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So I finally tried out Lair for PS3 as it hit $20.
Lionhart617
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My opinion?
I feel so bad for those people who wasted $60 on it.
The game was literally shit when I could only use sixaxis (and i'm a fan of sixaxis, having loved it in games like Fl0wer, Folklore, MGS4, Ratchet and Clank Future, etc.) the story is something that I could have come up with in about a day, and the Graphics suck too but I won't complain about that since we've come a long way for me to judge now.
The only thing I really love is shooting a vast number of fireballs at things, as the thumb on my right hand is really fast, so I can pretty much decimate in most games with it.
Haven't beaten the game yet, in fact..only beat the second mission, but does the game get any better?
Thank god it was just $20. This title probably should have launched at $20.
I feel so bad for those people who wasted $60 on it.
The game was literally shit when I could only use sixaxis (and i'm a fan of sixaxis, having loved it in games like Fl0wer, Folklore, MGS4, Ratchet and Clank Future, etc.) the story is something that I could have come up with in about a day, and the Graphics suck too but I won't complain about that since we've come a long way for me to judge now.
The only thing I really love is shooting a vast number of fireballs at things, as the thumb on my right hand is really fast, so I can pretty much decimate in most games with it.
Haven't beaten the game yet, in fact..only beat the second mission, but does the game get any better?
Thank god it was just $20. This title probably should have launched at $20.
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My friend wanted to buy this game way back when it originally came out. I warned him that I had read reviews and other comments on it, and nearly everything people were saying was negative.
He bought it anyways, because it looked cool and he liked the concept. I think he wished he'd listened to me, as he didn't play it for more than a couple days before getting sick to death of the sixaxis controls.
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Sony demanded that they make the game SIXAXIS only and that backfired majorly. Tacking on normal controls after the fact can't do much to fix a horribly broken game, all that will do is muddle controls that were programmed for motion controls.
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If you buy it for $20, you're biting the bullet.
TRUST me. Wait till it hits $9 or just rent it. You'll bascially be guaranteed to not like it either way.
Sadly, I was one of the people who bought into the hype. Lair was supposed to be one of the PS3 defining games.
Luckily for me, I wised up and didn't make the same mistake when Heavenly Sword game out. Actually, playing the demo helped a lot with making up my mind that Heavenly Sword was crap.
The PS3 had such a rocky launch. Its doing OK now, but that first year was pretty terrible.
Tell me if i'm wrong, but most ps3 owners, from what i've seen, wanted 'anything' to be their defining title for their system back then. Lair, HS, Haze, all failed.
We're doing great now.
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I've heard it gets kinda tedious after awhile and I don't disbelieve that after having played it, so it's probably not a good idea to pay $60 for it.. but $20 is a steal for Heavenly Sword. $20 for Lair, however, is still pushing it. :P
Dark Sector and The Darkness.
Both of them, since they're $10 each.
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And they're dark! Dark, lightless adventures straight from the Shadowdark. Dark dark dark.
Was
http://www.joystiq.com/2008/12/22/rumor-factor-5-shuts-down/
I still cry myself to sleep about that ... No one really makes Star Wars games like they did. RS III excluded ...
LIZ: Different.
VOICE-OVER: It's September 24th, I'm Liz Parker and five days ago I died. But then the really amazing thing happened. I came to life.
Hard to argue with $10 though.
I hate being addicted to trophies. Once you are, you start getting the awful mentality that any game without them sucks.
I'm still trying to pretend they're ok, so that I get another Rogue Squadron game, preferably for the Wii.
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I say the same thing about Sega releasing another system. But we all know the end game there ...
LIZ: Different.
VOICE-OVER: It's September 24th, I'm Liz Parker and five days ago I died. But then the really amazing thing happened. I came to life.
Dreamcast 2 09/09/09!!!
Still sad to see how Factor 5 ended up, I'm just hoping they're not a prophecy of what will happen to Silicon Knights and my dreams of an Eternal Darkness part deux.
In my fantasy world, Nintendo buys them and has them make a new Star Fox.
Can I share this fantasy world? Imagine a completely new Star Fox, in the vein of Star Fox 64, and with some of the crazy dogfights from the Rogue Squadron games.
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I sure as hell wouldn't have paid full price for them, but they're easily worth $20 apiece, and are a damned steal at $10.
A fairly respectable Gears of Glaive, and a run-of-the-mill shooter with an excellent storyline (even if you're not a fan of the comic/graphic novel/whatever you want to call it)
Other games I would buy for $20 instead of LAIR:
Army of Two
Assassin's Creed
Burnout Paradise
Condemned 2
Haze (yes, LAIR is this bad that I would recommend Haze over it. Boosh.)
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My friend owns Darksector and also bought it for $9. I'll be sure to borrow it over the summer break and play it. Summer is when i'm somehow going to manage getting ahead in school, getting into better shape, and finishing every game I haven't had time to finish before.
I'd be more enticed to play The Darkness if my friends would shut the hell up about it, and if there was a sequel coming out. Oh well. I'll try that one out too. Thanks for telling me about them.
..By the way..this is random, but have you played Persona 3?
If you're going to say that you haven't, strap a bulletproof vest to your head.
Yes there is, and don't read the Wikipedia article on The Darkness or it will spoiler the game.
But the Evoker isn't a "gun" ... it's a "gun-like object" :P
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Sequel to The Darkness?
Has it been truly confirmed, or is it like..Kingdom Hearts 3/Metal Gear Solid 5 "confirmed" where it just has to come but you don't know when the fuck it's coming?
Yes ... yes. They use the money they saved from building a hard drive for the Wii ... or the money they saved on insurance. Whatever gets us there ...
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VOICE-OVER: It's September 24th, I'm Liz Parker and five days ago I died. But then the really amazing thing happened. I came to life.
I really enjoyed lair. I thought it was a great game to play through. I also rented it, as part of my $24/mo fee at blockbuster/gamefly. So I'd say I spent $7 to play it. And I thought it was well worth it. Even with waggle controls.
Developer (Starbreeze) says "yes, late 2009." Publisher (2K) says "just a rumour."
Singapore says "lolbannedagain" :P
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LIZ: Different.
VOICE-OVER: It's September 24th, I'm Liz Parker and five days ago I died. But then the really amazing thing happened. I came to life.
I did find that there was a very wide range of responsiveness across different controllers, however, so that may have added to the 'this game sucks' group-think that happened. (I'm guessing the sixaxis sensors are kinda fragile)
Yeah, it had its share of graphical problems and was extremely overhyped but for all that it's a fun game.
I also love Heavenly Sword.
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Heavenly Sword is actually supposed to be pretty good, just fairly short and not nearly worth the $60 they wanted for it. I would definitely pick it up if I saw it for $20.
Let me tell you about Demon's Souls....
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Lair didn't even get that right.
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The only games I really want right now are Resistance, Killzone 2, and Uncharted.
Everything else I play on 360. I'm too much of an achievement whore.
EDIT: Heavenly Sword was fun for about 15 minutes. Then you come to realize that that is all there is to the game.
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