Is Too Human THAT bad?

[rob_simple]

I was watching Achievement Hunter's 'A Look Back At' feature t'other day and they were doing Too Human. For the longest time I've avoided this game after ZP gave it probably the worst review I've ever seen him give a game.

I put it to the back of my mind and got on with my life, but the footage I saw yesterday doesn't look completely terrible and considering I can easily pick it up for about a fiver now, would anyone who has played say it's worth doing so?

P.S. I realise I could look up old reviews but I'd like to know if it's aged poorly, as well.

Captcha: klatu berada nikto...I'm not even sure I should hit post, now.

 

[DigitalAtlas]

I REVIEWED this game on the launch of my site. I was faaaaaar too generous, believe me. It's awful. It's absolutely terrible.

I mean, the game makes cyber viking knights boring... How do you eff that up?

 

[WFox]

Yes. I actually played through the whole damn game when it came out- at first hoping that it might redeem itself at some point, and later out of some masochistic need to complete the game. Anyway a few years went by and I thought maybe I'd try it again, and that maybe it wasn't as bad as I remembered. But it is that bad. It is terrible.

Which is a shame, because the concept was awesome, and I really wanted it to be good.

 

[Shuguard]

I beat it, didn't particularly care for it. It could have been a lot better, but i eventually had to stop playing at times with the amounts of running around for items and unlockable doors. It's worth maybe $5-10 honestly. I wouldn't recommend it to a friend.

 

[Tony2077]

i liked i hate the fact that is going to be a forever cliffhanger.

 

[80Maxwell08]

Honestly it depends. The combat is really just bland but being a full melee guy is practically easy mode. However the bosses are absolutely horrendous and the death sequence. Dear. God. Yahtzee basically stressed it exactly enough to prove the point. It's probably a 20 second cutscene that's totally unskippable so you have to watch it every time you die. Also some of the bosses are incredibly cheap so you will die plenty of times. The sad thing is I like knowing the ends of stories but I never bothered beating Too Human and it continues to bother me. Also guess what a Gamestop near me has a new copy of. I am not kidding they actually have a new copy of it. I have seriously been debating getting it and finishing it but so many things have put me off. That people say it has a cliffhanger ending (as mentioned on this post) and that Silicon Knights keeps making an ass out of themselves. Though I wish people would realize that them making Eternal Darkness 2 is out of their hands. I would seriously bet Nintendo owns the IP rights to it since they funded it. Though there's been some rumors that there's going to be another one for the WiiU but those are just rumors.

 

[ShatteredBlack]

I know I'll be in the minority here, but I quite liked the game.

I never had the gamebreakingly bad camera that everyone else seemed to get and once you adapted to using the right stick for combat, the gameplay was really fluid. Also, the game really hit my loot-junkie spot.

Only downsides for me is the perpetual cliffhanger and the weak characterisation of the NPCs.

 

[Smooth Operator]

Well it's one of those games that are so bad it's hilarious, so on that note ya $5 is worth it just to laugh at the devs.

 

[ImPeruvianGuy]

to tell the truth is was okay, is not good but good enough to keep you occupied to beat the campaign

 

[Skoldpadda]

Actually, the only thing that rendered it unplayable for me was the stupid as ass camera. It would set itself on fixed angles depending on your position and it would often choose the worst fucking angle available.

But the story and world was unbelievably cool, and the combat rather fun when the camera dind't fuck up (which was half of the time).

As for the death sequence, I really don't get all the whining. It isn't twenty seconds long, more like three. It's unskippable, yes. But you'll get right back in on the action. Other games don't have three seconds long unskippable cutscenes, but they'll have a game over screen and then five seconds loading. Everyone's just aping Yahtzee but he was flat out wrong about that one.

I'd say it's worth a fiver at least, but I'm warning you about the camera. It may very well ruin the game for you as it did for me.

 

[Trippy Turtle]

I didn't mind it. It was by no means a memorable game but I found it as good as any of the those faceless games that you have never heard about before but decide to rent.

