21st century cowboy
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Can anyone confirm if the pre order ISA light machine is available in the game or is an exclusive for pre orders?
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Killzone: Mercenary |OT| No allegiance, no honour, only money
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This game is simply stunning on a handheld. I'm really impressed with what the dev team have managed to do. I'm a few missions into the game so far and have taken a bunch of screenshots.
Here's a gallery
A few of my favourites:
Dat reflection...
Here's a gallery
A few of my favourites:
Dat reflection...
I Wanna Be The Guy
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I expected the disparity in reviews. Critics judging Vita games by console standards instead of handheld standards is nothing new. Critics also being harsh on Vita games just cause is nothing new.
Triggerhappytel
Member
Don't forget 'critics being inherently biased against Killzone'.
I Wanna Be The Guy
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I don't know if that's true, and I'm pretty sure Shadow Fall isn't going to get anywhere near the same amount of criticism regardless of whether it does anything new for the genre or not.
1.21Gigawatts
Banned
First day multiplayer is nice, so many noobs
Just got the 10 killstreak trophy, thought it would be near impossible.
I had quite a few 10 kill streaks in the beta, but I noticed that it got harder at the end of the beta.
DarkLordMalik
Member
Will be getting mine copy on Friday, hopefully 
Can't WAIT!
Can't WAIT!
Reckless Onion
Member
I'm tempted to buy a vita for this but I would really like to know if there are any traces of input delay and how are the controls received? Are they responsive or more like kz3? Cause I hated that.
Haven't played KZ3 and KZ2 is years ago. Personally, I really like the controls and think they work well after setting the sensitivity up a notch. Don't think there is big input delay.
Because of the limited buttons it can be a little bit cramped but you will get used to it. Also the Vita sticks are smaller with less range. Grenades aren't placed optimal. Sprinting per backtouch is mindboggling, using circle for it works fine. You seldom do the wrong action even though circle has multiple uses.
Only triangle is keen to it, but this also happens on console games with action/use buttons.
LaunchpadMcQ
Banned
You know, I'm not at all taken aback that reviewers are judging this as a full console experience, because, you know, that's what it was aiming for. The Metacritic score still indicates it's good if you're looking for a standard FPS that works on a handheld; I believe that makes the game a huge success at a developmental level.
kriskrosbbk
Member
First day multiplayer is nice, so many noobs
Just got the 10 killstreak trophy, thought it would be near impossible.
Any disconnects ?
Not really. That are a lot of design decision made that take into account that this is a game for a portable system. A lot of reviewers chose to ignore those.
This game needs a melee swipe for backstabbing. Sometimes I don't want to interrogate because it takes too much time but want the silent knife kill.
Just make it optional with the swipes, up for backstab and down for interrogation.
No, but I also didn't have disconects in the open beta.
They didn't patch the connection bug though. Sometimes you can't join a match until you restart the game. after restart, everything is fine.
Guess it happens when the game stays in sleep/background to much.
Just make it optional with the swipes, up for backstab and down for interrogation.
No, but I also didn't have disconects in the open beta.
They didn't patch the connection bug though. Sometimes you can't join a match until you restart the game. after restart, everything is fine.
Guess it happens when the game stays in sleep/background to much.
mickcenary
Member
How are the counter-melees handled/balanced in MP, dudez?
I don't know the exact mechanics, but it just seems it just depends on who is faster with the swipe. Don't know if the attacker gets his QTE sooner.
I guess there is also some importance on positioning and maybe even the health. I got some melee kills without swipe QTE.
In my opinion, it works really well. I like the melee swipes, much better than the instant melee kills in other games.
Live Free or Die
Banned
Sucks there is no pre-order option on the U.S. PS Store.
lordchompy
Member
You're right, it won't receive this much criticism, but I can already tell Shadow Fall isn't going to get higher than an 83 or thereabouts. The game has moments when it looks impressive, but we've seen this type of gameplay before in other shooters. The campaign length and quality of the narrative is what will likely be the clincher for reviewers.
lordchompy
Member
It's a fairly small team. According to a Tweet from Guerrilla Games' official Twitter account, the company includes about 270 employees, including Cambridge. So when you consider the difference in team size, about 50 vs nearly 220, it becomes all the more impressive that Guerrilla Cambridge crafted something of this caliber with such a small staff.
