Zero Punctuation: Spec Ops: The Line
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I thought SOTL did a valiant effort with the story. It's what sets it apart from other shooters of its ilk. Sure the gameplay is really nothing to write home about, but that can sort of be forgiven.
I'm still playing through it at the moment, but I do enjoy the story.
The scenery is actually fairly colourful and varied, but what do you want them to do apart from that? Make the sand pink? Have soldiers wearing neon orange camouflage?
There's a point where wanting a bit of colour in your games is fair request and there's a point where asking for more colour comes across as being a little pedantic.
I feel many people request colourful games automatically without thinking and regardless of the subject matter.
I'm still playing through it at the moment, but I do enjoy the story.
I still hear this comment made over and over again... (ironic in a way) but I don't see how a game like this could get any more colourful without turning ridiculous.Delicious Anathema said:
The scenery is actually fairly colourful and varied, but what do you want them to do apart from that? Make the sand pink? Have soldiers wearing neon orange camouflage?
There's a point where wanting a bit of colour in your games is fair request and there's a point where asking for more colour comes across as being a little pedantic.
I feel many people request colourful games automatically without thinking and regardless of the subject matter.
Not as grim as Breath of Fire V: Dragon Quarter then? Seriously, that series got darker and darker as it when along. It's amazing how that game wasn't rated a 16+ because of all the grim darkness in it.
I hereby recommend all hardcore hyper-realistic shooter fans go out right now and play this game in its entirety. The ones that resist will be clamped to their game-controllers with their head in a vice Clockwork Orange-style and the ones that get just a little to into it will be quietly led into the back and gassed with the meat being served to food pantries in the New York area alongside the 750 or so geese they euthanized because it interferes with the airport that wasn't there first.
Because if a game makes people depressed, guilty, shameful and physically ill, it should be the target audience. Enjoy your video gaming equivalent of plastic truck nuts, you miserable misanthropic tea-baggers.
Because if a game makes people depressed, guilty, shameful and physically ill, it should be the target audience. Enjoy your video gaming equivalent of plastic truck nuts, you miserable misanthropic tea-baggers.
Well, there you go folks. You've got your nice introspective shooter about the horrors of war and blah blah blah. Now will you stop trying to make me feel guilty about enjoying halo please?
Now I almost feel kind of bad for looking over this with such mere disregard when Steam told me of it's arrival. I'm actually interested. In a war shooter, of all things.
Oh, and I loved Apocalypse Now, and I'd like to read Heart of Darkness once I get through the 10 or so unread books sitting on my shelf.
EDIT: YAHTZEE HAS A NEW BOOK!?
Fine, take my money.
Oh, and I loved Apocalypse Now, and I'd like to read Heart of Darkness once I get through the 10 or so unread books sitting on my shelf.
EDIT: YAHTZEE HAS A NEW BOOK!?
Fine, take my money.
The game does have a good story. Too bad it's only a 6 hour long campaign, but it does have some replay value. I had a feeling he would like the game. It is based on Heard of Darkness after all.
It is definitely a turn in the right direction. I wish more games did something like that. We should be able to feel guilty when we kill a bunch of people. Another brilliant thing Spec Ops: The line did was letting you execute wounded enemies. It feel right because they are suffering, but it is also gruesome and hard to watch because even though they can't be saved they still want to live.KICdude said:
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he LIKED it o.o;; a modern set 'relistic shooter'? and he LIKED it o.0
guess i should probably give it a look then, since Yahtzee and i tend to hate modern FPSs with the amount of fervor
o.0?
0.0!!
he LIKED it o.o;; a modern set 'relistic shooter'? and he LIKED it o.0
guess i should probably give it a look then, since Yahtzee and i tend to hate modern FPSs with the amount of fervor
like your avatarsynobal said:
"Brown shooter" has become synonymous with "Modern shooter that doesn't appeal to what I like". Hell, I've seen people bash Halo of all things for being a "grey-brown shooter".MonkeyPunch said:
OT: Interesting that it managed to implement a powerful story, compared to the swaths cut by other shooters on the market today. Still don't think I'm interested in getting the game itself, but nice to know it's not absolutely terrible in every way possible.
Accounting from most of the reviews, the demo doesn't actually showcase the major selling point of this game - which is the story and the choices made in this story. That was my mian problem with the demo -Zero Serenity said:
Turrent Sequence, Gears of war Gameplay, something with sand, oooh some interesting plot, sandy shooter, etc.
My problem is that a demo should get me interested enough to rate it on the four point graph for me (Day One Buy, Later Buy, Borrow, Not Bothering) higher than not bothering. The game kinda felt like my time with Uncharted (a game I also didn't like) with more sand. So, some demos are just absent, but really, a lot of demos could really use help. Selling the story in the demo strikes of "doing it wrong". Sell the fun if there is any.jmarquiso said: