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Knack |OT| Playin' Knack in my Tub!
- Thread starter Tsundere
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It is. Just sold me on the game too, damn.
FlashbladeGAF
Member
TheRealTalker
Banned
anyone downloaded the vid before it got taken down
SEGAvangelist
Member
Damn I missed it. How much platforming was shown?
A healthy lot of it. It looks really good, even if nostalgia for that type of game is tinting my perception of it.
GANGSTERKILLER
Member
Backup! http://filetrip.net/dl?FEED0zjcv9
Maybe I will buy Knack at launch, it looks like oldschool platform fun and I want to support Mark Cerny.
Great showing. Definitely some platforming in there to spice it up and a lot more variety than I had initially assumed.
DangerMouse
Member
lowhighkang_LHK
Member
Looks boring
Needs more inception horns and bullets and boats exploding amirite?
BakedSardine
Banned
I'm not sure why Sony is hiding these levels - the game looks like a lot of fun and this shows it off much better than the stroll through empty city they have mostly shown.
Knack hopefuls download the following vid.
http://filetrip.net/dl?FEED0zjcv9 - 720p
This video really impressed me. Lots of level variety, enemy diversity, beautiful visuals and good sound design. Still not exactly the deepest gameplay, but I do like how the variety in enemies forces different tactics in how you approach them. Eg memorising different patterns of attack or evade etc.
http://filetrip.net/dl?FEED0zjcv9 - 720p
This video really impressed me. Lots of level variety, enemy diversity, beautiful visuals and good sound design. Still not exactly the deepest gameplay, but I do like how the variety in enemies forces different tactics in how you approach them. Eg memorising different patterns of attack or evade etc.
Agreed. I think they show the city level a lot because it's Knack in maybe his biggest form. Which is why he moves so damn slow in it.
But yeah, there's legit platforming and some great looking environments in this.
Captures from the video above. This one. http://filetrip.net/dl?FEED0zjcv9
Not the best quality, but I am seriously impressed with how far the visuals have come.
Not the best quality, but I am seriously impressed with how far the visuals have come.
Brain of J
Banned
Game looks like simple harmless fun. If I were getting a PS4 I'd probably pick it up.
Alcoholikaust
Member
hmmm..keeping the cellophane on this one until reviews drop.
Im loving the look of the rocks in the video and alot of the outside areas. Im interested in seeing how the co-op plays out. I like the trend of letting a parent help a child play through a game. My daughter often get stuck but I dont want to take the joystick away from her. Its nice to help as a companion. Even though deep down Im a demon/dark souls guy with the mentality that shit should be hard, I dont want that for my kid lol.
Bog
Junior Ace
Hah, you and me both. Madden gets the same treatment, too.
Hexa
Member
All of those except for diamond are pretty cool! Could lend a fair amount of replayability.
crazygambit
Member
It's a game that's meant to be played by kids. Do you really want dead bodies lying around? None of the other games of this kind do, Jak, Ratchet, Sly, Crash, etc. It would be really weird if that was the case.
Hexa
Member
Yeah. I wish they had one that was 1-1-1 purposely under powered for that purpose.
Diamond seems to be OP. Wonder what the point of it is. Just roaming around being OP does seem fun I guess if it's something hard to get.
VGChampion
Member
I'd be fine with it. Just because other games don't doesn't mean this one has to. As a kid I always thought it would be cool as well. Hell, I thought it would be cool if I could see smushed bananas on Super Mario Kart but stuff like that never happened.
JordanN
Banned
Knack's discarded bits look so low poly here but then when he's bigger...
He looks so much better (but they're still the same shapes!). XD
I got a chance to play this today at a demo kiosk and was incredibly disappointed by just about everything. The gameplay felt a lot more stiff than I had imagined it, with Knack not moving as fast as I'd hoped. The graphics weren't nearly as smooth as I thought they would be either (although that might've been the fault of the television), and it just didn't leave me with a great impression.
I'm super disappointed because Knack was my most anticipated launch title. The silver lining is that I've heard a number of people complain about the demo version, but also a lot of people praising other (newer?) demos, so perhaps it was just a one-off.
Either way, when I arrived back home, the copy I ordered from Amazon was waiting for me, so there's no turning back now.
I'm super disappointed because Knack was my most anticipated launch title. The silver lining is that I've heard a number of people complain about the demo version, but also a lot of people praising other (newer?) demos, so perhaps it was just a one-off.
Either way, when I arrived back home, the copy I ordered from Amazon was waiting for me, so there's no turning back now.
Pound_lb003
Member
Having seen that extra bit of gameplay, I am way more excited for it now. And I love the unlockable stuff and collection parts.
I am pretty much sold on this game being awesome.
I am pretty much sold on this game being awesome.
Styrofoam Knack hard mode. Come on Sony.
Also, diamond is probably for beating the game on the hardest difficulty or something equally tough.
For whatever reason, that demo build is very old. At least two builds older than what you'll be playing on Friday.
NeededSleep
Member
The levels look way too linear
If this game only had more exploration and open world i would of jumped on it day one.
If this game only had more exploration and open world i would of jumped on it day one.
Spine_Ripper
Member
Gold Knack is pimp as hell.
I thought I was the only one who thought of this haha
Coolbgdog12
Member
That b-roll footage showed some promising variety. The ONLY thing that really looked irksome was how the enemies simply disappeared. No special effect just straight up ghost, yuck.