Mercenaries 2: World in Flames - I'm Barack Obama and I APPROVE THIS ASS-KICKIN'

LockeCole

Spoit wrote: »

LockeCole wrote: »

PunkBoy wrote: »

LockeCole wrote: »

Heh, popped in the first game for a bit today again... just remembered that this has one of my favorite quotes from a video game.

Plans are for bridge builders and mad scientists. I've got moxie...and guns

At first, I thought "Oh, maybe I'll hold off on buying Mercenaries 2."

And then I realized that Jennifer Mui was back voiced by Jennifer Hale.

My next thought: "What the hell was I thinking?"

EDIT: That commercial is hilarious.

Until Mass Effect I didn't even really know who Jennifer Hale was, but then I went back and looked up a list of all the awesome voice work she has done on video games.

Seriously, are there any other good female VAs that do games?

Fixed for more serious question

LookFreeGrenade

LockeCole wrote: »

Spoit wrote: »

LockeCole wrote: »

PunkBoy wrote: »

LockeCole wrote: »

Heh, popped in the first game for a bit today again... just remembered that this has one of my favorite quotes from a video game.

Plans are for bridge builders and mad scientists. I've got moxie...and guns

At first, I thought "Oh, maybe I'll hold off on buying Mercenaries 2."

And then I realized that Jennifer Mui was back voiced by Jennifer Hale.

My next thought: "What the hell was I thinking?"

EDIT: That commercial is hilarious.

Until Mass Effect I didn't even really know who Jennifer Hale was, but then I went back and looked up a list of all the awesome voice work she has done on video games.

Seriously, are there any other good female VAs that do games?

Fixed for more serious question

Alyx Vance has a good VA but the actor doesn't really do much other than half-life.

But yeah Mercanaries is pretty cool

Ranced

I'll be all up in this blowing up unruly, Venezuelan drug lords with pretty bombs.

PunkBoy

LookFreeGrenade wrote: »

LockeCole wrote: »

Spoit wrote: »

LockeCole wrote: »

PunkBoy wrote: »

LockeCole wrote: »

Heh, popped in the first game for a bit today again... just remembered that this has one of my favorite quotes from a video game.

Plans are for bridge builders and mad scientists. I've got moxie...and guns

At first, I thought "Oh, maybe I'll hold off on buying Mercenaries 2."

And then I realized that Jennifer Mui was back voiced by Jennifer Hale.

My next thought: "What the hell was I thinking?"

EDIT: That commercial is hilarious.

Until Mass Effect I didn't even really know who Jennifer Hale was, but then I went back and looked up a list of all the awesome voice work she has done on video games.

Seriously, are there any other good female VAs that do games?

Fixed for more serious question

Alyx Vance has a good VA but the actor doesn't really do much other than half-life.

But yeah Mercanaries is pretty cool

Also, I'm super excited that Amy Lee is back as Fiona. I'm gonna get my fix of hot accents.

Hm, I don't want to get off topic...but a VA discussion thread would be kinda cool. Dunno if it would last.

LockeCole

PunkBoy wrote: »

LookFreeGrenade wrote: »

LockeCole wrote: »

Spoit wrote: »

LockeCole wrote: »

PunkBoy wrote: »

LockeCole wrote: »

Heh, popped in the first game for a bit today again... just remembered that this has one of my favorite quotes from a video game.

Plans are for bridge builders and mad scientists. I've got moxie...and guns

At first, I thought "Oh, maybe I'll hold off on buying Mercenaries 2."

And then I realized that Jennifer Mui was back voiced by Jennifer Hale.

My next thought: "What the hell was I thinking?"

EDIT: That commercial is hilarious.

Until Mass Effect I didn't even really know who Jennifer Hale was, but then I went back and looked up a list of all the awesome voice work she has done on video games.

Seriously, are there any other good female VAs that do games?

Fixed for more serious question

Alyx Vance has a good VA but the actor doesn't really do much other than half-life.

But yeah Mercanaries is pretty cool

Also, I'm super excited that Amy Lee is back as Fiona. I'm gonna get my fix of hot accents.

Hm, I don't want to get off topic...but a VA discussion thread would be kinda cool. Dunno if it would last.

Probably not unfortunately...

What else has Amy Lee done for VA? now that you mention it I really like Fiona's voice too.

