Destroid said:
RF2 is console garbage, but guerilla is really fun. It's like GTA but less gay and more awesome destruction. Grab the demo to give it a try, it really shows off the destruction engine well.
I just can't get over the over-the-shoulder view. Just screams console and such games are unplayable for me. I can handle centered third person views, mostly, like anybody else and what you have in GTA, but the actual over-the-shoulder-and-to-the-side crap is unplayable ala Guerrilla. Very arcadey, like a light-gun game of House of the Dead or something. It's the reason I couldn't play Kane & Lynch past 15 minutes, and why I quit Resident Evil 5 about 10 minutes after starting. Plus, I have been disappointed by too many console-to-PC ports in the last few years (Lost Planet? WTF?! I want my money bak!!!) and "Games for Windows" stamped on game box, like with RF:Guerrilla, is pretty much a guarantee the game is console crap.
Before anyone gets all hot and bothered and starts pointing out why this or that is not console-only realm, I would like to say I'm really, REALLY, "old-school". I don't play 3D/isometric RTS games for similar reasons. Top-down 2d view is still what I like. I likes what I likes.
And yes, it is true that the original RF was released as a console title first, but this was back then, when console corporations were fighting for exclusivity and every now and then a dev studio or publisher would throw them a bone. Although, it does illustrate the turning point in when consolification really took hold. Volition went from a PC-only shop to a console shop in few short years. Also, consoles titles weren't absolute and 100% guaranteed shit like these days. For example, X-COM UFO Defense released for PS1 was superior to the PC/DOS version. Still turn based, straight PC port and everything, just better sounds, improved music score, better gfx, and even some gameplay tweaks that never made it into PC/DOS version a year earlier.
Looking at everything for the new game...did anyone really WANT aliens in Red Faction? Especially slavering, gigantic, beastly monsters? I mean, yeah, there have been hints at some sort of dead civilization in the previous titles, but it's always been the Total Recall movie kind of thing: inscrutable ruins and strange technologies. And now, all of a sudden, there's a whole alien society and ecosystem living underground? How the hell are we supposed to have missed that in two hundred years of colonization?
Aliens are so mid 2000s. Sort of like how Doom 3 was pretty awesome until it went all thematically medieval in a here-comes-Hell way. Pretty decent setting for a game in say late 80s or early 90s, but by 2004 when Doom 3 came out, that shit was played out and straight up corny. Anyway, these days kids are fuken straight-up dumb and being a protagonist who leads a underground revolutionary labor movement would just confuse the young'ins, as in: "He got da job! Why he pissed yo!?" and would probably lead to actual political noise in this age of TeaParty nonsense, at least back here in good old USA. I can just imagine TeaParty types protesting against a RF title release on the grounds that it spreads communism and shit. No, aliens are safer in more ways than one, as far as publishers and sales proceeds are concerned.
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