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2003-06-04, 05:02 PM | [Ignore Me] #76 | |||
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The Terran Republic bids you greetings. We are in the midst of turbulent times and need your support more than ever. For 1,112 years, we have maintained a Legacy of Peace. No other empire in history can make this claim. Enlist today and help us fight those who seek to destroy the peace. Only through the Principles of Unity can the spirit and values of the Terran continue on Auraxis. To preserve the union, we must smash the Separatists. The alien technology of the Vanu will only enslave us. The New Conglomerate's anarchy will promise nothing less than the mass destruction of our society. We must battle for peace! Reunification above all else! from the TR website
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War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left - Bertrand Russel "The absence of war is not peace." - Harry S. Truman Qui desiderat pacem pr�paret bellum. - He who would desire peace should be prepared for war. When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you - Unknown |
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2003-06-04, 05:05 PM | [Ignore Me] #77 | ||||||||||||
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Knowing a bit about latency issues and how to best emulate a real gun shooting in a game, I can say that the cone of fire thing isn't unlike any other FPS Single Player game on the market today. Granted, PS's cones are more visible and emphasised more. It's a valid issue for hard core FPS players, but I think this is a trade-off due to the MMOG nature of PS. It's minor in the wake of the potential strategy team style play PS offers.
Again, given what the game design is focused on, the graphics are perfect. Had the intent been for graphics to look good and impress people, I would think you had a valid point. But the dsign goal is to let people with decent hardware be part of a 100+ person battle, not look at their screen and marvel at the detail. This is a situation where you're measuring an aspect of PS against other game when those other games have a very differnet design goal in mind. Do you want to rank PS as it compares to other games or give it a review based on how well it meets the goals of it's own design and games designed just like it? PS couldn't exist today with AC2's graphics and more graphically intensive explosions. This is a perfectly acceptable level of graphics and while you can say they aren't amazingly good, they do their job as designed and the game shouldn't be slighted because of it? If you do, then why not take issue with the fact that not every has a jet pack? Are you reviewing here, or telling us your opinion of the game?
I can agree with this. It's all true. And it could have been better. But a small point to be made is that at least PS erred on the side of caution for release rather than releasing a beta. If that means cutting content some, then so be it. But, a valid point anyways.
Hard to know what exactly you think is wrong with it. There's lots of ways to communicate. V-chat, multiple channels, command channels, forums on the official site. And voice chat. Seems like there's lots of it and it works like it's supposed to. What was missing or doesn't work?
The lack of "classes" can make it hard to know who can do what. I suggest the squad bar having a cert-bar or vehicle-bar to help Squad Leaders know who can do what. But, as far as your review goes, a good point. It's not bad, but it could be better. I wouldn't consider it a mark against the game, though. Since it does what it needs to do.
Good point. It might change, but so could everything else. Emerald SUCKS recently with battles lagging people and weird warping effects. Even disconnects and lock-ups. But, if it goes away, it will rock. If it stays like this, it's a horrible black mark on PS.
If the new content sucked or it was 8 months after the game came out, I'de say you have a point. But this is just your preference. And they aren't missing a monthly content addition they promised. I'de rather have content added slowly with well balanced and quality assured being the priority. But, SOE never promised me that. I think your post was more just what you want than objective reiview of the game for potential players. And some of the review comes off as anti-fan-boy rhetoric instead of honest, objective insight into how well PS was made and who would (or wouldn't) enjoy playing it. In my opinion I would re-write it and be more objective for a review, or call it a list of greivances and just let your real opinions all hang out. I don't know you, so I can't say your personal review really helped me understand or know what PS is about. But I do know how you feel about it. Which would help me ... if I knew you. Which I don't. Sorry this was so long, and that I didn't really read everyone's replies to the original post. So I might be restating some things that have allready been said.
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2003-06-04, 05:11 PM | [Ignore Me] #78 | |||
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but i mainly agree with your post there.... we need to have you settle more arguments.
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2003-06-04, 05:16 PM | [Ignore Me] #80 | ||
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indeed
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War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left - Bertrand Russel "The absence of war is not peace." - Harry S. Truman Qui desiderat pacem pr�paret bellum. - He who would desire peace should be prepared for war. When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you - Unknown |
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2003-06-04, 06:00 PM | [Ignore Me] #83 | ||
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"FPS's dont have loads of content. But this game is an FPS and it has plenty of content. I don't know what else you want."
