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Play reviews Lair
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Drinky Crow said:
I swear that review actually was written by me (starlit ocean opera line and all). If it was one of the game's Dave had tagged for greatness there's certainly no way he'd have let me have the review! And if we got a kickback for that, I certainly didn't get a cut.
Not sure exactly what you're referring to with the Heather review of Twilight Princess... I actually wrote the Twilight Princess review in Play, so it's possible you're comparing her review for some other source with mine for the magazine. (And I stand by that 9.5, damn it, TwiPri was awesome!)
I dunno why the hype isn't out there for Lairit did look like a mess at most of its trade show appearance, but it really did come together in the end. IMO, at least...
BradVanDam
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Speevy said:
Liabe Brave
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Onix said:
My frothing demand is not quite on the increase, but I am interested in your gameplay impressions, Takuhi. Especially, are there any sections where you just fly around and explore, or travel to the next area, or is it all battle and objective-based "levels"?
Liabe Brave said:
It is entirely objective-based levels, and in a lot of them you have to protect an allied unit that is under fire, so abandoning it to explore will almost certainly cause you to fail the mission. But some of the later levels have open-ended objectives and nothing to protect, so you're free to fly around and explore. I kind of wish there was a little more of that, though... The environments are SO beautiful. And varied! It was driving me nuts a few weeks ago when everyone was worried that the game would be "too brown" and I couldn't post about it. Every level looks and feels very different and the game has great use of color.
The play mechanics take a lot of getting used to. The core flying and shooting is totally intuitive and satisfying (I love the Sixaxis control for movement) but the game is constantly cutting away to little bits where you're attacking side-to-side or doing QTE stuff or doing that two-dragons-locked-together fighting game thing, which is very annoying and confusing at first. But when you do figure out how and why those things happen, they do add quite a bit of depth to the game. The navigation systems are weak, so the first time you do each mission it can be confusing where you're supposed to go, but once you know what to do, they're really fun to replay.
I'm glad to see some people here are excited for it! I don't think you'll be disappointed.
Now buy the magazine!
Udde
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Those new screens are awesome! Can't wait to play this @1080p I'm really interested in the sixaxis control too, maybe it will be the first game I really enjoy playing it with the tilt sensor.
Btw: "It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors." Oscar Wilde
That quote could be applied to the 'discussion' ^_^
I'm really interested in the sixaxis control too, maybe it will be the first game I really enjoy playing it with the tilt sensor. Btw: "It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors." Oscar Wilde
That quote could be applied to the 'discussion' ^_^
Thunderbear
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Takuhi said:
Thanks for posting, I certainly hope it's as awesome as you feel it is. Can't wait.
As for Drinky... erm, um well...
donkey show
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You know, Bitch Slap Wii would be an awesome game. I think you're on to something.shidoshi said:Here... made this just for you.
(And for the sake of the lord, people... THIS IS JUST A JOKE. Not at all real, before anybody gets the wrong idea.)
isochronus
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I see alot of low poly models with a few decent textures mixed in with alot of poor quality textures with no textural effects.
test_account
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Dies Iræ said:YOU'RE HIGH
What is your score since you think this wrong? You have played it right? Since you disagree with the score
isochronus said:
lol?
ok, now show me a game that does what Lair does. Dynamic just about everything with awesome weather effects and thousands of soldiers on screen. Let's not forget the 32x32 Km levels.
It has some crappy textures. But as long as you can't show me a game without crappy textures you don't have a case.
Metalmurphy
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??? :lolisochronus said:
Not off to a good start...
You must be looking at the old pictures, cause this game had a HUGE, and i mean HUGE, improvement on the texture department:
http://xs217.xs.to/xs217/07284/999_0008_2.jpg
HocusPocus
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I hope it's a great game. I bought a PS3 for it and Sigma . Had they not come out this year then I would have waited.
. Had they not come out this year then I would have waited.
Mithos Yggdrasill
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Karma Kramer said:
The problem with these hardcore magazines is that they have a strong tendence to evaluate graphics too much over the rest. What about the OST ? What about the story ? And What about the gameplay ?
Mithos Yggdrasill said:
Perhaps but Lair is one of the few games where graphics and scale are more important than game-play just like how the big battles and special effects in the LotR movies apparently were more important than the actual story.
What I'm saying is that the gameplay only needs to be good as long as the other two things are done well as the game is more about the epic feel.
Mithos Yggdrasill
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Darji said:
Ok. Thanks. This guy seems VERY excited, but I'll wait for more reviews.
VonGak! said:
Bah. I thinki that it is a combination of factors that make a game a great game.
fortified_concept
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It's funny how the same people who complain about the colour palette in this game or MGS4 have never complained about the colour palette of GeoW, or the people complaining about bad art have never complained about the many "bad art" games on X360 including Halo 3 and Mass Effect (no Deepblue this is not a discussion about Halo 3 -don't post pics- I'm just calling out certain people who have double standards for obvious reasons).
Oh man between this thread, the Uncharted and the GT5 one I'm really starting to miss bishoptl, at least he could keep the trolls scared. Why has he forsaken us?
Oh man between this thread, the Uncharted and the GT5 one I'm really starting to miss bishoptl, at least he could keep the trolls scared. Why has he forsaken us?
Son of Godzilla
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Calling out Halo 3 for "Bad Art" in a Lair thread as an example of double standards is one of the more retarded things you could possibly do. You should have stuck with how butt ****ing ugly GeoW is instead of Random Big 360 Game X.fortified_concept said:
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tdrdrgn said:
If your poo is white, yellow, purple and blue i would go see a doctor hehe
The game is more than just brown.fortified_concept
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Son of Godzilla said:
Bad art in a matter of opinion. Some people think FFXIII has bad art while I love the art in that game.
Halo 3 has bad art imo but that's not the point. Notice how I don't go in every Halo 3 or GeoW thread to declare how I think they have bad art like the usual suspects do all the time with Lair and MGS4 (colour palette)?
CrushDance
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Trolls.
That's all.
That's all.
Imperial Hot
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So, is this like 9/10 1up scale , or is Play's review scale ****ed up.
No I would say it's consistent though not a reason to buy the games.beerbelly said:
But hey some people may be in love with purple aliens and 70's concrete buildings... you know people who kept their 80's hair style.
Halo got nothing on the games I mentioned in one of my previous posts, so when someone attacks the art style of those titles while hailing Halo art style it smells of fanboy attack or really bad taste.
Son of Godzilla
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fortified_concept said:
Bad art or not, I meant that Halo 3's art style has nothing in common with Lair's. Whereas the dragons in Lair look suspiciously similar to Locusts. I disagree with you though, I think games should be called out where applicable, people shouldn't censor opinions because they are negative. I think the group speak people do in threads is unfortunate, I remember getting torn alive and even banned once for mentioning and providing proof about both GeoW and Halo 3's graphical problems.
I don't really know, but I'd wager that Haloo's one of those games where graphics and scale are more important than game-play just like how the big battles and special effects in Alien Vs Predator apparently were more important than the actual story.
fortified_concept
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Son of Godzilla said:
You keep missing my point. I am talking about the usual suspects who use double standards when they keep trashing Lair's art and then they jump to Halo 3 and Mass Effect threads to say how beautiful they look or defend their graphics. It's pure hypocrisy and there's an obvious reason why this is happening.
I didn't want to turn this into a damn Lair vs Halo art comparison and you should know that because I said it in my first post here:
It's annoying when people take your posts out of context, don't you think?
Barkley's Justice
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are we talking about play magazine? dave halverson's rag? that magazine gives anything a 9. i need a real magazine's review pls
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