Ironwood
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It is ?
Does that mean I have my shitty overpaid job again ?
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"Mr Soft Owl has Seen Some Shit." - Sun Tzu
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Azazel
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I know. It was more a response to Azazel.
As I said, I stopped giving a fuck awhile back now. I'm just  and laughing now. |
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UnSub
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Coming soon : PAWN. A lone man, working in a gritty, dirty grid of squares. Some are white. Some are....black. Starring Bishop and Horsie.*
*Screenshots not representative of gameplay or graphics.
PAWN: A world of black and white will now run red. PAWN: Queen's Knight to Shotgun. PAWN: Loyal to the King. In love with the Queen. It used to be just a game, but now it is ... personal. |
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Azazel
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I would totally watch that movie.  |
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rk47
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Don't forget the Bishop and Rook DLC.
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Colonel Sanders is back in my wallet
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I would totally watch that movie. You'd wait until it entered the discount bin though.  |
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tgr
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Just another victim of cyber age discrimination.
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And I'd avoid it because it would invariably have DRM on it.  |
Cyno's lit, bridge is up, but one pilot won't be jumping home.
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Sky
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Watching an FPS game obviously being played with a pad is seriously depressing.
Watching Obliv....Skyrim gave me the same feeling. It's almost like the in-game character has some sort of retardation. |
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stray
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Fucking awesome. Just what I wanted.
Excuse me while I play a session of Shadowrun on my Xbox, so I can be prepared for more of this quality entertainment. I can barely contain myself.
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LK
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Sky
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Don't want to beat the horse about watching FPS played with a controller, but  It's SO BAD. Game looks interesting, if a bit brutal. |
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tgr
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I have to agree, the (ab)use of the syndicate name aside, it does look surprisingly interesting. I don't like the snapping to structures, shooting around corners etc, autoaim etc, and the fact it's going to be published by EA automatically disqualifies it for me, but I have to admit the world looks (at least superficially, it depends whether or not it actually holds up over an extended play) interesting enough. And the pistol sounds meaty.
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Cyno's lit, bridge is up, but one pilot won't be jumping home.
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Ironwood
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Wow, I haven't played Deus Ex for almost a week ! Looking forward to this.  |
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Megrim
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There is hardly anything to spoil. Its all very, very telegraphed. Looks to be a pretty, but rather dull rail-shooter. Which is a pity because with EA's resources they can afford to do things like have Michael Wincott voicing a character. |
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Sky
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I love my TV an' hug my TV an' call it 'George'.
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rk47
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Oh look, Deus Ex has co-op now. |
Colonel Sanders is back in my wallet
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Azazel
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Interesting. A throwback in a way to the 4-player teams of the original game, I guess...
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tgr
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I remain unconvinced.
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Cyno's lit, bridge is up, but one pilot won't be jumping home.
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Engels
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A bit busy on the screen, plus looks consoly asa crap.
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I should get back to nature, too. You know, like going to a shop for groceries instead of the computer. Maybe a condo in the woods that doesn't even have a health club or restaurant attached. Buy a car with only two cup holders or something. -Signe
I LIKE being bounced around by Tonkors. - Lantyssa
Babies shooting themselves in the head is the state bird of West Virginia. - schild
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Azazel
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I'll wait and see...
At this point (and for awhile now) I'm treating it as a divergent game based on the same IP.
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taolurker
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Demo for this (on Xbox and PSN) comes out today... and of course there's a problem with EA's servers. VideoGameWriters article about EA MaintenanceOf course, no EA-published release would be complete without a server outage, and Syndicate dutifully fulfilled its end of the bargain here, with the servers ‘currently undergoing maintenance’, as of last report. I cannot confirm this, because I'm only gaming on PC ATM, and the PC version isn't due until the end of the month. edit... err came out yesterday? |
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I used to write for extinct gaming sites
details available here (unused blog about page)
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Kageru
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There seems to be a number of sci-fi shooters coming out, maybe they think the realistic, present day, shooter category is full and are looking for something different. Which will make it interesting when CCP eventually release Dust since they all look sort of similar.
The free remix of the Syndicate theme was worth getting, enough echoes of the original (which wasn't all that great) to hit the nostalgia nerve. Possibly more interesting than the actual trailer.
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ffc
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Played the PS3 coop demo. Took me a bit to figure out the directional pad selects powers and L2 will trigger them and I was frequently unintentionally healing instead of triggering a power.
There will be no multiplayer registration codes so that's good. I think I'm getting this on release in order to fully binge on the co-op.
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I'd like to pick this up for the co-op, but no local multiplayer on consoles, and presumably no Steam on PC's makes it a bit of a no-go for me right now.
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ffc
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Played a bunch on PC. The single-player campaign needs to win several awards. One for managing to have worse boss fights than Deus Ex HR. Another for having a technological breakthrough for bloom effects to not only be blinding but also be painful to look at. And a third for strengthening fingers by having every vent requiring repeated button presses to open, although Syndicate isn't alone in this category.
The multiplayer is fun similarish to Left 4 Dead as shown in the demo. One of the ways you can upgrade your multiplayer character is to get upgrade tokens by extracting a chip from a miniboss in the level. What this means is when the miniboss is low on health, everyone swarms it trying to be the one who gets the chip. More often than not people are swarming in too early and dying. Waltzing up to get the chip before reviving 3 dead teammates surrounding the miniboss still looks funny the tenth time.
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tgr
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So not very worthwhile, then?
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Cyno's lit, bridge is up, but one pilot won't be jumping home.
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jakonovski
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I'm a huge cyberpunk whore and I'm in the Gerstmann camp, ie. I love the game. I've only played the single player so far (almost to the end now), it's not groundbreaking but it's rather entertaining for the 7-8 hours it'll take. The bloom is sometimes a bit much, but it's offset by use of the DICE sound engine. This game also has the best minigun ever.
I had no problems with bossfights, they're the conventional puzzle type where you will have to find the appropriate "rotation" and after that it becomes really easy. I've heard some people cursing the final boss though, but I'm not there yet.
Regarding chip extraction in multiplayer, everyone gets the upgrade so there's no need to ninja loot.
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Azazel
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Looks like sale fodder to me. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
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jakonovski
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The coop can be argued to be the real meat of the game, and it probably won't last past a couple of months. So I'd wait for a big sale because you'll be getting a vastly inferior product if the multiplayer is a ghost town.
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ffc
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I enjoy the coop because when I'm going through a level with 3 others I have a glimpse of what it would be like to be one of the 4 little guys I controlled in the original Syndicate. There are 9 multiplayer maps in total and I am on the 8th. Looking at my completion times they took me anywhere between 12 to 27 minutes a piece to complete on normal. The reason I bought it now was so I could find multiplayer games. And thanks for clearing up the bit about chip extraction, I guess people descend like vultures on the miniboss just to get measly kill points?
In contrast to the multiplayer, the single player campaign does not have that Syndicate feel. Obviously having just one person in the campaign sets a different tone but even with that said it just feels like corridor shooter #45 with bullet sponge enemies which get upgraded from sponges to ShamWows for the mini/bosses. I thought having powers in a cyberpunk setting would vary the formula. Nope. All of the research for powers and weapons is in multiplayer, not in single player. And neat powers like rebooting yourself after death or deploying a virus on a shielded enemy are also only in multiplayer. I would have been happier if the single player campaign was a series of missions (go get a hard drive, go assassinate someone, go escort someone) with choices in between to shape the story. I'm pretty sure I'm next to the final boss in the campaign and I can't bring myself to finish.
Multiplayer is fun. Single player is sadface.
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