Xzi said:
Squilookle said:
I still don't get why everyone's so hyped about it. I'm not trying to hate- I actually wish someone could tell me why it's so good to get me excited too. The inclusion of bots already has me half sold, and Mirror's Edge controls sounds interesting... but is there anything else that makes it so 'wow'?
Well you missed the limitless character/class/weapon customization and objective-based gameplay (ala Team Fortress 2). Obviously it's a shooter, so again, there's only so much it can do different, but the things it does do different warrant a positive reaction. Shooters have been moving backwards as of late in terms of returning us to the simple deathmatch-style gameplay, and this puts the genre back on the track to innovation and forward-thinking.
Well OK, that's good. But is there an alternative to Iron Sights? I.E. a way to zoom in slightly without your gun blocking off the bottom half of the screen? Also is getting 'incapacitated' a togglable option? It was by far the most maddeningly annoying thing about BF2, and something no old-school arena deathmatcher would dream of including.
strangeotron said:
It's more to do with the devs attitude to the genre. They have gone out their way to say al the right things about what a fps experience should dekliver, rather than parrot the usual pro-killstreak crap. This game looks good...but every online game i've played over the last year has not worked properly, and this game is p2p on consoles. I doubt there will be a demo, but this game looks good to me.
Well yeah, but wasn't Bulletstorm all about the exact same thing? Why would this fare any better than that?