Do want.
I really hope they give the setting more life to it than the original Mirror's Edge. The city was completely empty, silent, and way too clean.
Mirror's Edge 2 Announced
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Do want.
I really hope they give the setting more life to it than the original Mirror's Edge. The city was completely empty, silent, and way too clean.
Colour me convinced that this is going to be an Xbone exclusive, until fan demand manages to metaphorically twist EA's arm into releasing a halfway-decent PC port.DrunkenElfMage said:
The pessimistic side of me reminds me that this is a game from EA. You just KNOW they're going to muck this game up somehow. Most likely they're going to add an always-on element, for all I know, EA and DICE might give it a story that's exactly like the previous game; too short and chock full of holes, and adding little depth to the previous game's setting. The free-running mechanic might be made even dumber, there might still be claustrophobic tunnel sections, and the game might focus more on fighting than actual parkour; dropping all the appeal that the previous game had, and making it more identical with the other generic shooters in EA's lineup.
Hell, from what I can see in the trailer the game's already more grey than the previous game ever was (hopefully there's a way to adjust the game's color filters). And there's definitely going to be fight sections likely made up of repetitive quicktime events.
Still, the optimistic side of me is just squealing over how Mirror's Edge is back and more beautiful than ever. The first game was flawed, and this game just might improve on it significantly. And thank god, EA didn't do the stupid thing and made this game a console exclusive.
I expect this game to suck, but I sincerely hope that it doesn't.
Hell, from what I can see in the trailer the game's already more grey than the previous game ever was (hopefully there's a way to adjust the game's color filters). And there's definitely going to be fight sections likely made up of repetitive quicktime events.
Still, the optimistic side of me is just squealing over how Mirror's Edge is back and more beautiful than ever. The first game was flawed, and this game just might improve on it significantly. And thank god, EA didn't do the stupid thing and made this game a console exclusive.
I expect this game to suck, but I sincerely hope that it doesn't.
Oh gosh, oh gosh!! I'm so hyped!!
I love the new look of Faith! So cool!! But exclusive? Gahdangit Microsoft!!
I love the new look of Faith! So cool!! But exclusive? Gahdangit Microsoft!!
Actually I tested that and you can finnish the entire mirrors edge game by only engaging one group of guys in the game (it's where you have to open one of those turn doors). you can run past and not engage the rest on even the hardest difficulty (without using the glitch jump), doors you have to open you just dart past click the button and run to safety while you wait for the elevator to open. I have done it, although I have also finished the game like 5x (3x on xbox 2x on pc, it doesn't take long).UNHchabo said:
Personally I am pretty hyped for this, I am however also very concerned, hopefully EA learned there lesson whith dead space 3 that "broadening your audience" and micro transactions don't work. I am also hopping for no drm on the pc version and a steam (or even better a gog) release. (although I find it highly unlikely there will be a steam or gog release). and I hope they focus on a well rounded single player and not some half arced multiplayer (admittedly a race or capture the flag mode...might work)
I would say challenge accepted and upload a walkthrough (as I am tempted to play through it again). But would you honestly care that much to bother watching the whole thing. the only guys I found you have to kill is the ones in that boat level where you have to open a door. although there are other points where it's still just easier out take out the guys instead of run past them. I Do however feel like I am one of the few people who really enjoyed the combat of the original mirrors edge, (much more than pretty much every other melee combat game I have played).1337mokro said:
Well, darn.Mr.Tea said:
Sorry for glossing over the thread, and I'll say this is a huge relief. With the Xbone being the least attractive of the next-gen platforms - at least to me - I'm afraid I'll still be stuck looking at great exclusives from afar. As we'll see this happening for sure: awesome game gets release, press calls it a genre-defining piece or a must-play, but alas, it's on the DRM Leash BDSM à la Orwell Machine.
It's called the teaser trailer... it's not usually truly representative of the game. It's meant to hook people who normally wouldn't look twice.Agayek said:
Wait for E3 before deciding it looks like it's going the wrong way.
First thought fucking finally, second thought please don't be exclusive, and it isn't. So it seemed it was a perfect time to get a Mirror's Edge tattoo.
I just hope it won't get the Dead Space 3 treatment.
I just hope it won't get the Dead Space 3 treatment.
I don't understand how Mirror's edge wasn't a more popular game to begin with.
The graphics were astounding. It had it's own unique aesthetic (white walls, bright colours). Music was great. Plot was pretty mediocre.
Hopefully the sequel will get the attention that it deserved all along.
The graphics were astounding. It had it's own unique aesthetic (white walls, bright colours). Music was great. Plot was pretty mediocre.
Hopefully the sequel will get the attention that it deserved all along.
Mirrors Edge... but EA have become evil since the previous one... But Mirrors Edge... But Origin... But Mirrors Edge...
That is three next gen games that have my interest so far, and two of them don't require an XBone, so not bad.
But then again, I can't help but wonder how the online will be implemented and the micro-transactions.
That is three next gen games that have my interest so far, and two of them don't require an XBone, so not bad.
But then again, I can't help but wonder how the online will be implemented and the micro-transactions.
That was kinda my point. The teaser trailer, the thing meant to hook people, is stressing all the parts of the original game that either didn't work or were after-thoughts at best. It could just be a marketing gimmick, lord knows EA is not above horrifically stupid marketing, but it definitely leaves something of a sour first impression. But the possibility, if not outright likelihood, that it's not, combined with EA's well-documented insistence that everything they make be as close to Call of Duty as possible makes me more than a little nervous about this title.lacktheknack said:
Great! I can't wait! (Although it's going to be a while) Hope they change the title slightly though - even if it is a reboot, having two games with the same title not too far apart in time (relatively speaking, I mean no one's going to confuse Wolfenstien or Tombraider for the more recent games with the same title - way too big of a time gap) but there's still plenty of time in development for that. I learned recently, that for Mirror's Edge the original they brought the writer on board (Rhianna Prachett I think her name was) really late so they had to cut a lot of script at the last second, which might have accounted for the plot not being very inspiring. Hopefully DICE will learn from their mistakes and be thinking about writing from the beginning this time so that the script matches the game being made rather than being crammed in during crunch time.
Mirrors edge was the game that got me into Parkour, so I owe some loyalty to faith as a character. That being said the entire theme of the game is freedom from oppression, so if it is locked to specific consoles or platforms (such as Origin) I will not buy it out of principal.