4,393 Forum Posts by "DroopyA"
I found the game to be very boring.
I really liked the look and the overall feel of the game... it was nice to see a GTA that tried to take itself seriously. It was a good change of pace and showed that the company, and the game, could do something other then 'crazy pointless violence'.
But what put me off was that neither of these game aspects (Crazy Pointless Violence vs Realism) felt complete. The city looked real, the citizens acted sort of realistically, and the missions took you to more realistic locations (you did a lot of jobs in empty warehouses and back allies; just like a real mafia type would) but none of the story seemed to represent anything even remotly reasonable in the real world.
A lot of the characters where still very cartoony... which took a lot of the realism away from the game. It's really hard to say, "This is a serious take on the underground mafia lifestyle" when the game constantly forces you to interact with crazy flaming homosexuals and annoying MTV type beef heads. Everybody was almost too sterotypical to be taken seriously and a lot of that really hurt the gameplay. You spent mission after mission doing the same type of boring shit (which is more realistic then say, stealing a jet-pack from Area-51) but they where given to you buy characters that looked and acted like they belonged on a bad episode of Seinfeld.
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The luck of the whole story was a bit out of proportion as well. The whole idea that you could move to a new country and end up running into everybody from your past in the same city is just stupid. Your friends where there, your family was there, even your worst enemy decided to show up there. Turns out, you where even working for the same people. This wasn't realistic... it was a bad movie script.
In the end, the game was just too short, too predictable, and too stupid (in all the wrong ways) to be any real fun. It looked amazing, it's just a shame Rockstar didn't have the balls to make a decision one way or another and stick with it. What's it gonna be guys? We going full blown realism here, or insaine crazyness? You can't do both...
As far as the gameplay itself goes, I only think it was easy because you did the same thing over and over and over again. Once you get good at shooting the AI with a pistol, you can do every mission in the game in just a few tries. It was disapointing to say the least. The game removed all of the fun features that we've all grown to love over the years in exchange for realism. Yet the story and the characters seemed as unreal as ever leaving you with a bland game, a bad story, and a pretty looking box.
Damn, I forgot to add... you can recruit people to hang out with you (Up to 3). If you steal a car with only two seats, your two followers will car jack their own vehicles and drive behind you. I made my own motocycle gang once.
Also, shooting and driving is a lot easier thatnks to "Cruise Control". Just tap the left bumper and the car will continue to drive at it's current speed. Hand break around corners and the cruise control will auto accelerate back to it's previous speed... B will slow the cars speed down. This, is a really nice feature to have.
Too many topics about the same 3 games... time to change it up a bit?
Anyway, so I got robbed, got a new 360 and Gamefly sent me a new game. This time, Saints Row 2 showed up.
Honestly, I have to say that this is one of the better games I've played in a long time. Usually I can blow through a Gamefly Game in about a week. I've had this one a month and I'm only 34% done with it. I've taken out two of the three gangs and done a small handfull of activities (But I've only actually finished two of them).
So far, it's been a lot of fun. You get full customization over everything... the way your character looks, what he wears, how he walks, how he insults, how he approves, how he fights, even how he talks. You get to customize every car you steal, you get to customize every house you buy (even the tables, bar, and TV) and you're even given the ability to choose what type of cars your gang drives and how your gang dresses. Right now... my character looks like Rambo leading an army of Ninjas... doesn't get any better then that does it?
The soundtrack is fucking sweet as well. Unlike GTA, the Metal station is actual metal... Lamb of God, Black Dahlia, Mastadon, Opeth, Avenge Sevenfold... they even have WolfMother. Other stations include Lloyd Banks, Big Pun, Red Jumpsuit, Plain White Ts... etc. For those missing the 80s vibe of Vice City, there's also songs like "Take on Me" (which your character will eventually sing along too if he hears it enough) and of chourse "Sister Christian".
Although, I'm a little sad to say that the MP3 feature seems to be missing from my cellphone... what's the deal with that? No more taking on strongholds while listening to music? What a bummer.
The graphics aren't as shiny as GTAIV but the gameplay by far makes up for it. Only 30% in and I've already done everything imaginable. Blew up buildings, flown helicopters, stolen a jet (Yeah, not a prop plane... a real passanger jet), had a massive car battle in a mall, broke out of prision, taken on a police station, etc... it's epic. Almost every stage puts you in a unique location and thankfully, so far none of those locations have been empty warehouses or back allies.
