How many sp's elf?

Any sign of new 3ds stuff?

What's that?

Nexxcom!

hylian_elf wrote:

No, I barely tried anything. Queues put me off. I spent the vast majority of my time on indie. Just like last year. Talked to a few of the devs.  Next year I will get tickets for two days. One for indie, retro and tourney watching. Another for queueing for mainstream games. Or split them to make queueing less boring.

Did Sega sponsor this year's indie booth again? What was the best thing on show?

FranticPea wrote:

Did nobody see Xcom?

Enemy unknown? Was there. Not interested.

Unfinished Swan was decent as expected, but the demo left me motion sick because of how close the seat was to the huge TV. Looks repetitive too. Novelty may wear off after a while. Any longer than 2 hours or so and it might get boring. 

Most of the TVs were too big for how close you had to sit.

hylian_elf wrote:

FranticPea wrote:

Did nobody see Xcom?

Enemy unknown? Was there. Not interested.

Nnnnnmmmmmnmmmmmmmmmmmmgggg.

So I went on Saturday:

Wii U:
Got to play a few of the Nintendoland titles, The Ghost house one was by far the best, was a lot of fun and required a lot of talking. Animal Crossing was pretty throwaway and the Zelda one was just dull. Also got to play Rayman which had the best use of the new controller, involved tilting it and using the touch screen to remove obstacles for the other player who used the standard controller. It was reasonably fun but nothing that desperately made me want to purchase it. Mario Wii U was pretty much identical to the one on the Wii which I didn't think much of and Trine felt really awkward, holding the thing in one hand while using the touch screen and the analogue sticks was a pain. Saw Pikmin and Wonderful 101 but didn't get chance to play.

Xcom:
I didn't even know a turn based one existed, I was thinking it was just gonna be the FPS one they were rebooting the series with. I enjoyed this, has its roots firmly in the TBS department and is a good homage to the originals. The voice acting and characters are a bit rubbish but I was into the gameplay, one wrong move and your characters get pasted n killed rather easily. Will buy this unless the reviews of the full game are dreadful.

Aliens Colonial Marines:
It'ssss good! Multiplayer demo, you could only play as the marines and Sega staff were playing as the aliens. You get a real sense of chaotic desperation as you try and stay as a team and fend them off. Lots of Left 4 Dead-isms, Aliens can see the outline of the marines through the walls. The game-mode available was deathmatch and I'm really hoping they have more inventive game modes with the final build but the multiplayer end of this is shaping up greatly.

I played some game where your a group of 4 medieval things with swords magic on XBL but it was shit, dunno its name.

But for a second year running game of the show wass.....10 player Saturn Bomberman. Genuinely.

Dogfingers, you went on Saturday and didn't hit us up?
Poor show man.

He thinks you're all cunts as you're not into XCOM. I think he's right.

I went today, came away a bit deflated by almost everything I played. 

Grid 2 was more Grid (not much of a complaint), Dishonoured demo was a massive letdown for me, Tomb Raider was very much a pretty guided tour-very similar to Uncharted. The Sony versions of Super Smash Bros and Mario Kart were pretty dull. Black ops and the ilk of course were long queues but again more of the same.

My highlights were Metal Gear Rising and Luigi's Mansion 3ds...and retro 4 player Mario Party. The Wii U was interesting, still don't know what to make of it, but the controller was surprisingly light and comfortable. Mario, Nintendo Land and to a lesser extent Rayman all felt like same old games with a tacked on gimmick though. Pikmin 3 and the 101 both looked pretty, i didn't queue for Zombie U.

Paul the sparky wrote:

What was wrong with Dishonoured? I've had my eye on that since I found out you can possess rats and what not.

The abilities are welcome, your encouraged to experiment - it reminded me a lot like Bioshock in that respect, your sword and crossbow are backup for when shit goes wrong. The possession element was cool.

My overall disappointment might be because it was a restricted demo, it just didn't blow me away like I thought it would, just felt very average.

I love Dogfingers

I think I found a glitch. It gave me sad face for a while cos I thought I may run out of time again and miss out on the lenticular poster. 

After the tutorial, you are on a beach and have to go up some metal stairs to the cliff/groin above. Couldn't see any other way up. Halfway up the stairs, I randomly decided to press attack, and Raiden promptly sliced the stairs and fell back to the beach. Erm. Now I couldn't find a way up. Couldn't use the big boulders on the beach. Aaasrrrrgggh!

Restarted checkpoint and just had enough time to beat the demo. Show attendant was standing anf waiting for me with the player, I think they had to start packing up. 

The boss: some cyborg dog thing. Didn't see a health bar, probably not a proper boss, maybe introduction to a badass normal enemy. Had to parry its attack but found it a bit hard to follow the fuckker and see its attack. Camera didn't help. Eventually beat it by air dive kicking its face and dizzying it to unleash my mental attacks.

hylian_elf wrote:

The boss: some cyborg dog thing. Didn't see a health bar, probably not a proper boss, maybe introduction to a badass normal enemy. Had to parry its attack but found it a bit hard to follow the fuckker and see its attack. Camera didn't help. Eventually beat it by air dive kicking its face and dizzying it to unleash my mental attacks.

The health was a number counter and bar in the bottom right hand corner. I didn't manage to parry, at all. Try as I might I just couldn't get the timing down.
I just hung around close by, moved away for the chainsaw tail, then jumped and used heavy attack for the homing kick, then wailed on it at bit, then ran to just over arms reach again.
Just kept repeating that until it fell. The Nano paste healing helped too. I never would have made it through without that.