day one. Really, you just wanted to know how good it is, and fortunately I can say that it's very, very good. It's easily one of the best games on the system, blending fantastic presentation and visuals with gameplay that is practically second to none. And then there's the stellar multiplayer which you'll probably be playing until Uncharted 3 ships. No, Uncharted 2 is not perfect, but it's closer than pretty much any other game out there these days.
Another Take
Roper's right; Uncharted 2: Among Thieves is fantastic. I'm probably one of biggest fans of the franchise in the office, but even I had trouble believing that Naughty Dog could surpass its original gem. I mean, Uncharted: Drake's Fortune had one of the best stories the PS3 has ever seen, it packed some of the best graphics I had ever seen, and it was some of the most fun I have ever had in a videogame.
Uncharted 2 keeps all of that and builds on it.
There came a point when I was early in the game, and I couldn't wipe the smile off of my face as I took cover, shot bad guys, and did all the stuff I remember making the first game great. This was like putting on an old pair of jeans or picking up one of your favorite books again -- it just felt right. Toss in the fact that the new stealth kills are awesome and reward you for being sneaky, the game's prettier than ever, and that this game gives us an ending cinematic that's the perfect nightcap to this chapter of Drake's story, and you've got something amazing.
Admittedly, I think I set my expectations a little too high. The reappearance of rooms filling with waves and wave of baddies was annoying, the story felt a bit too familiar at times, and the fact that I would've liked to have seen some new Trophies dampened my spirits a bit, but there's no denying this is one of the best games on the PlayStation 3.
Oh, and the multiplayer is awesome enough to get a loner like myself out of the single-player campaign and chasing the next rank online.
9.5 Presentation
Fantastic cutscenes tell a very good if not perfect story.
10 Graphics
Absolutely the best of the best these days. Your jaw will drop.
9.5 Sound
Great weapon effects, fantastic voice acting and a mostly brilliant (though sometimes overdone) soundtrack.
9.5 Gameplay
Great gunplay, stealth works very well (mostly), the puzzles are rewarding and, maybe even best of all, a killer online component.
9.5 Lasting Appeal
The game is give or take about 10 hours in length, which feels right, but then there's the multiplayer. Yes, you will be hooked.
9.5
Incredible OVERALL
(out of 10 / not an average)
http://ps3.ign.com/articles/102/1026373p4.html
GOTY
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I still think Uncharted 1 is an amazingly awesome adventure experience. My only complaint with it was the 6 hours length. So if this one really is longer and not bullshit-padding longer, then yeah I'm going to love this.
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I played Uncharted three or so times, once fairly recently. Always was around 8 hours for me.
and it's IGN. Means nothing. I'm sure it's going to be great, but yeah, IGN.com
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Dudes, 21/20!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :o :o :o :o
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what is that from? I've seen that posted before
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what is that from? I've seen that posted before
Some Spanish PS3 magazine that no one's ever heard of before or gave a crap about until they gave the game that ridiculous score.
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Some irrelevant Playstation mag, think it's the one that keeps pushing rumors as "confirmed news!"
Many fanboys got excited, many fanboys of the other sort got mad.
Game looks damned good, though. And they even fixed the tearing.
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Ah, sorry. It's PSM3, a French magazine.
(http://www.noelshack.com/up/aab/picture0019-b963339b51.jpg)
MONSTRUEUX!!!!!!!!
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http://ps3.ign.com/articles/102/1026373p1.html
IGN Reviews Uncharted 2 - 9.5
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Ur late
Official Playstation* Magazine gives the game a 100%
*lol
http://www.metacritic.com/games/platforms/ps3/uncharted2amongthieves?q=uncharted
All the good reviews mean I'm going to be disappointed by the game. :-\
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i'm sure theres some zombies in this game too
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All the good reviews mean I'm going to be disappointed by the game. :-\
That only happens to nerds
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All the good reviews mean I'm going to be disappointed by the game. :-\
That only happens to nerds
:'(
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Two really annoying things about MAG. The spawn timer auto-spawns you, hitting X takes you into spawn/weapon selection. Every other game ever made you press X or whatever to spawn. Natural instinct is to hit X when the time is down, but that causes me to go into the menu and reset the time. The other is that people are fucking idiots and bleed out when you're running towards them. You can pan the camera around to see if medics are there ffs.