 

[Killspre]

I actually owned this game and yes its not worth it because to put it simply it is beyond boring. Combat looks boring all you do is fiddle the the RS so no cool combos and guns are just as boring and are weaker than your main weapon. Also Yahtzee was dead on about the Valkyrie annoying as hell. I don't even the remember the story and that's never good.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

If you can get it for $5 that would probably not be the worst thing you could spend that money on. The reviews you saw were made when the game was new and still in the...what, $40 - $60 range? I only played Too Human in the form of an Xbox 360 demo and I absolutely hated the thing. I couldn't delete it fast enough. It's one of those games that looks...alright when you're watching someone else play it but once you take over it's like you grabbed the wrong controller by mistake. Kind of like Predator for the NES: it looks a lot easier to play than it actually is to play.

Like I said: there are worse things you could drop $5 on but there's always a chance the game will drop in value again (a slim chance but a chance none the less). I'd take that gamble honestly, especially if it turns into a so-bad-it's-good kind of game...like Predator on the NES.

 

[Killspre]

As for the death sequence, I really don't get all the whining. It isn't twenty seconds long, more like three. It's unskippable, yes. But you'll get right back in on the action. Other games don't have three seconds long unskippable cutscenes, but they'll have a game over screen and then five seconds loading. Everyone's just aping Yahtzee but he was flat out wrong about that one.

Your right its 26 seconds
http://youtu.be/QTPRY9GHfYw

 

[Skoldpadda]

As for the death sequence, I really don't get all the whining. It isn't twenty seconds long, more like three. It's unskippable, yes. But you'll get right back in on the action. Other games don't have three seconds long unskippable cutscenes, but they'll have a game over screen and then five seconds loading. Everyone's just aping Yahtzee but he was flat out wrong about that one.

Your right its 26 seconds
http://youtu.be/QTPRY9GHfYw

YEAH OK, well I didn't go through the trouble of actually timing it and uploading it on Youtube, it's just when I was playing it I was like "that's it? That's what everyone has their knickers in a bunch over?"

It didn't seem that long. Like I said, loading screens tend to feel longer, IRREGARDLESS (sorry) the actual number of seconds, which I'll repeat I didn't measure.

It should've been skippable, yes, but it really doesn't feel that long to me. Maybe I'm just the most patient person in the world.

*looks at the pile of dead cats that didn't learn to put on pants in the first three tries*

 

[Eddie the head]

I know I'll be in the minority here, but I quite liked the game.

I never had the gamebreakingly bad camera that everyone else seemed to get and once you adapted to using the right stick for combat, the gameplay was really fluid. Also, the game really hit my loot-junkie spot.

Only downsides for me is the perpetual cliffhanger and the weak characterisation of the NPCs.

Be careful you don't get added to that government depopulation list.

 

[Daget Sparrow]

My experience of WATCHING (not playing) the game.

1) A horde of approx. 30 zombies approach. Character fills as many enemies with bullets as possible, but has done jack-all by the time they've closed in.
2) Spend 10 minutes melee fighting the zombies, randomly interspersed with multiple deaths from incurable poison, whereas Robo-Angel takes a full minute to descend from the sky, pick you up, fly you up into Valhalla, and respawn you with apparently no consequences whatsoever.
3) FINALLY defeat the clusterf*ck of enemies. Maybe die from that last batch of poison.
4) Walk for 10 seconds before ANOTHER horde of zombies attack.
(repeat steps 1-4).

So, yeah. It was pretty bad. A real shame too, it seems like an interesting idea for a story at least.

 

[JasonKaotic]

A minority of people do love the game, so there's a chance you might like it. Although it doesn't sound appealing to me.

 

[TheGreatAndPowerfulZOG]

The controls are about as intuitive as QWOP. Analog stick for melee attacks? Really?

Makes me wonder if Nintendo didn't create all the good stuff in Eternal Darkness.