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F.E.A.R. 2 out this week: YOU CAN STILL KICK PEOPLE IN THE FACE
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Also, why the hell can ghosts hurt you?
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Actually, because if they did the same thing that they did in FEAR, and had spookies that can't actually hurt you, it would be pretty damn retarded.
I just hope that Alma is actually a threat at more than one point in the game this time. Really, seriously, honestly. Make it a QTE if you have to, just make her DO something.
Alma still scares the shit out of me because I refuse to once again be taken by surprise at the points where she can actually kill me.
So anytime they flash her up, anytime I see or hear her, I will train myself to spray bullets like a spastic with a minigun.
Only one disappointing thing... no dual pistols.
Hell yes.
Sepah, there were no pistols at all! I would not be shocked if they had dual pistols show up in the full game.
That is the thing though, I am sure it gets most people because the game sets you up with this rule that Alma is going to try and scare you, then disappear. All through the game its surprise appearance/mind fuck. Then at a point or two its ZOMG Alma can kill me, load game, shoot Alma, continue to mind fuck. She is not even that hard on the occasions you have to deal with her.
I remember Undying, and I think of the flayed guy, chained up in the room missing his jaw. He would routinely appear and try and kill you. You knew you couldn't kill him because he was a ghost, and the only way to put his spirit to rest was to deal with his physical form. When he appeared you had to find ways to deal with him, and it was satisfying when you finally get to deal with his physical form and know you were done with this SOB for good.
That, I think, is another problem. You do not hurt or inconvenience Alma in any way. She goes about her merry way doing whatever it is she wants to do, and you follow her around watching/finding her latest atrocity against random person X.
I love the gameplay a lot more now because the game isnt "Ok....since theyre impossible to actually shoot without slow-motion...." *waits* "ok its full" *uses slow-mo, kills, hides, rinse, repeat* I dont know, in FEAR I just couldnt fight without slow-mo, it felt too fast paced and I just could not for the life of me kill them without it.
In FEAR 2 its a bit slower so it works out nicely. Also, I jumped a few times and freaked out a couple times, and overall Id say this game demo scared me a lot more compared to the original FEAR. People kept saying that game was so damn scary and then I played it and was disappointed. Not by the gameplay but by the scaryness of it all.
The part that made me scream "HOLY SHIT FUCK!" and pause the game was when
Thus, I am content with what I've played of FEAR 2.
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Oh, they're there. You get them when you set the Replicas on FIRE. They drop their main gun, stop drop and roll and then grab their sidearm to come back after you, at which point you can SET THEM ON FIRE AGAIN and take their pistol.
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But no dual pistols makes Rainfall a sad panda.
I loved that game
YES!
This is the one feature from the expansion packs that I wanted and they delivered.
Nothing makes you feel awesome like kicking open a door straight into a firefight and dispensing with the slow motion hot lead.
This makes me sad because all I can think of now is how awesome it would be to have a new western mech combat game on the pc.
Even slightly less giant than normal robots would do nicely.
Shooting ghosts didn't do much for me, but I liked the graphics, I liked the art direction, I liked the Horror Shooter Thing, which no other FPS really seems into these days. I recall, back when I played the FEAR 1 demo on my old PC (long, long time ago) that a lot of the "scary imagery" was much more clean, much more iconic - but still... this demo's got me interested in the F.E.A.R. brand, at least.
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Now, true, everyone complained that the environments were hells of recycled in FEAR 1. But the damn game had atmosphere, you could tell where the soldiers were, and when a grenade exploded, you could fucking TELL.
FEAR 2 looks like a generic futuristic FPS to me, I can't tell where the hell I threw my grenades, the soldiers all blend into the environment to the point that apparently they have to make them LIGHT UP WHEN YOU TURN ON SLOW-MOTION and they have to make all the weapons and power-ups be outlined by "future HUD 2.5".
Oh, and the 360 controls feel terrible... maybe I'm spoiled from KBAM for this game. The demo will probably kill my machine, though.
