Jumplion said:
Alleged_Alec said:
Well, Jumplion, a game isn't just good because of it's graphics and gameplay.
Well
that's a first I've heard from anybody. Usually everyone jizzes their pants and goes around saying "IT'S NOT JUST ABOUT THE GRAPHICZ IT'S THE GAMEPLAY THAT MATURZ!#@#%" when it wholey depends on the game and I
really don't want to get into a rant about this because I've ranted about that topic a billion times.
Well, you do have to take what I'm saying with a pinch of salt. I am kind of biased against both graphics and gameplay, since one of my favourite genres (puzzle adventures) tend to have very little of the latter.
But you saved yourself when you said "humour, interesting stories and whatnot are just as important, if not even more so, as gameplay." because that's usually what I try to get at in those rants (though some are slightly more focused in certain aspects in some games), and that's why you see me say stuff in my original post with a variety of problems that I see in the gameplay footage I have seen so far.
Don't get me wrong, it looks hilarious and completely crazy, but to be completely honest I'm not too excited about it as I was at first.
I do see where you're coming from though. Gameplaywise, the game actually looks bland (though solid enough). It's nothing that hasn't been done before in any action rpg. Combat will eventually boil down to mashing the same combinations of buttons and yes, collision detection did look a bit off, especially in the hot rod bit. Overall, gameplay- and graphic-wise it looks like a few years old game, which is a shame. I will wait for the end product though. They still have a few months to polish the product.
They could have done more in this department, that much I agree with you. However, even though this is a mayor copout even in my ears, I'm going to cut Shafer some slack in this department. It's his first try at an action rpg-ish game, and only his second at a 3d game.
In the end, I'm not going to buy this game because of it's gameplay, but because of the cleverness, story and all-out awesomeness (though I will probably wait for some reviews).
