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Shadow Warrior 2

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So, Shadow Warrior is now a co-op FPS with loot grindan and procedurally generated maps. How utterly... unsurprising.
Must every modern game have procedural generation to compensate for the lack of good level design and length?
I just want to play as Wang. The singleplayer campaign is still there, but I don't want to pause every second to see if this Surreal Broken Hobbit Toenail of Jackhammering has a higher Finger Glove Regeneration stat than my Wizards' First Epic Plain Brass Ring of Dawn and Destruction.
I wonder if the procedural generation translates to: "you'll be facing these set of rooms in a random order" or "here's some random side-rooms and enemies thrown in as well"
 

Alfons

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The procedural generation killed any interest I had in the game. To be fair though, the previous installment had such shitty "level design" it might as well been random. Just a big room with a clusterfuck of enemies. Slashing demons was fun but repetitive. Probably worth a purchase on sale to kill a couple of hours.

Edit: Keh.
 
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Hmmm... coop and procedural make it a bit more interesting. But let's see some gameplay first...
 

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Why are these guys still allowed to make games? My vibrators feel more like SMGs than they SMG they put in Shadow Warrior.
 

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The jumping around on roofs looks really Ninja-like. Coop is also great.
But I still don't like it, don't know why... is it because it looks generic, cheap? But the visuals are nice, and gameplay looks smooth. It's certainly not "cheap" :|
Perhaps bland and repetitive? But Serious Sam was too, and I still liked it better... give me the reason for my distaste...
 

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Actually, I am genuinely excited for this.

Shadow Warrior 2013 was an abomination when compared to SW1997. The Lo Wang there had nothing to do with the glorious campiness that was SW97's awesome racist steretype.

HOWEVER: SW13 still managed to be an extremely enjoyable first-person slasher game, with some of the most furious swordfights I've seen since Revengeance and way more goriness and action in the swordfights. The story was massively derp, but generally took a backseat to the surprisingly entertaining murderslashery.

If SW2 can promise more of the same, I am definitely on board. Additionally, I love Borderlands-y first person RPG mayhem, so if they manage to take SW1s entirely functional combat engine, add some even remotely decent RPG mechanics and char development options and then put us in a randomly generated world to rampage through, SW2 would be what I've wanted for bloody years: a fun, murderous FPS/RPG with randomly generated levels.

I, for one, am cautiously hopeful. I just hope they fire that cunt who voiced Lo Wang in the first game and hire the guys who wrote SW1997 to write this puppy.
 

Israfael

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This doesn't look as bad as the description suggested. Looks better than Brutal Doom 3, at least.

This looks really strange - the person playing is obviously using KB + mouse (or he's a joystick pro ninja, i dont know, never played really anything on consoles), yet weapon selection process is totally consolized. Still, looks good, co-op is the thing for SS clones like this.
 

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First one was quite fun, but mostly because of encounter design forcing you to constantly move and prioritize targets. With procedurally generated maps and parkour, it's probably going to be way too easy to exploit enemy AI. Still, if they keep the very satisfying melee combat, it might still be worth playing.
 

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First game was great. My favorite FPS of the past few years, with very underrated melee. Not sure about the procedurally generated route, but opening up the levels and including co-op will be interesting.
 

Alfons

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First one was quite fun, but mostly because of encounter design forcing you to constantly move and prioritize targets.
Did we play the same fucking game?
"constantly move"- Yeah, because at certain points there were around 40 enemies who all have line of sight on you wherever you go.
"prioritize targets"- Nope. Just attack whoever is close and keep bunny hopping. I spent most of the endgame jumping from wall to wall waiting for the thrust special move to charge up.
There are about 5 enemies in the entire game and the only interesting one was the "get over here" demon.
 

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New gameplay video from PAX East. I suggest watch with sound muted unless you enjoy obnoxious gamerbro dorito personalities.

The game looks pretty good.

 

Ivan

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Flying Wild Hog are also re-releasing Hard Reset for current gen consoles.

They've added a sword, the dash from nu-Shadow Warrior, and a cyborg-zombie enemy.



I liked the original. Will pick it up, as original owners receive a discount.
 

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Seeing how the game is a shitty corridor shooter it will fit right in with consoles.
 

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I'm shocked to see that PC requirements did not jumped massively (with Win10 exclusivity as a cherry on the top and GF1080) like it did with other remasters (Gears of Warboredom)
 

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