Killzone beta, bitches!

[duckman2000]

I didn't even apply for it! Now to see if my friend was telling the truth about it. Who else got in?

[duckman2000]

And it's like downloading fast too 

[cool breeze]

I didn't get in

Where the hell do you sign up for this stuff? the only beta I get into are open beta.  The one exception is home and that was on my japanese PS3 account FUCK YOU SONY

[fistfulofmetal]

i never get shit
and i've been in the PS Underground since the PS1 days.

[duckman2000]

I didn't get in

Where the hell do you sign up for this stuff? the only beta I get into are open beta.  The one exception is home and that was on my japanese PS3 account FUCK YOU SONY

I never signed up for anything. And this is a fairly new account, so my old betas aren't tied to it. Quite surprising.

Tonight: Killzone 2
Tomorrow: Gears of War 2

 

If it's any consolation, I didn't get into the Home beta

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[Arbys Roast Beef Sandwich]

Got in and I didn't even sign up for shit. But I also got in the R2 beta so...

[WrikaWrek]

Can't wait for you to tell us how it's the best looking game ever, and how it's the best FPS you've played this gen.


Words that will come from a Resistance fanboy.

[duckman2000]

At first I was thinking that it was because I was in the R2 beta, but I barely even participated in that one. And I've trolled the living shit out of Killzone 2, so it can't be because they like me.

[duckman2000]

Can't wait for you to tell us how it's the best looking game ever, and how it's the best FPS you've played this gen.


Words that will come from a Resistance fanboy.

I know it is really fucking hard for a fanboy shitcake and aggressively mediocre debater such as yourself to wrap your head around this concept, but it's perfectly possible to have a strong bias and still offer honest impressions. Of course, your parade of flailing dumb could have been halted before hitting the shitpit had you bothered with checking out the impressions that this Resistance fanboy gave of Resistance as this Resistance fanboy played the beta.

As for saying that it's the best looking game ever, I may very well end up saying that. But then that would because it's a pretty god damned striking looking game, and you'd have to be a shit eating idiot to argue otherwise. How good of an FPS it is remains to be seen. If it makes you feel better to preemptively attack future impressions due to some imaginary fanboy treatment of games, then go ahead. Mind, though, that this says less about me than it does about your own pathetic self.

[demi]

duckman destroyed... killzone 2 confirmed shit, fanboy confirmed

[WrikaWrek]

ahahaha, fucker, i knew you click to see the post even though you have me on ignore.

Total Sony cigarillo loser.

[duckman2000]

It's my thread, and I actually felt like responding to something distinguished mentally-challenged. You certainly didn't disappoint me there. I see you're also preemptively controlling positive impressions via the outside link thread. So pathetic, and made far more so by your initial "but I'm not a fanboy" bullshit as you started posting on this board.

[WrikaWrek]

He clicked again,

cry cry

[duckman2000]

And I'm going to keep clicking, and responding, and you're going to keep making yourself look out of place around here. Trolling is great, pathetic  fanboy defense at all costs is just that, pathetic.

[duckman2000]

*wakes up when a tumbleweed hits head, goes back to sleep*

That wasn't a tumble weed, those were my pubes!

Are your pubes on a road trip?

[WrikaWrek]

[duckman2000]

I guess that's the cue to join in the yawning. Pathetic and boring, what a winning combination!

[WrikaWrek]

Hey duckman, are you reading this?





























































































what a cigarillo

[duckman2000]

STOP. If you start talking about the name, Wollan will come here and talk about how it should have been called Kin. Is that what you want?

[WrikaWrek]

More like Jin Roh.

[T234]

feggits please

[Brehvolution]

Preemptive damage controll by xfags is delicious.

[duckman2000]

Did you get an invite? I won't have control of the TV or living room until around Midnight. :/

[y2kev]

Rare
Custom 360 engine

.......banjo

[duckman2000]

  Perfect irrelevance

[cool breeze]

what is even going on

[y2kev]

nothing

[duckman2000]

I have Killzone 2, they don't. Wrikawrek, the eurowigger clown who entered EB with a bold denial of his own fanboy nature, is doing his damndest to pre-label any potentially positive impressions of Killzone 2 as fanboy lore. Pathetic, but a somewhat amusing concern given the NDA.

I think that about sums it up.