GSM

That commercial is great. Even though I loathe the use of the phrase "OH NO YOU DIDN'T" (with or without sharper contractions), that song is fun and a breath of fresh air from rock or metal or whatever they usually shovel in behind the footage for a game. It's almost always one extreme or the other: crazy intense music, or deathly serious music to inspire heroics.

Antihippy

Ok guys, this is why we should be grateful for co-op.

Helicopter on tank action is HOT.

Sorenson

Oh my god. Is that running on 360 hardware? Because holy fucking shit that is looking great. That air strike from about the 33% mark? Christ. Using a chopper winch to pick up a tank and let it shoot at stuff from the air? Ingenius. I'm calling it here: achievement for swinging your boddy's car around and tossing him like a god damn olympic throwing hammer or something.

The only thing that annoys me, though, are all those strange little beeps and blips that kept coming up during the video, which I'm guessing is stuff like mission alerts. But still, mother of pearl!

Ninja Snarl P

Man, I LOVE when devs are more concerned about making a fun, awesome game than making sure they don't put in anything game-breaking. Nuclear warheads? Assault chopper + battle tank combos? Rocket buggy? Grenade sportscar? Muscle car converted to a monster truck with nitro boost? Yeah, it's about as far from realism as you can get, but it's the same distance away from boring or monotonous. And you get so much cash from just destroying things that it doesn't look like having money for strikes or support drops will ever be a problem.

Want. This. Game!

Antihippy

Guys.

What if we replace the tank with another assault chopper?

Will... will the universe be strong enough to handle it?

arod_77

Antihippy wrote: »

Guys.

What if we replace the tank with another assault chopper?

Will... will the universe be strong enough to handle it?

this. this cannot be. but. why stop there? attach a tank at the bottom?

Antihippy

Because it's 2 player only my man.

Though my head would be blown away if they somehow integrate 4-8 player co-op. Stacking 8 helicopters and flying around shooting everywhere.

I'm depressed that it isn't more than 2-player now.

arod_77

You could switch off from tank to helicopter with the rapelling line theoretically

Sorenson

Antihippy wrote: »

Because it's 2 player only my man.

Though my head would be blown away if they somehow integrate 4-8 player co-op. Stacking 8 helicopters and flying around shooting everywhere.

I'm depressed that it isn't more than 2-player now.

There ain't a man on this earth that didn't immedietly start hearing Flight of the Valkyries when that bit of the video popped up. Not a one.

And now if you'll excuse me, I've got a 360 preorder to make and a mp3 to queue up.

PunkBoy

LockeCole wrote: »

What else has Amy Lee done for VA? now that you mention it I really like Fiona's voice too.

According to IMDB...Mercenaries 1.

Sorenson wrote: »

Antihippy wrote: »

Because it's 2 player only my man.

Though my head would be blown away if they somehow integrate 4-8 player co-op. Stacking 8 helicopters and flying around shooting everywhere.

I'm depressed that it isn't more than 2-player now.

There ain't a man on this earth that didn't immedietly start hearing Flight of the Valkyries when that bit of the video popped up. Not a one.

And now if you'll excuse me, I've got a 360 preorder to make and a mp3 to queue up.

I'm hoping you can load up a transport helicopter with AI friendlies and a co-op buddy. If so, I'm readying up "Paint it Black" for those hot LZ landings.

Sorenson

PunkBoy wrote: »

I'm hoping you can load up a transport helicopter with AI friendlies and a co-op buddy. If so, I'm readying up "Paint it Black" for those hot LZ landings.

PIB might have the cultural impact, but I can't think of anything more perfect than Big Sky for those landings en masse and the ensuing ruckus.

And in the latest turn of decision-breaking, Amazon is telling me that I can get the PC version ten bucks cheaper than the Live version. Decisions, decisions...

EDIT: Man. I'm watchin' one of the videos where two dudes are air-raping a city and one dude calls in a nuke - and while the explosion and cloud are of course awesomely impressive, it didn't really do anything to the cityscape.

Antihippy

It's a tactical nuke. Alot less powerful than the real thing.

Bill Cosby

Also it calls the nuke a bunker buster so its designed to detonate underground so i guess the surrounding area would be affected as much.

Basil

Oh my word.

Did he just pick up that tank?

