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Polygon's marathon Xbox One live stream
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SlasherJPC
Banned
Words like horrible are thrown around way to easily these days. Horrible, terrible, etc are words that should be reserved for the worst shit out there. Damnation, Ride to Hell, Quantom Theory...
You might not think Ryse looks great... but man... horrible? Come on now.
You might not think Ryse looks great... but man... horrible? Come on now.
The beta testing part. They haven't beta tested it yet. That's what day one buyers are for.
CassidyIzABeast
Member
Its truly amazing that this is the gaming press.
chris121580
Member
Pretty concerning it sounds like it's a lot less user friendly to navigate the UI using the controller
This is definitely no Warhammer 40k Space Marine..... but what is?
I'm being entirely serious here. So do I.
hey_it's_that_dog
benevolent sexism
I won't go so far as to call the game objectively horrible, but for my taste, extremely beautiful games that are piss poor mechanically are indeed horrible. I think they're all the more horrible for their possible effects on the industry, lowering the standards of good design, especially if they sell well.
In terms of gameplay, what makes Ryse better than Quantum Theory anyway? The high quality models you get to look at while scripted animations play out in close-up? I've only played the demo of Quantum Theory (and I thought it was bad for all the reasons everyone thinks its bad) but I'm honestly probing as to how Ryse is better, other than how much effort was put into its presentation.
Mass Effect
Member
Oh, well in that case I suppose I agree with you. You're right, Ryse's combat is more like AC or the Arkham games than God of War.
But again, like you said, those games are open-world with other gameplay mechanics (platforming, stealth and puzzle solving to a lesser extent) that are just as prominent which helps make up for the combat, something that Ryse doesn't have.
Really dude? One's a job - where you have to rush through new releases within 5 days to shit out a review pretty regularly.
The other is some dude having fun only playing the games he likes while consuming some TBell in the basement.
SlasherJPC
Banned
I can't really speak about it gameplay wise cause I have yet to play Ryse. I'm not spouting praises for the game but I wn't condemn it for being "horrible" either.. Visually it looks outstanding. I don't know how the game feels to control, play,and the feedback from combat and timing. This stuff will be crucial for my basis on the final game.
As for Quatum Theory...it was piss poor in multiple areas. From a visual boring design, to some horrrific controls, a story that made no sense, with little to no reason of trying to attempt anything other then being a bare bones Gears of War rip off. That game is, was, and will always be a turd in gaming.
They raised a good point about playing at night. No point having a UI so focused on voice if you need to be quiet and not disturb people in the house at night.
Jesus, this still fucking kills me every time.
NoirVisage
Banned
Well not jr to you, i'm 8 years older "b".
Gaf isn't the only gaming site that you use that name, and there happens to be another name/ e-mail addy i stumbled upon that puts quite a good deal about you in perspective.
You may want to do the shutting the eff up and learn how not to leave such an obvious digital footprint along with your one note defense of polygon, it makes things to easy.
spookyfish
Gold Member
Yes. That's the equivalence to pointing out that a $60 game really doesn't look that fun or well done.
Indeed. I suppose they try to make up for that with turret sections and...roman formation QTE sections? I don't know about the latter, but I doubt turret sections would excite me anymore. Judging by your name, I would assume you are not to thrilled about them either. The one in ME3 was really boring.
Metal Gear?!
Member
Hahaha all the Forza AI drivers purposefully knocking all the bins and pylons onto the track, creating a track littered with debris, was hilarious. Asshole AI confirmed.
Crimson_Gold
Member
Detective GAF strikes again
The changes to Xbox controller have me a bit concerned. More specifically the bumper changes. The changes were illustrated quite clearly on the stream, the fact that it is not very easy to move your finger from the trigger to the bumper.
On the 360 (if the game allowed it), I would configure my action/jump command to a bumper. It seemed intuitive because I would never have remove my thumbs off the analog sticks. Now I guess I will have to wait and see if the Xbox One controller retains the same feeling.
On the 360 (if the game allowed it), I would configure my action/jump command to a bumper. It seemed intuitive because I would never have remove my thumbs off the analog sticks. Now I guess I will have to wait and see if the Xbox One controller retains the same feeling.
WHAT?!
Forza 5 has the optimum line on and they start reacting to it something like this: "what is happening? this isn't real racing, what is that line? is this a glitch?"
One minute later they come to the conclusion that you have to follow the line and break when it goes red, omg
Also the one guy drove the car he's playing right now and therefor knows the real deal, Forza can't compete, go figure
Just turned in, and am facepalming hard, never have thought of something like that.
