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Beyond Good & Evil 2: The Daily Leak
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Gentleman Jack
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Would help expose lazy jerks who don't properly source AND slap their own watermark on images they swipe.
Jaded Alyx
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...that's still not Jade's face.
XANDER CAGE
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You should come up with a slightly tougher watermark than "jpeg compressed red text over an image with lots of black".
dilatedmuscle
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I dont know much aboug Beyond Good and Evil. Was it a good game? What makes people so interested in the possibility of a sequel?
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
It's basically a Zelda-esque action-adventure game with light puzzles, inventory stuff, etc. It's got a neat female protagonist, and interesting dystopic near-future world populated by funny and unique creatures, it's a real labour of love and worst of all--the first games ends too soon, suddenly, and on a sort-of cliff-hanger. There was real vision behind the game. It got near-universal praise.
The original is on PS2, GameCube, PC (Steam/GOG), XBLA, and PSN. It's cheap on all of them--at one point it was given away with Cheese Strings, that's how cheap we're talking.
Not any individual part of the game itself, I assure you. Break it down and it's simply an above-average action adventure. However, the setting and plot combined with that competent-but-unspectacular gameplay to create something more than the sum of its parts.
I do think it's one of the most overrated games among gaming circles, especially here on GAF where it seems to have obtained a holy cow status, but it is definitely worth playing. You can buy it on GoG for cheap.
Thought it was really average, but a lot of people think its spectacular so what do I know (go play Jak 2 instead)
This is the best assessment I have read. I agree entirely. The individual elements really aren't amazing, and neither is the integration threads such as the plot. But, there is no doubt a certain charm to it all which makes it better on the whole as it should be. It's also wonderfully cartoony in the sense that it could be played by any age and appreciated without being kiddy. It's massively overrated, but worth a go.
I think it's mostly the setting and characters.
Which aren't really reflected in any of these shots I've seen so far. They look pretty different from the stuff from the first game.
Well...at least you tried but unfortunately
http://kotaku.com/5909396/looks-like-weve-got-some-more-screens-from-beyond-good--evil-2/gallery/1
Baller. PhD
Banned
It's necessary man.
The Awesomest
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Whaaat? I could've sworn I saw Orange/White/Green, the colors of the Indian flag, the country which pretty much everything in this game seems to be based off of.
EDIT Yeah it is the Indian flag, dunno where you're getting Ethiopia from. The town was even populated with humans.
Kotaku can't even read a link and type the website out properly, let alone figure out an original source. When I was posting Battlefront III things, it took Luke a good three or four tries to get it right. I've had sites paste right over my watermark before too, it's pretty bad. I collect rare, unreleased games and yet the sites around the net take it and earn more money with it than I ever will.
I dont want to sound like a dick but I dont get why some people on here likes that site since they steal from gaf usually, bad with linking to others. I thought I saw someone say here recently that they took their gifs. Its just a lot of stealed stuff on there. I have a high tolerance for bad websites but AGB is on my dont visit list.
We should get back on topic tho since Shiggy is doing a good job ;D
Pinko Marx
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Agree with this except the stealth sections in the game are fucking HORRIBLE.
Vulcano's assistant
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I've always though that AllgamesBeta was run by a gaffer, I mean, he/she even posts the gifs.
I H8 Memes
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Kotaku searches GAF threads all day looking for news and material to post. They know full well where the pictures came from
Great looking scenery, I've been looking forward to BG&E2 since 2004.
Side note: Since I don't want to necro-bump any of the Beyond Good & Evil HD threads, I have to say that my first BG&E playthrough on PS2 was one of the best gaming experiences I've had. But Beyond Good & Evil HD on PS3 is infuriating. Maybe I've played a lot of games in between, but the camera in this is just dreadful. I am not talking about the common inversion issue. I am talking about having to babysit the camera constantly, weirdly zooming and panning, camera swinging wildly with just a tiny touch of the analog stick, the racing and stealth being almost unplayable because of the weird zooming. This has left a total bad taste in my mouth for the first game. I don't remember the camera being nearly this bad. Am I crazy?