He did.

He did.

Nuzak

Basil wrote: »

Oh my word.

Did he just pick up that tank?

He did.

He did.

the more i think about it "oh no he di'nt" is really the perfect expression of this game

SteevL

One question about co-op: is there an option to have split screen local co-op? Not a make or break thing for me, but it'd be a nice thing to have. I've already got it on preorder.

The_Scarab

Could not want more.

Giga Gopher

Upon viewing that video, it was like a nuke went off in my pants.

A nuke filled with semen.

freakish light

Ok. It's a day-one purchase. Sold.

My wallet is going to take a pounding over the next couple of months, but it'll be so worth it.

freakish light

SteevL wrote: »

One question about co-op: is there an option to have split screen local co-op? Not a make or break thing for me, but it'd be a nice thing to have. I've already got it on preorder.

http://www.pandemicstudios.com/community/viewtopic.php?id=5311&p=1

Okay, so the first big announcement is... Splitscreen. There is none. Not on any version.

It's a real bummer for me, because I'd like to play with my roommate, but I'm not buying another 360 and another copy of Mercs 2 to make it happen.

Kris_xK

Oh my god. OHMYGOD.

I was excited before, now I'm... something more than excited. Enthralled? I dunno.

All I know is that my 360 better return from the grave by Aug 31st, cause this I need to play.

pyromaniac221

Holy Jesus, gonna preorder this today.

Add me, gamertag is Pyromaniac221, we can blow shit up and stuff. This is like GTA on crack. Just make sure you tell me you're from PA.

Sorenson

I gave in and got the PC version, though it's not like I'll get it earlier with the 360 version at any rate with college starting. Although now I'm wondering: has there been any mention about how the PC version handles co-op and such? Are we going to have to join a service or something? Is there going to be a matchmaking server or something we use to find out who's where before we can connect to them directly?

zimfan

I was trying to read through that thread to find the answer to my questions but I still have one left

what are the system requirements?

The_Scarab

zimfan wrote: »

I was trying to read through that thread to find the answer to my questions but I still have one left

what are the system requirements?

1 x Xbox 360 Home Entertainment Console System




(PC specs have not been announced yet)

zimfan

The_Scarab wrote: »

zimfan wrote: »

I was trying to read through that thread to find the answer to my questions but I still have one left

what are the system requirements?

1 x Xbox 360 Home Entertainment Console System




(PC specs have not been announced yet)

but I own a Wii

Blain

New videos (I think, sorry if they're not.)

Awesome

Spoiler:

Awesome

Meh

Spoiler:

Meh

Love the jeep bailout

Spoiler:

Love the jeep bailout

This game looks a bit easy, but thoroughly satisfying.

Edit: And of course, these are just demos, so the difficulty will probably be different in the full version. I finished the first game, and it had some painful missions.

Edit: The videos didn't come up at first, so I took them out of the spoiler tags. Now I put them back in. I'll work it out.

The_Scarab

Yay fuel air bomb is back! We missed ya old buddy.

Nuzak

returning fi-WHAM

the overkill is glorious

Pancake

Does the OP really say it's coming out for the PC?

So does everything else! That's amazing. And it makes me happy.

UnbreakableVow

See, even though you put "Meh" for the second video, the glorious thing is that the game allows you a bunch of options for taking out your targets in a sandbox environment. This is something I feel that GTA strives for but can't get quite right, so hopefully it's well-done in this.

The reason for the new thread title is simple: When Mercs 1 came out, I didn't play it for a year. Amongst the good reviews, I shouted a big "meh" to it. And that's because of how it presented itself; looking at screenshots, I saw a standard-looking military-style game, I was drawing comparison to Tom Clancy-type shit that I don't play. But when I took that chance, I found it a completely different animal.

I hope other people haven't made this mistake.

freakish light

I'd play it if it didn't freeze every five minutes. Time to go hunt down a PS2 copy.

Daedalus

I wish the Xbox BC for Mercenaries 1 wasn't some sort of cruel practical joke.

PunkBoy

After I saw those videos, I keep on asking myself

"Why was I hesitant about buying this game?"

Dragkonias

You know...my game budget is already stretched thin as is...choosing between this and Force Unleashed is just really annoying.

I think I should just flip a coin or something...but I always end up going back on my coinflips.