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Not a game, but The Phantom Menace.
Steam: Elvenshae // PSN: Elvenshae // WotC: Elvenshae
I thought the game was awesome.
This on the other hand looks to be incredible and if the trailer is any indication, I will buy this game day one.
But here's the thing, Star Wars is known for that.
last one that fooled me with a good trailer.
loved the other OF stuff, but this one....
I believe the trailer indicates that is game will have zombies (some in bikinis! hot zombie boobs and ass!) and islands and dead people. (maybe some fire axes too).
[tiny]Tofu wrote: Here be Littleboots, destroyer of threads and master of drunkposting.[/tiny]
That's because it has nothing to do with Operation Flashpoint. That was Bohemia Interactive. Dragon Rising was made by codemasters because they still owned the rights. Kind of like how Harmonix made Rock Band and Activision was still able to churn out bad Guitar Hero games. Bohemia went on to make the excellent Armed Assault series. You should pick up ArmA 2 for a worthy successor to OF.
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Oh god, I'm too late. It's utterly irredeemable, total tripe. Don't read it if you value any kind of good storytelling.
The appeal of this genre is that you band together and focus on surviving, not killing neccessarily. A la Walking Dead.
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thank you for the protip! i had heard good things about ArmA 2, but I didn't know it was something of an OF successor...
creepy...
I'm not sure what the heck he's saying there.
Steam: Elvenshae // PSN: Elvenshae // WotC: Elvenshae
Yeah, that's pretty apt.
They made an amazing trailer imho and it did it's job (generated emotion).
And it sucks to watch that when your imagination is strong.
And while I understand the dudes position on the video, it's not a critical response. It's purely emotional. It's why I didn't really get up in arms over the trailer or denounce the game. Did I think it went a little too far? Sure, but that doesn't make the team that put the trailer together or the developers "assholes."
That site was going for laughs with that vid, but it's not really responsible for them to treat games that way if they take them at all seriously.
Seriously. I don't even know what to say about that. If he doesn't want to watch the trailer, who gives a shit, but I think he could stand to grow up a little.
It's horror though. It's not supposed to be a nice thing.
"Vyn is the Master Director of PA. He's an Oscar winner, IMO." - MayGodHaveMercy (drunk)
Slaughtering 4.2 million mindless creatures in the process is really just icing. You can get that anywhere.
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And many people can remember the family vacation memories. Just let me get the projector set up and...
"Vyn is the Master Director of PA. He's an Oscar winner, IMO." - MayGodHaveMercy (drunk)
I hope the next trailer will actually show me something relevant to the game and make it fun.
It'll be a third person action adventure where your weapons have a certain amount of durability and you unlock special moves to kill zombies.
Maybe something with a health / stamina bar.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEWIw-a0GJw
[tiny]Tofu wrote: Here be Littleboots, destroyer of threads and master of drunkposting.[/tiny]
I don't have kids and thought that was a heart wrenching video, but considering what the game is all about, it's really well done and achieves it's goal perfectly. Just because it inspired some less than enjoyable emotions doesn't make it okay to whine like a little bitch and refuse to judge the video/game rationally.
With zombies, though, there is absolutly nothing sacred in regard to what goes on. Not because it's malicious, not because it's trying to be any more manipulative than any other kind of horror/media is, but because the undead as a concept make no differentiation between anything beyond if they're edible or not. They just do what they do, and we know that coming in, and it just sseems a bit hipocritical to be jonesing for a game based on the premise of some force trying to eat every still-living human on the face of the planet and then say "that goes too far/they're just doing that for shock" when a member of a specific considerably-sizeable denomination of the human race finally gets munched.
EDIT: And this foreign-born son of Poland says hi and fuck you too. Prick.
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Also there's the fact that watching a child get murdered in a vidja game trailer is having all of that come at you from a bit of a blindside.
Exactly...
Overreaction/"being that guy that's not impressed" seems to be the norm when something like this comes out.
Everyone is wowed and there are the few that insist it sucks, take some emotional stand or whatnot. All are entitled to their own view of course...
I really don't care either way - I am excited for the game. I like the trailer. Yes, I know the trailer won't be the game. But I'd rather discuss delicious possibilities of this game than argue over whether a CGI trailer overstepped boundaries because marketing people are bathed in evil juice.
I liked it, I am excited, I will watch this game development closely in hopes that a dev team can deliver on my dream of giving me a viceral survival experience against the horde of the undead.
kind of nearly impossible to survive in a big city and far too much ground to cover from a game design standpoint.
Island would be a perfect place since there's food, easier to survive the elements and you're surrounded by water.
Is this part supposed to be directed at me?
"Vyn is the Master Director of PA. He's an Oscar winner, IMO." - MayGodHaveMercy (drunk)
No worries.
"Vyn is the Master Director of PA. He's an Oscar winner, IMO." - MayGodHaveMercy (drunk)
first-person
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To have a truly massive world populated by hordes of NPC zombies and hundreds of scattered (player) survivors. Where the "gold" is bullets and food.