What's wrong with Dark Sector?

[Wayneguard]

I remember when Dark Sector came out. Everyone meh'd. I waited, like always, until it was $12 in the bargain bin before I bought it. I finished it in one day and was fucking amazed. Maybe I'm just too easy to please but why does everyone hate Dark Sector?

 

[delet]

Because the game isn't finished and for those unlucky enough to have bought it for full price, it wasn't worth it at all. Allow me to list a good few of the problems.

-Horrid pacing, I finished it in 4 days because 4 different times the pacing got so bad I just had to put it down for the rest of the day.

-Horrid melee, the fact that enemies will too often pop up in front of you, you'd think the melee option would work a little better, and yet it's utterly worthless.

-Bad bosses, the only actually good boss fight was the second to last one, and that was just a rinse and repeat boss. The giant ape took far too long no matter what you did, the invisible dog instakilled you half way through unless you figured out where it disappeared to, and the final boss was just plain generic and easy.

-Horrid story, really, the key point as to why you don't turn into any of those other generic zombies is completely unmentioned inside the game (You have a disease that makes it so you don't feel pain, so you don't go insane from the pain) and the story is otherwise just completely horrible.

-Plenty of glitches, self explanatory.

That's only a few of the problems I have with the game. It had potential, it did, but it simply wasn't a finished game. The Glaive was brilliant though; I never got bored of that.

 

[Altorin]

I got it for 5 bucks and it was well worth that price, but like the guy said, it was panned for being not worth 60 bucks at ALL

the story was entirely forgettable.. Bosses 1hitting you on normal is inexcusable.. a complete lack of melee options until you get stealth (about 5/6 of the way through the game)..

The game is a really good bargain bin title.

 

[aPod]

12 bucks doesn't seem too bad a price for it to be honest. You can't really complain about anything that only costs 12 bucks, unless that thing happens to give you herpes.

I only rented it and I disliked it, pretty much because of what Aby_Z said, but I still say it's not bad for what you paid.

herpes is never cool... even when you get it for free.

For $12 its worth a purchase and the game probable feels great at that bargain but low and behold games even shit games cost $60 here in the US even though their real value is much lower. So in that regard the meh's were well deserved.

 

[Yostbeef]

Because the game isn't finished and for those unlucky enough to have bought it for full price, it wasn't worth it at all. Allow me to list a good few of the problems.

-Horrid pacing, I finished it in 4 days because 4 different times the pacing got so bad I just had to put it down for the rest of the day.

-Horrid melee, the fact that enemies will too often pop up in front of you, you'd think the melee option would work a little better, and yet it's utterly worthless.

-Bad bosses, the only actually good boss fight was the second to last one, and that was just a rinse and repeat boss. The giant ape took far too long no matter what you did, the invisible dog instakilled you half way through unless you figured out where it disappeared to, and the final boss was just plain generic and easy.

-Horrid story, really, the key point as to why you don't turn into any of those other generic zombies is completely unmentioned inside the game (You have a disease that makes it so you don't feel pain, so you don't go insane from the pain) and the story is otherwise just completely horrible.

-Plenty of glitches, self explanatory.

That's only a few of the problems I have with the game. It had potential, it did, but it simply wasn't a finished game. The Glaive was brilliant though; I never got bored of that.

Yeah that whole pain thing was that ever mentioned in the game i only remember reading about but yeah you pretty much said it all while the game was functional it had no inspiration. I guess its finally found its place in the bargain bin that d makes it worth a play through and the god awful story can make for a good laugh. One of things that dis appointed me was no New Game +(carry over weapons,powers etc.)If only they took the last 3 weeks before release implementing that instead of a multi-player mode.

HAHAHA that shit came out of no where i remember reading about that game for a while and less than month before it came they came out of nowhere hype as hell about it.

 

[Disaster Button]

I don't even remember the story, or if I finished it or not it was that bad.

It was just so dry and incredibly repetitive repetitive.

 

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Yeah that whole pain thing was that ever mentioned in the game i only remember reading about but yeah you pretty much said it all while the game was functional it had no inspiration. I guess its finally found its place in the bargain bin that d makes it worth a play through and the god awful story can make for a good laugh. One of things that dis appointed me was no New Game +(carry over weapons,powers etc.)If only they took the last 3 weeks before release implementing that instead of a multi-player mode.

HAHAHA that shit came out of no where i remember reading about that game for a while and less than month before it came they came out of nowhere hype as hell about it.

