<![CDATA[MotorStorm 2: It's Official - Kotaku Comments]]> <![CDATA[MotorStorm 2: It's Official - Kotaku Comments]]> <![CDATA[MotorStorm 2: It's Official]]> Still looking forward to 4 player matches! thats all i wanted from the first one. Right and less Dirt.

Connoisseur

]]> <![CDATA[MotorStorm 2: It's Official]]> Ive been playing Motorstorm for the past week and while it's enjoyable it's also the most frustrating game ive ever played in my 20+ years of gaming.

They REALLY need to sort out the AI and general balance of the game. Some tracks Id finish 1st on my 1st go, others took 15 trys before Id place in the top three.

It's so fucking annoying when youve done 2 perfect laps, then on the third you make one tiny slip up and you come last.
You can clip a tiny rock that will send your vehicle flying thru the air. Then it takes ages for the game to decide whether or not that this is an actual crash. So youre upside down on the track for like 5 seconds BEFORE you explode, which then takes ANOTHER 5 seconds.

All you can do is scream at the tv helplessly as you watch ALL your competitors race past you.
Most likely laughing at you. If they were real ofcourse....

Basscadet

]]> <![CDATA[MotorStorm 2: It's Official]]> rly rly want this game on 360....

='(((

King Seafoam

]]> <![CDATA[MotorStorm 2: It's Official]]> Not exactly surprising that tis is coming, but I think it's a good thing. Thought Motorstorm was a pretty fun game that suffered a little from the "first in the IP" syndrome - where you can see there's an awesome game waiting to come through and it's just pretty darn good instead.

I had the same feeling with Mass Effect, like the 2nd one will have the bugs out and a focus on overall depth versus just the main story. Heavenly Sword (deeper/longer), Uncharted (more variation and story development) and Bioshock (finish the story stronger) too. All on the verge of greatness but not quite IMO, even Bioshock.

lionkitten

]]> <![CDATA[MotorStorm 2: It's Official]]> i'm buying this

Ruisu

]]> <![CDATA[MotorStorm 2: It's Official]]> @ManjiKengo: Lol did you see his icon?

FP_slomo788

]]> <![CDATA[MotorStorm 2: It's Official]]> @B33: because he said the game will suck he has a 360? maybe he just hates motorstorm.
I personally hate gran turismo and forza. Not my cup of tea.

ManjiKengo reads DuneTiger reads Kotaku, seems pleased.

]]> <![CDATA[MotorStorm 2: It's Official]]> @thegreatseal: How's that red ring of death treating you?

B33

]]> <![CDATA[MotorStorm 2: It's Official]]> Woot!

Huxle

]]> <![CDATA[MotorStorm 2: It's Official]]> I'm not even a racing game fan , but some how this game was so good and beautiful I had to buy it.

Ether02

]]> <![CDATA[MotorStorm 2: It's Official]]> @slomo788: it'd be a good idea but i suppose not everyone has internets at home.

ManjiKengo reads DuneTiger reads Kotaku, seems pleased.

]]> <![CDATA[MotorStorm 2: It's Official]]> wow, didn't know about LAVA!

Akmed

]]> <![CDATA[MotorStorm 2: It's Official]]> wow , im glad i will be getting Mario Kart Wii to hold me off until then. the concept looks sick.

zanzibarlegend

]]> <![CDATA[MotorStorm 2: It's Official]]> @thegreatseal: this just in.

trollers get banned with ease. go back into your hole... fanboy

zanzibarlegend

]]> <![CDATA[MotorStorm 2: It's Official]]> Second the load times. First game was great but everytime I got amped up, load timed killed it. I just wanted to switch pain on my atv!!!

Motorstorm is still the closest thing to a next gen road rash... multiplayer cycle only races, hell yes please.

Derigor

]]> <![CDATA[MotorStorm 2: It's Official]]> They fixed those vehicle loading times for multiplayer you know.

superbabyproject

]]> <![CDATA[MotorStorm 2: It's Official]]> @1981suede: If any split screen will do, in that case Motorstorm 1 has 1 player split screen :).

CartBlanche

]]> <![CDATA[MotorStorm 2: It's Official]]> @Unquiet Slumbers: I did read (and experienced) how the AI can sometimes make you wonder if you have a very large penis in your ass. Makes the lack of split-screen even more painful. And it can also be very dumb, so I guess the inconsistency can really be annoying when you can't even make fun of it. But I brought up other racing games because they tend to follow a theme and most of them tend to evolve around this theme. So I think that your rant about the track variety was unfair. If we're talking about the number of tracks itself, I'm the first in line to moan about it...

FP_slomo788

]]> <![CDATA[MotorStorm 2: It's Official]]> @slomo788: Like I said, I had a blast with the game, but it was far from perfect.

If you never heard anyone complain about the AI, we mustn't read the same boards/websites, because that is one complaint I've seen raised more times than I can remember. And I definitely remember reviews not too excited about the elastic AI.

