I wouldn't go so far to say that the AI is retarded, but it is pretty bad sometimes. I find the old RE games to have worse AI, at least the AI in RE4 and 5 do more things than slowly walk twords you to eat your brain out. They hit you with their weapons, they throw their weapons, and like the zombies from Resident Evil's 1 through 3, they grab you. What makes them bad for me though is that even though it is somewhat convenient, is this: you see an enemy running at you and then when he gets within 20 meters of you, he goes from running to slowly walking. Yeah I know this is because you cannot move and shoot but you know what, by now you SHOULD be able to move and shoot.

This is what I'm talking about.  Because the game controls like an SUV without power steering, they had to alter the gameplay to keep it from being too difficult because you're fighting the controller more than the enemies.  The whole idea of the badguys charging at you then slowly stalking in (despite the fact that you're armed with machine guns and rifles) is ridiculous.  They don't even throw their weapons unless you quick-turn to run away or three other guys are blocking their path.  The more dangerous enemies like the chainsaw dude and executioner have this ridiculously long wind up and the only way you can possibly be hit by them is if you find yourself caught in a corner (except for Sheeva who will just stand there politely waiting for you to move even though a guy with a blade is about to strike her).  Speaking of path, they all move on this follow-the-leader pathfinding.  You can just run in circles and instead of breaking off the path to cut you off they'll just tail you.  It's like everything moves on a linear track where deviating from the straight line is impossible. 

The developer mentioned that they're rebooting Resident Evil after this installment.  If they decide to keep the series as an action game then I pray they hire someone who knows what they're doing. 

I wouldn't mind the inventory if the game was built like Dead Space where the controls weren't terrible.

Yeah this game is just... just so CLUMSY as Dragonslayer put it.  It was passable in RE4 because no other game did it but 4 years later you realize how terrible and archaic the system is.  Tank movement.  Clunky interface.  Retarded AI.  Battling the poor controls more than the enemies. 

Can Japanese people make a good shooting game?  Has Japan ever released a good shooting game?  When it comes to action games, if melee isn't your primary source of attack then Japan sucks at it.

Seriously, I think this is the only game series in the world that's internationally popular where people accept the fact that controlling it is more difficult than the enemies itself.  If I was a programmer at Capcom I would make an easter egg where you spring a trap and a giant controller crushes you.

The game is really ridiculous too. Everyone and everything in the game seems to be holding some gold or ammo.
This pile of tomatos? Slash it with a knife to get some ammo!!
Those annoying dogs? Naturally they have wallets full of money!
Swamp niggers who have probably never seen modern civilization before? Obviously all their pots are full of money and ammo!

Well this isn't anything I wouldn't expect considering RE4 let you kill fish for gold but enemies have guns?  ew.  The control scheme is too horrible to support actual dodging like that how does this work when you can't move while shooting?

Also, how long is this?  RE4 took me 20 hours but you guys are talking about finishing it and it's been out for... not even 2 days?

sheeva is an ammo hogging mulatto bitch.  as soon as the enemy drops ammo the bitch beelines straight to it, often through several dozen enemies.

"HEY YOU HALF NIGGER GIMME SOME BULLETS"
"SORE THANG PARTNA"

nethack

ascend (all the gold in the world): actually beat the game

but i'm sure Marcus can give us the whole shebang.

no i can't.  not because i'm not allowed to lol divulge secrets but 90% of my knowledge comes from the same news channels everyone else is watching.  i just get inside info on usn ship movement and that becomes common knowledge in 24 hours (sometimes less; there was a big stink where a local paper knew about ship movement before the fucking captain of the ship itself did!).

i usually have bookmarked 10 different international news sources like al jazeera, jerusalem post, bbc and china daily but i don't think there's a single freelance international news station that's both A) unbiased and B) has world coverage. 

news scares me because i know there are more important things not being covered.

why the hell do US military ships even need to be anywhere near china?

the point of the navy is force protection.

in layman's terms, cock measuring contest.

the usn is pretty much the biggest advantage america has over every other country.  like the united kingdom is second and it has something like 50 commissioned vessels vs. america's 300+

basically, if the big imperialist bullies didn't wave their cock around then the smaller bullies would start waving theirs.  iranian boats harass pretty much everyone in the persian gulf and the only thing keeping them from leaving their borders is the larger fleet of french and american boats harassing them.  world military power is one gigantic food chain of bigger bully picking on smaller bully who's picking on even smaller bully who's subjugating the common civilian by taxing/stealing/bullying/conscripting the hell out of them.

I'm guessing you just missed that big ol' post I made, but the short answer is that the Chinese don't have the resources to send surface ships to international waters off the US coast, but they do send subs there. All the time. And the US doesn't shit its pants. It realizes that they are doing the same thing the USN is doing to them. The commies have been sailing around off the coast for 60 years, why would the US have a heart attack now?

what this man said.  foreign vessels float around US international waters all the time.  you just don't hear about it because the media is too busy reporting about christian bale slugging his mom.

I'm playing an elementalist.  just boost your spells, summon creatures, and use ranged weapons while the tanks soak up damage from the front

here's me killing some bandits.  level 1 so yeah i just think you suck


also pickpocket everyone.  nothing happens if you fail and most people usually carry some random alchemy item or 1 ducat.

