The Brad Muir Thread: Also Starring Giant Bomb

PwnanObrien

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEnxX_WlWEA&feature=youtu.be

MrDapper

DouglasDanger

DouglasDanger wrote: »

OK, I didn't play Hulk UD or Prototype 1. I had a good time with Prototype 2.

I'm sure you guys talked about SR4 while I was at work. I hope no one minds if I opine

IdolNinja wrote: »

PAX Demo released!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lz8EDvU7pJc

This looks like a ton of goofy fun-- I think the mech and the super powers look fun. The dubstep good and head inflater gun look like they would get old in a hurry. The color palette is ugly. It seems to have turned up the weird red and purple hues of SR3. I don't really understand how videogames work-- there seems to be a good looking game under there, just like SR3, but the palette or something is really ugly. I don't know if it is a stylistic choice or a technical necessity, but it is off-putting.

Fallout 3 had this weird yellow-green tint to it on ps3, and I saw some people removed that somehow with mods on the PC version...

Sweeney Tom wrote: »

Play Hulk Ultimate Destruction

PaperLuigi44 wrote: »

The demo is pre-alpha, but yes at this current stage the look of the world isn't appealing.

PaperLuigi44 wrote: »

Ultimate Destruction allows you to turn a bus into a surfboard and then leap into the air, throw it like a boomerang and continue surfing. Also you can put civilians down gently and pat them on the head.

Hulk does sound like a fun game, but I still need to finish Dark Souls and Sleeping Dogs and Dragon's Dogma and Just Cause 2 and and and

T4CT

Adus wrote: »

Speed Racer wrote: »

mike figured out the trick to beating psycho mantis in about 30 seconds with only a bare minimum of prompting

he is a metal gear savant

that's been around so long though

maybe he heard about it before and just kinda forgot but it remained in his subconscious.

I promise I have never heard that

I literally know nothing of metal gear because until about a month ago I had glossed over literally everything ever posted about it without reading

T4CT

And to be fair I really only figured out half the trick

-Tal

are you guys actually going to go for non lethal european extreme

UnbreakableVow

OH MY GOD

That Saints Row 4 demo

That looks amazing

PwnanObrien

So, Sleeping Dogs.

I stopped to help a gang member who was being ripped off. I chased the guy up a flight of stairs, over a pedestrian walkway and into a street before stopping him from getting into a car to get away...

...while on a motorcycle.

PaperLuigi44

I think my favourite Sleeping Dogs side missions are the cons. That's thinking outside the box.

Speed Racer

Adus wrote: »

Speed Racer wrote: »

mike figured out the trick to beating psycho mantis in about 30 seconds with only a bare minimum of prompting

he is a metal gear savant

that's been around so long though

maybe he heard about it before and just kinda forgot but it remained in his subconscious.

that's what i thought but he insists it is not the case

Speed Racer

-Tal wrote: »

are you guys actually going to go for non lethal european extreme

in mgs3 yes

2 i'm only gonna do normal extreme so that i can show how the alert system evolved between games

Jintor

I really enjoyed the sector sweeping and increased security stuff they pulled in in 2

i mean it still had terminally idiotic guards but I think you have to have some level of that just to make a stealth game playable

Speed Racer

The guards miss things that a real person wouldn't but that's because realistically it would be next to impossible to sneak past a highly trained and coordinated team of soldiers undetected, especially when you take into account that a video game character inherently cannot do all of the things that a real spy could

-Tal

Mgs1 is barely a stealth game

PaperLuigi44

Playing through the tail end of Luigi's Mansion 2 at night in the dark is a great/terrible idea. I'm not gonna make it out to be Amnesia, but it has some scary moments.

Third level of the fifth mansion

You start by examining a security screenshot as you've done several times before, it's a fun little activity. When you look at King Boo he turns around inside the screenshot and shrieks at you, the computer screen cuts to static.

agoaj

Did Brad Muir have a Class of GDC picture?

-Tal

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1ArK67tAMQ

Mr. G

The driving stuff in Watch Dogs reminds me of Need for Speed Hot Pursuit, which is a very good thing

Balefuego

We are fast approaching the point where I'm afraid Watch Dogs is going to be the Assassin's Creed 1 of this cycle

Diarmuid

I'm okay with that if it means Watch Dogs 2 is the AC2 of this cycle.

DouglasDanger

Balefuego wrote: »

We are fast approaching the point where I'm afraid Watch Dogs is going to be the Assassin's Creed 1 of this cycle

Could you please elaborate? I don't know what you are suggesting.

jclast

That it's going to be hyped to hell and then disappointing.

DouglasDanger

I didn't buy a ps3 at launch, so I missed the AC1 hype and disappoint, but I did full enjoy the awesomness of AC2 and the amazingness "yes, yes, this is what I want" of Brotherhood.

I think the protagonist in Watch Dogs look like a dork.

-Tal

I actually liked AC1 when it came out

but it is unplayable in light of its sequels

Kwoaru

forget assassin's creed

bring me more Mirror's Edge

JayKaos

Mirror's Edge and the terrible marketing and the fact that they still haven't made any more makes me so angry and oh goddamnit I never actually bought it I borrowed it from a friend I am part of the problem augh

Medium Dave

The iconography, the straight diagonal lines, that mini map, there's a serious assassin's creed feel to it, which I suspect is intentional, so as to lead AssCreed fans into a "new" franchise.

I say "new" because, as I'm sure we all know, it takes place in the Animus.

-Tal

how long until ubisoft actually renames themselves abstergo

Dichotomy

well see if you take "ubisoft" and move the s and t right next to each other and put the o at the end and take out some letters and add some more in

that's right

they're already abstergo

-Tal

christos...

Gatsby

Dichotomy wrote: »

well see if you take "ubisoft" and move the s and t right next to each other and put the o at the end and take out some letters and add some more in

that's right

they're already abstergo

Hello it almost looks like an arrow!

SimBen

Assassin's Creed 1 had to share its development time and budget with a brand-new engine featuring gameplay nobody had ever done before.

That is not the case with Watch_Dogs.

Vargas Prime

Holy shit that Cry of Fear QL

So great.

Vargas Prime

SimBen wrote: »

Assassin's Creed 1 had to share its development time and budget with a brand-new engine featuring gameplay nobody had ever done before.

That is not the case with Watch_Dogs.

While your point is valid, this does not automatically make Watch_Dogs immune to the hype train building people up to expect something it's not.

It is entirely possible for Watch_Dogs to be an acceptably good game, yet still disappoint many people based on the game that their own brains have concocted.

SimBen

No I know. I'm just saying that worrying that it'll be a similar situation to AC1 is kind of irrelevant considering its development has absolutely nothing in common with AC1's.

Langly

is watch dogs going to primarily be a next gen game or is it just being scaled up?

Dichotomy

well if it's coming out on both generations it'd have to be scaled up, wouldn't it

timspork's ghost

Couldn't it be scaled down?

agoaj

Watch Dogs is reality scaled up

Vargas Prime

Whatever the case, given that it's coming out for both console generations, its "next-gen-ness" is probably going to be somewhat limited.

I'll be getting it on PC, anyway.