While You Were Sleeping: E3 Edition

6 responses to “While You Were Sleeping: E3 Edition”

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   Shane

   June 7, 2012 at 9:14 am

   I’m with you on Revengeance, Mark. I’m going to choose to consider this as one of the non-core fluff games until I hear otherwise.

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   DanMazkin

   June 7, 2012 at 9:28 am

   You seriously aren’t convinced about Revengeance? I think it was probably the best desicion they could have made. They wanted to make a frenetic action slasher/beatem up, so they handed it to a studio known for making excellent games in the style. You can already see Platinums experience showing through the gameplay demo with the way the characters stagger their attacks rather than swarm you at once & how the Gecko’s claws glow red for a moment before it attacks you (giving you a warning to parry). Also, some of the main things Bayonetta and Vanquish had more then enough of was style, attention to detail, and most importantly, responsiveness.

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      Shane

      June 7, 2012 at 10:03 am

      I don’t want to speak for Mark, but I suspect that it wasn’t the choice of developer that worries him so much as the choice of genre and overall direction of the game. At least that’s what I’m worried about.

      Also – and this is all me now – the focus so far has been almost entirely upon swordplay… where’s the story? The Metal Gear Solid E3 and TGS trailers from many moons ago were my all time favourite trailers ever for years, and I played them over and over and over again for ages, trying to glean any little story nuggets I could from them while I waited for the game to drop. I worry that Revengeance is going to be a shallow title with a phoned-in plot and only a loose connection to the Metal Gear universe and ethos.

      One last thing: the ultra-violent trailer possibly came at a bad time alongside The Last Of Us, which promises weighty, consequence-ridden violence (hopefully in limited doses), where Revengeance seems to revel in gratuitously bloody kills of unsuspecting enemies… something that doesn’t exactly jive with previous Metal Gear games, nor with the overall (perceived) direction of mature story-based gaming in general.

      Not saying it won’t be great (it well might be), just saying it might not be for me.

      My $0.02.

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         Shane

         June 7, 2012 at 10:13 am

         MGS 2 trailers, I mean.

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      2. 

         Roh

         June 7, 2012 at 10:21 am

         I see what you’re saying, but the point i’m using for reference is the link between Raiden’s actions in the cutscenes of MGS4 and actual gameplay. It won’t be anything like other MGS games because it’s not really a MGS game, it’s a game set in the MGS world with a completely different character.

         I’m not sure about the story though, they have hinted at deeper goings on, but again Raiden’s character isn’t the type to sneak in and procure info without being noticed (post MGS2 anyway!) he’s the type to slice gekkos in half in midair, so a focus on showing how that is possible in gameplay is probably more important to the developers right now than story driven trailers. They have tried to do some different stuff with those live action trailers, that gave me the impression that the game is going to be more like an origin story for Raiden, it’s a modern setting but it will deal with what made him the way he is today, fleshing out his back story as a child soldier and how he actually came to be the new Grey Fox.

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   Roh

   June 7, 2012 at 10:13 am

   From the demo I saw with the developers it looks awesome! Great feel and combat ala bayonetta+vanquish, which is exactly what fits with Raiden as the cyborg ninja. The level of polish in a game that is still over 6 months away looked top notch, nice menus and GUI smooth animations and lots of interaction with the enemies and environment, which is definitely a good sign.

   I’m very optimistic on MG:R I think it makes complete sense to switch to a developer whose style fits with the character and intent, i just wouldn’t make sense having Raiden stalk around like Snake, it looks like the game play really does bridge the gap between the cut scenes in MGS4 and actual hands on gameplay. I’m also hoping it fleshes out the MG world in a different way (much like SW1313 looks like it is doing, having a SW game without jedis/sith/gungans) giving you a different perspective on snake and the other characters in a future setting, which hasn’t really been done yet for MGS. Especially since the next MGS/OGRE is almost certainly set in Zanzibar, which is another flashback setting like MGS3 was (nothing wrong with that!).

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