Rate Human Revolution vs. other LGS-inspired franchise games - by heywood
june gloom on 23/11/2011 at 18:12
Quote Posted by mgeorge
Sure the writing in IW was horrible, and it was dumbed down compared to the original, but I found the story itself more compelling than HR's and I think IW actually had the more interesting NPC's.
You see what you've done, heywood? This is on you.
Renzatic on 23/11/2011 at 20:10
I'll tell you this right here and now, DXHR sure as hell ain't no first three quarters of Bloodlines.
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See, DXHR was missing one key ingredient that separate the great games from the merely good. Namely, it wasn't gothic as fuck. If it were, indeed, gothic as fuck, it would've been a far better game.
Sulphur on 23/11/2011 at 23:02
Quote Posted by heywood
Like making augmented people go insane with psychotic hallucinations and rampage and murder the people around them?
Obviously, DX:HR is missing some ingredient necessary to make it a memorable experience.
Mm? I liked the story fine for what it was. I liked that twist. But what I'm saying is it should've gone further and raised the stakes, made it a little more personal, pushed the envelope into really uncomfortable territory. Hell, even a little more creative would have been nice. Mass augmentation panic? Yes, that's a good start and one way to explore the issues, but it stops short of actually doing anything with the scenario beyond causing a crisis that Jensen has to fix.
But how about forcing Jensen to kill someone against his own will? Fooling him into doing it since he's just a tool for everyone in the end? Or going all in and making him a meat puppet? (Okay, so Bioshock already did that, but it would make more sense in the context of HR.) How about having
Hugh Darrow actually turn his eyes off, even if just for half a minute, to make a point? Have the game fuck around with Jensen's sense of right and wrong (or reality even, but that's sort of post-modern/existential/Matrix territory) when information transmitted to his brain can virtually be re-written in real-time thanks to the technology behind the implants? How about actually doing something insidious with the AI subplot?
Llama on 24/11/2011 at 09:15
Quote Posted by Dia
I disagree. I loved HR and it remains a very memorable experience for me, but after playing HR about 5 times I decided I could safely put it on the back burner for replay later, so I only drop by here to check out what's going on. And yes, I sincerely feel HR was much better than SS 1 & 2.
wow. just wow.
Briareos H on 24/11/2011 at 09:17
yeh that was p. much my reaction, too
Dia on 24/11/2011 at 12:34
Different strokes and all that. Don't take it personally or anything. Hey, I even preferred SoC to CoD, hands down.
Briareos H on 24/11/2011 at 12:47
You mean CoP, maybe? Anyway, me too.
And you're free to like DX:HR all you want, I haven't played it myself anyway, but you can't just come and say that System Shock 1 is not the best game ever made :cool:
june gloom on 24/11/2011 at 16:39
Quote Posted by Llama
wow. just wow.
yeah i know, opinions are horrible things, aren't they
why aren't you banned?
Llama on 24/11/2011 at 17:17
Quote Posted by dethtoll
yeah i know, opinions are horrible things, aren't they
why aren't you banned?
You're starting to repeat yourself. Are you feeling okay?
june gloom on 24/11/2011 at 18:31
sometimes you have to repeat things so the retards will understand