Side note: Since I don't want to necro-bump any of the Beyond Good & Evil HD threads, I have to say that my first BG&E playthrough on PS2 was one of the best gaming experiences I've had. But Beyond Good & Evil HD on PS3 is infuriating. Maybe I've played a lot of games in between, but the camera in this is just dreadful. I am not talking about the common inversion issue. I am talking about having to babysit the camera constantly, weirdly zooming and panning, camera swinging wildly with just a tiny touch of the analog stick, the racing and stealth being almost unplayable because of the weird zooming. This has left a total bad taste in my mouth for the first game. I don't remember the camera being nearly this bad. Am I crazy?
Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew
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Well, theeen...
lol
Fucking brilliant. Love the use of the spray can!
Apeopleman
Member
We should bet which comes out first
if i'm remembering correctly, the first game was a compromised vision. the stylized look was part of that. the screens from 09 are probably more in line with what ancel originally had in mind.
Acrylic7
Member
I tell that to every gamer. Jak 2 is easily Naughty Dogs best game. imo.
Anyway Beyond Good & Evil was just a really good game, it wasn't half ass'd.
When you play it you can tell that the developer put some thought and heart into the game. Nothing ground breaking, but still its pretty good. You can see the level of detail in the world and characters, and I'm not talking about graphics or voice actors.
Cant help but feel as if it could have been more. Everything was just so good, I felt that if it had a bigger team, NOT BUDGET, I could have had more out of this game. Maybe some exploring or something. The World of BG&E needs to be flushed out. I want to take more pictures, meet more characters, have a more in depth battle system instead of hitting one button.
I need BG&E2/
Azure Phoenix
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No you aren't crazy, I've replayed BG&E many times over the years so it was immediately obvious just how rubbish the camera is in the HD remake. It was fine in the original versions.
You're not crazy. The PS3/XBLA versions (I presume) are a port of the PC version in which they feel like mouse controls sloppily assigned to control sticks, so they don't take into account the analogue nature of the camera controls. Remember in the original how you could crouch behind a low wall and slowly pan the camera up over it? The HD version only allows you to go between extremes. It happens in the hovercraft too, which leads to some puzzles being an absolute bitch.
that's kinda how it works. more people = more people paid = bigger budget.
plus, ancel wants to keep his teams small.
This is why we can't have nice things.
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Sheesh, is this normal?
http://www.examiner.com/article/beyond-good-evil-2-gets-three-new-screenshots
Lots of websites are posting these screenshots as if they were their own.
So well, there's the other video that was leaked:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=qy3b5lgvu5A
http://www.unseen64.net/2012/05/11/beyond-good-evil-2-ps3-xbox-360-beta-prototype/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=qy3b5lgvu5A
http://www.unseen64.net/2012/05/11/beyond-good-evil-2-ps3-xbox-360-beta-prototype/
Is that "official" music in that video, or some random tune?
The music in BG&E was so good, when/if this ever comes out, hope the music can compare.
I made a new thread about the video because, well, it deserves it. It seems to be going unnoticed in this thread.
Typographenia
Member
No idea how I missed this the other day.
Looks and sounds fantastic.
Looks and sounds fantastic.
Jaded Alyx
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Hello.
My name is Jaded Alyx, and I'm here to tell you guys that I am currently locating Shiggy's house. When I find it, I am going to end him for sending me the following image:
I promise it will be swift.
My name is Jaded Alyx, and I'm here to tell you guys that I am currently locating Shiggy's house. When I find it, I am going to end him for sending me the following image:
I promise it will be swift.
Hello.
My name is Jaded Alyx, and I'm here to tell you guys that I am currently locating Shiggy's house. When I find it, I am going to end him for sending me the following image:
![url]](http://[url]http://h11.abload.de/img/trollrgko4.png[/url])
I promise it will be swift.
Don't you mean slow and painful?
Why now all these leaks Shiggy? Hyping something more official soonish? E3?
Vinterbird
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Don't you mean slow and painful?
Why now all these leaks Shiggy? Hyping something more official soonish? E3?
It's not in production right now, so it's not like Shigg is doing viral marketing for Ancel. (and I'm starting to doubt this game will ever enter actual production)