I downloaded the Mirror's Edge demo, and I can't see why people are saying it's this year's Assassin's Creed.
It's not that good. My warning alarm goes off when a free demo bores the crap out of me.
Assassin's Creed was repetitive, and full of holes, but it had an interesting plot toward the middle and the repetition retained SOME fun, and they switched it up enough at the end. Mirror's Edge just strikes me as one of those pretentious ideas, like: "I have an idea for a game.", and then they literally just released the idea. They forgot to make a game out of it.
The graphics annoy me. Not the quality, just the...design.
It's 2008's Airblade, that's what it is. Taking a sport that already exists and making it "futuristic" in hopes that it's fun, and failing.
As someone said when I discussed it: "Why would I want to play a game where I can do marginally excessive human stuff? I can actually just buy a game and be Spider-Man.".
-AC
Though swining around town is a lot of fun, it, for some reason, was not as fun to me as the way you could jump around town in Mirror's edge. It all flows very well, and is quite exciting in most parts, for me.
As for the graphics, I think they are enjoyable in game, though I don't really like the cut scenes.
Originally posted by Bardock42
Though swining around town is a lot of fun, it, for some reason, was not as fun to me as the way you could jump around town in Mirror's edge. It all flows very well, and is quite exciting in most parts, for me.As for the graphics, I think they are enjoyable in game, though I don't really like the cut scenes.
Yeah the Illustrator scenes just don't work well at all.
Originally posted by Bardock42
Though swining around town is a lot of fun, it, for some reason, was not as fun to me as the way you could jump around town in Mirror's edge. It all flows very well, and is quite exciting in most parts, for me.As for the graphics, I think they are enjoyable in game, though I don't really like the cut scenes.
It just doesn't work for me.
I can go to YouTube and watch people doing more impressive shit than is seen in that game, real people.
I can't actually go outside and see Spider-Man doing stuff. Just sort of robs the game of its excitement, if that's what it hinges on; being able to do parkour. I can go learn that.
You can learn football and stuff too, before someone says it, but the difference is, games like that are promoted as being fun because you can compete, and it's multiplayer. Not "Oh look! You can play football!". I can actually go out and play football. Mirror's Edge seems to fixed on promoting itself based around "You can do parkour!", so can many others in the world. I doubt people who actually do it for a hobby are sitting there thinking "Oooh, mad this.". Where as football players enjoy football games based on them being more than "You can do football.".
-AC
Originally posted by Alpha Centauri
It just doesn't work for me.I can go to YouTube and watch people doing more impressive shit than is seen in that game, real people.
I can't actually go outside and see Spider-Man doing stuff. Just sort of robs the game of its excitement, if that's what it hinges on; being able to do parkour. I can go learn that.
You can learn football and stuff too, before someone says it, but the difference is, games like that are promoted as being fun because you can compete, and it's multiplayer. Not "Oh look! You can play football!". I can actually go out and play football. Mirror's Edge seems to fixed on promoting itself based around "You can do parkour!", so can many others in the world. I doubt people who actually do it for a hobby are sitting there thinking "Oooh, mad this.". Where as football players enjoy football games based on them being more than "You can do football.".
-AC
I understand where you are coming from, but, even if I train two years from my current level of fitness, I wouldn't bet on it that I could do anything closely resembling what the girl does in that game. Looking at it reasonable, it's nothing I will ever experience doing myself, and watching others do it is not a particular thrill. What I enjoyed about the game though was how free it made you feel and how smooth it connected the actions you do, to make the character actually do some pretty cool things while having the rush of performing well while being chased. That's why I enjoy it.
You are right that it is not anything absolutely out of a humans reach, but just like I enjoy Battlefield, GTA, Max Payne, Mafia, etc, it's stuff I won't ever do, though, technically, I probably could, I prefer to do it in a way that's way easier and doesn't kill me if I screw up, which, in my experience, I do a lot.
But fair enough, if you don't like that game, or the style of game.
Oh, and she can totally slow down time, so, that's almost like being Spider-Man.
I feel like they, and many other games developers today, just tend to release their idea, as I previously said.
Releasing an idea that you think might be cool doesn't work, not unless you actually make it cool. Like Ricky Gervais said about historical inventions; drawing a picture of a great looking aircraft and saying "This'll work brilliantly." doesn't exactly cut it. When you ask how, they don't know.
I feel they did that with Mirror's Edge. "A first person, parkour game will be awesome.", "Why?", "...".
