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Underrated -- Syndicate (2012)

If you look past it's name brand history, it's a really fun and competent game. Think I gave it one of the higher score (GameTrailers) back in the day, other than Giant Bomb.

A little undercooked in some of the secondary features, but still a great ride. Love the machine that poops out guns during the boss fight. So dumb in a good way
 
The game was badass. Starbreeze always has my attention, and also Machine Games.

I liked it alot. I also remember playing the shit out of the coop with my group of friends on PC. I'll probably replay it soon.
 
I loved the game, but people hated on it pretty-hardcore. I dunno...early 2012 for EA games was a weird time. Awesome games like SSX, Syndicate, and Kingdoms of Amalur were really trashed hard, and I've never understood why.
 
Co-op was fucking intense, and the guns were loud, meaty and satisfying. Thoroughly enjoyed my time with it and the game provided some of my best memories of last gen.

So +1 to this.
 
Did anyone try to play this game recently on PC?

I wanted to play through it again a few months ago, but I had the absolute worst performance issues on my 970. I looked everywhere for some kind of fix or solution, but I couldn't find it.

I would really like to play it again someday :(
 
Jangowuzhere said:
Did anyone try to play this game recently on PC?

I wanted to play through it again a few months ago, but I had the absolute worst performance issues on my 970. I looked everywhere for some kind of fix or solution, but I couldn't find it.

I would really like to play it again someday :(
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It has incredible performance on my Surface Book. Maybe you didn't install the patch?
 
Indeed, very underrated game OP

it had Brian Cox AND Michael Wincott in it!!!

I fucking loved it, despite the so so campaign

Also, had the ONLY track from Skrillex I've ever dug (yes I know it's merely a remix of the original's awesome theme)
 
I loved the game back then.
While the story is meh, the gunplay and co-op are amazing.
Would love to play again some of the online missions.
 
spindoctor said:
EDIT - more memories coming back to me. The co-op seemed fun but it did not scale according to the number of players in the game if I remember correctly. The game was tuned for 4 players which meant it was next to impossible to complete some missions with only 2, which is how I tried to play it.
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Nonsense I played through it 2 player and we ripped right through it, don't blame the game if you were crap at it.
 
When i found out it didn't even sell 200k worldwide, it was a shame considering all the marketing and commercials for it before launch.

The riddick developers deserve far more love than they have gotten in this industry since
 
Ovek said:
Nonsense I played through it 2 player and we ripped right through it, don't blame the game if you were crap at it.
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I would scold you for having this attitude, but I remember my post history in the Doom OT...

The Syndicate campaign being far too easy was disappointing for me. I would like to mod/up the difficulty but the game is dead.
 
One of the best co-op shooters ever made. Truly underrated game.

Still hoping for some sort of spiritual successor.
 
spindoctor said:
It also had a the worst bloom effect I've ever seen in a game. It ruined the entire look of the game, which is a shame because it had a pretty decent art style outside the lousy overwhelming bloom.
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This made the game pretty much unplayable for me, how the devs thought it was a good idea or cool is just mind blowing.
And any game where a big part of the experience is online coop is automatically a no buy for me. Split screen or gtfo.
 
Vex Krone said:
i remember playing a demo of it and really feeling it, yah? I ended up never getting it for some reason, yah?
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This game was on sale for 3 dollars on Xbox Live not too long ago. I haven't put much time into it though. I keep telling myself that I'll play it a bit and move it to the front of my pins, but I always just end up playing something else.
 
Justinh said:
This game was on sale for 3 dollars on Xbox Live not too long ago. I haven't put much time into it though. I keep telling myself that I'll play it a bit and move it to the front of my pins, but I always just end up playing something else.
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Didn't know it was on sale, if it was BC on xbox one I would buy it. Seems like a great game to be a games with gold though.
 
Ovek said:
Nonsense I played through it 2 player and we ripped right through it, don't blame the game if you were crap at it.
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Co-op is solo-able even on the highest difficulty, once your character is upgraded enough, but yeah, some of the later stages aren't easy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eLcePsP9Qo

BuggeryBugz said:
Didn't know it was on sale, if it was BC on xbox one I would buy it. Seems like a great game to be a games with gold though.
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XB1 BC would be great for this game. Would definitely love to play the co-op again with other people.
 
The campaign was merely okay, but the co-op was tons of fun. A great base to build on for updates and sequels and I'm still sad that it'll never happen.
 
Banderdash said:
I only finished it a few months ago, I got it from Play Asia.
I live in Adelaide; if you really want to play it, and have an xbox, I'll send you my copy.

It was pretty boring.
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Thanks but don't have the Xbox anymore , maybe if it ever goes backwards compat I will give it a try
 
Radioactive brick walls.

http://www.gamesradar.com/56-eye-me...e-top-bloom-lighting-in-video-game-history/2/

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Above: Matte door and bare brick. Glowing. I need to investigate this further

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Above: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! NOIDONTMYGODTHISHURTSAMIBLEEDING?
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The shooting gameplay is quite fun but I remember the level settings, the enemy Agents, and the story all being quite terrible. The "twist" of
your parents were killed by your Syndicate
was super obvious. I already assumed they'd done this when recruiting you.
 
Good game, but had a fatal game breaking bug that completely soured me on it.

After I died at the final boss fight, it spawned me in the air, miles away from the platform, where I instantly fell down the gap and died. Like a million times. Of course, only one save slot, chapter replay worked for finished chapters only and didn't continue through to the next one... just fucked.
 
I remember this coming out sandwiched in between titles that were getting much more focus from EA (one was Mass Effect 3 IIRC), so it was basically sent out to die.

I enjoyed parts of it when I played it though and generally loved the art (had a definite mirror's edge inspiration) and really liked some of its ideas about hacking and such, and had really hoped that whatever sequel was gonna come out to DX:HR would steal some of Syndicate's ideas.
 
Reedirect said:
Good game, but had a fatal game breaking bug that completely soured me on it.

After I died at the final boss fight, it spawned me in air, miles away from the platform, where I instantly fell down the gap and died. Like a milion times. Of course, only one save slot, chapter replay worked for finished chapters only and didn't continue through to the next one... just fucked.
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haha thats great
 
I remember this coming out around the time Origin launched and really suffered as far as PC sales. I understand not wanting to lose money to Valve service fees but you lose so much exposure if you aren't a top tier title like Battlefield it feels.
 
Reedirect said:
Good game, but had a fatal game breaking bug that completely soured me on it.

After I died at the final boss fight, it spawned me in air, miles away from the platform, where I instantly fell down the gap and died. Like a milion times. Of course, only one save slot, chapter replay worked for finished chapters only and didn't continue through to the next one... just fucked.
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Holy hell, I feel so bad.
 
AusRoachman said:
Thanks but don't have the Xbox anymore , maybe if it ever goes backwards compat I will give it a try
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I wonder how that would work in a region where the game was banned from sale... it wouldn't be available on their storefront, so if you had a disc would you still be able to download it?
 
Banderdash said:
I wonder how that would work in a region where the game was banned from sale... it wouldn't be available on their storefront, so if you had a disc would you still be able to download it?
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Xbox One is relatively region free, so I imagine it's cool.
 
I remember playing it when it was new, and I remember not liking it, but tbh it was so long ago I barely remember anything of it =/
 
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