Spec Ops: The Line - Heart of Darkness with guns

[Darklife]

Hey hey hey, I didn't try Diablo III either, so kindly leave my monocle alone. Play the game man, not everything has to be an RPG.

 

[ManjuShri]

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/6021-Spec-Ops-The-Line

 

[Darklife]

Thank God, he likes it. Now I can go about professing my love for this production without remorse.

 

[malko_sundervere]

Thank God, he likes it. Now I can go about professing my love for this production without remorse.

...Since when did Yahtzee become a legitimate source of :monocle: video game criticism?

 

[Darklife]

I don't have access to my archives, but I always thought he was one of the few reviewers to actually rag on mediocre AAA games instead of slurping that shit up. I guess there's always his contempt for RPGs and a fetish for all things sandbox related, but hey, at least he's honest about it. Plus he seems like a pretty well developed sociopath.

 

[toro]

Thank God, he likes it. Now I can go about professing my love for this production without remorse.

It depends on what is the meaning of farts

 

[Comrade Goby]

I enjoyed it.

Some of the scenery was amazing but like someone said earlier would have been even more amazing on Cryengine.

Game is very atmospheric and story is pretty good.

 

[Ulminati]

Well... Fuck me. I listened to a yhatzee review (GASP!) and it actually made me feel like giving a console popamole shooter a chance (DOUBLE GASP!)

 

[Comrade Goby]

Well... Fuck me. I listened to a yhatzee review (GASP!) and it actually made me feel like giving a console popamole shooter a chance (DOUBLE GASP!)

Good. Good. Embrace your hate.

 

[a budda]

great popamole shooter
the end is nigh...

seriously, try it
starts slowly but when it gets going it does
6h

 

[Drakron]

Well its not a good FPS mechanics wise (its same old with the Sand thrown in), it does however pull a very odd and good (yes, good) story.

 

[Comrade Goby]

The Codex is moving into a glorious age!

 

[Multidirectional]

Well its not a good FPS mechanics wise

Enough calling third person shooters "FPS", seriously. Get your fucking letters right. Sorry Drakon, this isn't directed at you alone, I just got tired of it. Every once in a while someone has to call third person shooter "FPS" and apparently it hurts my butt.
I'm trying to play through this (chapter 4 I think) but I can't sit in front of it for more than 30 mins so it might take a while. I find gameplay to be incredibly bland so far.

 

[MetalCraze]

Well its not a good FPS mechanics wise (its same old with the Sand thrown in), it does however pull a very odd and good (yes, good) story.

It's a shooter with a shitty gameplay! But guise there's a good story in a shooter

Playing a shooter for a story (zomg you gotta shoot all those guys they are bad - DEEP)

Codex never fails to deliver

 

[Darklife]

You know, if one would follow your argument to the letter, then you could be equally baffled as to why people read books for a plot when the syntax is all that matters. As much as I hate this buzzword, but gaming is evolving as an artform. Ugh.

 

[praetor]

^seriously flawed analogy. the plot is the key element of a book, just like the motherfucking gameplay is the key element of a game. you cannot have a good game without good gameplay. sure, it may have a cool story or a nice engine or great voice acting, but if the gameplay is shit it's still a shitty game. unless you're one of the idiots that considers Dear Esther a work of art...

 

[a budda]

^
think sb mentioned this already: pst has crap for gameplay... oh well

 

[praetor]

^
think sb mentioned this already: pst has crap for gameplay... oh well

it's not exactly crap, but the combat is kinda sub-par (as it is in FO1/2 and plenty other codex favourites). the LoK series is another one with fantastic storytelling but not quite great gamplay (except for the first SR). then KotOR2, MotB and so on and so forth... but all of them have a decent, solid foundation of gameplay. this is, gameplay-wise, pure shit, i.e. everything that's wrong with modern shooters. the story is literally the only thing that saves this from being an irredeemable turd

 

[Drakron]

Well its not a good FPS mechanics wise (its same old with the Sand thrown in), it does however pull a very odd and good (yes, good) story.

It's a shooter with a shitty gameplay! But guise there's a good story in a shooter.

Better that ARMA that are shitty unplayable FPS.

 

[Horus]

God same enemies over and over and really stupid AI makes combat pretty shit and repetitive,i could say this for most of the games of the genre of course but still i finished it on easy mode just to see it's story so this game was worth my time in end.

 

[Infinitron]

Shamus Young gives a thumbs up to Spec Ops' art design: http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=16769

 

[Infinitron]

Errant Signal review: http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/index.php?threads/the-errant-signal-thread.74564/page-7#post-2231939

 

[913]

Still waiting for a massive price cut - binary domain burned me.

 

[Wirdschowerdn]

Still waiting for a massive price cut - binary domain burned me.

That good enough? http://www.cdkeysdiscount.com/202-spec-ops-the-line.html

 

[betamin]

Played this because of the thread and I really liked it, almost quit after chapter 5 because the combat was kinda boring but the story carried it through.