-AC
Originally posted by Alpha Centauri
I feel like they, and many other games developers today, just tend to release their idea, as I previously said.Releasing an idea that you think might be cool doesn't work, not unless you actually make it cool. Like Ricky Gervais said about historical inventions; drawing a picture of a great looking aircraft and saying "This'll work brilliantly." doesn't exactly cut it. When you ask how, they don't know.
I feel they did that with Mirror's Edge. "A first person, parkour game will be awesome.", "Why?", "...".
-AC
Well, I agree to the point, I just find that Mirror Edge, is enjoyable. I do like the idea, too, I'd like if they'd include that kind of gameplay in other games as well, for example an action first person shooter could be improved by more dynamic abilities as they have in that game, imo.
But I get what you are saying, and I realize if you don't really like that one idea, Mirror's Edge doesn't offer you anything, really.
Originally posted by Dark-Jaxx
You can take a shotgun round to the chest from point-blank range, and take clips of 9mm bullets to the head and torso without it impeding your own movement? mmmThat's frickin amazing.
Can't everyone?
But the point is more that I could go out steal a car, get chased by the police and die. Just like I could jump off a rooftop, try to reach a pipe, fall and die.
Either way, I prefer the make believe.
Originally posted by Bardock42
Can't everyone?But the point is more that I could go out steal a car, get chased by the police and die. Just like I could jump off a rooftop, try to reach a pipe, fall and die.
Either way, I prefer the make believe.
Yeah, but you're pointing out that you can die and get in trouble. You can die in Banjo Kazooie, too. It's hardly a good point to make.
In any case, you COULD do that, but you wouldn't. Why WOULDN'T you do parkour? There's no real reason to not do it, and that ruins the escapism for me, if you enjoy it that much.
-AC
Originally posted by Alpha Centauri
I feel like they, and many other games developers today, just tend to release their idea, as I previously said.Releasing an idea that you think might be cool doesn't work, not unless you actually make it cool. Like Ricky Gervais said about historical inventions; drawing a picture of a great looking aircraft and saying "This'll work brilliantly." doesn't exactly cut it. When you ask how, they don't know.
I feel they did that with Mirror's Edge. "A first person, parkour game will be awesome.", "Why?", "...".
-AC
Why do you feel that mirrors Edge didn't work? The gameplay is some of the smoothest controlling that i've played all year. The story is balls but that is a virus that has infected most games, these days. If that's your problem with the game or if you just didn't like the game play thats cool but it does offer exhilarating game play.
Originally posted by Alpha Centauri
Yeah, but you're pointing out that you can die and get in trouble. You can die in Banjo Kazooie, too. It's hardly a good point to make.In any case, you COULD do that, but you wouldn't. Why WOULDN'T you do parkour? There's no real reason to not do it, and that ruins the escapism for me, if you enjoy it that much.
-AC
Because I don't like muscle burn, I don't like getting my hands dirty, I don't like hurting any part of my body, I don't like the actual bodily risk and I don't like the thrill of the game enough to practice two years in real life to do it, I want it now, in bite sized portions of 30 minutes, with no risk or pain.
The game takes the only thing I think is cool about parkour and lets me do it. Like every game that I enjoy, it gives me the good of the situation without, or little of, the bad, like, for example, in Half Life, the threat of having to live with a headcrab in my face for the rest of my life.
Originally posted by ragesRemorse
Why do you feel that mirrors Edge didn't work? The gameplay is some of the smoothest controlling that i've played all year. The story is balls but that is a virus that has infected most games, these days. If that's your problem with the game or if you just didn't like the game play thats cool but it does offer exhilarating game play.
I got bored with the demo, nothing exhilarating about that game to me, at all. I found everything about it to be dull and boring.
-AC
See, and I think Mirror's Edge is likely the best game this year - haven't yet played Prince of Persia as it's not out yet, but that's going to be the other contender for me. While I find Gears of War to be okay at best and boring most of the time. Opinion, ya know.
Different opinions. Parkour isn't done often in games and while it's something that people can do in reality, it's not exactly easy. And I do find things like running along walls and making huge leaps from building to building in a game exhilarating.
Originally posted by Peach
See, and I think Mirror's Edge is likely the best game this year - haven't yet played Prince of Persia as it's not out yet, but that's going to be the other contender for me.
And the IGN review sure makes the new PoP sound great and as well different then the majority of other games. So I'll still not cats my vote until I have tried Fallout 3 and PoP.
If GTA IV doesn't win, I'll shit myself. Aside from the somewhat weak storyline, the game was flawless. And the amount of content they managed to cram into it was ridiculous.
I still haven't played fallout 3 though, but I'll probably get it within the next week or if not than I'll wait for christmas. If it's anything like Oblivion than I'd imagine it wiill be a very close call.