I'm going to
bump this big long topic and watch it rise again. If you know what I mean... /nudge nudge /wink wink
Sorry.
Scarlet Blade will have that effect on you.
So I played an hour or so of this today, because I was bored, and curious if it was really as bad as it looks, and now I'm going to bump *snigger* this topic, even if it instantly gets lost in E3 talk, just to record that this is The Worst Fucking MMO I Have Ever Played.
And quite probably the unsexiest. I'll always happily admit I'll support the old "If I need to stare at an ass for hours it might as well be a nice ass" adage of MMO gaming, but
Scarlet Blade's character models are hideous - weirdly proportioned and oddly animated expanses of plasticky 'skin' with 'armour' that looks like it was applied direct to the model with a magic marker.
Did I say armour? My mistake.
Sixcess said:
I haven't seen any quite this blatant since the one where your character's armor falls off as you take damage.
At least that one gave you the
option of wearing some goddamn clothes. The starter gear in this is, I kid you not, some underwear and a pair of high heels.
The quests are crap - predictably - but the gameplay is even worse. There's an auto-move option where you click one button and your character automatically runs to the next quest marker. Then you thrash through a couple of interchangeable attacks until the nearest thing dies, then repeat. I honestly felt myself getting stupider as I played this monstrosity, to the point I had to quit before the MMO playing part of my brain atrophied from lack of use.
But it's the writing that really stands out. It's been localised by people with some grasp of basic english grammar, but bloody hell, why did they bother? I've seen porn movies with better writing than this. Almost every line has an innuendo in it and it's not even good innuendo. It's that special kind of innuendo last seen in british sex comedies of the 1970s. I started subconsciously hearing every line I read delivered in a cockney accent.
Just horrible. Horrible in every way.