I mean they actually understood the higher level appeal of the tacticool action and flow of the combat in the JW movies and then put that in the gameplay framework that made the most sense.
A third person John Wick game is for boring people.
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A third person John Wick game is for boring people.
Do they show a "fast" version of all the moves at the end of a round or whatever in John Wick Hex? Doing everything slow and calculated seems like an okay idea, but there should be a replay of sorts(maybe there is?) of everything chosen at a super fast pace to make it look like the movie
There is a feature like that, but the animation is fucking atrocious. I ended up skipping it for most of my time playing it.
I'm getting SOMA soon so I'll have something to pay during Halloween. I've heard great things about it.
You can watch it back, but unfortunately it doesn't look very good/cool.
I can't fathom why they didn't smooth out the naviation path, instead of having the character literally navigate in straight lines, stopping to reorient at nodes. If they're doing any smoothing, it's too little. I can understand not wanting to put a lot of effort into a thing that is not the gameplay, but.. yeah...
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Was that ever added to the console versions? Might replay it after finishing AI: The Somnium Cases. If not, I could finally sit down and play Until Dawn as my 'spooky' game.
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As soon as I saw the trailer for John Wick Hex I knew it was not going to be for me. There is no way in hell a tactics game is going to convey the sheer kinetic energy of those films. On the other hand, seeing Abby play a bit of SOMA brought back some feelings. SOMA is so good.
I mean, it's different in that Hex is a rather middling game and not one of the best shooters released in the last 10 years. But yeah, Dan has very much decided he hates the game before they hit record.
I'm also in the camp that a John Wick third person shooter would be fucking boring, but after about 20 minutes I find the action in the movies boring too.
There is, but it looks like an early PS2 sports game trying to make a dynamic TV-like presentation of an exciting goal replay. Noooooot good at all.
Once they made the mode official I believe that they patched it I to all versions, yes.
Giving Dan a tactics game to critique feels like a mismatch. Alex and Rorie like John Wick and are surely better placed to take a look?
I guess if you had to make a John Wick game, your best approach would basically be a re-skinned SUPERHOT.
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Yup. Just take that and add an interesting, stylistic world as well as put further emphasis on melee combat.This was absolutely the best way to do that. Shootey action games don't have controls deliberate enough for the kind of intimacy that JW needs. It'd all be half-automated like the latest Splinter Cells' mark & execute stuff, which are closest to that.
That said JWH does look super janky outside of the actual mechanics. I don't think the vibe really works and trying to tie it together into a cinematic thing at the end of a level doesn't work at all when the animations are that rough.
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Dan actually seems to enjoy tactics games most of the time.
haven't watched the john wick hex ql (and probably never will now that i know dan is on it and doesn't like the game!), but yeah, if the presentation isn't on point like it is in the movies, then you done fucked up.
i get abstracting the rapid fire and nigh flawless violence john wick displays in the movies to a tactics-like mechanical structure. i can imagine john approaching fights with that mindset because of how efficient he is at killing, and having it play out in turns can reflect the methodical nature of john dispatching one target after another.
BUT IT HAS TO LOOK GOOD
i can also easily imagine the very limited budget bithell and co got to make this game! having a slick third-person action game with a fast-paced, dynamic combat system was probably out of the question from the beginning.
i get abstracting the rapid fire and nigh flawless violence john wick displays in the movies to a tactics-like mechanical structure. i can imagine john approaching fights with that mindset because of how efficient he is at killing, and having it play out in turns can reflect the methodical nature of john dispatching one target after another.
BUT IT HAS TO LOOK GOOD
i can also easily imagine the very limited budget bithell and co got to make this game! having a slick third-person action game with a fast-paced, dynamic combat system was probably out of the question from the beginning.
Dan does like stuff like X-Com or even Fire Emblem though
Oooh, SOMA on Fright or Shite! I love that game so much. Bit of an odd fit for the feature though.
im not expecting to see it until the new year tbh
Better pro tip: use a client that doesn't show ads or top tweets.
On iPhone, I just use safari with an ad blocker. Make an icon shortcut too. No point in letting these social media companies access your microphone just to have a dedicated app
I've been happily using tweetbot for so long that I couldn't tell you any other current competitors.
On mobile I've used Plume for years. But yeah, I'm really glad phones allow you to block certain permissions.
I used that years ago and didn't care for it, but using Twitter.com has gotten worse and worse.
I would tell you to give it another try, but you'd probably have to pay for a newer version and it would still be the same experience.
I said this earlier in the thread, but John Wick Hex is fun. But the animation is so janky it completely ruins it almost.
The core gameplay is so good. So solid, so fun to play. But they screwed up the most important thing about john wick is that he is fluid and precise.
Watching the replay at the end of the round should be this triumphant awesome moment. Instead it is unwatchable jank.
If you are a strategy game fan it is worth getting on sale someday, because the core is very cool. But boy does the animation let it down
The core gameplay is so good. So solid, so fun to play. But they screwed up the most important thing about john wick is that he is fluid and precise.
Watching the replay at the end of the round should be this triumphant awesome moment. Instead it is unwatchable jank.
If you are a strategy game fan it is worth getting on sale someday, because the core is very cool. But boy does the animation let it down
Concrete Genie looked pretty neat in the Quick Look. Might have sold me on the game and I didn't think it looked great in the marketing footage.
John Wick Hex looks also neat but I don't dig the art style that much. Could make out Ian McShane in the Quick Look but Lance Reddick looked nothing like him. Gameplay looks good imo but the rest might have needed a bit more polish. I wanted to say that it will probably be the first Bithell game that I might skip for more than a bit but then I remembered I also haven't played Volume yet.
John Wick Hex looks also neat but I don't dig the art style that much. Could make out Ian McShane in the Quick Look but Lance Reddick looked nothing like him. Gameplay looks good imo but the rest might have needed a bit more polish. I wanted to say that it will probably be the first Bithell game that I might skip for more than a bit but then I remembered I also haven't played Volume yet.
There was an issue with it yesterday, but today it downloaded fine for me on Itunes.
Dan being "Old Dan" on a QL sounds like fun 🤦♂️
Remember when there was a "New Dan" (who was never real)
Remember when there was a "New Dan" (who was never real)
Its downright weird that they didnt just generate a highlight replay, especially since its all on a timeline so they know the exact moments action happens
It downloaded yesterday, but it was last week's episode. I guess they corrected it, but doesn't work for me now
Yeah if they started now it would just get interrupted by GOTY stuff.
Its what I usually use on my phone, but I like Safari for social media apps for some reason. Firefox doesnt work well with instagram because I fence off Facebook stuff on it.
Should I send in my quiz to the Beastcast? It's called "Monster Hunter Monster or Razer product".
We got them all: Orochi, Rajang, Basilisk, Fatalis, Ouroboros, Jagras, Vespula, Manticor, Cortos
edit: Several of them are both, I just realised.
We got them all: Orochi, Rajang, Basilisk, Fatalis, Ouroboros, Jagras, Vespula, Manticor, Cortos
edit: Several of them are both, I just realised.
I'm getting excited for the Spongebob You're Gonna Finish It. I only played the GBA version of Battle for Bikini Bottom and it's very different to the console version (2D platformer). But I know people genuinely like Bikini Bottom as a good 3D platformer. Certainly it's better than DK64 right?
Though it probably won't happen, I'd like to see Abby call in on a separate camera to join in. She seems like the most avid Spongebob fan of Giant Bomb.
Though it probably won't happen, I'd like to see Abby call in on a separate camera to join in. She seems like the most avid Spongebob fan of Giant Bomb.
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