I do like the colors better in Saints Row. GTA was far more serious about everything... this game takes everything to the extreme. It's like real life, if nobody cared if they lived or died. Everybody just runs around doing whatever they want and fuck-all with the consequences. Which I really enjoy, without even really looking I've already had people dive in front of my car (insurance scam?), I watched a lady jump off the roof of a building to her death (she landed right at my feet), and I found a guy in the cemetary digging his own grave. After he was done, he shot himself in the head... fucking sweet.
So far I haven't ran into any real issues. There are some featuers I didn't really enjoy, but nothing buggy or show stopping. I'm not a big fan of having the Computer Drive... one time my computer driver got hit by a car and pushed into a pole about 5 feet from a building. It must have taken 10 minutes for the computer to figure out how to back away from the pole (and building) and get back to the road. Fighting off wave after wave of cops and gangs while the computer repeadly drives into the same pole over and over and over again gets a little old. Another time, I had to shoot down helicopters but twice the computer made wrong turns putting the helicopters completly out of view.
The good news, the game features full two player coop... so if the computer sucks at driving, just invite a friend. One player drives, the other player shoots. I don't have much to say about this though... unfortunitly there is no in-house two player (It's all over XBox Live or linked consoles) and I'm not too keen on letting some stranger into my game while I'm trying to do a mission. The last thing I want to do is fail because some asshole in Utah thought it would be funny to team-kill me. Still though, the option is there.
There are a lot of other things to do besides the story. There are what seems to be a ton of activities. You can hand out sexual favors in a bathroom, or go steal prostitutes from competiing pimps. You can protect your homies doing drug deals in a van with an attack helicopter, or you can ride shot gun and try to complete drug deals by hanging out the window and shooting everybody that gets in your way. You can dress up like a cop and attack civilians to to get on TV, or you can light yourself on fire and race through town trying to set other things on fire. There are you standard vehicle races, flying racings, and my personal favorite... septic avenger - you drive a septic truck and spray human feces on everything. There are also fight clubs, demolition derbys, and mayhem activieits.
If that's not enough, you can do diversions by stealing tow-trucks, ambulances, and Taxis. When you're bored with that, feel free to hunt down hidden CDs and places to graffitti your gang sign... which is also customizable.
One of the cooler features of all of this is that youg et rewards for doing them. For instance, by completing the "Fuzz" Activity in the projects, I was awarded unlimited pistol ammunition. Other activies have rewarded me with longer sprint time and damage reduction from bullets. Plus, you gain respect, which is needed to complete missions.
After a month, I'm still not bored. I give it two thumbs up...
I play with it a lot... haven't made anything of any real value though.
Best project to date: Pong
Honestly, none... he'd probably be busy doing other things. I'm under the impression that Jesus didn't have a lot of free time. And when he did, he spent it praying.
For the sake of conversation... wii games. Probably a fan of Wii sports and Mario.
At 1/27/09 05:12 PM, wildface098 wrote: You're wrong, the SEGA Megadrive was back from 1994 when there was no online connected systems.
Who cares? Double Dragon can be played online through the XBox Live arcade and it was released in the 80s.
Just because a game was initally released without online doesn't mean that online features couldn't have been added when they ported the games over to the current gen consoles.... consoles that have internet capabilities.
I don't play it a whole lot, but whenever the generator got pushed in front of the elevator door while I was playing, we just pushed it out of the way.
Three of us ducked and just kept walking into the left side of it until it spun enough to let us out. No biggie...
Why? Is this a problem these days?
If you want to make Windows Applications choose either C# or VB.Net.
Fuck what everybody else says and think about it logically for a second. Microsoft makes Windows. Microsoft makes .Net Studio.
Who do you think is going to have the best, and most reliable tools avaialbe to use? Probably Microsoft considering they make the operating system your app is going to run on.
And which language do you think Microsoft is going to keep updating? Not 3rd party products, and definitly not out of date languages like VB6. C++ will probably still get some support, but in the long run C# is going to take over because that's how Microsoft wants it.
It never hurts to be ahead of the game...
If, after learning .Net, you want to learn more, then you can go back and look into C++ or python. You'll probably find that Python is a complete waist of time in the buisness world and C++ is so similar to C# that you can pick it up in a few days.
I know the commercial you're talking about.
I don't think it's Sarah Silverman.
I was really excited about the virtual console... until I downloaded ToeJam and Earl just to later find out that there is NO ONLINE MULTIPLAYER SUPPORT.
I turned my Wii off and never turned it on again. Then it got stolen... I never replaced it.
Shame too, being able to play oldschool NES games with friends over the internet was a wet dream come true. Too bad Nintendo fucked it all up.
overall, I prefer cartoony graphics. Games where everything has it's own style and look age better then games that aim to be realistic.