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I think level 20 might be the max level in the beta. Lame.
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On the other hand, I had three (3) medics run past me as I was bleeding to death on the ground. So yeah, I'm not sure if I care to stick around longer than necessary.
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I had a guy run past me, but he eventually came back and revived me before we were both hit by a rocket.
and the game was acting up and wouldn't connect. Last game I was playing dropped for me.
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so according to IGN it is around 10 hours now, so that means 5 hours in reality. 9.5 in Lasting Appeal? :lol
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so according to IGN it is around 10 hours now, so that means 5 hours in reality. 9.5 in Lasting Appeal? :lol
multiplayer is also taken into consideration
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is this guy for real?
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so according to IGN it is around 10 hours now, so that means 5 hours in reality. 9.5 in Lasting Appeal? :lol
multiplayer is also taken into consideration
Do not engage it.
edit: SantaC = darkwing?
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Reviews? I thought this game was like a month away.
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so according to IGN it is around 10 hours now, so that means 5 hours in reality. 9.5 in Lasting Appeal? :lol
multiplayer is also taken into consideration
I know, but most games have multiplayer these days. It is more the rule than the exception.
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Batman Arkham Asylum received a 9.0 for Lasting Appeal.
Batman has a very short singleplayer and no multiplayer options.
Seeing how IGN's lasting appeal rule works, the 9.5 is a good score for Uncharted 2.
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Whgat the fuck at this MAG beta.
I gameshare it to my friend. I haven't played it yet. They let him download it, and let him install it, but when he tries to load it he says that his PS3 is not eligible to play the beta.
So then I try to go in it on my PS3, and it says that someone tried to play it on another PS3 so I have to wait 24 hours before I'm allowed to play.
Fuck this console.
BTW this worked fine for KZ2 and Uncharted 2 betas. I guess MAG is a real sacred cow.
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Eh, nothing about that sounds weird. It's a beta, they are keeping a check on who gets to play it. I'm surprised it worked with Kz2.
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MAG is shit anyway. Don't bother.
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MAG is shit anyway. Don't bother.
Bull. Unless by shit you mean great pretty alright.
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I just wasn't convinced by the beta. There are too many annoying issues surrounding it.
The game needs a lot of work.
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Well, yeah. And I haven't played enough of it to give it a verdict, but the core mechanics are in place, and everything seems to work as it is supposed to. The biggest problem it has is that it has so far failed to deliver many OMFG moments, and that's crucial for a game like this. I don't have time to get into it for the sake of stats and accomplishments, so it needs a strong hook.
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Some updated impressions. I still suck at the game, but that's nothing out of the ordinary. Starting to get a grasp of the gear, and the upgrade path is pretty awesome. Got to try a few other maps, and aside from being absolutely massive, the new maps are also less ugly. It suffers from a really weird LOD system, and the grain filter makes the skyline boring, but it's a lot less ugly, and it runs pretty well.
I don't know how it will be once it launches, but right now, the in-game chatter is like the promotional videos of other games, with ample and relevant communication between players. Pretty cool.
The benefit of the high player count becomes apparent when there is only on defensive point left, and all the players from the other team launch a straight assault on that one point.
The biggest gameplay issue is the lack of damage feedback. You get a directional indicator, your health goes down, and you're dead. That's not enough, in my opinion. Needs some kind of rumble response to damage.
Liking it, but I don't think I have it in me to get involved enough to get the most out of it.
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Finally got to check out a 256 player game, and it was pretty insane. In a good way, I think, but I just can't wrap my head around all the objectives and features. Capture the cooling tower, destroy the sensor, destroy the burner, etc.
