Yahtzee: "Mirror's Edge is an 8hour fecal waterslide"

[Kaftan Barlast]

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/vie...57-Mirrors-Edge

 

I said it when I first heard of it, i said it when the first screenshots came, i said it when the trailer popped up, I said it when the demo appeared and as the final game was released i was proven right; ME is rubbish!

 

 

 

 

DiCE will now be forced by an official decree to change their name to BiCE (is pronounced the same as the swedish word for sh*t)

[Jaesun]

Um you are aware of http://forums.obsidian.net/index.php?showtopic=51215 ? That's where we post his reviews.

[Morgoth]

I was underwhelmed by the demo myself. I already lost complete interest on that game. Like, it never really existed.

[Llyranor]

That still makes it better than that piece of crap, Gears of War 2.

 

I mean, Gears of Crap 2.

 

I mean, Poo of Crap 2.

 

I mean, Pool of Radiance 2.

[Morgoth]

That still makes it better than that piece of crap, Gears of War 2.

 

I mean, Gears of Crap 2.

 

I mean, Poo of Crap 2.

 

I mean, Pool of Radiance 2.

But I though GoW2 had Co-op? Isn't by your standards Co-op = always win?

[Killian Kalthorne]

Why play Mirror's Edge when there is Fallout 3?

[J.E. Sawyer]

Why play a 1st person platformer set in the near future of an active dystopian metropolis when you could play a 3rd person action RPG set in the anarchic post-apocalyptic wasteland? They are quite similar, aren't they?

[Aram]

Just make Aliens already and we'll play that instead of either.

[Morgoth]

Fallout 3 is first person. Mirror's Edge sucks donkey balls. What does this bode for Aliens?

[Aram]

It'll be a 2nd person platforming rpg set in a dysotopian current day Los Angeles.

 

 

THAT ROCKS

Edited December 3, 2008 by Aram

[Nick_i_am]

YAHTZEE SAID IT SO IT MUST BE TRUE!

[J.E. Sawyer]

Aliens will be second person (informal) future perfect.

[Gorgon]

I'm curious what Swedish word for **** sounds like Bice.

 

Yatzee is a funny guy, but it's not like he's the final verdict on anything.

Edited December 3, 2008 by Gorgon

[Aram]

They will have come outta the walls. They will have come outta the goddamn walls. We will have booked!

[Calax]

Having played mirrors edge I didn't have NEARLY as many pathfinding problems as he did. I guess that's because he couldn't let go and really get into it or somthing but after the first two levels I was finding that my brain was automatically looking and saying "hey that looks like a step jump". I posted in the mirrors edge topic that I thought the game was good in what it's origional mission seemed to be (a freerunning game set in the first person and your entire goal is to keep moving as fast as possible) the controls for the running and acrobatics were fantastic. However when the game forces you to enter combat you have problems as your standard combat consisted of running up to a guy waiting until his gun turned red, and hitting triangle (I was on a ps3) to steal his gun and kill him at the same time. then I figured out that the basic melee attack was actually pretty good things got a little easier but it still sucked when you had to run across a room from cover to cover to get a guy with an M60 machine gun. Also one or two of the puzzles were about as intuitive as wearing underwear on your head for fun.

[Gorgon]

Aliens will be second person (informal) future perfect.

Aliens you are going to have been.

[Nightshape]

Fallout 3 is first person. Mirror's Edge sucks donkey balls. What does this bode for Aliens?

 

Alien balls first person simulation?

[Killian Kalthorne]

Why play a 1st person platformer set in the near future of an active dystopian metropolis when you could play a 3rd person action RPG set in the anarchic post-apocalyptic wasteland? They are quite similar, aren't they?

I was thinking more along the lines of "Why play a sucky game that will give you motion sickness when you can play a decent game that allows you to blow people's heads off in full bloody gore?"

[Kaftan Barlast]

If you absolutely must have platforming this christmas then i would recommend Tombraider: Underworld, it does everything ME claimed it would do(but doesnt) but in a fluent and non-crippled way.

 

 

 

 

...and anyone who racks down on GoW2 must be killed. They just threw in the less-than-awesome bits to make the rest of the game seem even more awesome than it is.

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

I tried the demo and had a blast, ignoring the ****ty cutscenes. Definitly a game I'd buy, but not for 60$.

 

But then I saw the time trial feature was XboX Live only. What. The. ****. Dice.

[Llyranor]

You can do time trial offline. Each track has you race against set times to get 1-3 stars.

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

That sounds better. I guess it was only online for the demo.

 

I'm definitly buying it though. I love DICE, and was probably one of the only ones to really like Bad Company. To be honest I never got lost or got annoyed by the bloom, and definitly didn't see the problems Yahtzee mentioned.

[Llyranor]

The demo thing was because it was a preorder bonus. Which is pretty stupid.

 

As long as the concept of time trials appeals to you and you liked the demo, game should be worth your while. People will complain that one playthrough is 6-8 hrs, but mastering the gameplay will really lie on the time trials and speed runs, where you'll be looking for shortcuts and maneuvers to cut down on your time by a few secs here and there. That doesn't appeal to everyone, though.

 

I'm sure Yahtzee raves all over Tombraider.

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

Did he actually say why the game was so ****ty? I mean, he mentioned bloom, but not everyone hates that. He mentioned the controls (jumping works once every two tries, so he says), but I didn't notice anything like that in the game.

[Darth InSidious]

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