Played Apprentice 1 (deluxe)

Very well made, nice characters and humour, too bad I was only able to solve about half the puzzles myself. They're very far fetched, albeit logical. And of course there's one of those fucking door timing tricks in there... and it's even harder to guess / react properly than usually. I had to look twice in the guide: first for skimming over it to see that there's a door trick needed and then again after failing to get it right even with knowing the basic trick :(

Was a fun little game nonetheless, and very nice graphics/sound/voice 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNumNLsf1kI&feature=player_embedded

fuuuuuuuuuuuu! Today is a good day :) 

try not to feint. Still no gameplay footage though? 

But my mind is imagining something akin to AvP 1999 crossed with l4d and is having nerdgasm's :) 

Hmmm that's possibly the worst trailer i've ever seen. It's a video of msdos and a logo.

That being said, i'm sure it's going to be an awesome game!!! 

Tried to play Clive Barker's Jericho. Only got a little over 1/4 in before it came to a game stopping halt, with no way of skipping levels. So that's the end of that.

Gameplay was repetitive, switching characters was awkward to do a a lottery on the who the hell you select and when you selected them you've got no idea which of the FIVE attack keys works for them. Running around reviving cunts because their AI is shit is boring.

Design and engine looked decent, as did the story, but very linear and no wow-factor set pieces, as usual.

Oh and poor checkpoints and no ability to set mouse buttons is a console joke. I did it anyway through the config file (and it worked) but then screwed up some of the other keys and mini-games (which themselves were beyond stupid).

Clive Barker should have actually played this fucking game, because it's arse compared to Undying. 

yeah, i didn't really enjoy that game much either. it looks really cool but plays poorly.

ai is poor and, as you said, you spend most of the time reviving team mates. there are a fair amount of monsters that require you to shoot 'weak spots'. and the ai is basically incapable of doing so, so it's basically you alone vs a group of monsters. very frustrating.

you pass through some areas that might look cool, but they are nowhere near as impressive as painkiller, a game that was released 3 years earlier and used only dx8 (iirc??). the mapping is just very dull. 

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/design-goals-hawken/714432

....will be a multiplayer game only.

Cool, thanks for saving me �20 and plenty of time (including time I'd have spent watching the rest of the trailer). 

With a team of what, nine guys I think, doing SP would be a very bad idea given the standard they've set themselves. 

So... perfectly timed for my getting a new machine. The definitely not leaked by the producers, not in anyway an extended demo that has increased demand for the game. Terrible piracy, not amazing viral publicisity/massive pre-order booster that's going to get someone a bonus.

OH MY GOD IT'S AMAZING! I admit nothing. But oh my god it's amazing. Proper successor. All the MSD stuff people were worried about works really well (the augemented reality style outlines, the health regen) and avoids falling into the CoD action movie style. So much choice is bewildering and much save/load/replay inducing. Beautifully involving, intriquing characters, well done dialogue system, brilliantly in depth upgrade/experience system, jaw dropping and varied animator's demo reel, slick and non-cumbersome cover system, incredibly well implemented non-linearity. I could go on, but I want to explore every nook and corner of the first hub. Again. This time with different abilities.

Definitely don't suggest you play it. Or pre-order it today (I did do that). 

Negke, you don't have the link to the newer Doom map you did on your quaddicted site, do you? 

Worth it? 

Drew: If you're refering to the one I posted screenshots of a long time ago - that one never got finished.

Zwiffle: I'd say wait until it drops to 6-8. 

Easily worth it zwiff. 

what game were you talking about in #4706? Hawken? I am probably out of the loop. 

Bal determined nntt was talking about the Deus Ex leak. That's the only thing that makes sense in the context. 

Bal is right. 

And by leak, it's the press demo that was sent out to all the journalists last month, so the first 15-20% of the game (rather than a full leak) and various clues point to it coming direct from Eidos/Squnix 

Trailer http://www.gametrailers.com/video/e3-2011-prey-2/714556

DNF Demo - Yeah it's pretty fun, I take issue with a couple of the changes like your melee isn't your boot anymore, and you only carry two weapons at a time. You hold down E to pick up a weapon, which I guess is standard for console shooters but feels cumbersome on PC. Pretty much every weapon is in the demo - pistol, shottie, ripper, rpg, shrink ray, devastator, and in place of freeze ray there's a rail gun. They feel alright, the explosions are toned down a LOT from DN3D. So the RPG won't kill you in one hit at close range it feels like.

There was a weird depth of field thing going on, either that or I'm just super blind. I will have to change that. The levels in the demo were pretty fun overall, a bit slower than Duke 3D with a lot of the modern fps changes (regen health, if you like/hate that thing, it didn't bother me much since it just lets you keep pace without getting 'stuck' because of low health.)

If they release an SDK this could be a pretty spectacular game. Seems worth $50, I'll be holding off due to overwhelming # of games I already have to play though. 

oh. 

Between that and the Tomb Raider trailer, it's been a day for pre-rendered advertising. Very cool pre-rendered advertising, but still, would love some gameplay footage.

Not tried the DNF demo (no BL2/D4E pre-orders), but I was quite looking forward to it based on what I'd seen, nice antidote to the more serious modern shooters. Although the weapon carry limits worrys me (I actually quite like regenerative health, it makes as much sense as health packs and is more _fun_ (assuming it's not OTT)) 

Oh, and ever since I read a preview a while back, really like the concept of Prey 2. If it's implemented/designed well could be a great game (ofc, I'm a sucker for blade runner style future cities and hunting down contract targets). 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ui6j35YDbU&feature=player_embedded

LOL I love the Quayola Quayons! Favorite part of the trailer, which is saying something, as it rocked imo. 

i just noticed that rage seems to have the same weird 'tunnel vision' black faded corners that mass effect has... wtf is up with that? is it some kind of console thing? bad enough we're running at lower FOVs now, but we're also dimming out the corners?
like playing the game with horse blinders. 

Trailer was great :) I'm starting to really look forward to it.

I've noticed the darkened edges in a lot of shooters recently, most notable in l4d2 developer commentaries they said they added it as it forces the players vision to the center of the screen where the action is.

Tbh I wouldn't have noticed it in that Rage trailer had you not pointed it out, so I guess that means it's doing it's job ;)