Poll: Vanquish Demo. Thoughts?

[Jkudo]

Terrible. The guns felt weak, the music was mildly irritating, the melee was abysmal, the voice acting was atrocious, the enemies not fun to fight, vaulting over cover was clunky, and the ending boss battle atrociously boring.

The sliding was incredibly fun, however, gave it a great sense of mobility.

Hmm, you are entitled to your opinion, but strangely i got the exact opposite impression(except for the music, i didn't even notice). The melee animations seemed so cool and over the top, especially the speed punches. The sliding super kick was awesome as well. I liked the voice acting except for one character, vaulting felt solid to me, clunky maybe 5% of the time. And i can see how you can find the boss battle boring, but i decided to just keep moving. I was sliding under the robot and shooting to get to a downed ally. The boss fight wasn't spectacular(i did enjoy the quicktime event) but a lot of it was what you made it.

I followed this game the moment it was announced . I'm just hoping it varies enough.

 

[hazabaza1]

It was freaking awesome. Ridiculous, over the top, and I think that my only complaint is how little knee boost power you have.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

It was fun up until I got one hit killed by the checkpointless boss, at which point I knew I would never touch the game again.

When you get to the boss's second form there is a checkpoint. Looks like you might have to touch it again.

There wasn't for me. I got one hit killed and had to start the entire fight again twice, and said 'fuck this'.

It was when he turned into robot form and shot the big orangey lazer gun thing out of his belly. I also read an online review where the same thing happened to the reviewer so I know it wasn't just me:

http://www.theeasymode.com/play/demotopia/demotopia-vanquish-velocity-attack.html

 

[sneakypenguin]

it was horrible, ill outline issues with it when I'm near a pc if anyone cares to hear lol .

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

It has a smoke button.

SOLD.

We need more zany over-the-top shooters.

Too much focus on story in today's gaming world...

 

[Withall]

In my experience, it is a properly intense third-person shooter. And it has done something very impressive: put the "Armored Core"-style shooter into a proper third-person version. Hectic and unforgiving if you're careless. Very arcade-y. A good rental, at the very least.

 

[Phoenixmgs_v1legacy]

This is my most anticipated game of the holiday season, and the demo was just awesome. The other games I'm most interested in are Majin and the Forsaken Kingdom, Enslaved, and Castlevania.

Vanquish is kind of a game where it is what you make of it, it's all about making it stylish and fun. You can play this game as a straight cover shooter and it would be extremely boring, and you'd be playing it wrong. The only reason to use cover is to jump over it in slow-mo or smoke a cigarette.

How is this not awesome?

 

[The_Deleted]

Word is there is another demo on the way from later in the game to show us what it can really do...
OMG!
The game is shaping up to be the tits.

 

[Hazy]

I found the game pretty stupid. The only nice touch is the slo-mo when aiming in certain situations. Other then that it looks awfull, the fact that the guy starts smoking while his teammates are getting slaughtered by a huge robot right in front of him is just plain stupid, it doesnt even make the character cool, just a douchebag.
And he slides... seriously!? WTF?

People seem to like the game so I guess its just me.

I think you're looking at it from the perspective of a serious game, to which I will reiterate: it's being directed by Shinji Mikami.
I don't think he could make a serious game to save his life.

Spoiler: In other words:

 

[REAPER5594]

meh, it's alright. kinda' seems like "BULLET TIME-THE GAME" but we'll look into it further. and yes, we did just refer to ourselves as "we".

 

[josemlopes]

I found the game pretty stupid. The only nice touch is the slo-mo when aiming in certain situations. Other then that it looks awfull, the fact that the guy starts smoking while his teammates are getting slaughtered by a huge robot right in front of him is just plain stupid, it doesnt even make the character cool, just a douchebag.
And he slides... seriously!? WTF?

People seem to like the game so I guess its just me.

I think you're looking at it from the perspective of a serious game, to which I will reiterate: it's being directed by Shinji Mikami.
I don't think he could make a serious game to save his life.

Spoiler: In other words:

Well, I see your point, the game isnt to take serious, the problem is that it looks like it is serious in some aspects. It could try to make fun of the generic macho space marines aspect but it never does, he just looks like another generic macho space marine, without making fun of it.

Look at Serious Sam or Duke Nukem for example, they make fun of the Stallone and Schwarzenegger type of characters in their movies with the one liners and looks.

I dont know. Maybe it tries to stay real a bit to hard. Its not like Bayoneta, Saints Row 2, Serious Sam and Duke Nukem. Now those are games that dont take themselfs too serious.

I blame the teaser used to announce the game, the first impression that I got from the game was not that it tried to be funny.

 

[MrGalactus]

I had no idea what to do. Did not like it at all.

 

[Nouw]

I loathed the voice acting and the characters. The slide is really useful to escape, the slow motion thing is hard to activate, checkpointless boss could easily ruin the game and the weapons are just 'bleh' Nothing special about them at all. It's too meaty.

The Demo was round about 3 and a 1/2 stars for me.

 

[AgentNein]

Wish they would attach the fucking awesome sliding mechanic to a better game...

Agreed.

Take the Jetpack from Dark Void, and the sliding mechanic from Vanquish, and put them in a game together with better acting, characters, and shooting mechanics, and I'm sold.

That sounds like it might just be the best game ever. Truth.

 

[HT_Black]

It was fifteen minutes of concentrated badass. It's like someone took the Crysis suit and ratcheted the speed setting up to twenty. I liked it a lot, to say the least; and yet, the qiet, primal part of my brain that's invariably right about every question I've ever asked tells me that I shouldn't drop $60 so readily, because the demo is concealing some horrible unnoticed game-ruining flaw from me.

...Sure, it was right about Crackdown 2 and Heavenly Sword and Grand Theft Auto and Stalin Vs. Martians and Bioshock 2...But maybe it's wrong just this once?

 

[Zackary Yakumo]

Remember how Goldeneye 007 and HalO: CE wewre revoltuionizing? heres t5he next one.

 

[Someperson307]

I never knew about this until I played the demo. It seems pretty fun.

 

[Aiddon_v1legacy]

this is the kind of thing TPS's NEED

 

[Worgen]

It was really lame and generic mostly, with alot of overacting, and they were really trying to pound in that he is a "Tough Guy" and he is just a lameo

everyone knows that real tough guy lets his allies die off, because they are pussies, then kills all the things that killed his allies with ease to show any who are still alive how much of pussies they are

 

[Hazy]

So.. The game is going to be difficult?

Cuz I'm sold.

See that difficulty setting down at the bottom? Oh hell yes.
[sub][sub]I would have liked to play Hard mode during the demo, though. Normal was far too easy.[/sub][/sub]