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The combat didn't feel quite as fluid as the original's, but the sniping was beautiful, so that makes up for it.
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I love the lighting, and the atmosphere is pretty great, but I'm worried that this demo will be like the demo for F.E.A.R. Short, but full to the brim with thrills and jump-out-at-you moments, where the game was longer, with all those moments at the beginning and the end. I'm not sure this will be a definite purchase, if that is the case.
Slightly off topic, but InstantAction just put up a mech game in the last few weeks. I haven't tried it yet to see how it is. I wouldn't expect anything close to the mech games of yesteryear, but it's nice of them to put something out.
Re: FEAR, this reminds me I never finished the first one. I should go back and do that.
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I'm not too keen on the gfx style though. The blood looks... shiny? I dunno.. Not very good imho. As was mentioned in a previous post, the soldiers blend into the background pretty often too which is rather annoying when you're in the power armor and getting shot at by enemies you can't really see.
Also, I'm not sure why but the game seems to stutter right before an encounter with soldiers or ghosts/visions of Alma. Normally, I'd chalk this up to my computer being behind the times, but I remember that the first game did the exact same thing to me.
In the end, I'll still be buying it. I'm just a bit disappointed with some of the design choices. But overall, it seems like a fun game, and I'm very interested to see more of the story.
I'm just rather upset they chose to end the demo
"No.. I was wrong. This must be what going mad feels like."
Which actually made me realize the combat is a lot less hectic this time around. In fact, enemies aren't flanking me as often as they were in FEAR. They kind of just run up to me and hope I die which is rather stupid since you can outlast them (at least at normal).
Maybe I'm reading too much into this. I'll have to look at the first FEAR to see if I'm just trying to fault the game for no good reason. The mech battle, however, is sweet. I don't think I've played a game with one since Riddick for the PC.
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2. Count me aboard the "the graphical style sucks" boat - the problem with FEAR 1 was the repetition of of the warehouse/office/laboratory style over and over and over again, not the W/O/L styles themselves, and now it's just this dull, grey, worn-out, crapsack mess with dull, grey, worn-out, crapsack clones running around in it. Ugh.
3. To be honest, the whole "horror" aspect of it started to wear thin after that one hallway in the school. Ooooh, dead bloody bodies hanging around and the walls and floors and ceilings splattered with blood, ooooh, ghooooosts, ooooh, the little psychic girl is angry, ooooh, random split-second jump-out rape scenes. It just seems so forced and generally uninspired,
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My main complaint is the flashlight. Didn't seem to be that effective.
I found the flashbacks more interesting than the jump scares. But, I do have to admit to loosing a round or 20 everytime I saw Alma.
I did feel like I wanted to yell into the character's mic "NO! Don't follow the crying lady, she will rip your head off and stuff it in a toilet!" at my squadmates.
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Is it nearly as good in FEAR 2?
Well, in the original game, he never spoke, as I recall.
I know it's all supposed to be "immersion" and all that, but damn it, when (DEMO Spoiler)
I'll chalk up the non-warning of teammates to his comms being knocked out by the blast/crash.
After thinking about the two events I mentioned above in the SPOILER section, I'm inclined to think this demo wasn't a linear level. I wouldn't be surprised if it was a couple of sections from different levels in the game linked up just to show off the combat, horror, and mech combat sections all in one experience. I guess we'll see in a little while.
That would appear to be most of the rest of the thread so far.
I don't see why it wouldn't be, but I don't think the demo shows it off as well as it needs.
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YEs there are. Make you enemies drop their guns and they pull out side arms.
Same thing for me. Last night that I played through the demo once, none of the fights seemed as fun as FEAR 1's.
It's like they decided to take a step forward to mediocrity while taking a few steps back from what differentiated them in the first place.
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Clive Barker's Clive Barker's Undying (by Clive Barker) was a pretty damn scary game. Even after you got the insta-gibbing scythe.
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