In Other News...October 6

[Urizen]

Originally Posted by Adam Blue

Dante's Inferno makes sense because of the language of the tale being brought to life.

I'm going to hazard a guess and say that you probably haven't read The Comedy. There are some iconic phrases, like the warning outside the first gates and there are more imaginative landscapes suggested but only insofar as Dante and Virgil interact with them. And these interactions, however gruesome, are slow, methodical, poetic and often hilarious.

Regarding Batman, at least melee combat gave you an opportunity to see the game's universe without having Blue Vision on.

Alpha Protocol latest media looks like it still needs work. The delay is ver smart decision in my book.

And as for Jack the Ripper, maybe the West will finally get its equivalent to Rape Lay.

[KamaItachi]

Originally Posted by DoctorFinger

- Did you enjoy the combat in Batman: Arkham Asylum? Well you'll be happy to know that the fighting system was almost a very different beast. At one point the fights were going to be based on a...rhythm game. You'd have to hit the corresponding button when colored circles came on screen. I shudder to think.

So basically, it was a QTE? balls to that. I personally love the combat system in AA. You can mash your way through it without much difficulty, but to be truly awesome, you have to make use of every trick and move in your arsenal, and you look good doing it.

[Adam Blue]

Originally Posted by Urizen

I'm going to hazard a guess and say that you probably haven't read The Comedy. There are some iconic phrases, like the warning outside the first gates and there are more imaginative landscapes suggested but only insofar as Dante and Virgil interact with them. And these interactions, however gruesome, are slow, methodical, poetic and often hilarious.

I have and you seem to agree with me even though you weren't trying to.

[MosBen]

Man, Ripper was one of many games to hop on the Full Motion Video spree in games in the mid-90s. As with most of those games, it combined a somewhat flimsy story, decent to terrible acting, really awkward green screen, with nearly impossible puzzles. Still, I absolutely loved that game. The Tex Murphy series was better, but Ripper had Blue Oyster Cult's "Don't Fear The Reaper" before Walken's famous cowbell skit!

As for Arkham Asylum, it's just about half a step away from a QTE as it is. Not that I mind. It works well for the game in allowing Batman to look like a badass without the player having to memorize arcane sequences of fighting moves.

[Wilkz07]

wow, glad batman didn't turn out to be a QTE for combat. 360 version was great, just started playing it on pc.

Was The Getaway the ps2 game, think there were two of them... took place in London? Hopefully they make a new one I liked the first two.

[Urizen]

Originally Posted by Adam Blue

I have and you seem to agree with me even though you weren't trying to.

OK, that's hilarious. Kudos. And secondly, it's an allegory.

[Talanvor]

Originally Posted by Sandman

It was Indigo Prophecy.

Originally Posted by Katslover

Exactly. I can't wait for Heavy Rain.

Well goddamn, I've heard about that game but never played it. I think that's a gaming sin.

That's okay, I'm already going to hell (Gamestop) for not having played Psychonauts.

I am buying Brutal Legend though! Plz don't beat me.

[Karak]

Originally Posted by Superman's Dead

You think so? I found it rather deep. It was really open and simple, yes, but you could build insane and beautiful complexities into it if you wanted to Batman it up. The AI is relatively predictable (as most superstitious cowards are), so you could almost play it like a game of chess if you were good enough. Can I ask why you thought it was almost non-existent?

Edit: maybe deep isn't the right word, but I think I get my point across =)

Well you can meta-game any fighting system and create complexities as you will. But that's more the user, than the system, though a good basic system makes this easier.
The system was super basic with very few things to do(by the way I am fine with this, it fits Batman) and very shallow. If anything it was easy. And that made it good and it fit.

[TheFlyingOrc]

Originally Posted by Sandman

Would you play as Jack The Ripper or Sherlock Holmes?

...you are aware that Jack the Ripper is not fictional, correct?

[TheFlyingOrc]

Originally Posted by Laughing Penguin

Ha! I remember that game. It had a really amazing cast, but some of the worst acting i'd ever seen in a moving picture. Walken's performance was especially bad, you could tell by the odd pauses in his delivery and the way he never seemed to look at who he was taling to that he was not only reading from cue cards, but that he'd never actually looked at the script before shooting. Amazing and terrible all at once.

Whoa whoa whoa - back up. Walken is VERY serious about his craft, and wouldn't do a project without looking at the script. The "not looking at the other actors" and "odd pauses" are just his thing. The odd pauses pretty much define his acting.

[Narradisall]

Originally Posted by TheFlyingOrc

...you are aware that Jack the Ripper is not fictional, correct?

... you are aware that Sherlock Homles is not fictional as well, correct?

[Talanvor]

Originally Posted by TheFlyingOrc

Whoa whoa whoa - back up. Walken is VERY serious about his craft, and wouldn't do a project without looking at the script. The "not looking at the other actors" and "odd pauses" are just his thing. The odd pauses pretty much define his acting.

Yeah, Walken as an actor pretty much plays himself in every role. Which is fine, since it works well enough. It's the same as say Jeff Goldblum. You know exactly what's going on with their character, since they have the same personality for every movie.

To be fair, one is far more entertaining.

[BLeeP]

Originally Posted by Narradisall

... you are aware that Sherlock Homles is not fictional as well, correct?

Wat

Originally Posted by Wikipedia

Sherlock Holmes is a fictional character of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who first appeared in publication in 1887. He is the creation of British author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. A brilliant London-based "consulting detective", Holmes is famous for his intellectual prowess and is renowned for his skillful use of astute observation, deductive reasoning and forensic skills to solve difficult cases.

He most certainly is fictional.

[Narradisall]

Originally Posted by Katslover

Wat



He most certainly is fictional.

Is he, is he really? Correct?

[BLeeP]

Originally Posted by Narradisall

Is he, is he really? Correct?

Ah, The Great Game. Carry on, and I apologize.