How can you look at the scene where they are rebuilding a community within the crater and say that =(

It was a 10 second segment?  Everything plot related flew by too fast.  You only saw two cities I believe get blown up and New York was the one in most detail (it's interesting to note that there were maybe ten people in the streets when the bomb went off).  I didn't even see the inspectors.  I'm sure the uncut DVD will have longer segments with all the side characters but reading the comic was an emotional hit because almost every recurring character still alive gathers together at one point and the psychiatrist is like "shut up wife i learned we're all savages and need to help people" and the inspectors are like "shit sucks let's go make a difference" and the newspaper stand is like "you're alright random black kid who doesn't buy any fucking issues i've seen a lot of things at this newstand OH GOD END OF THE WORLD."

there's a still a tear stain on my book paper.  if i had it with me i'd scan it to show you guys.

yeah its pretty said that people keep ignoring that fact. Marcus you ACTUALLY BEAT IT? That game was soooo hard. I had no idea wtf to do. there were some parts that seemed just impossible. That game was definitely the epitome of trial and error. hmm. where do I put this hole? here? *fall to death*. Here? *fall to death*. Here? Fall to safe platform below. Oh monster! *death* if you aren't lying...i shake your hand.

you can beat the game in 10 minutes by exploiting the rocketship.  i don't remember what the treasures did, but yes the game was pure trial and error.

good times, good pay, you get to talk to creepy people you've never seen before...

...hell i'd pick up chicks with the job.  find yourself a looker, make sure she isn't wearing a ring, slip her number

this topic is like some citizen kane shit.

it would have been awesome if steel's dad wrote LAKSHMI or NELUMBO or some crazy cryptic message forcing steel to go on a life long journey to truly understand the man he called father.

Original version: 'Fat chance' get's his throat cut with a box cutter.
Snyder version: He gets his arms cut off with an electric saw.

I forgot, why did they cut his neck in the original?  He was blocking the lock but Big Figure said "sorry dude gotta slit your throat."  I agree with everything else (I already raised a stink about Rorschach and the butcher knife but 90% of the internet disagrees with me) but it actually made sense to cut his arms off because he was blocking the lock.

I just watched the Chun-Li movie over my roommate's shoulder and have no idea what the fuck it was about.  The entire thing was made out to be realistic and stuff then Chun-Li creates a fireball and blasts M. Bison who's a fucking businessman or something... AGH.  To make it worse, they reference Ryu in Japan in an international tournament OH PLEASE GOD DON'T MAKE ANOTHER

Now image if he had kept the original ending.

Now I didn't mind the new ending THAT much but I was disappointed by the lack of bodies.  Seeing everyone in new york with their blood dripping down the clock at Time's Square was powerful.  Seeing an empty crater among ruins... not so much.  I didn't care at all that millions of people died.  There was no emotional impact. 

the bombs blow up in different cities around the world because david hayter wanted all races and cultures to die equally.

if it was just new york that got blown up i would have RAGED because more black people live in inner city manhattan during the 80s than whites yep true fact

there's a clear difference between what they were saying (big joke..) and what it actually was! (retelling of MGS, postmodern, etc etc)

I use stupid as a general term, but MGS2 was designed to troll the player by being as over the top as possible while still asserting itself as being "very real."  You can't tell me you took the game seriously when Snake's like "CHOOSE UR OWN DESTINY" then Raiden throws your dog tags to the wind.

Does the atmosphere of this remind anyone of Legend of Mana?  I always liked that, but hopefully the gameplay is better.

Also, does this game not use sound effects?

alpha.

build.

would you quit with this stupid shit

quit with what?

MGS2 was specifically designed to be as campy, dumb, and ridiculous as possible.  Kojima was trolling everyone by making fun of hero worship and preconceptions of the generic action hero.

http://www.youtube.com/v/QggOfblvt4U&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0x5d1719&color2=0xcd311b&border=1&start=254&autoplay=1

you mean like this

they could have tom cruise or some faggot as raiden, hugh jackman or hayter himself a solid snake.

I don't know, maybe Michael Bay would be better for this one.

MGS2 was supposed to be intentionally stupid.  MGS1 Twin Snakes was like... directed by the Wachowski bros or something.  When the Hind D shoots missiles at Snake he uses one of them as a springing platform and does a back flip or something.


It's blurry, but 1:00 in Snake does a backflip in slo-mo, lands on the missile, and springs off it without somehow detonating it.

Hayter needs to write a MGS script, I think between himself and Snyder, they could pull it off.  I honestly wouldn't mind seeing MGS filmed in this way.

considering twin snakes featured plenty of slow motion and MISSILE BACKFLIPS i kind of agree

I was expecting the audience to gasp during that whole scene but they didn't.  The audience did gasp when the shank guy got the grease in his face and when the fat dude had his arms cut off. 

There was also a group of high school boys that kept giggling every time Manhattan was shown naked.

Seriously... giggling over a fucking CGI penis.  My buddy sitting next to me was like "They put so much detail in the way his wang moves, man" and I'm sitting here like "WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU LOOKING!?!?!?"

I'm pretty sure all the nude scenes were digitized.  That smooth, perfect ass couldn't have been Ackerman's.

OH OH the movie 300 plays on one of Veidt's screens and the number 300 is on his door.  THANKS SNYDER NOBODY KNOWS WHO YOU ARE OR YOUR WORK