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Post by lovethepikmin on Aug 29, 2009 18:40:38 GMT -5
A first person shorter for the Wii. Basically some terrorist has been attacking D.C like trying to bomb the Washington Monument. Your guy works for this organization called Trust. which seeks out terrorists. This terrorist makes a disease called "the bug" which kills you then re-animates you under the terrorist's control and created these portals called Conduits which spew out aliens called Drougen that have been destroying and infesting the D.C aria.
I love it because you don't know whats going to pop out and shoot you or slice you open. I've never held a gun so can't get steady worth a crap.
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Post by Water Dumple on Aug 29, 2009 18:45:42 GMT -5
I love it because you don't know whats going to pop out and shoot you or slice you open. Eh, Half-Life did this 15 years ago. I've heard mixed opinions on this game. I'm not really sure what to make of it.
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Post by lovethepikmin on Aug 30, 2009 8:09:01 GMT -5
Kinda take Half-Life with the zombies but without the zombie like qualities add aliens and some little puzzling challenges. By that I mean you have a little ball called the ASE for All Seeing Eye used for finding hidden stuff, or you may have to find a way to blow up a conduit so drougen will stop comming at you.
There is a good supply of weapons. The human weapons are OK but I really like the TRUST weapons.
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Post by Water Dumple on Aug 30, 2009 13:42:12 GMT -5
Kinda take Half-Life with the zombies but without the zombie like qualities add aliens and some little puzzling challenges. By that I mean you have a little ball called the ASE for All Seeing Eye used for finding hidden stuff, or you may have to find a way to blow up a conduit so drougen will stop comming at you. There is a good supply of weapons. The human weapons are OK but I really like the TRUST weapons. I was not a huge fan of Half-Life 2's zombies. They're sort of there for a generic horror effect/to waste ammo. I'll not deny, a few parts of Ravenholm are pretty fun, like lining three or four zombies up and then knocking them all over with a Gravity Gun-launched barrel or lighting them on fire with a gas can. Still, the fact that every last one of them has the same model and is not a great threat makes them sort of useless. And they're all you fight for most of Episode 1, which was messed up. Combine are a lot more fun.
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Post by Bread & Butter on Sept 2, 2009 8:14:22 GMT -5
I agree about them being complete copies of themselves, but I suppose that can be explained by the fact that they all wear the some thing (mostly a cop-out really). But all the ones you fight in episode one are totally made up by how friggin' kick-ass Episode 2 was! I mean that last epic battle at the end! I love that game...
But the Conduit I heard was amazing for a Wii game, but compared to games on other systems it's really just another FPS which are in over-abundance. Games like Metroid Prime, Bioshock, and Half-Life were so amazing, but now everyone else is jumping on the band wagon and making mediocore games! (in my opinion, Halo, Call of Duty, Crysis, Resistance). But im sure the Conduit was good.
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Post by Water Dumple on Sept 2, 2009 16:50:23 GMT -5
I agree about them being complete copies of themselves, but I suppose that can be explained by the fact that they all wear the some thing (mostly a cop-out really). But all the ones you fight in episode one are totally made up by how friggin' kick-ass Episode 2 was! I mean that last epic battle at the end! I love that game... Episode 2 was the best, I agree. Also, the zombies in that game were actually put in places where they'd be dangerous--Like when you don't have a weapon besides the Gravity Gun, or when you come to the top of an elevator and there are a bunch all around you when you get to the end. You have a shotgun at that point, but at the very least they're not miles away where they basically exist to get sucked up by Barnacles or fall into traps, humorous as it is. NO SIR
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Post by Bread & Butter on Sept 3, 2009 17:32:56 GMT -5
Are you agreeing with me or do you like those games?
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Post by Water Dumple on Sept 3, 2009 17:56:27 GMT -5
Are you agreeing with me or do you like those games? If you're talking about Call of Duty 4 in particular, that game is the very opposite of mediocre.
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Post by Bread & Butter on Sept 3, 2009 18:16:20 GMT -5
*shruggs shoulders* meh. I just dont see any ingunuity put into it. They copy and pasted guns from real life, then just duplicated a bunch of scenes you would think to see in the middle east. I suppose the last level on the airplane was worthy of higher recognition, but I frankly just dont find the games THAT great. Im not saying that they're bad, and the fact that 4 was modern as opposed to the 300 WWII games that have come out was a new and refreshing twist. Im not saying that I havnt spent many hours playing it, but it isn't the most amazing game I have ever played. Givin, it's fun, but not amazing. Like your favorite movie of all time isn't the greatest. I would not watch Schindler's List over and over just because it was an amazing movie, but I could watch Back to the Future once a month for the rest of my life and never get tired of it.
Im not trying to bash on CoD but there isn't a story thats new or exciting, fun, but IN MY OPINION just not fantastic. I just find them fun in a 'meh' way. But FPS arnt my favorite genre in the first place. For example Halo is completly original nothing really copied and pasted, original storyline (kinda) and I loathe it with every fiber of my being. I guess im just picky.
