Re: Not Again
by VladVonCasteinOriginal Post
Having put around 160 hours into this game, there is plenty of combat and it is good.
But tastes vary.
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Mostly following BioWare & Star Wars games. Old timer. Helping out here does not mean I work for EA so I don't have all the answers. Also hangs out on BSN.
@jpcerutti1 wrote:
Your fall from the sky, your dad dies, and they meld your mind with a computer - all as part of the tutorial where they explain the controls. What else did you think they needed to put in there?
I experienced: cinematics, waking up, dawdling around, then going to planet surface. Exploring, killing things we shouldn't have (blames Liam), action alright. Dad dies, cinematics, talking, talking, talking, walking, talking, talking, talkingt, get to the Tempest. The beginning is a bit slow, although you have both slow and action moments, both take too long. ME1: cinematics, talking, talking, talking, go to the planet, action, action. Linear context. ME2: some talking, you die. Cinematics, action, action, then talking, talking. It's balanced, imho. ME3: cinmeatics, talking, talking. Action, action, then SPLENDID OMG SOUND TRACK, talking, talking, action on Mars. It feels balanced too, with sugar on top (music HOHOHO).
But I'm ok with this slow beginning. It feels fitting.
After that, then things get active, of course.
@PandaTar wrote:
@jpcerutti1 wrote:
Your fall from the sky, your dad dies, and they meld your mind with a computer - all as part of the tutorial where they explain the controls. What else did you think they needed to put in there?
I experienced: cinematics, waking up, dawdling around, then going to planet surface. Exploring, killing things we shouldn't have (blames Liam), action alright. Dad dies, cinematics, talking, talking, talking, walking, talking, talking, talkingt, get to the Tempest. The beginning is a bit slow, although you have both slow and action moments, both take too long. ME1: cinematics, talking, talking, talking, go to the planet, action, action. Linear context. ME2: some talking, you die. Cinematics, action, action, then talking, talking. It's balanced, imho. ME3: cinmeatics, talking, talking. Action, action, then SPLENDID OMG SOUND TRACK, talking, talking, action on Mars. It feels balanced too, with sugar on top (music HOHOHO).
But I'm ok with this slow beginning. It feels fitting.
After that, then things get active, of course.
I do kinda miss the pan, zoom in/out, and sweep of the originial cinematics. This is directed more to frame it all as your point of view instead of dramatic action. As tutorial, I think it better than any of the original three - there are flat spots in all of them and I'm not sure how you'd ever get around that completely with a tutorial. You have to pause where the player has to figure out how to work the controls. My favorite part of the tutorial is that it does actually play out a little differently, but to the same conclusion, each time you change any line of dialogue choice or decision within it.
I also think it captures the "spirit" of the game they were going after. Things are coming at you faster than you get to make sense of them and you have to deal with it, sort of a forced greenness, and that even little things you do (or don't do) will matter in the game.