[cool breeze]

why would it be called Kin? I don't get it.  I only really fully played the PSP Killzone and I don't remember the story of that at all.  Killzone made perfect sense for that game considering there was a zone where you would kill people in.  

[duckman2000]

why would it be called Kin? I don't get it.  I only really fully played the PSP Killzone and I don't remember the story of that at all.  Killzone made perfect sense for that game considering there was a zone where you would kill people in.  

I have NO idea. I just know that whenever a discussion of the game's name crops up, Wollan comes running with his "they should have stuck with Kin!"

If I was to venture a guess, I'd say it's because of the blood relationship between the ISA and the Helghast. But then you could argue that it would be a good name for any game that pits human against human.

[y2kev]

Kin, which means family of course, highlights the relationship between the helghast and the ISA troops. It's a much better name.

It's cool. I think it might be much better of a name if the story was, like, more valuable or something.

[duckman2000]

^ Old

I actually thought the story in even the first game was well above par. It was absolutely shit-ruined by the clowniness of the characters and their god damned in-game dialog, but the story was pretty alright.

[cool breeze]

wait, so the story of Killzone is about a civil war or something like that? I'm pretty sure you kill the Helghats in the game, so I'm assuming the ISA guys are good.  I thought they were aliens and all that.

[y2kev]

wait, so the story of Killzone is about a civil war or something like that? I'm pretty sure you kill the Helghats in the game, so I'm assuming the ISA guys are good.  I thought they were aliens and all that.

sort of....

imagine if black people moved to another planet instead of starting the civil rights movement. and then years later they struck back at the white people.

that's killzone.

[drohne]

i never get into nothin

well, i guess i got a late r2 beta invite, but i'd rather i hadn't -- its coop mode is so shitty that i've lost enthusiasm for the actual game, even though it wasn't the coop i was looking forward to

[duckman2000]

Er, you have the ISA which are basically the good guys. Their planet, Vekta, was in the first game invaded by the Helghast, people who left Vekta to colonize Helghan. Hostile environments made them sick, later strong, and their system is a military dictatorship. It's basically WW2, with some intrigue, "unexpected" friendships and betrayal. Killzone 2 deals with the ISA bringing it to Helghan.
The story in KZ1 wasn't bad.

[cool breeze]

wait, so the story of Killzone is about a civil war or something like that? I'm pretty sure you kill the Helghats in the game, so I'm assuming the ISA guys are good.  I thought they were aliens and all that.

sort of....

imagine if black people moved to another planet instead of starting the civil rights movement. and then years later they struck back at the white people.

that's killzone.

I guess the name Kin does work a bit better

and this is a bit random, but they are actually making a Resistance book and coimc...that's surprising

[duckman2000]

i never get into nothin

well, i guess i got a late r2 beta invite, but i'd rather i hadn't -- its coop mode is so shitty that i've lost enthusiasm for the actual game, even though it wasn't the coop i was looking forward to

Yeah, the beta combined with SP impressions from people I trust has put R2 on the back burner for now. I really wasn't expecting that to happen.

[T234]

feggits please

[y2kev]

insomniac is like the kid in high school that always STUDIES REALLY HARD and always TALKS ABOUT HOW HARD HE IS STUDYING and ALWAYS LOOKS LIKE THEY ARE WORKING HARD and then gets a B- on every exam

They need to break this game a year (or more...) cycle right now.

[duckman2000]

Indeed. I have a lot of respect for their turn around, and these aren't incomplete games by any stretch, but it might be wise of them to stop banking on their reputation as "those Insomniacs," and give themselves a few years to craft a masterpiece. You have to wonder what they could do with an additional couple of years, given what they can already produce.

[Don Flamenco]

I'm interested to see how KZ2 turns out.  KZ1 was shit...had the worst framerate and awkward shooting, though amazing graphics.  It seemed like another game built up to be a Halo killer, only to suck shit and die on day 1, never to be heard from again.  But here we are, it's the corner stone of the PS3 at the moment.

[duckman2000]

KZ1 had a lot of very good components, like music, weapons and industrial designs and such, but no good game to tie these components to. I think that and the fact that it's very marketable are the reasons that Sony has given it so much support. I'm excited about checking out the beta in large part due to my dislike of the first one.

[Smooth Groove]

KZ2 will most likely be just another PS3 title that fails to measure up to mythical standards. 