If the AI is inconsistent, it is, in my book, deeply unsatisfying (but you're right, "shitty" was excessive - I typed that remembering the occasional near-controller-smashing levels of frustration ^_^').
The CPU's skills should ramp up with the difficulty of the class/race, not spike and plummet like it sometimes did.
Idk, I just felt the game wasn't quite as enjoyable as it could have been. When I beat the harder races, I didn't get the same "yes, I finally nailed it!" satisfaction that I get from, say, WipeOut.

(Oh, and I don't like PGR, Gotham Racing and the like, so I really couldn't comment on them... I'm not a big fan of racing games, Motorstorm being one of the few that I really enjoy - despite its flaws.)

Antiterra

]]> <![CDATA[MotorStorm 2: It's Official]]> @kiigan: Motorstorm is an off-track racing game. If you didn't like the genre before, you won't like it by playing it either. The fun in it is competing with extremely challenging AI, in beautiful environments, where you need to choose your path every time and be careful in the mud because its shape changes everytime. The game had a lot of short-comings because of its lack of offline mp, limited number of tracks and short (while somewhat great) list of songs. If you didn't like the first one, I wouldn't advise the second one either. Different strokes for different folks.

FP_slomo788

]]> <![CDATA[MotorStorm 2: It's Official]]> @kiigan:
Looks like it. I've got a good doctor who can help you with your allergy to fun. I've been seeing him a lot for that problem since SSBB came out.

ca$h

]]> <![CDATA[MotorStorm 2: It's Official]]> @ManjiKengo: But again, couldn't Brawl or even Gears 2 be expansion packs?

FP_slomo788

]]> <![CDATA[MotorStorm 2: It's Official]]> Am I the only person who genuinely didn't have a single moment of fun with Motorstorm, no matter how hard I tried? I wanted to like it - it was the first game I bought for PS3 and so I was willing to be more forgiving than usual for the sake of getting some use out of the new console at the time. But... it's utterly horrible to play. Does anyone really like it, or do you just switch it on to show your mates what awesome graphics the PS3 has?

kiigan

]]> <![CDATA[MotorStorm 2: It's Official]]> @ManjiKengo: Well if one could fit all that in a download I'm all for it.

FP_slomo788

]]> <![CDATA[MotorStorm 2: It's Official]]> I was sold at "four-player split screen".

MagickBocks

]]> <![CDATA[MotorStorm 2: It's Official]]> @Unquiet Slumbers: I heard many people complain about a lot of things, but this? Yes, the AI gets very challenging, almost frustrating at one point (I'm actually stuck in a racing game, how shameful), but to call it shitty? First it just makes it more realistic that every car can crash in the game and second, I just can't see how being adaptive makes it bad. Also, would you call PGR repetitive because it's circuit-circuit-circuit or Midnight Club for the street race-street race- street race? The problem was the limited number of tracks, not the setting. The laps were fairly long and I don't see how a track full of mud (is it Mud Pool?)could be repetitive after playing in the sand (Dust Devil?). This one has 16 tracks, so there.

FP_slomo788

]]> <![CDATA[MotorStorm 2: It's Official]]> @KYLE_ELYK: I say they can keep the exploding pebbles as a secret weapon if they include these guys as hidden playable characters.

Antiterra

]]> <![CDATA[MotorStorm 2: It's Official]]> @slomo788: so basically, motorstorm 2 could have been released as a 20 dollar expansion downloaded via psn but they chose not to?

ManjiKengo reads DuneTiger reads Kotaku, seems pleased.

]]> <![CDATA[MotorStorm 2: It's Official]]> First game was good, I will get this.

Inferno_22

]]> <![CDATA[MotorStorm 2: It's Official]]> While I generally had a blast with Motorstorm, I had two big problems with it:
1) the single environment;
2) the shitty adaptative AI.

CPU opponents would let you win a race if you performed like crap 3/4 of the way but made a splendid last quarter, and yet you'd lose when you botched the last turn of an otherwise impeccable, utterly perfect race.
Ah, the wonderful feeling of finishing last despite thrashing your previous, race-winning record...

Apparently, I don't need to worry about repetitive environments (unless dirt-dirt-dirt has been replaced by jungle-jungle-jungle). But unless they fix the AI, I'm out.

Antiterra

]]> <![CDATA[MotorStorm 2: It's Official]]> Hasn't it been under a year? *is confuzzled*
But good for fans I guess :)

Zeouterlimits

]]> <![CDATA[MotorStorm 2: It's Official]]> 16 tracks is great news.

Spartan1308™

]]> <![CDATA[MotorStorm 2: It's Official]]> Plus it's a TEASER. Of course it's not in-game. In fact Motorstorm is one of those rare games trying to look like a TEASER and almost touching it. But of course it should get shit for it, it's a PS3 title...

FP_slomo788

]]> <![CDATA[MotorStorm 2: It's Official]]> @randomletters: Thanks! Glad to know it is up to 4. :)

GPman

]]> <![CDATA[MotorStorm 2: It's Official]]> @Modus_Operandi: If the game looks exactly like last year, just with 16 new tracks, Monster Trucks, destrutible environments and 4-player split-screed, it's already a gem.

FP_slomo788

]]> <![CDATA[MotorStorm 2: It's Official]]> This just in!