Look at WoW or Mario 3 and compare them to say... RE1 or the first Silent Hill.
That's not to say that games shouldn't aim for realism, it's just that every game should choose a style that best fits the story and gameplay. Resident Evil wouldn't be scary if everything looked like it belonged in the Mushroom kingdom. But at the same time, WoW would probably be looking complete ass right now if everything was 'realistic'.... that is, as realistic as we could make it x years ago?
Never seen the anime, but I do want to play the game.
I'll never understand why you guys care so much.
Obviously a large majority of the people find this game fun so who cares if the company behind it makes another similar title to give people a change of pace or suck in the sci-fi crowd?
It's not like Jagex is a shady company that's only successful because it abuses it's user base. Then I could understand the hate... but as long as their a legal, upstanding company why should any gamer be mad that a gaming company is making a new game?
Sweet... I'm nowhere near seattle but I hope you delever an ass whoopin of epic proprtions none the less.
Kick his ass SeaBass
Small Hands - Jewel
Also, I'm a big Jonathan Coulton fan.
Probably not so bad until you realize that I'm a dirty white trash heavy metal guy that rarely shaves and only showers maybe 3 times a week. If my friends found out... :b
At 1/23/09 01:31 PM, DroopyA wrote: MMOCC = Masive Multiplayer Online Chat Communicator
Communicator should have read "Community"
MMOCC = Masive Multiplayer Online Chat Communicator
I know this is old... but I just wanted to add to my complaints.
All bosses should have a check point right before you fight the boss... not 3 screens back, not even one screen back. If I die, when I come back to life I want the game to start me right there at the boss. If I have to walk further then 5 feet to trigger the event of kill a single enemy it's a bad design.
I shoudn't be forced to kill everyone in the building time and time again simply because I can't kill the boss on the roof. I did the house section, give me credit for that and lets move on.
Saints Row 2 did this... fighting to the boss was easy but the fact that I had to do it everytime got old. Especially since I was dying at the boss not because I couldn't kill him, but because I didn't know what I had to do the first 3 times.
ProTip: Throw a FlashBang, then fire your weapon.
At 1/22/09 04:42 PM, Hemlok wrote: Haha great idea! Unfortunately I don't think Capcom really supports the game anymore so adding something like that would probably never happen. A man could dream though.
I dont care if anyone updates old games, but if this type of thought process was added to new games, I'd support it 100%.
Being able to dress like the Prince of Persia or garner some Bling from the new 50 Cent title would make it all that much more enjoyable... in a completly pointless way.
Plus, the OCD in all of us would kick in and we'd all probably be a little more egar to grind out those extra head shots if we knew in the end we got the final peice to our clothing set. "Gotta catch 'em all" type of shit.
At 1/22/09 11:02 PM, jewdudewtf wrote: He actually taught us the proper way to spook, and apparently I'm a certified spooker now.
It's too funny... the whole thing is just so damn stupid it causes me to laugh uncontrollably.
Can you imagine if your friend had to dress up like that daily? Fuck what the audience thinks, it's just got be funny to them.
At 1/23/09 12:16 PM, Luxury-Yacht wrote: Well, it's by Clocks
So what? You don't think that maybe this sets a double standard? If I was new to NG and I saw this on the front page what's to stop me from thinking that is exactly the type of activity the owners want to see? Nothing... so me and a bunch of friends go out and make a bunch of shit films and place them in the portal. Then wade throws a bitch fit and deletes all of our accounts.
I don't make flash nor do I own the site so I could care less... but from where I'm sitting, it seems silly to punish people for the very type of behavior that you openly support on the front page of your website.
I'd focus my chi into my fist and punch him in the throat... at the point of contact I would transfer my energy through the mans body and into the chicken bone.
The bone would then shatter into a million peices which would then safely fall into the stomach of the victem allowing him to breath safely again.
At 1/23/09 11:32 AM, Carmilla wrote: Fact + 1 Booyah
Didn't know that. Now I do.
OP has been proven wrong.
Thread is over.
What now? Anyone up for butt sex?
I find it strange that NG takes up arms against people like the Kitty Krew, yet turns around and puts something like this on the Front Page.
Personally, I thought it sucked.
Nope... greed was never really my thing.
Ong-Bak
Fucking bad ass... especially if you like to watch people get their shit ruined with a series of flying knee and elbow attacks.
Why does everyone care what color he is?
Nothing... the internet isn't just one thing, it's a large network of individual servers and computers located all over the world.
The only way to destroy the internet would be to destroy every computer on the face on the face of the planet.
