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The GiantBomb Quick Look Thread
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Emerson
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Watching the Gunstringer QL frankly just continues to cement in my mind how worthless the Kinect is as a gaming device. The game that seems to have the most core hype around it looks good, for a Kinect game. If this was a regular controller-based game nobody would give it a look.
SuperSonic1305
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I got a little excited when he said it was a core Kinect game and didn't make you look stupid
and then the game started and it's just a shit as everything else.
and then the game started and it's just a shit as everything else.
I don't know, I like how The Gunstringer is looking. It seems like a pretty simple game, but after playing the demo I was fully convinced to buy it because it's just fun and seems to work well with the controls. I also like the silly style and heavy use of FMV that Twisted Pixel is known for, which this seems to have plenty of.
Maybe they didn't think it was that dull looking? I thought it looked okay. It's one of the few Kinect games that looks interesting to me. The parts where he was meleeing looked dumb, but the actual shooting seemed fine. I guess we need to bash everything that's not Harmonix though.f0rk said:
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derFeef said:
"Everyone" knew exactly what this would be: a game with some basic mechanics that is less than satisfying but still mostly playable, washed down with some FMV hilarity and fun themes.
You know. It's a Twisted Pixel game.
slaughterking
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But it's so polished. :lolderFeef said:
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derFeef said:
I think if anything, people were making this out to be the Kinect's golden egg, alongside stuff like Steel Battalion and Suda's game, but obviously like you say, full price doesn't do them any favours in that regard :lol
EDIT: Like StuBurns, I've only really seen this game on GB- I don't think I've seen more than one GAF thread about it- so I wouldn't trust my perceptions too much
Mechanized
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I think Gunstringer looks pretty cool, but I won't be buying a Kinect any time soon.
People's advice to them must have been terrible. There's no shame in running in Daggerfall. You can run through the first dungeon, not fight anyone and still get a level from raising your running skill. Then you start farming graveyards for cash until you get to a town, and that's where you really start.
Vampire On Titus
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Surprised to see the GunStringer had platforming, had only seen brief clips of it before this quicklook. I wonder if it ever get's hardcore, or if they had to reign it in so the Kinect could keep up. Looks better than I thought it would, one of the cooler Kinect titles I've seen. Unfortunately that's not exactly very high praise.
BladeoftheImmortal
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Finally watched the Word Fighter QL and...I skipped about half it. It looks boring as hell.
I love the concept, but the execution seems severely lacking.
I had imagined in my mind the puzzle fighter antics that would ensue, but all the "fighters" do is stand there until the words come flying out, one canned animation after the other. BOOORING!
Edgar should be throwing Raven's a t people and Jane should be blasting sun beams out of her parasol.
Holy Christ, LIVEN IT UP! Probably doesn't help that Will and Brad sucked at this game.
I love the concept, but the execution seems severely lacking.
I had imagined in my mind the puzzle fighter antics that would ensue, but all the "fighters" do is stand there until the words come flying out, one canned animation after the other. BOOORING!
Edgar should be throwing Raven's a t people and Jane should be blasting sun beams out of her parasol.
Holy Christ, LIVEN IT UP! Probably doesn't help that Will and Brad sucked at this game.
slaughterking
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Comic Jumper and Ms. Splosion Man didn't get a lot of love from Jeff and Brad. They've actually been pretty vocal about their dislike for Twisted Pixels game design and how they think they should just focus on producing weird movies instead of doing games.
Rodney McKay
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That's a point they bring up in the Quick Look. This game is made for only the most die-hard Football fans. This quicklook was good for people like me who may enjoy Football but have no idea of how to make good play decisions. I now know that this game is not for me since it includes no features that would help me get into the game.Smiles and Cries said:
The most annoying thing about The Gunstringer is that the only reason it doesn't have traditional controls is businesses being businesses. It's a consumer unfriendly move, and will make the game sell less than it would otherwise.
The whole game is pretty much just those running forward sections from Comic Jumper and those worked fine with the controller. I mean they were kinda boring and shitty, but the controls weren't the reason why.
The whole game is pretty much just those running forward sections from Comic Jumper and those worked fine with the controller. I mean they were kinda boring and shitty, but the controls weren't the reason why.
RiccochetJ
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Huh. I thought Gunstringer looked fun and it looks like it controlled well. Definitely not enough for me to even think about buying a Kinect though.
hey_it's_that_dog
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BladeoftheImmortal said:
For starters, the character animation doesn't really matter because your attention should never be on it; finding words is way more attention-dependent than "hey what color is this?" Second of all, I think it's fair to forgive Brad for not being amazing at a word-search game while he's talking to someone. It would be pretty atypical if he could use that part of his brain to hold a conversation and process what's going on in the game, too. Third, the team who made Puzzle Fighter probably had more people and money than the guys making this game so it's not going to have the same level of production values. The word part alone needs to be good enough to be the hook. I'm not saying whether it is or not, but it's obvious to me why the animation is the simplest part.
slaughterking said:
I don't see at all how Kinect controls make this game better than it would be with a controller. Other than fast cursor movement, obviously. But no one would argue that fast pointer controls make this game better than Rez or Panzer Dragoon, would they?
slaughterking
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Cool, thanks for letting us know.Dizzy-4U said:
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It's starting!
Aquavelvaman
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Just went live!
swordfishtrombones
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Wow, Dead Island is brutal.
Fine Ham Abounds
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Just FYI, No one from New Orleans calls it Nawlins.
Except Frank Davis, and he's selling cookbooks.
I love the PC's shadow. There's no animation in the upper body at all, only the legs seem to be moving.
Except Frank Davis, and he's selling cookbooks.
I love the PC's shadow. There's no animation in the upper body at all, only the legs seem to be moving.
Zombie James
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Dead Island looks like some good fun. Like a combination of Borderlands with the melee combat on Condemned, with per-limb damage.
Wordsgohere
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Looks cool. Didn't really know what to expect going in, but this makes me wish I could afford a game at the moment.
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