[Arbys Roast Beef Sandwich]

Now downloading. Sony's servers are shit.

[Draft]

Change the thread title to Altogether Andrews meltdown. Words words words words. Christ, man, you don't need to write a book every time you get into a distinguished mentally-challenged fellow argument.

[duckman2000]

Ah, Draft. You will be happy to know that the much talked about and demonstrated cover fire system is in fact completely absent from MP.

[Smooth Groove]

How are the graphics?  They're basically the one reason why I still care about KZ2 at all. 

[Arbys Roast Beef Sandwich]

How are the graphics?  They're basically the one reason why I still care about KZ2 at all. 

They're pretty sweet. Totally blow R2 out of the water at least. Love the environments too, hella detailed. Pretty good stuff overall but not as good as the initial bullshots led us to believe.

[duckman2000]

How are the graphics?  They're basically the one reason why I still care about KZ2 at all. 

Remember Resistance 2? Yeah, neither will anyone else.

How are the graphics?  They're basically the one reason why I still care about KZ2 at all. 

They're pretty sweet. Totally blow R2 out of the water at least. Love the environments too, hella detailed. Pretty good stuff overall but not as good as the initial bullshots led us to believe.

Which bullshots are you referring to? It doesn't match the original trailer, but it more than matches the realtime trailer.

[Arbys Roast Beef Sandwich]

this for one. the lighting, although REALLY great, doesn't match what they initially showed. not that I care/am complaining, the game still looks pretty neat nonetheless.

[duckman2000]

I'm going to have to play it again to check; things have been pretty hectic in matches. I still don't understand why I'm doing so poorly. I aim, shoot, and die.

[Arbys Roast Beef Sandwich]

stupid question but can you play this with a USB keyboard/mouse? I don't play a lot of console FPS' so I'm doing really bad as well.

[MrAngryFace]

Question, serious non-troll question. Overall, does Resistance 1 look better than Resistance 2? As an aside, is Resistance 2 at least as good a game? Ive been hearing things...

[FatalT]

Question, serious non-troll question. Overall, does Resistance 1 look better than Resistance 2? As an aside, is Resistance 2 at least as good a game? Ive been hearing things...

Single player so far has been okay, nothing amazing. On the other hand, co-op kicks fucking ass.

[duckman2000]

I've only played the MP beta so someone else would have to answer about SP (there is allegedly a big difference), but MP felt far more detailed and technically more "impressive", but me personally, I preferred the cleaner, less detailed style of Resistance 1. MP also felt overly bloomy, to the point of appearing blurred and smeared. Not a good look, IMO. But I think objectively speaking, everything leans heavily in favor of Resistance 2.

Now Killzone, on the other hand, is hot. I thought Ratchet looked great in its way, and Uncharted was impressive in its way, but this is truly a cut above. It presents a cohesive, very strong artistic vision, powered by what's now obviously very solid and stable technology. The last bit is the most surprising of all, to me.

[duckman2000]

stupid question but can you play this with a USB keyboard/mouse? I don't play a lot of console FPS' so I'm doing really bad as well.

I don't think so. You may want to give the FragFX a shot.

[Tieno]

At first I was thinking that it was because I was in the R2 beta, but I barely even participated in that one. And I've trolled the living shit out of Killzone 2, so it can't be because they like me.

No you haven't.

[duckman2000]

At first I was thinking that it was because I was in the R2 beta, but I barely even participated in that one. And I've trolled the living shit out of Killzone 2, so it can't be because they like me.

No you haven't.

Oh really, are we going to lie now? I've been temporarily swayed into blindness by the presentation, but I've rarely lost sight of what this is a sequel to. Always loved the industrial designs and artistic vision, but that's about all the good I've had to say about it, until they started showing off more of an apparently functional game, and of multiplayer in particular. But sure, if you think you can back your shit up, go for it.

[Tieno]

At first I was thinking that it was because I was in the R2 beta, but I barely even participated in that one. And I've trolled the living shit out of Killzone 2, so it can't be because they like me.

No you haven't.

Oh really, are we going to lie now?

Come on duckman, you've always said you were excited for the marketting opportunities Sony has due to the KZ2 graphics and artstyle. Repeatedly you've said you think KZ2 could be big and that you're very excited for but still 'manage' expectations because of KZ1. I

You troll Rare, not Sony or KZ2. If you think that's trolling you're not fit for EB.