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General Category => Entertainment and Media => Topic started by: Marcus on September 27, 2008, 04:48:04 pm
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hi guys, let's talk about the greatest hit this fall that none of you seem to be playing
(http://gamingw.net/pubaccess/26699/mercenaries2.jpg)
ENEMY SIGHTED
ENEMY HERE
ENEMY SPOTTED
BEHIND THAT COVER
ENEMY HERE
BEHIND THAT COVER
ENEMY SIGHTED
ENEMY HERE
BEHIND THAT COVER
BEHIND THAT COVER
ENEMY SPOTTED
ENEMY SIGHTED
BEHIND THAT COVER
Anyone else playing this game? I'm glad I didn't spend any money on it because it's atrocious. Somehow a 3 year development schedule ended up in one of the buggiest games I've seen this year (although The Force Unleashed is running close second). It's kind of difficult to screw up an idea that revolves around blowing everything up but Pandemic was successful in their fuckups. Check out some of these great videos:
(ENEMY SIGHTED ENEMY HERE STAY FROSTY BEHIND THAT COVER STAY FROSTY ENEMY SIGHTED)
(HANG ON THERE'S NO ONE ON THAT 50 CAL GET ON THAT WEAPON SOMEONE SHOULD TAKE CARE OF IT HANG ON THERE'S NO ONE ON THAT 50 CAL GET ON THAT WEAPON SOMEONE SHOULD TAKE CARE OF IT HANG ON
(i have no idea what the fuck is going on in this video but it is scary)
so yeah i heard the co-op is really the only redeeming factor about this game.
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I want to play this game now, if only for the hilarious death screams.
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I had the first one, wasn't that good. This one is just the same game except with better graphics. My question is wheres the 'splosions and buildings going boom?
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I saw this in HIGH DEFINITION on gametrailers during the whole E3 hypefest and I saw through it right away. It's one of those games that is really bigged up by the publisher but FOR SOME REASON no-one is talking about it.
I think the reason for that is that the gaming-consumer are becoming increasingly desensitized to overblown marketing, especially in the case of EA games. Literally every game they release seems to lack polish yet they advertise it as if it is gods gift. I think if you take a publisher such as Valve you get games which are very well made and innovative (they even add commentary about the development process to the game for free) and the advertising is limited to their own services (and magazines).
Their success is pretty much word of mouth which can only be achieved by a quality product - They KNOW it's a quality product and therefore they do not need the overblown advertising which is why the inner skeptic comes out when you see another MERCENARIES 2.
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the great thing about the e3 demo video is that there are a bunch of dumb bugs in it as well (this guy flies around in a helicopter and blows up a tower which promptly vanishes in thin air) and the guy doing the preview wants to say something but the dude playing the game starts spouting off a list of graphics related buzzwords and how the game has real minute attention to detail and stuff.
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buggy it may be, its not THAT bad. What I fucking hate is the retarded ai and repeated lines marcus featured above. Theres more though:
viva venesuela!
die mercenary!
die mercenary!
grab that weapon!
viva venesuela!
Its a merc!
viva venesuela!
grab that weapon!
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yeah I gave it a shot and it's pretty damn mediocre. I read a couple of reviews that touted it as a GREAT SANDBOX ROMP WITH SOME FLAWS, and while it's far from godawful, it really isn't particularly fun. Everything about it seems shallow. The gunplay is ridiculously simplistic. Come on, it came out like 2 years after GoW, but has no real cover system or enemy AI? Even GTA4 has a cover system. The cutscenes and story are really only good in a campy/cheesey sort of way, but in their defense, they ARE sort of OK in a "so bad it's good" manner.
But basically, beyond the whole OPEN ENDED + BLOW SHIT UP dynamic (if you want to call it that) there's really no redeeming aspect to the game. I was getting pretty bored before I had even finished capturing my HQ.
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buggy it may be, its not THAT bad. What I fucking hate is the retarded ai and repeated lines marcus featured above. Theres more though:
viva venesuela!
die mercenary!
die mercenary!
grab that weapon!
viva venesuela!
Its a merc!
viva venesuela!
grab that weapon!
it's also really sad that the first mercenaries had the enemies speak in their native tongue but this game lacks that for whatever reason. i simply refuse to believe pandemic lacked the funds to hire a bunch of south american voice actors.
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Mercenaries 1 kicked ass, its so disappointing that 2 is just average in comparison. However, the Mercs 2 for the ps3 and xbox 360 are like god compared to the atrocious ps2 version. Jesus that one has more bugs, more repetitive lines, a world 25% less bigger than the ps3 and 360 counterparts, and different but worse voice actors. Possibly the most disgraceful aspect is the fact that it runs on the same engine as the first Mercenaries but seems to be so much more fucking unstable! Oh, and even though the graphics are ok for the ps2 they ruined the nuke: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhPx3aoUDOA look at 1:49 and that is the "Nuke" which does not even remotely look like a nuke, more like a Nintendo 64 explosion!
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Wow, I didn't realise this was out and I was gonna go fork out $79 AU for it (which is cheap for a new release game down in Aus) but after reading this thread, perhaps I'll rent it first.
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I played this at my friends house and I think the song for the commercial is the best thing this game has to offer. It's not that it's a bad game, it's just kind of boring and repetetive.
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i spent 2 days getting this game and I got bored of it pretty damn quick
at least i got cod4 along with it, and that single player was so amazing i almost cried like i cried in pokemon the movie
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this game is awful and completely uninteresting. Why do people keep buying this shit? You're only encouraging them.
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Well I didn't know (or I was just being naive) you could fail at making a game involved in blowing shit up!!! Which is supposed to be the whole appeal of the whole game!!!