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[ PROTOTYPE ] - Rainbows and Unicorns on pg. 69.
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THere's also a particular condition that makes hammertoss not arc down but instead home in 100% on a helicopter regardless of how far away it is.
I'm trying to work out what the fuck that condition is, I think it might be based on how the chopper is currently moving as well as you.
Because it's the best bug I've ever seen, I wouldn't be surprised if they know about it and just left it in.
Is hammertoss the one where you fly like Thor?
then my 360 red ringed and i was like "phew"
and then "fuck"
Yeah that's what I use it for. :P
@Ed: Yes.
It means the game has clogged up your console with mangled limbs.
I normally wear them out too, and I know Fallout is the obvious choice, but it's just such a beautiful song that it seems to fit everywhere for me. Even in a game with a demigod body surfing dudes and hijacking helicopters
Over done?
I dunno I don't watch as many random music videos n shit as you guys so it hasn't been overplayed for me.
Would be pretty cool if you could apply post-filter effects to the game and turn it all black and white/grey :P
Alternatively, you could play Linkin Park.
Apologies if it's been posted earlier.
As soon as I read that sentence I thought "This is a Jim Sterling article, isn't it?"
edit: Then I read the next section:
i could see he was trying to be over the top funny or whatever; but, it wasn't really working for me.
then, the last two reasons made me laugh p good.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVQMNM4dRAg
Somebody on YTMND.com should do a Best Day Ever with Prototype footage.
Obviously that article is only half serious, but that was still funny.
And 'Best Day Ever' during Prototype = genius.
i've always just known that song as the chief wiggum song...
Now i just need to find Christopher Walken in the game.
Gamespy: 60
1UP: 67
OXM UK: 70
Eurogamer: 70
IGN: 75
Not one of the major reviewers rated this above 85 except Gametrailers.
Ahem:
WHAT THE FUCK
Wut:
Well, let's think about it. The controls are a little janky, the graphics are below par, and the story isn't very good.
Those three categories make up a decent portion of most review scores, right?
Get out.
Unless you're being sarcastic.
Are you being sarcastic?
He's being sarcastic.
Also, those annoying detector-drones probably count as robots.
Or maybe just make hunters and super soldiers man-handle-able.
We were totally just saying this in the last thread. Supersoldiers would be so much more fun to fight if you could grab them.
And if they didn't take off a fucking quarter of your health just by tossing you over their shoulder.
Me too! How I love it so!
awesome
Well, the controls are a little janky, the graphics are sub par (even for an open world game), and the story isn't good. That doesn't stop it being fun, but they are some of the big things reviewers look at. And sub-85 scores don't mean the game isn't fun.
I like to call an airstrike down afterwards.
Y'know, to relieve them of their guilt and all.
but, the controls?
i never feel like i can't do what i want to do given the default control scheme.
- actually, i'll go as far as to say i really like the controls
the way stuff is laid out i can always be thinking/charging a move ahead.
Don't get me wrong, I enjoy the game... those scores aren't what I would have given it. But I'm not blind to the game's shortcomings.
The thing is, most games have a control scheme where you have precision and you must force it to get faster, push harder for more.
in this game all that is automatic, you simply charge for more and because you get in the habit of always charging, always sprinting, you forget the options you have to be precise.
They are there, if you slow down. You can do all the movement events with gold if you have precision. If you just mindlessly charge and sprint and not think at all, they're going to be like pulling teeth.
For example, there's an early event I could never finish until I paid attention and realised it didn't say Rooftop jupmping, dashing super speed parkouring. It said Rooftop Running.
So I calmed down, ran normally, did tiny jumps, and got gold. I had to hold back for gold. Funny that.
The janky in this game is the player. You need to pay attention to get the most out of this game. That's why most 9-5 reviewers just aren't going to get that out of it, and it's not a reflection on the game. It's a reflection on them. (Due to not having the time, not a reflection of what potential skill they would get. Not making a personality attribution)
This game rewards skill like no other I've played other than Hulk UD and that's why I love it. As you get better, the fights get more epic, more glorious and you tear the city apart without effort.
Based entirely on an objective view of what this game offers to a gamer, it deserves at least an 8. I personally would give it an 8.5 or 9 because the flaws I find with the game are so minor that they do not really detract from the experience.
How anyone can give a quality title like this a "60" though, is beyond me. What the hell gamespy?
It can be a bit hard to navigate to a specific spot atop buildings, but normally this is only relevent when you're trying to get orbs from the tip of a spire.
The graphics are perfectly good for a game that has virtually no pop-in, and can easily handle hundreds of people running about, cars exploding, monsters erupting from the ground to throw vans about, and multiple tanks/choppers blowing shit up on-screen at the same time.
The story is poorly implented, perhaps, partly because it relies upon the WoI cutscenes. But it's not exactly bad.
Below 80, which is the average at metacritic for the major reviewers, is the equivalent of calling the game shit when any notable title released on consoles invariably recieves 85+.
The story, while not excellent, was hardly bad
the mission cutscenes were bland and boring, but the story itself, and the cinematic cutscenes + the addition of WOI targets were pretty neat I think
Maybe I've just gone crazy
edit - it's also easy to overlook a games flaws when you enjoy it. Hey, I played the hell out of HAWX and would have rated it higher than it got collectively. When I objectively think about it though, yeah, it had a lot of problems.
For example, when he meets Karen and she hugs him he's all Wut hugs.
But then the natural human instincts, because he has a human brain, take over, and he feels attachment. We are going to be in this together.
This makes sense when you realise much of the social behaviors we have are universal, which means whatever morals or culture or upbringing you have, wanting to be together, for two humans to unite and do something in a group, is partly biologically determined. The freedom we have comes from how we interpret it (since we can ignore it, which takes effort. If you make someone do something cognitively busy the effects happen automatically, which is why you know the process is background).
But he can't. He's just been born, he has no memory, so he gets randomly affected by it. He takes it up upon himself. It's like watching a man grow up in 18 days.
Even the virus thing. Essentially, since he is a human copy that's not really any different from being a human except he has no memory of a real upbringing to have shaped him. Only what he has "eaten". So when he learns he is a virus, he essentially stops identifying with the rest of the world in terms of needing to belong. After that revelation, in the missions after that, he becomes almost immediately more psychotic (which is characterised by self centered behaviors).
It's rather likely that he wanted to stop the nuke simply because it is his city now how dare you blow it up.
I have played it for about 12 or so hours and have had blast nearly every time i have started the game up.