Metalheart: Replicants Rampage goes gold

[operf1]

Well, at least russian version.
According to its homepage (http://www.metalheart.ru/russian/index.html), the game will be in stores tomorrow. I'll try to provide first impressions ASAP.

 

[Naked_Lunch]

Damn ruskies. First they come and spam our boards, and now they're getting games before us! US! We kicked your ass in the cold war, and you'd best not forget it!

 

[Balor]

That's exactly (well, kinda) what Tatar-Mongols said before they were kicked in the nuts and out of Russia.
Napoleon burned Moskow and thought that he won the war. Hah!
Hitler may have killed millions, but never even made it to Moskow.
Russians may be lazy, but when we get angry - :twisted:
Anyway, it's not the first game like this.
Spare Rangers, H&S - just to name a pair.
Well, we'll see how good this game is. So far looks good .

 

[Atrokkus]

At last, I have a hope that we (Russia-CIS) actually created a good RPG.
WE got some bad fortune with this genre...

Alright, I'd better go check if it's in stores already....

 

[Kraszu]

So when the reviev will be? It is in stores already?

 

[RGE]

That's exactly (well, kinda) what Tatar-Mongols said before they were kicked in the nuts and out of Russia.
Napoleon burned Moskow and thought that he won the war. Hah!
Hitler may have killed millions, but never even made it to Moskow.
Russians may be lazy, but when we get angry - :twisted:

Reminds me of the Axis & Allies game where the guy who played the Russians declared that he was buying "a wall, a wall of flesh". There are just so many of you, aren't there? :shock:

... Spare Rangers ...

The game where you get to play the guys who are left after the real Rangers were all killed by the badguy? :wink:

 

[Sarvis]

Interesting.. there was a post on the Numlock (publisher) site saying the game would be out on the 25th in America.

That post is not there anymore...

 

[DarkSign]

At last, I have a hope that we (Russia-CIS) actually created a good RPG.
WE got some bad fortune with this genre...

Alright, I'd better go check if it's in stores already....

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[operf1]

I can't find it yet. But here is not very positive opinion from official forum:
http://www.metalheart.ru/forumen/viewto ... e3ebb31628

1. minor bugs with movement, dialogs, save-loading, (but still it’s Ok for the version 1.0
2. missing descriptions of objects, actions, special abilities,
3. cumbersome and boring movement across local map,
4. absence of interacting objects on map,
5. Unbalanced experience-gaining system,
6. Luck of personal character story, luck of personality of characters and inter-character relations.
7. The single interacting person - Lanthan Signi , the rest of the team will keep silence unless scripted. (they simply "mouthless" - you will see as the game comes to you)

Can’t decide linear/non linear story yet. Lots of FEDEX quests, but they well-structured and separated from story-line ones.

In a whole - not the least RPG.

 

[Sandelfron]

I just got hold of it. First impression: looks good. The static art is also nice; coppery
and a bit russian constructivist. Like not bothering getting a licence from Julian
Gollop when they made 'UFO:Afermath' the russian developers sidestepped
a 'Fallout' licence by simply not getting one; it looks VERY similar graphically, the
combat mechanism is again VERY similar, and the first creatures you fight are
scorpions from which you collect.. scorpion tails (deja vu!) using what looks
suspiciously like a Fallout chaingun. The only thing missing are vault 13 suits,
although perhaps I might find some later on written in cyrillic script.

 

[Sandelfron]

Onto the main game itself. Here's a sample:

Trudge, trudge, trudge, listen to terrible music in the background, trudge, trudge,
crash to desktop, reload, trudge, listen to badly translated NPC, trudge, realise
that the quest specification in your journal has little in common with what the
NPC actually said, trudge, go to VERY Fallout world map, listen to terrible tin-pot
music again whilst trying to get the collision detection on cities to work, get hit
by three 'random encounters' which must have been rolled on a 1-sided dice,
crash to desktop, notice one of your implants has disappeared (but still drains
energy), cry, book appointment with therapist to recover from game trauma.

For a sequel, perhaps the developers could just make some poser models
and have them urinating on a copy of Fallout, whilst they jeer poorly
translated and monotone insults at you.

 

[Sarkile]

So would you recommend it?

 

[obediah]

"Oh look my ship has been crashing on mysterious planet. Look at my poor ship? I be seeing fucking city when crashing, so must have industry. No fucking train come here desert. My skin. Head west to nearest fucking city. Fuck."

I can understand crap translated text. But the voice actor sounds faily fluent, so he must have been choking back laughter the whole time.

 

[Sandelfron]

So would you recommend it?

I'm at this moment drafting a letter to Vladimir Putin asking
for a Red Army firing squad for the developers.

 

[Sandelfron]

"Oh look my ship has been crashing on mysterious planet. Look at my poor ship? I be seeing fucking city when crashing, so must have industry. No fucking train come here desert. My skin. Head west to nearest fucking city. Fuck."

I can understand crap translated text. But the voice actor sounds faily fluent, so he must have been choking back laughter the whole time.

Actually, that's exactly right. There is a dialog when you meet Nisson where
the voice actor splutters, looses his place, laughs and goes 'uhhh, what line?'.

I had no idea about some of the object descriptions - they seem to be mixed
with random words from a thesaurus. I'm not sure which is worse; the
sentences you can't understand or the ones you can (the humourless jokes).

 

[dipdipdip]

That's some funny stuff. Feel free to post further highlights.

 

[Atrokkus]

Actually, that's exactly right. There is a dialog when you meet Nisson where
the voice actor splutters, looses his place, laughs and goes 'uhhh, what line?'.

No shit? ehhe, damn that's phat.

It reminds me of the Gothic Russian localization... there was one line there where the actor stutters and says "blya!" ("fuck!") hehe

 

[Fez]

In the English translation of Gothic 2 there was a part where you could hear the actor discuss how he felt the line should be read (something about the 'ye olde speak', I think). Sloppy.

 

[Dark Elf]

Enhances the immersion doesn't it?

 

[Naked_Lunch]

In the English translation of Gothic 2 there was a part where you could hear the actor discuss how he felt the line should be read (something about the 'ye olde speak', I think). Sloppy.

Where? I've never heard anything like that and I've played through it countless times.

 

[Sandelfron]

In the English translation of Gothic 2 there was a part where you could hear the actor discuss how he felt the line should be read (something about the 'ye olde speak', I think). Sloppy.

Where? I've never heard anything like that and I've played through it countless times.

It's been a while since I played Gothic 2, but I remember that the journal? page
wasn't translated from german.

 

[Claw]

You think that's bad? Parts of the German release was English. Why the fuck?

 

[Naked_Lunch]

It's been a while since I played Gothic 2, but I remember that the journal? page
wasn't translated from german.

Yeah, I saw that, and some of the console commands weren't translated either. But I haven't found that dialouge sexy Fez mentioned.