Please, please, please make this game difficult in hard mode

[funcroc]

The Crossing was cancelled.

[Oblarg]

I think, in hard mode at least, health pools should be vastly lowered or damage vastly increased, for both Mike and his enemies. I hate being able to soak 15 bullets to the chest, or shooting an enemy in the face 20 times before he drops to the ground.

 

In addition, hard mode AI should actively search for Mike when alerted to his presence (looking behind cover, etc.), and actively try to move to get an open shot if they know his exact position. I hate passive AI that stands there waiting for you to do something.

[Mirren]

The Crossing was cancelled.

no i think Arkane are just pulling a Too Human/Alan Wake and taking their sweet time

[funcroc]

I don't think so.

[Mirren]

I don't think so.

no official word of it on the Arkane forums, anyways on hold doesn't mean permanent cancellation, and even if it is all that is needed is another publisher(or for Valve to bring it into their stable) to pick it up

Edited June 25, 2009 by Mirren

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

Starcraft Ghost is still on hold. I think the we can safely say its just another way to say "cancelled".

[Mirren]

Starcraft Ghost is still on hold. I think the we can safely say its just another way to say "cancelled".

yeah the longer that passes the more likely it is that it's cancelled as opposed to being on hold, but if the being on hold news is true i'd still say there's fair hope for The Crossing, enough about it is familiar that it makes the game approachable while also doing a number of things both in story and gameplay differently enough to make it interesting, then factor in the its association with Valve, and lastly on a more anecdotal note it'd be hella off if Arkane have managed to release Dark Messiah but never get to release The Crossing(though i think DM was considered a failure and could have damaged Arkane's reputation to the point of making it harder to make another game)

Edited June 25, 2009 by Mirren

[Pidesco]

It's really sad that it was considered a failure, because in many ways it was damn fine game. It just needed better level design.

[Oner]

I liked the levels (though never tried a sneaky character, so I dunno if it worked out for them). That 80% of the game played on that damn island, that was what annoyed me. And the mage girl.

[Pidesco]

The problem with the level design is that it turned the kick key into an autowin button. The game just became too easy and unbalanced.

[Hell Kitty]

That's not really a problem with level design, rather an overpowered attack.

[Oner]

Nope, level design. Cliffs, metal spikes, breakable beams.

Then again, the intention was to kill stuff using the physics engine, and it's not like you were forced to use kicking. I mostly used it to keep enemies from ganging up on me.

[crakkie]

The problem with the level design is that it turned the kick key into an autowin button. The game just became too easy and unbalanced.

It wasn't much good against a couple of vampire knights, or when you're surrounded and became easily winded (that burning city fight near the end, against 8 or so ghouls). The least fun I had in DM was in levels that didn't allow much kick or attacks using the environment, like the damn spider temple and the parts with those floating squid ****ers. Staff + kick frenzy is some of the most fun I've had in an FPS.

[Mirren]

yeah GFW gave it a D+ and opened the review with "These boots were made for kicking", i suppose it didn't help that the game had built considerable amount of hype in the run up to its release and then was released with technical problems of a level unusual even for a PC game and too much focus on the physics aspect of the gameplay, still imagine the swordplay/combat of DM with open world and RPG depth of Oblivion, if that had been the case i'd still be playing Dark Oblivion now, has anyone played the 360 version of DM and if so how does it compare to the PC version?