[negativedge]

1up with a hard hitting review: "it straddles the line between solitary and lonely"

LONELY GAME

GOTY

[Toptube]

For me, the timing seems to be JUST BEFORE you hit the ground.

[sam]

i could not get the motion sensing control to work once, but i never had a problem with pressing L2 just before point of impact.
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[Toptube]

[another god]

Anyone else get this game?

It's like tech demo, the game. So far it's not AAA amazing awesome, but it's good. The combat and story are just means to an end. The gameplay is phenomenal, and, when the combat doesn't get in your way, it's pretty rad.

I really like how it changes the way you think about game design. It's all about flow, and when you don't flow, you are punished. The badguys are totally different than any other game. I've never been one-shotted, so I just use my health as a buffer before I get a game over. Sort of like a countdown.

I'm more excited about Time Trials at the end of the game than finishing the story.
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interdimensional

[SuperWes]

[another god]

No offense, but that kind of attitude blows. If all you're interested in is triple A blockbuster games, then go to IGN and read what they have to say. This game does something very interesting with movement, and it does it very well. That's something that *every* game can benefit from.
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interdimensional

[glossolalia]

i guess you didn't mean it negatively, but "tech demo" is probably one of the worst insults you could use for a game. it denotes a lack of solid gameplay, something you then went on to contradict. i think that's the cause of the dissonance here.

re sm64: exactly. like the camera and analog control in that game became the benchmark for all third-person 3d games, i hope this leads to a sense of weight and body being considered an fps necessity.

[SuperWes]

Wuh? I've got a Wii. I've got enough copies of Tech Demo:The Game (rimshot!)

Anyway, maybe I'm misreading you here, but it doesn't require AAA Blockbuster quality to have substance beyond that of a tech demo. I'm certainly interested in the game, but there's just too much amazing competition right now that I'm starting to second guess what might have been an instant buy. I don't have unlimited money or time to spend on games and I need to pick and choose what I have to play now vs what I can wait until Christmas/price drop/forget about later.

I don't think it's unreasonable to want to spend your time and money on the best games.

-Wes
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[skelethulu]

Hey so I have 2 copies of this game (1 360, 1 PS3, both USA). I don't need both! If somebody wants one for $20 + shipping I will send it your way.

EDIT: SOLD FRIENDS

[glossolalia]

[another god]

Whatever, I guess you can play all those brand new awesome gamers games. I mean, Gears of War 2 and Resistance look really interesting compared to a brand new IP that happens to do something new really well.
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[firenze]

[skelethulu]

[another god]

Yeah, I don't doubt that this game is going to be bargain bin kind of stuff soon, but I bet that more games will borrow from Mirror's Edge than GoW2, Resistance, and Valkyria combined.

If all you want is happy fun times for your dollars, then, sure, stay away. But for the few of you left on SB that are interested in something, well, interesting, pick this game up. You know how Portal made you look at space and environment in a vastly different way? That's this game, except hands and feet are a little more real than a portal gun.
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[negativedge]

[firenze]

[another god]

Cartoony Racy Platformy Armored Core is not fresh. Thanks guys.
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interdimensional

[firenze]

[sam]

[another god]

Did you just compare Gears of War 2 to the Beach Boys?
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interdimensional

[sam]

if you don't see the parallels between the mid-point of act 4 and 'caroline, no' then frankly there's no hope.
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[Dracko]

The Beach Boys is a man's band.

Mars Volta is for girlpants tone-deaf faggots.

It's an apt comparison, almost.
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[glossolalia]

mars volta could probably learn a thing or two from mirror's edge about taste and brevity

[Dracko]

iceburn
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[skelethulu]

So I guess I think of this game as this year's Portal, except Portal was $20 and didn't have cutscenes.

[Marshmallow]

yes it did

[Marshmallow]

also i am buying this game. fuck queers of bore amirite

[sam]

[another god]

I'm going to do parkour in expensive Nikes and fuck lots of girls with glasses to spite you guys.
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interdimensional

[manmachine plays jazz]

wow what the fuck happened to this thread

how is portal "pretentious" again? i didn't realize that telling a story by showing instead of telling constituted pretension. why do so many people insist on games remaining in the gutter of style that most of them are content to lie?

[SuperWes]

So I decided to get this. Not because it's the best game out of my choices, but because between the games I mentioned this one is the only one I can even imagine my wife being even the faint bit interested in watching me play. She couldn't stand the Banjo demo and she doesn't like turn based shit so Valkyria was out. I'll get them both for Christmas.

Having played the first two chapters I'm happy with my choice, but choosing this over Gears or Resistance is a crime against humanity. Those games both deserve to be played.

My first impressions are that Mirror's Edge is superb when everything works, but when you're stuck it's either because you're lost or because the controls aren't working the way you expect them too. Speaking from a pure game design perspective, these are both terrible areas to base the core challenge of a game on. Unfortunately it seems like this may have been all they had to work with. It's a huge compliment that the game is still worth playing despite this.

-Wes
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[negativedge]

[Victor]

This videogame is so good.

[CubaLibre]

Well I don't have a 360 so I guess I know what I'm getting!

Limiting myself to one next-gen system was the best idea I ever had.

I'm STILL behind without this month's releases, but hey.
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Let's Play, starring me.

[Toptube]

[another god]

The Time Trials mode in this game is so fantastically classy, it makes me feel bad about the average single player mode.

Edit: If you don't try out TT (like really try making awesome scores in TT), you'll never develop a full understanding of what went into making the game. The subtleties of weight and physics really deepen the experience. The ME guys really need to hang out with the .skate guys and see what they can put together.
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[analogos]

Guys this is really neat.

[Victor]

[UnitedBiscuits]

[negativedge]