Bulletstorm

[Sky]

R Lee Ermey IS a first person shooter.

[Vaiti]

They ran an X-Play special with R Lee Ermey blowing up Brian Posehn's butthole.

Actually the game looked like a lot of silly fun.

Had to find this after you said it existed.

http://n4g.com/news/705192/bulletstorm-full-metal-jacket-parody-video-with-r-lee-ermey-and-brian-posehn/com

[tgr]

I dream of an alternate universe where this was released without live id.

[kildorn]

I cannot stop seeing the main character as Jack Black.

edit: took a stab at multiplayer. While fun.. people don't GET how this game works, and it's a multiplayer mode where someone not getting it messes everything up. A lot like AC2's multi: someone just running around spamming low point kills is doing it wrong.

[Sophismata]

A lot like AC2's multi: someone just running around spamming low point kills is doing it wrong.

AC2?

[Rendakor]

Should have been AC:B, Assassin's Creed Brotherhood.

[Sophismata]

Should have been AC:B, Assassin's Creed Brotherhood.

Makes way more sense. I read Asheron's Call 2 there for some reason.

[K9]

That was my first thought too.

[Tarami]

Got to play this today for about half an hour... what a fucking disappointment. First person GoW and not one fucking thing more. Rails, rails, rails. Jump here, shoot there, take a shit now, uninstall to keep brain cells.

[Hawkbit]

I got the same from the demo.  It'll probably sell well for the masses, but I'm past games like this now.

[Tarami]

Yeah. I found it... amusing and ironic how while they've been hyping the whole "kill with skill" thing, they've removed every goddamn shred of classic FPS skill. You can't even JUMP for Christ's sake. When I was supposed (you know, in that "you have five seconds to comply, or we'll make you start over from the checkpoint ten seconds back!"-way) to jump off a platform I couldn't even walk off the edge, I had to walk up to it and press "R" to... interact with the edge or something. That was about the point I gave back the controls.

And it's a terribly shitty console port when played on PC.

I thought you were good guys, People Can Fly. I really did.

[Azazel]

Wait? What? No Jump? Press X to interact by Jumping?

paging Tgr and Consolitis in 3.. 2.. 1..

[Tarami]

No, no jumping. There are hotspots you can interact with to jump somewhere specific (down a hole et c.) but you can't jump unless the game needs you to. Nor can you vault over things in general, or walk off edges or fall off cliffs. Ladders you've climbed down you can't climb back up. Et cetera. If they had figured out a way to stop you from turning around, I'm sure it would have been implemented.

You can slide though, like your pants were made out of Crisco. Kinda fun, but lacks utility in terms of maneuverability. Just don't slide too far ahead, if you get beyond a given point you're insta-killed.

Basically you run through a pretty corridor and follow instructions, like a single, long quicktime event.

[Samwise]

Basically you run through a pretty corridor and follow instructions, like a single, long quicktime event.

That's sorta the impression I got from the gameplay trailer I saw, but you put it in words better than I could.  All I could think was that it looked really console-y somehow but I couldn't figure out how.

[schild]

As I've said in many other places, there's only one way to describe this game:

Gears of LOL.

[tgr]

Wait? What? No Jump? Press X to interact by Jumping?

paging Tgr and Consolitis in 3.. 2.. 1..

Don't need to, everyone else is doing that job for me without using that specific word.

I fell off the buyers list the instant its steam store page said windows live, looks like the only thing it even has going for it (from my POV) is "hey, dicktits" etc. Oh well, back to arena. vOv

[UnSub]

Just don't slide too far ahead, if you get beyond a given point you're insta-killed.

... what?

[Tarami]

Just don't slide too far ahead, if you get beyond a given point you're insta-killed.

... what?

Yes. While you in theory can run past all the mobs that spawn, every combat section has a hard line you cannot cross or you will be insta-killed. It's basically an invisible wall that kills you, to stop you from progressing without clearing out all mobs.

[K9]

haha, oh wow.

Full.Retard

[cironian]

Yeah, that one fact just singlehandedly changed my opinion from "got to pick this up when it gets cheaper" to "uh, no".

[Azazel]

Just mucked about with the demo on 360, which I must have downloaded when it first became available, since I'd forgotten I already had it.

I had been hyped for this game a few weeks ago. After playing the demo, and completely aside from all the shit being slung about the game in this thread, this game is shit. It looks good for what it is, albeit like every other Unreal Engine game, ever. A bit busy, maybe. But really, gameplay is where it's at. The lack of jump button wasn't that bad or even noticable in practice, since it's just context-sensitive leaps over chest-high barriers. Nor did I see the "run too far - die" invisible barriers. Even the "Tough guy for 14-year-olds" theme didn't break it for me.

The game was simply shit. Not fun to play as a shooter. Too concerned with being Scorpion's long-lost half-brother, saying "Get over here!" sinking in the slipper, and shooting in 3 seconds of slow-mo. I just found it to be an overly-busy but poor shooter. I don't even hate console shooters. But my god, do not buy this on PC! It's clearly a heavily console-centric game, and not fun at that. I can't imagine how appalling this would be on PC. Tgr will visit you in your sleep.

[Lantyssa]

Nor did I see the "run too far - die" invisible barriers.

That would be difficult, yes.

[Sky]