Oh, the multiplayer. I tried out all 2 of the modes there and was lucky enough to find moderately full games.

The first mode I played involved having two suped up 'mutated' type characters, one who looked like the main character, and the other who had that fancy suit you get at the end of the game (Which, I must mention, it is never mentioned why you go through hell to get that thing. No benefits, no 'It's make you stronger-er!', just that that other guy had one like it...)

The goal is simply to kill the other team's mutant, which is pretty much impossible if you're a normal player. If you kill the other team's mutant, you get to become the mutant next round. I was lucky enough to sneak up on the enemy team's mutant early on in my playthrough and I snapped his neck. For the next 4 rounds, it was just me and the other team's mutant 1 v 1, battling it out by hiding behind pillars and shooting at each other, then going invisible and trying to sneak behind the other guy and snap his neck. This, I actually had fun with... until on the fourth round I nearly died and retreated safety behind a wall... to find that some random guy on the other team had found me and insta-killed me by snapping my neck.

Next, I tried the game mode where there's only one infected and everyone is trying to kill him. If you kill him, you become the infected. In this match, there was also AI playing. The thing that I found sad was the fact that when I actually tried to kill the guy, I couldn't touch him, yet later on when I had gotten bored and decided to be the 'life of the party' for the attackers, saying such things as "Hugs!" and "I just want love! Why don't you accept my love!" while I ran straight into the infected played and tried to hit B for an instant kill; a tactic that was usually met with my character being split in half. With that tactic, I was able to become the infected a total of 3 times, which was 3 times more than when I was actually trying to become the infected.

I found that, after becoming the infected, it was actually boring and nowhere near as fun as being suicidal.

So, the afterthought multiplayer was... meh. It was just above horrible and it was possible to have fun, but not in the way it was intended.

 

[Loop Stricken]

I likemit.

Not finished it.

I'm on some boss thatlooks like a roman centurion and I just can't work out wtf to do

also the reaon for the bosysuit is just silly. msotly 'cos apparetly it was adapted form the original script that diudn't include technocyte virus or something

Apoligies for sdplling, have bene drinking.

 

[delet]

I likemit.

Not finished it.

I'm on some boss thatlooks like a roman centurion and I just can't work out wtf to do

also the reaon for the bosysuit is just silly. msotly 'cos apparetly it was adapted form the original script that diudn't include technocyte virus or something

Apoligies for sdplling, have bene drinking.

Holy hell, your spelling is horrid....

Remember kids, don't drink and type!

On a more helpful note, the boss you're talking about (I think) is that one 'really old' dog thing that turns invisible, right? After you damage it enough, it'll crawl up a spire and dissapear. What you actually need to do here is turn around opposite of the pole it climbed up, look around the pole that is opposite the one the dog climbed up, and you'll see a wall with two or three pipes in it. The doggy comes out of those holes and if you weren't able to notice that (Which I couldn't for about 4 times...) then it'll bomb you and kill you instantly. All you have to do is shoot it a few times, or run up to it and press B, or both (I forget exactly which) and you'll beat it.

 

[CloggedDonkey]

Well, I really liked it, and I really didn't see too many glitches. Sure the story was stupid, a lot of the powers where unexplained, and it did over all feel like a bad anime movie, but I liked it.

 

[Loop Stricken]

I likemit.

Not finished it.

I'm on some boss thatlooks like a roman centurion and I just can't work out wtf to do

also the reaon for the bosysuit is just silly. msotly 'cos apparetly it was adapted form the original script that diudn't include technocyte virus or something

Apoligies for sdplling, have bene drinking.

Holy hell, your spelling is horrid....

Remember kids, don't drink and type!

I'm normally immaculate. Alas.

[edit] I don#'t remember any sire dog! Maybe IU'm not as far in as i hoguht!!

 

[delet]

I likemit.

Not finished it.

I'm on some boss thatlooks like a roman centurion and I just can't work out wtf to do

also the reaon for the bosysuit is just silly. msotly 'cos apparetly it was adapted form the original script that diudn't include technocyte virus or something

Apoligies for sdplling, have bene drinking.

Holy hell, your spelling is horrid....

Remember kids, don't drink and type!

I'm normally immaculate. Alas.

[edit] I don#'t remember any sire dog! Maybe IU'm not as far in as i hoguht!!

Well, if that's not the one you're talking about, then it must be the dude who stabs you in the shoulder in the very beginning of the game, which means you're at the end of chapter 9. I actually had a lot of fun with that fight, but alas I don't remember exactly how I defeated him.