gamingeek said:But the house was burgled last night.
zigg said:Ugh. That sucks.
gamingeek said:
VOOK said:It's a shit ton better than the first.
Agnates said:Have you tried using the camera to zoom in? There are many close up shots of small fish taken by users. Maybe they just made zoom only available with the camera for extra "realism" or something. How's the story? I kinda got the feeling it sucks from the trailers, and hope it's not bad enough to sour the experience...
gaminggeek said:How long did you guys play the first game? If you go into the Nintendo channel and click gameplay records you can see.
I played the first game for 57 hrs
gamingeek said:I gots it today!
And played all of 15 minutes.
It's glorious. Talk about upping the stakes. All the awesome stuff you see in the trailers happens within the first few minutes of the game.
The characters are facing you and talking in a group, there is tons of dialogue which even in the first few minutes brings the characters to life.
Oh the graphics are a definite step up, about 30% more detailed from what I can see. Bloody hell the opening lagoon type section has like 4 times as many fish in that scene than the lagoon in the first game.
The only thing that bugs me is so minor. I'm used to pressing -(minus) to auto swim and here they've switched it to + (plus)
I would be playing the hell out of this game if I could, instead I'm having to deal with post - burglary fallout.
Amir0x said:Totally going to want to go swimming with some of you.
I'll bring my speedo.
Ended up around 30hrs iirc. And I never found the treasure ship either, heh. I was highly skeptical at first, and it didn't grab me until about 5 hours in, but then something just clicked. It became this dulling, lethargic experience that was genuinely unique in gaming. I've played Arika's other underwater games and they were uniformly terrible, but my love of the natural world + the quality game design make the Endless Ocean series a treat.
phisheep said:Beyond that, they are very different games - and I'd suggest any comparison is nowhere near as easy as saying that this one is better.
EO's main theme is discovery and the eternity of the ocean - life just carries on regardless of what humans get up to. The plot, such as it is, takes a firm second place to the natural world activity - and there is much more of getting up close and personal with the fish.
EO2 is the other way round - the main theme is the adventure - the human activity, to the extent that sometimes the fish are more of an obstacle course than they are their own thing.
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Agnates said:Great pics. So you can't zoom with the camera then? The fish textures look so detailed this time, much better than the first game where the small stuff were almost single color affairs. How is this game selling? I hope it becomes a cult hit like the first one, I really hope Arika get to develop another sequel, maybe with a higher budget so they can redo the parts of the engine and gameplay that aren't so good. From the sounds of it I guess I'd prefer a sequel to be more similar to the first game than the second and go for extra realism with the AI simulation and lack of pulsar guns etc. But I'll definitelly get this! How do octopus species look in this one? They were pretty bad in the first and didn't show in realistic locations, crawling on rocks etc, but casually swimming. That's the kind of stuff I hope they improve in a sequel.
gamingeek said:One thing I'm still trying to work out is the quick turn. In the first game you gave a swish of the remote to do a quick turn and in this game you do the move to avoid a shark about 20 minutes in. But during normal gameplay it doesn't seem to be working. I must read the manual.
phisheep said:Press B twice quickly - surprised you haven't done it by accident yet!
Brainiac 8 said:Is there a logbook that logs in the fish you have found with info and all that like in the first game? As much as I loved EO, I partially used it as an education guide to marine life for my daughter.
Thanks.
phisheep said:Yes, there is.
It doesn't has as much information about the fish as EO did - there is only one chunk rather than three, and it seems a bit lightweight on fish behaviour - but it is there.
All 78 pages of it.
Rather neatly, it also shows you a map of where the fish can be seen so you can easily find it again. Saves a lot of memory work.
Metroid Killer said:Really looking forward to this game. I loved the first EO and played over 80 hours. I didn't even manage to find all the creatures(not even the giant octopus ), but I was kinda burnt out once I had played 70 hours.
Reknoc said:Just played it for a few hours pretty cool game. Never played the first so I wasn't expecting any kind of story but it's neat. Not really sure of the connection between naming a Dolphin (I called him Dave) and being a Rightous Paladin.
phisheep said:The in-game achievement thing is delightfully bonkers - I wouldn't try too hard to look for meaningful connections, it gets much worse than that! Seems to be a sort of spoof on some of the rather more serious-minded games around.
oracrest said:Are they still doing the 'diving zones'?
I was so bummed in the original when I couldn't just go off and explore the ocean for hours, but was confined to an area sphere.