it doesn't have plenty of content. I think a lot of people have the wrong idea when they think about "content." I don't care about NPCs or an economy or any of the standard RPG shit in PS. what I DO care about is base variation and a change in the fights taking place. content means you sneak up over a hill with your sniper rifle and take a scoped view at a base completely different then any other. all the bases are very uninspired like a lot of people have said. they're incredibly newb friendly. spawn at a tower, look for the front or back gate at a base and charge in. if you'll notice that's all newbs do. it causes zergs (which I despise). when I say zerg I mean people mindlessly throwing bodies at eachother. as it is now the advantage is always to the attacker and not to the defender. in my mind something is very wrong with that when you're holed up in a base and a TOWER is draining your resources. these are outposts in the whatever century and they havn't developed the concept of gates? why not make all the 1 hop continental bases give an innate advantage to it's own faction? do you think that a vanu designing its own base would have them similar to the terrans or NCs? I think the SOI system is incredibly restrictive. someone on the official PS forums or here had an idea for SOI zones. notice when a base is about to cap that a zerg force just sits there for exp? I think zones are a great idea that would spread the fighting out to actually use the terrain for battle instead of travel. I enjoy this game but it's missing.. something. a lot of something actually. you can say this has never been tried before but I think the idea of repetitive battles has been in FPS gaming for a long long time. |
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2003-06-04, 06:21 PM | [Ignore Me] #84 | ||||||||||
You like Tribes. That's great, I loved it myself. Planetside is not Tribes though. It doesn't have Tribes weapons. It shouldn't have Tribes weapons.
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2003-06-04, 07:16 PM | [Ignore Me] #85 | ||
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"OMG this game is t3h sux because they used weapons that seem to be from Counter Striker or Doom or Quake!!"
Thats what id be saying if I used your logic, Elf. Fact is, you see no problem with them using chainguns (Doom/Wolfenstein), heat seeking rocket launchers (Tribes), grenade launchers (Tribes), rail guns (Quake), etc etc.. You basically said in your above post that plasma weapons were too "tribsey". Hello? Plasma weapons. 20 years from now when the government decides to make prototype plasma weapons i cant wait to see you parading in front of the white house with a sign going "Omg, its Tribes ripoff! Stop t3h suxage!" This is the future. Why are we using uninspired machine guns and rocket launchers? The lancer and lasher are probly the only 2 inspired weapons in this game. I will admit, the rocklet is pretty original too. You can shoot down an idea because you dont like it, thats fine. But dont knock my ideas for originality while a "futuristic FPS" game is running around shooting old fashioned lead. SOE simply did not try. They put the minimum amount of effort into content, and it shows. Uninspired tried-and-true weaponry with 5 frigging bases. Thats the content for their MMFPS. I dont understand why the review sites arent ripping them a new one. |
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2003-06-04, 08:07 PM | [Ignore Me] #86 | ||
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could you at least acknowledge that im agreeing with you here????? plz?
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2003-06-04, 08:17 PM | [Ignore Me] #87 | ||
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lol @ starrider
Dood, i totally acknowledged you. I even used some of your points while trying to make these children see the truth of their 'fan boy' ways. I just wish the people who keep PMing me would post here, where the thread could use their support. *hint hint* |
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2003-06-04, 08:19 PM | [Ignore Me] #88 | ||
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i know u used my points i jus wanted to kow if u were stealing them or acknowledging them.
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War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left - Bertrand Russel "The absence of war is not peace." - Harry S. Truman Qui desiderat pacem pr�paret bellum. - He who would desire peace should be prepared for war. When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you - Unknown |
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2003-06-04, 09:34 PM | [Ignore Me] #89 | ||
I must have missed where I praised PS for it's original weapons. I know that all the guns in PS have been done in other games. That's not really suprising though with the sheer number of games out there.
You proposed eight items. Five of them are striaght from Tribes games, one is already in the game just not as a laser, one is basically a weapon that's already in the game but with a larger blast radius and the other has been done over and over (I'll list them if you'd like). You've also as much as said you think Tribes is God's gift to multiplayer gaming. You rag on PS for it's "cookie cutter weapons" then fail to propose a single original or "inspired" weapon or item. All I did was point that out and you jump all over me. Although judging by how you've jumped down the throat of everyone else who didn't agree with you I don't know why I'm suprised
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2003-06-04, 09:49 PM | [Ignore Me] #90 | ||
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may i propose a wepon???
ok for the Vanu since im a vanu Black Hole genade upon detination it creates a vortex that ddamges anything it its blast radius severly and almost instantly kills the person /and or MAX that is close to the blast's center. k it needs balanceing and its a bit powerful but hey i dont know of anything like that being suggested before. and a rifle darkfire fires a close to black beam that causes resonable damage but burns afterward like a plasma genade, has medium rate of fire and almost no recoil per Vanu norm. also i think that origanl too, but please if these have already been thought of tell me so i can thnk of new ones.
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