And then all of a sudden there is an artillery strike on our position, followed by a strafing run with an A-10. Cool, but very confusing.
On the upside, it never once felt like a meatgrinder, in part because of the squad separation, but also due to the ridiculous size of the map, and because of the objective based format. The engine was real shaky in this game though, can't have been running at more than 20fps. A steady 20fps, but still.
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A steady 20fps, but still.
:lol
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yeah, I played one of those huge matches since I still didn't get ODST in the mail ( :'() and it was pretty great. Even BF2 didn't have a lot of scenes where you have dozens of people rushing in. One part I remember was healing a guy outside of our little cover area, getting shot down myself and seeing a good 15 or 20 guys on the other side. That was a time when I felt I should bleed out. This game is a lot better than I expected, but still probably won't get it. For what it's worth, I'm a bit more excited for Dragon's Age since that was another game I ragged on based on content put out there.
and yeah, the frame rate is complete shit during those times. Another reason I wish this was on PC.
My favorite thing about the game is probably the way you upgrade and purchase weapons. It feels a lot better than most games since it lets you create your own role in each battle. It's not like Battlefield or Killzone 2 where the Medic can't have access to other weapons. Here, you can be a medic/engineer if you wanted. Or a medic sniper. Whatever. And in general I like how you unlock upgrades for your gun. Each set of upgrades being part of a class, only needed to spend so many points to upgrade the class and all that, and parts/abilities that transfer with weapon types.
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This game is a lot better than I expected, but still probably won't get it.
Yeah, that's pretty much how I feel. I think they have pretty much succeeded with what they set out to do (well, within the confines of a platform that just plain shouldn't be running this), I'm just not convinced that the game is for me. Too much going on, everywhere, all the time. It's not chaotic, but I can tell that this is going to require a lot of dedication, and I'm just not that hooked by it.
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I'd like to try MAG, but I don't want to download that 2+ GB patch. Especially when you have to do it through the game and can't even do it through background downloading.
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I gave my code away. Fuck wasting 5+gb of my download quota or of my 40gb hard drive (:'() on it.
like duckman it sounds awesome but i would never get into it due to not having enough time
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I haven't been able to figure out the vehicles, at all. I spawned into a helicopter that I assume was called in by the squad leader, but I was stuck with either operating the guns, or leaving the chopper. I don't think you can pilot it, as it just hovers there a bit above ground. Operating the chain guns would have been completely lame hadn't it been for the slight motion of the helicopter.
The existence of a chopper and the map size just make me long for a game about attack helicopters. Why in the hell aren't we given any such games? Fuck infantry, I want to command an Apache.
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I guess the framerate of the massive action game component wasn't limited to the map, as it's just as bad on the refinery map. I hope they fix that, because it's rendering a well designed game unplayable. Maybe they should drop the uber-detailed look of the game, and go for something more akin to Warhawk.
edit: on a related note, this is why fanboys shouldn't be allowed in beta testing, at least judging by how things go on NeoGAF. Somehow, no one except me and TTP are capable of spotting the framerate problems.
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Brutal Legend demo locked up on me LMFAO
What a piece of shit. I'm so glad this will bomb.
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Lol, Brutal Legend. Jack Black being in it makes it the worst game of this generation.
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LP2 demo...kinda bad. unmarked death pits? really?
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MAG is actually really good in Acquisition mode, at least on this Corvus map. Reasonable size, decent performance, not bad. Starting to get some better upgrades to my weapons, which is obviously making the basic shooter bit a lot more fun. I foresee that this step will turn away a lot of newcomers, though.
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Loved the Brutal Legend demo. I had only a cursory interest going into it even though I've loved Psychonauts and had liked Schafer's previous stuff but the game's setting seemed to me to be 10 years too late to be ironic and Jack Black's schtick is long past old. The demo won me over though in the end. Tons of personality, fun, albeit simplistic, combat system, interesting graphics, pretty decent music, and it looks like it's going to be a pretty big adventure. I'm down with Brutal Legend now. Sign me up.