So, White Gold: War in Paradise.

[Carlos' Bitch1]

Just in case nobody knows what this is:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Gold ... n_Paradise

The English release is now floating around, so...

Apparently it is a much better game than the prequel, Boiling Point, which I didn't mind in many ways. One thing I really disliked about boiling point was that weapon skills would reset to 0 if you swapped to another weapon.

Anybody here that has played it and wishes to comment on this game? Is it a good game? Good for what it is? horrible?

How much of an improvement is it over Boiling Point?

 

[MessiahMan]

Hey! Thanks for the heads up! I can't say that I liked Boiling point...but I admire the sheer ambition that went into the game. A fascinating turd, I guess you could call it. I'd really like to see these developers make something that's halfway playable. I'm going to give this thing a "demo", and see how I like it.

 

[commie]

It's pretty cool. Takes a while to get it to work properly, but it's a pretty ok mix of shooter with exploration and RPG elements. A big improvement on Boiling Point which I actually liked for the setting, though the lack of any AI meant that I had to LARP all the way through, making house rules. In a way it was too ambitious for the developers and the technology at the time.

 

[SimpleComplexity]

Indeed thanks for the headsup. I have already forgotten about this game. I'll..... aquire the game soon.

 

[JarlFrank]

It's good for what it is, I would say. Different factions to join, light RPG elements... haven't played Boiling Point but you mentioned weapon skills, Blackadder. Well, there aren't any in here, White Gold only has perks that you can pick on level up, no skills.

 

[Carlos' Bitch1]

Well, I will check out the prices, but one more question before that....

What is the copy protection it uses? Online DRM?

 

[Felix]

Starforce, you know Russians.

 

[someone else]

I liked Boiling Point, despite the pointless driving, tell me how you find the game.

Can I eat donuts to restore health?

 

[reaven]

I liked boiling point.
Can you get wasted in a bar after every mission in this one?

 

[Carlos' Bitch1]

Starforce, you know Russians.

That rubbish is still around? Bah, I don't know what is worse anymore in that area.

Eating food and alcohol: Apparently these are in and have the same effects.

 

[someone else]

SO how is it or did Starforce rape your pc?

 

[Pussycat669]

That sounds like a good last minute Christmas gift. Did they already release the Precursors game too? I would love some Sci-Fi action.

 

[Raghar]

That sounds like a good last minute Christmas gift. Did they already release the Precursors game too? I would love some Sci-Fi action.

I have Precursors with fan translation on HD. Text part is decent, shooting part isn't. (Thought easy helps to avoid extensive reloading.)

 

[JarlFrank]

Precursors is awesome. If WG is good for what it is as a sandbox shooter, Precursors is... eh... better for what it is.

Awesome setting, interesting weapons, a not-so-bad space part added... basically it's WG in a scifi setting with spaceship-flying parts.

 

[Multidirectional]

How the fuck is it possible to like Boiling Point? When I tried that game, it seemed like a tragedy in every way. It even ran like absolute shit, despite my system being way above recommended specs. One of them shitty Russian games Skyway always talks about. Hell, I'd have more fun with Oblivion or even Far Cry 2. Or I missed something there?

 

[Carlos' Bitch1]

Precursors is awesome. If WG is good for what it is as a sandbox shooter, Precursors is... eh... better for what it is.

Awesome setting, interesting weapons, a not-so-bad space part added... basically it's WG in a scifi setting with spaceship-flying parts.

Really? Well...I might have to get that too.

 

[ghostdog]

Precursors is awesome. If WG is good for what it is as a sandbox shooter, Precursors is... eh... better for what it is.

Awesome setting, interesting weapons, a not-so-bad space part added... basically it's WG in a scifi setting with spaceship-flying parts.

I'm interested in precusors, but there's next to none info about this game. Can you make a mini review Jarl ?

 

[Pussycat669]

@JarlFrank
Do you know where you can buy/import it? Or did you just skip that part?

 

[Bruticis]

@JarlFrank
Do you know where you can buy/import it? Or did you just skip that part?

You can get them both from GamersGate:
http://www.gamersgate.com/DD-XENUS2/xenus-2-white-gold
http://www.gamersgate.com/DD-PREC/precursors

 

[someone else]

How the fuck is it possible to like Boiling Point? When I tried that game, it seemed like a tragedy in every way. It even ran like absolute shit, despite my system being way above recommended specs. One of them shitty Russian games Skyway always talks about. Hell, I'd have more fun with Oblivion or even Far Cry 2. Or I missed something there?

I find it more fun than the first Far Cry. Come on, you can fly a chopper and gun down men and vehicles.
I was hoping for a budget version of White Gold or Precursors, esp if I am going to rent it online. Come to think of it I don't think I'll ever play Boiling Point ever again in my life.

 

[Raghar]

I'm interested in precusors, but there's next to none info about this game.

Precursors is to FPS the same as Morrowind is to RPG. It has an uncommon art direction as well.

Weapons look quite different from a normal FPS, there is also significant freedom of movement, and also there are different factions which you can have relations high, or low.

BTW don't judge it from the first few minutes, finish that beginning first. I'd post some images, but I have it on Linux drive, and I'm posting from XP.

 

[Ermm]

Precursors has a shitty fight music. Music which plays when there is no danger is passable, but when enemy attacks then OMG, it sounds something like from a 0.50$ Akella's FPS game.

But overall it is tons of fun.

 

[someone else]

SO is Precursors worth the USD 30 or should I not-remove-from-inventory like a good Ukrainian.

 

[mariog]

SO is Precursors worth the USD 30 or should I not-remove-from-inventory like a good Ukrainian.

Well worth 30 bucks, it's just a very good game all around as others have said already. I may be biased though, since I've been looking for a similar game for like 10 years.

 

[gromit]

How the fuck is it possible to like Boiling Point? When I tried that game, it seemed like a tragedy in every way.

I think the key is that it was a tragedy. Choppy, bugged beyond belief in very core-to-gameplay areas, and criminally unfinished, it just plain should have been better, so its good ideas wouldn't be wasted. There's lots of love for many games just like that around these parts, if you haven't noticed.

In hindsight I can't really say I like the game, but there is a fondness there. High-speed first-person drunk-driving with a trunk full of coke, ready to jump out and lay down some lead was awfully fun - like a twisted version of Outlander or something. Until the game did one of its characteristic ten-second visual hangs in which the logic and physics apparently continue, and my car (and stash) were upside-down in the river.

I'll have to check this out... I figured we'd never see it in English; it came out quite a while ago in Russian and it eventually slipped my mind. Although now that modern sandbox games are much more varied, and generally less terrible, than when BP came out, it might not do it this time.