It'll be just as crappy as MotorStorm 1!

thegreatseal

]]> <![CDATA[MotorStorm 2: It's Official]]> Ossum. Glad I didn't buy Motorstorm 1.

Jandlecack

]]> <![CDATA[MotorStorm 2: It's Official]]> @Violater: I havne't played Motorstorm in a while but what are you talking about? Did they change the car selection for the game via update or something

djricekcn

]]> <![CDATA[MotorStorm 2: It's Official]]> Is this May 2005 all over again?

Grave of the Fireflies

]]> <![CDATA[MotorStorm 2: It's Official]]> What a shock, a sequel to a first party game? Insanity.

I'm just hoping it lives up to the promises left behind from the first game. There were far too few tracks and online options. Great fun while it lasted though.

Crosswayboy

]]> <![CDATA[MotorStorm 2: It's Official]]> From seeing how the first Motorstorm was, I wouldn't worry too much on how In-game is going to look. I just hope they fix some things up like exploding in a fireball just for hitting a pebble for example, and a few minor things too.

KYLE_ELYK

]]> <![CDATA[MotorStorm 2: It's Official]]> yes...the first one had a lot of potential

C.Fury! I survived the HD movie format war

]]> <![CDATA[MotorStorm 2: It's Official]]> @GPman: oh yea check out [www.threespeech.com] the splitscreen IS up to 4 players.

randomletters

]]> <![CDATA[MotorStorm 2: It's Official]]> Well, Pendulum better make a damn song if they expect to be the theme in the second game.

Sigma-D

]]> <![CDATA[MotorStorm 2: It's Official]]> [www.gametrailers.com]

fresky

]]> <![CDATA[MotorStorm 2: It's Official]]> If the trailer on IGN is in any way representative of what the gameplay is like that is a whole lotta win.

like the idea of the destructable scenery blocking off your opponents routes. that split screen would hand mario kart its ass on a lush green platter.

Loved the first one so I can't see how they can screw this up....

randomletters

]]> <![CDATA[MotorStorm 2: It's Official]]> Ok this will sound stupid, but I trust they mean "Up to four player split screen" right? Nowhere do they mention 2player split screen and that is what I am interested in. They just keep on saying 4way split screen.

GPman

]]> <![CDATA[MotorStorm 2: It's Official]]> @Tyber_Zann: I'm going to have to say that I'm quite glad there was no "first!" post to ridicule. We live in a better world without them.

bangbangblah

]]> <![CDATA[MotorStorm 2: It's Official]]> "" Now about those vehicle loading times..."

I thought the 2d selection screen took care of that nicely.

Violater

]]> <![CDATA[MotorStorm 2: It's Official]]> Yea... not even going to bother thinking that is in game after the shit they pulled last time.

liquid_kore

]]> <![CDATA[MotorStorm 2: It's Official]]> Im so tired of these pre-rendered "This is what we're shooting for" trailers. With the power that current gen consoles have its bigger news if youre game doesnt look good. Give us actual gameplay or dont show anything.

Modus_Operandi

]]> <![CDATA[MotorStorm 2: It's Official]]> God I loved this game so fun this is going to be better ............man so many games for PS3 this year I'ma have a decent colection.

Ryosukekun21

]]> <![CDATA[MotorStorm 2: It's Official]]> I gotta say I wasn't crazy about the first Motorstorm, so I'm not all that jazzed about this one, but it looks very nice. I like the new setting much more than the last, so I'll give this a try. Though, this time it won't come free with the Playstation.

Sad.

MykalBloom

]]> <![CDATA[MotorStorm 2: It's Official]]> looks good. would have rather seen in game footage. monster trucks are always good. as long as i can knock over a tree and have i land on someone behind me, i'll be happy.

and now, here comes the "CGI bait and swich" portion of PS3 related posts.......

jfx316

]]> <![CDATA[MotorStorm 2: It's Official]]> Damn, I was waiting for some 'FIRST!1111" posts to ridicule.

Awesome news. Monster trucks + LOST island = scrumptious.

Tyber_Zann

]]> <![CDATA[MotorStorm 2: It's Official]]> 4 player split screen!!!

Danarcho

]]> <![CDATA[MotorStorm 2: It's Official]]> Awesome, this is what the first Motorstorm should of been. 4 Player split screen, in fact any split screen is a must for todays driving sims. Now for some in game screenies please Sony....

1981suede

]]> <![CDATA[MotorStorm 2: It's Official]]> OMG foliage!

Whats with so many f*king Next-gen games dropping splitscreen. Nice to see its making a resurgence. I mean evern Burnout Paradise lacked basic splitscreen. Unforgivable.

MyLittlePwny

]]> <![CDATA[MotorStorm 2: It's Official]]> Where's the trailer?

Eddy666

]]> <![CDATA[MotorStorm 2: It's Official]]> I sent a tip for the video. It looks nice. Ign has it posted up. here's the link

Motorstorm Tease

FP Shindokie

]]> <![CDATA[MotorStorm 2: It's Official]]> Lava + Monster trucks?

NOW I'm interested! Where do I sign up?

2NinjasTapedTogether

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