Review Out of Eight plays around with Impire

[Trash]

Tags: Impire; Out of Eight; Paradox

While the Codex consensus seems to be that recently released Impire is kinda, well, shit here's a video of James Allen from Out of Eight toying around with it. Is the game as dead as his voice? Check it out and see for yourself.

 

[Grunker]

The Game is pretty good about not having you do micromanagement

Metro, Jaedar, Mortmal, I thought extensive micro was the entire reason the game sucked so much?

 

[Mortmal]

The Game is pretty good about not having you do micromanagement

Metro, Jaedar, Mortmal, I thought extensive micro was the entire reason the game sucked so much?

Not the only reason, its the top one, but theres so many things done wrong anyway.If you dont believe us , try for yourself, waste 16£ on desura. The guy is nice in this video, far too nice.

 

[Jaedar]

The problem is not only the amount of micromanagement, its what you can manage: You have to command your minions to eat, but you can't control them in combat at all. I tend to prefer my rts's the other way around. And since you can't control it the combat is just an endless slog where you watch minions beat something up, teleport them to the kitchen so they can eat, then teleport them back into the dungeon so they can fight. Rinse, repeat, no thought required.

 

[Metro]

I'm sure it'll be good... for the sub $5 I'll spend on it.

 

[PorkaMorka]

Switching the out of eight site from text reviews to video reviews was major . 35 minutes?

 

[Metro]

Gotta keep up with the Total Biscuits of the world. Also this guy needs to learn not to nose breathe into the mic.

 

[Lightknight]

Cant be bothered to watch 35 minutes, whats the verdict ? All reviews i've seen so far are pretty much negative.

 

[BvG]

First he says there's not a lot of micromanagement, but later he complains about having to do the same thing over and over. Some of his criticism is about how easy the game is, due to the teleporting, how repetitive the level design is, and how boring away missions are. He's weirdly detached about his experience, as if he doesn't care wether the game is interesting and recommendable or not. His random comments end with "I guess you could see the bulk of gameplay, and I'm not going to restart this". That is because the game crashes after 30 minutes, and there is no auto save feature.

The video itself is more of a game blog, not a review, a critic or a walkthrough. Microphone-breathing, lack of focus, as well as long pauses and unedited/unplanned ramblings point to a random gamer doing a random video, so I don't know why the video is attached to a gaming site at all.

 

[Metro]

^ That. It's a pretty poor 'review' although he labels it as an 'impressions' video. 95% of the time it's just him playing and making random comments. This is why most blogs/review sites are pointless. You get more meaningful insight from a Codex thread.

 

[Trash]

His dead voice and inane rambling soothe me.