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Post by Water Dumple on Sept 3, 2009 19:25:57 GMT -5
*shruggs shoulders* meh. I just dont see any ingunuity put into it. They copy and pasted guns from real life, then just duplicated a bunch of scenes you would think to see in the middle east. I suppose the last level on the airplane was worthy of higher recognition, but I frankly just dont find the games THAT great. Im not saying that they're bad, and the fact that 4 was modern as opposed to the 300 WWII games that have come out was a new and refreshing twist. Im not saying that I havnt spent many hours playing it, but it isn't the most amazing game I have ever played. Givin, it's fun, but not amazing. Like your favorite movie of all time isn't the greatest. I would not watch Schindler's List over and over just because it was an amazing movie, but I could watch Back to the Future once a month for the rest of my life and never get tired of it. Im not trying to bash on CoD but there isn't a story thats new or exciting, fun, but IN MY OPINION just not fantastic. I just find them fun in a 'meh' way. But FPS arnt my favorite genre in the first place. Yeah, you've probably not played a great number of FPSs, because Halo is almost the pinnacle of generic FPSs. I'm not saying that it's a BAD game, having not spent enough time with it to judge that quality anyway, but overall Halo does not have an original concept or anything. You mentioned weapons in terms of originality for both CoD4 and Halo--I'm thinking on a different level, where I would say originality comes from game concepts and different mechanics. For example, in Battlefield 2142 the futuristic guns have cool angular designs and pretty brightly-colored scopes, but mechanically they work the same: Machine guns, LMGs, shotguns, the likes. The fact that Call of Duty 4's weapons exist in real life shouldn't be a problem--You could rail on Battlefield 2 and Counter Strike fpr that issue as well. Obviously, I can't say Call of Duty 4 is an extremely original idea, but what makes it is the presentation. Let's face it, in the end it is just a shooter; not a great deal of originality to it. But the story is presented in a very dramatic, impressive way, and the sound and graphics are jaw-dropping. The gameplay is good enough to make this a selling point, rather than being the only redeeming factor in a bad game.
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Post by Bread & Butter on Sept 4, 2009 12:12:33 GMT -5
Well with Halo, I referring to the originality of.... Now that I think about it I wrote that without really thinking. Halo's weapons I guess... But in reality, there are a total of what, 4 different enemies? All just regurgitated over and over on maps that hardly can be told apart from the last. the story is a generic plot that brings about almost no empathy for any of the characters, or the whole human race for that matter. The super weapon in space is no original concept at all, and frankly fails in all comparison to the Death Star. Forgive me for putting Call of Duty in the same sentence as this filth.
But in Call of Duty, the enemies are allowed to be redundant, but their weapons, positioning, and AI make up for the repetitive baddies. The presentation in Call of Duty 4 was of the highest quality and time and effort put into it does show. However, I personally put storyline above most everything. Since I do not take that much enjoyment from repetitively shooting and killing, these games really aren't made for me. In Half-Life, the quick changing of setting, development of characters, and increasing arsenal of different weapons made the game astounding. Metroid Prime kept the ball rolling with not only the weapons, but just how the weapons had to be integrated into the problem-solving aspects of the game. In Bioshock, like Half-life, the story told itself slowly but at the same time while you played the game. In addition there was the ambiance, slight RPG element, along with the plasmids that made the game great. I agree that Call of Duty is a good game, and fun (at first) but after several hours of killing terrorists, I get kinda tired of it. Especially f***ing Veteran. lol. It's worth a good play through, but for me has absolutely no replay value. Online is fun as well and keeps interest by knowing that you're killing off actual people who should have realized by now that you can't dodge the Helicopter's bullets. Overall I give it a 7.75 out of 10. Not bad, but not my favorite.
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Post by Water Dumple on Sept 4, 2009 16:22:52 GMT -5
But in Call of Duty, the enemies are allowed to be redundant, but their weapons, positioning, and AI make up for the repetitive baddies. The presentation in Call of Duty 4 was of the highest quality and time and effort put into it does show. However, I personally put storyline above most everything. Since I do not take that much enjoyment from repetitively shooting and killing, these games really aren't made for me. In Half-Life, the quick changing of setting, development of characters, and increasing arsenal of different weapons made the game astounding. Metroid Prime kept the ball rolling with not only the weapons, but just how the weapons had to be integrated into the problem-solving aspects of the game. In Bioshock, like Half-life, the story told itself slowly but at the same time while you played the game. In addition there was the ambiance, slight RPG element, along with the plasmids that made the game great. I agree that Call of Duty is a good game, and fun (at first) but after several hours of killing terrorists, I get kinda tired of it. Especially f***ing Veteran. lol. It's worth a good play through, but for me has absolutely no replay value. Well, like I said, in the end it is just a shooter. It's just the best-presented shooter I've ever played, and perhaps the best-presented game of any genre I've ever even heard of. Prime and Echoes are sort of on the other end of the scale; good presentation, but outstanding gameplay. Half-Life 2...I don't really know what I like about it besides the physics, I just like it. Too many chumps underestimate RPGs. One good hit from one of those, and you can shoot the thing down with your pistol, if you have enough ammo. I think Battlefield 2 and 2142 have better online, though. Of course, those are made for the online aspect.
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Post by Bread & Butter on Sept 4, 2009 16:28:51 GMT -5
I've never played Battlefield so I wouldn't know. But like I said, just my opinion. As most people put it, it's a perfect 10/10 in their eyes. Then again I love TF2 so... Idunno...
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Post by Water Dumple on Sept 4, 2009 16:32:37 GMT -5
I've never played Battlefield so I wouldn't know. But like I said, just my opinion. As most people put it, it's a perfect 10/10 in their eyes. Then again I love TF2 so... Idunno... z3.invisionfree.com/mushroom_kingdom_war/index.php?showtopic=1468TF2 has great online too, although that should be apparent if the game is good at all.
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Post by Bread & Butter on Sept 4, 2009 16:51:18 GMT -5
True. How much is battlefield? It seems to be pretty entertaining... And action-packed to the max.
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