Before they had a pre recorded video of a controller comparison which was actually pretty good, but now, them being live, damn
Forza 5 has the optimum line on and they start reacting to it something like this: "what is happening? this isn't real racing, what is that line? is this a glitch?"
One minute later they come to the conclusion that you have to follow the line and break when it goes red, omg
Also the one guy drove the car he's playing right now and therefor knows the real deal, Forza can't compete, go figure
Just turned in, and am facepalming hard, never have thought of something like that.
Before they had a pre recorded video of a controller comparison which was actually pretty good, but now, them being live, damn
Maninthemirror
Banned
You have to wonder at what point it goes from a racing game to a do what you want racing game
You might think you 'won' that one, you didn't.
I thought Forza wasn't a real car simulator? More Arcade/Sim? No idea, never played it.
Metal Gear?!
Member
DO YOU LIKE THIS?
If Youtubers had to play tons of games they didn't want to play, and at a pace set by management... yeah
Well it's not open world like Horizon, but being able to persistently knock thousands of pieces of debris around on a track is one of the few great uses of next gen power I can think of. They can spell things and play bin football and such.
Between this and Gamespot's coverage of Forza yesterday... my god. Utterly clueless. It's no wonder there aren't more mainstream sim racers.
People commenting, "Dey can't even get the voice commands right, so dumb!", do you guys realize that the average consumer is going to have an even worse time with this? Some of the commands are completely ass-backwards and there seems to be no single theme or unified, sensible keyword library that the thing will respond to.
I wish I could be a fly on the wall in the house of Joe Sixpack, hooking up his Xbone to watch some NFL and ending up smashing the thing because it simply doesn't respond to what the fuck you're saying unless you memorize certain speech patterns and specific out-of-the-blue keywords that seem completely arbitrary.
If this is one of the "Pillars of the XBox ecosystem", then they fucked up. Fucked up big, because the UI seems to be a complete chore to navigate without voice.
I wish I could be a fly on the wall in the house of Joe Sixpack, hooking up his Xbone to watch some NFL and ending up smashing the thing because it simply doesn't respond to what the fuck you're saying unless you memorize certain speech patterns and specific out-of-the-blue keywords that seem completely arbitrary.
If this is one of the "Pillars of the XBox ecosystem", then they fucked up. Fucked up big, because the UI seems to be a complete chore to navigate without voice.
NoirVisage
Banned
Ha ha, neh, just jr. Detective gaf, heck, i found more than i bargained for true but had to quit cause it started feeling like stalker gaf. -__-
huh?
they were talking about this stuff:
when they talked about glitching, not the line which he described because not everyone plays driving games...
VibratingDonkey
Member
Will have to rewatch the archive to get an exact quote, but Chris Plante said some things about the AI that basically amounted to AI emulating sloppy multiplayer races > AI attempting to simulate real race behavior.
And now he's complaining about bumper cam being dumb.
I hope he never has or never will write about racing games on the simmier side.
NoirVisage
Banned
You might think coming sideways at a stranger with vague openended threats makes for a cool highhorse. It doesn't, especially if your horse is eye level to my knee. you have no idea how i think, winning anything except a million dollars on the net doesn't concern me.
they were? srsly?huh?
they were talking about this stuff:
when they talked about glitching, not the line which he described because not everyone plays driving games...
okay, I'm absolutely sorry then
not enjoying the stream too much so far
edit: oh you can instantly switch back on livestream.com - saw it again now, I had a little lag when this happened live, didn't seem that extreme, I feel embarrassed now, really sorry
It's gonna be bad. Really, really bad.
HawksWinStanley
Member
I am zero familiar with the Polygon crew but these two (especially the ventriloquist dummy with the high voice) are by far the worst to listen to.
NoirVisage
Banned
Kudo's to him for not being too shy to speak despite his uniquely high pitched voice, it could be worse i guess. On the same token, its part if why i'll avoid the stream, not like they need my clicks anyways.
Vigilant Walrus
Member
I thought people loved Polygon. I didn't know people were so mad at them.
NoirVisage
Banned
Honestly, that documentary, regardless of who funded it, set them up for ire.. very self indulgent, the point of who funded it is just icing on the cake to me.
Metal Gear?!
Member
WHAT ARE THESE BOOSTS?
Haha they cotton'd onto Microsoft's quest for MORE MONEY
Haha they cotton'd onto Microsoft's quest for MORE MONEY
"I don't want to deal with microtransactions"