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07/17/09
I really need some downtime so can actually play shit on my consoles again, since would love to get back into KZ3. Though I do wish the devs would work a bit harder on the coms system, since it was kinda sketchy when I used to play. Still when it worked it worked pretty well...fuck.
Anyways nice to see new content comming out!
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You just jealous.
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"I love the smell of cordite... You know, that sulfury smell?"
Yay smells!
Hmm... Know what smell I like? Pizza. And Curry. Do they make curry pizza? Or pizza curry?
07/17/09
Curry?
and
Pizza?
EPIC!
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NOO!! I hate flamethrowers in MP games!! :(
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LOL, love that pic.
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But still not as ownage as the air hammer or telefrags in UT.
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But yeah nothing beats the air hammer and telefrags were always good for a laugh.
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Hence telefrag.
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It was supposed to be something special. The sales numbers are decent, but it's not the giant they were looking for, move along.
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Homers....
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You're the only one spouting the failtastic extremism you decry.
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Your reading comprehension is bar-none.
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How many years was this game in development? How many dollars did they pump into the advertising campaign?
After all the hype and promotion I'm willing to bet that Sony was expecting much higher sales.
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Microsoft spent $40,000,000 advertising Halo 3. And the other Halo games were actually popular themselves.
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I don't really care about your numbers. All I know is that I saw just as much advertising/hype for Killzone 2 as I did any Halo game.
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Why would Mountain Dew want to associate themselves with an underperforming video game franchise :P
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Also, I can't believe you just called a Tower Defense game "innovative".
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Really, and what does that make a person like me who put an enormous amount of hours into KZ2 and still loving every second of it.
Don't place your own personal opinions on other gamers as if it is a fact. Different people like different things, and you may not like shooters, but doesn't mean that other people feel the same as you.
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:/
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I'll take a well polished, solid game that doesn't stray far from the beaten path, over a buggy, unique game that's "innovative" any day. Innovation is highly overrated in my opinion, some devs just take it too far. They have interesting concepts but the game is just dull to play (see Mirror's Edge). But a game like Halo 3 is pretty much identical gameplay to Halo 2, but its a solid, well polished game that pushes millions of units.
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See, this is what I love about this fanboy era. If you don't like something and say so, you're telling every single person that they have to think like you, because god forbid people have different opinions.
Oh, or you're just plain stupid. That one never gets old.
Seriously now big guy, might want to see a therapist about that overtly hostile nature of yours.
KZ2 was a competent FPS (well, for a console game anyways), but it really wasn't anything special. It was more of a fan-service for the first KZ crowd and offered about the same dish on a different plate. That's not saying it's a bad game, just nothing special as the OP stated. Nowhere did he say he didn't like shooters, he just said that they tended to be very a copy/paste genre, which is true. Personally, I still love my shooter games, but at least I'm willing to admit that 90% of them are pretty much the same thing with a different skin, you just get to choose which skin you prefer.
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I know...
*Hides for cover*
Also, AH LOVE CALLEDJE my ass.
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The graphics were great and all, but that wore off and the slow controls did not. Blek.
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Why the sacrasm towards him? The game was a controlling mess, though you probably always hated shooters prior to it and didn't notice the horror.
No sarcasm in my above:)
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I've heard the "weight and momentum" rationale bandied about before, but why should it matter whether I've read anything about the game or not? The game should speak for itself. If something feels wrong, then it feels wrong. Finding out that it's wrong on purpose doesn't suddenly stop it from feeling wrong, as Mitsuki pointed out.
Making the weapons feel weighty is one thing. Making it feel like they weigh fifty pounds and are being carried by a drunk with delayed reaction times is another. Despite its many faults, I felt that FEAR 2 did a much better job of weighty weapon handling.
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I haven't played the game mind you, but I can agree that if there is a delay between my movements and what goes happens on-screen, I hate it. Rock Band drum solos, I'm looking at you.
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Just saying that complaints don't mean the controls were bad. I actually don't own Killzone. No splitscreen = no buy.
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I, personally, love playing a game that doesn't control like every other FPS.
I might as well just continued on play Halo 3 or CoD4 if I wanted to play another generic FPS with a new skin.
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KZ2 feels (more) like how I react and move in the real world. Unfortunately it's a much narrower scope of view, and obviously not true 3d.
I'm not telling you to like it. I can clearly see where someone wouldn't like it. I hated BF2 and 2142 controls at first. They were slow and sluggish and I couldn't aim and shoot, move/react like I wanted to, and I died over and over because of it. Then I learned how to play the game as it was designed and forgot about ut2k4 for the most part.
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Like?
They made things simple, to the point and fun.
I don't really disagree here, but it contradicts your previous sentence.
My point was that if I wanted to play a game just like CoD or Halo I could because they're good games and I already own them.
I play Killzone 2 because it's different and I like the feel of it.
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It was funky and clunky, an FPS only a non-FPS fan could love, ruined the game for me I tells ya.
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This doesn't play like every other FPS and it's not supposed to.
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I played the entire game and plenty of multiplayer. Don't tell me I wasn't open to giving the game a chance. I like fun, not frustration and irritation at intentionally crap control design.
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:P
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The problem I have with online is the ranking system.I ranked to the top within the first week of owning it and that was all playing on weekdays only and late at night.I mean,sure ranks should come quickly,but getting to the top should have been either stretched out or more rewarding.
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Also, setting ranks is a tough thing to do and it is impossible to please everybody. I know plenty of people who have yet to reach the old final rank.
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...I have still abt. 70.000 points to get until I have reached 100.000... :-))))
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The largest market in the world for video games is the United States. The PS3 has sold more hardware and software in the US than in Japan or Europe.
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A 1/3 of all PS3's have been sold in America which means 2/3 where sold elsewhere.
Sony's main market is Europe not North America.
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The 360's main market is America with over 3/5's of 360's sold there.
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