PC Roundup Comments by Dan Whitehead
Shadowgrounds Survivor, Mount & Blade, Sherlock Nemesis, Belief & Betrayal, Pro Cycling Manager.
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Mount & Blade is the only game that managed to gather a strong fan base without any trailers, screenshots and other marketing stuff. The players found the quality in the game on their own without being manipulated by massive hype, and they shared the game with their friends, until it became quite popular worldwide. I think that's a breakthrough in history of gaming. This review proves that reviewers are the most vulnerable to hype, and eurogamer is after all like any other gamng site: reviewing games based on hype rather than any of its contents.
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the concept of including the character's thoughts as inventory items. This means, in theory, you can combine their ideas with the relevant items to solve problems. Of course, you're playing the game and have thoughts of your own, so while it's a nice gesture, it's ultimately pointless.
So, since this is a problem with every game ever made in which you play someone other than yourself and are required to think more than "align target in centre, pull switch", surely this effort ought to be praised rather than disregarded? I've not played this but the number of times when I've had to spend inordinate amounts of time doing something stupidly convoluted just so my character 'has an idea' that I thought of in about 3 seconds is larger than I would like by a huge margin (and is basically why I don't play adventure games). This sounds, on paper, like the closest thing to a solution yet found. Is it truly so shoddily done that it deserves to be dismissed in such cursory fashion? |
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04/10/08 @ 03:35
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This review proves that reviewers are the most vulnerable to hype, and eurogamer is after all like any other gamng site: reviewing games based on hype rather than any of its contents.
Hell, yeah! That will teach them, but please take a notice that fans' massive, reasonable response in comments made up for reviewer's supposed indolence and incompetence in truly homeostatic way. Thus evil forces once again got beaten to a pulp. Then only remaining problem's the score, contaminating, fouling, polluting Metacritic. Maybe such atrocity is just inevitable, for the sake of homeostasis. |
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Seriously Mount&Blade a 5? For me its an easy 8 but that doesnt really cover the truth. M&B has outstanding combat. Simply outstanding but it has an interface bolted on to make a game out of this combat engine that doesnt match up.
No mention of sieges, hero companions, tournaments or body matching impacts though. Its unmatched in galloping on horseback and slashing someones face; they scream and fall to the ground clutching their eyes or swipe them in the ribs with a heavy mace and they wobble off to that side, shoot their legs out with arrows and they crumple... Charging headlong into cavalry, lance couched while barking orders. Did we play the same game? |
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