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High Voltage Software Reveals "The Grinder" online co-op FPS vampire killing game
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AceBandage
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glaurung said:
Your face will fail.
Apharmd Battler
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Do want!! With High Voltage's track record, this is a day one purchase for me!!
AceBandage
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bryehn said:
Ah, so you expect negative reviews based on the thousands of positive previews from journalists and regular gamers?
That is very interesting.
jrricky said:
I meant artistically. That was my primary issue with Gladiator; this doesn't share that issue. I'm also not a fan of how the Conduit looks, despite it appearing to be a fun game. Get it through your head: I want them to succeed, but some of their artistic choices aren't helping them despite the tech they're running.
Dabookerman
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Man, you HVS knights provide nothing but endless entertainment :lol
AltogetherAndrews
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Bozon-IGN said:
"Hardcore?" A monster FPS? :lol
DeathbyVolcano
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AltogetherAndrews said:
How does that NOT fall into that category?
vandalvideo
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In a time where there are FPS games flying out of Cliffy B's spinctor, its going to take a lot more than middling graphics and zombies/werewolves to get me hyped.
DeathbyVolcano
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Because this one actually looks fun.
BobsRevenge
I do not avoid women, GAF, but I do deny them my essence.
I wonder how big the audience is for this type of game on the Wii.
Bluemercury
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vandalvideo said:
OF all all fps you talk about Epic games? They lost all charm after the original unreal....
AltogetherAndrews
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joetachi said:
Well, if it's "game in massively popular genre featuring monsters" then something is clearly off. Hell, Geist seemed more "hardcore" than this.
vandalvideo
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Bluemercury said:
Cliffy B's Spinctor = Unreal 3 engine. Sorry I didn't spell that out.
obaidr said:
Or just maybe, there's a market for games like this that nobody knows about, because wait for it,
Nobody's targeted a game towards it.
FPS games on the Wii tend to be 1/2 assed, thrown together ports by a development team that was just hired off the streets.
The Conduit is the first FPS on the Wii that actually has an effort behind it.
Bozon-IGN said:In NO WAY would this factor into any of my own reviews, but I have to give the company serious, serious credit. They are going all out when nobody (Nintendo included) will push the Wii hardcore angle right now.
They've got my money. It takes serious balls to work mainly as a dev for hire, pile cash, and then bet this big, so I wish those guys all the luck in the world.
Also, I must play Grinder. Damn that looks cool.
<------- This Guy: A fan of Darkwatch.
I expect a ton of hands on at E3 bozon. I DEMAND.
rollingstart
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avatar299 said:
I don't know, selective reading of that Gladiator thread? I haven't read through this thread, but I don't think people were knocking the Gladiator game for what was written about it. At least I was fairly interested in what they were going for. What I, and I assume others, were judging was what we can judge at the time: the horrendous graphics. This Grinder game isn't nearly as ugly as that game was. So, maybe people are just judging the graphics.
Grinder reminds of that old Darkwatch game just from the sceens and style. It's at least somewhat consistent and seems like they had an idea for how it would look.
Bluemercury
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vandalvideo said:
Only a handful games based on unreal 3.0 are void of the plastic look that engines turns everything into.....so yeah still wrong.....
vandalvideo
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That is kind of the point behind the post. Alot of the games that are coming out of the Unreal 3 engine are miles beyond what we're seeing from High Voltage; and yes, I know, Wii hardware and all. In the age of the mass produced FPS game where everything and their momma looks better than this game, it is going to take more than zombies and werewolves to get me hyped.Bluemercury said:
Davey Cakes
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There is no definition for it anymore. It's a retarded word to use in describing games.joetachi said:
Even the word "casual" is hard to define now. Before, "casual" was things like GTA. Now, it's things like Wii Sports. Can it be both at the same time?
I just don't find a point in lumping games together by these categories. Games are games. Some are just more accessible than others. That's it.
rollingstart
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joetachi said:
Now it seems like "hardcore" meants traditional and "casual" means new and different. In the past "hardcore" meant something like The Witcher, which the average player wouldn't know about, and "casual" being the popular mainstream title like Grand Theft Auto or Madden.
Davey Cakes
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And even games like The Conduit and Metroid Prime 3 have broken the traditional mold of the inaccessibility in first-person games by introducing a user-friendly control scheme.
The trolls are out in strength again. Sure, what the hell, only a Wii thread eh?
Anyway. Looks very good, nice attention to detail. I think I like this more than Gladiators, the art style is better.
Good Job lads. You may be getting hundreds of my euro's over the next couple of years.
double standards for the win
Anyway. Looks very good, nice attention to detail. I think I like this more than Gladiators, the art style is better.
Good Job lads. You may be getting hundreds of my euro's over the next couple of years.
abstract alien
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You arent alone. I like the way gladiator looks and sounds as well...just as much as this game to be honest.SpacePirate Ridley said:
Bluemercury
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Dabookerman said:
yep its for wii so its sucks but then you're here....go figure....
Haunted
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Looks pretty good. I'm more interested in the Gladiator game personally.
Here's hoping The Conduit delivers so I can get legitimately hyped about the work these guys are doing.
Really wish I could've played this.
Here's hoping The Conduit delivers so I can get legitimately hyped about the work these guys are doing.
I love shit like this.nincompoop said:100? Try 65535.
Name is Ikusa Gami, or Demon Chaos in EU BTW
Really wish I could've played this.plagiarize
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my excitement for this will be tempered by how good The Conduit turns out... so i'm optimistic right now. screens look good and i love the cornball concept.
bdouble said:
Meanwhile, we have others talking about them as if they're Bungie. They're not. They're an ambitious developer that is at least trying to improve their status in the industry via a lot of hard fucking work. Anyone dismissing them out of hand is wrong, as their effort alone should be applauded. That said, this ambition should in no way impact the sales of their games. They still have to make good titles. Period.
The only problem I have with HVS, outside of Grinder which looks good, is that their art design is lifeless and doesn't live up to the ambitions they've set for themselves.
That worries me.