Congrats!! Well done guys! A screw Nowgamer!
1.21Gigawatts
Banned
Well, it took them some time. I guess its the Vita game with the longest dev cycle. Its been annouced over 2 years ago.
And its not exactly packed with content.
Hey guys, I dunno if it was mentioned before, but in the Cinema Blend review, I thought this was worth pointing out:
So there's a disparity between the time you actually spent playing the campaign and the in-game clock? Maybe it doesn't count retries/deaths.
Ryan Winslett said:
So there's a disparity between the time you actually spent playing the campaign and the in-game clock? Maybe it doesn't count retries/deaths.
OneMoreQuestion
Member
Maybe 7 hours if you find all the intel and stuff. My playtime says 3 hours after I finished the whole campaign.
It took me around 5 hours on hard but I died a lot on purpose because of those damn officers that you need to interrogate for intel.
I think they were talking about if you time the actual time spent playing the game, rather than going by the in-game clock.
Only played the first mission and a bit of the beginning of the second one. This is a really nice looking game. I am pleasantly surprised. I didn't check too many videos beforehand so that affects this too.
The blood spatters and the bullet hits on the walls are a nice touch. Lighting is astounding too. For a handheld game it's a beauty.
The aiming is better than any other stick aiming on the Vita so far. Not a lot to compare to though. I still prefer the Golden abyss gyro aiming, but this is good. Will have to twiddle with the settings as the acceleration seems a bit too slow or too fast at times.
Would play this a lot more but life outside games is beckoning me tonight.
P.S. My Vita said it's getting hot while playing this and shutting off mobile phone connection. First time to see that message.
The blood spatters and the bullet hits on the walls are a nice touch. Lighting is astounding too. For a handheld game it's a beauty.
The aiming is better than any other stick aiming on the Vita so far. Not a lot to compare to though. I still prefer the Golden abyss gyro aiming, but this is good. Will have to twiddle with the settings as the acceleration seems a bit too slow or too fast at times.
Would play this a lot more but life outside games is beckoning me tonight.
P.S. My Vita said it's getting hot while playing this and shutting off mobile phone connection. First time to see that message.
Infernal Monkey
Member
This game is only second to Shinobido 2 for 'best ragdoll physics gone wrong' on Vita.
(Game's pretty great so far!)
(Game's pretty great so far!)
This game is only second to Shinobido 2 for 'best ragdoll physics gone wrong' on Vita.
(Game's pretty great so far!)
lol.. I tweeted almost the same picture on the 28th, of July..
https://twitter.com/hanmik01/status/361620231845720065/photo/1
GregHorrorShow
Neo Member
Don't think the playtime counts deaths though. One mission took me almost 45 mins to get through but it clocked it as one play through of 20 odd minutes.
I really dislike when games do that because it doesn't give you a real sense of how much you've played - just what your best time was.
My playtime overall on the stats screen was 4 hrs something and I know for a fact that it took me over 7 hours to play the campaign.
same for me.. stats said 4½ hours.. but I know I played 4 nights for about 2 hours each night before I finished the campaign.
Really? Wow has the vita shut down not long afterwards too? Or is it fine? I'm guessing you have the 3g model of the vita? I only have wifi so hoping its just a 3g issue
amstradcpc
Member
How is the AI, something like its big brothers?. Is different in hard?.
They rush you in hard which is dissapointing. The AI does not match the console games.
Many handheld games are technically and mechanically compromised when compared to their home console big brothers. The lack of raw power an the missing imput devices traditionaly means that they like crap and are often stripped down when compared related console versions.
Handheld games are excused when it comes to things like this due the inherent techical limitations of the platform.
KZ:M simply looks and plays too much like a console game. It ends up in a sort of "uncanny valley" between the two platforms; becoming a failed console game rather than a fantastic handheld game.
Handheld games are excused when it comes to things like this due the inherent techical limitations of the platform.
KZ:M simply looks and plays too much like a console game. It ends up in a sort of "uncanny valley" between the two platforms; becoming a failed console game rather than a fantastic handheld game.
4.5 gigs with the patch.
Hm, thanks.