X-Men Destiny

DarkPrimus

Okay so maybe something like 17-18 hours if there's a good guide out.

reVerse

Syrionus wrote:

Maddoc wrote:

Are you actually trying to make the argument that so long as a game is functional it cannot be bad?

No, I am saying there is fun to be had with this game, so it isn't bad.

There's fun to be had watching Uwe Boll's movies, therefore they are not bad.

WotanAnubis

Bought this game because I have an unreasonable love for X-Men. Also because '5 hours' doesn't deter me that much. StarFox 64 was fifty minutes and I loved that game.

I don't regret my purchase, but I can see how some would. It's a short, rather simple brawler with some power customization thrown in for fun.

But I disagree that the X-Men/Brotherhood choices are too shallow. It does affect the game. In simplest terms, during my X-Men run, Mystique refused to hand me her sidequest. In my Brotherhood run, during a plot dump with Cyclops, my character's stance changed from wanting to end the chaos in the city to wanting to eradicating the enemy and being skeptical of a peaceful resolution to the whole thing.

Some might, with some justification, call this mere minor dialogue variations, but I like to think of it as consistent, player-driven characterisation. I might even go so far as to suggest that this really short game handles its X-Men/Brotherhood divide better than Mass Effect's Paragon/Renegade options. No matter how far along the scale s/he is, Shepard always behaves the same during casual dialogue.

So... by no means perfect and I wouldn't recommend it at full price, but I wouldn't call it a trainwreck either. I certainly wouldn't compare it to a Uwe Boll movie.

SteevL

I might check it out when it drops significantly in price. I'm definitely having fun with Too Human at the moment despite all of its flaws (and there are many!), and this one looks like it could be fun in the same vein.

Skull2185

WotanAnubis wrote:

I certainly wouldn't compare it to a Uwe Boll movie.

Yeah, that's a bit rich innit?
I wouldn't even compare Superman 64 to a Uwe Boll...thing...

In any case, I'm tempted to at least GameFly this at some point

Syrionus

SteevL wrote:

I might check it out when it drops significantly in price. I'm definitely having fun with Too Human at the moment despite all of its flaws (and there are many!), and this one looks like it could be fun in the same vein.

I had fun with X-men but I still think Too Human is a better game. So don't go into this thinking you are going to get the same type of enjoyment as Too Human.

JaysonFour

Damn, I almost dropped sixty bucks on this pile of crap. The strategy guide is more entertaining than the game itself, and I can read that in the Gamestop for free. More than happy to have my money ready for anything else that comes down the pipe this holiday season other than this.

Too bad- I had high hopes for this. When's Marvel going to learn they need a stipulation in their contract that says they do the writing for their games?

WotanAnubis

JaysonFour wrote:

Too bad- I had high hopes for this. When's Marvel going to learn they need a stipulation in their contract that says they do the writing for their games?

They did do the writing for this game. Unless I'm sorely mistaken (and I'm pretty sure I'm not), the writer for Destiny is a comics writer.

Which might explain a lot. Comics are rarely as long as videogames.

HadjiQuest

WotanAnubis wrote:

JaysonFour wrote:

Too bad- I had high hopes for this. When's Marvel going to learn they need a stipulation in their contract that says they do the writing for their games?

They did do the writing for this game. Unless I'm sorely mistaken (and I'm pretty sure I'm not), the writer for Destiny is a comics writer.

Which might explain a lot. Comics are rarely as long as videogames.

Yep. Mike Carey (X-Men and X-Men Legacy for the last 6 years) wrote Destiny.

Peter David (Spider-Man 2099) wrote Spider-Man: Edge of Time.

Dan Slott (Amazing Spider-Man) wrote Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions

Matt Fraction (Iron Man, Thor) wrote the Iron Man and Thor movie games for Sega.

Christos Gage, who's kind of a for-hire writer at Marvel, wrote the Captain America movie game.

So in the last few years at least, Marvel have been doing the writing for their own games.

SteevL

Syrionus wrote:

SteevL wrote:

I might check it out when it drops significantly in price. I'm definitely having fun with Too Human at the moment despite all of its flaws (and there are many!), and this one looks like it could be fun in the same vein.

I had fun with X-men but I still think Too Human is a better game. So don't go into this thinking you are going to get the same type of enjoyment as Too Human.

Yeah, I'm not expecting anything great, but it looks like it could be a fun sub-$10 game.