donbot Posted March 20, 2012 Author Posted March 20, 2012 I've been trying to avoid news and videos about this game so that I don't go crazy with anticipation Having said that, I couldn't help but peek at a few.. and these 'heavy hitters' videos they've been releasing are great little teasers of some of the enemies to expect. There's nothing about this game not to be excited about Quote
Michael* Posted May 10, 2012 Posted May 10, 2012 So apparently, the release date for Infinite has now been pushed back to February 2013. I'd rather play a delayed but fully realised game than an on-time but rushed one, I suppose, but this is still a considerable bummer. Quote
donbot Posted May 11, 2012 Author Posted May 11, 2012 Aw man. Well, there's still Colonial Marines and Assassin's Creed III to look forward to, amongst other things. It'll be worth the wait I'm sure Quote
Michael* Posted May 19, 2012 Posted May 19, 2012 Hopefully, Max Payne 3 will hold me for a while. Quote
Limerlight Posted May 19, 2012 Posted May 19, 2012 So apparently, the release date for Infinite has now been pushed back to February 2013. I'd rather play a delayed but fully realised game than an on-time but rushed one, I suppose, but this is still a considerable bummer. Was gonna ask the release date on this I know of this big 5 games I wanted to be released this was the one that interested me the most FYI: Starcraft 2 HoTS (Heart of the swarm release 2013?) Halo 4: November 2012? Diablo 3: May 15th (Already out) Bioshock Infinite: 2013? World Of Warcraft: MoP (Mists of Pandarea 2012 sometime the beta is already out) Quote
donbot Posted May 20, 2012 Author Posted May 20, 2012 The Tomb Raider reboot got pushed back to 2013 too, which was my other main excitement :persuazn:What I'm now most looking forward to this year:Aliens: Coloniel Marines, which I really hope meets my expectations - it looks to be the best Alien game by far, to date.Assassin's Creed III is looking pretty promising. The franchise was really starting to get mighty stale, but it looks like they're doing enough new cool things in this one to keep it interesting.Max Payne 3 does indeed look pretty sweet.Prototype 2, although it doesn't look all that different from the first one. Still looks like good fun.Metro: Last Light. The first one was one of the most interesting and atmospheric FPS games to come out in recent years, and Last Light looks like its shaping up to be pretty good too. Quote
donbot Posted May 22, 2012 Author Posted May 22, 2012 So now Colonial Marines has been delayed til 2013 too Sonofabitch Quote
donbot Posted December 8, 2012 Author Posted December 8, 2012 Want this game so hard BioShock Infinite: first impressions from our massive hands-on (spoiler free) I’ve just played the first five hours of BioShock Infinite, and I’ve come away with the same dazed feeling I got after I first played Half-Life 2. It’s a sensory overload: a relentless series of staggering sights, astonishing events, and more story and detail and mysteries than I could possibly absorb. I’m not quite sure what I was expecting, but not this. I’ll be writing up my full impressions, and my interview with creative director Ken Levine, for the next issue of PC Gamer UK. Evan’s also been playing it, and will bring you a longer and slightly more spoilery exploration of the things he liked most about the demo later today. For now, let me give you an overview of the main stuff I wanted to know before I played. What do you actually do? It’s very, very story driven. Remember washing up at a lighthouse and discovering Rapture for yourself in BioShock 1? BioShock Infinite’s equivalent of that lasts an hour. When the fighting finally does break out, it’s frantic and chaotic and recognisably BioShock. But then you’re straight back to being led through extraordinary new places by the story. There’s time to explore, and masses to see, but it never settled into a formula in the time I played: you’re always being put in completely new situations. Does it feel like a BioShock game? At first, yes: you’re quietly exploring a strange new place and finding clues to the story of what happened here in evidence scattered around, from graffitti to audio diaries. But then you find people. Not enemies, just people. At some point you start to encounter more hostiles, but it never switches entirely to you vs the world: each new area of the floating city starts out with civilians neutral to you. When you find the girl you’re here for, Elizabeth, she changes the mood even further from BioShock’s. She’s with you at all times, as far as I played, and she’s both talkative and central to the plot. What’s the combat like? Very much like BioShock: gun in one hand, spell in the other. The big difference is the spaces you do it in: fighting in a city of floating buildings means a lot of big, open areas with rooftops, balconies and drifting blimps at different heights. Sky rails snake through these spaces, twisting like rollercoaster tracks, and you can leap on and off these any time: they’re magnetised, so your skyhook thingy can pull you up to them from quite far away. Racing around these, launching yourself off to new vantage points or directly onto enemies, gives combat a much more acrobatic and fast-changing feel. The spells – Vigors – are very much like BioShock 2′s: turn people to your side, set them on fire, fling them into the air, cover them in crows (previously bees). They’re all good. The guns are less exciting: marginally more satisfying than BioShock’s, but still not particularly fun to use by themselves. What’s the best thing about it? Definitely the place. A city floating in the clouds is a cool thing, and we already knew that, but I wasn’t at all prepared for how striking and fresh each new bit of it would be. Temples awash with holy water, gold light and gospel music. City streets fogged with cloud, kids playing and townsfolk chatting, all just silhouettes in the water vapour. Dark mansions, banquet halls of rotting food, crows pecking at everything. All of it’s packed with clues and traces of the story, and the story is bizarre, complicated and fascinating. Can’t wait to explore more of it. It’s out March 26th. My full preview will be in our issue out in the UK on January 17th. Quote
donbot Posted February 19, 2013 Author Posted February 19, 2013 One more month and a bit BioShock Infinite hands-on: five hours in cloud city There’s something I can’t tell you about BioShock Infinite. Not because it’s a spoiler – I’ll avoid those too – but because I can’t quite communicate it. It’s something I felt after playing Half-Life 2, and again after playing BioShock 1. It’s the sense you get after experiencing something so vivid and rich that you know you’ll never be able to fully describe what it felt like. But I’ll try. Full article Quote
Michael* Posted February 19, 2013 Posted February 19, 2013 Magical stuff. This game simply can't come soon enough. Quote
donbot Posted February 20, 2013 Author Posted February 20, 2013 And they just keep coming. I think they like taunting us <_< Quote
Michael* Posted March 13, 2013 Posted March 13, 2013 Don, do you think the 'Industrial Revolution' DLC pack would be worth having? It's currently on offer to folks who pre-order, but I'm not sure if it's enough of an incentive for me to bite just yet. Quote
donbot Posted March 14, 2013 Author Posted March 14, 2013 ^Probably not, really. I don't really like those DLC things that let you start with extra weapons/items, which it seem like it is. Feels like cheating. That said, I already pre-purchased it the instant it came on Steam, as well as the Season Pass. I can't recall there ever being a more 'shut up and take my money' game Quote
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